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Corporate Run 2013
12:11 pm
Thu April 25, 2013

Thousands To Take Part In Miami's Mercedes-Benz Marathon

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This year's Corporate Run logo.
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By Miami Herald Staff

Up to 20,000 runners and walkers are expected to take part in Thursday evening’s annual Mercedes-Benz Corporate Run through downtown Miami — and that means street closures.

The race officially begins at 6:45 p.m. It concludes around 8 p.m. at Bayfront Park, but some closures on Biscayne Boulevard could begin as early as 2 p.m.

Motorists are encouraged to take alternate routes. Residents that live in the area will be allowed access on a “local traffic only” basis.

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Food
9:44 am
Thu April 25, 2013

The Rise Of Women In The Coffee World

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Three women in coffee leading the way: Stephanie Backus of Portland Roasting, coffee farmer Miguelina Villatoro of Guatemala, and coffee exporter/processor Loyreth Sosa. Here they discuss coffee prices as they survey beans ready for milling.
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Margaret Swallow co-founded the International Women's Coffee Alliance a decade ago.
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Originally published on Fri April 26, 2013 2:46 am

The inspiration for NPR's Coffee Week arrived in an email last summer. I had just reported on the growing Third-Wave Movement in Coffee, and the burgeoning interest in coffee cuppings.

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Entrepreneurship
6:00 am
Thu April 25, 2013

Get Rid Of Your Junk With A College Hunk

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Miami franchise owners Christopher Poore (left) and Ron Rick (right).
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By Jackie Skevin

Twenty-three-year-old Christopher Poore opens the door with a warm and welcoming smile. He turns and walks back into his new office. A lounge area with couches and a wooden table are off to one side in front of a wall painted bright orange and green, the colors of his alma mater. 


His business partner Ron Rick ,23, enters the room sporting a buzz cut and green polo shirt with a muscle man logo on it. The two are laid-back entrepreneurs who became friends as undergraduates at the University of Miami.

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Great Outdoors
12:34 pm
Wed April 24, 2013

Florida's National Parks Are Free Through April 26

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Sunrise on Long Pine Key Nature Trail.
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In celebration of National Parks Week, every national park in the United States is free of charge through Friday, April 26.

These include Everglades National Park and the Dry Tortugas National Park off of Key West.

For a complete list of Florida's National Parks, go to the website by clicking here.

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Food
11:19 am
Wed April 24, 2013

How Coffee Influenced The Course Of History

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An overseer sits in the shade while workers collect coffee beans on a Brazilian plantation, circa 1750.
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Originally published on Wed April 24, 2013 12:32 pm

Coffee is a powerful beverage. On a personal level, it helps keep us awake and active. On a much broader level, it has helped shape our history and continues to shape our culture.

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History
11:06 am
Wed April 24, 2013

New Plan Preserves Jackie Gleason Theater In Miami Beach

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The Jackie Gleason Theater in Miami Beach
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By Christina Veiga

One of the most contentious aspects of the plan to redevelop the Miami Beach Convention Center has been settled: The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater will stay.

The theater had been slated for demolition by Portman-CMC, one of the two teams still in the running for the massive overhaul project. But with music and history lovers lined up in support of saving the theater, the team said that its plan has changed.

“We listened to the community,” said Jack Portman, vice chairman of Portman Holdings and John Portman & Associates.

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Food
10:34 am
Wed April 24, 2013

Going The Distance To Test Those Feel-Good Coffee Labels

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Luis Fernando Vasquez has been a coffee farmer in the central valley of Costa Rica his entire life.
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Luis Fernando Vasquez's coffee farm in Costa Rica. Vasquez says farmers have changed their methods in recent years. Where they once would cut down trees, he says, "now we are coming to understand that the tree plays a role" in a healthy coffee plant ecosystem.
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Christian Mora is the general manager of AFAORCA, a fair trade coffee cooperative in Costa Rica.
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Angelina Zuñiga Godinez and Fanny Cordero Mora grow coffee for Coopetarrazu, one of Costa Rica's largest coffee cooperatives. These bags of coffee are labeled with the towns where they are grown
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Originally published on Fri April 26, 2013 11:29 am

What does it take to find guilt-free coffee?

Much of our coffee comes from places where the environment is endangered and workers earn very little — sometimes, just a few dollars for a whole day's work. Coffee farmers have helped cut down tropical forests, and most of them use pesticides.

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Nature
8:30 am
Tue April 23, 2013

Father Saves Boy From Alligator Attack With Stranger's Help

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A Fish and Wildlife Service team caught and killed an alligator after the animal attacked a 6-year-old boy Friday. The boy survived with only incidental wounds.
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An image from Google Maps shows the area of the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge where Joey Welch, 6, was attacked by an alligator.
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Originally published on Tue April 23, 2013 3:05 pm

A 6-year-old boy's day off from school Friday left him with a vivid story to tell his classmates, after he was seized — and eventually released — by an alligator in South Florida. The attack occurred at a wildlife refuge near Boynton Beach, Fla., where Joseph Welch had taken his son, Joey, for a canoe ride.

As Welch, a native of Rhode Island who now lives in Pompano Beach, says in a Morning Edition interview airing Tuesday, his idea had been to do "something new and different."

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News
7:00 am
Tue April 23, 2013

How Urban Explorers Record History South Florida Forgot

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Aerojet Missle Silo (not to be confused with Nike Missile Silo, this facility is outside of the Everglades and not open to visitors)
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Built in 1964 as part of the Cold War response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Nike Missile Silo was abandoned in 1979, but the former complex remains eerily intact within the southern portion of Everglades National Park. It is a reminder of a time when South Florida was a focal point of international politics, and it's also one the region's more famous abandoned sites.

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Health Care
11:20 am
Mon April 22, 2013

Fraudsters Target Seniors Amid Confusion About Obamacare

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Confusion over the details of the new health care law is leaving many people vulnerable to con artists. Evelyne Lois Such, 86, was recently the target of an attempted scam.
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Confusion over the details of the new health care law is leaving many people vulnerable to con artists. Evelyne Lois Such, 86, was recently the target of an attempted scam.
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Originally published on Mon April 22, 2013 10:18 am

One recent morning, Evelyne Lois Such was sitting at her kitchen table in Denver when the phone rang. Such, who's 86, didn't recognize the phone number or the deep voice on the other end of the line.

"He asked, 'Are you a senior?' and I said yes, and he said, 'Well, we are sending out all new Medicare cards, and I want to make sure I have all your statistics just correct,' " Such recalls.

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Trade
10:09 am
Mon April 22, 2013

How Coffee Makes The World Go 'Round

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The best coffee comes from high altitudes with a warm climate like in Huehuetenango, Guatemala.
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Workers separate beans at a coffee warehouse in Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia. Coffee originated in Ethiopia, but now grows in more than 50 countries around the world.
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A woman rakes coffee beans that are drying at a coffee plant in Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Coffee is the country's top export.
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Forty percent of all coffee comes from Brazil. Here, coffee plantation workers pour sun-dried coffee beans into burlap sacks in Minas Gerais.
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An Indonesian "Starbikes" vendor prepares coffee from his bicycle for street laborers in Jakarta.
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Farmers gather coffee beans in Yunnan province, China.
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Workers clean coffee beans at the Los Ausoles coffee plantation in Ahuachapan, El Salvador. Global exports of green coffee beans are worth $15 billion a year.
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Vietnamese farmers grow a species of coffee tree called robusta. It grows fast and produces a big crop, but the bean has a bitter taste. Pictured is a coffee shop in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Workers separate beans in the coffee warehouse in Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia. Coffee originated in Ethiopia, but now grows in more then 50 countries around the world.
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Originally published on Wed April 24, 2013 11:05 am

Coffee is more than a drink. For many of us — OK, for me — it's woven into the fabric of every day.

It also connects us to far corners of the globe.

For instance, every Friday, a truck pulls up to the warehouse of Counter Culture Coffee, a small roaster and coffee distributor in Durham, N.C., and unloads a bunch of heavy burlap sacks.

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Job Opening
12:10 pm
Sat April 20, 2013

Senior Editor for News at WLRN-Miami Herald News

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Station:                       WLRN

Company:                   South Florida Public Media/Friends of WLRN

Job Title:                     Senior Editor, News, WLRN-Miami Herald News

FLSA Status:               Full-time, Exempt

Reports to:                 News Director

Schedule:                   10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday – Friday or as job demands

Reason for Opening: New

Location:                     Miami, FL

To apply:

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News
12:06 pm
Sat April 20, 2013

Senior Editor for Digital Media at WLRN-Miami Herald News

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Station:                       WLRN

Company:                   South Florida Public Media/Friends of WLRN

Job Title:                     Senior Editor, Digital Media, WLRN-Miami Herald News

FLSA Status:               Full-time, Exempt

Reports to:                 News Director

Schedule:                   10 a.m-6 p.m. Monday-Friday or as job demands

Reason for Opening: New

Location:                     Miami, FL

To apply:

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