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Gainesville’s Warrior Institute Raising Money for Vets Through New Coffee Shop

— A Gainesville nonprofit that provides outdoor excursions for area veterans is settling in to the new location of its coffee shop, a move made to increase the organization’s visibility and provide a boost in customers. The Warrior Institute’s Outpost [...]

January 28, 2015 Business

The Real Slaughterhouse Five (in photos)

A G.I. taken prisoner in the Battle of the Bulge, Kurt Vonnegut was held by the Germans in Schlachthof Fünf, or Slaughterhouse Five, an actual slaughterhouse in the eastern German city of Dresden. This prison acted as a shelter for Vonnegut [...]

January 8, 2015 History, Photo, Travel & Culture

My New Year’s Resolutions….from When I Was 5

Being home at the ‘rents house for the holidays is an annual immersion in nostalgia. Childhood photos on the walls. Boxes of preteen clothes in the closet. Maybe your old bedroom hasn’t been converted into a guestroom—yet. One item that [...]

January 1, 2015 History, Reflections

New Gainesville Web Company Hits $1M in Profits

As classrooms continue to move from traditional to virtual, one new Gainesville online company is making waves by reporting more than $1 million in profits in its first year. Under the company name EdutainmentLIVE, the website ITPro.tv takes a lesson [...]

December 31, 2014 Business, Tech

I Bought a GoPro, But They Refused to Ship It to Me. Here’s Why.

I had been wanting to get a GoPro for a while, so I was excited when a friend of mine sent me this link to a promo code that offered a nice discount, which I assumed was a Christmas special. [...]

December 27, 2014 Business, Journalism/Communications, Photo, Tech

Florida Panther Chalk Drawing vs. Photo—Which One Is Real?

Dallas, Texas, artist Henry Darnell used my photo of a Florida panther as a model for the Sarasota Chalk Festival in November. The theme of this year’s festival, held every November in downtown Sarasota’s Burns Square, was extinct and endangered species. With a population believed to be [...]

December 14, 2014 Music & Arts, Nature & Wildlife, Photo, Travel & Culture