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Gibraltar Private Bank and Trust expands Miami Beach office
ibraltar Private Bank & Trust is set to expand and open its new relationship office in order to accommodate the bank’s continued growth and presence in Miami Beach. The new location will be on the first and second floor of the Sheridan Center building located at 400 Arthur Godfrey Road . The custom designed 5,000 square feet of new office space will provide for a true private banking experience. Senior Vice President and Miami Beach Market Executive Michael S. Goldberg leads a team of seasoned banking professionals that will continue to serve Miami Beach’s neighborhood businesses and residents. “We are very excited about moving to our new location because it will afford clients the convenience and accessibility of a branch that is on the ground floor and full private banking services and amenities on the second floor. We look forward to continuing our growth and servicing our current and future clients,” said Michael Goldberg. “We are the only locally owned private bank with a relationship office located on Miami Beach with a true local home town banking team.” Born and raised in Miami Beach, Goldberg personifies commitment and dedication to his community and for the clients he serves. A long-time Miami Beach resident, Michael began his banking career in 1989 with Barnett Bank’s Management Associate program. He then worked as Senior Vice President & Regional Banking Executive for Colonial Bank/BB&T in Miami-Dade County from 1998-2010. In March 2010, he joined the Gibraltar
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Michael S. Goldberg, Commissioner Jorge Esposito, Commissioner Deede Wheithorn, Commissioner Michael Gongora, Commissioner Jerry Libbin, Jimmy Morales, Adolfo Henriques, Jay Pelham
Private team as Senior Vice President & Miami Beach Market Executive and established the Miami Beach first flagship office in May of 2010. A second generation Miami Beach native, Michael’s dedication to his community extends from his long term involvement in numerous organizations. He is an active and contributing member of the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce having served on the Board of Governors since 1993. In addition, he serves on the Executive Committee. He served as Treasurer from 1996-2000, is an Honorary Lifetime Trustee of the Chamber, immediate Past-Chairman of the Pillar Trustee Board, and was recently appointed Chair-Elect of the Chamber. He is also a Founder of Mt. Sinai Medical Center, serves on the Founder’s board, is a Past-Chairman of the Young President’s club and serves on the Mt.
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Letter from the Chair BY ALAN A. LIPS
As I approach the completion of my first year as chairman, I felt that I should reflect on the past years’ accomplishments of our Chamber. It truly is an honor to serve this great organization and our community as a whole. I am surrounded daily by the greatest people including our talented board of governors (62 strong and growing) as well as the pillar board who truly lead by example, our dedicated and passionate “never say die” Chamber staff, our fun and focused members who devote the time to make our Chamber and community a better place, our city staff and elected officials who have devoted their time and energy to make sure that the future of our great city is bright and our local residents and community activists who stay committed to improving our city every day. After 92 years, our chamber continues to stay true to its mission to improve the quality of life for our entire community. Through our Chairman’s Circle, board members and major sponsors, the Chamber continues to thrive, taking care not only of our growing membership, but continuing to fund our Miami Beach Chamber Education Foundation. Our education foundation provides annual funding to the International Baccalaureate Program at Beach High and the other Miami Beach public schools, grants scholarships to graduating high school seniors as well as supporting various other needs that arise in the community. In addi-
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LEADERSHIP SPOTLIGHT COMM. MICHAEL GONGORA L e a d i n g P r o b l e m - S o lv i n g f o r t h e M i a m i B e a c h o f T od ay a n d To mo r r ow Commissioner Góngora has served Miami Beach for over fourteen years. His parents instilled in him the values of hard work, diligence, achievement and honesty. These values remained his foundation as he excelled in school, built a career, and dedicated himself to community service. This journey and commitment has inspired him to seek to become Miami Beach Mayor. He loves this community and combines his expertise in law, guidance from the community, government problem-solving skills and considerable energy to find and implement solutions to our toughest challenges. A leader who does not hide from difficult issues, he knows ‘the only way to get through it, is to go through it.’ From cleaning up our City, to implementing short and long term flooding relief to envisioning the sustainable Miami Beach of the future, Commissioner Gongora is ready to continue the important work of leading Miami Beach. Commissioner Góngora has demonstrated commitment to forging a path of reform to address corruption in our City, specifically and sadly, within the Administration. His leadership has been key in reestablishing accountability, transparency and service. Through his decisions and unwavering posture, he has pressed for the firings and resignations of those responsible. Now, the City Administration has realigned toward public service over selfinterest and is being run by a new City Manager and many new department heads. Implementing short term solutions while developing long-term, sustainable plans to address flooding has remained crucial for Commissioner Góngora. Recently, he moved to create an 11 member Flooding Taskforce consisting of experts, community members and relevant departmental staff to complement the permanent solutions of the Stormwater Master Plan. Commissioner Góngora has long been the voice of sustainability. In 2007, he created Miami Beach’s first Green Ad Hoc Committee (now the Sustainability Committee.) The Sustainability Committee has become a model for other cities. However, a committee without a champion at the dais would not be effective. Commissioner Góngora has been instrumental in ensuring the implementation of the recommendations of the Sustainability
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Committee. This is a great example of government working inclusively and effectively. This sort of partnership has a delicate balance which may only be maintained and nurtured by the sort of leadership which Commissioner Gonogora brings to the table and will continue to bring as Mayor. Recognizing sustainability as the business model of the future, in 2007, he prioritized two sustainable goals: one for the City to create a Sustainability Plan and the other to improve recycling. Consequently, Miami Beach implemented the Sustainability Plan in January 2011 and recently created a Citywide Recycling Program for Multifamily and Commercial Establishments. Making it easier for residents and visitors to recycle, forty-three 43 dual unit-recycling bins were installed on Lincoln Road as part of a pilot, which if successful will be deployed throughout the City. Also, recycling and sustainable initiatives have become criteria, as appropriate, in many governmental contracts awarded by Miami Beach. It is an honor and sign that we are heading in the right direction that the City’s renewable energy project was recently acknowledged by President Obama’s administration! This is just a spotlight on ways Commissioner Gongora leads Miami Beach through hard work, problem-solving, consensus-building and vision!
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GIBRALTAR BANK, from page 1 ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Sinai Medical Center Foundation board. Established in 1994, Gibraltar Private is an integrated private banking and wealth advisory company dedicated to enhancing the wealth and well-being of its clients and their families. Gibraltar offers residential and commercial lending, private banking and wealth management services to professionals and professional service firms, corporate executives, generational families, affluent retirees and entrepreneurs and
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their businesses. Gibraltar Private has eight full-service offices with its headquarters in Coral Gables, offices in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Miami Beach, South Miami, Naples, Ocean Reef, West Palm Beach and New York. For more information on the Gibraltar Private Miami Beach office, call 305-4684160 or visit www.gibraltarprivate.com.
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tion, this year our Chamber was successful in winning 1st place (a $30,000 prize) in the Aetna Voices of Health contest. The entire $30,000 was donated to the School Nurse Initiative for the schools without healthcare and through our Chamber leadership, matching funds were solicited, a grant was received by the South Florida Health Foundation thanks to Dr. Steven Marcus and as a result, all of the Miami Beach feeder pattern elementary schools now have a full time healthcare team serviced by The Children’s Trust under the direction of Dr. Peter Gorski. I am proud to follow in the footsteps of our past leadership who paved the way to ensure the success of our chamber and had the vision and understanding of our Chamber’s role of setting the example of creating strong partnerships and giving back to our great community to help develop and provide opportunities for our future leaders. I am very excited with the progress the City has made in selecting Tishman ACE and moving the process forward towards having a newly renovated convention
center and a convention center hotel. The plans are magnificent and include a beautiful park that will replace our massive concrete P lot. The future of our great city is dependent upon getting our convention center district up and running. This world class convention center will attract the best conventions from all over the world populating our hotels, restaurants and stores bringing tremendous economic impact to our city, better amenities for our residents and lower real estate taxes as a result. I applaud our community leaders, elected officials, our new City Manager and his staff for moving this process forward and maintaining absolute transparency throughout. All in all our community continues to thrive and the future is bright. Our chamber is growing, expanding it services and functioning at a level well beyond any other. I encourage everyone to come to a chamber event, get involved and experience the power of membership. At your service, AAL
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National Grandparents Day: Honoring our Grandparents on Sunday, September 8 Remembering My Grandfather on His 100th Birthday and a History on Miami Beach
BY CAMERON EHREN SISSER
CAMERON.SISSER@GMAIL.COM This summer, at the age of thirty, I had my very first surgery. It was early in the morning and I found myself in the car with my father driving across the Julia Tuttle Causeway straight into a dark ominous cloud that seemed to engulf all of Miami Beach including Mt. Sinai Hospital where I was about to have inguinal hernia surgery. Just as we entered the Gumenick Ambulatory Surgical Center the heavens opened up and it began to pour only as it can do in Miami on a humid July morning. Sitting in the waiting room, nervous about surgery, I found myself reflecting on my grandfather, Melvin Simonson, M.D. (Granddaddy), and his professional and civic involvement on Miami Beach. Born on the westside of Chicago in 1913, Granddaddy was the product of immigrant parents from Lithuania and Poland. He often spoke about how he sold newspapers during the Great Depression on busy State Street dodging in and out of traffic to save money to buy a suit for his graduation. He attended Northwestern University and interned at Cook County General Hospital
after which he was conscripted into the US Army during World War II. He specialized in psychiatry and neurology and at one time attended as one of the physicians for President Roosevelt at Walter Reed Hospital. He finished his residency at South Beach Hospital where he met his future wife, Mary Maxine Alred, a registered nurse. They were married and moved back to Chicago before the war ended where he got a position with the VA Hospital in Downey, Illinois. Granddaddy quickly became Chief of Staff of Psychiatry and Neurology. In the mid 1950’s he requested a transfer to the VA Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida, now The Biltmore Hotel. He taught psychiatry at the University of Miami at Jackson Memorial Hospital and in 1956 opened an office in North Miami as one of two practicing psychiatrists in the Miami area. Granddaddy was well published in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as, The Journal of the American Medical Association and The American Journal of Psychiatry, many of his articles can be found online today. He was a forerunner in Electroconvulsive (ECT) and Hypnosis therapies. In 1961 he became a Charter Life
Member at Mt Sinai Hospital, where he served on staff and practiced psychiatry until the early 1990’s. Throughout his years practicing medicine he had hospital privileges at St. Francis Hospital, North Shore Hospital and North Miami General in addition to Mt. Sinai. As I sat in the waiting room, I thought of Granddaddy’s name in the lobby of the De Hirsch Meyer Tower and how far medicine has come, in part, from people like him. Granddaddy died in 2003 at the age of ninety. He went in for a hernia operation, much like the one I was to have, but he never woke up. As far back as I can remember he always had a hernia because of the truss he would always wear. He talked about how he had lived with it since he was in his thirty’s. He said he never got it fixed because of the severity of the hernia surgery back then. Medicine has advanced light-years from when my grandfather was in his thirty’s. It makes me wonder if he had received the same quick hernia fix I had, if he would still be here today to see his one hundredth birthday. I will remember my grandfather for twilight walks on Normandy Shores Golf Club in search of golf balls, for teaching
me to drive, for making me do multiplication tables at a very young age and instilling in me morals including a sense of volunteerism. He never spoke much, but when he did it meant something. He was from a different era. He would communicate by news clips and typing short notes on his typewriter. I remember he would reminisce about his childhood growing up in Michiana, on the border of Michigan and Indiana. He took me to public hearings and gatherings on Miami Beach where he spent time pushing for more green space and more parking on the Beach. He never spoke unkindly of anyone. His life’s lessons were many. He raised four children and always managed to find a way to help his seven grandchildren whom he taught in “fun ways”. He gave me strength and guidance as only a grandparent knows how to give. On this Grandparents Day I ask that we all take time to remember our grandparents. Most of all I am proud to call Melvin Simonson- my Granddaddy! In loving memory of my Grandparents Ruth Lessner, Maxine Simonson, Melvin Simonson, Max Sisser and Manny Lessner.
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Mount Sinai Medical Center welcomes new primary care physician, Dr. Joshua Gizersky Mount Sinai Medical Center welcomes restore wellness and promote longevity and Dr. Joshua Gizersky as its newest primary healthy metabolic function. care physician. Dr. Gizersky In addition to internal mediwill be seeing patients at cine and primary care, Dr. Mount Sinai Aventura’s multiGizersky’s focus areas have specialty physician office, been medical weight loss, located at 2845 Aventura wellness and fitness, nutrition, Boulevard. He also will see menopause and andropause patients in the upcoming treatment, along with cognitive Mount Sinai Sunny Isles enhancement. physician office, scheduled to Prior to medical school, Dr. open in October 2014. Gizersky attended Hofstra Dr. Gizersky was most University where he was the recently a clinical faculty lead investigator in an acclaimed physician in the Division of Merck grants research project. Internal Medicine at The project led to the discovery Maimonides Medical Center and patent of a compound with Dr. Joshua Gizersky in New York. He attended the medical applications for respira––––––––––––––––––– New York College of tory distress syndrome. Osteopathic Medicine and completed an A native of Odessa, Ukraine, Dr. Gizersky internal medicine residency at Maimonides grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He mainMedical Center. He went on to complete a tains a close bond with the Russian commuunique fellowship in the emerging field of nity and is fluent in English and Russian. For anti-aging, regenerative, and functional more information, or to contact Dr. Gizersky, medicine, which combines the use of bio- please call 305-674-CARE (2273) or visit identical hormones with supplements to www.msmc.com.
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Epicure with Love Pancakes and Waffles
BY MICHAEL LOVE
Specialty Chef Epicure Gourmet Market & Café I don’t know which breakfast staple I enjoy more. Pancakes are perfectly soft, spongy and semi- sweet before you pour on the syrup. Once soaked with butter and syrup, I could down an entire plate regardless of how full I might be. Waffles are crispy, malty in the middle with all those deep square nooks that fill up with melted butter. Most traditional waffles are made from pancake batter but there are dozens of versions for waffles and pancakes and a myriad of toppings to make your tail wag. Here are my top recipes for pancakes and waffles. The pancake batter has ricotta and buttermilk and make the most delicious
pancakes you have every tried with a warm soft and silky middle. My ultimate waffle has a unique crunchy texture thanks to the stone ground whole wheat flour. Enjoy both recipes with my crispy rosemary bacon (see www.lovecancook.com) and Epicure’s Homemade Applesauce! Crispy Whole Wheat Waffles This recipe uses stone ground whole wheat flour, not pastry flour. If you can’t find stone ground flour, then substitute ? cup of cornmeal plus ? cup of whole wheat pastry flour. Ingredients 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup stone ground whole wheat flour ? teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 4 tablespoons sugar
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3 eggs 2 ounces melted butter, unsalted 2 cups buttermilk, room temp In a medium bowl whisk together the flours, soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and sugar. In another bowl, beat together eggs and melted butter then add the buttermilk. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until combined but don’t overmix. It’s OK if some of the flour is not completely mixed into the batter. Allow to rest for 5 minutes. Follow your waffle iron directions. Note: If making a bunch of waffles, preheat the oven to 250° and place cooked waffles directly on the racks in the oven while cooking subsequent waffles. Vanilla Buttermilk and Ricotta Pancakes These pancakes are light and creamy in the middle, unlike your more traditional and cake-y pancake. Don’t let these pancakes sit for too long, as they are best when eaten immediately. Makes eight to ten (four inch) pancakes. 1 cup buttermilk 1 cup ricotta cheese 2 eggs, separated 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder Pinch of salt 2 tablespoons butter (for greasing the griddle) Confectioner’s sugar (powdered sugar) Heat a non-stick griddle over two burners or use a large non-stick pan. Griddle should be over a medium-heat to the point of melting butter, but not browning. In a large glass bowl combine buttermilk, ricotta, egg yolks (save the whites) and
vanilla. Add sugar and gently whisk to dissolve. Using a metal strainer, sift the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder and salt) into a separate bowl, then slowly add to wet mixture as you continue to whisk. Mix until thoroughly incorporated. In a separate bowl, whisk the two egg whites until it turns from foamy to forming stiff peaks. Fold the egg whites into the batter by gently stirring from the bottom of the bowl with a soft plastic spatula. Using a paper towel to hold a small piece of butter, quickly rub the surface of the griddle or pan where you will be dropping the pancakes. Using a small ladle (one to two ounce) or a large spoon, pour the pancake batter into the same spot until you have a nice round pancake. Don’t move ladle around, pour into the center until the ladle is empty. You want the grill hot enough so that small bubbles begin to form on the uncooked side and the bottom is a light golden brown. When pancakes are set, meaning you can get a spatula under them without the batter spilling over the edges, flip them over carefully and cook another two minutes. Total cooking time should not exceed five minutes. Serve warm with a nice dusting of confectioner’s sugar. Michael Love is the Specialty Chef at Epicure Gourmet Market and Café and the creator of “Epicure with Love,” an all-natural gourmet line of food including soups, prepared entrées, Giant cookies, and Xtreme brownies. Michael is also available for private and group cooking instruction and can be hired for dinner parties and events by contacting Epicure at 305-6721861. Michael@epicuremarket.com Blog www.lovecancook.com Twitter @lovecancook Like me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MiamiChefMichael
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Look forward to Fall: Miami Beach exhibits its best as the season kicks off
Fall is right around the corner and with it the beginning of the social season on Miami Beach. The air is electric with a plethora of events, parties, previews and happenings that are the best that Miami Beach has to offer. So why look forward to Fall? Aside from Art Basel, the ultimate visual and sensory experience, Miami Beach offers the perfect storm of fun and style all season long in a city like no place else on earth. South Beach Seafood Festival Experience some of the best Seafood Dishes in South Florida at the South Beach Seafood Festival October 17-19, 2013. Kicking off stone crab season, local restaurants will be showcased within the Mini Cafe area on the sands of South Beach, featuring a menu of signature dishes. Located at 9th & Ocean Drive, South Beach Seafood Festival tickets are available for $25 general admission with VIP packages priced at $150 per person. Halloween, Lincoln Road Mall When nightfall sets on Halloween, the Lincoln Road Mall will fill with thousands of locals and tourist alike, all prepared for the scariest and freakiest night of the year. Entertainment includes live music, costume parties, great food, shopping and of course, people watching. The worldfamous costume contest, held on the main stage, will highlight the best three costumes of the night with each winner receiving a prize. Thanksgiving Feasts Let someone else cook for you this Thanksgiving by booking a table at one of the many fine dining restaurants around Miami Beach that offer a sumptuous Thanksgiving feast this year. They include: The Dutch, Bianca @ The Delano, Scarpetta, and Gotham Steak. Menus and
reservations are available closer to November. The Annual White Party The world’s sexiest HIV/AIDS Fundraiser returns to Miami Beach November 27-December 2 in the form of The White Party. The National Hotel will play host to this philanthropic party which includes a beach bash on the sands of SoBe, a pool party, mixers and of course, the signature “White Party” event. Tickets are on sale now and range from $150 to $289 for a weekend event pass. SCOPE Miami Beach Popular art fair, SCOPE, is relocating from Midtown Miami this year to Miami Beach, planting its stake in the sand. SCOPE Miami Beach’s 70,000 sq. ft. pavilion will feature an outdoor beach lounge and stunning views of the ocean, nestled amongst the iconic architecture of Ocean Drive at 10th Street. SCOPE Miami Beach opens on Tuesday, December 3, for VIPs and Press at its First View benefit, and will run December 4 - 8, 2013. Art Basel Miami Beach Leading galleries from around the globe show work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as newly created pieces by emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, and films of the highest quality are on display at the main exhibition hall in the Miami Beach Convention Center, while ambitious artworks and performances become part of the landscape at nearby beaches, Collins Park and SoundScape Park. Art Basel Miami Beach also offers a full program of events including special presentations, talks and panel discussions, films, public artworks, and performances that take place throughout the city and its surrounding area, December 5 - 8, 2013.
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Hyundai Sonata Hybrid has more power, better technology Grant Miller CAR CORNER The 2013 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid is just a great automobile! It’s incredibly luxurious and comfortable for a lower-priced car, it handles like a dream and it delivers excellent fuel economy (34/40 mpg). It also boasts more power than the previous model, which makes the ride even better. The new Sonata Hybrid comes with an advanced version of Hyundai’s Hybrid Blue Drive system. It increases fuel efficiency and operates in the all-electric mode more often and for a longer time. Hyundai engineers have increased the overall amount of available electrical drive power and improved the efficiency of the Hybrid Blue Drive operating system in this latest Sonata Hybrid. Using a higher output 35 kW electric motor and the more powerful 47 kW Lithium Polymer battery pack, the Hybrid Blue Drive powertrain maximizes electric-only driving. The improved operating system takes advantage of newly developed driving pattern detection and engine
on/off optimization logic. The availability of more battery energy allows for more flexibility in running the gasoline engine at optimum efficiency, which saves gas. Better kinetic energy recovery and increased charging efficiency powers the Sonata Hybrid in the allelectric mode more often and for longer periods of time, thus increasing fuel economy. Interestingly, the Sonata Hybrid’s new 47 kW lithium polymer battery pack not only is more powerful and more energy dense, it also weighs less and takes up less space in the trunk. The weight has dropped from 96 pounds to 91 pounds, while trunk space has increased from 10.7 cubic feet to 12.1 cubic feet. The improved efficiency of the battery pack is key to recovering more kinetic energy from braking and charging from the engine to help drive the vehicle. The newly optimized system allows the battery to store more usable energy, allowing more all-electric driving, cutting both fuel consumption and emissions. In pure electric drive, the Sonata Hybrid has a top speed of 75 mp. The 2013 Sonata Hybrid design is basically unchanged, except for re-shaped front and rear fascias with a deeper air dam, extended rocker panels and lower drag wheels that allow air to flow around the body with less resistance. There are two different model trim lines to choose from — Sonata Hybrid
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($25,650) and Sonata Hybrid Limited ($30,550). The Limited model adds 17-inch spoke alloy wheels, leather seating surfaces, leather-wrapped steering wheel & shift knob, heated rear seats, power driver seat with lumbar support, a navigation system with highresolution touch-screen display, rear backup camera, Infinity premium speakers, subwoofer and external amplifier (400-watt), HD Radio Technology with multicasting and
an auto-dimming mirror. For an extra $1,000, you can get the Panoramic Sunroof Package that includes the sunroof and a glossy black door surround and outside mirror housing. Grant Miller is the publisher of Community Newspapers. He may be contacted by calling 305-662-2277 or by addressing email to <Grant@CommunityNewspapers.com>.
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The $outh Florida Gaming Report Two New Beginnings BY ISADORE HAVENICK
Two weeks ago the City of Hialeah welcomed the opening of the Casino at Hialeah Park. Within five days of that opening The Casino at Miami JaiAlai filed a chapter 11 bankruptcy. The facilities are a mere two miles apart and now one opens with great fanfare while the other appears on the brink of closing. Don’t count Miami Jai-Alai out so fast as there appear to be lots of behind the scenes maneuvering going on. Apparently the casino at Miami JaiAlai was on the verge of being sold and
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Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce joins Florida Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association and launches new International Commerce Service On August 21st, Florida Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association (FCBF) welcomed the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce to their General Membership Meeting Luncheon as new members. The luncheon took place at the Doubletree Miami Mart Airport Hotel as Ceci Velasco, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and Susana Peñaranda, Administrative Assistant/International Commerce Liaison were introduced to existing FCBF members including air carriers, terminal operators, port associations, freight forwarders, brokers, law firms, trade related organizations and local chambers of commerce. Striving to facilitate international commerce business in the region, Velasco and Peñaranda announced the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce’s launch of an International Commerce Service offering to seal and notarize a series of export documentations. There are two common export documentations currently sealed by the Chamber available to the public. A Certificate of Origin is a document required by foreign governments attesting that the goods in a particular export shipment have been wholly produced, manufactured or processed in a particular country. The cer-
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tificate is signed by the exporter, notarized and validated by a Chamber in order to be acceptable and valid. With an increase of trade in South Florida, a second Certificate frequently requested is the Certificate of Free Sale. This particular certificate is evi-
dence that goods, such as food items and/or cosmetics, are legally sold or distributed in the open market, freely without restriction and approved by the regulatory authorities in the United States. The Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce is offering to seal
the Certificate of Origin at $10 per shipment and $25 for Certificates of Free Sale. Both highly requested export documentations are synonymous with the increase in trade South Florida has experienced within the last year. According to Mimi Whitefield, Journalist of the Miami Herald in an article titled South Florida trade shattered records in 2012, It was a golden year for international trade through the Miami Customs District in 2012, as South Florida airports and seaports handled a record $124.73 billion worth of trade and cracked into the nation’s Top 10 customs districts for the first time”. Numerous reports estimate for trade to increase within the next few years. According to Miami-Dade County, “Port Miami will be one of only three U.S Atlantic ports to be at 50 feet when the expanded Panama Canal opens in early 2015. The deeper depth will allow Port Miami to accommodate new, larger Post-Panamax vessels that will be traversing the Canal. As the closest U.S port of Panama, PortMiami expects to benefit from increased trade. For more information on the International Commerce Service, contact Assistant@miamibeachchamber.com or
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Do you or someone you know have Facial Acne? FXM Research in Miramar is looking for males and females 12 to 40 years of age that suffer from Facial Acne, to participate in an four [4] study-visit clinical research study. Medical Insurance is not required for study participation. Qualified participants will receive: • Evaluation by a Board Certified Dermatologist. • Investigational Study Medication at no cost. • Reimbursement for time and travel up to USD $200.00.
BY WILLIAM D. TALBERT III, CDME
HOW’S BUSINESS In the months of January - June 2013, passengers through PortMiami grew to 2,228,313 - an increase of 10.2% compared to the same time last year. Sustained growth is due in part to the arrival of new, larger vessels and the variety of cruise options offered by PortMiami.
January - June 2013 2,228,313
January - June 2012 2,021,308
% Change 10.2%
U.S. OPENS GLOBAL TRAVEL ENTRY PROGRAM TO FOREIGN TRAVELERS Frequent flyers from Germany, the United Kingdom, Qatar and South Korea will now be eligible to participate in the Global Entry “trusted traveler” program. Global Entry is a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) program that allows expedited clearance for pre-approved, low-risk travelers upon arrival in the United States. For more information, visit www.globalentry.gov. MIAMI SPICE RUNS THROUGH SEPTEMBER There is still time to enjoy Miami Spice! Take advantage of this fabulous restaurant promotion through September, with Miami’s top restaurants offering three-course meals (Lunch: $19 or $23; Dinner: $33 or $39) featuring signature dishes created by worldrenowned chefs. Discover the tropical fusion of ingredients that makes Miami dining so wonderfully out of the ordinary. For details, visit iLoveMiamiSpice.com.
¿Tiene usted o alguien que usted conoce Acné Facial? FXM Research en Miramar está buscando hombres y mujeres de 12 a 40 años de edad que padecen de Acné Facial, para participar en un estudio clínico de investigación que requiere de cuatro [4] visitas. No se requiere seguro médico para su participación en el estudio. Los participantes que califiquen recibirán: • Evaluaciones por un Dermatólogo Certificado. • Los medicamentos bajo investigación sin costo alguno. • Reembolso por su tiempo y transporte de hasta $200.00. For more information please call:
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Do you or someone you know have Atopic Dermatitis (Also known as Eczema)? FXM Research in Miramar is looking for males and females 18 to 65 years of age that suffer from Atopic Dermatitis (dry, red, scaling patches throughout your body with or without itchiness), to participate in a nine (9) study visit clinical research study. Medical Insurance is not required for study participation. Qualified participants will receive: • Evaluation by a Board Certified Dermatologist. • Investigational Study Medication at no cost. • Reimbursement for time and travel up to USD $540.00.
¿Tiene usted o alguien que usted conoce Dermatitis Atópica (También conocida como Eczema)? FXM Research en Miramar está buscando a hombres y mujeres de 18 a 65 años de edad que padecen de Dermatitis Atópica (parches de resequedad, enrojecimiento, descamación en su cuerpo con o sin picazón), para participar en un estudio clínico de investigación que requiere de nueve (9) visitas. No se requiere seguro médico para su participación en el estudio. Los participantes que califiquen recibirán: • Evaluaciones por un Dermatólogo Certificado. • Los medicamentos bajo investigación sin costo alguno. • Reembolso por su tiempo y transporte de hasta $540.00. For more information please call:
Para más información por favor llame al:
(954) 430-1097 Francisco Flores, MD. Board Certified Dermatologist FXM Research Miramar
FXM Research Miramar 3000 SW 148th Ave. Suite 216 Miramar, FL 33027
www.fxmresearch.com
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