The Dream South Beach hotel, which opened in 2011, recently won an award for design at the New York International Hotel, Motel and Restaurant Show.
The hotel at 1111 Collins Ave., formerly the Tudor House and Palmer hotels, won the Gold Key Award for Best Guest Room Design. The ceremony was held Monday.
Designers were Kelly Ogden of Elk Collective and Michael Czysz of Architropolis.
One man was killed and two wounded in a shooting in Miami that left a car pocked with bullet holes.
Miami police responded to a call reporting shots fired at about 11:50 p.m. Monday at the corner of Northwest 11th Place and 43rd Street where they found a Nissan Altima with three young males inside.
The car was “shot up numerous times,” said Officer Kenia Reyes, Miami police spokeswoman.
One of the victims died on the scene and the others were transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Unit. The second victim is listed in stable condition and the third was treated and released.
Several blocks away at Northwest 15th Avenue and 44th Street, police canvassed the area where they discovered gunshot casings. It’s not known yet if the incidents are related.
Reyes said the names of the victims are being withheld until the next of kin is notified.
Police have no suspects or motives so far and are asking anyone with information to call 305-471-TIPS (8477).
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Shares of Facebook Inc jumped 10 percent in early trading on Wednesday, even as the biggest block of shares held by insiders became eligible for sale for the first time since the social media company’s disappointing debut in May.
In heavy morning trading, Facebook gained $ 2.02 to $ 21.89.
“While the lock-up is expiring, there is nothing requiring anybody to sell,” said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer at Solaris Group in Bedford Hills, New York. “Given the low price, these long-term holders are deciding to hold the stock and that is lifting it here as the fear of the expiration subsides.”
Roughly 800 million Facebook shares could begin trading on Wednesday after restrictions on insider selling were lifted on the biggest block of shares since the May initial public offering.
The lock-up expiration greatly expanded the 921 million-share “float” available for trading on the market until now.
Facebook, the world’s No. 1 online social network, became the only U.S. company to debut with a market value of more than $ 100 billion. But its value has dropped nearly 50 percent since the IPO on concerns about its long-term money-making prospects.
Insider trading lock-up provisions started to expire in August, and the rolling expirations have added to the pressure on Facebook’s stock.
Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser said he didn’t expect Facebook insiders to sell all of their shares as the lock-ups expired.
“I would expect heavy volumes over the next few weeks, but not undigestible volumes,” said Wieser. By his estimates, roughly 486 million of the nearly 800 million newly freed Facebook shares will be sold.
There is some evidence that the heavy interest in shorting the stock was dissipating, given the poor performance since it first sold shares in May.
According to Markit’s Data Explorers, about 28 percent of the shares available for short-selling were being borrowed for that purpose, down from a high of more than 80 percent in early August.
Similarly, SunGard’s Astec Analytics, which also tracks interest in shorting, noted in a comment on Tuesday that the cost of borrowing Facebook shares is down more than 50 percent since the beginning of the month.
“Everything would seem to indicate the market is losing its appetite to short Facebook,” wrote Karl Loomes, market analyst at Astec.
Several members of Facebook’s senior management have sold millions of dollars worth of shares in recent weeks through pre-arranged stock trading plans as lock-up restrictions expired.
Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has sold roughly 530 million shares this month, netting just over $ 11 million, though she still owns roughly 20 million vested shares in Facebook.
In August, Facebook board member Peter Thiel sold roughly $ 400 million worth of Facebook stock, the majority of his stake, when an earlier phase of lock-up restrictions expired.
Facebook’s 28-year-old chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has committed to not sell any shares before September 2013.
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
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Elizabeth Banks has welcomed her second son with husband Max Handelman.
The Hunger Games star announced the recent arrival of her baby boy, Magnus Mitchell Handelman, on her personal website.
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"As 2012 winds down and Thanksgiving approaches, I have much for which to be thankful - personal, professional, and Presidential," Elizabeth wrote. "However, nothing can match the joy and excitement my husband and I felt when we recently welcomed our second baby boy, Magnus Mitchell Handelman."
She reveals that like her other son Felix, Magnus was born via gestational surrogate, an experience that she said "has exceeded all expectations."
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"Magnus joins older brother Felix, thus commencing a decade or more of close hand to hand combat," she wrote. "I now turn my attention to managing two boys under two. For which I am thankful. And all their poop. For which I am less thankful. Wish me luck."
Watch that first step!
A 'drunk' man tried to walk down the escalator the wrong way on the London Underground.
The man - wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase - appears unsteady on his feet as he tries to make his way down the escalator at Tottenham Court Road tube station.
Bemused commuters try to help him off, but he ignores them and continues to try and walk the wrong way.
After struggling for two minutes as people push past, he is guided away by a helpful commuter who pushes the emergency stop button and points him in the right direction.
To read more, go to The Sun.
One of the region’s most popular job fairs returns to Miami-Dade County on Thursday, Nov. 15, with more than 1,000 openings available.
Job News, which sells employment ads and rents out space at job fairs to companies, will hold its last fair of 2012 at the Don Shula Hotel in Miami Lakes. The hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and both admission and parking are free. Job News says more than 35 companies will be on hand looking for workers, including the Loews Miami Beach hotel, Flightstar Aviation, Okey Dokey grocery stores, and Borden Dairy.
More information is available at jobnewsmiami.com, where participants are encouraged to register ahead of time in order to avoid check-in lines. Job News recommends bringing 30 copies of a resume to the event.
DOUGLAS HANKS
PINELLAS PARK --
The fire was all around Dan Jensen.
He could see it. He could smell it. He could hear it.
It was close enough to touch. It was burning down his neighbor's house. It was creeping toward Jensen's own fence 10 feet away, and he started spraying the fire with his hose.
Police ordered Jensen to get back, and he complied.
But after a few minutes passed without firefighters arriving, a frustrated Jensen stepped forward and leaned down to grab the skinny gray garden hose once again.
That's when he heard the order.
"Hit 'em! Take him down! Tase him!"
Within moments, Jensen was on the ground. He felt electric.
"It was all over me," Jensen said. "Crawling all over me."
The 42-year-old commercial fisherman is still struggling to comprehend exactly how things deteriorated so quickly Thursday. He said he doesn't understand why police shot him with a Taser that night as he tried to battle a house fire at 3420 Beechwood Ter. N.
Jensen's family, friends and neighbors have been quick to defend him and accuse police of crossing a line.
"It was wrong," he said. "There's no way around it. … I was fighting a fire. I wasn't fighting police. I thought they were here to help me. Instead, they hurt me."
Police said they can sympathize with the stress Jensen was under. But they said he put himself and officers in danger when he refused to back down from fighting the fire.
Pinellas Park Capt. Sanfield Forseth told the Tampa Bay Times authorities could have even charged Jensen with obstruction, but decided against it.
Jensen's attorney, Heidi Imhof, said she believes authorities are trying to deflect attention from their actions that night. She called the Taser use "excessive force."
"They can't just Taser anyone," she said. "He's an unarmed person on his private property trying to fight a fire."
Imhof said the officers had other options. They could have yanked Jensen away, she said, or just turned off the water.
The agency's policy says officers must issue a warning before using a Taser, "except when such warning could provide a tactical advantage to the subject."
Imhof said her client was never warned.
Jensen said he's "disappointed" in police.
He said that when they arrived on the scene, they told him to back off and let insurance take care of it. He did for a few minutes but grew impatient and irate. He picked up the hose again because he thought firefighters weren't getting there soon enough.
Officials told the Times it took six minutes for fire fighters to respond.
"That's my home," Jensen said Monday, his voice breaking. "That's my family."
Lea Michele made light of the tabloid reports that she was pregnant, telling Tonight Show host Jay Leno she feels that she's "finally made it."
Referring to the reports as her "first fake pregnancy rumor," the Glee gal joked that an actress hasn't really made it until someone shouts baby bump. "You gotta take it. It's what happens in this business," she tells Leno of the false rumors. "[It's] a cool one to get. ... I can't wait to see what's next."
Michele, 26, has been dating her Glee co-star Cory Monteith, 30, and though there's no bun in the oven just yet, she does admit that she's become quite domestic. The actress tells Leno she loves to cook, and sometimes fantasizes about having her own cooking show.
"Maybe I think I'm a better cook than I am, because I cooked something for my boyfriend the other day and I don't think he really liked it," she admits.
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Michele, Monteith and the Glee cast return to FOX on Thursday night for a special Grease-inspired episode.
In the Ritz-Carlton ballroom in Coconut Grove on Monday, Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, addressed a crowd of well-dressed world savers to open the Continuity Forum of the Americas Business Council (abc*). In a speech that touched on the environment, the Arab awakening, democracy in Latin America, the spiraling conflict in Syria, nuclear war and resource scarcity, Annan encouraged attendees to address these and other problems by thinking local.
“People ask me all the time, ‘what should one do to become a global citizen?’ I tell them, get involved with your community, your city, your town, your village,” Annan said.
For abc*, a think tank dedicated to “people, planet and philanthropy” in the Americas, Miami is the center of that community. Smack dab in the middle of the hemisphere, for two years Miami has hosted the annual Continuity Forum that attracts more than 300 people from all over North and South America. Rebecca Mandelman, senior director of the abc* based in Miami Beach, said she has recently seen more and more of these would-be world changers coming to Miami to stay.
“There’s this intellectual thirst in Miami that brings a lot of these forces together,” Mandelman said. Referring to the co-sponsoring organizations — many of them local, like the Knight Foundation, Univision, PODER magazine and technology company Ico Group — she said, “Miami is like the fulcrum, the center for people in our community.”
The three-day conference, which sold tickets in advance, features a full roster of impressive speakers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. But the main focus is the competition between 32 “social entrepreneurs” who will present their projects to be judged by the five chairman of abc* and the foundation’s 23 fellows. The best three projects will receive $100,000 grants, media support and business connections for two years.
“We evaluate them by their potential to make the greatest impact,” said Mario Scarpetta, director of Colombian cement and energy company Inversiones Argos and co-chairman of abc*. To evaluate their effectiveness, he said abc* would review each project’s “strategic business plans and economic models of their impact.”
The projects range from a museum of sacred Peruvian plants and an indigenous tourism agency in Mexico to a Nicaraguan organization dedicated to fighting cancer and a “green roof” sustainable building company. The presentations, videos and question-and-answer sessions took place in English and Spanish, and Mandelman said she hoped the casual conversations between sessions would lead to future ideas and organizations.
Even entrepreneurs whose projects are not chosen for the abc* grant have the opportunity this week to interact with investors and leaders of the industries they seek to influence. Pati Ruiz of Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda in Mexico said her alliance of five conservation organizations is already active in central Mexico, but if awarded the grant she would use it to expand to the rest of the country and into South America.
“The strength of our project is that it’s already up and running,” Ruiz said in Spanish after her presentation. “We have the tools to expand and reproduce what we’re doing.”
Although most of the conference attendees were excited about the ideas, some expressed frustration with the lack of avenues for individuals to get involved.
“I think that’s the problem with a lot of these conferences: There are no action items, nothing you can really do if you’re not a big-time donor,” said one attendee who didn’t want to be named because he works for one of the co-sponsors of the conference. “We come, watch, applaud and leave.”
Still, abc* continues to connect some of the most creative innovators in a younger generation to current political and business leaders who have the resources to give their ideas wings, Mandelman said, and the rest of the Continuity Forum promises to help make this happen.
“We believe that collective engagement can advance the Americas,” she said.
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