POUGHKEEPSIE — Police say 74-year-old Hudson Valley man died after being struck by a car on a snowy street.
Town of Poughkeepsie police say Muril M. Hancock was hit around 12:30 p.m. Friday by a car as he walked near the shoulder of a street in this town 70 miles north of New York City. Hancock was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died.
The car's 18-year-old driver said she lost control because of snowy conditions. Police did not identify the driver.
Prepare your best pitch for the Miami Herald’s Small Business Forum, Feb. 21 at the south campus of our sponsor, Florida International University.
In addition to how-to panels and inspirational stories from successful entrepreneurs, our annual small business forum will include interactive opportunities with experts to learn about financing options and polish your personal and business brands.
During our finance panel, audience volunteers will be invited to explain their financing needs to the group. During our box-lunch session, they will be invited to pitch their business or personal brand to our coaches.
Those who prefer just to listen will be treated to a keynote address by Alberto Perlman, co-founder of the global fitness craze Zumba. Panels include success stories from the local entrepreneurs who founded Sedano’s, Jennifer’s Homemade and ReStockIt.com; finance tips from experts in small business loans, venture capital, angel investments and traditional bank loans; and insiders in the burgeoning South Florida tech start-up scene.
Plus, it’s a real bargain. $25 includes the half-day seminar, continental breakfast and a box lunch.
Register here.
Program
8 a.m.
Registration and continental breakfast, provided by Bill Hansen Catering
8:30 a.m. Welcome
Host: David Suarez, president and CEO, Interactive Training Solutions, LLC
• Jerry Haar, PhD, associate dean & director, FIU Eugenio Pino and Family Global
Entrepreneurship Center
• Alice Horn, executive director, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE South Florida)
• Jane Wooldridge, Business editor, The Miami Herald
Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge Overview:
• Nancy Dahlberg, Business Plan Challenge coordinator, The Miami Herald
8:45 a.m. Session I – Success Stories
Moderator: Jerry Haar, PhD, associate dean & director, FIU Eugenio Pino and Family Global
Entrepreneurship Center
Speakers:
• Jennifer Behar, founder, Jennifer’s Homemade
• Matt Kuttler, co-president of ReStockIt.com
• Javier Herrán, chief marketing officer, Sedano’s Supermarkets
10 a.m. Session II – All about Tech
Moderator: Jane Wooldridge, Business editor, The Miami Herald
Speakers
• Susan Amat, founder, Launch Pad Tech
• Nancy Borkowski, executive director, Health Management Programs, Chapman Graduate School of
Business, Florida International University
• Mark Slaughter, CEO, Cohealo.com
• Chris Fleck, vice president of mobility solutions at Citrix and a director of the South Florida Tech Alliance
11:15 a.m. Keynote
Speaker: Alberto Perlman, CEO and co-founder of Zumba® Fitness
Introduction: Jane Wooldridge, business editor, The Miami Herald
11:45 a.m. Session III – Show me the money: Financing your small business
An interactive session featuring audience volunteers who will be invited to make a short investment pitch before a panel, including experts in microlending, SBA loans, traditional bank loans, venture capital and angel investing. Audience volunteers should come prepared with a two-minute presentation that includes details about current backing, how much money they are seeking and a brief synosis of ow that money would be used.
Moderator: Melissa Krinzman, founder and managing director, Venture Architects
Panelists:
• Marjorie Weber, chairman, SCORE of Miami-Dade
• Cornell Crews, Jr., program director, Partners for Self Employment
• Darius G. Nevin, co-founder, G3 Capital Partners, a mid-market and early-stage investment company
• Boris Hirmas Said, chairman of the board, Tres Mares S.A. (Santiago, Chile) and entrepreneur in
residence at the Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center
1 p.m. Lunch session - Polish your Pitch, Brighten Your Personal Brand
An interactive session featuring audience volunteers who will be invited to make short pitches about their businesses and themselves. Audience volunteers should come prepared with a two-minute presentation.
Coaches: Melissa Krinzman of Venture Architects and Michelle Villalobos of Mivista Consulting
advise audience volunteers on how to best pitch themselves and their products.
Box lunch provided by Bill Hansen Catering
All speakers confirmed unless otherwise noted. Agenda is subject to change without notice .
WASHINGTON --
I was a stranger and you invited me in.
Evangelicals nationwide are turning their Bibles to Matthew 25:35 and praying that Congress is listening to those words — part of a highly-coordinated effort to spur progress on the long unresolved and contentious issue of immigration.
Faith leaders and their congregations have become an unlikely but powerful ally to reform advocates, framing the question over what to do with 11 million unauthorized residents as one of moral compassion, and tapping into influence among Republicans to soften opposition to a pathway to citizenship.
“Immigration is an issue that speaks to coming to the aid of the most vulnerable,” said the Rev. Joel Hunter, head of the megachurch Northland near Orlando. “We want to develop in our people a heart for those who are disadvantaged and give them a fair shake.”
Evangelicals have gotten involved in the issue in recent years but the current effort is unmatched, including grassroots mobilization, videos and direct appeals to policy makers.
To elevate their cause, the faith leaders, who have come together under the name Evangelical Immigration Table, have begun a campaign called, “I was a Stranger.”
It calls for church members to read the 40 verses of Scripture that relate to immigration — Exodus 23:12, for example, calls for resting on the seventh day and allowing the “stranger” or “foreigner” to refresh as well — and pray that legislators take the same Bible-led approach.
“We’re not telling people that you have to vote for this candidate, but we’re telling people that if you are evangelical Christian, the Bible should be your authority on the topic of immigration,” said Matthew Soerens, U.S. church training specialist for World Relief. He said many evangelicals were unaware of the links to immigration in the Bible.
The latest action came Thursday, when a group of religious leaders met with staff at the White House. Many also met privately with senators and representatives, focusing on Republicans who have generally opposed a path to citizenship.
“Evangelical America is the base of the Republican Party,” said Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum. “We’re seeing Republican members of Congress getting support as well as pressure from social conservatives. That’s the big difference in this debate, when a member who’s on the fence can look to his or her base and say, ’Oh, okay, my folks want me to do this.’ ”
During the last immigration debate, in 2006 and 2007, surveys showed white evangelicals were more likely than the general population to view immigrants as a threat to U.S. values. New studies and anecdotal evidence shows that has faded, helped by the swelling ranks of Hispanic evangelicals.
With 100 million evangelicals in the United States — that’s about a quarter of all voters — a sizable shift in thinking could be, in Noorani’s view, “a game changer.”
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, has shifted from an anti-“amnesty” candidate in 2010 to a centrist in the current debate, pushing an approach that toughens enforcement but also would allow a path to citizenship. Since stepping into the spotlight, Rubio has had private talks with prominent evangelicals such as Ralph Reed.
Winter storm Nemo is expected to sock the city today with fierce winds and an icy mix that should bring down power lines and trees, threaten coastal flooding, turn tonight’s commute into a nightmare — and leave more than a foot of snow before it’s done.
“This is a very dangerous storm,” said Jerry Hauer, the state’s emergency-services commissioner, as he urged New Yorkers to stay home if they can today — and leave work early if they can’t.
“Travel will be almost impossible” tonight, he warned.
The full impact won’t be known until sundown, when two powerful storms — an Alberta clipper from Canada and a big rainmaker from the Gulf and Southeast — collide and combine off the Atlantic coast, forecasters said.
The city could get between 10 and 15 inches of snow, according to AccuWeather.
We can also expect sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph today and nighttime gusts of 50 mph, said AccuWeather meteorologist Brian Edwards, adding, “Certainly, this will be classified as a blizzard.”
Mayor Bloomberg said the city had 250 tons of salt on hand, and sanitation workers would start 12-hour shifts at 7 p.m. when heavy snow is expected to begin piling up. “We’re ready for it,” Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said.
Hauer warned coastal areas of Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island of a tidal surge of three to five feet and “strong wave action.” That’s not close to Hurricane Sandy’s 13-foot-plus surge but serious enough for residents to be prepared if they have to evacuate, he said.
“The good news, I guess if you like snow, is that we’re going to have snow,” Bloomberg said yesterday morning.
Edwards said high temperatures in the city may reach only 31 tomorrow and 36 Sunday, so don’t expect any real melting until the low and mid-40s of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Alternate-side parking will be suspended through Sunday.
Amtrak is suspending all service between New York and Boston starting at 1 p.m. today.
The MTA expects to be operating subways and buses as it attempts to clear tracks of snow.
The LIRR is adding extra trains in the afternoon to help passengers get home.
More than 1,700 flights have been canceled along the Northeast as JFK, Newark and La Guardia are all expecting disruptions in flights starting later today.
Drivers were bracing for the worst last night, as gas lines stretched for blocks in Brooklyn, Staten Island and Long Island.
Homeowners who received letters recently from a company offering to sell them a copy of the deed on their home might want to think twice before writing a check.
The official-looking letters from Florida Certified Record Retrieval state that the government recommends having a certified copy of their home’s deed.
The letter offers to provide such a copy for a fee of $50, plus $4.50 for postage and handling.
Technically, it’s not a scam. The Davie-based company, which is not accredited by the Better Business Bureau, will get the record for you.
A recorded message on the company’s answering service states that Florida Certified Record Retrieval is not affiliated with any state or government agency. It is a private company that buys lists of real estate transactions, which are public record.
The message also states the company has no access to original documents, and cannot change information — such as correcting misspelled names — on a certified copy of a deed.
Although what the company does is not illegal, homeowners can buy copies of a deed directly from their county’s clerk of courts for much less, said David Rooney, Division Chief of Recording at the Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts Office.
To get a copy of your deed:
In Miami-Dade, visit www.miami-dadeclerk.com and select “official record search.” Records are searchable by name.
A scanned copy of the record can be printed from the website, or you can order certified copies of the deed from the same screen.
Copies cost $1 per page, plus a certification fee of $2 per document. The records are mailed within a week.
In Broward, visit www.broward.org, click on “Public Records Search” and then on “Deeds.”
Two children were ejected from a vehicle in an accident Wednesday afternoon on their way home from school.
They and two other children were headed home from Norland Middle School in a shuttle van they take every day. When the driver, who was northbound on Northwest 12th Avenue, reached 199th Street, an eastbound Nissan Altima hit the van, throwing two children from it.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue took them to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital, where they were reported to be in stable condition.
The parents of a girl in the van took her to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. Neither the fourth child nor the van’s driver was injured.
The driver of the eastbound vehicle claimed he was experiencing a heart attack just before the accident, but authorities determined he did not. He was treated at Jackson North Medical Center and reported to be in stable condition.
None of the children or drivers were immediately identified.
We're one step closer to The 20/20 Experience!
Justin Timberlake just dropped a major treat for his fans on Twitter, revealing the cover art and tracklisting to his upcoming solo album, The 20/20 Experience.
"I wanted you guys to see this first!!!," wrote Timberlake with a link to the cover (featuring the singer dressed to the nines behind a phoropter) and song titles.
Pics: Justin & Jessica's Long Road to the Altar
Check out the full tracklisting below:
-Pusher Love Girl
-Suit & Tie
-Don't Hold The Wall
-Strawberry Bubblegum
-Tunnel Vision
-Spaceship Coupe
-That Girl
Let The Groove Get In
-Mirrors
-Blue Ocean Floor
The 20/20 Experience hits stores on March 19.
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A police chase in California ended in flames Wednesday night.
A Los Angeles police chase ended in a fireball Wednesday, with the high-speed pursuit caught on video.
KTLA video shows the chase - which involved a suspected drunken driver, the station reports.
The driver weaved in between cars, eluding authorities along a highway in Boyle Heights, a neighborhood on the east side of Los Angeles.
Eventually the suspect's car spun, crashing into a guardrail and bursting into flames.
As fire engulfed the wreckage, police approached the car and pulled the driver to safety.
Law firm Greenberg Traurig on Tuesday announced a new management lineup that includes naming Hilarie Bass as the first female president in the firm’s history.
Bass, one of the firm’s Miami shareholders, most recently had been global operating shareholder. She will share the presidency with Brian L. Duffy, a Denver shareholder who has been global litigation chair, a position previously held by Bass.
As part of the shuffle, Miami shareholders Cesar L. Alvarez and Matt Gorson move to co-chairs and Larry Hoffman becomes founding chair. Alvarez previously served as executive chair, Gorson as president and Hoffman as chair.
These were just some of the new leadership changes announced by Greenberg’s Chief Executive Richard A. Rosenbaum. The firm began a leadership transition plan in 2010 when Rosenbaum took over the helm of the firm that today includes about 1,750 attorneys in 35 offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
“We are pleased to have so many talented leaders and performers, not just those with titles,” Rosenbaum said in a statement. “We have never been about titles or politics, and titles do not create leaders. We and others already in place in our regions, offices and practices form a seamless team focused on respecting and serving our clients and lawyers.”
Rosenbaum, who will remain in his post, also announced four new vice presidents:
• Ernest Greer, Managing Shareholder of the firm’s Atlanta office.
• Brad Kaufman, Co-Chair of the National Securities Litigation Practice, leader of the firm’s Associate Development Program and a Palm Beach County shareholder.
• Patricia Menendez-Cambo, Chair of the Global Practice, Co-Chair of the Infrastructure and Project Finance Practice and a Miami shareholder.
• Keith Shapiro, Chair of the Chicago office and Co-Chair of the Business Reorganization Practice.
The Miami Heat is offering South Florida high school seniors college scholarships for the 2013-2014 school year.
Four scholarships of $2,500 each will go to seniors who excel in academics and community service.
One of the four scholarships is reserved for a student who plays sports.
Applicants must have at least a 3.2 grade point average by their final semester in high school, attend school in Miami-Dade, Broward or Palm Beach counties, be accepted to an accredited four-year college or university and demonstrate financial need.
Applications are available at nba.com/heat/community/community_education_scholarships.html and must be submitted by April 6.
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