Michael Demyan

Photos and Story By Michael Demyan Boca Raton, FL — April 20, 2026 — “You’re a lot louder than the crowd in Milan,” Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn excitedly told the fans inside Amerant Bank Arena. And that wasn’t an exaggeration. The people inside the packed arena were joyfully shouting and cheering through the night.

By: Michael Demyan Does the current state of the world got you down? Looking for a way to bring back everything good about the early 2000s for a night? The Avril Lavigne Greatest Hits Tour is a pretty good option. As someone who was in their early childhood when Avril Lavigne and her opener for the evening, Simple Plan, were the newcomers topping charts, my night at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Fla. felt like a pure blast from the past – even the crowd mostly dressed the part.

Sustainable soil management requires reliable and accurate monitoring of changes in soil organic matter (SOM). However, despite the development of improved analytical techniques during the last decades, there are still limits in the detection of small changes in soil organic carbon content and SOM composition. This study focused on the detection of such changes under laboratory conditions by adding different organic amendments to soils.