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The Hot Box is an innovative multipurpose inhalation device designed to enhance your vaporizing experience. Its simple design makes it perfect for any first-time vaporizer user. Hot Box Vaporizers are all about style; incorporating a simplistic yet stylish approach to vaporizing. These efficient Vaporizers are available in a variety of designs and bright colors. Each unit is made of patented stone or tile construction combined with a uniquely engineered ceramic nichrome heating element. This high-quality heating element ensures that the user experiences the most efficient vaporization process possible. The Hot Box Vaporizer was designed for those who don't want to deal with over complicated devices. Instead, this unit has only a simple on/off switch.
The direct draw method is perfect for those who don't care to deal with replacing bags on a regular basis. Offered in a variety of colors and stone configurations this unit provides a personalized vibe that is hard to come by with most other box style vaporizers. The Hot Box Vaporizer was designed for those who want a reliable vaporizing device that doesn't rely on flashy overpriced technology. Over the last five years, Hot Box Vapors have quickly established themselves as one of the leading Vaporizer manufacturer's because of their high quality standards and futuristic designs. Sticking with simplicity, the Hot Box also includes a 2 piece whip kit that breaks apart and allows the user to easily clean and maintain the glass. Each unit includes a 5 Year Warranty that covers any defected related to the heating element.
STANDARD VS GROUND GLASSThe Hot Box Vaporizers comes in two different whip styles: Standard and Ground Glass. The Standard version provides a hands free connection that allows the user to vaporize without holding the whip in place. The Ground Glass version also provides a hands free experience, however, it utilizes a ground glass connection that is airtight and more secure.
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|I noticed there's no heat control knob... So what temperature does the Hot Box run at?
|The Hot Box Vaporizer runs at approx. 370F.
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Works well, Easy to use, Good Craftmanship
Cons: Ten Minute Warm-Up Time
|Recommend to a friend? Yes
|"Great product, works well. Highly recommend for someone like me who is new to vaping and wants something simple yet effective. Nice craftsmanship and design, looks nice on a desk or a shelve. It feels like it is put together solidly, and the ceramic casing holds in the heat nicely to maintain the proper temperature. Good value for money as well when compared to a lot of similar products. I also like that Hot Boxes are made in America and come with a five year warranty on the heating element. Overall the only real con for me is the ten minute warm-up time, but it is well worth the wait.
Great experience with VaporNation as well, no complaints. Great price, lower than anywhere else online at the time of my purchase. I selected rush processing and two day shipping and my Hot Box arrived two days later. I would not hesitate to order from VaporNation again or recommend them to a friend!"
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|Recommend to a friend? Yes
|"I finally made the switch from smoking to vaping, and I wish I did this years ago. The hot box is so easy to use. The only thing I can consider a con would be the 10 minute heat up time but that is by no means a deal breaker. Outstanding product."
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Easy to use. Did a great job.
Cons: Tubing a bit stiff.
|Recommend to a friend? Yes
|"The whole experience with VaporNation and the hot box has been outstanding. The hot box is an effective tool. My only SMALL complaint would be that the tubing is a bit stiff and doesn't seem to want to relax. I went to Home Depot and bought a piece of tubing a bit longer and a bit more flexible and that seems to have solved the problem. It would NOT have been necessary to do that, I just did it for my personal convenience."
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|Recommend to a friend? Yes
|"I am a singer, so the throat saving aspect of vaporizing is good for me. However, I stupidly put some soft wax (I live in LA) in it and made a mess of it... Will it burn off eventually?"
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|"Great!!!!!!!!!! :-) da hot box is beta den the easy vape lol it workz great! =)"
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Resonable Price
Cons: Whip falls out
|Recommend to a friend? Yes
|"PROS: Works great at a reasonable price. Small, simple, durable, and discrete design. Goes unnoticed on our book shelf as a book end. I've accidentally pulled the unit by the cord a few times and it has fallen from about four feet onto the carpet flooring, and it's still keeps on ticking. Hardwood or concrete might produce a different result. So be mindful where you run the cord.
CONS: Sometimes the glass connector falls out from the heating element, or from where the screen is secured if your not careful. Can be messy and frustrating. Also it takes ten minutes or so to heat up, which I knew going into the purchase. Worth the wait though. The outside ceramic enclosure does get very hot. Wish there was some sort of auto-shut off feature.
Overall, a great purchase. If you can get past the few flaws, it works just as well as it's much more expensive counterparts."
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The Hot Box Vaporizer is one of the few revolutionary vaporizers that are present in the market today. Its sophisticated structure helps it to extract the vital ingredients from the substance and produce an essence and oil that is not only soothing but healthy as well. When attached with the aromatherapy attachment, the Hot Box vaporizer diffuses the calm flavor throughout the room.
Step 1: Plug in the Hot Box Vaporizer (unit) cord into the socket and switch on the unit by turning on the button present on the cord and wait for the lamp to light.
Step 2: It will take about 15 minutes for the vaporizer to reach its optimal temperature. The time consumed would be more if you are using extension cords. Make sure that you set up the system away from the reach of children.
Step 3: Grind finely and properly.
Step 4: Pack down the finely grounded substance into the Wand and onto the screen through the narrow end of the Upper Wand piece either with the end of the tubing or some utensil that will easily fit into the open end of the Wand. Make sure that the substance loaded into the wand is no more than 1/3 volume of the wand, up from the screen. Extra packing of material will only lead to charring or burning.
Step 5: Holding the Wand against the tip of the glass heating element and inhale through the tube. Do not apply excessive pressure onto the glassware lest it may break. Using broken glassware will only lead to damaging of unit and may cause injury to you. It is always advisable to start drawing through the tube quickly and gradually slow down. Remember the slower you inhale, the higher the temperature of the air that would warm the material in the Wand.
Step 6: Do not draw too much vapor at the same time, inhale at regular intervals instead of continuous. If you draw in too much then it may lead to coughing. In order to check whether the device is working properly, then see if you are able to exhale a clean and pure white cloud. Do not forget to mix during each draw for better quality of vapors. It is sometimes recommended that you put a drop or two of water. The intensity of the vapor depends upon the moisture content. Lack of smell usually depicts a high quality of vapors.
The simple method will result in getting you the required buzz that you seek. Keep the unit clean and dust free, when not in use. A unit that is switched on, should not be kept unattended for a long time. Maintenance of the vaporizer is very important, it can increase the efficiency of a vaporizer. Firstly, you should keep a check on the power cord and make sure that it is not damaged in anyway. Replacement of different components of a vaporizer depends on the frequency of usage. The screen can be replaced by a 5/8? screen in the Wand.
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Agia Triada Monastery, Meteora
Made famous by James Bond, Agia Triada (also Ayías Triádhos, Ayia Triada or Aghia Triada; "Holy Trinity") is probably the most dramatically positioned monastery of the Meteora. It is perched atop a slender pinnacle and accessible only by 140 steep steps, making it one of the most peaceful monasteries as well.
Hermit monks may have lived here beginning in the 14th century, but the present monastery was built between 1458 and 1476.
Until the 20th century, monks, pilgrims and supplies reached the monastery only by means of rope-ladders and baskets. But in 1925, access to the rock was eased by the addition of rock-hewn stairs.
Agia Triada suffered greatly in World War II and the German occupation, during which virtually all its treasures were looted.
What to See
Few tour buses stop at Holy Trinity Monastery, so it is comparatively peaceful and some semblence of monastic life is able to continue. It is inhabited and maintained by just a few monks.
The courtyard displays old farm implements and the old winch for hauling up baskets (a funicular now carries supplies to the top), as well as inspirational quotes from 1 Corinthians 13 (e.g. "Love is patient"). The monastic buildings are attractively half-timbered.
The small church (1476) has an exterior of brick and tile and is augmented by a large, unattractive narthex (1684). It has two domes, reflecting two building phases.
The frescoes in the church date from the 18th century and the those in the narthex from the 17th; they have been well restored. The church contains one of the few portable treasures that survived the 20th century: a Gospel book printed in Venice in 1539, with a silver cover.
Carved into the rock off the passageway into the courtyard is a round Chapel of John the Baptist (1682), which may occupy the site of an early hermitage. Holy Trinity owns over 120 religious manuscripts copied by its monks over the centuries, but for practical reasons these are kept at Agios Stefanos Monastery.
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- Blue Guide Greece: The Mainland, 7th ed. (W.W. Norton, 2006), 549.
- Ayia Triada - Frommer's Greece
- Ayias Triadhos - Rough Guide to Greece
- The Holy Trinity Monastery - Kalampaka.com
- Advisory Body Evaluation - UNESCO World Heritage (1987)
- Meteora: Greece's Spiritual Pinnacles - Travel with a Challenge
- Meteora: Monasteries – Greece Travel
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Manchester United need to bulk up in the middle
We need to talk about Carrick. During Manchester United's pursuit of Thiago Alcantara, it seems to have been mostly overlooked that the current players' player of the year has no identifiable understudy in the squad. If Michael Carrick is injured at any point this season for a substantial period of time, then there is no one who can intercept and play the ball forward from deep nearly as effectively as he can. But this article isn't entirely about him. It's about power.
If we look around the Premier League, and around Europe, several of Manchester United's rivals are bulking up in midfield, if they haven't already. Tottenham Hotspur have just added Paulinho to their ranks, who will join Sandro, Moussa Dembele and Scott Parker in their squad. Arsenal are being linked with Luis Gustavo. Manchester City have recruited Fernandinho. And then, of course, there's Bayern Munich: and, to paraphrase Kanye West, "no one team should have all that power." Bayern, on their way to victory in the UEFA Champions League last season, overwhelmed Barcelona with a compelling blend of physicality and technique.
The lesson was clear: If you can't move the ball as fast as Barcelona at their peak -- and Barcelona, who lost that tie 7-0 on aggregate, were far below such extraordinary standards -- then you must be prepared for a battle of attrition in central midfield. Manchester United do have two powerful players in the middle of the field -- but one of them, Anderson, is rarely fully fit or in the best of form, and the other, Phil Jones, is not a ballplayer of the quality of, say, Sami Khedira, Bastian Schweinsteiger or Javi Martinez.
Manchester United might point to their trophy cabinet in recent years, and argue that they are doing just fine without brute force in the middle of the park; that swift counterattack, such as that seen against Manchester City away from home last year, is the platform on which they will continue to build their success. Their links with Thiago suggest they will seek to negotiate central midfield with a flurry of passing rather than with shin-clattering aggression.
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Sprinkle for iPhone and iPad is a great casual puzzler in which you'll control a water cannon in order to distinguish fires and save villages. The trick is that you've only got so much water and obstacles stand in the way of you and several fires. You'll have to use the water in order to move objects out of the way or cascade water on top of them in order to splash it up where you need it.
Sprinkle takes place on Titan, a moon of Saturn. Its inhabitants all live in straw houses and when space tourists crash through Saturn's rings, it sends asteroids crashing into Titan, setting blazing fires. The Titan dwellers built a huge water cannon in order to fight the flames. That's where you come in.
In order to play Sprinkle you'll use the water cannon the Titans built to extinguish all the fires. You can move your cannon up and down by tapping and dragging it or drag your finger up and down anywhere on the screen to adjust the angle in which water comes out. As you progress through the levels of Sprinkle, you'll notice that the difficulty level of extinguishing fires increases. You'll have to activate switches, move objects out of the way with a stream of water, and even use them in order to gain leverage and bounce water off of them to where you need it to be.
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At the start of Spring Training the Dodgers bullpen looked like this:
- Guerrier
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One-by-one, all but Guerrier and MacDougal ended up on the Physically or Mentally (R-Bel) Disabled List, and then Jon Garland, the fifth started ened up there as well.
Now, the bullpen looks like this:
- Guerrier
- MacDougal
- Elbert
- Guerra
- Lindblom
- Troncoso
- De La Rosa
- Ely
Now, I wonder what would happen to ANY team when 7 of their 12 pitchers end up on the DL? It's a big deal to any team, but then add in the fact that three-fourths of the infield have been on the DL, as well as the hitter who has the highest number of homeruns per at bat on the team and you've got a recipe for a trainwreck.
And that is precisely what the Dodgers have been – a trainwreck!
Or, have they?
The reality of the situation is that they sit four games below .500 and 5.5 games back of the leaders in Third Place! The reality of the situation is that Marcus Thames, Blake Hawksworth, Juan Uribe, Jon Broxton, Hong chih Kuo and Vincente Padilla should be back soon. Kenley Jansen won't be far behind, leading to a log-jam in the bullpen. Good problems to have.
Yesterday, the Dodgers ace dominated the first 2/3 of the game and then blew it. He looked like Sanford Koufax in the beginning, but ended up looking like Fred Sanford in the end. The Dodgers could have easily given up, but didn't. Matt Kemp's Grand Slam in the ninth may prove to be a turning point for the Dodgers who have remained a perfect 5-0 in extra innings, and ultimately won with four runs in the eleventh inning.
Today, the Dodgers again brought out their whipping sticks and beat the Reds even though Chad Billingley has an ERA of nearly 6.00 on the road! They "manned up." If Jamey Carroll and Aaron Miles can keep it up, I'd hit them #1, #2 the rest of the year.
- At the risk of getting ridiculed, I have to say that Andre Ethier is hitting a very "soft" .325. I mean he's getting on base and all, but he's not driving the ball like a #3 hitter. He says that he has corrected some mechanical issues. Let's hope so. The Dodgers need him to step up.
- I read that Kemp is The Bison, but I don't see him as a big bulky powerful beast. I see him as a Jaguar or Puma. Yeah, that's the ticket. At any rate, when you mention MVP, he has to be included in the discussion.
- The next seven days have seven games against to Phillies and Rockies, including Rubby's first MLB start. This is a critical stretch which could MAKE or BREAK the 2011 version of the Dodgers.
- Andrew Lambo is hitting .204 at AAA Indianapolis and has lost his starting job.
- It probably doesn't mean much, but Carlos Santana is hitting .229 (below the Loney Line) with a slugging percentage of .375. The jury is still out.
- Stormin' Gorman Erickson of Rancho Cucamonga reminds me of a former LA Dodgers catcher: about the same size, ex-football player, who didn't have much power either. Stormin' Gorman may be a better hitter. However, if I remember correctly, it turned out pretty good for that other guy.
- If the Dodgers get ANY production from Raffy, it will be a miracle. Don't count on it.
- Garvey – Hershiser? Don't hold your breath, although it would be cool.
- Oakland DFA'ed Andy LaRoche – bring him home, Ned. If you brought Mattingley's son back, Andy should get another chance too (although there is no rational reason to do so).


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text: Barack Obama and Michelle Obama Quotes on Relationship Barack and Michelle Obama on Their Relationship by Tara Block 1/17/13 48 Reactions 13 Shares Print 0 8 5 0 0 First Lady Michelle Obama turns 49 today! Last year, in the midst of the presidential election, Barack and Michelle Obama celebrated another important milestone: 20 years of marriage! They exchanged sweet tweets about their big anniversary. Barack tweeted: "Twenty years ago today, I married the love of my life and my best friend. Happy anniversary, Michelle. -bo." And Michelle took to Twitter to say: "Happy 20th anniversary, Barack. Thank you for being an incredible partner, friend, and father every day. I love you! –mo." We've seen some adorable PDA moments between Michelle and Barack over the past four years, and they've shared some equally aw-inducing insights into their relationship in interviews as well. In honor of Michelle Obama's birthday, check out some of their cutest quotes about their marriage, first kiss, anniversary, and more! Source: Getty What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "On Oct. 3, 1992, Barack and I were married in Chicago — and every day since, I've grown prouder and more in love with him." — Michelle on their anniversary Source: Getty 1 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "We were at a law firm together, I was a Summer associate, she was already practicing law. I had been sort of eying her for a while, but she was acting real professional. Finally I wear her down a little bit and I say, we're coming back from a firm picnic and I said, 'Well let's go get some ice cream.' We went to Baskin-Robbins on 53rd Street in Chicago, she bought chocolate, I don't remember what I bought. They didn't have any seats in the store so we sat out on a curb on a Summer day and had ice cream, and that's when I asked her if I could kiss her." — Barack on their first kiss Source: Getty 2 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "Obviously I couldn't have done anything that I've done without Michelle. . . . not only has she been a great first lady, she is just my rock. I count on her in so many ways every single day." — Barack on Michelle's role in his life Source: Getty 3 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "Our first anniversary, she's the one who forgot! It was Wednesday night, and I said, 'So honey what you want to do this weekend? What you want to do on Friday?' She said, 'What's on Friday?' I said, 'Honey, we've been married a year!'" — Barack on their first anniversary Source: Getty 4 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "Does he pick up his socks? No, no, no he doesn't. He's not good, you know. He thinks he's neat, but he has people who help him, you know, and I'm like, it's not you who's neat, the people who pick up your socks, those are the neat people." — Michelle on Barack's dirty little secret Source: Getty 6 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "She's a wonderful person and she's a genuine person. I never see her in different settings and somehow she's different with different people." — Barack on Michelle Source: Getty 6 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "I loved Barack just the way he was. Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at Grandma's house. And a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both. He was still the guy who'd picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger-side door." — Michelle on Barack as husband and president Source: Getty 7 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "It has to be a true partnership, and you have to really really like and respect the person you're married to because it is a hard road. I mean, that's what I tell young couples. Don't expect it to be easy, melding two lives and trying to raise others, and doing it forever. I mean that's a recipe made for disaster, so there are highs and lows. But if in the end you can look him in the eye and say, 'I like you.' I stopped believing at love in first sight. I think you go through that wonderful love stage, but when it gets hard, you need a little bit more." — Michelle on the secret to a happy marriage Source: Getty 8 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "If you were going to list the 100 most popular things that I have done as president, being married to Michelle Obama is number one." — Barack on his marriage to Michelle Source: Getty 9 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "Michelle was trying to figure out, OK, if the kids get sick why is it that she's the one who has to take time off of her job to go pick them up from school, as opposed to me? What I tried to do was to learn to be thoughtful enough and introspective enough that I wasn't always having to be told that things were unfair." — Barack on negotiating their roles in their marriage Source: Getty 11 / 11 What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "It's one of many ways that Barack shows me and the girls how special we are. And that's the thing that touches me about him. 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Words of Wisdom:
Advice for freshmen from the CFAC Staff
Play hard, Study hard! College will be the fastest 4, 5, or 6 years of your life. Enjoy it, but also make it count!
Vanessa Davalos-Ledesma
You know the saying, the early bird gets the worm? Well here is my version...He/She who registers early gets the classes! Come early and prepared to advising sessions before registration begins, and have questions written down so you don't forget them.
Dainon Deviney
Life is a journey of exploration and discovery. It is an on-going experiment in which BOTH your perceived failures and successes are providing you with rich feedback for future directions and destinations in the continuing and often surprising project of creating a uniquely fulfilling life of your own.
John Grogan
When you look back on your college life, you will regret the things you didn't do the most. College gives you an opportunity to have experiences that you will never get again. Don't miss out on these opportunities, but don't overcommit to things either. Find a few things that you are passionate about and give them everything you have.
Matt Keneson
Learn how to budget
your money wisely. Try to buy used textbooks or borrow them from
friends or the local libraries. Keep track of your checking/savings
accounts and your expenses. Curb your expenses: limit the number of
times you go out to eat or buy that expensive cup of coffee, don't be
afraid to explore thrift stores, go to a dollar movie or attend free
movie showings on-campus. You can still have fun while not spending all
your money. Visit the
Rowdy Cents web site to learn more.
Your college experience is all about what you want to get out of it. Take advantage of everything the university has to offer and get involved in something, whether it's a fraternity or sorority, an intramural team, or a professional organization. Not only will you meet different people, you will learn a lot about yourself.
Annette Levario
College is a wonderful journey of growth and self development. Stay open minded and absorb all you can.
Sharis Slocum
Take advantage of the resources that are available to you on campus (Advising Center, Library, Rec Center, UC, Tomás Rivera Center, Career Center...) - they are here to make your college experience better. Meet with your professors and advisors so that you have all the information you need to be successful.
Kerith Stanton
Take responsibility for your actions: your words, your behavior, your learning, belongs to you. While you are to be prideful about success, you cannot blame others for your failures.
Joan Tsacalis
Everything about college life is a balancing act. You are here for an education, but there is more to education than being in a classroom. Be involved with other activities on-campus. They are easy to find. On the flip side, don't neglect your academic pursuits because you are too busy having fun. Find the balance that works for you.
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Keep all of your tools performing at their best.
Grow up, advises garden writer Chris McLaughlin of Placerville, California, who writes the blog A Suburban Farmer.
The author of "Vertical Vegetable Gardening," and a number of other gardening books, recommends that gardeners experiment with growing a wide variety of vegetables vertically.
"Vertical gardening amounts to less water, less fertilizers, less work and less worry," says McLaughlin. "These types of gardens can be the key to success for a beginning gardener, as well as those with small gardening spaces."
Here's what else she had to say about growing vegetables in vertical spaces:
Question: Why should gardeners grow vegetables vertically?
Answer: There are fewer (if any) weeds, pests, and diseases. One of the best perks of vertical gardening is that you'll have fewer weeds sprouting up. Even if one or two weeds sneak in, they can be yanked out in minutes.
With horizontal beds you end up weeding all the bare soil areas, but with vertical gardening, you're often starting with weed-free bagged soil. And you're working with less soil surface so plants fill in and crowd out weeds.
Plants grown vertically have better air circulation around the foliage, which means less trouble with pests and disease. This makes for stronger plants and more unblemished fruit. By allowing plants to grow up instead of out, you also limit their physical contact with the soil and soil-borne diseases.
Question: What are some easy ways to grow vegetables vertically?
Answer: Purchased trellises are the first thing that comes to people's minds for vining plants. But for climbers (depending on the plant), you can use netting, fencing, gates, chicken wire, discarded bed frames, ladders, string on pole frames, etc.
Don't forget you can also take advantage of the spacebelowa raised plant, as I've done in this container of climbing peas, herbs and lettuces (shown above).
Vertical gardens aren't just for vining plants, however. There are lots of ways to use the real estateabovethe garden. Hanging baskets, tins, recycled bags, fabric pockets, spice racks, hanging vegetables baskets, and stacked pots in graduated sizes can all accommodate vertically challenged plants such as herbs and strawberries.
Question: What are some of the best vegetables to grow up?
Answer: The naturally vining types include: peas, pole beans, cucumbers, small melons, tomatoes, summer and winter squashes, such as small pumpkins.
But don't underestimate what can be done with vertically challenged vegetables such as carrots, eggplants, lettuce, peppers, potatoes, radishes, spinach, and Swiss chard. These can all be grown vertically in containers.
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After living with the spice rack planter for a while, I realized that the lettuce couldn't perform the way that it should in such a small amount of soil. So I recommend you allow a slightly larger growing area for lettuces and salad greens. The strawberries, however, did great as long as I didn't let them dry out, and most of the herbs grew well too.
Just a reminder, you'll probably need to water this type of container daily in hot summers.
Question: Why don't more gardeners build vertical garden for vegetables?
Answer: I think that most people tend to think of a vegetable garden as long rows of sprawling plants. Our modern lifestyles have forced us to think outside the proverbial box more than ever before.
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In the first year of NCAA and PAC eligibility, the Geneva College softball team captured its first conference title and ended the 2012 season at the NCAA regional tournament with an overall record of 30-19. In 2013, the Golden Tornadoes once again reached the PAC title game and also qualified for the NCCAA National tournament for the second time in three years.
The Golden Tornadoes continue to set a very high standard in their first two years as a full member of the Presidents' Athletic Conference and will look to continue to raise the bar in the future.
The Golden Tornadoes advanced to the PAC title game for the second consecutive season in 2013 and qualified for the NCCAA national tournament for the second time in three years.
The Geneva College softball team will continue to set its sights on returning to the top of the PAC with another solid core of players returning to the fold mixed with a group of newcomers in 2014.
A standard of success has been set for Geneva College softball and the future has never been brighter for the Golden Tornadoes and the softball program.
For more information on playing at Geneva, contact:
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Whitney Houston, Cee-Lo Green, Derek Luke, Jordin Sparks, Mike Epps to star in "Sparkle" Remake! - http://tinyurl.com/7drkhyb
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I don't really like "Cockiness", but "Where Have You Been" is amazing! Can't wait to hear that at the club. I also like "Roc Me Out" and "Drunk on Love". "We Found Love" is my favourite of the album and I'm excited to hear that "Birthday Cake" might get a full version because love that song too.
I do prefer LOUD as a whole compared to this, I just liked more songs off of that. But still got a lot of love for Rih.
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Rihanna, 'Talk That Talk' – First Listen
By Priya ElanPosted on 14/11/11 at 11:05:20 am
'You Da One'
From the hand of Dr Luke comes this smile-inducing potion of dancehall meets Scandinavian pop nous. It makes us think of Ace Of Base, with its bouncey early 90s vibe. "Yes, I'm falling hard but there's nothing wrong with that," Rihanna sings, sounding, for what feels like the first time in ages, light and happy. There is a Whitney Houston reference in the chorus too ("Your love is my love / my love is your love,") which is no bad thing.
Rihanna Debuts 'You Da One' Track (LISTEN)
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Rihanna's album Talk That Talk drops Nov. 21, but "You Da One" hit the web today, Nov. 11. RiRi posted the track on her Facebook and tweeted to her fans her appreciation for loving her music.
The song is a sweet love song. Lyrics read:
"You know how to give me that. You know how to pull me back. … I'm falling for you and there's nothing wrong with that."
She also quotes Whitney Houston singing, "You love is my love, my love is your love" Check out all the lyrics here.
Rihanna fans were also in for a treat on Thursday when the outlandish pop star posted snippets of her entire album online.
In addition to the new album dropping, she's also commissioning fans to help her win an award. She wrote on her FB: "Rihanna Navy! Today's the LAST day to vote for RiRi for this year's American Music Awards! Vote here: http://abc.tv/Vote4RiAMA "
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It's okay but it doesn't sound like a #1 but a shout out to Whitney for using her 'my love is your love' line
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Stole a Whitney Hosuton song didn't it? My love is your love and gave it a carribean beat.
Whitney Houston said...
"my love is your love, your love is my love" OH REEEEALLLY, BITCH? I WANNA HEAR YOU SING IT LIVE, BITCH!
A darkness keeps Rihanna's sparkle in check on Talk That Talk
By JOEY GUERRA, MUSIC WRITER
Published 06:10 p.m., Monday, November 21, 2011
At its best, the record delves into legitimate components of club music while retaining accessibility. Where Have You Been? showcases a fuzzy trance groove, complete with peaks and valleys. You Da One chugs along a dancehall/dubstep beat while paying lyrical tribute to Whitney Houston's My Love Is Your Love. Minute-long interlude Birthday Cake snakes through suggestive lyrics and a hypnotic beat (and should have been extended into a full song).
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Whitney Houston, Cee-Lo Green, Derek Luke, Jordin Sparks, Mike Epps to star in "Sparkle" Remake! - http://tinyurl.com/7drkhyb
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Congrats Rihanna on your 13th number 1
Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake Cake
^^^. Still loving the "Cake" too.
"Do Ya Thang" is such a funny song and was clearly written by a man. "I know that you eye-fuck other girls, but that's what I love about you... so do ya thang!" It's one of my new faves tho.
Congrats Rihanna on your 13th number 1
Rihanna's 'You Da One' Video Comes Under Fire
Something about Rihanna's "You Da One" video looks familiar and one Norwegian photographer may agree.
In the video, released last week, Rihanna can be spotted gyrating around on the floor as the stripes and dot-shaped shadows dance on her flesh-colored body suit. As the Fashionista blog pointed out, the gorgeous creative direction in the video would seem nearly identical to the work of renowned fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø.
Back in 2008 Sundsbø created these manipulated light and shadow skin creations in an editorial for Numero titled "Points a la Ligne." In the spread, model Edita Vilkeviciute poses nude with the light projections slithering on her body and rocking a remarkably similar bowl cut wig to the singer. Rihanna was certainly "inspired" by the editorial, but is her inspiration a bit too direct?
This is the third time the songstress has apparently cribbed from a famous photographer. Her titillating clip for "S&M" drew the ire of David LaChapelle, who received an "undisclosed sum" from the singer earlier this year for similarities in the video to his work. She also faced another lawsuit from photog Philipp Paulus over a scene in the video.
Neither Rihanna or Sundsbø have commented on the new allegations. It should be noted that the director behind "You Da One," Melina Matsoukas, also shot the "S&M" video, as well as the epic clip for Rihanna's "We Found Love."
Watch 'n Learn has a perfect dancehall groove to it that I cannot help but get down to real low and be reminded about how much I need to go to the chiro.
Also, I love Cockiness. "Bwoy I waaaaaant: Yooooooouuuuuuuuuuu."
^ Oh yeah--I've been jammin' to "Watch n' Learn" hard for the past couple of days.
Congrats Rihanna on your 13th number 1
The highly anticipated full length version of "Birthday Cake" was posted by Rihanna via twitter today. (I take it there won't be an iTunes release?) I was sort of hoping all the rumors about Chris Brown being the "surprise guest" were false. I know it's been three years, I know the past is the past, etc, but hearing the two of them basically having sex on the song was the complete opposite of sexy due to him. I am not TeamBreezy at all, anyone else but him would have been fine. Nonetheless it's a club banger for sure, and I can replace that 1:18 track on my album.
I honestly did not care for the remix. I did not dislike it overall, but I was simply indifferent towards it. The transition into Chris Brown's verse was awkward and not really smooth. I did not feel like Chris Brown added anything to the track and I wish he had different lyrics (the first two bars) than what Rihanna had on the original.
The collaboration seemed forced, but it could be my interpretation of the vocals. It sounded like they were trying to be dirty and raunchy as opposed to being dirty and raunchy. Much like the S&M remix, the original is enough for me, although S&M was already a full track and Birthday Cake is just a snippet.
I love hearing an full version of the song now (it's my favorite on the album), but something does seem "off" about it. I wish it was just Rihanna.
UNF wouldve loved Birthday Sex with her, shes so sexy.
So when I first started listening to the song, I was skeptical because I heard it wasn't going to be CB. But as soon I as heard his voice and the rest of the song, I loved it as well as Turn UP the Music remix as well. And "sweeter than a rice cake" pow pow Rihanna fired shots at his girlfriend.
This thread is dead. Lemme revive it!
"Battleship" bomb may hit studio's profits: analystsBattleship bomb may hit studio's profits: analysts | Reuters(Reuters) - "Battleship," Universal Picture's big budget science fiction film, is likely to dent the studio's profits after it opened with lower than forecast ticket sales, according to analysts.
The film, which Comcast unit Universal has said cost $209 million to produce, generated $23.4 million in ticket sales at theaters in the U.S. and Canada during its opening weekend, according to figures compiled by Hollywood.com.
It had been projected by tracking services used by Hollywood studios to have ticket sales of between $35 million and $40 million.
The movie, which stars Liam Neeson and the singer Rihanna, finished the weekend second to Walt Disney's superhero blockbuster "The Avengers," which led the box office for the third weekend with $55.1 million in ticket sales.
"It is not quite the epic disaster of 'John Carter,' but this will put a dent in Comcast's quarter," said Matthew Harrigan of Wunderlich Securities, who follows Comcast. He did not quantify how much he expected the film to lose.
So, Rihanna is performing on Thursday at the MTV Video Music Awards. I've yet to read what she is performing but I'm hoping for an over-the-top full performance of "Birthday Cake" [remix] ft. Chris Brown. Please make it happen Rih-Rih!
Rihanna Vs Daft Punk - We Make Love [Carlos Serrano Remix]
Rihanna has yet another album coming out (Unapologetic...scheduled for November release)?
Damn...they won't let one album cool off before releasing another...
New single,"Diamonds"
It's not doing much for me right now, but like a lot of her music--it may grow on me.
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Congrats Rihanna on your 13th number 1
This last album is lazy and uncreative. A karaoke version sample of Bandz A Make Her Dance? Dubstep version of Pony? She needs to take a break because the well is incredibly dry.


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It's safe to say that those of us turned off by the repetitive sheen of most top 40 pop have welcomed the acoustic revolution spearheaded by the likes of Mumford & Sons and The Lumineers. On the other hand, anyone reared on rock 'n' roll can't help but find himself longing, at least a little bit, for a world beyond the banjos and mandolins. Doesn't anybody own an amp anymore?
With that as the backdrop, Kingsley Flood's new LP, "Battles," arrives with a wild, welcome kick. The Boston group's 2010 LP "Dust Windows" had more of a traditional Americana feel, but last year's EP "Colder Still" started to incorporate indie rock elements into their rustic sound.
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A good portion of the credit has to go to George Hall's stellar guitar work, which is accomplished without being showy – it jangles through tracks like the Mersey-tinged "Sun's Gonna Let Me Shine," while on the driving "Down," his psychedelic bursts complement Chris Barrett's trumpet blasts to pull the song squarely into the stratosphere. As for the sort-of title track "Pick Your Battles," Hall's hopped-up blues riffs combine with Naseem Khuri's roiling garage-rock keyboards to searing effect.
But none of this would be half as effective if the songs weren't actually about something. Kingsley Flood's secret weapon is Khuri's pitch-perfect lyrics, which pack an incredible breadth of imagery and emotion into their spare stanzas, delivered in a quirky, urgent rasp that anchors them solidly in the here and now. The songs on "Battles" speak to a modern American dream that's constantly in danger of being pulled under by forces beyond our control, from inside and out.
In fact, Khuri's lyrics actually owe a lot to Springsteen, with their references to inner struggles and sullen fathers, not to mention dirty hands and bills unpaid. In that vein, "Waiting On The River To Rise" is a perfectly realized painting of a man struggling to keep afloat despite God's apparent indifference: "Scratch tickets on my shelf, stains on my knees, pennies in my well," he sings. "I got faith in faith, because the other choice is no choice at all."
On other tracks, he grapples with the lure of voices that tell him to "get low" – "I'll hold up high my chin and welcome sin on in," he sings on "Sun's Gonna Let Me Shine," and among the jaunty piano, strings and horns on "King's Men," he seems to accept the inevitability of a great fall: "Look in the broken mirror; it's only a matter of time."
Broken mirrors, bent knees and chins raised in the face of inescapable adversity pop up frequently on "Battles," with some of the most effective imagery coming during the disc's quieter moments: On "Sigh A While," Khuri sings of "our eyes on the horizon, but a lollipop stuck to the floor," his quietly desperate vocals perfectly counter-pointed by Jenee Morgan's sweetly realized harmonies.
Such ambitious songwriting is always in danger of sliding into the obtuse, and it happens on occasion here. "The sleepwalker never falls down, the wax wing never hits the ground," Khuri sings cryptically on "Habit," one of the album's few meandering tracks.
But for the most part, "Battles" has just the right combination of uncompromising lyrical heft and explosive musicality, and stands to position Kingsley Flood as the ideal rock act for the new millennium: a little kinder than some, perhaps, but by no means gentler.
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