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[mr-legoman]

Ya’know I have a new appreciation for Zero Escape

After playing some Escape Room visual novels, I really appreciate Zero Escape’s puzzles and its feedback. Like it has a few puzzles that are brain busters or can be confusing but it does offer feedback. If you fail a puzzle or do something wrong the characters will say something.

Characters can also help and point you in the right direction. Its something I never really thought about. And it also has character interactions which just develops the characters better. Some of the indie games I play lack that feedback on certain puzzles making it more frustrating.

[kazsartcorner]

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Well known for their combat and security robots, Bulwark Robotics has a wide selection of heavy duty droids to cover all manner of battlefield roles, and with modular system hardpoints standard weapons can be switched for more exotic options such as defoliants, bladed strimmer rounds, gyroc smart guns, coilguns, tactical laser systems and more.

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Lollipopping Cannabis: When Why and How to Do It | Complete Guide

Lollipopping Cannabis: When Why and How to Do It

If you are growing cannabis and you are looking for a simple and effective way to increase the quality and quantity of your harvest, you might want to try lollipopping. Lollipopping is a pruning technique that involves removing the lower branches and leaves of your plants, leaving only the top buds that receive the most light. This way, you can direct more energy and nutrients to the main colas, resulting in bigger, denser, and more potent buds.

Why Should You Lollipop Your Plants?

Lollipopping cannabis has several benefits, some of them are: - It improves the airflow and light penetration in your grow room, which reduces the risk of mold, pests, and diseases. - It makes your plants easier to manage and maintain, as you don't have to deal with unnecessary foliage. - It increases the potency and quality of your buds, as they receive more light and nutrients. - It boosts your yield, as you avoid wasting energy on popcorn buds that are small and airy.

When Should You Lollipop?

The best time to lollipop your plants depend on the strain and the growth stage. Generally, you want to do it a couple of weeks before they enter flowering when your plants stop stretching and start developing buds. This usually happens around week 3 or 4 of the vegetative stage for photoperiod strains, or week 2 or 3 for autoflowering strains. You can also lollipop your plants during the first week of flowering but avoid doing it later as it can stress the plants and affect their bud development.

How Often Should You Lollipop?

You only need to lollipop your plants once per grow cycle. Lollipping is not a maintenance technique like defoliation or trimming; it’s a one-time intervention that prepares your plants for the stage of flowering. However, you might want to do some light pruning or defoliation throughout the growth cycle to keep your plants healthy and tidy. Just make sure you don’t overdo it and always leave enough time for your plants to recover before switching to flowering.

How Much Should You Lollipop?

There is no definitive answer to how much you should do it. It depends on several factors, such as the size and shape of your plant, the type and intensity of your lights, and your personal preference. A general rule of thumb is to remove about 20-30% of the lower growth on each branch. You want to leave enough foliage for photosynthesis, but not so much that it blocks light from reaching the upper buds. You can use a simple method to determine how much to lollipop: hold your hand above the canopy and look at the shadow it casts on the lower branches. If you can see a clear outline of your hand, that means there is enough light penetration and you don’t need to lollipop more. If you can’t see your hand at all, that means there is too much shade and you need to lollipop more. Some growers prefer to be more aggressive and remove up to 50% or more of the lower growth. This can result in bigger and denser colas at the top, but it can also reduce the overall yield and increase the stress on your plants. Experiment with different amounts of lollipopping to see what works best for you and your setup.

How to Lollipop Your Cannabis Plants: Step-by-Step Guide (2 Methods)

There are two main techniques for lollipopping marijuana plants: top-down and bottom-up. Both techniques involve removing the lower branches and leaves of your plants, but they differ in how much foliage you leave on the top. • Technique 1 • Top Down Lollipopping

Top-down lollipopping is a more aggressive technique that involves removing almost all of the foliage from your plants, leaving only a few leaves on the top buds. This technique is suitable for growers who want to maximize their yield per plant and have enough space and light for their plants. To perform top-down lollipopping, you will need: - A pair of pruning shears or scissors - A container or trash bag for the trimmed material - Gloves (optional but recommended) Follow these steps: 1. Choose the right time to lollipop your plant. The best time is during the vegetative stage before the plant starts flowering. You can also lollipop during the early flowering, but avoid doing it after the third week, as this can stress the plant and reduce its yield. 2. Start from the top of the plant and work your way down. Cut off any branches that are too thin, weak, or shaded by the canopy. Leave only the main branches that have healthy and vigorous growth. 3. On each branch, remove the lower nodes and leaves that are not receiving enough light. You can use your scissors or your fingers to pinch them off. Leave only the top few nodes on each branch, where the buds will form. 4. Dispose of the trimmed material properly. You can compost it, use it for making hash or edibles, or throw it away. Do not leave it near your plants, as it can attract pests and diseases. 5. Monitor your plants after lollipopping. You may notice some signs of stress, such as drooping leaves or yellowing tips. This is normal to happen, however, it should decrease in a few days. You can also apply some water or nutrients to help your plants recover. 6. Enjoy the benefits of lollipopping. You should see an improvement in your plants' health, growth, and yield. Your buds will be bigger, denser, and more potent, and you will have less risk of mold and pests.

• Technique 2 • Bottom Up Lollipopping

Bottom-up lollipopping is a more conservative technique that involves removing only some of the foliage from your plants, leaving more leaves on the top buds. This technique is suitable for growers who want to preserve some of the natural shape and structure of their plants and have limited space and light for their plants. To perform bottom-up lollipopping, you will need: - A pair of sharp scissors or pruning shears - A container or trash bag for the cuttings - Gloves (optional but recommended) Follow these steps: 1. Choose the right time to lollipop your plants. The best time is during the vegetative stage before the plants start flowering. You can also do it in the early flowering, but avoid doing it too late as it can stress your plants and reduce their yield. 2. Start from the bottom of the plant and work your way up. Cut off any branches and leaves that are below the main canopy or that are not receiving enough light. You can also remove any weak or damaged branches that are unlikely to produce good buds. 3. Be careful not to overdo it. You don't want to remove more than 20% of the plant's foliage at once, as this can shock your plants and slow down their growth. Aim for a balanced and even canopy that allows light to reach all the buds. 4. Dispose of the cuttings properly. You can compost them, use them for mulch, or throw them away. Do not leave them near your plants as they can attract pests and diseases. 5. Monitor your plants after lollipopping. You may notice some signs of stress such as wilting or yellowing, but they should recover quickly. You can also give them some extra water and nutrients to help them heal and grow.

Lollipopping vs Defoliation: What Are the Differences?

Lollipopping and defoliation are two pruning techniques that are often confused with each other. However, they have some key differences that you should know before applying them to your cannabis plants. The main difference between lollipopping and defoliation is that lollipopping is done once or twice during the life cycle of your plants, while defoliation is done multiple times. Lollipopping is a technique that involves removing the lower branches and leaves of your plants, leaving only the top buds that receive the most light. The main purpose of lollipopping is to increase the yield and quality of your harvest by directing more energy and nutrients to the main colas. Defoliation is a technique that involves removing some of the leaves from your plants throughout their life cycle, especially during flowering. The main purpose of defoliation is to improve airflow and light penetration by reducing overcrowding and shading among your plants.

Can I Combine Lollipopping With Other Training Techniques?

Lollipopping cannabis is a powerful technique that can boost your yields significantly. However, it is not a magic solution that works by itself. You should combine lollipopping with other growing techniques to optimize your results. Some of these techniques are: • Topping: Topping is a technique that involves cutting off the tip of the main stem of your plant during the vegetative stage. This way, you can create multiple main colas instead of one single cola. • Low Stress Training (LST): LST is a technique that involves bending and tying down the branches of your plant during the vegetative stage. This way, you can create a more even canopy and expose more buds to light. • Screen Of Green (SCROG): SCROG is a technique that involves placing a horizontal net or screen above your plants during the vegetative stage. This way, you can train your plants to grow through the holes in the screen and create a flat canopy. • Sea Of Green (SOG): SOG is a technique that involves growing many small cannabis plants in close proximity during a short vegetative stage. This way, you can fill up your growing space quickly and efficiently. Final Thoughts Lollipopping cannabis is an easy and effective way to improve the yields and quality of your buds. By following this guide, you can learn how to perform this technique correctly and safely on your plants. So what are you waiting for? Start lollipopping today! FAQs about Lollipopping Cannabis What is the lollipopping meaning? The term “lollipopping” comes from the idea of making your cannabis plant look like a lollipop, with a bare stem and a round top full of buds. By cutting off the lower growth, you can create more airflow and light penetration in your grow space, which can prevent mold and pests, and improve bud development. Lollipopping is a type of high-stress training (HST), which means it involves wounding your plant intentionally to trigger a stress response that makes it grow stronger and more resilient. How many nodes to leave when lollipopping? There is no definitive answer to this question, as it depends on the strain, the size of the plant, and the growing conditions. However, a general rule of thumb is to leave at least 3 to 4 nodes on each branch, or about 30% to 40% of the plant’s height. This will ensure that the plant has enough foliage to support its growth and photosynthesis. Can I lollipopping autoflowers plant? Yes, you can, but you have to be careful not to stress them too much. Autoflowering plants have a limited vegetative period and will start flowering automatically after a few weeks. Therefore, you should only lollipop them once, preferably before they start showing signs of flowering. You should also avoid removing too much growth, as they have less time to recover from pruning. Can I lollipopping during the flowering? Yes, you can in the early stage, but you have to be more selective and gentle. Lollipopping in flowering stage can help improve the airflow and light penetration to the buds, as well as prevent mold and pests. However, you should only remove the lower branches and the fan leaves that are clearly shaded or dying. You should also avoid cutting any buds or pistils, as this can reduce your yield and potency. When is too much lollipopping? Lollipopping too much can be harmful to the plant, as it can stress it and reduce its overall yield. The amount of lollipopping depends on the strain, the environment, and the grower’s preference, but a general rule is to remove no more than 20-30% of the plant’s foliage. Lollipopping should be done gradually and carefully, and only during the vegetative or early flowering. Does lollipopping cannabis plants increase yield? Lollipopping can potentially increase your yield by directing more energy and resources to the upper buds, which are usually bigger and denser than the lower ones. It can also improve the quality of your buds by enhancing their resin production and aroma. However, lollipopping alone is not enough to Read the full article

[myfootyrthroat]

One of the things that annoys me most about so many sustainable ag/homestead/whatever people is how out of touch a lot of their solutions are. Someone from a local natural landscaping company just posted something about buckthorn control that was like "Why would anyone ever resort to chemical control? Just continuously defoliate it for 2 years, then pull it up!" I've also seen people seriously advocate that farms should switch to hand-weeding rather than tillage.

Like, the sheer amount of labor? And who? From where? At what cost?

[legobiwan]

TCW Rewatch: “Defenders of the Peace” (S1, E14)

Yes, it's been over a year since I last did one of these. It's been a hell of a time, people, but I'm coming back round the mountain on Star Wars.

So, when we last left our intrepid heroes, they were stranded on Mygeeto and Anakin came close to pulling a Kanan Jarrus. Alright, then.

While recovering, Anakin, Ahsoka, Aayla, Rex, and co. catch sight of a Separatist warship entering the Lurmen colony, headed up by the comically evil Lok Durd (who may as well have been twirling his non-existent mustache as he bloviated to the Lurmen leader).

This isn't what's really interesting about this episode, however. What's fascinating is the talk about neutrality in the war and pacifism, in regards to the Lurmen.

First of all, I love Anakin's assertion that if the Lurmen want to remain neutral, that's their business. Fast-forward three years and he's already graduated to training terrorist cells on Onderon.

And that's what really struck me in this episode - is that if you compare the Jedi and the war then with how they ended up...you can see how the Order itself entered a downward trajectory they partially got dragged into through Sidious's manipulations, partially because of their adherence to older Codes and politics (more on this in a moment).

I think that Aayla's comment that if the Separatists spot the Jedi, the Lurmens will be slaughtered awful because the Lurmens were going to be slaughtered anyway. And I'm not sure if this a comment on the futility of not taking sides in a war or if Jedi non-intervention was literally doing no one but the politicians on Coruscant any good, but it's certainly striking.

Speaking of the Separatists - I had to cackle during this exchange.

You can't tell from the screen grab, but the battledroid meets Lok Durd's proclamation that Dooku is going to majorly promote him with the most sarcastic response, and you know what - that battledroid knew Dooku better than Durd.

And this fascinates me because Dooku was in on Sidious's plan. They needed a long, protracted war to erode trust in the Jedi and Sidious needed time to groom Anakin. The defoliator weapon, while powerful, was clumsy and unwieldy in its deployment, and rather easily sabotaged, as Anakin shows us later on.

This makes me wonder about the Separatist weapons development program, which Dooku had a not-insignificant hand in funding, and if Dooku ever had to handicap his own projects so they wouldn't be too successful too quickly (and if he ever stowed away some research for himself and his own causes, should he eventually usurp Sidious). Now Lok Durd doesn't seem like to type of being to check every contingency, and unfortunately for Dooku, he's forced to work with the likes of Lok Durd (no wonder he wants to get Kenobi on his side) and just - I really want to know more about what was going behind the scenes with the Separatists during the war. Both the systems and beings who whole-heartedly wanted change and the machinations and politics from that side of things.

Anyway, Dooku rant aside, Anakin gives this extremely telling order:

Foreshadowing, much? In that Anakin is using the droid order and, uh...well, we know what he becomes later.

Speaking of foreshadowing, the Lurmen leader is quite reticent to give any aid to the Jedi, and I think it's fascinating to compare these two scenes:

Again, it really speaks to how the war has dragged everyone down. The same line, spoken to Jedi - once by a peaceful species trying to avoid conflict (who were saved by the Jedi). And then later, by a drug and crime lord who helped kill Syfo-Dyas and whose favor two Jedi were attempting to curry.

After witnessing the defoliator in action, the Jedi switch from leaving the Lurmen to the tender mercies of the Separatists to direct involvement. Anakin states, "there is a difference between pulling innocents into a war and leaving them to extinction."

And isn't that quandry of the years? When can the Jedi intervene? They don't on Mandalore as it's a civil issue, not a galactic issue. They don't on Felucia because it's a Hondo issue, not a Separatist issue. They do on Onderon because it's a Separatist issue, albeit grudgingly.

And before Anakin and co. witnessed the defoliator in action, they were ready to leave the Lurmen, possibly to be slaughtered even without the weapon. So yes, a slaughter, but also - they needed to deal with a major military weapon.

Along interesting foreshadowing in this episode is this, which is a LITTLE ON THE NOSE, FILONI:

I mean, this is essentially a stand-in for the Order. The father being Yoda, which is strong-willed and set in tradition. The Lurmen being raised in a strict code, not always agreeing with it, and still adhering to it anyway. And what happens when they break that Code? The Lurmen survive. What happens to the Jedi in the analogous situation?

While this arc in and of itself is pretty forgettable, the sheer amount of foreshadowing and mirroring makes it worth the rewatch.

Also, even though the Jedi saved the Lurmens from immediate destruction, in the end, the Republic warships do arrive on the horizon and the Lurmen are likely absorbed under Republic protection. Which...

For an arc that in and of itself is pretty forgettable, the sheer amount of foreshadowing and mirroring makes it worth the rewatch, not to mention the subtle ways it casts some doubt on Jedi and Republic intervention, as shown above.

But mostly this episode is worth it due to Dooku's hilarious look of Utter Disgust:

He's so pissed hahahahahahaa (I need to create a collection of Dooku being utterly done with everyone all the time in this show).

[andcontemplation]

Okay I don’t want to toot my own horn or anything but I gotta pat myself on the back for foreshadowing Hopper’s past in the Army during Vietnam (Chapter 11 of my fic Stand By Me, ch published in Feb 2021!)...

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“The world’s changing so fast,” Joyce observed in a moment of clarity one evening in early August. She sat cross-legged on the couch, anxious over a bowl of cereal and the news with Walter Cronkite.

A riot had broken out in Los Angeles, and one of the CBS reporters was there on location, right in the thick of it. Protests and looting and screams of righteous anger filled the living room, blasting through the speakers.

Hopper walked over to the television with a scowl on his face, dropped to his knees, and turned the dial to more real-life nightmares: newsreel of Vietnam, the USAF dropping defoliant on unsuspecting villages, while the newscaster discussed the use of Rainbow Herbicides with a General in the studio.

“So, you’re saying there’s no chance of toxicity in a human population with overuse of these chemicals?”

“We can assure the public here at home that there is no cause for concern. The chemicals used are intended to kill plants, making it easier for our soldiers to spot their targets in heavy foliage and avoid killing civilians…"

Hopper quickly switched the channel again, this time to the Andy Griffith’s show instead. In one click, he had saved them, shutting all the chaos of the world out of their happy little home. If only it could be that easy.

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NASA Finds Amazon Drought Leaves Long Legacy of Damage

NASA - ICESat-2 Mission patch. August 10, 2018 A single season of drought in the Amazon rainforest can reduce the forest's carbon dioxide absorption for years after the rains return, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. This is the first study to quantify the long-term legacy of an Amazon drought. A research team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and other institutions used satellite lidar data to map tree damage and mortality caused by a severe drought in 2005. In years of normal weather, the undisturbed forest can be a natural carbon "sink," absorbing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than it puts back into it. But starting with the drought year of 2005 and running through 2008 -- the last year of available lidar data -- the Amazon basin lost an average of 0.27 petagrams of carbon (270 million metric tons) per year, with no sign of regaining its function as a carbon sink.

Image above: This image, taken during a September 2010 drought, shows a line of dead and damaged trees after a surface fire in the Amazon rainforest in western Brazil. When dryer-than-normal conditions exist, fires from the open edges encroach on the forests and burn dry and stressed trees. Under normal conditions, when the rainforests are wetter, this is far less common. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. At about 2.3 million square miles (600 million hectares), the Amazon is the largest tropical forest on Earth. Scientists estimate that it absorbs as much as one-tenth of human fossil fuel emissions during photosynthesis. "The old paradigm was that whatever carbon dioxide we put up in [human-caused] emissions, the Amazon would help absorb a major part of it," said Sassan Saatchi of NASA's JPL, who led the study. But serious episodes of drought in 2005, 2010 and 2015 are causing researchers to rethink that idea. "The ecosystem has become so vulnerable to these warming and episodic drought events that it can switch from sink to source depending on the severity and the extent," Saatchi said. "This is our new paradigm." Drought from the Ground For scientists on the ground in the Amazon, "The first thing we see during a drought is that the trees may lose their leaves," Saatchi said. "These are rainforests; the trees almost always have leaves. So the loss of leaves is a strong indication the forest is stressed." Even if trees eventually survive defoliation, this damages their capacity to absorb carbon while under stress. Observers on the ground also notice that droughts tend to disproportionately kill tall trees first. Without adequate rainfall, these giants can't pump water more than 100 feet up from their roots to their leaves. They die from dehydration and eventually fall to the ground, leaving gaps in the forest canopy far overhead.

Image above: This image, taken during a September 2010 drought, shows a dead tree in the Amazon rainforest in western Brazil. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. But any observer on the ground can monitor only a tiny part of the forest. There are only about hundred plots used for research and a few tower sites for long-term monitoring of the Amazon forests. "The detailed measurements in these sites are extremely important for understanding forest function, but we can never use them to say what this giant ecosystem is doing in a timely fashion," Saatchi said. To do that, he and his colleagues turned to satellite data. Drought from Space The research team used high-resolution lidar maps derived from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System aboard the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat). These data reveal changes in canopy structure, including leaf damage and gaps. The researchers developed a new method of analysis to convert these structural changes into changes in aboveground biomass and carbon. They eliminated pixels showing burned or deforested areas to calculate the carbon impact of drought on intact forests alone. They found that following drought, fallen trees, defoliation and canopy damage produced a significant loss in canopy height, with the most severely impacted region declining an average of about 35 inches (0.88 meters) in the year after the drought. Less severely affected regions of the forest declined less, but all continued to decline steadily throughout the remaining years of the data record.

Image above: This image, based on measurements taken by the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), shows the areas of the Amazon basin that were affected by the severe 2005 drought. Areas in yellow, orange, and red experienced light, moderate, and severe drought, respectively. Green areas did not experience drought. Image Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Google. Saatchi noted that half of the forest's rainfall is made by the forest itself -- water that transpires and evaporates from the vegetation and ground, rises into the atmosphere, and condenses and rains out during the dry season and the transition to the wet season. A drought that kills forest trees thus not only increases carbon emissions, it reduces rainfall and extends dry-season length. Those changes increase the likelihood of future drought. If droughts continue to occur with the frequency and severity of the last three events in 2005, 2010 and 2015, Saatchi said, the Amazon could eventually change from a rainforest to a dry tropical forest. That would reduce the forest's carbon absorption capacity and its biological diversity.

Image above: NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat): Image Credits: NASA/JLP-Caltech. The paper in Nature is titled "Post-drought Decline of the Amazon Carbon Sink." Co-authors are affiliated with UCLA, Boston University, Oregon State University in Corvallis, and the U.S. Forest Service's International Institute of Tropical Forestry in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. Related link: Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat): https://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/ Images (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/JPL/Esprit Smith/NASA's Earth Science News Team, written by Carol Rasmussen. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article

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Artist: Conor Oberst                                                                                      Author: Conor Oberst                                                                                    Album: Ruminations                                                                                         Year: 2016                                                                                                    Genre: alternative/folk/anti-folk 

 TITLE

 A “next of kin” (NOK) is a person’s closest living blood relative or relatives. It is a legal definition in the United States (where Conor lives). According to legal systems, in cases of medical emergency, the next of kin may participate in medical decisions when their relative is incapable of such. This term is not used anywhere in the song itself, except for the title. Its nature, related to legal issues (jargon), may indicate that the author wants to separate himself from the issues presented in the song (death, loss, hopelessness) by using a term which doesn’t necessarily have any emotional connotations in order not to feel sadness himself. He may also use it ironically to point out that people, when in difficult, life-challenging situations (such as death of a beloved person), are limited to the system and its bureaucratic procedures, having no room left for sentiment, nostalgia and pain. 

 VERSE 1 

The speaker admits to seeing a (supposedly) car crash on the interstate highway which moved him deeply to the point he couldn’t get rid of the feeling. The crash must’ve been fatal, with certain person(s) dead as a result, since he ironically points out that the dead person’s relative (next of kin?) must be notified, as restricted in a database. The speaker now reveals that he is, in fact, to notify the relative. He again admits that he feels uneasy as he doesn’t want to call that person nor inform them. Did he know the deceased? Does he know the relative? Or is he just as empathetic? He tells the relative that he has bad news and asks them to sit down to not fall unconscious (possibly). It’s worth to notice that the mentioned “interstate” sounds similar when pronounced to “intestate” which refers to the condition of the estate of a person who dies without having made a will or other declaration. 

 VERSE 2 

We now switch to a different scenery. We’re presented with an image of a bathrobe hanging on somebody’s bedroom door. It belonged to a woman who’s clearly a year gone by the time. Her closest one, possibly a relative, a man (a husband? partner? father? brother? A partner more than anyone else, given the image of a shared bedroom) buried her body by a sycamore, a tree which in Catholicism symbolizes clarity (Zacchaeus climbing it to see Jesus clearly among a crowd of people). The tree is a symbol of place in the lives of Catholics where they’re able to have a clear vision of Jesus, their savior. In Egyptian Texts, two sycamore trees stood at the eastern gate of Heaven. Between the trees the Sun God, Ra, showed himself each morning. It is believed that a sycamore tree and its valuable wood (often used to carve sarcophagi, or coffins) was a symbol of protection for the Egyptians during the journey from life to death. I think it’s safe to say that the author could’ve had both symbolic connotations in mind. He tells us that the man, grieving his wife’s death, buried her under the sycamore. By “the” & the following line we know it’s not a random one, but possibly a tree growing in their garden or somewhere near home, since the man wants to “keep his wife/partner close”, aka wants to have “the best view” to visit her grave often and to have it protected, near. We’re later told that “it”, the man’s partner’s death was devastating to him both emotionally and physically. It “made him old” which may refer to him changing physically (people’s hair, for example, can turn gray within seconds of a traumatic experience) or/and mentally (loss of a loved one is a life-changing experience which provides people with both trauma and knowledge). The man tries to “rebuild” something. His heart? His body? His life? His faith? but he can’t do it, because it deteriorates instead. He’s told by people that that’s the routine of life, that’s what happens - death is real and will affect you, everyone experiences loss, you can’t do anything about it, but he doesn’t want to deal with it that way, he’s unable to come to terms with it. 

 VERSE 3 

Now the speaker addresses the listener/reader. He tells us - “you” - that you can’t perform onstage when you drink too much. When a “star” is born something needs to die - he paraphrases the issue presented e.g. in Andersen’s tale “The Little Match Girl” where the protagonist is told by her grandmother that when somebody dies - a star falls from the sky. The speaker, possibly the author himself, knows the difficulty of being a known artist - drinking problems, the possible loss of one’s true identity which needs to “die” in order for their new image - “a star” to emerge, to please the audience. It doesn’t only need to refer to a musician/artist’s fate though, because one doesn’t need to be a singer to “perform” aka present, carry out, fulfill or accomplish anything. This verb may refer to any actions one can take, including the most basic ones. “Get too drunk” = make yourself unstable so you can’t do anything right. One thing also has to end in order for something else (sometimes better) to start. For us, for the speaker, for the author. For everyone. Later, the speaker clearly shows us his own perspective on the issues as he admits to having “spread his anger like Agent Orange”. Now, Agent Orange is a defoliant, most notably used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War which caused major health problems for anybody who was exposed to it. By “spreading his anger” like a chemical the speaker confesses that he was open with his negative emotion in a toxic, contaminating and damaging way, to himself and other people, probably. He then admits that he did randomly, against the better judgment, as being “indiscriminate”, just like Agent Orange affecting the lives of Vietnamese people. He talks about how he met Lou Reed and Patti Smith (both valid counter-culture icons of the 70s, musicians and poets, self-taught and independent, charismatic) which didn’t have any crucial impact on him anyway. He thinks that yet another loss - of innocence, made him indifferent already. Also, you should never meet your heroes.

 VERSE 4 

Who’s a “she” mentioned at the beginning of the first line? That’s possibly the trickiest line of them all. A partner? A girlfriend? A mother? The aforementioned Innocence? She’s definitely known to the speaker and has the edge over him by “winning the fight”, possibly an argument or a game (like poker) by “calling his bluff” i.e. challenging the speaker to reveal his real intentions (like a card) to unmask him and show his weakness. “She” is smart and skilled. The speaker, as a result, runs away and notices the night has already begun. It is hot, too which can be unusual to some of the listeners since there’s no more sun at night thus the heat decreases. He points out that he has a lighter which doesn’t seem to work and admits that he shouldn’t smoke anyway. The lighter may symbolize the urge or possibility to do nasty things which never seem to work thus it’s better for the speaker to not continue on this path. He says he’s already on his way, “free to leave” as though he can go away already, not restrained nor limited anymore. He walks down the Bowery, fast. The Bowery is a street and neighborhood in New York City. The area was infamous for the number of low-brow concert halls, brothels, pawn shops and flophouses, welcoming all those considered outcasts or degenerates. This line can make the “she”-problem clearer then by adding more possible interpretations . A “she” can be a prostitute, an opponent in illegal poker game, maybe. The speaker cries and through his tears, yet another obstacle, he can’t see the road/path/way before him but he admits and assures us that he managed to get back home; to what’s familiar, close, near, comfortable and considered safe, known. 

 SUMMARY: 

Conor Oberst’s “Next of Kin” tells a story of loss and acknowledgement of it. A story of feeling lost and inadequate, nervous and anxious. A story of failing at living with pain. A story of losing innocence, purity and dignity. A story of understanding loss, facing up to it and finding a way to what is always there, sometimes abandoned and neglected - home. Our own sensible selves.

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What Star Wars: Visions Has in Common With Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli

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The beauty of the natural world and its spiritual elements have long been popular subjects for anime, and in the new short film anthology Star Wars: Visions that translates to rich forests and bringing life to once barren ground. With its emphasis on how characters affect the environments around them, Visions touches on both the history of anime and an idea that has been present but muted in most Star Wars stories: that the evil of the Empire goes hand-in-hand with resource exploitation and greed.

Naturally, anime is an art style — developed in Japan and with a wide range of inspirations behind it — not a single genre. You can find anime films and TV shows espousing and glorifying a wide range of philosophies, from the green of the trees to the virtues of guns. But some of the most successful examples have included the former. 

Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli, the director and studio behind perhaps the most well-known anime films in the west, make the association between the style and environmental messages clear. Princess Mononoke directly depicts a fight between the denizens of the forest and the humans who have been clearcutting it. My Neighbor Totoro romanticizes a countryside and forest filled with Shinto-inspired creatures as well as real-world shrines and practices. Other popular anime, like the Moribito series (based on the novels of the same name) or Mushishi, also focus on nature as a source of spirituality, if not always safety.

Star Wars, itself inspired in part by Japanese films, addresses this indirectly but thoroughly. While the heroes tend to be visually associated with earth tones, sacred places, and magical trees, the villains wear metal and stark colors. The heroes are the underdogs, after all: the villains have the technological upper hand, even if a well-placed missile can destroy a whole battle station. 

This is especially obvious in Return of the Jedi, which un-subtly pits the ultra-sterile trappings of the Empire against the raucous Ewoks. While the Empire destroys planets, the Ewoks live in trees and forage from the land. In The Clone Wars, destroying the environment is associated with disaster, like when the Separatists turn their Defoliator on their enemies’ planets or when a mixed Republic and Dug project disturbs the Zillo Beast from its underground lair. The Mandalorian makes this clear in the season two episode “The Jedi,” itself heavily inspired by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa; the Empire’s presence seems to be draining the planet, leaving churned-up mud and dying trees around the town. 

The Visions episode that does the most with this theme is “The Village Bride,” which presents a planet where people have a home-grown understanding of the Force. “Magina,” or the Force, is connected directly to the planet: “You can’t change the river’s flow by casting a stone, but live in harmony with nature, and you’ll change together,” one Jedi says. The visuals focus on the forest, on how it can be both beautiful and inhospitable to humans. “We are the sky, we are the forest, we are the river,” goes the chant the titular bride and groom perform. 

The actual destruction of the world is mostly hidden — an explosion here, a flashback there. Unlike many of the other shorts in the series, the villains are not even reminiscent of the Empire. Instead, they’re bandits using reprogrammed Separatist droids. 

Perhaps the most subtle expression of this theme in the episode is the opening scene, where the wanderer Valco activates what appears to be a lightsaber, then proves to be a sensor of some kind. While he’s capable of fighting, he’s also fighting in his own way with research and science.

“T0-B1” also shows that being a hero can mean tending the planet, not necessarily swinging a lightsaber — although the hero certainly does also swing a lightsaber. Inspired by his mentor’s death, the little droid T0-B1 tries to grow plants on the inhospitable desert world. (T0-B1 is a visual echo of Astro Boy, the hero from the 1952 manga, which was later adapted into one of the most successful and familiar anime franchises of all time.) The science is presented as wondrous and soft, and learning how to make the planet green again is the triumph that leads him to gain his lightsaber and become a Jedi Knight. 

Of course, the episode also presents him with a convenient villain — he needs to have a martial victory as well as a life-bringing one. Getting to what Yoda said — war not making a person great — is still not quite possible on screen in a franchise built in part on the spectacle of lightsaber battles. But “bringing life back to this planet” is T0-B1’s mission, and his resolution at the end of the episode is that “helping planets…that’s what Jedi do.” 

“The Ninth Jedi” evokes some of the industrialization presented as the enemy in other episodes, but doesn’t do as much with it. Throughout the series, we see that kyber crystals, the power source of a lightsaber, are nearly as prized, valuable, and flashy as the laser swords themselves. The process of mining kyber from asteroids in “The Ninth Jedi” is visually arresting, with cords shot into space from machines resembling oil rigs and dragged down to the planet in violent crashes. 

The episode doesn’t have much to say about this: the kyber crystals are as noble in good hands as they are sinister in evil ones, with lightsaber colors switching to match each person’s ethical standing. Even so, it’s a cool look at one way to get ahold of this essential piece of Star Wars technology.

One of the best episodes in the series, “Lop and Ochō,” also works the pro-environment theme, both visually and in dialogue. It presents a marked contrast between the industrial Imperial base and the verdant planet around it. Even the hero Lop, a bunny-like alien, is more animalistic than the people around her. But the real insight in this episode comes from the story of why her adopted sister Ochō decides to join the Empire. She explains in a straightforward manner that she’s doing it to help her family: the “Imperial industry” that has “stripped and exploited” the planet will bring “growth and prosperity,” she says. 

Ochō’s arguments for how the benefits of the alliance will help the family — money, presumably, and an ever-increasing flow of it — make sense. That’s what’s so honest (and frightening) about them. She wants the same thing Lop does — to keep the family safe — but wants to go about it in a different way. To her — and to the Imperial officer who has been conspiring with her — the family’s “idealism” is just getting in the way. “How are feelings supposed to save our family?” Ochō asks.

I won’t spoil the ending of this one, so suffice it to say the sisters’ clashing opinions are both tested. By the end of the episode, the visuals show primarily the stark metal of the Imperial base, with decorative trees reminding the viewer that the natural world is also part of the conversation. By combining the visual tropes of Star Wars and anime, Visions creates a strong message from both. 

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Star Wars: Visions executive producer James Waugh and producer Kanako Shirasaki spoke to Den of Geek about this connection in an interview, saying the “unique cultural perspective” lends itself to this theme.

“It comes down to the point of the anthology really, which was a unique cultural perspective and a unique art form expressing Star Wars,” Waugh says. “So much of that type of storytelling [about nature] feels so at home with anime because it permeates a lot of the fiction that comes out of Japanese culture in general.”

But the focus on the environments of Star Wars came naturally, according to Waugh. It wasn’t a mandate.

“There was never a conscious moment where we said we were really leaning into the idea of should we do these stories or not. It was these creators had a vision, each one had a point of view and a story they wanted to tell, and those were the themes they were gravitating towards. And that resonated with Star Wars in the sense that they were powerful, resonant themes that felt a little mythic, and then it was really a matter of getting characters rendered in a way that they had to react to the situation and we had to care for them. But it was totally the byproduct of working with creators who have a very specific point of view and something to say.”

Shirasaki adds, “The creators are heavily influenced from Star Wars at the same time as the rich history of Japanese animation, and Miyazaki and other Japanese storytelling talking about nature and development and all the conflict between these two. So maybe these topics might feel closer to them to tell, and also in a Star Wars setting.” 

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Miyazaki is often quoted as one of the medium’s most powerful voices on environmentalism. In a 2009 interview, the legendary animator said that this idea needs to go beyond storytelling as well: “Whether we should do something about it or not is something that we need to think about in real life, rather than depicting it in a particular way in the stories on screen.”

Star Wars: Visions is streaming now on Disney+.

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So I’m playing this puzzle adventure game Defoliation on switch and it’s like the hardest puzzle game I’ve ever played and I’m stuck on the puzzle where I gotta figure out a 9 digit password and I’m and stumped af figuring this out and like this game isn’t popular enough to even have guides so help me

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How to increase cannabis production when 720wLED grow lights are blooming

How to increase the production of hemp that has begun to bloom? If you have not taken any action during this period, then please consider that you have one last chance. 720wLED grow lights can effectively solve this problem for you. Let's take a look at how 720wLED grow lights can increase the production of indoor cannabis when they are blooming.

1. Increased light intensity

The light intensity of the 720w LED grow light also regulates the stomata that affect photosynthesis. As the light intensity increases, the stomata opening and the stomata pore area per unit leaf area gradually increase. Under high light intensity, the photosynthetic structure of the seedlings is reduced in order to protect the seedlings from damage. The stomata opening, the smaller the stomata opening, the more it can inhibit photosynthesis by increasing the diffusion resistance of CO2 uptake and reduce the burden on the photosynthetic organs.

3 main ways to increase light intensity

Use or switch to a higher-power LED grow light to meet the lighting needs of hemp blooming.

Keep the LED grow light closer to the cannabis, but keep it at least 40 cm above the cannabis to prevent bleaching and burns.

Install more LED grow lights and distribute them evenly, so that the light overlaps evenly, and the cannabis grows better.

2. The correct spectrum

In order to obtain the best yield, density and bud size, the correct 720wLED grow light spectrum should be used during the flowering period. Different wavelengths of red light at the flowering stage have an effect on the formation and yield of cannabis buds. Chlorophyll in the plant under the red light of the 720w LED grow light The content is high, photosynthesis is strong, carbohydrate synthesis is high, which provides sufficient material and energy for plant growth; therefore, red light promotes the formation of plant chlorophyll, promotes stem nitrogen metabolism, and greatly promotes flowering and fruit.

At present, everyone refers to the data based on the ratio of sunlight spectrum, and adjusts flexibly according to the field planting situation and crop types and functions. The ratio of red to blue light of the sun is about 6-8:1. People refer to this to conclude that flower foliage or leaf viewing For vegetable-like plants, the configuration should be less than 6-8:1, so that the blue light is a little bit more, and the blue light has a promoting effect on the growth of plant leaves. For flower viewing, choose 6-8:1 or more for supplementary light during the flowering period, so that there will be more red light, and red light has a significant effect on the flowering and fruiting of plants. For other growth stages, follow the sunlight reference ratio, and choose 6-7:1. Therefore, the spectrum of the LED grow light must be within the range of red light, so as to bring higher yields.

3. Remove the leaves covering the buds

Beginning of flowering phase (1st to 3rd weeks): Remove all large, fan-shaped leaves from long stems. This exposes your newly developed bud structure to direct light. The kidneys need direct light to enlarge.

After 3 weeks, do another defoliation, provided that the plants look thick. Exposing the main branch to direct light will help the plant "focus" on bud development.

After the second major leaf fall, remove only the leaves covering the buds, or if the plants become too dense in the middle and bottom of the bush.

You will see the flower buds getting bigger and bigger, and the unique harvest is right in front of you!

This growth has just switched to 12/12 mode. This is what it looked like before falling leaves.

4. Create the best growth environment

Temperature – If possible, keep the temperature between +18°C and +26°C. The 720wLED grow light emits very little heat, which can well control the temperature. The increase in temperature is related to loose or "ventilated" buds, weak bud odor, decreased immunity, mold formation, and insect pests.

Humidity-Don't let the environment become too humid after the buds begin to develop. High humidity can cause mold attack and sprout rot, and can inhibit their growth.

Mirror reflection-when there is a reflective wall inside the planting room/planting box, it can prevent the loss of light. There are many options for increasing reflectivity, such as painting the walls with white paint or covering them with polyester film. Providing more light to your plants will help your buds grow together.

Air circulation-In addition to maintaining the correct temperature and humidity, it is also important for your plants to breathe breeze and sufficient fresh air. Effective air circulation can prevent many problems and accelerate plant growth, thereby increasing overall yield.

Adding extra carbon dioxide to the air-Some growers add extra carbon dioxide to the air to increase production. Plants need carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, and (in some cases) adding carbon dioxide to the air allows your plants to get more energy from the same amount of light. There are many different ways to increase carbon dioxide levels, some of which are more effective than others!

5. Harvest in time

In the last two weeks before the peak of maturity, cannabis buds increase weight significantly. Let this be your unshakable rule, and the results will come soon. When most of the white hairs on the buds turn black and curl, the cannabis plant is ready to be harvested. For experienced growers, it is not uncommon to check the glittering trichomes under a magnifying glass to ensure the timing of the harvest.

Adjust the light intensity, spectrum and create better growth rings through 720w LED grow lights to provide the best supplement light for cannabis in the flowering stage, so that the final production of cannabis will increase, but also pay attention to the harvest time, as more and more countries legalize cannabis , So that the market for 720wLED grow lights is broader and the prospects are promising.

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Wedding Day Bliss- How To Create A Perfect Makeup Routine

If you are new to magnificence, there are plenty of issues that will help you on the trail to changing into stunning. Listed beneath are some tricks to get you began together with your magnificence endeavors.

Regularly exfoliate your pores and skin, particularly your face. If your pores and skin is dry or extremely delicate, you may exfoliate your face wherever from one to a few instances per week; any much less and you’re lacking out on a possibility to disclose wholesome pores and skin cells beneath the highest layer. Taking care of your pores and skin by exfoliating it regularly provides your face a radiant, shiny look. In addition, your pores and skin shall be cleaner and fewer oily.

Pimples and different zits can actually have an effect on our pores and skin and sweetness. To eliminate a pimple shortly, put a dab of toothpaste on it. Allow this to work for ten minutes or so. Doing so will dry up the pimple.

Regardless of your pores and skin sort, you must totally wash your face with a gentle, light cleanser wherever from one to 2 instances per day. Make certain you take away all make-up earlier than you start a cleansing routine. Forgetting to do that can imply you clog your pores and get zits.

Your hair follicles are nonetheless going to be open and that can create an issue. You may expertise important irritation should you select to tan. Another product that needs to be prevented immediately after waxing or sugaring is scented merchandise. They could cause irritation to the pores and skin that’s troublesome to alleviate.

Condition your eyebrows with Vaseline each night time. This can enhance the look of your eyebrows by making the hair look glossier. Don’t get the petroleum jelly or oil elsewhere in your face, as this might irritate your pores and skin.

You can modify the color and style of your hair to flatter and slim your face. Your haircut ought to embrace modern, lengthy strains and the size ought to fall between your jawline and shoulders. Bangs and highlights can even do wonders. These jazz up the type much more and spotlight the most effective components of your face.

Instead of paying excessive costs for fancy moisturizing merchandise, contemplate attempting coconut oil. Coconut oil is well soaked up by the pores and skin and may help eliminate wrinkles. Not solely that, however it could actually additionally assist deal with pores and skin circumstances reminiscent of psoriasis, eczema and zits due to its pure anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties.

Before making use of mascara, use an eyelash roller to curve your eyelashes. Curling your eyelashes can improve their perceived size and might add vitality to your eyes, that means you will be perceived as youthful and able to face the day. Beginning on the base, squeeze and maintain the roller for a second. Slowly transfer towards the entrance of your lashes, in a clean movement, then squeeze as soon as extra. This method will give your lashes a mushy curve as an alternative of a pointy angle.

Switch your magnificence merchandise for pure, cheap ones. These merchandise are good for any pores and skin sort. You can add somewhat vitamin E oil to the aloe vera gel for extra moisture. If you like a medicated, blemish-fighting toner, add a pair drops of tea tree important oil.

Honey needs to be in your magnificence package. While honey tastes nice, it could actually assist your pores and skin in some ways, too. Honey combined with sugar is a superb pure technique to exfoliate your pores and skin. Add some to your face lotion to maintain within the moisture. Adding somewhat honey to your common shampoo helps to maintain your hair shiny and mushy.

Shimmery eyeshadow positively makes an announcement. The shininess will assist to provide your eyes the looks of being bigger and brighter. When you’re selecting the shade of shimmer eye shadow, it is best to decide on a shade that’s inside a shade of two of your personal pores and skin. You can even mix a shimmer shadow with matte shadows to focus on simply the corners of your eyes.

Boar Bristle Brush

Take a kitchen sponge in your tub and use it to clean your pores and skin. These sponges work very well, and so they will not value you as a lot cash as buying one other costly sponge.

The boar bristle brush is a superb aide when combating frizz. Frizzy hair is a standard downside. Using your boar bristle brush when drying your hair may help you fight frizz. When operating the comb by means of your hair, hold the hair dryer pointed downward.

If you plan to make use of faux eyelashes, your nightmare could be discovering an allergy to the glue. Do a take a look at by placing the glue on a small path of pores and skin in your arm to see if there’s a response. Put some plaster over it and depart or not it’s for a minimum of a day. If there isn’t any rash, you’re good to go.

The shade pink tends to attract individuals in, so should you place pink in your higher options, you will see that that individuals are much less prone to discover your flaws. This will take everybody’s consideration away from an unpleasant blemish or crimson, bloodshot eyes.

If you’re a make-up addict, designate the primary day of every month as a “no makeup day.” This will enable your face to breathe a bit and it’ll assist hold it wholesome. You will really feel refreshed after giving your pores and skin a break.

If you need to enhance the standard of your eyes, use eye drops. That will cease your eyes from getting irritated and dry, too. Eye drops are good for anybody who spends many hours in entrance of the pc. Put a bottle of the drops within your purse or desk, and put them in each 4 hours.

Use eye drops in the course of the day so as to add an additional sparkle to your eyes. You will look rested and refreshed with the redness and fatigue eliminated out of your eyes. Keep one bottle of drops at house, one at work, and one in your purse, however bear in mind to not use them extra usually than directed.

The pores and skin close to your eyes can get dry in a single day. To nip this within the bud, use a watch moisturizer proper earlier than you go to mattress. By holding your eye space moisturized and wholesome, it is possible for you to to keep away from darkish circles, nice strains, and formation of wrinkles.

Caring on your pores and skin is essential to staying wholesome and exquisite. At a minimal, you want a moisturizer to maintain your pores and skin clean and elastic, and a defoliator to take away useless pores and skin. Applying a high quality lotion a few instances a day can be a very good behavior to get into.

Put petroleum jelly onto your fingernails frequently. That will encourage your nails to develop, as you’re feeding new nails and are encouraging circulation within the nail beds. Always use a protecting coat earlier than you employ any nail polish.

Keratosis pilaris is eczema that causes bumps in your arms. These usually seem within the winter when the air is dry. Exfoliate these areas with a loofah or physique scrub. Finish treating the bumpy space with a moisturizing lotion.

When utilizing faux eyelashes, you by no means need to notice that you’ve an allergic response to the adhesive. To forestall this upfront, take a look at the eyelash glue with a small utility in your arm. Leave this for a minimum of a day! No rash, no downside!

Hair is fragile, and drying it harshly with a towel causes potential injury, making it inclined to frizz. It is healthier to wrap your hair contained in the towel, then pat softly for dryness. It will be effectively value the additional time it takes and provides you with smoother hair.

Epsom Salts

If you get darkish under-eye circles, there may be reduction. Massage the areas round your eyes with facial moisturizer. Work from the skin inward. This will energize the areas round your eyes and encourage drainage of the lymphatic passages as effectively.

Make a behavior of using Epsom salts. Epsom salts can be utilized to appease your muscle tissue and in addition as a laxative. Mix some salts with some water and a few lavender, making a paste. Apply this paste to any sore muscle tissue to assist allievate their discomfort in a single day. In the morning if you get up, your pores and skin will really feel hydrated and refreshed.

If your roots are exhibiting and also you’re having hassle getting in for a shade touch-up, attempt utilizing make-up you have already got to assist cowl up your roots. Black mascara can darken grey hair in a number of seconds. Lighter tones can use hairspray and gold eyeshadow as an alternative.

There are many issues that play into magnificence. Skin care goes a really great distance in trying stunning. Men tend to miss their pores and skin, as a result of they do not notice what an impression it could actually make.

Don’t fall into the lure of attempting to satisfy Hollywood’s artificially inflated magnificence requirements. Beauty is a really particular person judgement, and every individual decides what is gorgeous to them. Look at your self and be pleased with the sweetness you have already got.

An simple tip for excellent lips goes shiny. Outline your lips’ edges with a brush dipped in a bronzer that is darker than your pores and skin. Then you may high it off with a gloss in coral, gold or peach.

You needn’t wait on your subsequent spa go to to benefit from the revitalizing results of a very good facial masks; you may simply whip one up your self. All you want is an egg. Use the egg white as your facial masks. Keep it on for about 5 minutes, then wash it off. The protein contained in the white of the egg will assist your pores and skin keep moist.

This easy tip will assist you enhance your appears immediately. A uni-brow is rarely engaging, so follow good forehead hygiene. If you discover that you’ve a uni-brow or actually bushy eyebrows, you’ll do justice to your magnificence should you hold them trimmed.

You may reap many magnificence advantages by going to the spa for the day. You will rejuvenate your spirit in addition to your physique after an expensive day spa. A spa is usually a good approach for one to care for their pores and skin and simply really feel higher typically.

You may need realized some issues about magnificence that you simply did not know earlier than. After implementing these concepts, you can be one step nearer to changing into your personal magnificence knowledgeable.

Wearing sun shades may help add to your magnificence, or it could actually take away from it. Whether or to not put on sun shades is a person resolution. Questions like “What do I need these for?” “, are the questions try to be asking.

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[demianmolinari]

Hagiography

Being a youngster and a good learner, I found myself a passion: wanted to make movies, as it was the ultimate art. Futuristic, light, moving, hellbent image. I loved the feeling of entering lost and finding oneself in a logic-mystical conjunction of subjectivity, like that which words couldn’t say, like that which lies beneath them when you and me chat ignoring any clarification. I wanted to do that, communicate in the cloud, with smoking puffs and be radioactive. Sculpt in time, and chisel their pussies as well - why not?

And down that road I roamed, just as down many others I formerly roamed: reading - oh dear if I read! - until information was insufficient or it got out of hand and I had to fill the blanks with idiosyncratic trigonometry of gilded strokes. I wandered with a wayward aim, rules ignored thanks to animal ambition. And I rambled, and ended up writing perhaps the most beautiful words about beloved films in a tuesday night, with my heart-ticker ticking. I was then humble on my decisions, of a shy heart, naive. Even though everything started to blaze around me, contaminating me with that CO2 that I can now breath with astonishing naturalness. I wrote scripts in line with my resources and with a schizoid ingenuity. I spitted mirrors, cracked and labyrinthine, were at their time echoes of dreams screaming out in two voices all that lamblike unacceptableness. I felt my milestones escaping fault after fault in this oh so normie world. Several stabs later, I defoliated myself with honor in a cruel winter and called Spring with the power of two empty hands.

And she came.

Switched my stance, shoulders became rigid, yet my hands shake by the tyranny  repressed - I don’t know - or  by the constant fear that also came along Perseus. Went back to roaming, after seeing all three roads just like Van Gogh in the end. I thought: take an interest on being like the rest, perhaps it’ll save you. Then again, as any imposed goal, its intermittence made me levitate towards the beautiful moon. Sneak peek of two selves integrating into a skillful sociopath: drunk, enraged, subtle, practical, shallow but practical. It worked, nevertheless, of course it proliferated my prolific being costing me time to devise if not my gift to the world, at least the extinction of its cancer. Tired perchance of looking down on the inside tramp, I’d once more like to ease my soul with a daydream.

[jon-the-revelator]

In terms of training the main techniques I use are Topping - This when you pinch off the main growth stem usually after the 3rd node around week 2. This causes the plant to switch from prioritizing growth to it's main stem and distribute growth to side stems a little more evenly. The goal is to cause your plant to grow outwards from all sides like a bush rather than straight upwards like a tree. This leads to more bud sites. LST (low stress training ) - Basically tying limbs to pull them outwards and away from the main body of the plant. A trellis net can also be used for the same reason. Growing indoors since your light source is top down the goal is open up the lower buds to more light exposure. More light == bigger buds. Defoliation/Lolli popping - Basically removing excess foliage. In week 1 and week 4 of flower I'll remove almost all the fan leaves and buds, leaves and side stems on the lower third of the plant. This reduces the number of buds the plant is trying to feed so that it concentrates only on the top buds that have good light exposure. Removing excess foliage also increases airflow to the plant canopy and reduces humidity. High humidity is bad for bud development. If you're interested in plant training there a good primer here https://www.growweedeasy.com/cannabis-plant-training I'd probably concentrate on food plants. I'd like to get into grafting fruit trees. Citrus and stone fruit but I'll probably drift. Wildflowers for color and I'd like to try mushrooms at some point (psychadelic and non)

What kind of yield do you get from one plant? Those buds look so huge.

Got 80g from one on this run but I crammed too many plants in the tent this time. Trying to work up to 100g per.