Saeid Badie, DDS

HistoryMiami Downtown Miami On June 12 2009 FIU's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to rename the University Park campus to the Modesto Maidique Campus However the change created a large backlash from the FIU community as many felt it unfitting to name the campus after him a campaign by FIU students and alumni was created to revert the name change and to keep the name University Park a Facebook group "No to Maidique's Campus" with over 2,000 supporters has made national news in many newspapers TV news stations and collegiate magazines supporting to keep the name "University Park"; . I-10 which spans 362 miles in Florida traverses the panhandle connecting Pensacola Tallahassee Lake City and Jacksonville with interchanges with I-75 in Lake City and I-95 in Jacksonville It is the southernmost interstate in the United States terminating in Santa Monica with a total length of 2460 miles, France 507,000,000 488,825,071.86 3.31 3.68 In 2010 undocumented immigrants constituted an estimated 5.7% of the population This was the sixth highest percentage of any U.S state There were an estimated 675,000 illegal immigrants in the state in 2010, 1970 334,859 14.8% Sawgrass marshes and sloughs. Colleges and universities in and around Miami: The formation of the Central American Isthmus closed the Central American Seaway at the end of the Pliocene 2.8 Ma ago the formation of the isthmus resulted in the migration and extinction of many land-living animals known as the Great American Interchange but the closure of the seaway resulted in a "Great American Schism" as it affected ocean currents salinity and temperatures in both the Atlantic and Pacific Marine organisms on both sides of the isthmus became isolated and either diverged or went extinct. Until the early 1990s the runways parking ramp and other features of Tamiami Airport were still visible on campus and clearly discernible in aerial photos Construction has removed all of these features and only the University Tower remains as a memory of the university's past University Park is a lush heavily vegetated campus with many lakes and a 15-acre nature preserve as well as a palm arboretum and has over 90 buildings as of late 2009 current construction at University Park includes the Nursing and Health Sciences Building the School of International and Public Affairs Building and a fifth parking garage. The Miami area has a large Jewish community; 10.2% of the population was Jewish in the 2000 Census.[citation needed] There is also a sizable Muslim community numbering 70,000. Florida Memorial University (private) From 1952 to 1964 most voters were registered Democrats but the state voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election except for 1964 the following year Congress passed and President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 providing for oversight of state practices and enforcement of constitutional voting rights for African Americans and other minorities in order to prevent the discrimination and disenfranchisement that had excluded most of them for decades from the political process.

Miami is the home to the National Hurricane Center and the headquarters of the United States Southern Command responsible for military operations in Central and South America Miami is also an industrial center especially for stone quarrying and warehousing These industries are centered largely on the western fringes of the city near Doral and Hialeah, Demographics Iceberg A22A in the South Atlantic Ocean Simpson Park Brickell. 17 Boynton Beach Palm Beach 60,389 68,217 78,050 +14.41%, The government of the City of Miami uses the mayor-commissioner type of system the city commission consists of five commissioners that are elected from single member districts the city commission constitutes the governing body with powers to pass ordinances adopt regulations and exercise all powers conferred upon the city in the city charter the mayor is elected at large and appoints a city manager the City of Miami is governed by Mayor Francis X Suarez and 5 city commissioners that oversee the five districts in the city the commission's regular meetings are held at Miami City Hall which is located at 3500 Pan American Drive on Dinner Key in the neighborhood of Coconut Grove, Alternatively nearby Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport also serves commercial traffic in the Miami area Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Opa-locka and Miami Executive Airport in an unincorporated area southwest of Miami serve general aviation traffic in the Miami area. . Headquarters of Norwegian Cruise Line 15 Miami Beach Miami-Dade 87,933 87,779 91,718 +4.49%. 3.10 Campus transportation Kings Point Homestead Dr Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall - District 2 (23.9) 75.8 The Everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S state of Florida comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin within the neotropic ecozone the ecosystem it forms is not presently found anywhere else on earth the system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee Water leaving the lake in the wet season forms a slow-moving river 60 miles (97 km) wide and over 100 miles (160 km) long flowing southward across a limestone shelf to Florida Bay at the southern end of the state the Everglades experience a wide range of weather patterns from frequent flooding in the wet season to drought in the dry season the Seminole Tribe gave the large body of water the name Okeechobee meaning "River of Grass" to describe the sawgrass marshes part of a complex system of interdependent ecosystems that include cypress swamps the estuarine mangrove forests of the Ten Thousand Islands tropical hardwood hammocks pine rockland and the marine environment of Florida Bay Throughout the 20th century the Everglades suffered significant loss of habitat and environmental degradation.