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Bands of Angels
Local groups of investors are forming all over Florida, providing funding to capital-starved emerging companies.
Craig Reilly turned to Winter Park Angels when he needed money to grow PlusOne Solutions. [Photo: Jeffrey Camp]
In April 2008, Craig Reilly was ready to take the next step. His Orlando firm, Plus-One Solutions, which provides background checks and other business services for companies that use independent contractors, was off the ground and had a major customer lined up. Reilly and his two partners had gotten the company that far with their own money but had begun looking for investors to fund more growth.
Florida Angel Funds
New World Angels, Boca Raton
Emergent Growth Fund, Gainesville
Go Beyond Network, Naples
Springboard Capital, Jacksonville
Gulf Coast Venture Forum, Naples
Catapult Capital, Orlando
Women Angels, Miami
Tamiami Angel Fund, Naples
MBF Healthcare Fund, Miami
Five months later, 19 members of the angel group had invested a total of $750,000. Reilly was able to expand even as the financial markets crashed and financing options evaporated for most other businesses. Plus-One Solutions has met its growth targets and is about to undergo another financing round to fund more expansion. The angels will participate again. "It's become even better than what we were investing in before," says Allan Keen, the angels representative on PlusOne's board.
The Winter Park investment group is just one of at least nine local angel bands that have emerged in the past several years, meeting formally or informally to pool money and invest in local startups. Two new angel funds formed in Florida in the last year with more than $1 million each to spend on both initial funding and later-stage expansion.
The angel trend has served several ends: For the investors — typically, high-net worth individuals who have retired with bushels of cash and time on their hands — the groups provide both an investing alternative and a creative outlet. Many angels ran successful business ventures themselves and typically have a net worth of at least $1 million or an annual salary of at least $200,000.
Angel investors, either as individuals or groups, typically look for entrepreneurs who want to build a company then sell it. For their investment, the angels get a share of ownership, looking for a return of as much as 30 times their initial investment within seven years.
"They love to use their expertise to create cool companies in their communities. It's a way to watch their investment and participate in it instead of reading about it. It can be an opportunity to mentor an entrepreneur or be on a company board," says Marianne Hudson, executive director of the Angel Capital Association, a national organization with five of the Florida groups as members.
Meanwhile, for Florida businesses, angel groups help to mitigate the traditional lack of capital for promising new businesses in the state. "For entrepreneurs, it's the smartest money you can get," says Rhys Williams, president and co-founder of New World Angels, a Boca Raton group. "You could be getting 40 investors committed to your success who use their networks to grow the company and who will help you find the next round of capital."
For entrepreneurs looking for angel money, each network operates in a slightly different way: Most meet regularly to hear presentations from new business owners. Some have a pool of money, while others meet as a group but leave the decision of whether to invest in a company up to individuals. Some charge entrepreneurs fees for making presentations or just applying for consideration. Getting an official introduction to the group by an angel member is a huge plus, but most solicit ideas via the group's website. A few of Florida's angel groups that have come across a high-potential company have engaged in angel group syndication, a practice that allows groups to pool their funds to support larger investments.
In Florida, the oldest angel investment fund is in Jacksonville. Springboard Capital has invested in 12 startup companies over the last decade. The group began informally, a cadre of friends talking deals over sandwiches, and later organized as a fund when 45 members put up at least $50,000 each. The group formed a second fund a few years later. "That fund probably will make its final investment this quarter and is planning the formation of their next fund," says Alan Rossiter, Springboard's administrative partner.
Springboard funds haven't had any big hits — yet. Rossiter says it normally invests between $350,000 and $800,000 in each of its companies. It has exited two of its 12 investments; Rossiter would not disclose its rate of return. Three of its investments failed. The fund still owns equity in eight companies, including AxoGen, a nerve regeneration company, and Grooveshark, an online music service.
"If you are an angel," says Rossiter, "you have to have the tolerance. Our expectation of failure rate is 50%. Our financial return on a fund is heavily skewed by a few strong companies."
For the entrepreneurs, taking on angel partners creates some risk, too — sometimes, in the form of a dozen or more new business partners, each with his or her own motivation, level of interest and biases. Reilly says he's gotten good advice and contacts from his angels but adds that some of his peers have had a different experience. "I hear horror stories about angel investors coming in who don't have experience in your sector of the business world and want to get involved in the day-to-day," Reilly says.
For the most part, angels like to invest in companies whose business they know something about. In Orlando, for example, Catapult Capital has tapped into breakthrough technologies and entrepreneurial deals vetted by the University of Central Florida venture lab and Rollins College. A new fund in southwest Florida, Tamiami Angel Fund, has members with varied backgrounds and wants early-stage, pre-revenue companies with evidence of customer demand or businesses looking to expand.
At least two of the angel groups in Florida seek women-owned business. Go Beyond Network in Naples and Women Angels in Miami, both founded by women, see opportunity in this fast-growing sector. Barbara Boxer, founder of Women Angels, says the economic downturn has proved to be a great time for angel groups with cash to spend. "We are seeing better deals coming to us, in better terms for us because money is so tight."
Others funds prefer to invest?in one industry. A group of Miami angels led by healthcare entrepreneur Mike Fernandez formed the $20-million MBF Healthcare Fund aimed at investing in healthcare startups in Florida.
Sean Christiansen of Catapult Capital in Orlando says his angel group wants to raise awareness that the groups are a viable, local financing source: "Historically, Florida has lost companies because they went to venture capital firms who prefer local businesses, and most of those firms were not in Florida."
These days, startups most attractive to angels tend to be in information technology, web 2.0 and social media, life sciences, medical devices and medical-related software. Williams, of New World Angels, says the most important factor for angels is not the industry sector but the presence of smart managers with experience building a business. "A good manager will find a good enough plan and know how to execute it. That's what angels are looking for."


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I am pretty new to jQuery but so far I love it. I am working on a personal portfolio site, the links in my menu use the .load() method to load the content of the links target into my content div. Here is the function I used :
//Loads the content of the link into the div $("a").click(function(ev){ ev.preventDefault(); var link = $(this).attr("href"); $("#content").load(link); } });
It works fine... at first. However after I have been on the site for awhile and have clicked links a few times it seems to slow way down, and can get sort of.. choppy, and strage flicking from one page to another.
I noticed that when I have Firebug open and am clicking the links it is making multiple AJAX calls with each click. I can see this in the console. It seems that the number of calls increases exponetially - 2 for the first click, 4 for the next, 8 for the next and so on. What gets written to the console is :
GET http://localhost/Portfolio/javascript.js 200 OK 4ms GET http://localhost/Portfolio/filename.php 200 OK 44ms
The javascript file is, of course, the file with the function in it, and filename is whatever the name of the file the link I click is going to. It seems like half the calls are to the Javascript file and half to the links target, that is if there are 8 made then 4 are to the javascript file and 4 to the php file.
I am sort of at a loss for why this is happening here. Any advice or ideas anyone has as to why this is happening would be very much appreciated. Thanks very much.
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12 oz fresh raspberries
4 large black plums, finely chopped
3 tablespoons powdered pectin*
2 cups sugar
Use a potato masher to gently mash the raspberries. It should yield 1 cup crushed raspberries. Repeat with the plums to yield 2 1/4 cups.
Evenly sprinkle the bottom of the Ball Jam Maker with the pectin. Spoon the fruit in a relatively even layer over the pectin. Press the jam button. You will hear a beep at 4 minutes. Sprinkle the sugar over the fruit mixture while the machine is still running. Cover and let it do its thing until it beeps again. Press the cancel button and unplug the machine. If not using a Ball Jam Maker, make the jam on the stovetop using the traditional method as seen in this recipe.
Ladle the jam into prepared jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace. Process in the hot water bath for 10 minutes.
Yield: about 4 8-oz jars. (I was just slightly under so I canned 3 8-oz, 1 4-oz and had a bit leftover that I just ate)
*I recommend these jars of "flex" batch pectin. 3 tablespoons equals 1/2 of a pouch of boxed pectin.
Note: A great source for canning information is the Blue Book guide to preserving. I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books and equipment I find useful.


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Our Business and Finance team consists of approximately 1,300 women and men who
provide "behind-the-scenes" support for UTMB's health system, educational programs
and research enterprise.
We are the people who hire and train staff, process invoices and build budgets,
renovate and repair facilities, build and clean our hospitals and clinics, keep
computers running, provide hot meals to patients and employees, advertise our programs
and services, pay our employees and our vendors…basically, all of the support functions
that keep UTMB running.
We developed this website for a number of reasons. First, the satisfaction surveys
we conducted in December 2009 indicated our customers wanted greater accessibility,
better communication and improved responsiveness. This new site is the first in
a series of actions we'll be implementing to respond to customer needs and improve
our services in each of our areas.
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UTMB's goals. We want you to know who we are and what we do. We hope this site will
make it easier for you to locate, access and understand Business and Finance operations.
Since we welcome input on how to continuously improve, this website will also be
a work in progress that will evolve and expand over time to meet the needs of the
diverse communities we serve. Whether you are a patient, faculty member, student,
alumni, vendor or colleague, we are pleased to be of service to you.
Thanks for your support.
Under the direction of Mike Shriner, AIA, MBA,
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It's getting to be that most wonderful time of the year…
And over at Studio Chic we'll be grabbing a nice piece of pumpkin pie and heading to our easy chair to start a little Holiday Knitting!
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text: Between our Baltimore and Washington, DC, venues, more than 17,500 animals representing 900 species call the National Aquarium home. There are constantly changes, additions, and more going on behind the scenes that our guests may not notice during their visit. We want to share these fun updates with our community so we're starting a weekly Animal Update post! Every Friday we'll be sharing animal news and updates with you through our blog, WATERlog! Below are this week's Animal Updates--enjoy! Gouldian Finch Chicks Our aviculture staff is currently caring for two young gouldian finches that fell from their nest. Although the young finches are off-exhibit being cared for by our staff, visitors can see adult gouldian finches in our Animal Planet Australia: Wild Extremes exhibit. Lionfish in DC We have added six red lionfish to our Invasive Species exhibit at our Washington, DC, venue. These alien invaders were removed from our native reefs in the Florida Keys. Lionfish are often still imported from the Indo-Pacific in huge numbers, but we are doing our part to protect native reefs. Red-Capped Cardinal Two beautiful red-capped cardinals (one male and one female) have been introduced into our Upland Tropical Rain Forest exhibit. So far, the pair has been staying close to their introduction cage, but they can sometimes be seen sitting around the cecropia tree. New Fish in Atlantic Coral Reef Exhibit We have added approximately 75 small reef fish to our Atlantic Coral Reef exhibit! These additions include: creole wrasse, tobacco fish, orange-spotted filefish, Spanish hogfish, bicolor damsels, barred hamlets, harlequin bass, highhats, French grunts, smallmouth grunts, indigo hamlets, a blue angel, and a French angel. Be sure to check back every Friday to find out what's happening! Tags: animal-update-2 Categories: Animals, News Previous Post Next Post


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For some people, cycling is a healthy way to get around. For others, it's a thinly-veiled excuse to act like a self-righteous, affronted jackass as much as possible. I think this Chicago woman who lashed out a car commercial shoot partially in a bike lane falls into the latter camp. Worse, she did it in the lamest way possible.
I'm not exactly sure what it is about putting someone on a bicycle that causes the parts of the brain responsible for secreting agressiveselfrighteousatonin to go nuts, but it seems to happen. Maybe it's connected to the inner-ear balance mechanism?
Photographer Brad Sillars says he was helping out with a commercial shoot for an unnamed Teutonic luxury car maker when this happened:
I was assisting my good friend Jeremy Cliff yesterday on a shoot for a well-known German premium car maker. We were shooting on the lakeside bike trail in Chicago near North ave beach. We had a permit to be there and even had a CPD escort. We were shooting an angle that had us taking up a good bit of one of the bike lanes, but not so much that most people couldn't pass through with ease.
Anyways, one very special lady decided to ride past and proclaim "geeze you assholes are blocking the whole lane??" To which we replied "we have a permit to do so, I hope you have a great day. Watch out for the puddles!"
We carry on our business but some time later this woman returns and decides to throw the water from her bottle out on us, our gear, and the 2015 demo car as she rides passed. Little did she know that our police escort was watching and jumped out of his car and immediately detained her. She about shit her pants as the officer threatened to have her arrested and in jail over night. He eventually let her go after the humiliation, but not before I snapped some pics.
For me, the infuriating thing here is not the overblown rage over what seems to be, at best, a pretty minor inconvenience, but rather the half-assedness of the attack. Water? From your bike's little drinking bottle? Come on, lady. If you want to be the dickhead, perpetually angry cyclist stereotype, do it right! There must have been dog crap around you could have flung, or at least commit and fling yourself on the hood, maybe yanking off a wiper or grille badge or something.
What was she expecting to happen? A few drops would moisten the car, which would then burst into green flame as the whole crew collapsed, screaming "Why? Why? Why did we partially block this bike lane for a little while? Forgive us!" and then they'd break down, sobbing, and bodily carry the woman and her bike to her destination, whereupon they'd pledge their lives to creating a better culture for cyclists globally.
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With the end goal of keeping military service members and their families active and healthy, the Joining Forces initiative, started by first lady Michelle Obama in April 2011, partnered with the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) to create a Joining Forces network of health clubs who offer free memberships for six months. The initiative also partnered with the American Council on Exercise (ACE) to offer personal training services and fitness instruction to family members of actively deployed reservists and National Guard members.
So far, the initiatives have resulted in donations of more than 100,000 health club memberships and more than 110,000 hours of personal training, according to the groups. As of press time, Maryland-based Merritt Athletic Clubs is the leader in offering personal training hours pledged with 43,200 hours, which is almost half the hours pledged so far.
The initiatives support military families who do not live on military bases, so they have had no impact on usage at military base fitness centers, according to Lt. Comdr. Kate Meadows, Department of Defense spokesperson.
"Military families live in every zip code across the country," Meadows says. "More than 70 percent of military families live off base. They live in communities which are supporting our military families every single day in real and meaningful ways. This community involvement and nationwide commitment has a positive impact on the citizens of our country who have shouldered the burden of a decade of war."
Roberta Kruse-Fordham, general manager at Sports, Fitness & Fun, Florida, NY, was one of the first club operators to sign up to offer free memberships through the Joining Forces network when it started in June 2011. Kruse-Fordham has a 25-year-old son in the Navy who has been deployed five times in six years.
"Other club owners and general managers should know that these people out there are our family," Kruse-Fordham says. "So I wanted to do whatever I could on a club level to help everybody else's family, and they deserve it because they are putting their life on the line."
About 20 people have signed up for free memberships at Sports, Fitness & Fun within the past year. Kruse-Fordham marketed the initiative by sending press releases to local newspapers, posting about it on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, and educating her staff about the program so they could promote it.
"It's really a matter of the club owners and general managers saying this is important and wanting to do something good in their community or the nation," Kruse-Fordham says. "Even though we are local, what we are doing not only affects the people in our community, it affects their whole families, [some of whom] could be in Afghanistan or Iraq. It is more than just home based—it is an initiative that spreads worldwide."
Lisa Marulanda took Sports, Fitness & Fun up on its offer after her daughter was deployed to Afghanistan a year and a half ago. Marulanda says the program has helped her family, which includes two other children, stay fit and grow closer.
"It is a stress release because dealing with my daughter being in Afghanistan is nerve-racking," Marulanda says. "There's a constant reminder that she is in danger, so being able to go to the gym was a nice little getaway that allowed me to be with my other children and keep the family together."
Courtney Eberhardt, whose husband was deployed in November, also accepted the offer at Sports, Fitness & Fun. Kruse-Fordham recalls the day she gave Eberhardt, who has two young daughters, a six-month membership after her husband deployed for the third time.
"She put her head in her hands, and she was in tears," Kruse-Fordham recalls. "She has two small kids and said she could never afford to be here on her own. I told her, 'Today, the doors are wide open for you,' and she has been there almost every day."
Eberhardt enrolled her daughters in the gymnastics program at the facility. Sometimes, they go to the child care area while she works out.
"I can't even tell you about the stress level of my husband being away and dealing with my two children," Eberhardt says. "Working out has made me relieve the stress and deal with the everyday emotions of this deployment. Keeping busy is very important, and the gym has helped a tremendous amount to keep my daughters' minds occupied and keeping them fit and healthy."
Although she has access to military fitness centers, Eberhardt prefers to work out at Sports, Fitness & Fun because it is closer to her home and it has a family atmosphere, she says. She even purchased a membership after her free membership ran out.
"Financially, it helped tremendously to be able to have that relief for six months," she says. "I pray that more people in the military know about it and contact their local gym to find out about it. It's a stress reliever that really saved me mentally and physically."
The other part of the Joining Forces initiative involves the offer of personal training. During the past year, Carol Togie has exceeded the 20 hours of free training that she pledged even though she has received just three inquiries about it. Togie, an ACE-certified personal trainer, also is a full-time nurse for TriWest Healthcare Alliance, the managed care support contractor that supplies administrative management of health care for the military.
Togie's first client was Catherine Mayberry, a 27-year-old Air Force Reservist, who works full-time as a peer navigator and is working on her master's degree. After returning from a deployment last year, Mayberry turned to Togie to help her pass her Air Force physical fitness test.
"If she didn't pass that test, she would not be able to re-enlist in the Air Force Reserves," Togie says. "I think having me train her provided her some focus and direction. Sometimes, you just need someone else to coach you along and keep you accountable. Having a commitment to meet with me one or two times a week allowed her to be committed to that time and date and get it done. That was a great thing to be able to help someone with."
Mayberry says not only was it important to have someone hold her accountable, but Togie also offered creative and new ideas that made training more exciting and less routine. Togie helped her overcome hesitations while working out, and in return lifted a barrier that had always held Mayberry back.
"Being able to identify why I was holding back, overcome it and have somebody to celebrate the success with has been hugely important and has sent me on a different trajectory," Mayberry says. "Now, I am training for a triathlon, which I never would have done before."
Although clubs such as Sports, Fitness & Fun and trainers such as Togie are eager to donate their time and facilities to the Joining Forces program, the initiative has a long way to go before hitting the one million personal training hours goal set by ACE.


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Weekend Picks - May 24, 2012
Hot Stuff
What: Be the first to see the new summer capsule collection by Matt Bruening and Wonderland Denim's Jess Shedlock at Local Motion Surf into Summer's official after party and fashion show. Roam Hawaii and Acacia Swimwear also showcase hot new looks.
When: Sunday, 10 p.m.
Where: M (formerly The Standard), 500 Ala Moana Blvd.
Details: E-mail Matt Bruening or Wonderland Denim for free cover or pay $10 at the door.
Share the Health
What: Scoop up 35 of Down to Earth's best-selling items for a whopping 35 percent off. You won't find a better deal on organic, all-natural foods than at this kamaaina health food chain's special anniversary sale. Every item can create healthy and tasty meal - just use these recipes as a guide.
When: Tomorrow only
Where: Down to Earth's five stores in Honolulu, Kailua, Pearlridge, Kapolei and Kahului. Click here for store locations and hours.
Details: Don't forget to "Like" Down to Earth's Facebook page by midnight tonight for a chance to win a $350 gift card.
Child's Play
What: Celebrate Julia Child's 100th birthday with a month-long culinary series featuring a James Beard Foundation gourmet French dinner, "Better with Butter" cooking classes and breakfast buffets, and a selection of Child's own recipes, served nightly. Bon appetit!
When: August
Where: The Kahala Hotel and Resort, 5000 Kahala Ave.
Details: Click here for a full list of events and prices. To make a reservation, call (808) 739-8760 or e-mail the hotel.
Modern Times
What: Spend Memorial Day weekend at The Modern Honolulu. On Friday, catch a fashion show by Roberta Oaks at Lujuria's VIP reception in the Lobby Bar. Then on Saturday, rock out to local bands The Throwdowns and Pimpbot for Mele Mei's Island Rock Pool Party on the Sunrise pool deck.
When: Friday, 8:30-9:30 p.m. (Lujuria featuring Roberta Oaks)
Saturday, 6-9 p.m. (Island Rock Pool Party)
Where: The Modern Honolulu, 1775 Ala Moana Blvd.
Details: RSVP on Addiction Nightclub's Facebook page for free cover to Lujuria or pay $10 at the door. Island Rock Pool Party, $25 per person, call (808) 943-5814.
Historic Event
What: Play treasure hunter at Waioli Tea Room's vintage sale. Browse through antique furniture, kitchenware, jewelry and more. Breakfast and lunch are available Saturday, so feel free to relax with a cup of tea and guava and berry french toast after you shop.
When: Tomorrow, 5-9 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Where: Waioli Tea Room, 2950 Manoa Rd.
Details: Free admission and parking.
And We're Back
What: Two stores celebrate grand re-openings this weekend. On Saturday, stop by T&C Surf's newly renovated Ala Moana store for games, giveaways and shopping specials. Then on Sunday, head over to Super Citizen for wine, pupus and in-store specials.
When: Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (T&C Surf Ala Moana)
Sunday, 5-7 p.m. (Super Citizen)
Where: T&C Surf, Ala Moana Center, and Super Citizen, Kahala Mall
Details: At T&C Ala Moana, buy any Kiki Beach jewelry and get a free Aloha bead bracelet. Enter T&C's Instagram contest for a chance to win a $300 gift card. At Super Citizen, get 15 percent off select gifts and apparel, and free gift with purchase while supplies last.


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While the Somali government elected in 2012 attempted to gain more control and improve security, attacks on journalists continued. At least five reporters were attacked by militia groups loosely connected to the government, according to news reports. CPJ documented four journalists killed in direct relation to their work in Somalia, an improvement from 2012, which was the deadliest year on record with 12 journalists killed. In early 2013, the prime minister created a task force to investigate cases of killed journalists, but little had been done by the end of the year. The international community condemned serious flaws in the Somali justice system after a court imprisoned freelance journalist Abdiaziz Abdinuur for 66 days for interviewing the victim of an alleged rape who claimed security forces were the perpetrators. The staff of a critical daily in the semi-autonomous region of Somaliland was harassed over the year: The director was attacked, the paper temporarily suspended in June and again indefinitely in December, and the editor and director briefly jailed on defamation charges. The charges were later dropped. A new media law considered by local journalists as progressive was passed in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in December.
At least four journalists and one media worker were killed in direct relation to their work in 2013, according to CPJ research. The numbers are an improvement from 2012, which was the deadliest year in Somalia recorded by CPJ.
For the fourth year in a row, Somalia ranks as the second worst nation in the world in combating deadly anti-press violence, according to CPJ's Impunity Index. The index calculates unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population.
1. Iraq
2. Somalia
3. Philippines
4. Sri Lanka
5. Colombia
6. Afghanistan
7. Mexico
8. Pakistan
9. Russia
10. Brazil
11. Nigeria
12. India
The government of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland suspended five broadcasters based in the region and three other stations based outside.
March 13, 2013
|Puntland authorities ban the airing of programs from three radio stations--Radio Ergo, Bar-Kulan, and Radio Hirad--which are based outside Puntland. No explanation was given for the ban, which was lifted on September 27.
April 3, 2013
|The Puntland government suspends three stations--Radio Daljir, Radio Codka Nabadda (Voice of Peace), and 1 Nation Radio--for one day after the stations fail to comply with an earlier order banning programs aired from three outside stations.
August 18, 2013
|Puntland authorities suspend Somali National Television, the national broadcaster for the central Somali government in Mogadishu, for 12 days after a rift over donor aid. The government of the semi-autonomous republic of Puntland accused the Federal Republic of Somalia of misusing donor funds originally meant for Puntland.
September 21, 2013
|The Puntland government suspends Universal TV for 12 days for not covering a presidential speech.
Somalia ranks second among countries from which the most journalists flee, according to CPJ research.


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Grading Requirements
It is essential that D.C.s grade riders appropriately and that members understand what considerations are made before grading.
The PCAV Handbook of By-laws grading rules and the Grading Guidelines (download below) must be read to gain the necessary understanding of what is required.
Click here for Grading Guidelines 2017


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A 28-year-old smokejumper died while fighting a lightning-sparked fire in northern California.
Thousands of lightning strikes have sparked dozens of fires in Northern California. Cal Fire reports more than 8,000 lightning strikes in the past 48 hours.
Two of the 50 fires caused in the lightning storm happened in Modoc National Forest.
U.S. & World
Luke Sheehy, of Susanville, was among the Redding-based California Smokejumpers battling one of those fires Monday afternoon when he was struck by part of a falling tree.
He was pronounced dead at a hospital about 15 miles away, in Alturas according to Fire Information Officer Stanton Florea.
U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell says the agency will review the circumstances surrounding the death.
As of Tuesday afternoon, all of the fires had been contained. The image below from Cal Fire shows the locations of the lightning strikes.
Smokejumpers are firefighters who parachute into remote areas from airplanes to fight fires on the ground.
They often use chainsaws and hand tools to create a fuel break to stop the spread of fire.
Once the fire is out, they may be asked to hitch a ride out of the area by heliopter or hike with their equipment to a nearby pickup point.


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
Time for some overclocking of the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition and running the tests again to see what hashrate increase can we expect from the GPU with the increased operating frequencies. The Founders Edition cards are somewhat limited in the max power you can get by the presence of only one 8-pin PCI-E power, default TDP limit of 180W and a Power Limiter that allows for just 20% increase over the default TDP (216W max TDP). We already know that the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 GPUs are handling quite well overclocking and you can squeeze a lot more from them if you are not limited and don't care than much about the power usage. Unfortunately for some more serious overclocking you will have to wait for the GTX 1080 cards that come with custom cooling solutions form Nvidia's partners that will allow for more serious overclocking. Meanwhile we are pushing the GTX 1080 Founders Edition to what it can do without touching the core voltage and doing some benchmarks with: Power Limit + 20%, Core Clock + 240 MHs, Memory Clock + 125 MHs, the max settings that are running stable for 24/7 mining on our test card and the results are below.
As you can see from the table of hashrate results with the stock settings and the overclocked GTX 1080 the average performance increase we are getting is about 12%. A result that is not bad, but a more serious overclock can help us get even more hashrate from the GPU, unfortunately making it less attractive in terms of hashrate per watt. The problem with low performance for Neoscrypt and not that great for Lyra2RE still remain and unlike with Ethereum where we see some, though not enough, performance boost testing under Windows 10, with these two algorithms Windows 10 does not help, so they really need GPU specific optimizations to max out performance unlike the other algos that already scale pretty well on the GTX 1080. Other algorithms also do not show any significant difference in results between Windows 7 and Windows 10, so no need to upgrade or downgrade your OS. Of course for Ethereum mining on GTX 1080 or GTX 1070 you would still need to go for Linux for the best possible performance as still Windows hashrate is not satisfactory at all.
Time for a quick look at the power usage of the GeForce GTX 1080, the reference design from Nvidia that has a TDP of 180W set by the manufacturer, making it pretty energy efficient for the performance it provides for crypto currency mining. We are checking the situation with the different algorithms apart from Ethereum, because we already know that the GTX 1080 is far from great choice for Ethereum mining.
The GTX 1080 Founders Edition TDP limit of 180 Watt has a power limiter that can give you up to extra 20% increase, moving the slider to increase the maximum available power to be used by the GPU. This can help you get some extra hashrate for the algorithms that max out the 180 Watt TDP of the GPU and as you can see these are actually quite a few. The non reference versions of GTX 1080 should come with higher TDP limits and even higher factory clocks, so they should be able to achieve even more performance as they will be able to keep higher boost frequency of the GPU while mining. Then again you might also want to lower the power limit in order to reduce the power usage and get an even better hashrate per Watt of power used, but for that you might have to also play with the voltage of the GPU for best results and also the clocks.
In the table above you can see that Neoscrypt and Lyra2Re are far from maxing out the TDP of the GTX 1080, the reason for that is that they do not perform that well in terms of hashrate, so some optimizations for them might help give you better performance. Other than that the power usage is high and the hashrate you get is seriously increased as compared to the previous generation of Nvidia GPUs, so performance per Watt for the GTX 1080 is actually great in most algorithms for crypto mining.
We continue our series of tests of the new Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition (reference design) for crypto currency mining after yesterday we have checked the situation for mining Ethereum with the new Pascal GPUs and have seen the not so great results. Ethereum and the Dagger-Hashimoto algorithm it uses is still doing better on AMD GPUs, but Ehereum mining is set to end at some point with the altcoin switching to PoS only and the forks that use the same algorithm are not yet providing a real alternative. So with the growing difficulty and the switch to PoS at some point in probably less than a year you should also be interested in how the GTX 1080 performs in other new GPU mineable algorithms as well as in the more popular ones that. This is the reason we are now going to compare the GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition with GTX 980 Ti and GTX 970 to see the difference in terms of performance in other algorithms as well. As you will probably see the GTX 1080 does provide a nice performance boost compared to the two other older generation alternatives, but with its currently high price even the power saving does not make it great option for building multi-GPU mining rigs for the moment. The more interestingly priced GTX 1070 will most likely be the better choice for building 6 GPU mining rigs succeeding the GTX 970 as the best Nvidia-based GPU for crypto mining, though we are yet to test the 1070 in order to confirm that.
The ccminer forks we have used for testing:
– Blakecoin (Blake256-8rounds), Decred (Blake256-14rounds), Vcash (Blake256-8rounds) ccminer
– Lyra2REv2 ccminer
– X11evo ccminer
– All other algorithms
Tests were done under Windows 7 with already existing ccMiner releases that are not compiled with CUDA 8.0 and with support for Compute 6.1 that the GTX 1080 uses, though without optimizations specific for GTX 1080 or the Pascal architecture in general we are probably not going to see much of a difference. Anyway, we do have planned to do additional testing comparing the difference in terms of performance with existing ccMiner forks compiled with CUDA 8.0 and Compute 6.1 against the results here achieved with CUDA 6.5/7.5 and Compute 5.2 releases that were tested here.
We had almost problem-free experience testing the above algorithms on the GTX 1080, though there are some things that we need to note. For example the Nist5 default intensity (21?) was crashing the miner, so tested with 20 where it was working fine. The very low Neoscrypt performance on the GTX 1080 is because the algorithm probably needs special optimizations to take advantage of the GPU. The Lyra2RE performance was not that much faster on the GTX 1080 as compared to GTX 980 Ti, so here some optimizations will most likely result in increased performance. Note that we have also tested X11, though now that is has moved to the ASIC phase you probably won't want to GPU mine it anyway.
What is clearly seen from the comparison above is that the new GTX 1080 performs about twice as fast (on average) than a single GTX 970 and we are using Gigabyte Windoforce 970 OC GPU comparing to stock 980 Ti and GTX 1080. The GTX 1080 uses about the same power as a single GTX 970, but offers twice the performance, but the real issue here is the price at the moment. If the GTX 1080 was about twice the price of GTX 970 it might've been an interesting option for miners that are currently using Nvidia GTX 970 mining rigs, but it is unfortunately more like 2.5 and not two times. Comparing the GTX 1080 to the GTX 980 Ti shows an average performance advantage of almost 50% in favor of the GTX 1080, with not that great price difference between the two cards (the GTX 1080 is about 30% more expensive). So definitely no point in going for GTX 980 Ti instead of GTX 1080 for mining, though still both cards are not the best choice for multi-GPU mining rigs, then again if you are buying just a single GPU for gaming and want to also mine with it when not gaming the GTX 1080 might be much more interesting that for use on multi-GPU mining rigs.


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Musicians' Nearly Career-Ending Stunts
October 3 marks the 20th anniversary of Irish singer Sinead O'Connor tearing up a picture of the Pope during her 1992 "Saturday Night Live" performance. Even 20 years later, it is seen as the moment that defined O'Connor's career and marked its near-demise. From antics on national television to exposed dirty secrets, musicians
have certainly been known to get caught up in scandals, outbursts, and
just superbad performances. Here are some of those career-threatening events that completely--or almost completely--ruined these music stars' reputations. -- By Tiffany Lee


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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Open bugs in Rockbox
Open bugs in Rockbox
From: <tracker_at_rockbox.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 00:00:01 +0100
Flyspray contains 252 open bugs:
0 days old: Sansa Clip+ freezes up when selecting any theme file (wps, fms, sbs)
0 days old: Rockbox access to /.rockbox/fonts after usb_enable(true)
1 days old: Car adapter mode pause and unpause causes WPS to overwrite other screens
2 days old: Audio crackling problem on Fuze v2
4 days old: ROLO broken on Nano 2G
5 days old: Album art not displaying correctly on iAudio x5, verk dark
5 days old: problems with buflib_compact()
8 days old: r31037 crashes device and sim after leaving FM Radio and resuming playback
13 days old: Annoying "click" before track restarts
15 days old: PP502x cpucache_invalidate() causes memory corruption
16 days old: hardware clicker improvements
20 days old: AMSv1 bootloader USB mode does not attach since r30548
22 days old: e200v2 - mkamsboot cannot patch bootloader since r30937
25 days old: FLAC 32 bits 96khz surround 5.1 file not playing
26 days old: Unneeded mass storage accesses with dircache off
27 days old: Sansa e280v2 shutting down when connected to PC
27 days old: m4a files skip in mid playback. always same point, files are not corrupt.
31 days old: Pause (and resume) on headphone unplug not working on iPod Nano 1G anymore
31 days old: Sansa Clip Zip incorrect function on "Back" button
36 days old: Clipv2 - Rockbox duplicates samples - effectively halves samplerate
39 days old: unable to view filelist when renaming folder in iPod 5.5G
41 days old: Sansa Clip+: PANIC occurred when dircache is enabled
42 days old: APE with CUEsheet playback issues
44 days old: iPod 3g firewire handling prevents charging whilst running rockbox
54 days old: Bluetooth dongle interface faulty for ipod video color 30GB (Sennheiser BTD300i, Kokai i10s)
54 days old: Clip+ have noise when play .ape files
57 days old: software hold switch doesn't work properly on clip+
61 days old: Sansa Fuze V2 Screen Goes Black in while using Rockbox?!
62 days old: Android: Unable to resume playback after pausing/closing the app.
67 days old: No SD card in current build
69 days old: Sansa Clip+ CPU/LCD noise while recording
75 days old: Error ATA -82 I can not enter my rockbox device
76 days old: Android: yesno popup causes freeze on some situation
87 days old: skinned lists tags needs adding to the manual
95 days old: Playback freezes when using big speed or pitch change
96 days old: pdbox - Buffer access out-of-bounds: aiffhdr.a_samprate
96 days old: Voice files created but don't match voice prompts with items in menu
97 days old: Can't set time of day clock on mrobe mr500i
99 days old: Upside down becomes backward on H10 display
104 days old: WPS/FMS string space bug introduced by r30302
104 days old: Cover art does not change when using playlist
111 days old: Database fails to commit on Fuze v2 fresh SVN build
116 days old: AAC files from BBC won't play on Clip+
118 days old: it freezes on the 'saving tagcache' process
121 days old: Dircache shuts down when closing a file that was opened prior to reloading the dircache
127 days old: rockboxdev.sh fails if tcsh is shell
127 days old: Sansa Clip v2 FLAC playback skips regularly
127 days old: channel configuration and playback speed
129 days old: Sound garbled on wma tracks
146 days old: Fuze V1 locking when transferring files Rockbox 3.9
149 days old: Wake Up Alarm to Recording Screen Goes to FM on Nano 1g
153 days old: Griffin iFM Radio Receiver for iPod (5th Gen) NOT Detected.
155 days old: Rockbox crashes after initializing database
160 days old: wrong offset on bookmark
170 days old: APE codec random loud noise during playback
191 days old: Duplicate database entries
194 days old: Crossfade On Manual Track Change In Shuffle Only Mode of Crossfade
203 days old: Data abort when queuing all songs from an artist with only one song
206 days old: iPod 3G screen flickers after boot and resuming playback with nothing to resume, no warning
206 days old: Rockbox Utility V1.2.10 doesn't let me create voice files
211 days old: FM Radio Screen Lines Don't Scroll
227 days old: Autoresume feature can start from wrong offset due to resurrection of old runtime stats
230 days old: Load Last Bookmark Broken Sanza Fuse v2
236 days old: Sansa Fuze randomly unmounts on OSX
239 days old: Building rbspeex is broken on Cygwin
239 days old: Ticking noise in the radio screen
239 days old: WPS on startup doesn't work on iPod Video
241 days old: Sansa Clip+ cracking noise in left channel
246 days old: Ipod 5.5g Freezes
249 days old: disktidy crashes in the simulator
250 days old: iPod Nano 2G Freezing on USB / Charging
250 days old: Rockbox have the channel "left-side-right" when playing back
254 days old: iaudio m3: display/screen goes blank after a while and never recovers
256 days old: random_folder_advance_config and symbolic links
263 days old: Scrollwheel and Textviewer Idle Timeout
264 days old: Empty menus lead to NULL pointer access
265 days old: Android: OGG, SPX, MP3 playback problem
267 days old: Gigabeat F20 touchpad unusable with high sensitivity
268 days old: Inserting microsd during boot up freezes rockcbox on Clip+
269 days old: Album Art corrupted since 3.8 with some WPS
270 days old: screendump problems caused by r29445
274 days old: Shopper manual entry is totally useless
277 days old: WMA Pro decoding fails for Winamp generated files, probably ASF related
277 days old: touchregion changes arent in the manual
282 days old: Player and Filetransfer freeze during USB file transfer
283 days old: Controls lock up after going back from another application when a native Android screen is shown
283 days old: IPOD 5G RB 3.7.1 issue with ONKYO DS-A1
290 days old: EQ settings changed via Touchscreen setting_inc & setting_dec are not reflected in the sound output
303 days old: No SD-Card support in USB mode after boot
304 days old: iPod nano 2g charger detection
305 days old: Background noise with Sansa ClipV2
307 days old: mpeg video player bug
310 days old: Annoying flash memory access noise with Sansa Clip+
312 days old: Android does not handle keypresses correctly - potential fix but I can't java
322 days old: Worse sound during the recording in FM Radio
322 days old: Filesystem corruption after entering USB mode
325 days old: Mikmod segfaults when playing a directory which contains a mod file
336 days old: clip+: sound messes up (popping) with certain songs
337 days old: Rockbox tries to open files "-.kbd", "-.sbs" and "-.rsbs"
341 days old: Cowon D2+ touchscreen: coord distortions at the edges
347 days old: M:Robe 500: Touchscreen works with glitches
348 days old: calendar.rock day of week is off-by-one
351 days old: Clip+ non zero output when paused
1 years 3 days old: Themesite not accepting %T with setting_inc or setting_dec
1 years 3 days old: Rockbox makes my screen-reader freeze.
1 years 19 days old: Since using lamp plug-in the backlight and wheel light are incompatible
1 years 19 days old: Battery reports 0% charge even after fully charged in Rockbox 3.7 - iRiver H300
1 years 24 days old: warning about \float_at_addtolists when building manual
1 years 24 days old: odd %s behavior following %Vf tags
1 years 27 days old: [Sansa Clip+) Rockbox doesn't stop recording when battery is very low
1 years 27 days old: sometimes rockbox restarts and battery gets empty when changing tracks
1 years 30 days old: Next Track indicator not working reliably
1 years 51 days old: manual, sansa clip+: No keys for actions
1 years 54 days old: Messages and Heads up display fonts are unreadable in doom
1 years 58 days old: Data abort In sansa Fuze v2 when I insert 2 albums to the playlist
1 years 75 days old: Recording gains on Clip+ are very quiet, yet exhibit massive clipping
1 years 83 days old: Website doesn't distinguish between "stable" and "released" targets
1 years 91 days old: Rbutil detects wrong drive as iPod.
1 years 92 days old: Last.fm scrobbling when nothing listened to
1 years 93 days old: Early USB broken (no statusbar & crash after disconnect)
1 years 106 days old: Theme Editor doesn't render Vf/Vb correctly
1 years 114 days old: Manual doesn't tell you where to put album art for targets with pictureflow but no AA on WPS
1 years 114 days old: Sansa e200v2 progressbar lags when backlight activated
1 years 123 days old: backlight fade in and fade out times missing from config file options
1 years 129 days old: ipodpatcher sometimes fails when attempting to write rockbox to OSOS on ipodnano2g
1 years 137 days old: Bookmarks from tagcache don't work
1 years 148 days old: Volume needs to be turned down on FM radio when voice is reading items associated with FM radio.
1 years 148 days old: ONDA VX777 volume in FM-Radio
1 years 155 days old: WPS is not loaded if the .wps file is not in the WPS directory
1 years 164 days old: Display in FMS screen didn't update correctly
1 years 178 days old: Wrong playlist order after moving tracks to position right before current
1 years 180 days old: Auto-Change Directory crashes hardwarecodec players
1 years 185 days old: last Arabic character in a line appears as the first for some cases
1 years 185 days old: bidi orientation
1 years 185 days old: Volume is turned up to the maximum when the battery level gets very low
1 years 198 days old: stop playing when switch hold to off on SA9200
1 years 199 days old: PictureFlow segfault when showing tracklist or playing - fixed.
1 years 216 days old: Skipping and stuttering in low bitrate .WMA files
1 years 223 days old: not able to move in DOOM!
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March 1, 2013, New York--Pakistani authorities should investigate today's murder of a journalist in the country's restive Baluchistan province, determine the motive, and apprehend the perpetrators immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Unknown gunmen killed Mehmood Jan Afridi while he was headed to a local press club from his home in the city of Kalat, according to The Associated Press and local news reports. News accounts did not immediately report further details of the attack.
Afridi had worked for the Urdu-language print and online The Daily Intekhab for almost 20 years, and was the head of the Kalat Press Club, according to Anwar Sajidi, executive editor of the paper, who spoke to CPJ by phone. It is not clear if Afridi had published any controversial stories before his death, but Sajidi said that he had often covered politics and crime and operated under the same pressures faced by other journalists in Baluchistan.
Journalists in Baluchistan work in a dangerous climate, under pressure to report in line with the views of several elements, including pro-Taliban groups, security forces, and intelligence agencies, as well as Baluch separatists and state-sponsored anti-separatist militant groups.
The Associated Press reported that Afridi's colleagues said he had received threatening calls from a Baluch nationalist group. They did not offer further details.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the murder, according to Sajidi.
"The level of violence against journalists in Pakistan remains alarming. Authorities must work to reverse this trend and identify the motive behind the murder of Mehmood Jan Afridi," said Bob Dietz, CPJ Asia program coordinator. "The perpetrators of this crime should be apprehended immediately."
Afridi is survived his brother, wife, and two children.
With at least seven journalists killed in Pakistan in 2012, the country was ranked one of the world's deadliest for the press. Two days ago, on February 27, senior journalist Malik Mumtaz was gunned down in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the border line with Afghanistan. At least three other Pakistani journalists have been killed in 2013, all of them at the site of a twin explosion in Quetta on January 10.
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A rewarding consequence of my weekly blog and 'Rhodes Rules School' series is that I am contacted by many interesting people and golfing organisations from around the world. I have recently become aware of the College of Golf at Keiser University, located in Port St. Lucie, Florida, which offers a 16 months program to achieve an Associate of Science degree in Golf. You will see that I have recently added a link on the Recommended Links on my home page, titled 'Golf Program'.
This week I received an interesting Rules question from one of the Golf Program Directors at College of Golf;
"Here is a situation that occurred recently. A player hit his ball toward an area where he thought he may not be able to find it. He followed correct procedure and announced to his group he was going to play a provisional ball to be used in case he could not find his original ball. He played his provisional and it headed off in the identical direction that his original went. Upon reaching the location where he believed his original ball was, he found both his original and his provisional ball within a few feet of each other. There is only one problem – both balls were of the same brand and type and were marked identically to each other. Since he could not determine which ball was the original and which ball was the provisional, what does he do?"Before I clear up this particular situation let me first point out that in stroke play if two players who are playing identical balls with no identification marks on them find their balls lying close together, but are not able to determine which ball belongs to each player, then both balls are lost, Decision 27/10. This is logical when you realise that neither player can be sure that they are not going to play a wrong ball, and if they play a wrong ball without correcting the error before making a stroke at the next teeing ground, they are disqualified, Rule 15-3b. However, this ruling would be inequitable in the circumstances detailed above, because it would result in the player having to return to the tee to play their 5th stroke, even though they found both their original and provisional balls but cannot identify which is which. Accordingly, they must select one of the balls, treat it as their provisional ball and abandon the other. They would then be playing their 4th stroke from where they found both balls. Decision 27/11 clarifies this and other similar situations where a player cannot distinguish between their original and provisional balls.
I cannot finish without making the obvious but fundamental point that every golfer who is serious about his or her game should ensure that every ball they use has a personal identification mark on it. This tip will save you many strokes over the course of a year; not so much from the somewhat rare situations detailed above, but by avoiding two stroke penalties for playing 'wrong balls'. If you draw easily identifiable marks on your golf balls you will soon reach the stage where you are subconsciously checking for these marks, no matter what the brand or number is on the ball that you are playing.
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I'm Linda – the sewist behind the blog, "Nice dress! Thanks, I made it!!", and a little shop called "Lányos Handmade" – saying Hello! from the West Coast of B.C., Canada. Thanks for stopping by!
When I'm not working, commuting to and from work, exercising or spending time with family and friends … I'm sewing! I have the perfect set up for me in our cozy home … a sewing machine on a wheeled cabinet in front of a great forested view. Sewing is my time, along with trying to read novels while jogging on my treadmill!
I remember sewing as far back as age 12, when I pieced together Barbie doll clothes (without a pattern) for my younger sister's dolls. I guess that could be called the "draping" technique? 😜
Come to think of it, the best Christmas present I ever received was home-made Barbie doll clothes (made with a real McCalls pattern by my older sister!). They were complete outfits plus matching accessories – Handbags, shoes, etc. – each outfit mounted on cardboard, just like store-bought! They were Beautiful!!
My Aunt was a seamstress, trained back in Hungary, and my Mother always had the sewing machine out on the dining room table, mending an old garment or sewing a new one. Maybe it's in my genes?
At the moment I have two toy VSM's (a Necchi and a Singer) and these six VSM's: Maria the Ford deLuxe (she still needs to be cleaned up), my yet unnamed White (needs a bit of work yet), Winnie the Singer 221 Featherweight, Amber the Singer 421G, Barbie the Singer 500 and Ilona the Singer 15-88 (She's fine, although her treadle cabinet needs work yet!). I also have a Janome 3160QDC, a Janome HD3000 (great for bags) and a Janome MyLock 334.
I just recently purchased the Janome HD3000 (I call her "Janie") to help me out with my new bag sewing addiction. Yes, I enjoy all kinds of sewing, but lately I've been drafting patterns and sewing up various styles and sizes of bags, totes and wallets with an emphasis on using vegan, sustainable and repurposed materials. Check out my little shop, Lányos Handmade – new bags and sewing patterns are being added monthly it seems!
I don't really have anyone else to exchange sewing ideas with, so I was delighted when I snooped around on-line and found your inspiring blogs and Facebook/Instagram posts! You were all so supportive, friendly and fabulous to read, I just had to join the fun! I thank all you wonderful bloggers for giving me a chance to read about your ideas and plans and see your makes!
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WASHINGTON – The hooch is still potent – what's new is how the still is powered.
The first distillery since Prohibition in Loudoun County, has installed a large solar array on the roof of its historic home on Main Street in Purcellville, Va.
"We're wrapping up installing a 41-kilowatt-hour system that will offset 85 percent of our electrical usage here at the distillery," says Scott Harris, owner of Catoctin Creek Distillery. "That's about the equivalent of five households of electricity generated."
Bought in 2012, Catoctin Distillery produces rye whisky and gin from organic sources, brandy from Virginia wines, and seasonal brandy.
The facility, in the Case Building, which was erected in 1921, has a gently sloping roof with southern exposure.
Harris says the system, installed by Prospect Solar of Sterling, generates 41,000 watts of power every hour.
"It sees the sun most parts of the day. This huge array of solar cells, that fills this 6,000 square feet of roof, will start to collect that energy and feed it into our building," says Harris.
Harris says his business won't be the sole beneficiary of the energy collected by the solar panels.
"Anything that we're not using on a down day, or on a particularly sunny day, will actually be fed into the grid for public use," says Harris.
Stills in Catoctin Creek Distillery, in Purcellville, Va. (Courtesy Scott Harris)
"We had to make sure the wooden frame roof was sound," says Harris. "Some of the struts and rafters were not up to code for the weight of the new system on the roof, so we had to replace those with some steel I-beams."
Prior to the Civil War, Purcellville was linked by railroad to Alexandria, Va. and points east.
"Because it's in an historic district, we had to be aware and respectful of the national historical codes for preservations," says Harris.
Harris says the method of producing the spirits is largely the same as it was when Prohibition was repealed in 1933.
"A still is basically a big boiler. You can heat it with propane, with wood, or electricity. Ours are heated with steam and electricity," says Harris.
Now, the still will be a bit more environmentally friendly, says Harris.
Catoctin Creek Distillery is built in historic 1921 building in downtown Purcellville. (Photo courtesy Scott Harris)
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Here's where to find Colorado's GABF medal-winning beers
Thirty-one Colorado breweries won 36 medals at the Great American Beer Festival last week, plus two Colorado breweries brewed two homebrew recipes that won medals in the Pro-Am competition.
So the question now is where can these beers be found? The most obvious response is to go to the brewery itself and ask for the beer. But some beers entered into the competition could have been one-offs or created especially for GABF and aren't available. Additionally, Colorado Plus Brew Pub in Wheat Ridge is planning on a tap takeover on Oct. 24 with as many of the award-winning beers as it can find.
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Newborn found alive in plastic bag near apartments
A woman walking her pets Tuesday evening found a newborn alive in a plastic bag near her northwest Houston apartment complex.
The woman found the baby around 7 p.m. near the Stonegate Villas Apartments in the 11000 block of Grant Road in Cypress.
About 3 inches of the abandoned child's umbilical cord was still attached and had been cut, but not clamped, according to Sgt. Gordon Trott with the Harris County Sheriff's Office. The newborn girl was taken to Texas Children's Hospital and was in good condition, he said.
The woman was giving her pets some time outside on the complex's perimeter and happened upon the infant when one of the animals took an interest in a Wal-Mart bag between a tree and a bush.
"She put her dogs up and she went outside the fence thinking that someone had dumped a dead animal or something out there," Trott said. "She opened the bag and found a newborn female."
The baby was naked, but had been cleaned up.
"The child could not have been out there very long. The child had a normal body temperature," Trott said.
Investigators are looking into the case, but didn't have many leads late Tuesday.
"As far as we know, there are not any security cameras back there to capture anything on video," Trott said.
Anyone with information about the child or the parents is urged to call the Sheriff's Office at 713-830-3250 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
Third recent incident
The incident is at least the third time within a year that a child has been abandoned in the Houston area.
A Houston woman was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay a $50 fine last year after she left her 3-year-old son at a Metro bus stop last September.
In that incident, the toddler was spotted alone at a covered bus stop in the 8000 block of Martin Luther King in southeast Houston.
A witness called authorities after spotting La Toshiah Perkins, 28, climbing onto a Metro bus without her son. Her purse was still at the bus stop.
Perkins was taken into custody when she returned to the Metro stop and was charged with abandoning a child.
Also in September, a Pasadena woman who left her newborn baby outside an urgent care clinic asked a judge to place the child with one of her relatives rather than with a foster family.
The woman, who was in her early 20s, told the judge she had three other children and was afraid of the additional responsibilities with having yet another child.
The woman was not charged with abandoning the child after authorities determined she did not violate the Baby Moses law.
Whether the newborn was placed with the woman's family members could not be determined Tuesday night. However, Child Protective Services officials are required to first consider a relative as a custodian if appropriate family members are willing and able to raise the child.
Mike Glenn contributed to this report.


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It is axiomatic that just about nothing in video games happens—in the West, anyway—the week the United States celebrates its most important holiday: Black Friday. However, I do tip my cap to Professional Farmer 2014 for its timely release on Thursday—Thanksgiving day itself.
Tuesday, Nov. 26
- Air Conflicts: Vietnam (360, PS3)
- Ys: Memories of Celceta (PS Vita)
Thursday, Nov. 28
- Professional Farmer 2014 (PC)
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- The Xbox One
- The PlayStation 4
- Dead Rising 3
- Crimson Dragon
- Lococycle
- Tearaway
- NBA Live 14
- Ryse: Son of Rome
- Killer Instinct
- Super Mario 3D World
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
- Need For Speed Rivals
- Resogun
- Contrast
- Knack
- Killzone Shadow Fall
Coming Soon:
Dec. 6: Gran Turismo 6.
Sources: Amazon; Steam; GameStop
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