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Ring Of Fire Earthquake Hits Russia And US
Tremors are felt from thousands of miles away in Moscow as two quakes strike in the turbulent Ring Of Fire region.
The last recorded tremors in Moscow were in 1977
Two earthquakes have hit the Ring of Fire area, registering magnitudes of 8.2 and 5.7 and prompting a tsunami warning.
Moscow felt tremors from the more powerful quake, causing some people to evacuate buildings despite the epicentre being more than 4,000 miles to the east.
The US Geological Survey said the epicentre of Thursday's quake was in the Kuril-Kamchatka arc, one of the most seismically active regions in the world.
Marina Kolomiyets, from the Russian Academy of Sciences, said it originated 375 miles under the sea bed in the Sea of Okhotsk, just off Russia's east coast and north of Japan.
A tsunami warning for the Sakhalin and the Kuril islands was issued, but lifted soon afterwards.
Tremors are extremely rare in Moscow, with the last recorded instance in 1977. Witnesses also reported feeling the tremors across Siberia.
"There were repercussions of the quake in Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow and Europe, in particular Romania," said Anatoly Tsygankov from Russia's Rosgidromet environmental monitoring service.
"Practically the whole continent shook."
No casualties have been reported.
A second, smaller 5.7 magnitude quake also struck the US.
It hit northern California's Plumas County at 8.47pm local time and was centred six miles west of Greenville.
Sacramento television station KCRA-TV said the tremors were felt in the city, some 145 miles south of the epicentre.
Eight aftershocks ranging from 2.6 to 3.5 magnitude were also recorded. So far, no injuries or damage have been reported.
The Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped area located around the edge of the Pacific Ocean.
The vast majority of the world's volcanoes and earthquakes occur in the area because of the movement and collisions of the Earth's tectonic plates.
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Pope Francis
Argentina crash kills pope's relatives
The Vatican says two great-nephews of Pope Francis and their mother died in the car accident.
Pope OKs protecting Iraq minorities
But Francis also says the international community, not just one country, should intervene.
De Blasio hopes for Pope N.Y. visit
The mayor confirms that he sent an invite to Pope Francis through Timothy Cardinal Dolan.
Francis vs. Benedict, the soccer match
Like many contests of athleticism, the papal shootout may come down to endurance.
Pope says no to legalizing drugs
He says limited attempts to legalize recreational drugs "fail to produce the desired effects."
Pope works on Mideast peace
Pope Francis welcomes the Israeli and Palestinian presidents for an evening of peace prayers.
Historic day of 4 popes
Pope Francis declares his two predecessors saints in an unprecedented ceremony in St. Peter's Square.
Pope prays for Ukraine
More than 150,000 tourists turn out for the Mass at St. Peter's Basilica.
Obama's overseas trip: 5 takeaways
He displays a foreign policy agenda that looks more robust and consequential than his domestic one.
Santorum: Obama sought Pope 'spin'
He says Obama is trying to "spin" the situation to "piggyback on the popularity of the Pope."
A president, a pope and a black cat
For 52 minutes, Pope Francis and President Obama talked alone in the papal library.
Podcast: ACA; Obama meets Pope
Obama's trip to Europe, an ACA loophole and media coverage of the missing plane are discussed.
Deciphering the papal bull session
Obama says the "bulk" of the conversation focused on income inequality and world peace.
Obama downplays Vatican ACA talk
He says his conversation with Pope Francis focused on economic opportunity and global conflicts.
Paul tweets Obama-Pope joke
The Kentucky Republican offers his own interpretation of events.
Obama has a gift for Pope Francis
"I'm sure it will give me strength and calm me down," the president says of the pope's gift to him.
Presidents and the popes
President Barack Obama's meeting with Pope Francis marks his second papal visit and first with the current vicar of Rome. Woodrow Wilson was the first president meet with the Holy Father, in 1919, but it took 40 years for the next president to make the trip.
Obama's papal audience
It's a rare chance for him to associate with a leader whose cool factor outweighs his own.
GOP: Pope's no liberal
Many conservative Catholics say he is merely painted as one by a biased media.
Poll: 76 percent view pope favorably
Pope Francis's approval among Americans has grown by almost 20 percentage points.

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Been on repeat in my head all day long
I am in love with this song. Hope where ever you are, you feel Home.
I have no idea how I haven't been on Facebook Chat this whole time or why all of a sudden, I am on Facebook Chat now but this is the best things EVER! I signed on my Facebook a few days ago and all of a sudden
West Coast Hook Up Buddy: hey baby
Me: hi! how do you know i'm online right now?
W.C.H.U.B: you have a green dot by your name
Me: wait, what?
W.C.H.U.B: a green dot. it shows you're on facebook and available to chat
Me: wait, what?
Okay, so besides my Facebook ineptness, THIS SHIT IS COOOOOL!
Not only is it the best way to avoid having an actual phone conversation (I hate talking on the phone) but it's even easier than texting! No longer do we have to 'booty call' or even 'booty text,' we can 'booty Facebook.' Which honestly, with having full access to their photos and profile, I think could possibly help drunk people make better drunk decisions.
After a quick convo with a friend who just recently moved out to CA from the east coast, me and the H.U.B. decided that he would come scoop me from the hotel I am staying at and go Taco Truck Hunting.
Side Note: We probably have very different definitions of what constitutes a Hook Up Buddy from a Boyfriend or even someone that you're Just Dating but for the purposes of this story, a H.U.B isn't just a fuck buddy, think more of a Friends With Benefits situation where we don't just hook up, we actually hang out a bunch too and I can talk him into things like coming to pick me up at my hotel for late night food and neither of us ever have to worry about finding a ride to the airport.
Side Side Note: Taco Truck Hunting is where we drive around with both of our phones out (completely illegal) using Twitter and Facebook to chase down the nearest food truck at 1 in the morning. It's a sport as well as an art form and me and the H.U.B have it down to a science.
So I caught up with my girl, plus made plans with a boy, all the while still simultaneously stalking my ex-boyfriend on Facebook? Talk about productivity.
As if that wasn't convincing enough, today I signed on to Facebook to upload some photos and
East Coast Friends With Benefits: hey sexy
Me: hiiii!!!! how are you?
E.C.F.W.B: i miss you. come play in hawaii!
Me: you're in hawaii?
E.C.F.W.B: yeah, i moved here two days ago, come visit- i'll take you hiking and surfing!
WTF? AMAZING! So now in three conversations on Facebook Chat, I have reconnected with an old friend, got late night food with my H.U.B AND I sparked things up again with an absolutely wonderful Friends With Benefits who now wants to show me around Hawaii. Whaaat? Amazing.
…and I have to admit, it felt pretty damn good to see the green dot next to my ex's name the whole time- which proves he equally has nothing better to do than be on Facebook on a Saturday night.
So, as you all know by now, I am homeless…
And completely cool with it.
I'd rather put my rent into my gas tank and I have a really comfy backseat.
But right now, I am writing this in my suuuper comfy bed at the gorgeous Ritz Carlton in Marina del Rey.
Only in LA can someone go from being homeless to ordering room service at the Ritz.
Okay, so I don't exactly have my own room. I'm shacking up with my mom who is visiting for the week from Virginia but it just goes to show how quickly things can change over here in LA LA Land.
New York gets the title of the City of 1,000 Dreams and claims sayings like "Quicker than a New York Minute" but really, LA is where its at.
Everyone is out here for a reason. We've all left our family and friends behind to pursue a dream and a life that we know we can only create here. We gave up a lot and we go through a lot and almost everyone has the same story and struggle and the greatest thing in the world is that, absolutely and no matter what, We All Love It. I could go on and on about this (and I will later on this week) but there's an energy in this town that I have never felt anywhere else.
It's electric… and addictive and we thrive on it.
That's saying a lot coming from me right now considering that I just got my ass kicked by this town (see previous post) but already, I'm falling back on track. Can I getta Hell Yeah!?
Okay, my boyfriend broke up with me… but I have an super special and fun hook up buddy that has been in and out of my life for the past 2 years and things have been really awesome recently. Everyone says the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else, so why not give it a shot?
Okay, the production company that I was working with fell off the face of the planet… but as I was enjoying a mango strawberry smoothie at the beautiful sunshiney pool, my friend called and offered me a production job on a show starting in two weeks. Now I have time to get my ducks back in a row and maybe make a few new connections (and if nothing else, some awesome new friends) Perfect.
And okay, I had to move out of my apartment and into my car… but it forced me to be totally On The Go and On My Hussle for the past few weeks and really got me back in my groove (and staying here with my mom definitely does not suck.)
And so, there you have it. I'm back in a place of love and appreciation and only besides LA, that is definitely the best place to be.
Thanks for reading! xoxo
I am in love with this song. Hope where ever you are, you feel Home.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was recently dumped by my boyfriend because I am a vegetarian and he wants to hunt. Yeah. Seriously. Besides the fact that the whole situation is ridiculous, I really can't believe that I didn't see it coming.
We started dating almost as a fluke. We were friends that had a previous fling who decided to move in to a house together with a few other friends up in Big Bear (a ski and snowboard mountain in southern California.) Literally, two nights after I moved in, we drank too much cheap whiskey, make out and I claimed 'my side' of his bed and moved in to his room for the rest of the season. It was an interesting situation that was unexpectedly awesome. We got along great and honestly, there isn't shit to do up in Big Bear in the winter besides snowboard, drink and hook up so it was the perfect time to fall into a new boyfriend. I, in no way was looking for a relationship but things with T were so effortless. He was one of the nicest guys I have ever met and I loved doing stuff with him, from making dinner to taking day trips off the mountain to fight cabin fever to just taking laps snowboarding. One time, I remembered that I had left my yoga mat outside in the windy, snowy cold and he jumped up out of bed and brought it inside for me with out me even having to ask! Not only was he amazing in those ways, but he intuitively understood me in a way that no guy has ever gotten me before. Needless to say, I was smitten.
We took a bunch of trips to visit his family in Solvang (which is 5 hours from Big Bear, right outside Santa Barbara) and I fell completely in love with his family. T's parents are hands down two of the most amazing people that I have ever met and I absolutely loved every minute I spent with them. I was totally cool with the idea of having a commuter relationship once summer came, where we would be three hours away from each other with me living in Venice. It's all good, "love conquers all," right?
Me and T were perfect all winter long. We never fought (we 'disagreed' but we always talked things out before anything ever escalated) we had extremely similar temperaments, sometimes we partied, other times we stayed in and all and all, it was a pretty freakin' stellar relationship.
I was in the process of writing T into my life but I kept saying "If we make it through the summer…" because a relationship is easy when there is nothing else to do but if we made it through the summer, I knew it would be huge. I knew that being up in Big Bear and snowboarding every day diluted our personalities. I am a slightly different person in Big Bear than who I am in Venice simply because of my surroundings and daily activities. I knew from meeting T's family and friends back in Solvang that he was different as well. What I was curious about was, would our summer personalities be as compatible as our winter ones?
T is a 'cowboy' in every sense of the word. He grew up on a farm, goes to rodeos, knows how to drive a tractor and he definitely won't be voting for Obama in the 2012 election. I'm from Virginia and went to school in North Carolina so I understand the mentality and I have a soft spot for southern boys. That being said, I'm pretty hippie-ed out. I've been a vegetarian since I was old enough to tell my parents I don't want to eat meat, I've backpacker and hitchhiked all around the world and I'm really getting into yoga and meditation.
We had very different interests but we were operating from very similar moral compasses (or so I thought.) I loved the fact that we were so different and I, from the bottom of my heart, enjoyed what made us who we were.
The cracks started to show a month into T being back in Solvang. It seemed that back in his hometown with his hometown friends, T was a different guy. Without the laid backness of snowboarding and our mountain friends, me and T had very different ideas of what 'fun' was. His late night texts were regularly incomprehendible (gotta love drunk texts) and what ever little time I did get him on the phone to catch up, he rushed me off the line. While I was at the beach, working on stuff for the show (see previous post) and grilling out with friends and surfing, T was getting black out wasted on his friend's expensive boats and partying nonstop.
Apparently, our summer personalities did not get along.
A few days later, we got in an argument over him wanting to go party on the lake and me wanting to go to a Dispatch concert and little did I know at the time but that would be the last full conversation of our relationship. Miscommunication was taking over, things were starting to get heated and I tried to break the tension with a Big Lebowski quote "This aggression will not stand, man" and it went right over his head. We opened the relationship up.
Our entire relationship, I in no way ever thought that T and I were meant to be. My parents are happily married after 27 years together and my mom always told me that "When you know, you know"… and I didn't know with T. But then again, "I don't know" was SOOOO much closer than I have ever gotten with any other guy (which is usually "Absolutely not") so I started thinking, what if my "I don't know" is "I Know"?
With all of this, you would think that I would be okay with him finally sending me an 'It's over' break up text… but I wasn't. I had never been broken up with before and I NEEDED to work it out. Love conquers all and I LOVED him. If I could just talk to him face to face, if I could just touch his arm while he was talking to me, if I could just be with him, we could work it out. But I didn't text him because in my heart, I knew he didn't want to and I was crushed.
At the bottom, I called my best girlfriend Chevas and broke down "Maybe I do want to live in Solvang, work at his parents bakery, let him hunt and be happy with T" What was so bad about killing a bunny anyway? I could live in the country!
And then I realized- I had lost my damn mind.
And I started laughing. Seriously. In the middle of my tear-filled speech, I heard what I was saying and I started laughing.
It was done. We were done. Love is blind, sometimes borderlining delusional but it's going to be fine and I am okay. Phew. Holy shit, shake it off.
It scares me how distorted things can get when powerful emotions are involved. It scares me that I might have been willing to settle and give up on my dreams and love of living in LA. It scares me that I was willing to possibly compromise one of the longest commitments that I had made to myself ever over a guy. But most importantly, it EXCITES me to think how amazing it will be when I meet the guy who I'm meant to be with… and I won't have to.
Sooo as I mentioned earlier, I had just broken up with my boyfriend, moved out of my apartment and into my car, jumping full swing back into life on the road. I was contemplating my next adventure when my friend, let's call him Jackie, texted me-
Duuuudey, come up and make some extra cash trimming ganja in the mountains. It's like summer camp for adults.
Wait, what? Ganja? The mountains? SUMMER CAMP? Whaaat?!
I have to look into this… so I googled it.
Is trimming pot fun?
Google: Illegal, grey area, paranoia, helicopters, gang robberies.
Hmmm…. not so awesome. But I knew Jackie pretty well so I figured there must be more to the story. I needed to get out of LA to clear my head anyway so I decided to drive up to Big Bear Lake and hang out with some of my snowboarder friends who had trimmed last summer. If anyone could prep me for what to expect, is was them… plus I just super stoked to play with my winter friends again!
Being in the mountains was a fresh of breath air and I listened to crazy stories about trimming, camping and cops. What it sounded like was it was going to be really tough job in shitty conditions for good money and an insane story to tell. I'm in.
I casually mentioned it to my friend, Kait and totally unexpectedly, she was in too. Now I have a partner in crime! Sweet!
We had no idea what to expect but the next day, we packed our stuff and hit the rode at 9 in the morning.
It was an insanely long car ride (10+ hours!) but we were so excited about the prospect of adventure (and hopped up on 5 Hour Energys) that the drive flew by. I drove the whole way and Kait was the Navigator and Emergency Phone Operator. We had gotten a text from Jackie saying that we needed our 'scripts' (medical marijuana prescriptions) to trim and considering that we were already 4 hours into the drive and in the middle of freakin' nowhere on the 5, that was a problem. We were suppose to be keeping our trimming adventure slightly on the down low but that was shot to shit as we sent out MayDay texts to every single pot head friend we knew. We even called a doctor and asked if he could Skype our prescription ("No.") All panic was for nothing though as Jackie texted a few hours later saying it would be good for us to have a script but it's not necessary. PHEW! Crisis averted even though now half of southern California knew that me and Kait were about to be part of a trimming operation, ha, oh well.
Hundreds of miles and an accidently skipped toll booth later, we arrived in beautiful Northern CA. After stories from my friends and from Bloggers online, I expected something so much worse. The town we were in was gorgeous and I could immediately feel my body relax and my heart leap in the presence of the huge, ancient redwoods and crisp mountain air. This was going to be good. This was going to be mellow. This is goooood.
Jackie met us in a gas station parking lot and gave me and Kait (who he just met) a huge hug *I have amazing friends* and we followed him in his truck up to "the cabin."
Absolutely, positively NOT what I was expecting. At all. At all at all. This wasn't some little cabin in the woods, this was a freaking house! With a wrap around porch, a washer/dryer, TV, even import beers in the fridge for goodness sake. Say whaaat?! This place was more luxurious than my own house. We definitely weren't going to need the tent in the trunk of my car.
Jackie introduced me and Kait to the other girls working in the house. Krystle was a trimmer like us, Clara was working with the trim in the back and both girls were unbelievably nice. Amazing!
We hung out for a bit, drank a beer and Jackie showed me how to set up my 'station' for trimming. Basically, after pot is cut off the plant, it's hung upside down to dry and the leaves curl over the buds. It's the trimmer's job to carefully snip away the leaves to reveal the bud which is then checked for large stems or crows feet, snipped, bagged, weighed and sold to a medical dispensary- put that in your pipe and smoke it. Haha, sorry I had to.
So now I had my own little station that consisted of a big plastic tray, a few sets of small scissors, a bag for buds, a bag for trim (the extra leaves from the plant) and a big bag full of untrimmed pot. I got this.
I started trimming that night while Kait and the girls watched Inglorious Bastards. Trimming is easy, redundant work that totally allows your mind to wander and process whatever else that you might be working on in your subconscious or whatever. It was so nice to just zone out and relax while still feeling totally productive.
Trimming is also rad because you can work on your own schedule and at your own pace. However much money you want to make, it's up to you how much you want to work.
We took a lot of breaks to go on nature hikes along the river behind the house (incredible!) to eat yummy hippie organic food and to basically do whatever we wanted- for me it was yoga on the deck, for Kait it was smoke breaks in the back. While you trim, the THC crystals come off the plant and stick to your fingers which A. gets you high and B. gets really annoying so you have to take lots of breaks to clean your hands with canola oil or rubbing alcohol. I'm typing this still with hash stuck under my finger nails. Not a bad job at all.
I was surrounded by more pot that I have ever seen in my life. Literally, pounds and pounds everywhere and it was completely (more or less) legal. After talking to Jackie, I learned that every single plant on the farm was accounted for by someone with a script and they did everything they could to stick to exactly what CA law was by the book to avoid any and all complications with the police.
That took some weight off my shoulders but that didn't stop us from getting a little paranoid every time we heard the helicopters circling over head… which happened all day, every day we were there. What was hilarious was that as the day went on and everyone got more and more stoned, random panic attacks would take ahold of our vagabond staff which would inspire some pretty funny actions.
This is probably a good time to mention that I don't smoke pot. I know, totally weird but totally true. I had my stoner fun in high school but I grew out of it years ago and it has never been the same for me since. I don't mind the occasional edible (mmm… weedaccini al fredo) but other than that, not interested. With that being said, I was contact high the entire time we were trimming.
Being the least high of the group was awesome and absolutely hilarious. Countless times throughout the day, one of the girls or Jackie would be walking in circles, asking themselves what they were going to do or say, we could never find the house phone and regularly a question would be asked, not heard, and forgotten that it was even asked until the situation that was asked about came and went. One night, after hearing the standard helicopters all day, Jackie freaked out and closed all of the windows and doors, only to ask us why everything was closed up and locked a few hours later. These were regular occurrences in the cabin and I loved it. Always an adventure, right?
Five O'Clock Somewhere…
We trimmed for a few days in this Pot Paradise, existing peacefully, tucked way back in the mountains of California. Honestly, I was hoping to fall off the grid a little bit more but with television and a house phone, I was still all too aware of the outside world even with zero cell phone service. None the less, it was amazing.
Me and Kait had planned to stay up in the cabin for a little over a week but three days in, Jackie said that we would all be having to move to 'the land' which was where the actual plants were growing and being farmed. Me and Kait weren't too stoked about having to camp after living it up for the past few days in the house (even though that's what we originally thought we were in for) and last minute, we decided that we would be leaving back to LA that night. Talk about minute by minute.
Trimming up in Northern CA was a blast. Jackie talked about how people come up there to work, or heal or to just have a good time and I can totally see how it can be whatever anyone needs it to be. The people I met up there were some of the most genuine, down to earth people that I have ever met and I feel so incredibly blessed to have been a part of such an adventure… even with police choppers circling overhead.
This story is COMPLETELY FICTIONAL. It is what I THINK working on a marijuana farm would be like. Absolutely nothing in this post is true and any mention of true events or people are entirely coincidental.
So I woke up on the 4th of July with a ton of energy and a half a tank of gas in my car. I had totally decided that I was going to say in Venice for the 4th the night before but after 20 minutes of being awake, I changed my mind. After my little stint of driving to and from NorCal, Big Bear and Venice way too many times, I had settled on letting my car (and body) rest at the beach… or so I thought. I woke up at 11 and by 11:30, I was on the road back up to Big Bear so I could play with my snowboarder friends and watch the fireworks from their boat. Why did I suddenly change my mind? I have no idea… my friends at the beach are absolutely just as fun but I had never spent a 4th in Big Bear and suddenly for some reason, I just had to Go- the coolest thing in the world was that I could. With no warning and no one to answer to, I just took off and 3 hours later I was tanning on my friend's boat, drinking 7&7s. The whole day was a blast. From failed back flips off the rocks to a freak thunderstorms and sitting right under the fireworks on the water- I could not have asked for a more prefect and completely random adventure. And I am so thankful. Not only for the amazing time but for the fact that I am finally falling back into my 'live your life as a choose your own adventure' book mentality… no plans, no limits, not very much sleep- and I love that shit.
Ooookay, thanks for sticking with me through that little bout of daytime drinking!
Mmm, beer…
If you haven't already, please check out Adventures in Pot Farming I & II so you are totally up to speed because things are about to get hectic.
So me and Jen are up in the mountains in the middle of nowhere trimming pot. It's relaxing and amazing and we are 'camping' in the woods with a bunch of other crazy-awesome cats from all over the world.
As soon as we arrived, we met everyone and I immediately began taking shots of some yummy authentic Mexican tequila that one of the guys brought all the way from, you guessed it, Mexico. It was amazing. I felt calm and at home and the most grounded I had felt in a long time. Ahhh…..
This was exactly the kind of retreat I was hoping for the first time when me and Kait came up to trim a few days before. It was just our group of (new) friends, away from the world… except this time we all had cell phone service. Rad. We spent our first night getting to know everyone, playing with the Land dogs (so cute!) and getting used to our surroundings.
One thing that I hadn't anticipated was how freaking cold it was. OMG, BRRRRRR!!!! The first time I came to trim, me and Kait packed tons of warm shit and it was super hot the whole time so this time, I packed lighter. One pair of jeans, shorts, tee's, a hoodie and a light blanket and dude, it was FREEZING! I was super thankful for the little fire heating up the place but I woulda LOVED my cozy comforter and an old pair of sweats right about then, for sure. Oh well. What does not kill you… we all passed out.
In the middle of the night, we were all awoken by a crazy vibrating sensation and a handful of huge shakes. I would like to add here that I am probably one of the heaviest sleepers in the whole entire world. I fall asleep on the couch in the middle of rowdy parties, I sleep in youth hostels and in college, I regularly slept through the fire alarm that drunk partyers set off in our dorm- but this woke me straight up. EARTHQUAKE!!!!!!!!!!! It shook the hell outta the little house on stilts that we were all sleeping in and everyone woke up, looked around at each other and… went back to sleep without saying a word?! Seriously. Not a peep. I guess, that's what happens when you are constantly around really good pot, you become suuuper mellow. Okay. But still, this was probably the most intense earthquake I have ever felt while living in CA and all of us had absolutely no reaction. A few hours later, we were all woken again by the after shock and same stitch- not a peep! I love it.
In the morning, everyone recapped what they were thinking when the earthquake hit and after a few hours of trimming, me and Jen went for a little nature walk and saw this-
Say whaaaat?!?!?! That just happened. So it was a serious earthquake! And my ass was in a homemade house (seriously, Jackie and his boys constructed the house themselves) on stilts in the middle of the wilderness. That coulda been bad… but of course, it wasn't. I was born with a horse shoe up my ass.
It was an absolutely beautiful day and after hours of trimming, nature walks and yummy food (they cook you three meals a day while you are working and for real, it was probably some of the best food that I have ever eaten. Super healthy, all organic and vegetarian- yep, heaven) I was getting really stoned from handling so much THC and being in the same room with constant rotating joints and bongs.
I don't smoke so being high can get a little disorienting, especially because its such a mellow contact high, I didn't even realize it until all of a sudden I, like, really really REALLY liked every song that was being played and I started day dreaming about Marshmallow Fluff and peanut butter sandwiches. Being that high meant a few things, 1. I had to take a lot of breaks and 2. I got way into my own head.
I was sitting at my little station, chattin' it up with my new friends, really having a grand old time when all of a sudden a wave of complete ickyness took over me. It was so weird and so intense. Like I was playing at the beach in the sunshine when out of nowhere, a storm rolls in and the weather changes at the drop of a hat and you have to immediately get the hell outta dodge (being from the east coast with it's southern weather patterns, I am use to that.) I think I was literally mid-sentence when I put down the pot I was trimming and walked over to my cellphone at the other end of the room.
I started typing up a text
Please please give me a call as soon as you—-
And I stopped. If you have read anything I have written by now then you should know exactly who I was about to send that to. But I didn't.
I exited out of the text message I was about to send to my ex-boyfriend, walked outside and called one of my best friends, Chevas.
She picked up and I couldn't even squeak out "Hello" before I immediately started crying. And not ::sniffle sniffle, squeak:: crying but I-Can't-Breathe, Gasping-for-air-from-the-bottom-of-my-lungs crying.
I quickly blurted out "I'm not dead and I'm not dying" so she didn't completely freak out (I know my friends so well) and laid into everything that was tearing me down right then. The fact that I was homeless, jobless (if you don't count trimming pot), boyfriendless and production companyless had all hit me again at the same time and I had the last and final break down of the shittiest month ever, June 2011.
It's times like these when you realize how amazing your friends really are. I kept Chev on the line, sobbing my eyes out for the next 35 minutes. I cried about everything, about nothing and then I cried about how pathetic it was that I was even crying. I told her that I wanted to give up creating my own television show, I told her that I wanted to make things work with my ex no matter how much of a jack ass he was being, I told her that I just couldn't live the way I had been anymore and that nothing in my life was going right and that I never thought it ever would be again.
And she just listened. And listened and listened. And then finally said
"Please don't give up just because things have gotten hard."
She then proceeded to give the kind of pep talk that only a best friend who absolutely believed in you could possibly give. She told me how giving up now with the show and regretting it later is a bijillion times worse than any disappointment I could be feeling right now. She told me how following a boy (especially this particular boy) will only ever lead me somewhere that I never had any interest in being and how everything was going to be okay, it is always okay and it can only get better.
I argued with her a bit. Okay, well, a lot but she was relentless in being not only my cheerleader but my sage (she is a little older than me and has gone through some similar shit) and most importantly at the moment, my rock.
It was about this exact moment in time when I was claiming that I had decided that I wanted to move to Solvang, patch things up with T, work at his parents bakery and let him kill baby bunnies that I finally heard the crazy amount of shit that was coming out of my mouth.
WTF? I use to be such a strong, happy go lucky chick. What the hell happened? I said, I must be too high.
I had lost my god damn mind… and I started laughing. The best kind of laughter, so real and genuine. The kind that starts in your belly and bubbles up through your heart. It's like that first gasp of air after you knock the wind out of yourself. You never thought you would breathe again and then all of a sudden, Ahh! It just fills your whole body up and you know it's all okay.
I opened my eyes to the beautiful scenery that I was surrounded by and immediately felt better. What really could be so wrong in the world when I get to look out at this!
90% of what's going on is only in your head anyway. Instead of being jobless, homeless and boyfriendless- I am actually just totally free to take any opportunity that life presented me with… and I LOVE that kind of shit!
I thanked Chev a thousand times over, picked myself back up and got back into trimming.
I trimmed the rest of the day while listening to The Secret on Jen's iPod and felt so tremendously better. By the end of the night, I felt like a whole new person. Excited for my adventure and happy about where I am in life.
We all drank a few beers before bed and slept hard in the crisp, clean mountain air. The next day, me and Jen got weighed out for what we had trimmed and happily headed back home to LA.
I literally felt 1,273,127 times better and was so amazingly thankful for my little meditative retreat. Jen and I brainstormed the entire way home and I began to get excited about everything again.
I dropped Jen off with plans to email her info about what we had been brainstorming and a promise to myself to put a concentrated effort into managing my 'online identity.' So here's my 14th blog in 5 days… I think I'm on the right track :)
Happy Birthday America!!! Now let's go set off some illegal fireworks and drink too much cheap beer- whoohoo!
After driving from LA to Big Bear to Northern CA, back to LA, back to Big Bear and then finally back to LA in less than a week, I drove straight from Big Bear to Barney's Beanery to meet my friend, Jen Friel at the bar. I was exhausted but super stoked to catch up with her and I would never let a silly thing like sleep get in the way. Jen is a social media expert (ultimate understatement) and one of my most favorite new friends in LA. She is such a smart, fun and down to earth chick and I LOVE the fact that she is always hustling and up for an adventure. She's ridiculously rad, check out Talknerdytomelove.com if you don't believe me… or just check it out anyway, you'll thank me later.
At the bar, I happened to mention how I had just gotten back from trimming up north and Jen's mouth dropped open. She had to go. Had to. How soon can we go?
Efffffffffff. I had juuuust gotten back to LA and even though it's not like I had a home to go decompress in, I did have a special fella that I was looking forward to lying in bed with for the next 24 hours… or more (but more on that later.) But, I am never one to turn down an adventure. So I texted Jackie. I hadn't even finished my beer when he texted back, we're in. OMG. OMFG. I just signed myself up for an 8 hour car trip and three more days of trimming on 'the land' (see previous post.) The Land was kind of exciting for me because I hadn't been there yet so I had no idea what to expect or prep for and I love that kind of shit.
Me and Jen made plans to get our scripts the next day and hit the road around noon. Okay, I'm stoked. Sometimes you just gotta power through the tiredness and find your 387,297th wind.
The next day, I slept in late. Then later. Then I decided to say 'Fuck it' to getting my script, left to scoop Jen around 1pm and hit the road (again!)
NorCal, here we come!
We made great time even with a few stops (Pyramid Lake is soooo beautiful! I wanna play on a boat in it!) and the whole way we brainstormed while she Tweeted and kept up with her site. I have recently discovered how cool social media really is so I was absorbing the way she stays connected like a sponge. It was totally cool to see how she merges it with her life.
The weather in NorCal was CRAZY!!! Thunderstorms, pouring rain and out of control fog. Growing up on the east coast and living in the mountains of CA, I've learned to drive in some seriously knarly shit but this was nuts. Winding up the foggy mountain roads, I had to keep up with the SUV in front of us just so I could follow his break lights and stay on the road. I'm telling you, KNARLY.
We got up to the town, left my car and got picked up by Jackie (yay! Love him!) and taken all the way up the mountain to The Land. The trek up the mountain was AWESOME! Jackie knew the roads like the back of his hand so he flew through small lakes of water and up mountains of rock at super fast speed. We weaved in between huge trees and waterfalls, I felt like I was on a Safari ride at Disney World or Busch Gardens- Welcome to my life.
We got to camp and again, sooo not what I was expecting. They had built a little house with one open room with a fire place and a bathroom that was under construction. We didn't even need our tent, we could just set up our bedding on the floor in the house and leave it at that. There was a little outhouse set up about 100 feet from the house that had a real, running water toilet, a sink and a shower. A little to the left was a barn style thing and a few seriously powerful generators that were powering the whole operation.
We pulled up and were immediately greeted by our 'bosses' and the other 'employees.' Again, everyone was SO amazingly nice and wonderful and it was SO great to be back in the mountains. So serene.
Most of the trimmers were from out of the country. Mexico, Bali, Spain, it was an awesome mixing pot of cultures.
OMG, speeeaaaking of a mixing pot of cultures- so being homeless doesn't mean I'm always sleeping in my car and actually for the past few days, I have set up shop in my hook up buddy's apartment (more on that later.) Right now, I'm sitting in the corner of his bed on my laptop writing this and he and his roommates just busted in the door with a keg of beer and a carton of eggs, chanting "Kegs and Eggs, Kegs and Eggs!"- it's 11am. As much as I would LOVE to shut myself in his room and finish this story, I feel that I MUST go out and socialize… can't be a bad house guest, you know? ;)
I'm posting this right now so I can keep with my One Post A Day Every Day in July and 'Adventures in Pot Farming: Part II… CONTINUED' will be coming soon! Thanks so much for reading <3
The longest relationship that I have ever been in was with my high school sweetheart, Mike. We dated junior year, half of senior year and freshman year of college- so a little over 2 1/2 years. It was puppy love so it was a little different than dating in the 'real world' but he is an awesome guy and we are still friends after all these years. Thanks for asking!


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Men's Basketball Travels to Chadron State Wednesday
The Northern Colorado men's basketball team returns to action Wednesday evening at Chadron State after an 11-day layoff for final exams. Tipoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Chadron, Nebraska.
The Bears head into action with a record of 4-2, following a weekend sweep of Chadron State and Colorado Mines December 3-4. UNC has won three straight games, dating back to an 86-76 win at Colorado Christian November 30.
Chadron State currently has a mark of 4-3, including a perfect 4-0 mark at home. Since losing to the Bears December 3, the Eagles have posted back-to-back wins over Colorado Christian (77-73) and Regis (80-53).
On the Air
Wednesday night's game against Chadron State will be broadcast live on KFKA-AM (1310) with Mike Rice calling all of the play-by-play action. Tune in at 7:15 p.m. (M.S.T.) for the Bears' Basketball Pregame Show. KFKA will once again broadcast every conference game and most non-conference games.
On the Internet
Every UNC men's basketball game which is broadcast on KFKA-AM radio can also be heard on-line by logging onto www.uncbears.com, the "Official Web Site of UNC Athletics". Simply click on the "Audio/Video" button on the front page of www.uncbears.com and follow the easy instructions to hear the Bears live!
The Coaches
UNC head coach Craig Rasmuson is in his first season leading the men's basketball program. A 1990 graduate of Ashland University, Rasmuson arrived at UNC after serving as the head coach at Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tenn.) for five seasons. His overall record currently stands at 70-68 (.507). In 1998, Rasmuson was named Gulf South Conference Coach of the Year for leading the Railsplitters to a 19-8 record.
Chadron State head coach Dan Beebe is in his third season at the helm of the Eagle program. A 1992 graduate of Chadron State, Beebe has posted a record of 26-33 (.441), while at his alma mater.
The Series
UNC and Chadron State have met 15 times prior to Wednesday's contest. The Bears hold a commanding 12-3 advantage in the all-time series. UNC defeated the Eagles 87-85 earlier this season (Dec. 3) in Greeley.
In that game, junior forward Maseo Grant led five Bears in double figures with 20 points on 5-of-6 shooting from the field. Grant's eight-foot jumper with two seconds left in the game broke an 85-85 tie giving UNC its first home victory of the season.
The Houston native also connected on 10-of-10 from the free throw line, where the Bears dominated the game. UNC shot 75 percent (33-44) from the charity stripe, while outrebounding the Eagles 44 to 32. Otis Frazier and Kweemada King paced Chadron State with 33 and 25 points, respectively.
Scouting the Eagles
Chadron State has won four of its last five games to enter Wednesday's game with a 4-3 record. The Eagles have posted victories this season over South Dakota Tech (74-55), Black Hills State (118-89), Colorado Christian (77-73) and Regis (80-53), while they fell to Minnesota State (90-77), Winona State (70-66) and UNC (87-85).
The Eagles are led by the tandem of Kweemada King and Otis Frazier, who are responsible for 63 percent of the team's scoring and 35 percent of the team's rebounding. King is averaging 30.0 points per game on 50 percent shooting from the field, while Frazier has contributed 22.0 points and 7.3 rebounds.
Bears Looking for Fourth Straight
With three straight victories heading into Wednesday's game at Chadron State, the Bears are looking for their first four-game win streak since late in the 1997-98 season. Earlier that same year, UNC posted a seven-game win streak, which was the longest streak since 1988-89.
The Injury Report
Senior forward Pierre Elize suffered a sprained ankle in Sunday's practice. His status for Wednesday's game is unknown at this point.
Getting Offensive
After averaging a dismal 65.7 points per game last season, the Bears have opened the 1999-2000 campaign with four games over 80 points. In fact, during UNC's recent win streak, the team is averaging 86.7 points, while shooting 50.3 percent from the field. In the season opener, the Bears tallied 106 points, the highest single-game total since a 110-95 victory over Denver during the 1993-94 season.
Martinez Continues to Climb All-Time Career Lists
Senior guard Carlos Martinez is certainly leaving his mark in the UNC recordbook The Denver native currently ranks fifth on the UNC all-time career assist list with 259. He also ranks fifth in steals (92), fourth in three-point field goals made (114) and fifth in three-point field goals attempted (313).
Grant Displays Shooting Dead-Eye
Junior Maseo Grant has begun his UNC career in impressive fashion. In his first season since transferring from Waldorf (Iowa) College, the 6-7 forward has hit 71.1 percent (32-45) of his field goal attempts and 91.7 percent (22-24) of his free throw attempts. Through six games, he is averaging 14.3 points and 8.8 rebounds. In the Bears' last two games, Grant shot an incredible 84.6 percent (11-13) from the field and 91.7 percent (11-12) from the free throw line. Included in his 11 field goals was a game-winning jumper against Chadron State (Dec. 3).
Bears Add Another Grable
With Dean Grable already a key contributor on the squad, head coach Craig Rasmuson looked for another boost when he added twin brother Keith Grable to the team following the football season. All Keith Grable did was earn first team all-conference honors and first team all-region honors as a wide receiver on UNC's North Central Conference championship football team. Keith will add depth at shooting guard and small forward.
Blue & Gold Luncheon
Head coach Craig Rasmuson, as well as all in-season coaches, will speak at the weekly Blue & Gold Luncheon every Monday at the Eighth Street Grill (701 8th Street). The luncheon begins at noon and costs $7, which includes a choice of entree and beverage. The Blue & Gold Luncheons are open to the public. NOTE: There will be no luncheon Dec. 20 and Dec. 27 due to the holidays. The Blue & Gold Luncheon will resume Monday, Jan. 3.
Up Next
Following this week's action, the Bears have 13 days off before returning to action at the Metro State Classic Dec. 28-29 in Denver. UNC will face Colorado-Colorado Springs Monday, Dec. 28 at 5 p.m. and Metro State Tuesday, Dec. 29 at 7 p.m. The Bears' next home game is Sunday, Jan. 2, when the North Central Conference schedule begins with North Dakota (8 p.m.).
Northern Colorado Probable Starters No. Pos. Name PPG RPG 44 G Dean Grable (6-0, 220, Sr.) 13.7 2.7 21 G Carlos Martinez (5-8, 162, Sr.) 12.8 2.8 45 C Mike Sehringer (6-7, 220, Jr.) 9.5 5.7 24 F Pierre Elize (6-3, 205, Sr.) 16.8 6.8 42 F Maseo Grant (6-7, 212, Jr.) 14.3 8.8
Chadron State Probable Starters No. Pos. Name PPG RPG 3 G Tim Kamerzell (6-3, So.) 6.3 2.0 20 G Bret Bondegard (5-11, Sr.) 6.4 3.3 23 F Otis Frazier (6-3, Sr.) 22.0 7.3 32 F Kweemada King (6-4, Sr.) 30.0 4.6 42 F Zak Kennedy (6-5, Jr.) 8.1 5.1


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Dr. Stein One-Shot for Lluvscake (Sexy Stein)sorry it's kinda short and that its so late
"HEY STEIN!" Soul eater and Maka peaked in.
"Oh... hello."
"We got that new assistant you wanted."
"Oh? Now who is that?"
"Hello, my name is Kurai Angelo."
"Stein, Dr . Stein simply enough."
"It will be nice to work with you." I held out my hand and he lightyly touched it down.
"You two may leave, here this is what I need."
"Aren't some of these endagered?"
"But it would be a crime not to learn anything about them before they went extinct."Hey Kurai?"
"Yes Dr?"
"Let me dissect you." he said wrapping his arms around me from behind.
"Get away from her Stein." Raito growled at him.
"Fine fine." he said before moving away from me and into another room while he was on his chair.
"Yeah, I know, he weirds me out too."
"Silly Raito."
"What?" I shook my head and grabbed my shopping list, I had to get a couple new subjects for Dr. Stein. When I returned Stein was sitting his eyes were starring out into blind space.
His eyes lit up and he was behind me in an instant. "How?" he gripped my body from behind and pulled me into him, his head lay on my shoulder. Raito wasn't with me, I told him to go home and that I would be there shortly.
"How what?" He shook his head lightly.
"I'm sleepy...why don't you try to wake me up?"
"How?""I am actual not sure...just get out."
I ran outside and stayed there... when it started to rain I stayed.
Stein POV~
I didn't mean to yell at her... I also didn't mean for this wierd feeling that I usually have with the love of disecting people... is it love? No, I'm insane... literatly, I can't be in love. "What have I done." Guilt that I had never felt before consuming me. I tried calling her home using the number that Maka had given me.
She didn't respond. I grabbed my coat and left... when I made it to the cement I realized it was raining. 'was she still out in this?'
"Um..." oh, damn what was her name again? "KURAI!!!!" I yelled out.
"ngg..." a small moan emitted from the pile of leaves next to the door.
"Kurai?" I brushed the leaves off to see her... her skin was almost blue... I needed to get her inside.
Kurai POV`
"huh?" I tried to sit up but I realized I was restrained... oh no... was I kidnapped? "Hello?"
"Hello. I see you've woken up."
"What happened?"
"You were outside for a couple hours in the rain."
"I was?"
"yes, now get some more sleep."
"What happened to Raito?"
"I'm right here." he licked me before Stein pulled him back.
"She needs sleep." he set a small cup next to me and left with Raito in hand.
"Bye!" I fell asleep soon after and woke up with someones head resting on my stomach... who ever it was, they were asleep. And that someone had a bolt screwed into their head. I stroked his hair a little.... he actually looked cute while he was asleep. I pretended to be asleep when I felt his muscles tense. My hand still resting on his head. He took my hand in his and lifted his head, before he did something very sweet and that made me blush. He kissed my hand and left. When he returned he brought a plate of some weird looking food.
"You need to eat." He started to spoon feed me.
"Dr? Have you even dissected anything lately...you seem on edge."
"I haven't for a week." My eyes widened. "But that's not why."
"What do you mean?"
"I'm insane... I'm not supposed to feel guilt, or this feeling of love."
"I Love You." he said simply... he smiled and kissed me.
"Stein........." I kissed him back, his eyes widened. "Just because your insane doesn't mean you can't love." I hugged him.
"So can I dissect you now?"
"How about I capture Spirit for you?"
"That'll work... but I'd much rather see more of you."
"Then you'll have to wait till I get better."
"Okay... Killing Kurai..."
"That's a weird nickname..."
"Is it?"
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Counterparties: Hyperinflation is so hot right now (in Iran)
Welcome to the┬ĀCounterparties┬Āemail. The sign-up page is┬Āhere, itŌĆÖs just a matter of checking a box if youŌĆÖre already registered on the Reuters website. Send suggestions, story tips and complaints to┬ĀCounterparties.firstname.lastname@example.com
The official Iranian rial-to-US dollar exchange rate has been surprisingly steady over the past several months. That's somewhat odd, because in 2010, the US and EU imposed┬Ātough new sanctions against Iran. But in recent weeks, says┬Āthe Cato Institute's Steve Hanke, "hyperinflation has arrived in Iran":
Using new data from IranŌĆÖs foreign-exchange black market, I estimate that IranŌĆÖs monthly inflation rate has reached 69.6%. With a monthly inflation rate this high (over 50%), Iran is undoubtedly experiencing hyperinflation.
When President Obama signed the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act, in July 2010, the official Iranian rial-U.S. dollar exchange rate was very close to the black-market rate. But, as the accompanying chart shows, the official and black-market rates have increasingly diverged since July 2010.
Terrifyingly, the black-market (i.e., realistic) value of the rial recently dropped 60% in eight days. Tougher sanctions in part explain the sudden drop. The US, for its part, seems increasingly unwilling to allow Western financial institutions to pal around with the Iranian regime. Any further reduction in the access Iran's central bank has to global financial markets would put further pressure on the rial.
Reuters' Yeganeh Torbati explains how the regime's attempt to dampen the effects of the currency crisis may have exacerbated the rial's sudden collapse. As you might expect, the Iranian population is not taking these developments well: Al Jazeera reports that police have clashed with currency protesters in Tehran.
Further sanctions from the EU appear imminent. And that could cause a jittery Iranian regime to pull out the biggest bargaining chip it currently has by closing the Straight of Hormuz. More broadly, Jay Newton-Small rounds up the three most likely outcomes — regime change, a push for greater nuclear capabilities or economic collapse — none of which are particularly heartening. — Ben Walsh
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US adds 114,000 jobs in September, unemployment rate falls to 7.8% -┬ĀBLS
Jack Welch and a collection of NFP truther tweets -┬ĀZeke Miller
Jack Welch "is now unavailable for the rest of the day in meetings" -┬ĀBloomberg
"I wasn't kidding": Jack Welch defends his bizarre jobs numbers conspiracy theory -┬ĀWSJ
How to run your hedge fund from a prison cell -┬ĀJonathan Weil
Since 2009, investors have pulled $138 billion from stocks/ETFs and put $1 trillion into bonds -┬ĀWSJ
An interview with the world's youngest, most charmingly oblivious hedge fund -┬ĀKevin Roose
End-of-life care: the wrong place to look for healthcare savings -┬ĀDavid Wessel
Big Ideas
America's need for more immigrants is the "most important economic issue of our time" -┬ĀAdam Ozimek
Cognitive Dissonance
"WeŌĆÖve hit that moment in the election when people begin to lose their minds" -┬ĀEzra Klein
Economic research vs. the blogosphere -┬ĀWhy Nations Fail
Meet Mira, the supercomputer that creates universes – Atlantic
Today in Rationing
There have been spot shortages of the Starbuck's Pumpkin Spice Latte -┬ĀWSJ
Brian Cox's Scotch pronunciation guide -┬ĀEsquire
EU Mess
Greece says it will run out of money by November without more aid -┬ĀReuters
Meet Lucy, the missing link.
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Thanks, Benny ŌĆō thatŌĆÖs a primo-collection of truly-Troll-OP-stuff youŌĆÖve given us to chew on over the weekend.
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Tuesday, 25 March 2014
Hortonworks raises $100M to grow engineering and company's ecosystem globally
Derrick Harris for GigaOm has the scoop:
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks has raised $100 million in a new round of venture capital led by BlackRock and Passport Capital. The company's existing investors — Dragoneer, Tenaya Capital, Benchmark, Index Ventures and Yahoo — also participated in the latest round. Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden said in an interview that the new funding will help Hortonworks scale its engineering efforts, grow the company's ecosystem and scale its global operations.
Last week's round E for Cloudera turned up to be $160 instead of the Bloomberg rumored $200.
These big rounds raised by the Hadoop pure-players are a confirmation of the Hadoop market. But I also think they can be explained by the tough competition Cloudera and Hortonworks are facing from large corporations like IBM, Teradata, Oracle, Microsoft. At least in terms of budget.
✚ While some of the above mentioned companies are partnering with at least one pure-play Hadooper — Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR — that doesn't mean they are not keeping an eye on the prize.
Original title and link: Hortonworks raises $100M to grow engineering and company's ecosystem globally ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://gigaom.com/2014/03/24/hortonworks-raises-100m-to-scale-its-hadoop-business/
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Hadoop Is the New Tape
John Webster for CNET:
There's a debate going on within the Hadoop community regarding the need for better responsiveness from Hadoop developers. Known issues with Apache Hadoop need to be addressed more quickly. The user learning curve needs to be concatenated. There are other knocks too. All of which leads some people to believe that Hadoop is merely a bridge to some better, future platform. Me? I'm in the definite maybe camp. I do see an opportunity for Hadoop implementations with applications built on top that would address the user elongated learning curve issue.
Maybe Hadoop is a just a bridge put together with rubber bands, but there's no way I could say it better than Jeff Darcy:
"The fact that something put together with rubber bands and chewing gum has succeeded so well is validation of the idea that terrific ideas trump mundane implementations. It's the next step after writing on napkins. Certainly one might hope that the rubber bands and chewing gum will be replaced with custom manufactured belts and industrial adhesives at some point, and I for one find it a bit annoying how the hype has outrun progress toward that goal, but I'll take something that works with ugly code over something that's all "industrial strength" only in someone's head any day…"
Original title and link: Hadoop Is the New Tape ( ©myNoSQL)
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Wednesday, 7 March 2012
JavaScript Console and Excel Coming to Hadoop
Eric Baldeschwieler about the Hortonworks and Microsoft partnership for bringing Apache Hadoop to Windows:
What makes this announcement significant is that Microsoft is opening up Apache Hadoop to literally millions of new users. There are millions of JavaScript developers that can now leverage the power of Apache Hadoop. There are many more millions of Excel and PowerPivot users that can also now derive value from Apache Hadoop using software is that already very familiar to them. Simply put, these contributions by Microsoft will extend Apache Hadoop to the most prolific data analysis tools in the world.
Me, back in January, after taking a look at Hadoop on Windows Azure:
The JavaScript console and the visualization support are very nice additions on top of the managed Hadoop on Azure.
Feature checklists are still important, but technology adoption depends more and more on the user experience. Think of getting up to speed as being the first impression someone gets of a new technology.
Think of integration with familiar tools and frameworks as a huge adoption accelerator.
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The government has been shut down for almost a week.
And that's how long it has been since employees at the Federal Prison Camp in Yankton have been paid for their work.
"People have bills to pay, families to support, groceries to buy, and we don't know when we're going to get out next paycheck," said Michele Kunkel, Local 4040 Union President.
Employees at the Yankton Federal Prison are fed up with the lack of action by congress. George Taylor is a retired Minnesota state employee and knows what it's like when budget problems hurt your job.
"The sad part is that the ones that implement this are still getting their paychecks while the other people have to do without and Think that's totally unfair," said Taylor.
"I am almost ashamed to be a federal worker right now in a situation that were working or not getting paid," said Kunkel.
Michele Kunkel is the president of the union which represents prison camp employees and she tells sit's a challenging situation.
"When they can't live paycheck to paycheck then they use credit cards, and then they charge up, and that gets out of hand, some people and up losing their homes and other things," said Taylor.
Both Kunkel and her husband work at the prison and have no income for the time being.
"Purchasing less, only what I need at least until I know that I'm going to get a paycheck," said Kunkel.
But, the over 100 employees at the Yankton facility remain dedicated and continue to work while hoping for change.
"As elected officials, they're supposed to compromise,it's not all one way or the other, there has to be compromise in anything,"said Taylor.
"At this point we be happy with a continued resolution just to find some salaries so we could get paid," said Kunkel.
Kunkel says her family is cutting corners to make ends meet, but if the shutdown lasts much longer, she might have to rely on her children for help.


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|Anchorage, Alaska
|KTVA 11 (general)
KTVA 11 News (newscasts)
|First in Alaska
|Digital: 28 (UHF)
Virtual: 11 (PSIP)
|Denali Media Holdings
(Denali Media Anchorage, Corp.)
|First air date
|December 11, 1953
|Call letters' meaning
|TeleVision Alaska
|Sister station(s)
|Former channel number(s)
|Former affiliations
DuMont (1953-1955)
PBS (Sesame Street, 1970-1975)
|Transmitter power
|28.9 kW
|60.6 m
|Facility ID
|Transmitter coordinates
KTVA, virtual channel 11, is a CBS-affiliated television station in Anchorage, Alaska. Owned by Denali Media Holdings (a subsidiary of local cable provider GCI), its studios are based at the headquarters of the Anchorage Daily News, while its transmitter is located in Spenard—covering the Anchorage bowl and much of the adjacent Matanuska-Susitna Valley.[1][2] Some of its programming is broadcast to rural communities via low-power translators through the Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS).
KTVA is Alaska's first broadcast television station. Legendary Alaskan broadcast pioneer August G. "Augie" Hiebert (1916-2007) applied to the FCC in May 1953, received approval for construction permits in July 1953, and KTVA signed on the air on December 11, 1953 broadcasting (initially from 2 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.). The studio and office were originally housed on the first floor and the transmitter on top of the pink 14-story McKinley Building.[3] with an analog signal on VHF channel 11.[4] The station aired a few NBC programs in the late 1960s, until KHAR-TV (now KYUR) took the NBC affiliation in 1970. The station was a DuMont affiliate in the early 1950s.[5] During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[6] KTVA also carried Sesame Street from 1970 until KAKM signed on in 1975.
On January 3, 1971, KTVA aired Anchorage's first ever live satellite broadcast from the U.S. mainland, the 1971 NFC Championship Game.[7] Until the 1980s, when the networks went to full satellite distribution, KTVA and other TV stations in Alaska aired network programming on a tape-delayed basis via videotaped recordings of network programs captured off-the-air in Seattle, which were then flown to Alaska.
In 2000, KTVA was acquired by the newspaper publisher MediaNews Group.[8] KTVA brought in $6.8 million of revenue in 2009, second to KTUU-TV with $10 million (40% of the market).[9]
On November 9, 2012, GCI, through subsidiary Denali Media Holdings, announced plans to purchase KTVA, as well as KATH-LD and KSCT-LP in Southeast Alaska.[10] The Federal Communications Commission approved the deal on October 29, 2013.[11] The sale was formally closed on November 1.[12]
On December 2, 2013, KTVA moved to a new high definition-capable studio on the second floor of the headquarters of the Anchorage Daily News, and unveiled a new set and logo.[13]
Digital television[edit]
The station currently has a single 1080i high definition feed.
'Digital channelsDigital channels
News operation[edit]
KTVA produces 17 hours of local news programming per week. Weekday news offerings include a one-hour morning newscast called Daybreak at 6 a.m., two half-hour evening newscasts at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m and a one-hour newscast at 6 p.m. The station dropped its morning and weekend newscasts on April 18, 2012,[14] but they were reinstated in December 2013. "KTVA offers deeper-digging signature reports in its news lineup" to distinguish itself from KTUU-TV and KYUR, according to trade publication Broadcasting and Cable.[9]
On-air staff[edit]
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Current on-air and management staff[edit]
News Directors
- Bert Rudman - News Director. Joined the KTVA team is June 2013 after a 20-year run working for ABC News in Georgia, New York and Los Angeles.[15]
- Janis DeMarest - Assistant News Director [15]
- Joe Vigil - Evening Anchor/Reporter; weeknights on KTVA CBS 11 News at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.[15]
- Emily Carlson - Evening Anchor/Reporter; weeknights on KTVA CBS 11 News at 5, 6 and 10 p.m.[15]
- Rhonda McBride - Rural Affairs Editor/Reporter. She has been a reporter in Alaska since 1988, 10 of those years spent as news director for KYUK radio station in Bethel, Alaska. She has also worked at the Alaska Public Radio Network, KTUU and a one-year stint as Governor Sarah Palin's Rural Advisor. She has been recognized three times by the Society of Professional Journalists as a Sigma Delta Chi winner, for my coverage of rural voting patterns, fetal alcohol syndrome and climate change.[15]
- Alexis Fernandez - Reporter/Weekend Anchor; Saturday & Sunday onKTVA CBS 11 News at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. Joined the CBS 11 News team in June 2010 after working as a morning anchor and reporter for KTVF-TV, an NBC affiliate in Fairbanks, Alaska. Fernandez was born and raised in Fairbanks.[15]
- Heather Hintze - Reporter/Photographer. A Montana native, she joined the CBS News team in November 2011 after having spent the past four years working at KEZI-TV in Eugene, Oregon.[15]
- Lauren Maxwell - General Assignment Reporter; weeknights on KTVA CBS 11 News at 5, 6 and 10 p.m., She joined the KTVA news team 21 years ago. Prior to that she worked as a radio news reporter for Anchorage radio station KFQD. She has won numerous local and state awards during her long broadcast career, including many from the Alaska Broadcasters' Association.[15]
- Shannon Ballard - General Assignment Reporter [15]
- James Gaddis - Daybreak Anchor/Repororter [15]
- Bonney Bowman - General Assignment Reporter [15]
Weather Team - "Home of Alaska's Only 7 Day Forecast"
- Carlos Faura - Chief Meteorologist; weekdays at 5 p.m, 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Joined the CBS 11 Weather Department in August 2013.[15]
- Brett Shepard - Daybreak Meteorologist; weekdays at 6 and 7 a.m. Joined the CBS 11 Weather Department in October 2002 right after graduating from Western Illinois University with a degree in meteorology and a minor in broadcasting. He became Chief Meteorologist in May 2007.[15]
- Janessa Webb - Weather Anchor; "KTVA CBS 11 News." Joined the CBS 11 News family in October 2011 after working at affiliate Fox News 4 and ABC 13 (Coastal Television) in Anchorage as a news, sports and weather anchor. Webb is a graduate of East High School in Anchorage and Wintson-Salem State University, North Carolina.[15]
Sports team
- Dave Goldman - Sports Director; Weekdays at 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. Joined the KTVA in August 2013. Previously worked at CTV in Largo, Maryland.[15]
- Rontina McCann - Weekend Sports Anchor; Saturday & Sunday at 5 p.m. and 10 p.m.[15]
Web Department
- Jason Sear - Online Content Manager
- Kirsten Swann - Web Editor/Reporter
- Hope Miller - Web Editor/Reporter
Former on-air staff[edit]
- Christina Campbell - Meteorologist; fill-in for both weekday and weekend broadcasts. Joined KTVA in 1993.[15]
- Nicole Dougherty - Meteorologist; weekends at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. She joined KTVA in September 2011 from the USAF at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.[15]
- Edward Corter - Broadcast Engineer / Senior Electronics Engineering Technician III, raised in Alaska before starting his career under Carl Cooper of Pixel Instruments where Campbell, CA becomes Los Gatos at Dell Avenue: returning to Anchorage his home. Carl is the father of 2D 3Line CombFilter http://www.google.com/patents/US8072539 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb_filter .[15]
- Bill McAllister - General assignment reporter. Bill has more than three decades of experience in journalism and mass communications. He is the recipient of numerous awards from the Alaska Press Club, the Alaska Broadcasters' Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, and Capitolbeat, the national organization of statehouse reporters.[15]
- Corey Allen-Young - General assignment reporter. A lifelong Alaskan, he joined the CBS 11 News family in June 2008 after working at KXD CBS News 13 in Fairbanks, Alaska, as an anchor and reporter.[15]
- Katie Paglini - Weekday mornings at 6 a.m., produces and anchors "CBS 11 News This Morning."[16] A Chicago native and Northwestern University graduate, she has lived in Alaska since April 2009 and came to KTVA from KTVF-TV, Channel 11, an NBC affiliate in Fairbanks.[17]
- Dave Stroh - Weeknights at 5 p.m. A long-time Anchorage radio personality, he joined KTVA in 1995 and has since won numerous awards for his work.[18] Stroh is a morning DJ (Super Dave) and Program Director for KEAG-FM, "KOOL 97.3," owned by the Anchorage Media Group, in Anchorage, where he has worked for more than 17 years.[19]
- Pat Lynn - Patrick Karl Lynn (01/18/1936 - 02/05/2011), a Quebec-born Canadian who migrated to the U.S. in 1958 and began a long career in print and TV journalism in 1962, joined KTVA in 1981 as news director and anchor. Later, he moved to Valdez, Alaska, becoming the owner of KVAK, 1230 AM, a local radio station, in 1988. In the months following the Exxon Valdez oil spill in March 1989, Lynn provided ABC News with daily reports on the cleanup efforts.[20]
- Matthew Felling - Felling, a former anchor and lead political reporter for KTVA CBS 11 News, was hired by U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski(R-Alaska) in April 2011 as Communications Director for her Washington, D.C. office. Before joining KTVA in September 2008, Felling had a decade of experience with news reporting, political analysis and commentary, and as a media critic in Washington, D.C. His career included stints as Media Director at the Center for Media and Public Affairs, writer for the CBS News "Public Eye" blog, and frequent appearances on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and other TV networks as a guest pundit. He was a frequent guest-host on "Morning Joe" on MSNBC.[21]
- Andrea Gusty - Former weeknight news anchor and Eye Team investigative reporter for six years, she was hired in November 2011 by U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) as the Anchorage-based Communications Director for Alaska. Gusty, originally from Aniak, Alaska, is a graduate of Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.[22][23]
- Matthew Simon - KTVA Weekend Anchor/Producer/Senior Reporter from Oct 2005 to Oct 2010, now a general assignment reporter for KTUU Channel 2 News, the NBC affiliate, in Anchorage.
- Karina Petersen - Joined the CBS 11 News team in July 2008 and left in early 2011 to serve as Media Relations Coordinator for Samaritan's Purse International Relief,[24] a nonprofit international Christian emergency/disaster relief and evangelism organization, including providing media coverage for the delivery and distribution of disaster relief supplies to tsunami victims in Sendai, Japan, in March 2011.[25] Born in Fairbanks, Alaska, she was raised in the town of Soldotna on the Kenai Peninsula. A graduate of the University of Missouri with a degree in broadcast journalism, she was a summer intern at WTTG-TV, Channel 5, the Fox affiliate in Washington, D.C.[26]
- Natalie Travis- reporter - now with KYUR-TV, channel 13, Anchorage.
- Raegan Scott, former anchor of "CBS 11 News at 10 p.m." weekdays. Scott came to KTVA from WLWT-TV, NBC 5, Cincinnati, OH, where she was a reporter with the name Raegan Butler.[27]
- Lauren Oates Butcher - Former News Anchor/Managing Editor from September 2001 to September 2008; now Media Consultant/Co-Owner at Montage Media Group, Anchorage.
- Annette Newelle - Anchor for the 6 and 10 pm weeknight newscasts from 1998 to 2000.
- Kimberly Van Scoy - A Memphis native, anchored evening newscast with Steve MacDonald in the 1980s. Since 1998, morning anchor with WXII-TV, channel 12, NBC, Winston-Salem, NC. KTVA Eyewitness News open from 1988 on YouTube.
- Jim McClure - General assignment reporter and fill-in anchor.
- Joylene Bunde, daughter of retiring State Senator Con Bunde.
- Norma Goodman (1930–2007) hosted a live interview show called Hostess House, which debuted on the station on March 1, 1954. The show's title was later changed to The Norma Goodman Show. The 30-minute program was cancelled in 2001 and replaced by a 5-minute morning news segment, which she hosted until her death. She was also a fill-in news anchor on occasion over the years.[28][29]
- Steve McDonald joined the station in 1982. He was news director and lead anchor before joining KTUU in 1996.[30] YouTube.
- Ron Moore first became known in Anchorage in the late 1950s as "The Royal Coachman," a teenage DJ who would broadcast his radio show from The Bun Drive-In on Northern Lights Boulevard, across from the present-day The Mall at Sears. Moore was news anchor for much of the 1970s and 1980s, later becoming general manager of the station.
In October 2010, a voice-mail accidentally left on the phone of Randy DeSoto, spokersperson for U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller, included KTVA reporters allegedly talking about whether they could find a Miller campaign supporter who was a registered sex offender at one of the candidate's rallies, and about how they could publicize any potential violent incidents through social network alerts. Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin responded to the controversy by calling them "corrupt bastards".[31][32][33]
After an internal investigation, the station terminated two producers involved with the voicemail discussion. The station manager stated that "The recorded conversation in question specifically involved how that evening's Miller rally might be promoted and the ensuing dialogue went down hill from there. These particular comments were not in line with KTVA standards."[34]
On November 10, 2010, KTVA cancelled its 5PM and 6PM newscasts that night, replacing those newscasts with repeats of The New Adventures of Old Christine; station officials said via Twitter that the night's newscasts were cancelled "in order to address an internal matter." The 10PM newscast was not affected.[35]
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- ^ "KTVA – Online Coverage Map". TVFool.com - Retrieved January 26, 2012.
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- ^ a b "Market Eye: They're Anchored to Alaska.". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
- ^ "GCI to purchase NBC for Southeast Alaska KATH-TV and KSCT-TV". Retrieved Nov 9, 2012.
- ^ Burke, Jill (October 30, 2013). "GCI wins out in FCC fight over acquisition of Alaska TV stations". Alaska Dispatch. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
- ^ https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101587216&formid=905&fac_num=49632
- ^ "KTVA debuts new station". KTVA.com. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
- ^ http://www.ktva.com/home/top-stories/KTVA-Announces-Programming-Changes-End-to-Morning-Weekend-Newscasts-147991495.html
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u "KTVA-Meet Our News Team-Staff Bios". KTVA.com Retrieved January 28, 2012.
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- ^ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xie2u9_katie-paglini-bids-fairbanks-a-fond-farewell_news#
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External links[edit]
- Official website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KTVA
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KTVA-TV


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Roots on the River Festival
Fred Eaglesmith and his band; and Josh Maiocco at the Swap Tent, photos by Mary Lou Massucco; 2012 Festival poster.
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|Country and Region
|United States — Vermont
|Type of Festival
|Location of Festival
|Bellows Falls, Vermont, USA
|Festival Contact Information
Online email
|Festival Description
The annual Roots on the River Music Festival offers a unique experience, some new acts, Grammy Award winning music, and a few perennial favorites. The performers include international acts and a few area favorites. A swap tent of musical instruments and equipment is a popular feature of Saturday, as is the children's tent of games and activities throughout the afternoon so the young are occupied while the parents enjoy the show. There is a wide variety of food and drink vendors on site, and the grounds are entirely smoke free, family and pet friendly. Please note that glass containers and coolers are not permitted on the grounds, and with limited seating most folk bring their own folding chair.
|Festival Dates
|June 5 - 8, 2014
|Festival Links
Festival Events:
Lineup 2014:
- James McMurtry
- Haley Reardon
- Meadows Brothers
- Rebecca Holtz and The Once Hollow
- Caitlin Canty
- Sean Rowe
- Carolyn Wonderland
- Curtis McMurtry
- Heather Maloney
- Poor Old Shine
- Roger Marin
- JD McPherson and The Black Lillies
- The Bottle Rockets
- Mary Gauthier
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- Kris Gruen, singer and songwriter from Vermont
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Practical Info:
- Tickets can be purchased online at the festival's website http://vermontfestivalsllc.com/, or by calling +01 802-463-9595.
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