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Mural by artist Maya Hayuk, Photo credit: Raphael Cruyt
About "The Creative City"
A Global Forum on ART + DESIGN + ARCHITECTURE
"The Creative City" will bring together distinguished icons in art, architecture, design, fashion, and music for an intimate discussion about the opportunities and challenges facing top cities across the world. In an increasingly spiky world, how do we maintain the soul of our cities? How do artists and creators keep creating and how does the city inspire them?
CREATE:Miami
A Global Forum on CULTURE + DESIGN + IDEAS + URBAN TRANSFORMATION
Miami is at a tipping point. With its air and sea ports, its bustling downtown, and arts-fueled urban transformation, the city is on the verge of becoming a truly great global city.
Great global cities are cities of ideas as well as commerce. They are nodes in the global idea network―they shape their own narrative, and they create a new narrative for the world. Spring 2015, a grand colloquium of city builders, doers, and thinkers, will deepen, expand, and help disseminate Miami's intellectual and creative endowment. It is a critical step toward leveraging and accelerating its transformation.
Cities are perhaps the greatest expression of human civilization. We come together in cities, to live and to work, to play and to create.
They are the cauldrons of diversity and difference and have long captured the imagination of urbanists, designers, artists and cultural curators. However as we "return back to the city," some places are becoming increasingly unaffordable to the creative class and only playgrounds for the wealthy minority.
CREATE events bring together distinguished icons in art, architecture, city building, design, politics, fashion, music and the culinary arts for a discussion about the opportunities and challenges facing creative cities across the world. In an increasingly spiky world, how do we maintain the soul of our cities?
Miami Beach Urban Studios
3:00–3:05 p.m. / Opening Remarks and Welcome
Cities have been the fonts of creativity since the dawn of civilization. The clustering of creative, diverse people is what drives advances in arts, culture and innovation. Why are cities so essential to human creativity and innovation? How do we ensure our cities are open for creatives of all walks of life?
Mark Rosenberg— President, Florida International University / @FIU
3:05–3:25 p.m. / Why the Creative City
The big myth is that creativity is the province of individual geniuses. In fact, it's a social process and cities offer us the platform for our ideas to combine and recombine together. Does creativity flow from our cities? Described as an 'intellectual Rock Star," cities expert, and Co-Founder of The Atlantic's City Lab, Richard Florida will explain why cities are the economic driver of innovation and creativity.
Richard Florida — Director, Martin Prosperity Institute / @richard_florida
3:25–3:55 p.m. / Cities: Creativity Incubators
Cities are the cauldrons of diversity and difference. They have long captured the imagination of urbanists, designers, artists and cultural curators. For many, their city is their creative inspiration: inspiring new works of art, generating new approaches to design and creating innovative technologies. Are cities truly the ultimate creative incubator? How do they inspire new creation? Grammy Award winning musician Nelly Furtado has sold over 40 million records around the world; best-selling author and Huffington Post and Fast Company contributor, Rana Florida will talk to Furtado about how cities inspire her creativity.
Moderator: Rana Florida – CEO, Creative Class Group/ @ranaflorida
Nelly Furtado – Grammy Award-Winning Musician/ @nellyfurtado
3:55–4:20 p.m. / Architecture and the Creative City
Creative workers want to live in authentic communities. Architecture and design that is tied intrinsically to its community helps to create a sense of place that is unique and appealing, while highlighting a community's soul, history, and uniqueness. What roles do architecture and design play in communicating city identity? How do design and built environment foster creativity and innovation? From the St. Regis and Four Seasons hotels to Barneys and Bergdorfs, Glenn Pushelberg is a contemporary designer who has received international honors for his contributions to design excellence. He will join FIU's John Stuart, a New York Prize winner, for a conversation about the future of design in our cities.
Moderator: John Stuart – Professor and Associate Dean, FIU College of Architecture + The Arts / @jstuartFIUMBUS
Glenn Pushelberg – Internationally-Recognized Designer /@YABUPUSHELBERG
Zaha Hadid – World Renowned Architect / @ZHA_News
4:20–4:50 p.m. / Challenges to the Creative City
Cities are back – growing and reviving. But they face deep challenges. Some are becoming increasingly unaffordable to the creative class and only playgrounds for the wealthy minority. What are the implications for creativity and innovation? American popular culture artist Kenny Scharf debuted on The Simpsons. Since then, he has been commissioned for special projects for Mercedes, Absolut, Kiehl's and Barbie. His colorful and vibrant works can be found in top museums and galleries around the world, from the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York to the Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo. Onstage with Jerome Sans, "a cultural agitator who has pioneered new ways to approach and discuss contemporary art" and co-founder of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, these two will talk to Richard Florida about unconventional ways to recapture the souls of our cities.
Moderator: Richard Florida – Director, Martin Prosperity Institute/ @richard_florida
Jérôme Sans – Global Curator /@jeromesans
Kenny Scharf – Artist / @kennyscharf
4:50–5:00 p.m. / Closing: Urbanism For All
Cities are our greatest inventions. How do we ensure equitable, inclusive urbanism for all? What's the path forward? Urbanist Richard Florida will share his thoughts on a path forward and award-winning educator and FIU Dean Brian Schriner will discuss insights on how Miami can move its creative agenda forward.
Richard Florida – Director, Martin Prosperity Institute/ @richard_florida
Brian Schriner – Dean, FIU College of Architecture + The Arts / @briandschriner
Exhibitions currently on view at the FIU Miami Beach Urban Studios:
Alastair Gordon Exhibition
ACCIDENTAL ARCHITECT
Robert Motherwell, Pierre Chareau
The Quonset House of 1947
In collaboration with FIU faculty and students
ARCHITECTURE IN RESONANCE WITH THE COSMOS
Oculi Sound Chamber Dwelling
Architect Simon Koumijian III
In collaboration with other designers and students at FIU
Nelly Furtado – Grammy Award-Winning Musician / @nellyfurtado
Grammy Award-winning musician Nelly Kim Furtado, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. She has sold 20 million albums worldwide and more than 20 million singles, bringing her total sales to over 40 million records around the world. Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, which spawned two successful singles, "I'm Like a Bird" and "Turn Off the Light". "I'm Like A Bird" won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In 2003, Furtado released Folklore, which produced three international singles: "Powerless (Say What You Want)", "Try", and "Força".
Three years later, she released Loose, a worldwide commercial success with 10 million copies sold. The album spawned two number-one hits: "Promiscuous" and "Say It Right." After a three-year break, she released her first full-length Spanish album, Mi Plan, and Furtado received a Latin Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Album. In 2012, Furtado's fourth English-language studio album, The Spirit Indestructible, was released.
Furtado's work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including a Grammy Award, 10 Juno Awards, three MuchMusic Video Awards and a star on Canada's Walk of Fame. Furtado was awarded "Commander of the Order of Prince Henry" on February 28, 2014, in Toronto by Aníbal Cavaco Silva, the President of Portugal.
Glenn Pushelberg – Internationally-Recognized Designer / @YABUPUSHELBERG
Glenn Pushelberg's innate ability to make critical decisions has not only shaped his career but has also created a positive ripple effect in successive events. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Glenn initially debated between studying fine arts and hospitality but passed on both for their impracticality and location respectively. Instead, he decided on a degree in Interior Design. A decision that would furnish him with a Bachelor of Applied Arts and an Honorary Doctorate degree from Ryerson University. A decision that also lead him to meet George Yabu, his partner in business and in life.
Now one half of Yabu Pushelberg, Glenn, with George, has redefined design in the built space for over 30 years. Today, Glenn's decisions have a stronger ripple effect and are making waves. Serving as Yabu Pushelberg's conduit between the client and the design team, Glenn manages new and existing relationships from a communications and business perspective. He also oversees project development from inception to completion, providing strategic consult along the way. Glenn's talents and passion for aesthetically driven design has helped the company create distinctive spatial experiences for some of the world's leading innovators of hotel groups, retail, and restaurants in over 15 countries including: Ian Schrager, Daniel Boulud, Barney's, and Lane Crawford.
Glenn and George's unique ability to create narrative driven environments does not go unnoticed. Their work has named them as the one of the "101 People You Must Meet in 2011" by Town & Country magazine and as Designers of the Year by Contract Magazine. They have both inducted in Interior Design magazine's "Hall of Fame", received a "Platinum Circle Award", and have had the prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for Excellence in Restaurant Design bestowed upon them. Most recently Glenn was recognized as an Officer of the Order of Canada – one of Canada's highest honors. This year, he and George will be honored at Fashion Group International's Star Awards and at Canada's Design Exchange for their work in the Interior Design industry.
Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize (considered the Nobel Prize of architecture) in 2004 and is internationally known for her built, theoretical and academic work. Each of her projects builds on over thirty years of exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design.
Hadid taught at the AA School until 1987 and has since held numerous chairs and guest professorships at universities around the world including Columbia, Harvard and Yale. She is currently a professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.
The MAXXI: Italian National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome, the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympic Games, and the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku are built manifestos of Hadid's quest for complex, fluid space. Previous seminal buildings such as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati and the Guangzhou Opera House in China have also been hailed as architecture that transforms our ideas of the future with visionary spatial concepts.
Zaha Hadid Architects recently completed the Investcorp Building for Oxford University's Middle East Centre at St Antony's College and is currently working on a diversity of projects worldwide including the New National Stadium for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, the Sleuk Rith Institute in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and 520 West 28th Street in New York. Zaha Hadid Architects' portfolio also includes cultural, corporate, academic, sporting and infrastructure projects across Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, in addition to national institutions such as the Central Bank of Iraq and the Grand Theatre de Rabat.
Zaha Hadid's work of the past 30 years was the subject of critically-acclaimed exhibitions at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2006, London's Design Museum in 2007, the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua, Italy in 2009, the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2011, the DAC Copenhagen in 2013 and the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg in 2015. Her recently completed projects include the Messner Mountain Museum Corones (2015), Oxford University's Middle East Centre (2015), Sky SOHO in Shanghai (2014), Innovation Tower at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2014), Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul (2014), Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku (2013), Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London (2013), Library & Learning Centre in Vienna (2013), Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan (2012), Galaxy SOHO in Beijing (2012), Pierresvives Library and Archive in Montpellier (2012), CMA CGM Head Office Tower in Marseille (2011), London Aquatics Centre (2011), Riverside Museum in Glasgow (2011), Guangzhou Opera House (2010), Sheikh Zayed Bridge in Abu Dhabi (2010) and MAXXI Museum in Rome (2010).
Hadid's outstanding contribution to the architectural profession continues to be acknowledged by the world's most respected institutions including the Forbes List of the 'World's Most Powerful Women' and the Japan Art Association presenting her with the 'Praemium Imperiale'. In 2010 and 2011, her designs were awarded the Stirling Prize, one of architecture's highest accolades, by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Other awards include UNESCO naming Hadid as an 'Artist for Peace', the Republic of France honouring Hadid with the 'Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres', TIME magazine included her in their list of the '100 Most Influential People in the World' and in 2012, Zaha Hadid was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
Jérôme Sans – Global Curator / @jeromesans
Curator, art critic, artistic director and director of institutions, Jérôme Sans is internationally renown for pioneering new ways to approach and discuss contemporary art. He was the co-founder and co-director of the acclaimed Palais de Tokyo in Paris (France) from 1999 to 2006. Then director of programs at the BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead (UK). From 2008 to 2012, he was former the director of the ground-breaking Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (China). From 2006 until 2012 he was Global cultural curator for Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts and, from 2012 to 2014 creative director and editor-in-chief of the French cultural magazine L'Officiel Art.
Jérôme Sans has curated numerous major exhibitions around the world, including the Taipei Biennial (2000), the Lyon Biennial (2005), and the Nuit Blanche in Paris (2006)…
He has been nominated recently as co-artistic director of the Grand Paris Express network, one of the most important urban development projects in Europe,. He is also co-founder of Perfect Crossovers Ltd., a Beijing-based consultancy for specific cultural projects between China and the rest of the world.
Kenny Scharf is best known for his exuberant iconography, however his work also contains underlying themes that reflect his ongoing commitment to social and environmental concerns. For Scharf, the embrace of fun is an act of defiance, his considered use of unconventional materials, bright color palette, and playful shapes a protest against restrictive cultural conditions. Scharf transforms the mundane while referencing his longstanding themes of anxiety in the nuclear age and the effects of pollution. Scharf's sculptural and painterly assemblages feature surfaces that are embedded with defunct objects, fragments of toys, ads, and other miscellanea collected over the years. Frozen in various states of visual erosion, the surfaces both find inspiration from, and are commentary on the detritus of contemporary American culture.
Kenny Scharf (b.1958) lives and works in Los Angeles. Honor Fraser Gallery has presented three exhibitions featuring Scharf's work to date: Barberadise (2009), Hodgepodge (2012), and Pop Renaissance (2013). In 2009, a comprehensive catalog of his work was authored by art historian Richard Marshall. Along with the artist's recent participation in Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Scharf was also featured in the group exhibition Art in the Streets at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Other events include a recent collaboration with the Orange County Museum of Art in celebration of the exhibition The Avant-Garde Collection and participation in the Pulcherrimae Strade initiative in Pordenone, Italy. The artist's work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, P.S.1, and the Whitney Biennale, and is in the collections of major museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Photo: Eric Minh Swensen
Mark B. Rosenberg – President, FIU @FIU
Mark B. Rosenberg is president of Florida International University. A public institution of higher education, FIU is the face of the country's future in higher education demographics: it is a majority-minority institution that leads the country in the production of minority degrees in the sciences and engineering.
Dr. Rosenberg has served as the fifth president of FIU since August 2009. A political scientist specializing in Latin America, Dr. Rosenberg is the first FIU faculty member to ascend to the university's presidency.
Under his leadership as president, FIU has increased enrollment to almost 54,000 students, improved graduation rates by nearly 10% and hired over 500 new faculty. As President, Dr. Rosenberg has provided leadership to grow the institution's budget, improve student graduation and retention rates, expand internships for enrolled students, and coordinate FIU's emergence as a leading producer of graduates in priority national and state areas focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The university has been named as a Carnegie Engaged institution, and has developed path-breaking partnerships with the Miami Dade County Public Schools, JP Morgan Chase, Florida Power & Light and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Research expenditures have grown by nearly 30% to nearly $125 million, and over sixty new student advisers and counselors have been hired for a restructured and expanded student graduation initiative.
From 2005 to 2008, Dr. Rosenberg served as the Founding Chancellor for the Board of Governors of the State University System of Florida, which includes all of Florida's public universities – over 325,000 students and an all-accounts budget of nearly $9 billion. As chancellor, Dr. Rosenberg led the system's strategic development and financial planning and policy initiatives, working closely with Gov. Jeb Bush and Gov. Charlie Crist and the state legislature to secure support for SUS priorities. During this era, major new strides were made in research support for the system, over $1 billion was provided for new facility construction, and a new SUS strategic plan was developed and approved.
Prior to becoming chancellor, Dr. Rosenberg was integrally involved in the expansion and development of FIU into a major public research university. As Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs from 1998 to 2005, Dr. Rosenberg spearheaded the establishment of a law school in 2002 and a medical school in 2006. Under his leadership, FIU increased enrollment, implemented major campus construction projects, and was invited to join the select national honor society Phi Beta Kappa. Dr. Rosenberg was also instrumental in moving FIU into the top tier of Carnegie Foundation research universities.
Dr. Rosenberg's academic career began at FIU in 1976 as an assistant professor of political science. In 1979, he founded the FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center, which today is one of the nation's premier federally-supported research and teaching centers focusing on the region. Dr. Rosenberg subsequently served as the Founding Dean of the College of Urban and Public Affairs and Vice Provost for International Studies. He has also been a Visiting Distinguished Research Professor at The Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, and a Visiting Professor at the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM) in Mexico.
Dr. Rosenberg earned a B.A. in 1971 from Miami University of Ohio and a Ph.D. in Political Science with a graduate certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 1976. He has written or co-edited seven books and numerous scholarly articles in leading journals. His latest book, The United States and Central America: Geopolitical Realities and Regional Fragility (2007), is a Harvard University project co-authored with Luis Guillermo Solis of Costa Rica. Governmental and media organizations have frequently sought Dr. Rosenberg's expertise on Latin America. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, has testified before Congress numerous times, and has served as a consultant to the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Firmly committed to national and community service, Dr. Rosenberg is an appointee to the National Academy of Science's (NAS) study commission focusing on Barriers and Opportunities in Completing Two- and Four-Year STEM Degrees; is Co-Chair of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities' (HACU) STEM Task Force; sits on the board for National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME); and serves on the Board of Directors of the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU) where he is Co-Chair of the Student Performance Strand.
Within the community, Dr. Rosenberg is the Chair-Elect of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce (GMCC), one of Florida's leading business associations. He also chairs the Academic Leaders Council (ALC) for the Beacon Council, Miami-Dade County's official economic development organization. Dr. Rosenberg has been active in a variety of other civic organizations, including the Jewish Federation of Greater Miami and United Way.
Dr. Rosenberg is a first-generation college graduate whose two children, Ben and Ginelle, are graduates of FIU. He and his wife of over 40 years, Rosalie, are members of Temple Menorah in Miami Beach.
Brian Schriner – Dean of FIU | College of Architecture + The Arts
@BrianDSchriner
Brian Schriner has over 25 years of higher education teaching and administrative experience. In 2011 he was appointed Dean of the College of Architecture + The Arts (CARTA) at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida.
Brian's strategic vision, outlined in CARTA 2020, affirms his belief that the challenges we face in the 21st century (educational, economic, political, social, health, and environmental) require innovative, trans-disciplinary solutions and can best be addressed by removing artificial barriers separating academic disciplines. Given FIU's majority-minority student population and Miami's growing "creative class," Brian believes FIU and the College of Architecture + The Arts are uniquely situated to lead the national conversation in higher education, especially in the successful integration of arts and design education into science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.
In 4 years, Brian has strategically grown CARTA from 1,200 students to more than 2,700 students and from 70 full-time faculty members to over 100 full-time faculty members. He has also raised over $10M in philanthropy and auxiliary revenues to support the College's mission and he has more than doubled the College's annual revenues. Under Brian's leadership – along with the students' entrepreneurial and innovative spirit and the faculty members' enthusiasm and expertise – the College's academic programs have ascended to national prominence behind a united mission to deploy the power of architecture + the arts to create, innovate, and inspire solutions to local challenges with national and global impacts.
In support of that engaged mission, Brian expanded the College to Miami Beach by launching CARTA | Miami Beach Urban Studios (MBUS) in the iconic 420 Building on Lincoln Road. MBUS is now home to CARTA's Innovation Lab and to over 100 students in design, visual arts, and the performing arts. At MBUS the faculty and students work collaboratively with members of the community, using Miami Beach as their "living laboratory" to address real-world challenges, such as sea level rise and the successful entry into the knowledge-based creative economy.
This past year Brian signed an MOU with the Bauhaus-Dessau, establishing FIU as the Bauhaus' first and exclusive academic partner in the United States. CARTA will soon open the FIU-Bauhaus Miami, a contemporary arts and design think-tank, that will transcend traditional disciplines and be an international leader in critical thinking in the contemporary discourse in art, design, and architecture. The agreement is a testimony to Brian's trans-disciplinary educational philosophy and his commitment to establish CARTA as the nation's preeminent College of Architecture + The Arts.
In addition to his work as Dean, Brian is an accomplished speaker and author, having published five books and numerous scholarly articles. He is also a past recipient of FIU's prestigious Teaching Incentive Award, has been named Instructor of the Year, and has twice been named to FIU's College of Business Administration's Circle of Excellence For Teaching.
Richard Florida – Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto, Clinical Research Professor, New York University, Co-Founder and Editor-At-Large, The Atlantic City Lab
@richard_florida
The Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, Global Research Professor at New York University, and the founder of theCreative Class Group, which works closely with governments and companies worldwide, Richard Florida is perhaps the world's leading urbanist, "as close to a household name as it is possible for an urban theorist to be in America," according to The Economist. Esquire has included him on its annual list of "The Best and the Brightest," and Fast Company dubbed him an "intellectual rock star." MIT Technology Review recently named him one of the world's most influential thinkers. GDI also named him one of the world's global thought leaders of 2013 and the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) recently named him 100 of the most followed scientists. He is also a member of the Global Agenda Council on the Creative Economy, World Economic Forum.
Florida is the author of several global best sellers, including the award-winning The Rise of the Creative Class ("one of the best business books of all time"—800-CEO-READ), and is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he co-founded and serves as Editor-at-Large for Atlantic Cities, the world's leading media site devoted to cities and urban affairs. Florida appears regularly on CNN and other news broadcasts and is a regular contributor to the op ed pages of major newspapers and magazines. TIME magazine recognized his Twitter feed as one of the 140 most influential in the world.
Florida previously taught at Carnegie Mellon and George Mason University, and has been a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Rutgers College and his Ph.D. from Columbia University
To find out more about Richard as a speaker, email rana@creativeclass.com
John Stuart – Professor and Associate Dean, FIU College of Architecture + The Arts
@jstuartFIUMBUS
John is a registered architect and principal of John Stuart Architecture with research interests focused on architectural design, its contexts, and its impact. He is currently a 2007-08 New York Prize Fellow at the Van Alen Institute. During his residency at the institute he will develop "TimeZone," a built project intended to empower communication between diverse people in public spaces in an effort to address global poverty and the "digital divide."
In addition to his design work, Stuart has written Paul Scheerbart, The Gray Cloth, Paul Scheerbart's Novel on Glass Architecture (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2001); Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006) with Jewel Stern, and edited The Journal of Architectural Education: Gender and Architecture (ACSA, 2002). His most recent book, The New Deal in South Florida: Design, Policy and Community Building, 1933–1940 (Gainesville: The University Press of Florida, 2008) was co-edited with political scientist and FIU professor John Stack.
Professor Stuart's research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Study of the Fine Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Science Foundation, and a Wolfsonian Research Fellowship. He won the 2004 Miami American Institute of Architects Award for Design Excellence for his project "Time Zone," the chapter's highest award.
His designs are part of the permanent collection of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University. In 2003 he was a visiting associate professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and has served as a guest critic on design reviews at Cornell, Harvard, Yale, RISD, University of Michigan, University of Florida, University of Miami, and FAU, among others.
Stuart has undergraduate degrees in classics and applied mathematics from Brown University, a graduate degree in classical archaeology from Princeton University, and completed his professional architecture degree at Columbia University.
He currently serves as chair of the FIU Faculty Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Building and the Environment and is a member of the FIU President's Climate Commitment Task Force.
Rana Florida, CEO Creative Class Group and contributor for The Huffington Post and Fast Company
@ranaflorida
As Chief Executive Officer of the Creative Class Group, Rana Florida manages new business development, marketing, consulting, research and global operations serving such diverse clients as BMW, Converse, IBM, Cirque du Soleil, Audi, Zappos, and Johnson & Johnson – to name just a few. She brings to this leadership role more than two decades of experience in corporate strategy, communications, and marketing, having directed global strategic communications for HMSHost, the world's largest airport developer, as well as having executed marketing initiatives for such premier brands as Disney and Starbucks and events experience working with The Atlantic, The Aspen Institute and The Knight Foundation.
Well known as a writer on business and leadership – for Fast Company, Inc.com and the Huffington Post – Rana has also served as a guest business analyst on The Today Show. and MSNBC's, The Cycle, has been a Fox News contributor for several years, and has been featured in the Business section of The New York Times and in interviews for The Wall Street Journal, Market Watch, CNN, The Globe and Mail and other major media outlets.
Her one-on-one high profile interviews have covered notables – from President Bill Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama to tennis great Andre Agassi and NBA owner (and TV star) Mark Cuban, from chefs Jeans-George Vongerichten and Mario Batali to singer Nelly Furtado and fashion designer Tory Burch, from the United Nations Director of Girl Up to world renowned architects Peter Marino andZaha Hadid – and many more.
The thought-provoking chronicler of Creative Spaces for HGTV and the Huffington Post, highlighting public and private spaces that epitomize creativity, innovation, and design, Rana is particularly interested in the public-private intersection, and today serves as Director of the FIU-Miami Creative City Initiative, a collaboration demonstrating how creativity, culture, and design can drive a regional economy.
She is also involved in philanthropic work. A former board member for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, a co-chair for the Design-Exchange, and ambassador for Girls E Mentoring, she lent her expertise to the Boards of the Airports Council International in Washington, D.C., the Council for International Visitors, the The Founders Junior Council of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and theIsabella Blow Foundation Committee, which supports aspiring art and fashion students. As CEO of the Creative Class Group, she worked with UN Habitat, the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). She is currently an advisory board member for the online retailer Shop.ca. She also serves as juror for the Marketing Magazine Awards in Design.
Rana holds a Bachelor of Arts in communications and a MBA in marketing and management.
Her book, Upgrade, Taking Your Work and Life from Ordinary to Extraordinary (McGraw Hill, 2013) was a 'Business Best Seller'.
Media Inquiries: contact Steven Pedigo at 617-785-0807 or steven@creativeclass.com
Sponsorship Opportunities: contact Rana Florida at rana@creativeclass.com
For all other inquires, please email info@create-miami.com
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AmInvest: Property bubble building up but not alarming
AmInvestment Bank Group director of retail funds says he sees a small bubble in the property market, but it's no where near big yet
KUALA LUMPUR: There is a property bubble building up in Malaysia and the region but it is nowhere near alarming levels as the main indicators are still at comfortable levels, AmInvestment Bank Group said.
"As an investor, I love bubbles because that's where the money is. At this juncture, I see a small bubble in the property market, it's no where near big yet and I'm not seeing any property bubble bursting soon," AmInvestment Bank Group director of retail funds Ng Chze How said.
"For that to take place, I think you need to see a few factors taking place. Firstly, you need to see very high overall borrowings and leveraging, which is currently not happening. Secondly, is to look at the non-performing loans (NPLs). Across this region, the NPLs are still very healthy. Thirdly, you need to look at the liquidity in the market. There's so much liquidity, so much cash sitting in the system."
Ng was speaking to the media after the launch of the country's first Asia Pacific REITs unit trust fund by AmMutual here yesterday.
The unit trust funds will be solely investing in REITs in Asia.
For a start, it is looking at Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, besides a minimal exposure in Malaysia. The fund will be managed by Funds Management Division (FMD) of AmInvestment Bank Group.
"When we are creating this fund, we want it to be riskier than bonds but safer than equities. This fund does that. It offers investors opportunities to diversify away from stocks and bonds and thus, reducing investors' overall portfolio risks," said FMD chief executive officer Datin Maznah Mahbob.
She added that investors will receive high dividend yields from investing in REITs as the fund is structured to distribute a high percentage of its profit to shareholders.
Over the past five years, the performance of REITs in Asia had outperformed global REITs by more than three times. During the period, REITs in Asia grew 46.2 per cent, while REITs globally grew 14.4 per cent.
"We are comfortable with Asian properties, in line with the region's continued growth, which will lead to an increasing demand for commercial occupancy rates in Asia, which are averaging to above 90 per cent.
"For certain countries in Asia Pacific, we are seeing an uptrend in rental rates for both offices and the retail sector, which will bode well for unitholders of REITs as this translates to higher income distribution," said Andrew Wong, chief investment officer of equity, asset allocation, and fund management.
The approved fund size is 200 million units with an initial offer price of 50 sen per unit. The initial offer period ends this Sunday, and its minimum investment being RM1,000 for Malaysian residents and the minimum additional investment for Malaysian residents is RM500.
The fund is distributed by all AmBank branches, AmBank Agency sales force, AmPriority Banking, AmPrivate Banking and Hong Leong Bank.
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Poll: West Virginians blame Congressional democrats for federal government shutdown
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A new poll in West Virginia by Orion Strategies surveyed the opinions of historic likely voters across the state on a number of issues of concern.
When asked if West Virginia voters believe that the United States should spend $5 Billion to erect a wall on the border with Mexico, 56% responded that America should do so. Only 38% said no, with 6% undecided. By gender, men support spending the $5 Billion to erect a wall with 63% supporting and 32% opposed. Women's support of the wall is not as wide, but still the survey still finds 49% supporting it with 44% opposed.
Respondents were also asked who deserves the most blame for the partial federal government shutdown. Almost half of likely voters (49%) blame Congressional Democrats. A third of respondents (33%) found President Trump most to blame, with 16% undecided and 2% blaming Congressional Republicans. Within gender breakdowns, 52% of men blame Congressional Democrats as opposed to only 26% blaming the President. Women were more even – with 46% blaming Congressional Democrats and 40% blaming the President.
Along party lines, 52% of Democrats in West Virginia blame the President for the shutdown while 28% blame Congressional members of their own party. Independents strongly find blame with Congressional Democrats (60%) over the President (22%). While 71% of West Virginia Republicans find blame with the Congressional Democrats, only 14% of the party places the most blame with the President.
When asked if Mountain State voters believe that President Trump is bringing back coal jobs to the levels promised during his presidential campaign, the results were statistically tied at 42% responding yes, 43% responding no, and 15% unsure.
The President's job approval rating stands at 57%, up six points from a similar poll taken one year ago, and equal to the approval numbers he enjoyed in the state from an early 2017 survey. Further, if the 2020 General Election were held today, 55% of West Virginia's voters would vote to re-elect President Trump.
Senator Capito, who will be running for re-election in 2020, presently enjoys a 55% positive job approval rating and only 37% negative.
Tomorrow, results will be released regarding the direction of the state and numerous issues before the West Virginia Legislature including teacher pay raises and legalizing marijuana.
The live-interview telephone survey was conducted among historic, likely voters in West Virginia. A total of 310 respondents completed the entire survey – giving the survey a 5.57+/- margin of error with a 95 percent confidence rate. The sample was proportionate to each of the three congressional districts in the state. Both cell phones and landline telephones were called in all 55 counties. Partisan registration among respondents was 45 percent Democratic, 34 percent Republican and 20 percent Independent. The poll was conducted January 12, 2019.
Orion Strategies is a strategic communication firm with offices across West Virginia and in Pittsburgh and Columbus. The firm's research department conducts polling and surveys on behalf of various clients, including trade associations, law firms, universities, media outlets and political campaigns. Learn more about Orion Strategies at: www.orion-strategies.com
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Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Rosamond McKitterick
University of Notre Dame Press
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Historical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond McKitterick establishes that early medieval historians conveyed in their texts a sophisticated set of multiple perceptions of the past. In these essays, McKitterick focuses on the Frankish realms in the eighth and ninth centuries and examines different methods and genres of historical writing in relation to the perceptions of time and chronology. She claims that there is an extraordinary concentration of new text production and older text reproduction in this period that has to be accounted for, and whose influence is still being investigated and established. Three themes are addressed in Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages. McKitterick begins by discussing the Chronicon of Eusebius-Jerome as a way of examining the composition and reception of universal history in the ninth and early tenth centuries. She demonstrates that original manuscripts turn out in many cases to be compilations of sequential historical texts with a chronology extending back to the creation of the world or the origin of the Franks. In the second chapter, she explores the significance of Rome in Carolingian perceptions of the past and argues that its importance loomed large and was communicated in a great range of texts and material objects. In the third chapter, she looks at eighth- and ninth-century perceptions of the local past in the Frankish realm within the wider contexts of Christian and national history. She concludes that in the very rich, complex, and sometimes, contradictory early medieval perceptions of a past stretching back to the creation of the world, the Franks in the Carolingian period forged their own special place.
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International horror
Favorite French extreme horror film?
MichaelKeene
The late '90s through naughts brought forth a really solid range of extreme horror from France, most notably in the form of High Tension, Frontier(s), Martyrs, and my personal favorite, Inside (which is 10 years old, a fact which helps me cry myself to sleep at night).
What I love about Inside is the way it captures the horror both in being alone and in being a pregnant woman, as well as the emotional and physical vulnerability of that physical state. There's also a great little twist about her attacker and an admirable level of gore. There are problems with it, as there seem to be with all extreme horror from the land of wine and cheese. Some of the additional scenes of violence feel a little tacked on for the sake of that sweet gruesome excess, for example. Nonetheless, I still count it among my favorite films.
A more recent, slightly less extreme outing that I'd still place under this banner is Raw, which I got a chance to see at Sundance this year. While it's not filled to the brim with blood and guts, it still features many of the bonkers plot elements, disturbing imagery, and social commentary that I expect from the sub-genre.
There are of course less extreme French horrors (Eyes Without a Face, With a Friend Like Harry...), but I'd love to know what your favorite EXTREME French horror flick is!
RJ Bland
Yeah 'Inside' would be the top of my list I think. The last ten minutes of that film are a hard watch. Frontieres is also an underrated and extremely gory little film too. I definitely have a soft spot for that.
Remakes that are better than the originals...
General Horror
youvegotredonyou
American remakes of foreign horror movies have been around for years. Can anyone name an instance where the English language remake has been BETTER than the original?


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Przegląd Prawa Wyznaniowego – polskie czasopismo prawnicze wydawane nakładem Polskiego Towarzystwa Prawa Wyznaniowego. Tematycznie obejmuje szeroko pojętą problematykę prawa wyznaniowego. Radę Naukową czasopisma tworzą: Wojciech Góralski, Krzysztof Krasowski, Józef Krukowski, Ryszard M. Małajny, Henryk Misztal, Janusz Osuchowski, Michał Pietrzak, Ryszard Sztychmiler, Wacław Uruszczak, Wiktor Wysoczański. Pierwszym redaktorem naczelnym był Piotr Stanisz, kolejnym Dariusz Walencik. Obecnie w skład Kolegium Redakcyjnego wchodzą: Jan Krajczyński - redaktor naczelny, Paweł Sobczyk - zastępca redaktora naczelnego, Marta Ordon - sekretarz Kolegium Redakcyjnego, Paweł Borecki, Artur Mezglewski, Bartosz Rakoczy, Piotr Stanisz, Konrad Walczuk, Michał Zawiślak, Tadeusz Jacek Zieliński. W latach 2009-2017 ukazało się 9 tomów czasopisma.

Publikator znajduje się w wykazie czasopism punktowanych przez Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego. Od 2015 r. za publikację na jego łamach autor otrzymuje 8 punktów.

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This is special Mantra for Ladies to enhance and increase their fortune and gain in material things. The Mantra is also known as the Soubhagya Vriddhi Mantra in the Hindi language. The Sanskrit Sloka of Vedic origin from the Panch Devi Stuti, invokes the Mother Goddess in her manifestations as Uma, Usha, Vaidehi, Rema and Ganga.
There is another Shloka of the same origin, which is believed to remove great sins, which was published in an earlier post, which can be seen – Here. The meaning of this Sloka is simple" The one who contemplates on these Five Devis, gains in prosperity and material wealth.
Though, this Sloka can be chanted by anyone, I have specially recommended it for women who hope to enhance their fortune and gain in prosperity and material abundance.
A recommended Siddhi Sadhana is to chant the Mantra 1188 times on the Navami of the Shukla Paksha; this is the Ninth day of the bright fortnight of the Hindu calendar. A Rudraksha Japa Mala can be used for counting the number of Mantra Chants. After this, the woman can chant the Mantra five times daily in the morning and five times at dusk time in the evening.


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Hands On and Off: The Forest Fringe Festival
by Paul David Young October 19, 2014 October 22, 2014
A photograph of Brian Lobel's performance, entitled "Purge" (courtesy the artist)
The Abrons Arts Center hosted the Forest Fringe Microfestival over the weekend of October 3. Forest Fringe originated at the Edinburgh Festival, a fringe within the Edinburgh Fringe, and has become internationally mobile as an independent entity. Though the festival promotes itself as experimental and radical, the events did not prove quite so mind-expanding.
The theater company describes itself as "not a theater" and "not a company." Call it what you will, it was founded by three artists whose works were presented along with some installation and on-site ongoing performances over the course of the weekend.
Forest Fringe co-founders Andy Field and Ira Brand's put your sweet hand in mine lives up to its title, though it follows a circuitous route to a tender finale. Two rows of chairs, facing each other and about three feet apart, await the audience. The performance space is dimly lit by a row of incandescent bulbs hanging overhead. In the darkness, an actor planted in the audience begins a recitation, alluding to the discomfort of our sitting together this way, the forced intimacy. Then another actor planted further down on the other side picks up the talking. You are asked to imagine that you are sitting on a train and have a sudden romantic connection to the person sitting opposite you. The narrative speculates on your future life together, as romance turns into a daily grind.
Later, the actors perform a striptease and a song, followed by an apology. Then they tell the spectators to hold hands with the person opposite. A sexual charge hovers over the moment, thanks to the preceding romantic narration, yet it also calls to mind group prayer. The handholding goes on long enough to become an unexpectedly intimate and revealing experience. In New York, decorum requires that we sit in close proximity on the subway and in theaters and stand shoulder to shoulder in elevators, but we do not touch. Violating the rule will provoke alarm, quite understandably. Here we were encouraged to do the forbidden. I became aware of the shape and feel of my partner's hands and, through the way they were proffered and held, something of the character and sensibility of the person attached to them.
A promotional image for Deborah Pearson's performance, "The Future Show" (courtesy the artist)
Deborah Pearson, also one of the co-directors, performs her process-based work, titled The Future Show. The conceit, as described in the show's blurb, is that she writes a fresh script for each performance, though at Abrons she said that she reused parts of old scripts as well. The set-up is simplicity itself. Lit by a handful of standard white theater lights and a reading lamp, Pearson sits at a desk, her hands palm down in front of her, reading from a binder. She rarely moves, except to turn the pages, though she makes eye contact with the audience and speaks to them directly. In an opening speech, she cleverly anticipates the audience's dutiful applause when she ends the show by taking her bow and gesturing toward the tech booth to acknowledge her offstage assistance.
While her first-person narration is in the future tense, it often sounds like the events have already occurred. She talks about her obsessive-compulsive disorder; she relates an incident that happened when she was seven years old; she frets about writing the script and performing; she talks about things in the neighborhood of the theater, such as a bar on the Lower East Side, and where she's staying in Brooklyn; she charts the unspectacular events of her daily life to demonstrate that she wrote a new script for this particular show. And she anticipates her review in the newspaper, reviewing herself in effect before the show is over, and ruminates on her old age ("I will not always be young.")
Some of the narrative becomes overly cute as she quits and rejoins Facebook. She disrupts her future-oriented thrust by bringing up the past: à propos of almost nothing, she throws in that her parents emigrated from Hungary to the United Kingdom sixty years ago. Her process is intriguing: having to write in a hurry could have led her to some startling discovery or caused her to relate some fresh, accidental experience. At least in this rendition, however, she did not meet the challenge of creating a script worth our time.
Made in China performing "The Gym Show" (courtesy the artist)
Forest Fringe co-founder Ira Brand performed with a group named Made In China, which created Gym Party, a piece that plays off the game-show format. Wearing white gym outfits and pink wigs, three actors compete in unusual contests to win the audience's approval. The audience is polled about which cast member was raised in the most prosperous family, and which one they would most want to kiss. The actors shamelessly debase themselves, competing to stuff the most marshmallows in their mouths among other stunts. They repeat several times that they are performing for the benefit of the audience and show appreciation for their co-stars when they win the individual rounds of the competition. But there is punishment for losing, usually verbal humiliation.
The show is determinedly pop-culture-oriented and deliberately shallow. It strives to be twisted but remains rather tame and blandly familiar. The kind of forced, clichéd audience participation upon which the show rests isn't experimental or radical, nor does it lead to any new ideas or perspectives. In the context of a larger fringe festival, say, if you've been trapped in a windy piece of bad theater, Gym Party might be a good tonic, but as an isolated vehicle it did not have a lot to offer. The Forest Fringe is right to think about the space and function of the audience, but it needs to be more daring, sensitive, and truly experimental when exploring this delicate terrain.
The Forest Fringe Microfestival took place at the Abrons Art Center (466 Grand Street, Lower East Side, Manhattan) between October 3 to October 5, 2014.
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Onsite Gallery Presents more-than-human
The media artworks in this show at Toronto's OCAD University tell a tale of symbiosis, intersections, and more-than-human relationality.
Oops! NYC Subway Misspells Georgia O'Keeffe's Name
"We clearly f-ed this one up," said a Metropolitan Transit Authority rep, adding that the error in the artist's last name is being fixed.
by Taylor Michael
Move Over, Jeff Koons, Another Awful Artwork Is Heading to the Moon
At least we won't have to look at it on Earth.
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MovieMoney: 'X2' marks the spot
Sequel sets record for worldwide weekend release at $155.2M; 'Lizzie McGuire' also has big weekend.
May 4, 2003: 8:19 PM EDT
By Martin A. Grove, contributing writer
LOS ANGELES - Mutants ruled the box office as "X2" from 20th Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment arrived to $155.2 million worldwide, the biggest global opening ever.
With $85.9 million domestically and $69.3 million from 93 international territories, "X2: X-Men United" beat the $149.9 million worldwide opening weekend record by "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" ($62 million domestically and $87.9 million abroad).
"X2's" strategy for generating global box office sizzle will be the model for future day and date worldwide event film openings. Insiders expected "X2" to do $70-75 million in the U.S., so $85.9 million was a welcome surprise for News Corp. (NWS: Research, Estimates)'s Fox. As the fourth biggest domestic opening ever -- "Spider-Man's" $114.8 million still tops the list -- the PG-13 "X2" is on track for $200-250 million domestically. The original "X-Men" opened in July 2000 to $54.5 million and ultimately grossed $157.2 million domestically. It did $290 million-plus worldwide.
"The breakdown is wonderful -- 56 percent male and 44 percent female, which for something that starts out as a comic book is pretty amazing," Fox distribution president Bruce Snyder told me. "The demographics on age are also surprising -- 48 percent under 25 and 52 percent over 25. That, I think, has to do with the spectacular reviews. The playability of the movie is wonderful and it's a great kickoff to summer."
Fox's strategy of opening "X2" two weeks before AOL Time Warner (AOL: Research, Estimates)'s Warner Bros.' much anticipated "The Matrix Reloaded" hit the bulls-eye. "We'll cruise right through," Snyder said. "They're not going to stop us. They'll certainly ding us when they open, but we're going to be playing for a good long time." The R-rated "Matrix's" biggest following is expected to be under-25 males.
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Fox launched "X2" in 93 international markets with about 7,500 prints. "There were fabulous numbers around the world. The wonderful thing is that the film translated into so many different cultures," Fox International president Scott Neeson observed.
One key factor behind Fox releasing "X2" worldwide simultaneously, Neeson explained, "was the speed of communication these days, particularly with the Internet. It began to take on the feel of a universal event. People in the U.K. and people in Brazil know as much about what's going on with American culture in terms of movies, in particular, as anyone else. There was such a buzz for the film that we decided we would take it all the same weekend.
"With today's incredibly fast communications, it seemed the only way to go. Television is global now. We have satellite. You know what the No. 1 film in America is by Saturday or Sunday if you're in the U.K. or if you're in Taiwan."
A secondary reason, Neeson added, was staying ahead of video pirates: "In going day and date, it does diminish the effect of those pirated copies."
It also was a terrific weekend for Disney (DIS: Research, Estimates), which opened its comedy "The Lizzie McGuire Movie" in second place to $17 million. Disney also finished fifth with its comedy "Holes," which has done $45 million in 17 days and is heading for a nicely profitable $60-65 million.
"Counter programming has always been a very necessary ingredient of the type of pictures we make," Buena Vista Distribution president Chuck Viane said. "There's no question, if we do it properly we can really score."
Who was there? "Teens and 'tweens and basically females. A very specific audience that absolutely loves this," Viane said. "Parents' reaction is also an A (in CinemaScore research). Amazingly, 'X2' and 'Lizzie McGuire' both scored 94 percent in CinemaScore, which means they are huge crowd pleasers and are going to be around for a while."
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- A 28-year-old Palestinian man died on Friday evening after succumbing to wounds sustained earlier in the day, when he was shot in the stomach by Israeli forces during the ongoing "Great March of Return" across the eastern border of the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza identified the slain Palestinian as Islam Hirzallah, 28, from Gaza City.
Hirzallah was injured with a live bullet in the stomach during protests in eastern Gaza City, and was later pronounced dead at the al-Shifa Hospital.
His death marked the 32nd Palestinian killed during the Great March of Return protests since they began on March 30th.
The ministry added that 968 Palestinians were injured on Friday with live fire and severe tear gas inhalation.
Among the people who were injured with live ammunition were two journalists and 14 medics.


Jose Villagomez is a QA Test Manager at U.S. Bank. He has 15 years of experience in the financial industry in multiple roles ranging from Automation Engineer, Business Analyst, Project and Program Manager.
Besides being on the Board of Directors with LLAA for the past 4 years, he is also President of his own foundation, J. Villagomez Foundation, in the past 7 years the foundation has awarded over $10K in scholarships to deserving Latino students in the Chicagoland area. For the past 4 years, Jose has been President of his condo association and has been on the board for the past 7 years.
Jose is also part owner of VIC Realty LLC. The company has been in business for 18 months and has been purchasing and rehabbing apartment buildings in the Chicagoland area. The company has been focusing on our buy and hold strategy in growing our real estate portfolio. While not rehabbing apartments, in his free time he is an avid runner who enjoys running marathons and half-marathons.


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Japanese investor buys one of high country's largest apartment complexes in Leadville
Developer Scott Bradley sold 162-unit Eagles Nest Apartments to Masayuki Tsukada for $13.5 million
By Jason Blevins | jblevins@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: June 29, 2016 at 5:57 pm | UPDATED: July 14, 2016 at 12:29 pm
When Scott Bradley bought the 162-unit Eagles Nest Apartment complex in 2007, people raised their eyebrows: $3 million for a nearly 50-year-old complex in up-and-down Leadville that had seen little investment over the decades?
The veteran developer just sold Eagles Nest, one of the largest apartment complexes in the Colorado high country, for $13.5 million to a Japanese investor he never met. Cash deal. Closed in less than a month.
After years of investing and fighting for approvals to develop in Grand County and Central City, Bradley struck it big in Leadville.
"When it's easier to make money in Leadville than it is in Grand County, something is wrong," said Bradley, who sold majority interest in long-dormant, 688-acre Ski Idlewild ski area in Winter Park to community developer Buz Koelbel in 2007 and still has a 95-acre parcel slated for homes near Tabernash. "I don't think anyone saw this coming."
Eagles Nest was built next to the Climax Mine in 1952 for miners. The mine moved the buildings to Leadville in 1960, where they became an enclave of low-income one-, two- and three-bedroom units spread across nine buildings. The boom-and-bust cycle of mine-dependent Leadville took its toll on the complex as previous owners weathered foreclosures and downturns.
Bradley invested in the complex and waded through Lake County approval to convert the apartments into for-sale condos. That was his play: Buy a unit for $20,000, secure local approvals, spruce it up and sell it as a $60,000 condo to buyers shying from the exponentially more pricey condos in nearby Vail, Summit County and Copper Mountain.
But when tourism revived in the nearby ski towns and Leadville became a sleeper community for resort workers in Vail, Breckenridge, Frisco and Copper Mountain, occupancy at Eagles Nest climbed to 90 percent from 50 percent, with average rents doubling to $900 per month after upgrades and new management. He saw worker housing as a better option. More than half of his tenants commute to ski town jobs down the hill from Leadville.
He tried to offer the property to Vail Resorts as a way to ease the housing crisis in towns supporting the company's resorts in Eagle and Summit counties.
"They wouldn't even a return a phone call when they were told it was in Leadville. Vail doesn't want anything to do with Leadville, which I don't get because it's not that far away," Bradley said, referring to the 45-mile trip between the cities.
So who is the mystery buyer? A Japanese investor with an LLC, Bradley said, rifling through papers to find the settlement sheet. Never met the guy and never talked to him, Bradley said. The buyer's name is Masayuki Tsukada, and he's president of Tokyo-based Tsukada Global Holdings. The company reported $778.3 million in assets and a net income of $37.6 million from $521.9 million in revenue at the end of last year, according to its earnings report.
"One of the weirdest deals we have ever done," Bradley said. "They put it under contract. Earnest money arrived the next day. It was a quick close, in less than 30 days. Cash. Everyone told me it wasn't going to happen; this is not the way you buy real estate. I wish I had a few more deals like that. It's like I've always said: When it gets hot in the mountains, it gets hot."
Watch for more investment in Colorado from Japan, said Dick Clark, a Denver business lawyer who regularly travels to Japan to promote Colorado to investors and who serves as senior vice-president of the Japan America Society of Colorado. He said two decades of work to educating Japanese investors about Colorado is paying off.
There is a growing interest in Colorado among Japanese investment firms, said Clark, who does not know Tsukada Global Holdings. Panasonic's investment in the new "smart city" outside Denver International Airport is only the latest sign of Japanese interest in Colorado, Clark said.
"I'd love to see them invest here. Japanese investors are usually long-term players. They will come and spend the money and take the time and effort to grow their investment," Clark said.
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Optometrist Calls Spike Due to People Viewing Eclipse Without Eye Protection
By Catherine McIntyre via MacLean's
Despite repeated warnings for weeks leading up to Monday's eclipse, scores of people felt compelled to take unprotected glimpses at the spectacle—eye safety be damned. The U.S. president snuck a peek, at least one of your colleagues likely did, and maybe you glanced up once or twice, too. "I tried looking at it for a split second and saw spots for 20 minutes," one friend told me in a cautionary text. Meanwhile, Google searches for "my eyes hurt," "eye pain" and "sun damage eyes" all spiked around peak eclipse time.
Optometrists across the country were likewise busy answering similar queries on Tuesday. Dr. Jerry Nolfi, an optometrist at Toronto Eye Care clinic, says his staff took close to 30 calls from patients concerned about solar damage to their eyes. "Most of what we've seen so far has been inquiry about headaches, light sensitivity or brief after-image effects [the dim, floating shape sometimes seen after looking at a camera's flash]," says Nolfi. "I haven't seen any patients who have suffered any thermal damage to the retina. We did a lot of education, and hand-holding more than anything."
Dr. Pavan Avinashi of Hollyburn Eye Clinic in North Vancouver had a similar day of answering phone calls and easing anxieties. He heard from more than a dozen patients concerned about sun damage, most of whom he examined, just to be safe. "Everyone I saw, their vision looked fine," says Avinashi. "They weren't showing any acute damage to their retina, but they're all coming back in two weeks for something called optical coherence tomography testing, which is an infrared, CT-scan-like imaging of the retina to show there's no sustained damage."
For those willing to eschew expert advice in the name of curiosity, black spots and glare is probably the most unusual thing they saw on Monday. For most, the symptoms would have dissipated within minutes or a couple of hours. Others may have experienced something called solar keratitis, Avinashi explains, a temporary burn on the front of the eye, similar to a sunburn on the skin, which goes away within a day or two.
To do serious, long-term damage, you had to be looking at the sun for an extended period of time—a minute or more—says Dr. Ralph Chou, a retired optometrist who's also the president of the Toronto branch of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. The sheer discomfort of staring at the sun for that long is typically a sufficient deterrent. But for those willing and able to power through the pain, the consequences can be devastating.
One potential effect, says Chou, is injury to the fovea, the part of the retina at the centre of your visual field where there's the highest concentration of cones, or daytime photoreceptors. Those receptors are responsible for processing fine detail and colour vision. When the fovea is exposed to too much light—say, from prolonged staring at a partial eclipse—the photoreceptors are subjected to what Chou describes as a "photochemical attack": oxygen buildup inside the cell to create "very, very corrosive chemicals," he says. "If you look long enough, that photochemistry will lead to damage to the internal structures of the photoreceptor, and after a latent period of about 12 hours, the photoreceptor stops working." Someone with this photochemical injury might wake up the next day with blurred vision or a blind spot in the centre of their visual field. The symptoms can take months to go away.
In a second scenario, patients experience nearly identical symptoms; the difference is they're permanent. That's because rather than—or in addition to—experiencing corrosion in the photoreceptors, the sun exposure burns a hole in a layer of cells in the retina. That layer, the pigmented epithelium, is normally responsible for trapping excess light to regulate the image quality you perceive. But if there's too much light energy flooding into this area, that energy turns into heat, which generates steam and burns the pigmented epithelium. "We mean literally cooked from the inside," says Chou.
The damage is impossible to reverse. But of the dozen-plus eye care professionals Maclean's heard from (including some connected to online networks that update their colleagues on rare ocular injuries), none had seen or heard from patients with symptoms of photochemical or thermal eye injuries—also known as solar retinopathy. One did see a patient who lost three metres of vision in one eye, meaning she went from 20/20 to 20/30 vision. But that symptom alone is an unlikely indicator of long-term damage to the retina.
"My conclusion is the overwhelming amount of information available in the press … has probably prevented a lot potential eyesight damage," one ophthalmologist explained in an email. At the same time, they say the publicity may have heightened the public's anxieties around sun exposure, explaining the high number of alarmed calls from patients who had no serious symptoms. Dr. Somya Dixit, an Ottawa-based optometrist, saw two young patients Tuesday, neither of whom had any signs of sun damage. "They were just freaked out by what they had read, and their parents convinced them to get a checkup," she says. "They were fine."
That said, anyone showing symptoms should get an eye exam. "If someone knows they did look directly at the sun with their naked eye," says Dr. Avinashi, "if they're having visual blurring, headaches, shadowing, blind spots, they should definitely get that checked out."
This story originally appeared on Macleans.com


The band is currently preparing for the release of a new album and an autumn tour of the Midwest and West Coast. ATYPICAL SOUNDS spoke with leader Roy Robertson on how he plans to take it all in.
RR: Hi, my name is Roy and I sing and play guitar and record some of the music. Ramon plays the drums, Pablo is on bass and Chase plays the keys.
You're about to begin a 15-date tour. Will it be difficult to put your personal lives aside to do it? Did you need to give up any day jobs?
RR: Right now it's actually closer to 20 dates. It's not much of a sacrifice to put our lives on hold to tour; it's what we want to do and what we knew we'd have to do being in a band. We have jobs that know we'll be leaving town for 3 weeks at a time so thus far we haven't had to give up too much.
Which bands will you be performing alongside on your tour? Anyone you're looking forward to performing with?
RR: Every night we'll be playing with 2 to 3 different bands, so it's really hard to name all the bands we're looking forward to seeing. At the very least we're happy about the tour we've booked and know we'll make some new friends and visit with old friends on this trip.
How do you deal with the long drives between performances?
Listening to lots of music. Other than that it's just enjoying the view out of the window.
Which of your songs do you think sounds best when played live? Which gets the best reaction from the audience?
I don't know. It depends on how our day has gone and what type of band we want to be that night. Sometimes you represent certain songs better than others for no real reason. At the end of the day we're going to play the songs we've brought and build the show how we want to.
You've toured throughout the Midwest and West Coast before. Have you noticed any major differences in the people who come to your shows?
At this stage we're still working things out in a lot of ways. With every tour we see more and more people coming to see us play and it's really nice to get that support from strangers. Hopefully with the new record, people will be more familiar with the songs we're playing now.
You were included in The Huffington Post, on their "Best of the Fest" list for SXSW 2014. Were you able to make any connections through that?
Stuff like that is nice to have and we're honored to be on that list but it's hard to say what gets you what anymore. It might be press, might be word of mouth, might be something else. I don't try to figure it out anymore.
Your first New York City performances happened last year during CMJ. Was there a reason you waited to come to the East Coast?
There's not a real reason, no. We wanted to go up there sooner or later but when we got the invite from CMJ we just went for it and booked our flight.
What did you think of the famed pizza in New York? Are you planning to come back?
The pizza was good, we should have researched more but we had four shows in a couple of days so most of the time was spent at clubs or in the subway getting to shows with all our gear. We'll come back, more likely as part of an East Coast tour next year.
Do you have any new music in the works? Post-tour plans?
Yeah, definitely. We're about to release the first single from our new album next week. The album is called Influence and it's our first "studio" record. The single is called "Girl Breath." We're working on getting videos and other pieces together for the album release, then we'll finish the new songs we're working on now and have them ready to test out on this coming tour.


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Butter one side of each slice of bread and put a tablespoon and a half dollop on each. Lay the slices in a well-buttered casserole alternating the position between point-up and laying flat. Snuggle them up close to each other so that there's only a small tip of the bread exposed.
Mix the bourbon over the raisins and let steep. Later you'll add the chocolate chips and pecans but do that at the last moment before adding to the casserole.
Whisk together the eggs, sugar and cream and milk. Mix in the raisin, chocolate chips and pecans and pour over the bread. Reserve a little of the batter to paint the tops of any bread peeking through.
Let this stand for at least 10 minutes before sprinkling with cinnamon sugar. Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes. This should be served warm but not hot. To gild the lily, serve with coffee ice cream or crème anglaise.


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CHURCH NEWS: This coming Sunday we have a service of morning prayer starting at 10.30am.
The following Sunday, September 2, is Holy Communion (BCP) with The Reverend Malcolm Elwis leading the service. This also starts at 10.30am. Do join us for refreshments in the church after the service. All welcome.


University professor Dr. Samuel Coppage's bequest created four designated funds to honor his family and help nonprofits they cared about.
Hampton Roads Community Foundation has a charitable fund for virtually every type of long-term giving. Below are our six major types of funds, and the people, families, organizations and businesses that started them. Click on the links and you will see an array of causes to support and gain ideas for creating your own charitable legacy.
Designated funds support one or more nonprofits forever. Organizations you select will forever receive annual grants in your name or the name you choose for your fund. Should the organization you name ever cease to exist, foundation staff and board members will find the closest use to benefit from your generosity.
Donor-advised funds let you recommend grants to organizations you care about, which can change from year to year. We have four types of donor-advised funds for you to consider. And, you can name successor advisors to remain actively involved after your lifetime. You can call on the Community Foundation's Leigh Evans Davis, Vice President for Donor Engagement, for personal assistance with your giving.
Field-of-Interest funds work well when you are passionate about a cause, like improving education or ending hunger. You direct the community foundation to choose recipients through a competitive grant process. Hampton Roads organizations work effectively in the areas you name.
Organizational funds let nonprofits start their own endowments to ensure a reliable flow of annual income.
Scholarship funds help students who lack the means pay for college tuition and expenses. Each fund's donor defined the criteria by which a student would be selected. In 2018-2019, more than 70 scholarship funds paid more than $1.4 million to send 413 students to colleges in Virginia and throughout the country.
Unrestricted funds give Hampton Roads Community Foundation flexibility to address issues in southeastern Virginia…today and in the future. Grants from these funds are awarded through a competitive process to a plethora of area nonprofits doing great work.
What is a "fund"? Imagine a perpetual savings account. The principal grows while the interest does good in your name…forever. That is how our endowments work for you.


A curling tool guide is exactly what every woman needs when choosing a curling iron, wand, or flat iron.
It is no secret that the size of curling iron, wand, or straightener you use determines the size of curls you create. The larger the barrel, the looser the curls. Likewise, the smaller the barrel, the tighter the curl. The length of your tresses also makes a big impact on the end result of your curls as well. Here I will quickly give you some things to remember the next time you are picking out your curling tool.
The 1 1/2 " barrel is great for curls with a lot of body, think Victoria Secret volume. This is my favorite barrel to use when I want to create a soft, touchable look.
The 1 1/4″ barrel is my favorite size curling iron. It creates a great uniform curl when held at a vertical angle to the face. My #1 recommendation when choosing a size.
The 1″ barrel is perfect when you have hair between short and medium, aka chin length to collar bones. It creates a tighter curl and a second choice after the 1 1/4″ iron above.
The Jose Eber Trio Curling Wand Set is specially designed with three distinctive curling barrel sizes that are perfect for all hair types.
With easily interchangeable barrels, a multitude of curly and wavy styles can be created with the trio wand. The clipless design gives perfect, more natural looking curls and waves that are free of kinks, ridges, and crimped ends. By focusing longer heat at the roots and not the tips, damage caused by traditional curling irons is a thing of the past.
My favorite straightener ever, the HAI Convertible Flat Iron. The 1 1/4″ creates a great uniform curl when held at a vertical angle. My #1 recommendation when choosing a straightener width. This iron offers adjustable heat (which is a must!) and floating plates to eliminate any tension and pull on the hair.
The 1/2″ flat iron (similar here) allows close reach to the scalp in order to perfect bangs or hairstyles of shorter length.
The 2″ barrel (not pictured) would be your weapon of choice for a subtle bend on the ends of your hair. The curl is very loose so it is best to keep this barrel to imitate a blowout style.
One of my biggest tricks when curling my hair with a flat iron is gently smoothing the flat iron over the top of them at the end. This gives those loose, uniform waves that are so gorgeous.
I thought that with the tapered curling iron, it was supposed to be used the other way (bigger diameter at the top). I didn't hear this anywhere, this was just in my mind as the way that would give the best kind of curls. Have you tried it the other way (opposite of what's in your photo)?
I see what you mean, I've only used it the one way so I guess I'll have to give the other way a try, thanks!
This is a genius tutorial! Thank you!
Hey, could you upload a video on how you curl your hair? I really liked the way you did your curls in the pictures, so I was wondering if you could do a video on how to achieve different styles of curls using a specific way to use your curling iron.
Hi, Melissa! I've bought a curling iron that comes with 3 barrels. The size comes in mm.
What would be the equivalence of 38mm, 33mm and 19mm in inches?
Do you have any video tutorials on how to curl your hair with a flat iron? Every time I do it my hair just looks zig zagged and bent.