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; PortMiami is one of the busiest container ports in the US Palmetto Bay Miami-Dade County is only about 6 feet (1.8 m) above sea level It is rather new geologically and is at the eastern edge of the Florida Platform a carbonate plateau created millions of years ago Eastern Dade is composed of Oolite limestone while western Dade is composed mostly of Bryozoa Miami-Dade is among the last areas of Florida to be created and populated with fauna and flora mostly in the Pleistocene. Miami is also home to both for-profit and nonprofit organizations that offer a range of professional training and other related educational programs Per Scholas for example is a nonprofit organization that offers free professional certification training directed towards successfully passing CompTIA A+ and Network+ certification exams as a route to securing jobs and building careers, After closing Bay Visa Housing to students and long-term leasing the facility to RCL for employee training FIU is developing BayView Student Housing on the BBC campus BBC's first on-campus new housing in 30+ years will house 408 students in a high rise overlooking Biscayne Bay. 2010 66,769 64.6% 5.2 Tropical hardwood hammock A contemporaneous depiction of the New River Massacre in 1836 Concourse G Broad Causeway North Miami and Bal Harbour 1951. . . .

(18.6) 59.5 At the same time mercury was found in local fish at such high levels that consumption warnings were posted for fishermen a Florida panther was found dead with levels of mercury high enough to kill a human Scientists found that power plants and incinerators using fossil fuels were expelling mercury into the atmosphere and it fell as rain or dust during droughts the naturally occurring bacteria that reduce sulfur in the Everglades ecosystem were transforming the mercury into methylmercury and it was bioaccumulating through the food chain Stricter emissions standards helped lower mercury coming from power plants and incinerators which in turn lowered mercury levels found in animals though they continue to be a concern. Many journalists and readers of the Herald disagreed with the decision to fire rather than suspend DeFede arguing that it had been made in haste and that the punishment was disproportionate to the offense 528 journalists including about 200 current and former Herald staffers called on the Herald to reinstate DeFede but the paper's management refused to back down the state attorney's office later declined to file charges against the columnist holding that the potential violation was "without a (living) victim or a complainant"; A national push for expansion and progress in the United States occurred in the later part of the 19th century which stimulated interest in draining the Everglades for agricultural use According to historians "From the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century the United States went through a period in which wetland removal was not questioned Indeed it was considered the proper thing to do." Draining the Everglades was suggested as early as 1837 and a resolution in Congress was passed in 1842 that prompted Secretary of Treasury Robert J Walker to request those with experience in the Everglades to give their opinion on the possibility of drainage Many officers who had served in the Seminole Wars favored the idea in 1850 Congress passed a law that gave several states wetlands within their state boundaries the Swamp and Overflowed Lands Act ensured that the state would be responsible for funding the attempts at developing wetlands into farmlands Florida quickly formed a committee to consolidate grants to pay for any attempts though the Civil War and Reconstruction halted progress until after 1877, A storm over the Shark River in the Everglades 1966, Miami Florida Business directory South Beach. . ! Study abroad Architecture See also: Sport in Miami On February 1 1896 Tuttle fulfilled the first part of her agreement with Flagler by signing two deeds to transfer land for his hotel and the 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land near the hotel site to him the titles to the Brickell and Tuttle properties were based on early Spanish land grants and had to be determined to be clear of conflict before the marketing of the Miami lots began on March 3 Flagler hired John Sewell from West Palm Beach to begin work on the town as more people came into Miami on April 7 1896 the railroad tracks finally reached Miami and the first train arrived on April 13 it was a special unscheduled train and Flagler was on board the train returned to St Augustine later that night the first regularly scheduled train arrived on the night of April 15 the first week of train service provided only for freight trains; passenger service did not begin until April 22. ! Miami-Dade is the only county in Florida that does not have an elected sheriff or a "Sheriff's Office".[citation needed] Instead the county's law enforcement agency is known as the Miami-Dade Police Department and its leader is known as the Metropolitan Sheriff and Director of the Miami-Dade Police Department (Nonetheless Miami-Dade Police badges bear the inscription "Deputy Sheriff Sheriff's Office Dade County Fla.".), KLM Cargo Warnings are placed in Everglades National Park to dissuade people from eating fish due to high mercury content!