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The Story of Florida's State Parks Tonight at 7:30 pm on WPBT2

The Story of Florida's State Parks, WPBT2, Tonight at 7:30 p.m. explores the history and beauty of Falling Waters State Park. This park near Chipley, in Northwest Florida, has the state's highest waterfall and plunges seventy feet into a sinkhole formation.

http://channel2.typepad.com/florida_parks/sneak-peek.html

Miami Today Newsmaker Profile - Mike Dee

Miami Dolphins CEO Mike Dee comes to the Miami Dolphins with a strong business acumen developed most recently during a seven-yearstint with the Boston Red Sox. Despite fielding championship teams in Boston, Mr. Dee insists a positive, powerful experience is perhaps just as critical as winning games in developing fan loyalty.

In his first season, Mr. Dee aims to improve the fan experience at Dolphin Stadium in addition to boosting season ticket sales while developing the team’s presence in the community.
A Dolphins fan “since 1985”, and a former resident of South Florida, where he spent time after college, Mr. Dee felt the chance to come to Miami was one he could not turn down.

You can watch the video here.

You can see the entire interview with Mike Dee in Miami Today

From Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park

The Story of Florida’s State Parks, WPBT2,  Tuesday at 7:30 pm

Florida Park Service Specialist Tony Emtiaz takes an underwater tour of the Christ of the Deep statue, a long-time icon of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.

Save The Blue

At the screening for The Story of Florida's State Parks, held at Palmetto Bay Village Center, we met Lacey Hoover.  

Ms Hoover is the Chairman of the Herbert W. Hoover Foundation, Hoover Environmental Foundation, and Hoover Environmental Group. She is serving on or has served on the boards of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Pew Institute for Ocean Science, Nova Southeastern University's Oceanographic Center, South Florida National Park Trust, National First Ladies Library and several others. Environmentalist, philanthropist, and mother, Lacey Hoover embodies a long tradition of community service, entrepreneurial skill and the teaching of the next generation to preserve their natural resources and leave the world a better place.

Save The Blue is an effort to preserve the world's water supply and marine life and the current project is to eliminate the killing of Sharks for their fins.  You can find more information here.

Jessy in San Francisco

Jessy, our uVu producer took a trip to the left coast this past week, you can follow her exploits here.  At least she kept both hands on the wheel this time.

Riding Out The Storm

"Riding Out the Storm" is a project of Nightly Business Report on PBS. It's and effort to focus on personal stories and personal finance during this recession.  NBR wants you to use uVu to upload video of yourself talking about your experiences in this financial hurricane. Your story could help others. We also want you to upload your personal finance questions. We'll select as many of them as we can, ask personal finance experts to answer them on camera, and upload those answers here as well.

If you want to upload you story or question, start by becoming a member of uVu.  Then join this "Riding Out the Storm" group. And, finally, when you upload your video, be sure to select "Riding Out the Storm" as your video's category.

FLIFF 24 - The Poster

At the unveiling for the 24th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival we got to meet the director of the television spot -Peter Langone; the creative director- Fiore; graphic designer Madalina Iordache-Levay and FLIFF's CEO Gregory von Hausch

FLIFF 24 runs from October 23-November 11 and you can find more info here.

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PULSE: Economic Impact of Carnival

This year Miami-Dade and Broward have partnered together to produce one Carnival parade in Bicentennial Park instead of holding competing events in each county.  But how does Carnival affect the local economy? Should we consider scaling down celebrations or eliminating Carnival altogether given our economic crisis?

Miami Today Newsmaker Profile - Maria Elena Ibañez

Maria Elena Ibañez describes herself as a tenacious woman, never giving up on her goals.

A quality behind her entrepreneurial success, she says, as she has built three top-performing companies from the ground up.

After entering two relatively untapped technology markets, Latin American and Africa, earlier in her career, Ms. Ibañez is now focused on growing her newest venture, Intermark Foods.

She formed the company in 2002, after returning from her second attempt at retirement, realizing business was what made her happy.

Today, her focus is growing El Latino brands, which she says has accelerated since the recession began, growing 32% this year. The downturn has also allowed her to hire more trained personnel.

Ms. Ibañez shared some of her struggles and triumphs in business and her plans for growing Intermark Foods with Miami Today reporter Yudislaidy Fernandez at her offices in Doral.

You can read the full interview in Miami Today

You can watch the video here