Album: Key Lime Pie
The most serious – i.e. the only serious – album that Camper Van Beethoven made, for the first side, Key Lime Pie is also the best album they ever made. While their trademark psychedelic absurdity remained, it found itself serving songs with actual specific politics – left-wing, thereby surprising no one – attached. Though, naturally, Camper Van Beethoven couldn’t be bothered to write their anti-Reagan song (a staple of the 1980s indie scene) until after he left office.
Sadly, side two of Key Lime Pie didn’t hold up, and even the Status Quo cover that topped that alt-rock charts that year just left me cold. That said, smack dab in the middle of a sea of songs I haven’t played on purpose in 25 years stands “All Her Favorite Fruit,” which is my favorite Camper Van Beethoven song.
Slow, majestic and brooding, “All Her Favorite Fruit” was a twisted love song featuring a gorgeous guitar hook (that kinda reminded me of early U2 at the time) snaking around a soaring violin, as well as one of my favorite Lowery lines:
And I’d like to take her there, rather than this train
Thinking about it now, it’s not early U2 that “All Her Favorite Fruit” reminds me of, it’s Pavement circa Wowee Zowee, where the tempos have slowed, but the guitar hooks you can sing along with still remain. If you think hard enough, you could hear “All Her Favorite Fruit” easily share space with “Grounded” or “Father To A Sister of Thought”
Of course, in 1989, Pavement was in about the same place in their development that Camper Van Beethoven were during the Telephone Free Landslide Victory, but I now wonder if Camper Van’s later days was any kind of example for their fellow Californians.
“All Her Favorite Fruit”


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I was absolutely honored the other month when I was contacted by Lewis Lim, Harris Lim and Eric Lin of Bokeh Magazine and asked to do an interview for their December issue. I had a lot of fun answering their well thought questions and thinking about the other photographers who have contributed or who would be reading the upcoming issue. I feel that I am still learning and growing as a photographer, as a business, and as a person. I love the idea of sharing my journey with other photographers trying to do the same so I truly respect the goals of Bokeh magazine. To learn more about Bokeh and how to read it online visit http://bokehonline.com/ This link will take you to issue 25, the December issue that Lovely Lens Photography, LLC. is featured in.
To see my entire interview check out Bokeh online using iTunes https://itunes.apple.com
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Massive Disneyland Attraction Database
The Alan-A-Dale's Playhouse attraction, which recently celebrated its final anniversary
November 14, 2004
Avg. queue length:
Decorated by Alan-A-Dale herself, this house is just plain silly.
- If you are with a cranky adult, you may want to pretend you don't speak English.
- If you are traveling with youngsters or very small children, you may want to line up for the nearby character meet-and-greet area.
Policies and Notices
- Expectant mothers may run away.
- In 1968, this attraction was updated to add additional rooms that could be misinterpreted as unmagical.
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We are growing for Flower
Importing seed from Colorado, to harvest for flower with an indoor/outdoor grow operation. Much of what we harvest will be process for CBD oil.
In 2020 we procured seed for 9 licensed farms. And sold 6 varieties of Clones to 9 licensed growers in North Dakota, Wisconsin, Florida, Illinois and Minnesota.
We hope to see additional licensees growing industrial hemp...for flower, grain, Hurd and Fiber to expand the many uses...which in turn expands farming prosperity. We will Consult and Adivise those interested in the cultivation and harvesting of Industrial Hemp. Call us for our Consultancy list of services.
This HSM, LLC was denied the opportunity to sell CBD / CBG tinctures and salves at the Minnesota State Fair ...No exhibitor, we were told can sell CBD regardless of the fact that they have a MDA license to cultivate and harvest Cannabis. There underwritten Is not Cannabis friendly.
There are State Fairs that have and do Allow for the sale of CBD.
Are there minimum requirements to start a hemp farm?
1. You must be able to secure a license to farm hemp from the Department of Ag.
2. You must have water rights - or - a contract with Local Water Delivery Company.
3. You must have equipment for planting, watering, harvesting and storing hemp.
4. In order to ensure a buy back you must employ ethical and green farming practices.You must know the specifics on how to harvest a hemp crop.
Do I need to check for specific zoning issues?
Call your county’s planning and zoning department and to verify if your land is agriculturally zoned and if there are any restrictions or requirements you should know about!
How do I know my crop will pass test for THC?
We rigorously test our strains to ensure you are getting a genuine hemp strain. However, sometimes altitude, sun exposure or other farms can lead to a hot test. We recommend testing as early as 3 weeks and obeying all state regulations, always!
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The hemp plant is an extremely durable plant that can be hard on harvesting equipment. You will need equipment that can plant, harvest, water and store your hemp. Contact us if you would like a tailored hemp farm equipment consultation!
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If you would like to buy seed or clones outright, visit our Store. If you are interested in a sharecropping partnership, fill out our pre qualification app to see if your land qualifies to partner with our organization to cultivate industrial hemp!
Visit us at our booth in the Dairy Building at the 2023 Minnesota State Fair!
Contact us regarding partnerships, Clone, seed orders, indoor/outdoor grow options, and more.

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Paid content expansions for Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition are nothing new. In the spring of 2017, a virtual marketplace appeared in the game, where not only developers but also the players can post their maps, mini-games or resource packs or skins for characters in exchange for Minecoins - a digital currency used in the store. In the aforementioned service we can also find a number of quite extensive DLCs, which by their design resemble mods, but are much more than that. The latest and definitely the most impressive so far is the addition introducing the world and characters from the animated film How to Train Your Dragon. But that's not all - Minecraft: Dungeons will also receive new, paid DLC titled Hidden Depths which will take the hack'n'slash gameplay under the ocean surface.
How to Train Your Dragon expansion for Minecraft currently costs 1340 coins. It looks really impressive - it introduces a world known from the animated film, a city full of NPCs and completely new mechanics such as dragon training, flying on the backs of these beasts, and using them in combat.. In addition, as can be seen on the trailer, the area in which the DLC takes place will offer some really nice views. It is worth adding that with the purchase of How to Train Your Dragon we will receive up to 24 skins for characters inspired by the movies.
Hidden Depths for Minecraft: Dungeons is primarily another expansion introducing new levels and mechanics to the game. This time, the devs have prepared an expedition to the depths, where not only will we have to face the enemies known from the original game and the Aquatic update, but also take care of access to oxygen and constantly replenish its supply while exploring the bottom of the ocean. On the release date, May 26, in addition to the paid expansion we will also receive free content with new spells, levels and an unprecedented, challenging opponent called Raid Captain.
- How to Train Your Dragon DLC for Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition
- Minecraft: Dungeons - game guide
- Gamepressure's Favorite Minecraft Mods 2021

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Prague, Nov 9 (CTK) – The Prague police detained a group of fans of the Sigma Olomouc club, playing in the Czech first football league, on Saturday, for having assaulted a man, 36, from West Africa, over the colour of his skin, server Aktualne.cz said on Thursday.
The man, who has been living in Prague for ten years, had to be treated in hospital.
The fans got on a tram in which the man was sitting in the Prague centre.
At first, they were attacking him verbally, throwing lemons at him. They eventually beat him with fists, pushed him to the ground and kicked him.
The attacked man complains that no one from the tram helped him and he had to use the emergency button and ask its driver to call in the emergency staff and police.
After he was treated in hospital, the police drove him to a local police station where they showed him the video recordings of the fans from the match that was being held.
The man said “I recognised about seven of them and the police detained them during the match.”
He said most of the passengers in the tram had refused his plea for testimony.
“All the detained men ended up at the police station. Now detectives are working on the case over the suspicion of defamation of race, breach of the peace and bodily harm,” police spokesman Jan Danek said.
The football club SK Sigma Olomouc has distanced itself from the behaviour of the assailants.
Its representatives said they only had information on the event from the media.
“Still, we sharply denounce such a conduct. We do not consider the individuals who are guilty of this any fans of SK Sigma Olomouc and they are not welcomed at our stadium. Those behaving so are not fans of SK Sigma!” the club said in its press release, adding that it was ready to cooperate with the police.


How Do I?
The Housing and Community Development Department is located at various locations throughout the City of Tucson. If you have questions, please contact the administrative office at (520) 791-4171.
Administration Division- Administrator, Tina Tellez Location: 310 N. Commerce Park Loop Tucson, AZ 85745 Phone: (520) 791-4171 Fax: (520) 791-5407 E-Mail: HCDAdmin@tucsonaz.gov
Planning & Community Development Division- Administrator, Vacant Location: 310 N. Commerce Park Loop Tucson, AZ 85745 Phone: (520) 791-4605 E-Mail: firstname.lastname@example.org Phone: (520) 791-4505 Phone: (520) 791-4636 (Rehab) Phone: (520) 791-4123 (Homeownership) Fax: (520) 791-2529
Code Enforcement Division- Administrator, Teresa Williams
***Code Enforcement has moved to Development Services Department.***
Office of Integrated Planning (OIP) now has it's own office, and includes the Neighborhood Services division.


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PEN ARGYL, Pa. - At Tuesday's school board meeting, Pen Argyl officials projected a 2.7 percent tax increase for the 2014-15 school year which they attribute to growing retirement, cyber school and charter school costs.
During the meeting, district officials unveiled their projected budget for the upcoming school year, which is expected to raise the area's millage rate from 47.26 to 48.52, an increase of 1.27 mills.
According to officials, this will result in $63 tax increase for local citizens with homes valued at $50,000, an approximation for the regional average.
The tax increase, board members say, could have been avoided were it not for the growing costs of retirement benefits and cyber and charter schools seen across the state.
"If not for the large increase in cyber school costs and the big spikes in pension, we would have probably less than a zero percent tax increase," said Pen Argyl Superintendent Dr. William Haberl.
The district's contribution to the state retirement system is projected to go up by 28 percent this year, resulting in a $553,790 increase.
"This is one of the areas driving the budget, not just here but across the state," Haberl said.
Meanwhile, the cost of cyber schools, which the superintendent claims are becoming increasingly popular, will go up from $492,451 to $680,590, an increase of 38.2 percent.
In the past two decades, the costs of benefits have more than doubled, currently comprising of 25.7 percent of the district's budget, while relative spending on salaries has gradually decreased.
The school district has also seen dwindling contributions from the state level, which officials claim is a continued cause for concern.
"Our legislators need to get their act together on figuring out how they're going to get this handled," said board member Ethan Habrial, of a potential decrease in state funds for education. "That's a loss of a lot of money."
According to Pen Argyl Business Administrator Walter Schlegel Jr., some of the education funds allocated by the state have been earmarked in a way that makes them difficult to utilize by the school district.
"We knew that there'd be an increase [in education funds] this year because it's an election year. The catch is it has to be spent on all new programs which makes it useless for us" he said "The last thing we need is new expenditures."
Schelegel also spoke of a struggling real estate market, but highlighted some potentially positive signs as well.
"We have very minimal growth," he said. "Total sales have been picking up [though] so there is some sign of improvement in the economy."
The Pen Argyl school board will now advertise the budget following Tuesday's meeting.
Discussions of the final budget will continue until the final approval deadline of June 30.
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On behalf of the Metropolitan Council, Environmental Financial Group Inc. generated a matrix of water conservation programs with detailed information about the costs and benefits of the programs. Tools were also developed to allow users to calculate potential water savings, estimate program implementation costs, and test the effects of various water conservation programs and rate structures.
This project will complete a pollutant source identification and subwatershed information report and support the development of a Draft Restoration and Protection Plan (RAPP). It will also support the devlopment of a Implementation Plan that will identify target areas for BMP implementation for bacteria reductions.
The goal of this project is to construct, calibrate, and validate five Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed models. The outcome will be HSPF models that can readily be used to provide information to support conventional parameter TMDLs. These models will generate predicted output timeseries for hydrology, sediment, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen which are consistent with available sets of observed data.
The goal of this project is to refine the segmentation, extend the simulation period, and recalibrate an existing Hydrologic Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model for the Rum River Watershed.
Approximately 70 percent of all Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Wells used for drinking water must be properly sealed when removed from service to protect both public health and Minnesota’s invaluable groundwater resources. The Minnesota Department of Health protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.
Clean Water funds are being provided to well owners as a 50% cost-share assistance for sealing unused public water-supply wells.
The goal of this project is the continued development of an overall strategy for reduction of turbidity/TSS, with sets of sediment reduction initiatives and actions for various sources, to address the Minnesota River Turbidity TMDL and the South Metro Mississippi River TSS TMDL. The overall strategy will be used to help establish a path towards achieving the required reductions of turbidity/TSS.
This project will extend the simulation period for the Hydrological Simulation Program - FORTRAN (HSPF) models for the Grand Rapids, Brainerd, Crow Wing, Redeye, Long Prairie, Sartell, Sauk, St. Cloud, and Crow watersheds, and review and comment on the calibration.
This project will provide the monitoring of reaches where there are data gaps, incorporate new data and analyze relevant data, identify pollutant sources, hold a stakeholder meeting, and gather information towards the future development of a Draft Restoration (TMDL) and Protection Plan.
This project will support the monitoring of reaches where there are data gaps, incorporate new data and relevant data, continue identification of pollutant sources, complete load duration curves, coordinate and encourage participation in stakeholder meetings. The information gathered during Phase IIB will be utilized towards the development of a Draft Restoration (TMDL) and Protection Plan (Plan).
The primary goal of this project is to examine the calibration and validation of recently extended Hydrological Simulation Program – FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed models for the Mississippi River-Headwaters, Mississippi River-Grand Rapids, Mississippi River-Brainerd, Mississippi River-Sartell, Mississippi River-St. Cloud, Leech Lake, Pine River, Crow Wing River, Long Prairie River, and Redeye River watersheds and revise the calibration.
The Metropolitan Council, in conjunction with CDM Smith and HKGi consultants, reorganized and expanded the water conservation tools on the water supply planning pages of the Metropolitan Council’s website. The revised toolbox was organized into an online, web-based guide format. These tools are supplemented with fact sheets and case studies that serve to educate and provide useful information to support water conservation programs and activities.
The goal of this project is to use the We Are Water MN exhibit and their technical knowledge in relationship-building and storytelling to increase community capacity for sustainable watershed management in the Cannon River, Cedar River, Mississippi-Headwaters, Mississippi-Grand Rapids, Mississippi-Twin Cities, Red Lake River, Rum River and St. Louis River watersheds.

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The View From 1776
Friday, April 22, 2011
The Dollar: Look Out Below
The dollar continues its rapid slide, measured against a basket of other currencies. It’s not that U.S. officials are asleep at the switch. They are actively pushing to inflate the dollar as a means to finance our accelerating deficit and massive public debt.
Standard & Poors fired a warning shot across the bow of the Treasury and the Fed, downgrading the outlook for the dollar. Now emerging economies around the globe are coming together to develop an alternative currency to the increasingly worthless dollar.
See Developing Countries Plan to Challenge U.S. Dollar on The Fiscal Times website.

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Ark-La-Tex School Closures
We have received information regarding a couple of school closures due to the weather.
Natchitoches Parish School Superintendent Durwood Duke says schools in Natchitoches Parish will be closed on Wednesday.
Sabine Parish School Superintendent Sara Ebarb also says schools in Sabine Parish will be closed Wednesday. They were advised by homeland security to not hold classes because of heavy rain.


When Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was voted out of office amid scandal last November, Alaska Natives lost a good friend. Now there's talk on Capitol Hill of reconsidering some of the federal contracting preferences enjoyed by Alaska Native corporations (ANCs). They have responded with a letter-writing campaign to keep those benefits and find a few new friends in Congress.
Stevens, a Republican, helped write the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, which was signed into law in 1971. It established more than 200 ANCs and gave them nearly $1 billion.
The goal was to lift Alaska Natives out of poverty, but many of the ANCs foundered. So the Alaska delegation — led by "Uncle Ted," as some Alaskans call the former senator — pushed a series of bills through Congress, providing them with special tax benefits and federal contracting preferences.
Today, ANCs are allowed to participate in the Small Business Administration's 8(a) contracting program for disadvantaged businesses, even though some ANCs have thousands of employees and hundreds of millions of dollars a year in revenue.
"I'm a perfect example of the success of the 8(a) Program and what it means for native communities and native people," said Sarah Lukin, vice president of external relations for Afognak Native Corp. "I grew up very poor, and it was through scholarships from my native corporation that I was able to go to college. And my sisters and I were the first in my family to ever earn college degrees."
Defending Special Preferences
These days, part of Lukin's job is to defend the special preferences ANCs have acquired over the years as the chorus of critics grows.
"There's got to be a time period when the subsidy ends," said Barbara Hennessy, president of Command Decisions Systems and Solutions Inc., a consulting firm that both competes with and sometimes partners with ANCs for federal contracts.
Hennessy's biggest complaint is the sole-source contracting benefit given to ANCs. That means a federal agency can go directly to an ANC without the hassle of a competitive bidding process.
Hennessy says federal agencies find the convenience irresistible.
"Instead of dealing with 65 bidders, they're dealing with one sole source. That's a very hard thing to compete with," she says.
A 2006 Government Accountability Office report concluded that an Army contract for security guards awarded to an ANC company cost the government 25 percent more than if the contract had gone through the competitive bidding process.
But this isn't just about saving money, according to Karen Atkinson, executive director of the Native American Contractors Association. The federal government has a duty to help natives who gave up their rights to millions of acres of land.
"Part of that includes self-determination and economic self-sufficiency, and so the federal government does have an obligation to support policies that will promote both of those values and principles," said Atkinson.
'A Duty To Native Alaskans'
Most critics won't argue that the federal government owes something to Native Americans; they just don't think preferences in federal contracting are the way to repay that debt.
"If the government believes it has a duty to native Alaskans, then Congress should appropriate whatever amount of money to the individual Alaskans that they believe the duty entails," said Steven Schooner, co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program at George Washington University.
Schooner says mixing social policy with the federal procurement system is inefficient, but he understands why lawmakers do it.
"The true cost of the programs is invisible," Schooner said. "Nobody has to budget the subsidy to the Alaska Native population that's basically skimmed off the top of the procurement process."
Some on Capitol Hill, such as Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), have expressed interest in reforming the contracting preferences for ANCs in the past. There's talk of bringing up the issue again — but no hearings have been scheduled and no bills have yet been introduced.


|Skirball Cultural Center Announces 2014 Sunset Concerts, Free Community Concert Series|
April 18, 2014
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|'Catching Fire' Tops 2014 MTV MOVIE AWARDS; Full Winners List!|
April 14, 2014
Comedic genius Conan O'Brien emerged from a 5,000 pound flaming bucket of popcorn to kick-off an epic 2014 "MTV Movie Awards" by breaking the world record for the most celebrity cameos in a show open...
|Masterworks Broadway to Release Jones & Cassidy's MARRIAGE TYPE LOVE, ANDROCLES AND THE LION & Album by Ed Arnes in Coming Months|
April 08, 2014
Masterworks Broadway springs forward with the release of three unexpected album from the vault previously unavailable on CD – Marriage Type Love by Shirley Jones & Jack Cassidy (April 15), Androcles a...
|FIRST LISTEN: FOX Shares Playlist for Tonight's SURVIVING JACK Premiere|
March 27, 2014
FOX has shared the songs which will be heard on their new series SURVIVING JACK, premiering tonight
|The Monkees to Play Fox Theatre, 6/5|
March 26, 2014
Fox Concerts presents The Monkees on Thursday, June 5 at 7:30PM Live at The Fox Theatre. Tickets are $100, $75, $60, $50, $40, $30, and are on sale Friday, March 28 at 10AM online at metrotix.com, by ...
|The 2nd Light Up The Blues Concert to Benefit Autism Speaks Now Sold Out|
March 20, 2014
The 2 nd Light Up The Blues concert to benefit Autism Speaks, hosted by Kristen and Stephen Stills, has sold out.
|Converse Releases 'Hero' Featuring Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Frank Ocean and Diplo|
March 10, 2014
Today, Converse Inc. annoucnes the release of the brand new track, 'Hero' featuring Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Frank Ocean and Diplo. Visit ConverseMusic.Tumblr.com to download 'Hero' for free and to w...
|Steve Ross and Klea Blackhurst, NOW THIS, The Puppeteers and More Set for Birdland, 3/17-23|
March 07, 2014
Birdland Jazz Club has announced their excellent line-up of talent for March 17-23, including Steve Ross in 'Ridin' High: Cole Porter on Broadway,' 'Now This' with Gary Peacock, Marc Copland & Joey Ba...
|Rapper Common Heading to Broadway in THE GREAT WHITE HOPE?|
March 05, 2014
Rapper Common (formerly known as Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr.) may be heading to the Broadway stage as boxer Jack Jefferson in Howard Sackler's play 'The Great White Hope.'
|Jack Jones to Perform in Concert at Edgerton Center in Fairfield, 3/16|
March 03, 2014
Audiences of all ages are invited to spend an afternoon with Jack Jones, hailed by Frank Sinatra as 'One of America's Greatest Singers of Our Time' when he appears LIVE IN CONCERT at the Edgerton Cent...
|Electric Forest 2014 Artist Lineup Revealed|
February 14, 2014
Today, Electric Forest released its initial artist lineup for the festival's eagerly awaited return to the legendary Double JJ Ranch in Rothbury, Mich. on June 26-29, 2014.
|Junior Brown with The Easy Leaves, Chante Moore and More Set for Yoshi's San Francisco, Now thru 3/9|
February 11, 2014
Yoshi's San Francisco has announced its upcoming lineup, now through March 9, 2014. Details below!
|Best Buy Theater Announces Feb-March 2014 Lineup|
February 04, 2014
BEST BUY THEATER has announced its upcoming shows and events for February and March 2014. Details below!
|ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL Announces Phase 2 Line-Up|
January 30, 2014
Having dropped what fans and critics claim to the best Phase One line-up to date, ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL now slams down a tantalizing Phase Two, teaming with more top-drawer talent and complete with a W...
|Carmen Bradford to Join Capitol Jazz Orchestra for Ella Fitzgerald Tribute, 3/9|
January 24, 2014
With performances on 4 Grammy Award-winning albums, sold out concerts the world over, and sixteen recordings, Carmen Bradford is considered to be one of the greatest jazz vocalists alive today. On Sun...
|Asphalt Orchestra Joins the Pixies at Capitol Theatre|
January 17, 2014
Bang on a Can's exhilarating marching band Asphalt Orchestra has been invited to join the Pixies on their 2014 winter tour, bringing selections from the radical performance Asphalt Orchestra Plays the...


| Economic Times THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Cautioning against using children as 'shield' during agitations including the recent Sabarimala stir, Kerala Social Justice Minister K K Shylaja Wednesday said the state government would have to take action against such practices. - |
Kerala Minister against using children as 'shield' in Sabarimala stir. This article is published at 05 December 2018 01:21 from Kerala News Headlines, click on the read full article link below to see further details.
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Hood By Air Are Back, Here’s Why You Should Be Excited
Clutch your pearls, and grab your ball gags, Hood By Air is back. After a two year hiatus, during which the brand’s CEO & founder Shayne Oliver kept himself busy as the first designer-in-resident at Helmut Lang, alongside collaborating with Longchamp, Diesel and Colmar – the New York brand has confirmed its eagerly awaited return.
Founded in 2006, the New York-based label since played a crucial role in pushing the streetwear conversation forward. Inspired as much by muscle boys hailing from the Bronx, as by queens of the Harlem ball scene – Hood By Air, like the city it embodies, is a brand of vast extremes. A pioneer of brash logo placement and distorted tailoring, Oliver’s unhinged approach to streetwear design, free of gender and heteronormative restriction, firmly kicks traditional menswear-tropes in the teeth.
Whilst those Helmut Lang leather bra bags Oliver designed back in 2017 still have us hot under the collar, it was this week’s official announcement of the brands reinvigoration that truly whetted our HBA appetite. Speaking to SSENSE, Oliver cites severe creative burn out to the brand’s sudden departure, “There came a point, towards the end, when I was pushing forward just to push and out-do myself. I needed a minute to figure out that it’s more about exposing the issues, and then also creating resolutions for them” he admited. Who is Hood By Air designing for in 2019? “For the people that have come before me as my homage to them. For the people that will come after me. It’s me creating the space for our different ideas to live in.”
An official date is yet to be set for Hood By Air’s anarchist return, but it’s bound to be pure debauchery, in all its sleezy glory. Here’s why you should be excited:
Calculated Clashes: the cuts and kitschy slogans
Nothing’s more satisfying than seeing Grace Coddington sat front row at a Hood By Air show, grinning shamelessly at a turquoise mesh hoodie that reads “NEVER TRUST A CHURCH GIRL”. Oliver’s off-beat logo placement are as ironic as they are obnoxious. HBA tracksuits were plastered with “DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE CHILDREN ARE” and “NEW WORLD LOSER” long before H&M got all Hot Topic with their t-shirt slogans.
Though it’s the swimmingly oversized silhouettes Oliver masters with such procession, that we are truly desperate to see again. The roomy cuts from AW16 hold a particular fondness. Hybrid XXL outerwear included bomber jackets made from deconstructed duffle bags, alongside stocky neoprene strait jackets, with sleeves that practically glazed the floor of the catwalk. Isn’t that a lot more thrilling than seeing half a dozen blokes walking down Brick Lane in the same signature Britpop parka?
Just Like Nokia, Shayne Oliver is all about connecting people
Aside from the NYC it-crowd who regularly congregated at club night GHE20 G0TH1K dressed to the nines in HBA, Oliver has had some familiar faces charge down his catwalks over the years. Before dissing the brand on Multiply, A$AP Rocky, flashed a cheeky grin when closing HBA’s AW13 collection. Usually a man who lingers behind the lens, Wolfgang Tillmans also made his catwalk debut at the label’s SS17 collection. Head covered in lube, balls firmly tucked into a skimpy pair of black boxers, the former Turner Art Prize winner flaunted it all in a pair of thigh high leather boots – a look that would guarantee entry on his next trip to Berghain. Fellow New Yorker Telfer Clemens, actress Hari Nef and experimental musician Arca all lived their supermodel fantasies courtesy of HBA, the latter even forming WENCH, a experimental sound project with Oliver back in 2015.
HBA’s ball gagging order
Entering a field dominated by hyper-masculine styling and commodified hetero-visual codes, Oliver was met with the challenge of being progressive, yet marketable to a mass market. Whilst most queer menswear designers may underscore their design process with subtle homoerotic reference points, Oliver tramples on Hood By Air with fetish and filth. Bondage, BDSM and kinky turn-ons form a large part of the brand’s aesthetic. But in the house of HBA, there’s no such thing as a safe word.
From holding their SS17 menswear presentation in a gay sauna were models were advised to press against the fashion flock watching in awe, to three months later collaborating with Porn Hub on a collection of t-shirts and underwear – sleaze bleeds into HBA’s exploration of queer sexuality.
And whilst the brand’s SS16 collection consisted mainly of a white palette, it was anything but virginal. Shirts were spliced to expose muscular torsos, whilst models deconstructed trousers in white denim and PVC were worn askew. The mouths of the boys morphed into bejewelled glory holes. The collection throbbed with explicit homoeroticism, an unbashing sexual exploration with a joyful sense of violence. A striking contrast of masc and femme, there were muscled men with broad shoulders sauntering down the catwalk in clip-on-bangs and padlocked pacifiers – does it get any better than this?
Let me see you one, two step
Two seasons before Raf’s ode to cowboys and all things Americana at his Calvin Klein debut, Hood By Air’s double sided cowboy boots divided opinions. Though interesting to gaze at, models brushed the knees of the front rowers, practically having to drag themselves to the finish line. You may call them impractical, a tad silly even. But Oliver is a disrupter. And he isn’t going to be making plain black brogues anytime soon. Whilst dancers are free to vogue at HBA’s catwalk shows, models are sometimes restricted by difficult fits. Thinking back to AW15 when models had their hands trapped in plexi stockade chokers circling their neck. Chaotic, theatrical, some reviews even pin Oliver’s work as political. Whatever Shayne Oliver’s intentions are with Hood By Air, we are gripped.


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Patrick Marber has given Miss Julie an arresting English make-over. In Strindberg's 1888 classic, the aristocratic young heroine engages in a dangerous mating game with her father's valet, Jean, under the nose of his bride-to-be, Kristin, the cook. Marber has uprooted the drama from its Swedish setting and relocated it in a country house outside London on the eve of Labour's historic landslide in July 1945.
After Miss Julie premiered on television in 1996, the year before a different Labour Party achieved another electoral triumph. In Michael Grandage's mesmeric and superbly acted revival at the Donmar, the piece now comes across as a metaphor for political victories that don't live up to their promise. There is no equivalent electoral watershed in the framework of the original play. Giving the proceedings this context adds a further irony for neither Julie nor her father's chauffeur are psychologically equipped to adapt to the brave new postwar world. Richard Coyle's blunt, deceptively salt-of-the-earth Yorkshire John enjoys flirting with the insubordination that now seems to have the backing of the ballot box. Sampling some nicked vintage burgundy, he parodies the tones of a wine-bibbing toff: "[It's] Like Winston Churchill - robust, full-bodied and...", pausing while he drains the glass, "finished". But he's no revolutionary. His ambition is to emulate his social superiors, not to live by better, alternative values. In one of many telling touches, Marber makes John's offstage master a Labour rather than a Tory, one that can only tolerate the masses in theory. Kelly Reilly is utterly transfixing as Julie. An uppity little madam, she behaves like a child acting out an unconsciously grotesque parody of imperious, sophisticated adulthood. She lets you see, though, that this shrill cock-tease is a fragile, lost soul, screwed up by her mother's half-baked feminism and her father's detachment.
Reilly and Coyle brilliantly register the constant shifts in power between Julie and John and bring out every deviant nuance in Marber's succinct and insinuating exchanges. "Remember your position!" she shrieks in one of their post-coital wrangles. "Which one, Madame?" he ripostes. "There were so many".
It speaks volumes for the cachet of performing at the Donmar that an actress of Helen Baxendale's standing is prepared to take on the smallest role in this three-hander. She brings quiet presence to Christine, the fiancée, showing you a woman who uses her implacable normality as a stealthy, weapon. This is terrific theatre: like the Strindberg original, Marber's ingenious update is at once horrible and hypnotic.Reuse content

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Pace sensation Umran Malik has been handed his maiden India cap ahead of the first T20 International against Ireland in Malahide on Sunday. 22-year-old Malik received his debut cap from his SunRisers Hyderabad teammate Bhuvneshwar Kumar. The BCCI shared photos of Malik receiving his cap. “A dream come true moment!!Congratulations to Umran Malik who is all set to make his T20I debut for #TeamIndia,” the BCCI captioned the post.
A dream come true moment!!Congratulations to Umran Malik who is all set to make his T20I debut for #TeamIndia
— BCCI (@BCCI) June 26, 2022
Malik was picked for the T20I series against South Africa but did not get a game.
He was called up to the Indian squad after a breakthrough IPL season that saw him take 22 wickets and impress one and all with his raw pace.
India will take on Ireland in two T20Is, beginning with the series opener on Sunday. The second match will be played on Tuesday.
Hardik Pandya is leading India in the series, with the likes of Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant in England preparing for the rescheduled fifth Test in Birmingham.
India and Ireland have played each other thrice in the format, with India emerging winners in all three matches.
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To learn more about the historic Trail of Tears, choose books and articles from this general bibliography of sources:
- Anonymous. "Ross Directed Emigration Detachments." Journal of Cherokee Studies 2 (Summer): 186-87, 1978.
- Buttrick, Daniel S. 1838-39 Diary. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Cannon, B. B. "An Overland Journey to the West (October-December 1837)." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Summer): 166-73, 1978.
- Deas, Lt. Edward. "Emigrating to the West by Boat (April-May 1838)." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Summer): 158-63, 1978.
- Foreman, Grant. Indian Removal -The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932.
- _____. The Five Civilized Tribes: A Brief History and a Century of Progress. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932.
- Henegar, H. B. "Recollections of the Cherokee Removal." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Summer): 177-79, 1978.
- Hudson, Charles. The Southeastern Indians. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976.
- King, Duane H., and E. Raymond Evans, Editors. "The Trail of Tears: Primary Documents of the Cherokee Removal." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Summer): 131-90, 1978.
- King, Duane H. Cherokee Heritage: Official Guidebook to the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. Cherokee, NC: Cherokee Communications, 1988.
- Lightfoot, B. B. "The Cherokee Emigrants in Missouri, 1837 -1839." Missouri Historical Review 56 (January): 156-67, 1962.
- Morrow, W. I. I. 1839 Diary. Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri, Columbia.
- Mooney, James. Historical Sketch of the Cherokee. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1975.
- Moulton, Gary E. John Ross: Cherokee Chief. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978.
- Perdue, Theda. The Cherokee. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. Prucha, 1989.
- Francis Paul. "Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Policy: A Reassessment." Journal of American History 56 (December): 527-39, 1989 .
- Scott, Winfield. "If Not Rejoicing at Least in Comfort." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Summer): 138-42, 1978.
- Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore. Oklahoma City: The Warden Company, 1921.
- Thornton, Russell. "Cherokee Population Losses during the Trail of Tears: A New Perspective and a New Estimate." Ethnohistory 31 (4): 289-300, 1984.
- _____. The Cherokees: A Population History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
- Wilkins, Thurman. Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
- Woodward, Grace Steele. The Cherokees. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday approved the appointment of five new executives for the Bank of Agriculture.
The announcement was made in a statement issued by Blessing Lere-Adams, Deputy Director of Information at the agriculture ministry.
According to the statement, the appointment was as a result of the Federal Government’s determination to reposition the Bank of Agriculture to be a more efficient and result oriented.
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The statement read: “These appointments are as a result of the Federal Government’s determination to reposition the Bank of Agriculture to be a more efficient and result-oriented institution.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman William Seidman said Monday that financial problems plaguing the savings and loan industry must be handled or they will hurt the banking industry.
Seidman`s remarks to newsmen after a speech before a meeting of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions here contrasted sharply with his statements to a bankers` convention in Hawaii just two weeks ago.
At that time, Seidman vowed that the banking industry would not be asked to pay the costs of the insolvency of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. (FSLIC), the savings industry deposit insurance fund, which faces a deficit of up to $50 billion.
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Seidman reiterated, however, that he remains opposed to any move in which the FDIC`s resources would help pay for rescuing the FSLIC fund.
Earlier in the day, Theo Pitt, outgoing chairman of the savings league, blamed the industry`s financial problems on the federal government, which he said ineptly deregulated the industry in the early 1980s.
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Seidman said the FDIC`s resources will decline to less than $16 billion in 1988 because of the costs of resolving problems in a record number of banks.
He said the FDIC has handled 190 banks so far this year and would top 200 by year-end, a record.
But Seidman said that the FDIC`s worst problems are behind it.
''The problems of the banking industry have taken a toll on the FDIC fund, and we will have our first operating loss in history in 1988,'' he said. ''Fortunately, 1989 looks like a much less costly year,'' he said, and the problem list of 1,438 banks doesn`t include ''mega-banks,'' whose problems cost much more to resolve.
The prognosis was not as good for the savings and loan industry, which has lost $7.5 billion so far this year and has been under fire the last two weeks for calling its meeting in Hawaii.
Indeed, in his press conference marking the opening of the four-day meeting, Pitt, the outgoing savings league chairman, displayed obvious irritation at the criticism.
''Make no mistake about it: This is an important working meeting for our members. I know it is traditional for there to be some cynicism about us being over here in Hawaii,'' Pitt told reporters.
But he said the meeting had been planned four years ago and that canceling it would have saddled the industry with additional costs.
The savings industry has paid $7.4 billion in fees and special assessments to shore up the FSLIC, and it will honor its additional commitment of about $3 billion made during a congressional deal to resolve the problems last year, according to Pitt.
But he said savings and loans can`t afford to pay any more, noting that the problems were not created by the healthy participants in the industry.
Nevertheless, Pitt said that an industry task force would propose sweeping changes in federal regulations.
However, industry executives such as Ed Gray, former chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, said the industry`s opposition to similar regulations in the past was a major cause of the huge problems now facing the FSLIC.
Pitt said that industry officials would meet in a closed session to discuss tighter limits on commercial real estate lending, revised rules for establishing new institutions, tighter rules that would limit growth and tighter restrictions on loan participations.
Some savings and loans have said they want to leave the FSLIC and convert their charters to federal bank status, which would allow them to be insured by the FDIC.
But Seidman said that any such effort would have to be approved by the bank board, which regulates savings and loans. The bank board has adamantly opposed such steps.


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Since Amazon bought Whole Foods last year for 13.7 billion, we’ve seen the online retailer dish out discounts and outfit many Whole Foods locations with Echo devices for you to buy along with your free-range chicken. Now, Amazon is integrating Whole Foods into its Prime Now delivery service, allowing Prime customers to order select Whole Foods items and get them delivered within two hours.
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Also Read: Sony BRAVIA X75L television with X1 4K Processor launched in India
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Also Read: Sony BRAVIA X80L series which supports PS5 launched in India
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Taking a relaxing one-hour cruise is a great way to learn about local history and area landmarks, all on the way to view the historic Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port. Deep-sea fishing trips are also available, offering options of Bottom Fishing or Captain’s Choice, depending on whether you’re a hearty fisherman or a family looking for some excitement and fun.
Black Cat Tavern, 165 Ocean Street
Once back from your cruise, you can simply walk across the street to this casual waterfront restaurant located on the docks of Hyannis Harbor. Dine inside, where the look is classic seaside style, or outside on the heated patio while watching the boats sail by. The menu features everything from thick, juicy burgers and garden-fresh salads to fresh native seafood and prime beef. There is also live entertainment four nights a week in the lounge.
Puritan Cape Cod, 408 Main Street
Looking for just the right Cape Cod look? Puritan Cape Cod has been the choice of the fashion set since 1939, offering classic styles in casual and luxury name brand clothing for men and women. Take a break from shopping to indulge in coffee and crepe at the nearby Rendezvous Café, or pamper yourself at the store’s ground level Solstice Day Spa.
Naked Oyster Bistro & Bar, 410 Main Street
Located under the same roof as Puritan Cape Cod, it’s a great way to end your day after shopping and a spa treatment. With a focus on fresh and local, the restaurant has its own oyster beds in the harbor. Enjoy a five-star dinner in a luxurious setting, with light streaming through large windows and from the seashell-style, locally made pendant lamps over the long mahogany bar. The seafood, shellfish, produce, dairy and more come from local fishermen and farmers for the seasonal menus, while Nantucket Brewery supplies the beer.


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Fifteen-year-old Katri Walenska jumps a Polish ship, swims ashore and enters New York illegally. The United States Immigration officials are alerted---the USA still had a functioning ...
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In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with... See full summary »
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Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family who happens to be his uncle's worst ... See full summary »
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Fifteen-year-old Katri Walenska jumps a Polish ship, swims ashore and enters New York illegally. The United States Immigration officials are alerted---the USA still had a functioning immigration policy and department when this was filmed---and the search is on. Katri's only possessions are a ten-dollar bill and a letter to her parents' old friend, Jan Poldi, a former Metropolitan Opera star. She finds him in a shabby Greenwich Village apartment. His neighbors in the apartment house are three Broadway hopefuls; pop singer Terry Brennan, hoofer Buddy Fraser and Homer Tirdell and his talented dog Red Dust. (Pardon me, make that four Broadway hopefuls counting the dog.) When Terry hears Katri's magnificent singing voice, she scurries around New York to get her an audition and succeeds in getting her a spot on Don Wilson's televised amateur hour. She wins the contest but unwittingly reveals her true identity as an illegal alien, which causes the arrest of Poldi, Wilson and Dave, Terry's ... Written by
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This was one of the films the U.S.A. channel used to show before they got their current boring line--up. A sweet musical comedy,featuring Rosemary Clooney befriending a young refugee and helping her to stay in country and be a star. Not much plot but light and airy entertainment with some good songs. Anna Maria and Rosie make lovely singing stars. The supporting cast is great,including the comics who play Rosie's friends. It proved Paramount was just as capable and MGM,making musicals. I wish this one was on DVD,hopefully there'll be a groundswell of interest so people can buy it.Another good Rosie picture is Here Come the Girls,with Bob Hope and Arlene Dahl.Paramount hoped Rosie would replace Betty Hutton as their resident singing star but the decline of musicals and Rosie's decision to be a wife and mother prevailed and she did mainly television.
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Kaleidoscope made from brass and decorated with a raw Amethyst crystal.
Length: approx. 24 cm (10 inches), pipe diameter: 2.8 cm
In its rotatable glass chamber is a colorful collection of feathers which create a fascinating image. This brass kaleidoscope is decorated with a beautiful raw Amethyst from Uruguay. The reflections are produced by three parallel front surface mirrors.
We will ship our handmade kaleidoscope in a black gift tube and with an informative paper about the history of the kaleidoscope.
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Copper Trades Near One-Week Low on China Holiday, Europe ConcernSungwoo Park
Copper traded near a one-week low as markets in China, the biggest buyer of the metal, are closed this week for the Lunar New Year holiday and data this week may show a contraction in euro-zone economies.
The metal for delivery in three months traded little changed at $8,190.50 a metric ton on the London Metal Exchange at 3:00 p.m. in Seoul. The price yesterday fell 1.2 percent, the biggest drop since Dec. 20, touching $8,171, the lowest intra-day level since Jan. 31. Futures for March delivery were also little changed at $3.7195 a pound on the Comex in New York.
“Lack of interest drift is the best way to describe sentiment,” RBC Capital Markets Ltd. said in a report. “The absence of the Chinese is definitely being felt.”
Euro-area economic data due this week will probably show the damage inflicted by the region’s sovereign debt crisis with the worst quarterly decline in output for almost four years. Gross domestic product shrank 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter, according to the median of 45 estimates gathered by Bloomberg News.
“Aluminum sentiment could turn more positive” after United Co. Rusal, the world’s largest producer, forecast global demand will increase 6 percent this year, Nick Trevethan, a commodities strategist at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd., said in a report today. “China’s auto sales jumped 18 percent month-on-month to 1.73 million vehicles in January.”
On the LME, lead and zinc fell, while nickel rose and aluminum and was little changed.


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Laurel vs. Yanny
If you haven't yet had the opportunity, listen to the audio clip below. Do you hear "Laurel" or do you hear "Yanny?" The world is pretty much split. Half of the people listen to this clip and hear "laurel, laurel, laurel..." and have of the people hear "yanny, yanny, yanny." Yes, no matter which one you heard, there are MILLIONS of people who heard the other thing. I understand that Laurel and Yanny sound nothing alike, but I assure you it's true... Just ask around.
The REAL Story…
According to WIRED Magazine:
On May 11, Katie Hetzel, a freshman at Flowery Branch High School in Georgia, was studying for her world literature class, where "laurel" was one of her vocabulary words. She looked it up on Vocabulary.com and played the audio. Instead of the word in front of her, she heard "yanny."
"I asked my friends in my class and we all heard mixed things," says Hetzel. She then posted the audio clip to her Instagram story. Soon, a senior at the same school, Fernando Castro, republished the clip to his Instagram story as a poll. "She recorded it and put it on her story then I remade the video and posted it," Castro says. "Katie and I have been going back and forth and we both agree that we had equal credit on it."
Why Do We Care?
The science is still out on why EXACTLY different people hear different things in the same room. But what's most intriguing is how quickly this phenomenon swept the attention of the entire world. All at once, we are face to face with the realization that we have different perceptions. We can all look at the same thing (situation) and perceive different things about it. This is the genesis of a majority of interpersonal disagreements.
If you would like to learn more about differences in perception, and how it can affect human relationships, please feel free to reach out to us.

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Positioning lights and plants for an indoor cannabis garden
Just like human beings cannot leave without oxygen, plants, on the other hand, cannot survive well without light. This fact also applies to out treasured marijuana plants. Through their leaves, marijuana plants use the light for photosynthesis which transforms into chemical energy needed to grow.
With outdoor growing, this phenomenon works perfectly and in most cases, plants will naturally bend towards the light in a case of deprivation or limit. With the indoor cultivation of marijuana, however, it’s not enough to just shine a bright light on the plant, sit back and relax.
Sometimes it gets so technical and confusing for the new growers forcing some of them to consider falling back. However, to get the best yield from marijuana, the positioning of the grow lights is very important.
Understanding the Plants’ Lighting Needs
First off, you need to understand the light color, intensity and duration of light that your marijuana plants need depending on the stage. Let me give you a little background on light. Light waves come in a spectrum of colors namely blue waves and red. Whereas the Blue waves are smaller and contain more energy, red light waves, on the other hand, are longer with less energy.
This makes the blue lights more favorable for vegetative growth and red lights for the flowering stage. When it comes to the sun, however, it is a full spectrum light and contains all colors and hence appears white.
The intensity of the light also greatly affects the general look of the plants. Plants receiving a low light intensity tends to grow longer and stringy as they stretch in search for sufficient light while plants with a high-intensity are short and bushier with definitely higher yields. Light intensity can be slightly adjusted by changing its distance for the plant.
Therefore, the longer the distance from the plants, the less the light and hence the less the yields while the shorter the distance from the plants, the more intense the light and hence bigger plants.
Ensuring the plant’s access to light
Spacing of the plants
Spacing the plants is one way to ensure that the light fully hits them on all sides. Even with other plants, when they are too compact, most of them will not get a glimpse of the light and hence this will affect the process of photosynthesis.
Therefore, to ensure that every plant gets sufficient light, make sure that there is enough spacing between the plants. It is therefore important that each bud receives a significant amount of light. Uneven distribution of light in an indoor garden will lead to some plants having stunted growth.
Distance between light and plant
Because of the technicalities sometimes involved, indoor growers fail at determining what distance the light has to be from the plants. If placed too far from the plants, the plants will be deprived of energy and hence will end up stunted. On the other hand, if it is too close, the heat from the lights might just get the plants to dry that they die.
The technicalities even get more complicated when we consider the amount of energy that the different lights emit, to be able to determine at what distance the light should be from the plant. Fortunately for you, here is a simple way to know how far apart the lights have to be from your plant;
Type of light: distance from plants
LED: Very near
Fluorescents: three to four inches
Compact Fluorescents: three inches
Sulphur bulbs: Eighteen inches
Induction Lighting: Fourteen to eighteen inches
Metal halide lights 250 Watts: eight to 12 inches
High-Intensity Discharge Lights:
1000 Watts: Twelve to eighteen inches
600 Watts: Eight to sixteen inches
400 Watts: Eight to sixteen inches
250 Watts (or lower): As close as possible
The easiest way to determine if the heat from the lights will be favorable for your plants is by the use of your hands. If in any case, you feel uncomfortable with your hands placed bellow the light then in the same way your marijuana plants are less likely to thrive in that heat.
Big plants and small plants
In order to allow each plant to get an equal share of the light, it is advisable to position the light to directly hit the smaller plants. This helps to ensure that they are not overshadowed by the bigger plants which might lead to them dying. This way, the small plants are also able to receive the same amount of light like the big plants and hence achieve a uniform growth.
Use reflective materials
The light set up is one of the most expensive investments for an indoor marijuana garden. It is for this reason therefore that preventing light loss through a reflective material is a great way to utilize this resource. When the lights are placed horizontally, it is much easier to maximize light with the introduction of reflectors in the garden.
The light that bounces to the walls can easily be reflected back to the plants if the walls have some sort of reflecting material on it. The best and most commonly used reflectors for indoor gardens are aluminum, both beaten and smooth, Mylar or Panda foil. These materials are highly reflective and help greatly with ensuring that all the light is put to use and that the plants are fully covered. Some farmers have gone as far as painting the walls of the grow room white or using linoleum paneling.
When it comes to reflectors, the placement of the light in the room can affect the amount of light reflected back from the reflector. It is more advisable to place the light closer to the wall than in the middle of the room in order to attain even light. Therefore, make sure that the reflector’s edge is 12 inches away from the wall and 24 inches away from each reflector.
Growing your own marijuana is a wonderful and sometimes challenging experience. It is a great way to celebrate our new found freedom to medicate and enjoy cannabis without having to go through back door deals. With this, you can expand your indoor grow room and be able to get that healthy looking bad you have always wanted.


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A Reading man stopped for traffic violations Sunday was found with 331 grams of methamphetamine in his vehicle, according to police.
The Susquehanna Regional Police Department said they conducted the traffic stop around 2:09 a.m. at the intersection of Long Lane and River Road in East Donegal Township, Lancaster County.
Adam Lawson, 33, of Reading, was the driver and was found to have an outstanding warrant for his arrest, police said.
While "viewing" Lawson's vehicle, police found 331 grams of methamphetamine, an unregistered 9mm handgun, assorted drug paraphernalia and more than $1,000 in cash, police said.
According to multiple sources, including the Stanton Sheriff's Department in Nebraska, a fourth of a gram of methamphetamine can be sold for $25. Though the price fluctuates due to a number of variables, the meth found with Lawson could have been sold for several thousand dollars.
Officers will conduct a "detailed search" of the whole vehicle and its contents at a later date and time, police said.
Lawson was charged by the Susquehanna Regional Police Department, with the assistance of the Lancaster County Drug Task Force.
Lawson is being held at Lancaster County Prison on $500,000 bail.
Anyone with information on Lawson or related drug activity is asked to contact the Susquehanna Regional Police Department at 717-426-1164. They can also email investigative officers at meadorz@Police.co.lancaster.pa.us or firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Pattern is worked from the top-down with the contiguous sleeve method developed by Susie Myers (http://www.ravelry.com/people/SusieM).
A classic/vintage style pull-over with blackberry(trinity) sts yoke, key-hole neck, 3/4 sleeves and ridge hem.
Enjoy knitting ;>
If you got confused about size, please be based on your shoulder size. Because you can adjust body width at under-arm.
Thanks for test-knit!
Special thanks to tomocco, kuhko, Alphonso, Gabuzo , yocozode and MENME

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Warmington wants small contracts ceiling increased to $1.5 million
The State Minister with responsibility for works Everald Warmington, wants the ceiling where a government contract does not have to go to tender to be increased to $1.5 million.
Currently, contracts only under $500,000 do not have to go to tendered.
In his contribution to the Sectoral Debate in parliament yesterday, Warmington said the procurement rules allow for three quotes to be received and an award made based on the prices under the $500,000 limit.
He noted that the Jamaican dollar has devalued by some 65 to 70 per cent since the limit was increased to $500,000 some time ago.
Warmington said the system is in need of change to reflect current realities adding that increasing the ceiling would help to reduce delays.


Trump asked what African-Americans had to lose; they're waiting to see the gain
In Donald Trump's new hometown Sunday night, there was a homicide. Thirteen gunshots were fired in a neighborhood less than four miles from the White House. When D.C. police showed up, they found Kenny Bell, a 30-year-old black man, dead on the grounds of the Ferebee-Hope Recreation Center in southeast Washington.
The rec center is in Ward 8, which is predominantly black and scarred by deep pockets of poverty but also home to a vibrant middle class. Of the 135 homicides in the city last year, 46 were in Ward 8. During President Trump's campaign, he referred to such crime-plagued areas as "a living hell."
Now he was just a 10-minute motorcade ride away from one, having pledged to curb violence, reduce unemployment and improve schools in such places.
"I will produce for the African-Americans," Trump said.
Did he mean it?
There are some in Ward 8 who would like to believe him. Perhaps living in a high-crime area and seeing the devastating effects of homicides, day in and day out, leaves you little choice: Cling to hope or succumb to despair.
"During the past 14 years, I have been to 96 funerals, mostly for young, black male homicide victims," said Trayon White Sr., 32, who represents Ward 8 on the D.C. Council. Three of them were in the past two weeks. "If we can get Justice Department grants for public safety programs and mental health services, we ought to at least make an effort to do so."
Nearly a month into Trump's presidency, however, Trump has shown no sign of producing anything but more misery for the nation's poor and working class - black and white alike.
His efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act could leave millions of the nation's most vulnerable residents uninsured. His tax-cutting scheme would certainly enrich corporate America, but it could also reduce incentives for developers to create more affordable housing. His administration already includes appointees who have advocated for cuts in Medicaid, food stamps and Head Start programs.
On the campaign trail, Trump appealed for black votes with a harshly put observation about life in troubled neighborhoods: "You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. Fifty-eight percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?"
The answer, so far, appears to be food, housing, health care and education.
In the nation's capital, slashing the federal budget would likely increase a racial wealth and income gap that is already obscenely wide. White households in the Washington area have a net worth 81 times that of black households - $284,000 compared with $3,500, according to a report last year by the Urban Institute.
In 2013, the top one percent of families nationally made 25.3 times as much as the bottom 99 percent, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute released in June.
Yet during the presidential campaign, those at the bottom rung were cast as the primary cause of all that was wrong with America. Trump said immigrants coming from Mexico were not the best, but rapists and criminals. He tweeted that black people were responsible for 81 percent of homicides against white people.
His claims were not just divisive, they were lies.
Meanwhile, immigrants fear being rounded up and deported now more than ever, the white working class continues to die of suicide and drug overdoses in record numbers and black Americans in poor neighborhoods are overwhelmed with the knowledge that they may be the only ones worried about the violence taking so many black lives.
Instead of having a president working to solve our common problems, we have one who has set up each group to hold the other in contempt on their way to the grave.
On Tuesday, Valentine's Day, White wasn't waiting for Trump to address the problems of his new city. He launched a "Red Ribbon Safe Communities" initiative in which couples gathered to discuss ways to make their communities safe. "We need to build stronger families," White said. "Residents need to become more active in the community because, in the end, the solution lies with us."
Spread love, not bullets, was the theme.
But, as White knows, there can be no separating chronic, concentrated poverty from increased violence.
A few days before Bell was killed, a gunman fired 12 rounds into a crowd on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE. Four people, including a 17-year-old girl, were hit and wounded. It could have been a dozen homicides.
"Our ward has one of the highest unemployment rates, per capita, in the country," White said. "People are very stressed, a lot are desperate. If Trump can help with workforce development and job placement, then I'm willing to focus on what we have in common and not our differences."
What does White have to lose?
Courtland Milloy is a Washington Post columnist.


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Plummer, Jonathan (1761-1819).
preacher, pawnbroker, professional writer of love letters, balladist, peddler. Plummer, born in Newbury, Massachusetts, was appointed by the self-acclaimed <IR> TIMOTHY DEXTER </IR> as his poet laureate and responded by writing, among other pieces, The Author's Congratulatory Address to Citizen Timothy Dexter on His Attaining an Independent Fortune (1793). Another piece of his was called Parson Pidgin, or, Holy Kissing, Occasioned by a Report That Parson Pidgin Had Kissed a Young Woman (1807). He peddled in Newbury's Market Square an odd conglomeration of sermons, poems, and notions. His poems were the familiar broadsides of his time, providing both news and scandal. He wrote an autobiography in three successive pamphlets, A Sketch of the History of the Life of Jonathan Plummer (1797?). He is described in John P. Marquand's Lord Timothy Dexter (1925).
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