Resources for South Florida small businesses

•  Florida Small Business Development Centers. Counseling and training at centers in South Florida and around the state, www.floridasbdc.org.•  SCORE Workshops, online training and free coaching at local branches, www.score.org, miamidade.score.org, browardscore.org, southbroward.score.org• Florida Women’s Business Center. Provides training, mentoring and...

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Former Miami Beach resident may be next Israeli ambassador to U.S.

Ron Dermer, a top adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and who has family ties to two former Miami Beach mayors, may soon become the next Israeli ambassador to the United States, according to reports in an Israeli newspaper.The daily Makor Rishon reported late Friday that the current ambassador, Michael Oren, plans to step down from his post in the spring...

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NYPD recruits sworn in at graduation ceremony

They came from all corners of the globe to join their brothers in blue.The NYPD recruits sworn in at a graduation ceremony in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center today were born in countries like Nigeria, South Korea, China, Albania, Pakistan, and Somalia — and speak 59 languages. Others came from less exotic locales like Brooklyn and Queens.The new class of 1,159...

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Drug overuse in cattle imperils human health

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two children seriously injured in the Joplin, Mo., tornado in May 2011 showed up at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City suffering from antibiotic-resistant infections from dirt and debris in their wounds.Physicians tried different drugs, but at first nothing seemed to work.Blame the overuse of antibiotics in livestock, according to the doctors familiar...

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Relatives take to the streets for clues in the murder of Miami teen

The grieving parents of a slain 16-year-old boy took to the streets Thursday in an effort to find who killed the Miami Jackson Senior High 10th-grader.Bryan Herrera — who will be buried Friday — was shot to death days before Christmas while riding his bicycle in Allapattah. Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho helped Bryan’s parents hand out fliers Thursday....

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Inside Kate Winslet's Secret Wedding

We have new details about Kate Winslet's secret wedding to Ned Rocknroll! Who attended the nuptials? Did Kate's Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio give her away? Watch the video to find out…Pics: Celebrity Weddings of 2012 Kate made her third trip down the aisle earlier this month in a small, private New York ceremony, and her spokesperson tells ET that it was attended "by her two children and a very...

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Over the cliff, cont’d

With the approaching fiscal cliff less than 100 hours away, things are getting awfully personal on Capitol Hill.Which means that the chances of reaching a deal to avoid expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts are approaching slim to none.And if they’re allowed to expire, it would trigger the largest tax hike in US history — meaning lots of pain and suffering,...

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Deadline to apply for free foreclosure case reviews is Monday

Florida residents who believe they suffered from shoddy foreclosure practices have through Monday to apply for a free case review that could net them up to $125,000 if wrongdoing is found.The program, which is overseen by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, began in November 2011 with an estimated 4 million eligibility letters mailed nationwide.As of late September,...

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Man set on fire Christmas night, Miami-Dade police are investigating

A 44-year-old man was set on fire Christmas night at a gas station in central Miami-Dade County. He was burned over 75 percent of body but remained alive Wednesday as his family pleaded for help in finding his attackers.It was a mystery why Darrell Brackett was set ablaze at the U-Gas station at 4700 NW 27th Ave. Miami-Dade police said they were treating the investigation...

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Analysis: Amazon’s Christmas faux pas shows risks in the cloud

(Reuters) – A Christmas Eve glitch traced to Amazon.com Inc that shuttered Netflix for users from Canada to South America highlights the risks that companies take when they move their datacenter operations to the cloud.While the high-profile failure – at least the third this year – may cause some Amazon Web Services customers to consider alternatives, it is unlikely to severely hurt a fast-growing...

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