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Congratulations fma members! I want you to stop, take a deep breath, and savor this moment. As publishing professionals, I know stopping isn’t really in our nature. Publishing is so often about deadlines; we write stories, sell advertising, build layouts, edit, proof, print and distribute just in time to do it all over again. But let’s forget about that just now and instead think about all we’ve accomplished this year. The Florida Magazine Association is represented today by more publications and creative minds than ever before. Even so, I have to say that all of you have truly outdone yourselves this time. Each of the 2017 Charlie Awards’ entries showcases the highest quality of work I’ve ever seen from our members. Judging this year’s contest couldn’t have been easy, and my hat’s off to the respected publishing professionals from across the country who were up to the task. To those of you whose entries won bronze, silver or a coveted Charlie, you have my congratulations and my admiration. A panel of judges assessed more than 600 of the best submissions from Florida’s publishers, and thoughtfully chose yours as the finest among them. Even under what sometimes feel like impossible deadlines, you and your colleagues were determined to make each issue greater than your last. Tonight, we proudly acknowledge those efforts and celebrate your success with you. On behalf of the FMA Board of Directors, I thank our generous sponsors and distinguished judges for making this moment of appreciation possible. I am so inspired by our members—the publishers, printers, designers, writers, photographers, editors and sales teams—whose drive, talent and determination make Florida’s publishing community more vibrant every year. I hope these awards inspire your continued creativity and excellence. I can’t wait to see what’s in store for next year!

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that, the challenges of sanctions, what the Financial Action Task Force mutual evaluations may bring to certain jurisdictions, the wide array of nontraditional banking organizations that have AML responsibilities (FinTech, gaming, registered investment advisors), and it is clear that ACAMS needs to adapt and ensure that everyone who needs training and content receives it. ACAMS’ commitment to you is that we will provide the necessary information and we ask that you help us stay current and relevant toward this goal.

De-risking, CDD and regulatory expectations are top of mind If you have not had an opportunity to review the ACAMS and Dow Jones 2016 survey that we released at our 21st Annual International AML & Financial Crime Conference in Hollywood, Florida, please take the time to do so. We give you insight into what our members think about AML challenges and data providers, customer due diligence, human trafficking, de-risking and rising regulatory expectations. What is clear to me from the survey and continued conversations with many of you is that our members—while committed to AML goals—are frustrated with their workloads and it may be time to have a

Finally, a plea for accuracy Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former member of the U.S. Senate said, “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” Compliance requires specificity, but not perfection. With all of the laws, regulations and policy guidance that the profession must address, we know how complicated everything is. Some that cover or comment on AML do not have that level of detail or perhaps choose to ignore facts as it does not fit within their preconceived narrative or political agenda. So, I have a request of our AML brethren: When you have the opportunity, respond to false narratives, overgeneralizations and unfair attacks on our community. We are in AML because we can make a difference—never lose sight of that important fact.

John J. Byrne, Esq., CAMS executive vice president

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WHERE CREATIVITY IS GOOD His father was poet Hyam Plutzik, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. The younger Plutzik had walked away from a lucrative career on Wall Street in search of a new beginning. He bought the historic Betsy Ross Hotel in a bankruptcy sale, reopening it in March 2009 after a multimillion-dollar

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Group Therapy There was a class at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) that was supposed to teach you how to deal with patients’ minds while trying to get to their teeth. That’s the only formal psychology course I ever took and it was taught by the folks who ran the suicide prevention hotline. All I remember from that course is that you were supposed to look into the other person’s face and say, “What I hear you saying is …”

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That was the formal course. When I met my wife (a practicing mental health professional) I entered into an ongoing — now 15-year — course on practical psychology. The second question I asked her was, “Can you turn it off or do you psychoanalyze people all the time?” Her answer was, “Should I be psychoanalyzing you?” Lesson No. 1: If you want to find out something about someone else, answer a question with a question. Lesson No. 2 was much more important. It seems there actually are very few different personal problems, and to some extent, we all have them. It really has more to do with how much the problem controls your life. There is no specific dental anxiety — you have anxiety. Some people just feel it is OK to express that anxiety in the dental office, so they save it up for their every three-year visit, but it’s also how they approach some of their other problems. How many of us ever think about treating the anxiety with a referral rather than a prescription? It turns out, that in the early stages of a problem, the answer can be pretty simple: find some friends and talk it out. Some of your friends likely have enjoyed the same experience that troubles you. It helps if they know you well enough to know when to listen and when to refill their drink because you are on a rant. We actually have an irregular group with regular meetings. The Brown Tooth Society convenes any time two or more of us are in the same place. It’s open to all, but like any good speakeasy, you have to know where to find it or who is in the know so you can get an invite. Along with talk therapy, we tend to enjoy some other, less professional therapies — but we are professional doctors. We’ll work on your problems and if you stay up late enough, we’ll solve the problems of the world. Maybe next time we’ll think to have someone take notes so we can remember the answers.

Dr. Paul is the editor of Today's FDA. He can be reached at jpaul@bot.floridadental.org.

ou never know who you’re going to run into at The Betsy in South Beach. Is that Amy Tan in the Writer’s Room, penning her next best-seller? Could that be the principal cellist of The Cleveland Orchestra in the Gallery, where eminent musicians revel in the pitchperfect acoustics? Did you see the celebrated opera singer hitting high notes, or were you taking in a poetry slam in another room? Hotel owner Jonathan Plutzik nursed an iced tea and huevos rancheros one recent morning in the hotel restaurant. Live jazz carried over from the lobby, where The Betsy’s annual jazz festival was getting into full swing. “Our whole brand is built around PACE – philanthropy, arts, culture and education,” Plutzik said. “We are a five-star hotel – of course the beds need to be really comfortable and we need great service – but on top of that, we’ve built this program to do events with musicians, literary people and community groups.” In February alone, the hotel managed 32 cultural events in the month’s 28 short days. Plutzik said he is determined to change the perception that Miami is skin-deep and short on substance: “We let the brand of Miami be about hard bodies and bathing suits and clubs, but Miami is one of the greatest cultural centers of the world.”

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We have asked you to discuss the issue of revising, modifying or eliminating the laws we live under in the AML world in the past, but I am asking you again. Are we getting it right? Are we looking for the appropriate activities? Who is responsible? Are we listening to each other?

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the group Climate Central said the risk is highest to property that is within four feet of the local high tide line. According to the report, 2.4 million people and 1.3 million homes in Florida are in that category. It’s half the risk nationwide. “Sea level rise,” the report said, “is more than doubling the risk of a storm surge at this level in South Florida by 2030.” Which is just 13 years away. A quirk of nature may give some areas of Palm Beach County more time. The land begins rising in Deerfield Beach. Miami’s average elevation about sea level is six feet and Fort Lauderdale’s is nine feet. In Boca Raton, however, the average elevation is closer to 13 feet. In Delray Beach, though, the elevation is more like nine feet. That’s why the city, especially in the last four years, has made adapting to sea level rise a priority. High tides regularly cause flooding in the city’s Marina District and near Veterans Park. The city has a sustainability office within the Environmental Services

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The storm surge, however, washed away four blocks of State Road A1A on the Fort Lauderdale beachfront and tore up beaches throughout South Florida. Complete rebuilding in Fort Lauderdale took three years. When Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, the winds were a comparatively low 80 miles per hour. Yet according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s post-Sandy report, the barometric pressure was more like that of a Category 3 hurricane, with winds of at least 111 miles per hour. The moon was full, so the tide was very high. Primarily because of the surge in New Jersey and New York, damage from Sandy totaled $50 billion. Obviously, flooding and surge are not new issues with tropical storms. With climate change and rising seas, however, they are newly urgent issues. Coincidentally, the eighth annual Southeast Florida Regional Climate Summit had been scheduled for the Palm Beach County Convention Center the weekend when Matthew seemed like such a threat. The meeting was rescheduled. With higher seas, the potential damage from storm surge and flooding increases. A report by

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As of this writing, AML professionals are grappling with how to respond to the financial components that make up terrorist activities, human trafficking and all sorts of financial crime. Add to

urricane Matthew gave this area a scare in October. We should not let that scare go to waste. For all the danger from hurricane-force winds, the dangers from water—rain and surge—are becoming more apparent. South Florida has witnessed the trend for nearly two decades. In 1999, Tropical Storm Irene tracked up the center of the state. It was a borderline hurricane, and the heaviest rains were on the east side. The drenching was so bad in Boynton Beach that the city raised stormwater fees and began upgrading the drainage system. In 2005, before it created a disaster in Louisiana and Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Pompano Beach and crossed to the Gulf of Mexico. As with Irene, wind damage was minimal, but Katrina flooded portions of southern Broward County and Miami-Dade County. In 2012, Tropical Storm Isaac never made a Florida landfall. Isaac dumped so much rain, however, that residents in rural areas of west-central Palm Beach County were cut off. If the South Florida Water Management District had not been able to divert water to a new reservoir built for Everglades restoration, the flooding might have been catastrophic. Similarly, Hurricane Sandy never came ashore here in 2012.

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A thriving retail operation that includes restaurants and shopping, a partnership that complements the racing and gaming product; And – in yet another example of an important, mutually beneficial partnership – a bustling Florida Sire Stakes business that is of tremendous importance to Gulfstream’s bottom line while igniting interest in the state’s thoroughbred industry. We’re months away from the inaugural of yet another Stronach original, the $12 million Pegasus World Cup, another innovation that has once again awakened the feckless, but even seasoned opponents are reluctant to mock his latest creation, simply because they have learned one thing: You shouldn’t bet against Frank. ■

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ne of the things I look forward to each year is the ACAMS Today edition that honors the law enforcement community. We are, of course, an international membership association that includes all parts of the anti-money laundering (AML) community. That fact alone is superfluous if we do not recognize all parts of the AML infrastructure and actually do programming, articles and other content to acknowledge the issues essential to law enforcement success. Whether it is having the law enforcement community present at chapter events, seminars, conferences, webinars or authoring articles for ACAMS Today, our membership derives extensive benefit from the private-public partnership that has evolved over time and has been enhanced by ACAMS members.

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Randy Schultz, former editorial page editor at the Palm Beach Post and a Boca resident, reports on city, county and statewide issues twice a week at bocamag.com. Catch his popular “City Watch” blog every Tuesday and Thursday for the latest buzz about Boca and beyond.

There’s a vision at 901 South Federal Hwy., one that a man like Jimmy Donn would likely appreciate. A landscaper, Donn was a shareholder in both Gulfstream and Hialeah and, when the original owner of Gulfstream went bust, he stepped in to assume command, take risks, make it one of the nation’s leading racetracks and pass along a healthy product to his son and grandson to operate for many, many years. But the Donn days have been gone for more than 25 years. While the GPS coordinates remain the same, anyone who thinks that this enterprise bares the stamp of anyone but Stronach is blind to the truth of this being the House that The Frank built. Some things to ponder: Gaming has become a workable and trustworthy partner with horseracing, a rarity in other precincts around the country;

on’t let that picture fool you, this isn’t just another photo-shopped fish story. I actually did pull that monster – and a couple of his equally horrifying kinsmen – out of the infield lake at Gulfstream a few by Mike Mullaney years ago when I worked publicity at Gulfstream Park. We fished after hours, of course. Managing Editor In control of the great fish is my trusted TV man Rob for Florida Equine Communications Tobin, whose aversion to holding a camera during off-theclock hours is almost as great as my aversion to holding anything that, with one well-aimed bite, might lead me to a deeper-than-desired knowledge of prosthetics. The juxtaposition of the barracuda with the Gulfstream Park grandstand is meant to illustrate how an efficient, streamlined creation need not make many changes over 60 million years. Racetracks, however, do need to evolve, and one would be hard-pressed to think of a better example of consistently being ahead of the times than Frank Stronach’s Gulfstream Park. A business professor at Louisiana State University, once paraphrased Darwin: “It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.” Beginning in the ‘90s, when seasonal employees said goodbye to one another on closing days at Hialeah, it had become a 50-50 proposition if that beautiful arena would be open for business the next season. You knew who owned it, but you didn’t know their intentions. Through all his years on the main stage, no one has seriously questioned Stronach’s commitment to racing, at least not for any length of time. Sure, there were snide remarks from cynics, but in time the critics among the horsemen, the media and the public at large began to see his reasoning. Some of those critics now are drawing hefty paychecks from The Stronach Group, and they do so with faith, fervor and the zeal of converts.

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As a relative newbie to the road cycling world, I’m proud to be among the ranks exploring and loving bike riding. At first, I was completely ignorant and made every mistake possible. So now I hope to help other rookies get stronger and feel safer on the road by sharing my own challenges. When I started riding three years ago, I found a fantastic urban ride in Hollywood with friendly cyclists who provided support and a wealth of great advice. Before long, I looked forward to the weekly rides to get stronger and make friends. One night, I discovered a flat tire when I was prepping my bike for the group ride. What to do? Play the helpless, clueless female to coax the savvy men in the group to fix it for me? No. My inner feminist revolted and pushed me to YouTube. I found multiple videos outlining the steps to change the tire. One seemed thorough, but the first step worried me. Why, oh why, did it have to be the back tire? Anyone with a modicum of cycling experience knows the back tire is the enigma, at least for a newbie. How could I disengage the tire from that other stuff? (Tips: Keep hand wipes nearby and learn the parts of your bike.) The video said to loosen the brake on the back tire. Huh, what brake lock? I didn’t even know it existed. I loosened the wheel’s quick release. The wheel popped off as I pulled back and down on the rear derailer cage. Cool! Next step: Use levers to loosen the tire from the rim. Levers? Hmmmm. The lever on the screen resembled a cheese knife. I had a cheese knife in my kitchen drawer, and yeah, it sort of worked. Sort of. (Tip: Buy levers at bike shops or online.) When I wrestled one side of the tire off the rim, I easily reached inside and extracted the offending tube. Some veterans would have searched for the source of the leak in the tube and fixed it, but I was twenty minutes Gear to change a flat: in and didn’t want to miss my • Levers ride, so I just grabbed a new tube. • Tubes (Tip: Keep extra tubes on hand. The best and least expensive • Tires tubes are available online.) • Hand wipes After slightly inflating the • Bike patch kit to fix tubes new tube for ease of handling, I • Tire pump inserted the tube’s air valve into

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riday the 13th always brings good luck to Kathy Zorn, she says, and the last one in January proved her point. She and her husband, Greg, were on a fishing charter boat off the east coast of Costa Rica when she snagged something big—very big. After reeling and wrangling for 45 minutes, she landed her catch—a 10-foot, 200-pound black marlin. “Every bone and muscle in my body ached for two days,” says Zorn, owner/broker of Florida Home Realty and NABOR® member. But the experience made the pain more than tolerable. “It’s so incredible when you’re doing it,” she says. “It’s just a thrill.” Zorn began fishing when she was about 5 years old growing up in Glenview, Illinois. Her father would take Zorn and her sister onto lakes nearby and in Wisconsin, where they would catch bluegill, Northern pike, bass and other freshwater fish. When she moved to Southwest Florida 30 years ago, she maintained her passion for angling. She and Greg fish every weekend, mainly off shore from their getaway in Bokeelia on Pine Island. “I would fish everyday if someone would let me, “she says. The black marlin has been her largest catch to date. Once, she reeled in a six-foot barracuda while casting off a beach. In both instances, they were released, but not until photos were taken and replicas were ordered so they could be displayed atop her fireplace at the Bokeelia house—proof that she’s got fishing chops. “Everybody who fishes with me knows I catch the biggest fish,” she says with a laugh. —Phil Borchmann

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WHY WE LOVE IT: Local clubowner Brien Spina, of ROW and Off the Hook Comedy Club, thought to bring in serious star power for the new restaurant he was building to anchor his latest project, the Southwest Florida Performing Arts Center. Cue Michael Psilakis, a Michelinstarred New York chef who rose to fame in that city for crowd-pleasing casual joints like the Greek taverna Kefi in addition to fine-dining establishments. In Bonita Springs, he’s taking the middle ground with an ode to haute Italian comfort food. IDEAL MEAL: The nightly culinary feats dazzle from Psilakis’s team, despite what may or may not be happening on the other side of the wall—Teatro shares the same roof as a theater, but many locals don’t realize it stands alone. Book a table to try Psilakis’s signature gnudi, the fluffiest ricotta-based gnocchi enveloped in a rich fonduta. Or, even though the menu veers more toward the Italian

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side of Psilakis’s expertise, his Greek heritage shines in all the right ways in dishes like a lemony Mediterranean branzino with an heirloom tomato and olive salad. What’s better is that not much tops $30, something you wouldn’t expect from a restaurateur of his stature. VIBE: Dramatic. Cathedral ceilings hover over a sea of white quartz tabletops solely adorned with napkins and flatware. Gigantic spherical balloons and two compact bars with mosaic tiling augment the look. The acoustics can get a bit out of control; there’s a near-constant din from sounds ricocheting off the hardwood floor and exposed ductwork 30 feet above, but even if you prefer to dine in quiet, don’t let that deter you. The restaurant is open daily for dinner and anticipating adding lunch soon. Choose a less crowded time because the food deserves a round of applause.

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For the first time that I can remember, one of today’s patients complained about the taste of the pink baseplate wax we used to make a Facebow relation record. I never thought the stuff had any taste at all, but it reminded me of my dental school lab partner and Great American, Ken Peavey. Ken taught me to chew pink baseplate wax. It was free and kept you occupied during lab class. I guess chewing wax didn’t seem all that odd because some of the candies we used to get were “wax lips” and “wax bottles.” Ken attained minor celebrity by taking the bubble gum from baseball playing cards and substituting it with pink baseplate wax, then giving the cards to his brother. He let his brother think the gum was old. Ken and I made a pact the day we learned to give injections. Neither one of us wanted to spend the day numb, so we agreed to do all the motions to make the injection, but empty the anesthetic in the sink. When our instructors came to ask if we were numb, we made the appropriate faces as to how numb we were and what an excellent technician our partner was. Fortunately, no one ever checked our story.

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Springs Eternal As Disney Springs nears completion, the new flavors dished out by famous faces are causing quite a buzz. BY JOSEPH HAYES

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THE TRANSFORMATION OF Downtown Disney into Disney Springs

has created a dazzling array of shopping and prime dining. Here’s our “overhead’’ guide to the culinary part—from new neighborhoods of The Landing and Town Center, to the standbys at the Marketplace and West Side. Plus, we have some celebrity chefs for you to meet.

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1. THE BOATHOUSE Fish and steaks populate the menu at the dockside Boathouse, and while the atmosphere is decidedly New England, there are a few Florida local seafood items available in season. A high point is the lobster bake, with Maine lobster, clams, mussels and the fixings served in an overflowing tin pail. It’s too bad you can’t actually dine in the classic powerboats anchored to the docks, but a trip around the lagoon can be had in 1960s amphicars or a 40-foot Italian water taxi. theboathouseorlando.com

“The bundle of bamboos arrived and cheered me immensely, for, as you know, I have a very warm spot in my heart for this group of plants.“ —Dr. David Fairchild, Letter to David Bisset, July 22, 1951

“With my long, black bamboo cane from Uncle Barbour Lathrop’s Bamboo Garden near Savannah, I poke around my orchard taking cuttings from my trees for propagation.“

2. CHEF ART SMITH’S HOMECOMING What else would you expect from strictly Southern Art Smith than local spirits at the bar, Church Lady deviled eggs and fried chicken and doughnuts? The congenial Smith makes his home in rural Jasper, Florida, so he’s often found on Disney property. Homecoming

3. MORIMOTO ASIA, STREET FOOD When Iron Chef Morimoto isn’t holding court at his beloved 14seat sushi bar upstairs, Executive Chef Yuhi Fujinaga, who has worked with Michelin chefs Alain Ducasse and Ed Brown, keeps an eye on the kitchens. What was Mannequins Dance Palace now shimmers with backlit Japanese kana writing outside and impressive beaded light fixtures within, spotlighting menus filled with Singapore laksa noodles, Peking duck and, of course, sushi. Shuffleboard tables on the

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4. PADDLEFISH Executive Chef Mark Boor has been at the former Fulton’s Crab House since 2011, steering the paddleboat (yes, the paddle is returning) into one of the highest grossing eateries in the country. Styles and tastes change, and the modern upgrade into Paddlefish left not much more than the steel frame standing, bringing a new look and feel to the venerable establishment while retaining some menu staples including Florida stone crab and lobster corn dogs. paddlefishrestaurant.com

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amboos are the largest members of the grass family (Poaceae). Some species produce individual stems that can reach more than 160 feet in height and a foot in diameter. The bamboos with which most of us are familiar are the large woody species with hard stems, but there are also many bamboos that are small and have soft stems like typical grasses. There are at least 1,400 species of bamboo in the world, ranging from temperate climates to the tropics. Just three species are native to the US. Bamboos are colonial plants that have creeping underground rhizomes producing upright shoots that soar into the air. These shoots consist of lengths called internodes connected by joints called nodes, giving the stems a segmented appearance. These upright

shoots can grow remarkably quickly in some species, and in fact hold the Guinness World Record for fastest plant growth at 35 inches per day. Each of the segments (nodes) of the shoot can produce new tissue, allowing the stem to extend like a telescope.

he headline for this edition is a question and probably one that many of us have never thought about until recently: Fantasy sports or money laundering? When I first learned about fantasy sports I was in college. Quite a few of my friends would play in a fantasy football league. It was another way to engage with and feel a closer connection to watching sports. Not only were my friends invested in their favorite teams, but—through their league— also in individual players across all teams. Now two things mattered: their team and their fantasy team.

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now anyone with an Internet connection can join a league with complete strangers. This move to mass market involvement and rapid return on investment has caused online daily fantasy sports (DFS) to see incredible growth. However, the same factors that led to its appeal and growth have also attracted the criminal element. DFS has been leveraged by criminals, who have found loopholes to exploit. The lead article summarizes the roots of DFS, how it works and gives DFS money laundering typologies and potential steps to mitigate AML risk from DFS sites and users. This edition is filled with other thought-provoking articles. The second cover article Romancing the scams addresses advance fee and romance scams and how these old scams that can be traced back to the late 16th century have evolved. Sadly the author shares this staggering statement, “amidst the countless fraud schemes prevalent today, advance fee and romance scams may account for the greatest amount of loss to victims.” The article goes on to detail how financial institutions can develop the right approach in combating these scams.

From building an effective compliance audit function to feeling the need to outAML someone, this edition encompasses a variety of topics and themes that represent our international membership and the many challenges facing financial crime prevention professionals. In addition, I would like to encourage you to take the opportunity to participate in the third ACAMS Virtual Career Fair that will be held on April 19, 2016. For more information on this event, visit www.acams.org. Finally, remember that just like a fantasy sports league, having the best players on your compliance team is important.

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oxic leaders create toxic workplaces. How do you know when your company’s culture is toxic? If you do a Google search for “toxic workplace,” you’ll get numerous articles on the signs to look for. One sign shows up repeatedly in these articles: Your work negatively affects your health — physically and emotionally. This subject hits home. Several years ago, my husband found what he believed to be his dream job: an accountant for a company in an industry he had grown up around and loved. For the first several years, everything was great — and then there was a change in management. The new executives had little interest in learning how the business worked, managed through fear and intimidation, and were big on hiring friends and family. Rumors ran rampant about restructuring and dismissals. My husband would send me texts at least twice a week after being verbally assaulted by one of the new executives. He came home from work every night stressed and depressed. His blood pressure shot through the roof. So he did what he knew he needed to do — he got out. He was able to find a job in accounting in the same industry. He was lucky. Not everyone is as fortunate. Many people stay on the job, feeling like they don’t have a choice and hoping, if they just keep their heads down and avoid the gossip and politics, it will get better. Unfortunately, “this is nonsense,” says Liz Ryan, CEO and founder of the Human Workplace, and author of “Six Signs Your Company’s Culture is Toxic” (Forbes, August 2015). “In the history of mankind a broken corporate culture has never gotten better on its own. Your two choices are to leave the organization or to name the elephant on the table and let some air into the conversation.” Shining a light on the problem is never easy. Enter internal audit. As author Jane Seago points out in this month’s cover story, “internal auditors must remain vigilant in spotting [toxic leaders] and taking appropriate steps to contain the damage (see “Toxic Leaders, Toxic Culture” on page 28). With the help of a team of IIA experts, Seago identifies several traits of toxic leaders and asks audit leaders and corporate culture experts their thoughts on internal audit’s role in identifying these individuals and effective mitigation tactics. From a business standpoint, toxic cultures affect an organization’s productivity, company value, creativity, profitability, and growth and often are at the root of fraudulent behavior. From a personal standpoint, toxic cultures affect lives, both of the employee experiencing it and the family he or she goes home to. When a toxic culture can’t or won’t be changed, it’s time to consider other employment options. No job is more important than one’s health and happiness.

Take a ghost tour during your visit to discover the rest of the island’s eerie history. Additionally during October, La Concha Hotel & Spa will offer a “Go Pink Pedicure” that includes a sugar scrub, hydrating foot mask and massage followed by a pink polish for $50. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Community Foundation of the Florida Keys, which financially assists patients in cancer treatment.

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was wrapped in a cocoon of towels and heating pads, lying in what yogis call “corpse pose.” The masseuse at Top Spa in Key West had asked if I was claustrophobic before configuring me like so. We were at the end of my Rejuvenating Noni Body Glow treatment, which included a raw sugar cane scrub, body masque and scalp massage, and I was running through all of my favorite moments the way you do before you add another to the list. The masseuse hit a button that lifted the top half of the table like a hospital bed, and my eyes met a view of where the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico merge just past the panoramic window. Top Spa at La Concha Hotel offers the highest view accessible to the public in Key West, a 2- by 4-mile island (depending on water levels) that’s only 90 miles from Cuba. The hotel, which is at the center of the infamous Duval Street, celebrates its 90th birthday this year. According to spa director Alicia Howell, in 1926 when the hotel first opened, the rooms went for $3 a night, but spend an extra 30 cents and you’d also get a steak dinner. Key West is perhaps the most eclectic, character-bearing pocket of Florida with a likelihood of finding fishermen, drag performers and bachelorette parties all in the same vicinity. It can be guessed a historic landmark property like La Concha has seen a lot between its days offering bargain stays in the ’20s and premier spa treatments in the 2000. After experiencing the spa, spending the afternoon parasailing and then having dinner by Mallory Square with a view of the sunset, my friend and I sat across from La Concha’s lobby bartender as he shared tales about the building—particularly, its ghost stories. The first was about a man who’d sat at the bar and ordered a glass of Chardonnay. After quickly downing the pour, he found the roof and jumped off. Another incident involved a housekeeper working on the 5th floor who hit the elevator button and when the doors opened, he routinely backed in pulling his carrier. However, the elevator cart hadn’t come down from the 6th floor, so he fell to his death. Both men are said to haunt the hotel, with guests claiming to hear faint screams during elevator rides or have their Chardonnay vanish from their hands. We didn’t experience much in the realm of supernatural occurrences during our stay, except for one night when we returned to a dark room and both swore we hadn’t dialed down the lights or switched off the TV. Perhaps we were psyching ourselves out, or we were visited by a ghost who is also a conservationist.

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Anyone who has a favorite sports team knows the passion you build for the team, the comraderies that are created when you cheer for your favorite team, the joy of victory and the anguish of defeat. Playing fantasy sports gave my friends another sphere to experience an already enjoyable pastime. As the saying goes, times change and not always for the better. In the past it took a whole season to claim your victory; however, now with companies such as DraftKings and FanDuel victory can be claimed daily. Previously, leagues were made up of friends and everyone knew each other, but

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n the past few years, Emily Bua has been featured on HGTV’s “Open House Overhaul” show and quoted in The Wall Street Journal. Her daughter Tade Bua-Bell has gotten their Naples team’s luxury listings into regional and state magazines and newspapers, thanks to a robust media outreach program. “[Being] quoted as an expert does great things for your credibility when making a listing presentation for a multimillion-dollar home,” says Bua-Bell, a sales associate with the Bua Bell Group at John R. Wood Properties. “It really helps you stand out from the competition.” To maintain that high profile, BuaBell writes press releases on a regular basis and sends them out to reporters at print, television and online news sites. “When we had one of Southwest Florida’s first Certified Green Homes, I spent a lot of time contacting the

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hasiTy marTin had some Things To work ouT. Some hard things, some things that would have been tough on an adult. She was 14, though, so she tried to work them out by punching people. It was neighborhood girls at first—sometimes two at the same time. Once, a girl brought her grown-up sister to the fight. Martin beat them both. Then she heard about a boxing circuit where even a 14-year-old girl could make good money. So, she started training. She was at a boxing gym in Pompano Beach one day when she noticed a guy across the room. She had seen him around. She knew his reputation: former trainer to Mike Tyson and a whole lot of other boxers. He was tough, unsmiling and had no interest in her.

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hen they were young, my two children spent alternating weekends with my ex-husband. One Saturday, he and his new wife had a dinner party, and when 6-year-old Kate came home, she asked, “When you and Henry were married, did you have people come over and sit on the sofa and talk about real estate?” At the time, most of my friends were writers and other impoverished bohemians, and I remember assuring her that boring old real estate was not a subject that came up at my parties. How things have changed! These days, everybody is talking about Sarasota real estate, and that includes me, grown-up Kate and those old bohemian friends, several of whom now supplement their Social Security by owning and renting out houses. As we report in our cover story, real estate, the time-honored engine of our economy, is off and roaring again, fueled by a surge in population. After stalling during the recession, the growth rate in SarasotaManatee is now the 11th fastest in the nation, and more people—most of them retiring baby boomers—are on the way. We don’t have enough houses for people who want to live here. Low inventory and high demand drove up Sarasota’s median home price by more than 10 percent last year alone. In response, developers have launched plans for thousands of new homes in South County and east of I-75, while in town and on the keys, modest old homes are being replaced by grand new structures. And $1 billion worth of new projects, from 18-story condos to townhomes and hotels, are rising downtown. This place won’t look or feel the same a few years from now, and for many of us, that’s disorienting. Yes, our homes are worth more (but what could we buy if we

sold them?) and we have more entertainment, shopping and dining choices than ever before. An expanding economy also helps businesses like this magazine thrive and allowed my kids to return after college and find jobs and raise their families here at home. (Though as Cooper Levey-Baker reports in this issue, that’s still not the case for many millennials.) But growth also has driven housing prices too high for many workers, and it threatens to destroy the beauty and livabil-

For the last three years, Sarasota County residents have named growth and development their No. 1 concern.

ity that drew so many of us here. Some— like the new activist group called STOP!— say we’ve already passed the tipping point. And while departing City Commissioner Suzanne Atwell charges (see page 38) that STOP! members just long for the old days— as if that could stop growth—they’re not alone. For the last three years, in an annual survey by the University of South Florida, county residents have named growth and development their No. 1 concern. Other popular cities, from Portland, Oregon, to Austin, Texas, are also struggling to balance growth and quality of life. The places that are succeeding—Charleston and Nashville come to mind—have managed to develop consensus and to plan how they want to grow while preserving what makes them special. Unfortunately, in contentious Sarasota, consensus is in short supply. From the

Ringling Bridge to roundabouts, new projects are greeted with fear and outrage, and developers often oppose reasonable regulations and concerns. Like our divided red and blue nation, we suspect each other of the worst and talk over rather than to each other. Maybe it’s the split nature of our population—well-heeled retirees who fell in love with this place just the way it was and working people who need growth to pay their bills—that prevents us from collaborating on solutions. But as now retired developer Gil Waters used to tell me, our failure to hold productive conversations about growth is nothing new. In the late ’60s, Waters was one of a progressive group of city commissioners who supported a number of landmark projects, including building the Van Wezel. At a public hearing for one of those projects, a tiny, white-haired woman clamored for her turn to ask a question. But when she got the microphone, she instead started listing all the reasons she and her friends didn’t want the project. “Your question, ma’am?” Waters finally asked. “Please—what is your question?” The woman glared at Waters, took a deep breath, and said, “My question—my question is—we don’t want it.” More than half a century later, it’s time for us to do better than that.

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Robert, the most famous resident of Key West’s Fort East Martello Museum, has suffered a bad rap since he moved into the historical destination in 1994. He’s been blamed for hurricanes, divorces, house fires, lightning strikes, job losses, animal attacks, toothaches, terminal illnesses, lost luggage and too many deaths to name. Most of these accusations arrive via mail, both electronic and snail. According to Robert’s biographer, David Sloan, he receives “more letters in a month than most of us receive in a year.” One woman, after a visit to Robert, tripped when entering her basement and found the door locked behind her. So she sent Robert a missive: “My husband said that I probably turned the lock myself without even thinking about it and locked myself in the basement, but honestly, Robert, we both know the truth.”

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Cornelius Ritchie, who goes by CJ (the “J” for Joshua), climbs into the front seat of my Camry. He’s 18, a senior at Dunbar High School, and has lived in the neighborhood since he was 3. He tosses a backpack into the seat behind him and flashes one of his wide, trademark grins. I think about his question for a second. How well do I know Fort Myers? “Pretty well,” I respond. I’ve lived here since 1999 and have worked as a reporter for nearly all of that time. But what CJ is really asking: How well do you know my Fort Myers? That’s an entirely different question, and the one I’ve turned to CJ and his friends to answer. Their city and mine are two very different places. Mine starts on the tree-lined McGregor Boulevard, a road synonymous with the community’s founding families and the boundless opportunities that come with living in the “right” zip code. McGregor turns into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at the U.S. 41 overpass and takes you into the heart of Dunbar, a once proud black neighborhood suffocating under the weight of inner-city problems. There have been 30 homicides in Fort Myers between January 2015 and early December 2016, in addition to a rash of nonfatal shootings. Four of the latter took place on a single night in September 2015, an evening, ironically, BY JENNIFER REED that civic leaders had convened a PHOTOGR APHY BY ERIK KELL AR

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Carrabba wasthe best known for more than a decade as the face and voice of Dashboard Confessional. A unicorns she’s drawn since she was 12 will decorate walls? If she and tour internationally and he still claims Boca Raton as a base. wants to create a “Go Fund Me,” that’s terrific—but what she really

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magazine. But he where was also acting a sense of purpose: one musician voicing support for another me, sure. But someone’s niece, who wants toRaton open a cafe allwith the

ast fall near Fort Meade, 80 miles northeast of Sarasota, Larry Black’s pickup rolled by groves full of orange trees with wizened fruit and mottled, yellowed leaves—trademark symptoms of the scourge of the state’s most iconic crop, the misleadingly named citrus greening disease. Black, who is both a grower and general manager of Fort Meade’s Peace River Packing Co., passed ghostly rows of neatly planted, uniformly sized trees, all of them gray and bare. He looked through his cab window at dead trees that had been bulldozed into piles as big as houses, preparation for the final step of grove abandonment, the prescribed burns that one veteran grower has compared to funeral pyres. The irrigation pipes towering over the bulldozed grove were another sign its time had passed, Black noted. “That was probably state of the art in 1962,” he said.

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sufficiently toned. If my arms can still lift bags of groceries,

boxes of books and bottles of wine, they are doing just great.

It’s time to stop stressing about things you can’t control.

I’m not going to worry about whether my eyebrows are symmetrical—my friend and assistant, Krissy, insists,

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When I asked other friends what they wanted to stop worrying about, their responses deeply echoed mine, ringing against each other’s like wind chimes.

One wants to stop worrying about “friendships.” If the word needs to be put in quotations marks, it doesn’t deserve your attention. successful author, a woman whose books

use a stronger word, but one thing I still worry about is being able to appear in print, so “fig” it is.)

ago. She startled me by asking, “Are your

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had deeply influenced me, agreed to meet for coffee at a conference a few years

eyelashes getting thinner as you age?”

I’m going to stop worrying about things over which I have no control and ones that don’t matter. I figure this will free up six to seven hours of my day. My list of things to overlook includes the following:

using the right mascara. Not once in my life had I been actively distressed about my eyelashes. Oh, sure, I’d slathered them in various kinds of makeup since I was 14 but, otherwise,

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its attractiveness. If it pinches, if I have to tug at

to wear a foundation garment underneath it or high heels to make it look done—it’s gone.

Many need to stop worrying about whether their houses are clean “enough”—clean enough for what? If it’s clean enough to prepare food safely and if the feet of the guests don’t actually stick to the floor, you’re fine.

Folks who have retired need to stop worrying whether other people consider them lazy. A day in which you’ve laughed, had an interesting conversation and decent meal is a day that you haven’t wasted.

“The art of being wise,” said philosopher William James, “is knowing

it, if I have to pull it down or lift it up—it’s out. If I have

my eyelashes were something about which I had never given a—let’s use the word “fig.” I will use “fig” for the

Another needs to ignore any nasty reviews of his work. If he needs to make himself miserable, it would be easier to bang his head on a rock.

what to overlook.”

I’m going to overlook a great deal in the hope of seeing life more clearly.

remainder of this column but you should feel free to substitute whatever expletive suits you best. There are many things, including the density of my eyelashes, that are now officially on the list of things

Gina Barreca, Ph.D., is described by Dave Barry as “very, very funny.

I’m not going to worry about every request for

For a woman.” Barreca is the author of eight books and the

financial support of someone’s grand new idea.

editor of 17.

I will continue to support the causes I know are

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HI S TA L E I S ONE OF full-throated anthropomorphic projection, one that bucks the basic ground rules of nature and mortality. Grant us a heaping suspension of disbelief as we introduce our guide for this story, a crocodile named Big Joe. He’s a legend at the Everglades Wonder Gardens, his home.

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NANCY BOCHICCHIO had a caffeinated personality to begin with, but she was especially pumped that December afternoon in 2007.“I just got the best Christmas present!” she exclaimed over the phone to her sister, JoAnn Bruno. The doctors had told Nancy that she probably couldn’t have children. Even when she finally got pregnant, at almost 40, it nearly didn’t happen. Four months along, a sonogram showed a problem with the spinal cord. Nancy was advised to get an abortion. The Bochicchios are strong Catholics. Nancy worshipped at St. Jude, between Powerline Road and St. Andrews Boulevard, north of Boca Del Mar. Nancy continued the pregnancy and on Dec. 17, 1999, she delivered a healthy daughter, Joey Bochicchio-Hauser, named for Nancy’s father. JoAnn Bruno said,“Joey was our Christmas angel.” Her due date had been Christmas Day. Her middle name became Noel.

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T ’S A FRIDAY, 9 A .M., and in another life not long ago, the small group of people assembled in a Naples conference room would have been thoroughly engrossed in work by this time of day. They are hard-charging executives who’d held big titles, run divisions (or entire companies) and overseen millions of dollars in revenue. And now they’d retired and were grapping with thoughts like this: “You go from being 100 percent totally in control of your universe to just being another ...” “... just another person with a shopping cart.” That’s Fran Duskiewicz, 64, starting off and Margaret Holt, 72, finishing his words. Retirement, it turns out, can take a major toll on one’s psyche. The group, which includes 68-year-old Karl Williams and 73-year-old James Wedding, laugh in that “I hear ya” kind of a way. They, along with their retirement-rejecting colleague Frank Friend, an international management consultant, have gotten together at the SCORE office in Naples, where they mentor fledgling entrepreneurs, to talk about the shift from work to retirement.

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Such A Deal! Sarasota Magazine Cooper Levey-Baker l S25uch a Dea ! dining ns destinatio meal where a great or less. costs $15

Great food doesn’t have to come with a great big price tag. Think of the humble burrito. Properly constructed, it’s every bit as complex and thrilling as elegant presentations at white-tablecloth establishments, offering a perfect balance of flavors and textures: rich, fatty meat, a chewy tortilla, earthy beans, pungent onions, floral cilantro, bright lime, gooey cheese, starchy rice and blistering chilies. Or consider the lowly ramen noodle, the staple of cash-strapped college kids. When made by hand, simmered with pork in broth and seasoned with roasted seaweed, chili oil and other Asian ingredients, it becomes a bright star in a brilliant galaxy of flavors. We set out to find restaurants that specialize in such standout dishes, from sandwiches and pizza to burgers and Korean bibimbap, all for $15 or less. We scoured mom-and-pop eateries, diners, bodegas, strip malls, ethnic outposts, street corners, flea markets and more. Yes, we ate our way through some heartbreaking (and heartburn-inducing) disappointments, but we found plenty of places where satisfying and even supreme dishes draw in diners of every age and income level. Here are the 25 restaurants from Venice to Bradenton that made the final cut.

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Proof that how you cook a hot dog matters just as much as what goes inside the casing, Webber’s powers its ultra-hot grills with hardwood charcoal, which imparts a smoky note that you’ll never get from gas. That wood improves everything Webber’s cooks, but we’re most impressed with its log-thick kosher-style dog ($4.59), seared until the skin is crispy and black then tossed inside a basic bun. Hot dogs do not get any better.

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A pool hall situated across Old Main from the Manatee County courthouse, amid a flurry of ampersand-heavy law firms and cheekily named bail bondsmen, Council’s is best known for its cheeseburgers, which run $4.25 to $5.50. They are flawless—simple, thin, well-done patties outfitted with lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese and a toasted bun—and they hop off the Council’s grill in no time. Served on a small spread of white napkins, these burgers are juicy, fatty, crusty, salty. They are everything. SARASOTA MAGAZINE | JUNE 2016 49

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SILENT GENERATION 1925-1945 Experienced economic instability as a result of the Great Depression. Watched America become a global superpower during World War II.

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he generation gap doesn’t have to muddle your business growth. Knowing how to reach segments by age can help you better market yourself and your listings to connect with customers and boost your sales. Experiences and expertise from members of the Naples Area Board of REALTORS® and national consultants, along with research from the National Association of REALTORS®, can help you target everyone from the Silent Generation to Millennials. “You would market differently to each one of them,” says Dominic Pallini, broker/ owner of Vanderbilt Realty and president-elect of NABOR®.

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For most foreign buyers, trust is everything. Here are four tips for establishing trust with such customers.

Apps for Connecting With Chinese Buyers

1. CREATE A SUPPORT STRUCTURE. Mobilize a team of local professionals who are knowledgeable about Asia, its people and their customs and buying habits. “Have a lawyer who is used to working with Chinese clients and a CPA who understands how visas and taxes work,” suggests McFrederick. 2. CONSULT THE EXPERTS. Expect buyers to barrage you with questions, but if they stray into legal or professional areas outside your expertise,

don’t try to answer them all on your own. When selling into neighborhoods that have homeowners’ associations, for example, McFrederick typically calls upon the HOA or a knowledgeable attorney to help her answer her Chinese clients’ questions. 3. PAY ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS. The way names are positioned on property

deeds—and which names are included on those deeds—is a big deal for Chinese buyers. In fact, McFrederick says some buyers come to the closing table ready to make even more changes to the names on those deeds, typically to honor specific shareholders, as in the case of investment property.

4. DON’T BE LATE. This is a good rule for working with any customers. However, some

1. WeChat—China’s equivalent to the popular Whatsapp mobile app. web.wechat.com

“My goal is to work with even more Chinese clients in 2017 than I did in 2016.”

2. QQ—This is an older instant messaging app that’s best used for email marketing or leveraging fan and follower networks. https://en.mail.qq.com

—KELLY LEE MCFREDERICK

cultures are more punctual than others. Chinese buyers are extremely punctual, and they’ll expect you to be as well. Time zones, be darned, McFrederick says. Clients expect her to answer email, deliver electronic documents and report deal updates on their schedules. “You can’t wait until the middle of the day Eastern time to respond,” says McFrederick. “You have to address these issues morning, noon and night.”

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3. Sina Weibo—China’s microblogging site similar to Twitter, but with more functionality. weibo.com

1. Answer all their questions. No matter how mundane their 101 questions may seem to you, remember that what may be familiar to you is totally foreign to them. Even if your Chinese buyers are asking (what you consider to be) strange questions, answer them clearly and honestly.

3. Give them time and space. If your Chinese buyers remain hesitant, don’t push them to close the deal. Instead, find out what is holding them back or give them time and space to mull over the property. When reaching out, provide a useful piece of information each time.

2. Be a good listener. Instead of talking, listen to what they want. If need be, ask the questions that help you better understand what they’re looking for.

4. Offer your time and advice. If you think the Chinese buyer lacks sufficient information, advise him or her to do more research before proceeding with any investment.

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China is home to 710 million Internet users, with 92.5 percent of the population regularly using smartphones and mobile devices to go online, according to Juwai.com, a Chinese property portal. Here are three apps that break through the country’s “Great Firewall” and its convoluted social media landscape:

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helped a Chinese buyer acquire vacant land, purchase teardowns and sell new-construction homes. Now, she is helping another buyer scout possible locations for a boarding school for Chinese students who attend school in the Tampa Bay area. “My goal is to work with even more Chinese clients in 2017 than I did in 2016,” says McFrederick. If you’re interested in working with Chinese buyers and investors, as McFrederick is, here are her suggestions:

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With more Chinese buyers searching Florida for affordable properties than ever before, there are great opportunities for sales. The key is knowing the best ways of working with the potential buyers.

broker-associate with Premier Sotheby’s International Realty in St. Petersburg, Kelly Lee McFrederick, CIPS, is serious about connecting with potential buyers in China. That means reaching out to them through every possible channel: • She uses WeChat to communicate with her Chinese network. • She maintains a presence on the international social networking site Proxio. • She uses apps like Haiwaiyoujia (the first direct Chinese MLS system) to promote her properties. • She plans trade missions and attends global seminars at National Association of Realtors® meetings (where she collects business cards to add to her 9,000-strong database). • And she has become a board member of the Tampa chapter of the Asian Real Estate Association of America (AREAA) to expand her knowledge and connections in the market. Recently, that hard work paid off when McFrederick

“Four years ago, a Chinese investor would have more likely opted to acquire a large home in a prestigious Seattle neighborhood like Mercer Island, but today he would profit far more by acquiring housing or portfolios of homes in emerging neighborhoods like Thornton Park in Orlando.”—Don Ganguly, Rewired on Housingwire.com

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Ouch! When you nick your finger and reach for a bandage, you might be grasping for a product manufactured here in Sarasota. Aso LLC was founded in Sarasota in 1991 as part of the Aso Group, a Japanese company established in 1872 and now in its fourth generation of family ownership. Today, Aso’s 153,000-square-foot east Sarasota headquarters cranks out billions of wound-care products and oversees operations in the U.S., Mexico, the Philippines and Europe. Its emoji-decorated bandages are one of its most popular products. By Cooper Levey-Baker

Bandages are made from a polyethylene substrate that’s coated with a medical-grade adhesive at the company’s sister facility, Millennium Coating. The coated tape is perforated and cut and a non-stick pad is added.

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Of the 3.1 billion strips made by Aso each year, 280 million have some type of decoration, including popular movie characters and pop-culture phenomena.

Aso also manufactures wound-care products like medical tape and sterile pads, and even wart and corn removers.

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estled at the corner of 1st Street and Harbor Drive is an island treasure called Whidden’s Marina. It’s not the most glamorous place on the island, nor the prettiest, but if the walls could talk … oh, the history it has seen. Not a lot has changed on the property over the years, and the owners prefer to keep it that way. Some of the signs hanging on the walls have been there for decades. One in particular that says “Sity Hall” is not entirely inaccurate, because if it happens here on the island you will hear about it at Whidden’s first. Goats and orchids greet visitors to the marina, and the old storefront windows are full of products from years gone by. Some say if you lift up one of the old moonshine jugs on the window sills, you can still see a sticky ring where it was last sat down 50 years ago or more. While the antiques are not for sale, there is one little room in the back where you can buy photographs taken by Melissa Joiner Steyer, one of the girls of the family, and some T-shirts and craft items are for sale as well.You can still buy an ice-cold soda, bait and other fishing essentials, as well as marine-grade fuel, in the regular store. On the same property as the marina is the Gasparilla Island Maritime Museum, where you can find relics and articles pertaining to island history that go far, far back to the beginning of the fishing industry in Boca Grande. The museum is a showcase displaying

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‘I guess I never looked into the future, because I was always studying the past.’ This year they are celebrating George’s first Father’s Day as a retired educator: His last class at Miami Dade College is June 16. The lectures may be ending, but the tours will continue. George talked with INDULGE about life after retirement.

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top Miami fallacy falls under the umbrella of cultural capital. The city’s reputation for existing solely in the present without semblance of the past is simply inaccurate. And the foremost historian in town is eager to educate anyone who thinks otherwise. For Miami native Dr. Paul S. George, this comparatively young city is as fascinating as any major metropolis. Miami’s timeline is riddled with tales of pioneering people, cultural transformations, social triumphs and political debaucheries. George has devoted his career to narrating these stories to students at Miami Dade College,

where his 25-year tenure is something of a historical feat itself. His history classes at the school’s Wolfson Campus are packed each semester with enrolled, tuitionpaying students as well as lifelong learners of all ages who audit George’s lectures, soaking in his brilliant lessons about the place they call home. His many awardwinning books and articles also serve as a vital resource for a curious community. But some of George’s most compelling teaching comes outside the classroom. He leads more than 35 educational city tours from Monroe to Palm Beach counties through his role as HistoryMiami’s resident historian. One of George’s favorite excursions

in his repertoire is his annual Halloween tour of the Miami City Cemetery. Created in 1887, a year after the city was incorporated, the graveyard plays witness to Miami’s rich heritage, the final resting place of many of Miami’s founders (Burdine, Peacock, Duval, Sewell, Jackson, etc.) and George's parents, too. George brings the cemetery’s history to life, sometimes planting a former student behind Julia Tuttle’s tombstone to channel the ghost of the Mother of Miami. George still lives in the same Shenandoah home where he grew up in the ’50s and where he and his wife of 27 years, Laura, raised their three children: Paul Jr., 24; Matthew, 22; and Maryrose, 15.

Where will you focus your energy now? “I may be retiring from MDC, but I'm not retiring from what I do. It would drive me crazy to do that. I just want more time to write and give tours for HistoryMiami. I’ve been here [at the school] a quarter of a century, and it’s been really great; five classes per semester plus office hours. I just think it’s time.”

What did you love most about being a professor? “I love diving deeper into the topic and not being constrained by standardized curricula. My students have been so focused, and that’s really euphoric. When I was younger, I was much more intense. Now I’m like everyone’s uncle.” Do you think you’ve made a difference? “I get letters and emails all the time from people who took my class 15 or so years ago. Some of the letters are just so moving. They use the word ‘passion’ when they describe my teaching, and that makes me feel lucky. I’ve lived a very happy life.” WORDS BY GALENA MOSOVICH / PHOTOGRAPHY BY NICK GARCIA

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“Being a veteran in one word – patriotism. It means defending this country, as well as molding good and productive citizens. It is committing to improving the quality of life for everyone.” Mr. Poole has such a unique resume, serving as both a soldier and warden at the State of Florida women’s prison, a feat even Governor Chiles thought would prove impossible. After a lengthy phone conversation, Gov. Chiles was convinced Mr. Poole would be an asset to both roles and insisted he continue serving both seats. Today, although confined to a wheelchair he found himself in as a result of a 1995 car accident, Mr. Poole is serving at President of Vets Helping Vets and playing an active role in this community. At 79-years old, he is far from slowing down and continues to commit himself to this country and those in it.

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Will you miss doing what you’ve done for so many years? “I never imagined I’d be here for this long. It’s been wonderful here, but I’m feeling very nostalgic. I haven’t filled out the retirement form yet.”

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In January, a real estate attorney in Fernandina Beach wired nearly $600,000 to a fraudulent account after receiving an email she believed was from the seller. According to a police report, the transfer occurred just before the closing of the sale. However, the scam was not discovered until a week later, when the seller informed the attorney he had not received the proceeds. A similar scam was reported in the Tampa Bay area, where a closing agent received an email from the sales associate’s legitimate email address, requesting that $85,000 be sent via a wire transfer to a different account. Fortunately, the closing agent called the sales associate for confirmation and didn’t transfer the funds to the fraudulent account. How can a scam like this occur? “A criminal hacks into a real estate professional’s email account,” says Margy Grant, vice president and general

Tom Dixon, a commercial broker with Dixon Commercial Real Estate in Miami, advises customers to use their full name when buying real estate properties. About 20 years ago, his wife, Linda Dixon (no middle name or initial), purchased a one-acre parcel of land in Citrus County near Inverness and began paying the property taxes. “One year, we didn’t receive a real estate tax bill,” he says. “When we checked with the county, we found that the property had been sold by the estate of ‘Linda Faye Dixon’ by someone who had never owned the property. My wife, thankfully, is alive, but her property was stolen in an identity theft.” Eventually, Dixon was able to obtain a copy of the deed with the name of the new owner and title insurance company. “I was able to get the deed overturned, and the property restored to my wife,” he says. “Just be sure that when you obtain ownership of property, you use your full and complete name, first, middle and last.”

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