Loam

Loam is soil composed of sand, silt, and clay in relatively even concentration (about 40-40-20% concentration respectively). Loam soils generally contain more nutrients and humus than sandy soils, have better drainage and infiltration of water and air than silty soils, and are easier to till than clay soils.

Loam is considered ideal for gardening and agricultural uses because it retains nutrients well and retains water while still allowing excess water to drain away. Loam is found in a majority of successful farms in regions around the world known for their fertile land. Loam soil feels soft and crumbly and is easy to work over a wide range of moisture conditions.

There are different types of loam soils, each with slightly different characteristics, with some draining liquids more efficiently than others. Different proportions of sand, silt, and clay give rise to the different types of loam soils: sandy loam, silty loam, clay loam, sandy clay loam, silty clay loam, and loam. A soil dominated by one or two of the three particle size groups can behave like loam if it has a strong granular structure, promoted by a high content of organic matter. However, a soil that meets the textural definition of loam can lose its characteristic desirable qualities when it is compacted, depleted of organic matter, or has clay dispersed throughout its fine-earth fraction.^{[clarification needed]}

Three White Cars

Three white cars passed me by,
I could see the clouds
In their windshields.
Three white stars in a twilight sky,
And now that
The clouds are gone
I see,
One more that catches my eye,
I see,
Into the heart of the sky,
I see,
Something I tasted long ago
That was coming back to me
Come back.
I remember you reminded me
Of the subtleties
The little things that make your day
And the rain moves on
As the tide rolls in
In just a few days I'll still be here,
But you'll be far
Far away.
So one last time I hold you near
And save the hero
For another day
I remember you reminded me
Of the subtleties
The little things that make your day
And the rain moves on
As the tide rolls in
And the distance between us
Wouldn't seem so long
If we knew that one of those birds
Still left up in the sky
Gave a cry as he witnessed
One of those moments that you and I
Both look at the stars in the twilight sky
And count ONE, TWO, THREE
And one more that catches my eye
I remember you reminded me
Of the subtleties
The little things that make your day
And the rain moves on
As the tide rolls in

photo: NASA / NASA Expedition 20 crew

A picturesque line of thunderstorms and numerous circular cloud patterns filled the view as the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 20 crew members looked out at the limb (blue line on the horizon) of the Earth

World War III will be fought over water

Edit Quartz 24 May 2016

In 2015, NASA’s satellite data revealed that 21 of the world’s 37 large aquifers are severely water-stressed ... The following interview with Singh has been edited for clarity.....

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Protesters hold up a flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),shouts slogans during a protest against Israeli military operations in Gaza.

Failure Is Not An Option: IS Commanders, Militants Executed For Missing Goals

Edit WorldNews.com 24 May 2016

Failed Islamic State commanders and militants who fail to carry out their duties are being fed to hungry dogs or subjected to chemical weapons being tested on “caliphate” prisoners, multiple media sources tell Breitbart.A Kurdish Peshmerga in northern Iraq reported the dog execution, the UK Daily Mail said ... Hasan described executions where failed commanders in Iraq were tied to trees and then mauled by dogs until they died ... ....

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Forensic Official: EgyptAir 804 Brought Down By Explosion

Edit WorldNews.com 24 May 2016

Forensic experts involved in the investigation of what brought down EgyptAir Flight 804 are suggesting there was an explosion onboard the flight after examining human remains retrieved from the crash site, The Associated Press reported Tuesday. "The logical explanation is that an explosion brought it down.” – Senior Egyptian forensics official The Paris to Cairo flight crashed last Thursday, killing all 66 people on board....

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Dylann Roof appears at a court hearing in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, July 16, 2015.

U.S. Justice Department Decides Dylann Roof Will Face Death Penalty If Convicted

Edit WorldNews.com 24 May 2016

The U.S. Justice Department announced Dylann Roof will face the death penalty in connection with last June’s mass shooting inside a Charleston, S.C. church, a Buzzfeed report on RawStory.com said Tuesday. “The nature of the alleged crime and the resulting harm compelled this decision.” – U.S. Attorney General Loretta LynchRoof faces 33 federal charges related to hate crimes and firearm-related offenses, the report said....

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'Keurig Of Cannabis' Seen As Sign Legalized Pot Is Becoming Depressingly Unhip

Edit WorldNews.com 24 May 2016

Like a Keurig coffee machine, the vaporizer heats up the pod’s contents, releasing a ready-to-inhale vapor.Bourque, who until then had never smoked pot in his life, started suffering from anxiety in his 40s....

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Meet Kim Crawford tonight

Edit The Examiner 24 May 2016

Savor vanilla, toasted brioche and butterscotch in a lingering finish. The 2014 “Favourite Homestead” Pinot Gris ($28) in the Awatere Valley thrived in the chilly Antarctic winds and silt loam that result in lower yields and concentrated fruit ... ....

Dunne on Wine: Paso Robles’ cabernet sauvignon

Edit Sacramento Bee 24 May 2016

Vintners of Paso Robles, saddled with a reputation developed largely on boisterous zinfandel, gamely are trying to persuade the wine world that they aren’t riding a one-trick pony ... Indeed, plantings of cabernet sauvignon at Paso Robles dwarf all other grape varieties ... Merlot is a distant second with 14 percent by specific variety ... The Paso Robles region has relatively poor sandy loam soils and pockets of gravels and lime shale. ....

Antimicrobial resistance in soil and the potential impact on the food chain (University of Southampton)

Edit Public Technologies 23 May 2016

(Source. University of Southampton) Published. 23 May 2016 ... Professor Keevil said ... The work, which has received £198,000 funding from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), will take clay, loam and sandy soils obtained from different parts of the country for analysis of their natural antibiotic resistant species before adding important antibiotic resistant or sensitive bacteria to monitor antibiotic resistance transfer ... (noodl....

Various: Day of the Dead review – 59 covers with sonic ambition

Edit The Guardian 22 May 2016

4 / 5 stars. The National’s Dessner brothers have compiled a five-CD tribute to the work and lasting influence of the hippy stalwarts, with varied and intriguing results. @kittyempire666 ... Nonetheless, the Dead remain a deep loam in American culture, a sine qua non ranging from internet protocols (Deadheads populated Stanford’s AI lab in the 1970s) to modern psychedelicists like Animal Collective ... Related. Bryce Dessner of The National ... ....

Manufactured Soil (Soil Blends & Mixes) Market worth 7.8 Billion USD by 2021 (Markets and Markets Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 20 May 2016

(Source. Markets and Markets Limited) ... Browse 138 market data tables with 37 figures spread through 176 pages and in-depth TOC on 'Manufactured Soil (Soil Blends & Mixes) Market by Type (Garden Soil, Soil Mix, Manure & Compost), Application (Cultivation, Lawns, Commercial Developments, Sports Fields, Green Spaces), Material Input, & by Region - Global Forecast to 2021' ... (U.S.), and Boughton Loam & Turf Management Limited (UK.) ... Contact .....

New Orleans area sinking assisted by industry groundwater use

Edit The Times Picayune 20 May 2016

Scientists with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Louisiana State University used a special kind of radar to measure the ground levels in 2009 and 2012, and  the amount the ground sank during that time ... In Westwego and Waggaman, the study found houses built in 2009 or later had higher subsidence rates than older homes, and houses built on clay were more likely to see higher subsidence rates than those built on silty clay loam....

Luna wins best restaurant award less than a year after opening

Edit The Irish Times 17 May 2016

A restaurant which has not even been open a year has been chosen as Ireland’s finest ... The food is modern Italian ... She concluded it was “spendy but fun ... The best chef in Ireland went to Michelin star winner Enda McEvoy of Loam restaurant in Fairgreen, Galway city. County Cavan-born Mr McEvoy set up Loam in 2013 with his wife Sinead ... Connaught - Loam, Galway ... All-Ireland - Enda McEvoy of Loam, Galway ... Connaught - Enda McEvoy of Loam, Galway ... ....

Tribal farmers demand dam at the foot of Pachamalai

Edit The Hindu 16 May 2016

A vast area at the foot of the hills can be used for constructing the dam ... Vridhachalam, secretary of the Ottampatti Farmers Welfare Association, said that although farmers at the foot of the hills were blessed with red loam soil which was suited for raising a wide range of crops – from the turmeric to sugarcane and from areca nut to paddy, wastage of flood waters had often been resulting in poor irrigation facility ... Thangaraj ... ....

Poetry in English leaves of grass – archive

Edit The Guardian 16 May 2016

16 May 1936. In May the land is murmurous with the utterance of its own striving to richness ... The weeds seem to be like some clamorous, gesticulating mob which rises and waves arms to heaven in a film or a play ... The land is murmurous, not only with the voices of its beasts and birds and insects but with the utterance of its own striving to richness; the loam has lyrical longings and even the heaviest clay “shows willing” to be musical ... ....

The grass is never greener on his side of the fence

Edit Star Tribune 15 May 2016

My wife can put a ballpoint pen in the dirt and it will sprout flowers. If I look at a hosta and say “la vista,” it dies. You can say she has “a green thumb,” but the proper term is “basic adult competence.” This time of year is heaven for gardeners; they toil in the loam, building banks of color, planting things that will go off in a few weeks like the pinnacle of a fireworks show ... ....

96-year-old Trojan finally gets his USC degree

Edit LA Daily News 13 May 2016

LOS ANGELES — Among the roughly 15,000 people who will receive degrees during USC commencement ceremonies today will be one notable standout -- 96-year-old Alfonso Gonzales ... And Gonzales passed with flying colors ... “He embodies the fact that learning opportunities never stop ... Marine Corps veteran of World War II, Gonzales started a soil company called Compo-Loam in 1953, while still attending USC ... in the Alumni Park area....

ROC reiterates position on South China Sea arbitration between Philippines, mainland China (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan))

Edit Public Technologies 13 May 2016

(Source. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan)) May 13, 2016Press Release No. 115 ... With regard to this claim, the ROC Ministry of Foreign Affairs hereby declares its position.. 1 ... The ROC enjoys all rights over them in accordance with international law. This is indisputable. 2 ... Wind erosion has transformed the 20 cm of topsoil on the agricultural area of Taiping Island into sandy loam (containing about 50%-70% sand)....

Step Inside This World Made for Bees

Edit CityLab 12 May 2016

Courtesy of Meg Webster and Socrates Sculpture Park. For now, the plants are stubby. Nearly 1,000 of them—bee balm, asters, coneflower, thistle—are nestled into packed-dirt walls arcing up 6 feet into the air. But as the summer wears on, they’ll grow ... pollinator decline ... Related Story ... Until August 28, visitors can walk inside Webster’s Concave Room for Bees, comprised of 850,000 pounds of earth, topsoil, and loam ... ....

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World War III will be fought over water

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U.S. Justice Department Decides Dylann Roof Will Face Death Penalty If Convicted

'Keurig Of Cannabis' Seen As Sign Legalized Pot Is Becoming Depressingly Unhip

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Antimicrobial resistance in soil and the potential impact on the food chain (University of Southampton)

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Manufactured Soil (Soil Blends & Mixes) Market worth 7.8 Billion USD by 2021 (Markets and Markets Limited)

New Orleans area sinking assisted by industry groundwater use

Luna wins best restaurant award less than a year after opening

Tribal farmers demand dam at the foot of Pachamalai

Poetry in English leaves of grass – archive

The grass is never greener on his side of the fence

96-year-old Trojan finally gets his USC degree

ROC reiterates position on South China Sea arbitration between Philippines, mainland China (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan))

Step Inside This World Made for Bees