Black Out Days Slowed Indir
Laure Honigsberg
The song "Black out days (slowed)" by Phantogram explores themes of emotional detachment, self-preservation, and the desire to escape from the influence of someone or something. The lyrics create a sense of isolation and a need to distance oneself from a particular individual or a haunting memory.
Overall, "Black out days (slowed)" conveys a sense of detachment, self-preservation, and inner turmoil. It reflects the desire to distance oneself from negative influences and regain control over one's own emotions and sanity.
I am not a superstitious person, but I love traditions. Making a big pot of these smoky beans with cornbread will be a fun way to start off my new year. Not to mention, the flavors will help even the pickiest eater eat black eyed peas. Enjoy!
For Ukraine, half a loaf could really be less than half. Shortening the length of the deal to 60 days can limit the kinds of contracts that can be honored and complicate ongoing issues with inspection delays, thereby limiting the volumes of grain that can leave the Black Sea. Since there is always uncertainty when deals expire, shipping tends to slow in the week before a renewal is signed, which further lowers actual export volumes.
In order to become an epidemic the disease must be spread to other rat colonies in the locality and transmitted to inhabitants in the same way. It took some time for people to recognize that a terrible epidemic was breaking out among them and for chroniclers to note this. The timescale varies: in the countryside it took about forty days for realisation to dawn; in most towns with a few thousand inhabitants, six to seven weeks; in the cities with over 10,000 inhabitants, about seven weeks, and in the few metropolises with over 100,000 inhabitants, as much as eight weeks.
As already noted, the pace of spread slowed strongly during the winter and stopped completely in mountain areas such as the Alps and the northerly parts of Europe. Yet, the Black Death often rapidly established two or more fronts and conquered countries by advancing from various quarters.
Delayed planting of corn decreases the apparent thermal time (GDDs) required between planting and physiological maturity (Nielsen, 2019). A large proportion of that decrease occurs during grain filling and may be partially related to shorter and cooler days in late September and October that naturally slow photosynthesis and encourage plant senescence.
Silk emergence is technically the first recognized stage of the reproductive period. Every ovule (potential kernel) on the ear develops its own silk (the functional stigma of the female flower). Silks begin to elongate soon after the V12 leaf stage (12 leaves with visible leaf collars), beginning with the ovules near the base of the cob and then sequentially up the cob, with the tip ovules silking last. Consequently, the silks from the base half of the ear are typically the first to emerge from the husk leaves. Turgor pressure "fuels" the elongation of the silks and so severe drought stress often delays silk elongation and emergence from the husk leaves. Silks elongate about 1.5 inches per day during the first few days after they emerge from the husk leaves. Silks continue to elongate until pollen grains are captured and germinate or until they simply deteriorate with age.
Silks remain receptive to pollen grain germination for up to 10 days after silk emergence (Nielsen, 2020b), but deteriorate quickly after about the first 5 days of emergence. Natural senescence of silk tissue over time results in collapsed tissue that restricts continued growth of the pollen tube. Silk emergence usually occurs in close synchrony with pollen shed (Nielsen, 2020c), so that duration of silk receptivity is normally not a concern. Failure of silks to emerge in the first place (for example, in response to silkballing or severe drought stress) does not bode well for successful pollination.
About 10 to 12 days after silking, the developing kernels are whitish "blisters" on the cob and contain abundant clear fluid. The ear silks are mostly brown and drying rapidly. Some starch is beginning to accumulate in the endosperm. The radicle root, coleoptile, and first embryonic leaf have formed in the embryo by the blister stage. Severe stress can easily abort kernels at pre-blister and blister stages. Kernel moisture content at the beginning of R2 is approximately 85 percent. For late April to early May plantings in Indiana, the thermal time from blister stage to physiological maturity is approximately 960 GDDs (Brown, 1999).
About 18 to 20 days after silking, the kernels are mostly yellow and contain "milky" white fluid. The milk stage of development is the infamous "roasting ear" stage, when you will find die-hard corn aficionados standing out in their field nibbling on these delectable morsels. Starch continues to accumulate in the endosperm. Endosperm cell division is nearly complete and continued growth is mostly due to cell expansion and starch accumulation. Severe stress can still abort kernels, although not as easily as at the blister stage. Kernel moisture content at the beginning of R3 is approximately 80 percent. For late April to early May plantings in Indiana, the thermal time from milk stage to physiological maturity is approximately 880 GDDs (Brown, 1999).
About 24 to 26 days after silking, the kernel's milky inner fluid begins changing to a "doughy" consistency as starch accumulation continues in the endosperm. The shelled cob is now light red or pink. By dough stage, four embryonic leaves have formed and the kernels have reached about 33 percent of their mature dry weight. Kernel moisture content is approximately 70 percent at the beginning of R4. Near the end of R4, some kernels will typically be starting to dent. Kernel abortion is much less likely to occur once kernels have reached early dough stage, but severe stress can continue to affect eventual yield by reducing kernel weight. For late April to early May plantings in Indiana, the thermal time from dough stage to physiological maturity is approximately 670 GDDs (Brown, 1999).
About 31 to 33 days after silking, all or nearly all of the kernels are denting near their crowns. The fifth (and last) embryonic leaf and lateral seminal roots form just prior to the dent stage. Kernel moisture content at the beginning of R5 is approximately 60 percent.
More importantly, kernel dry matter content at the beginning of R5 is only about 45% of the eventual final accumulation and there remains approximately more 30 days before physiological maturity occurs. This is sobering considering that farmers and agronomists alike often breathe a sigh of relief when the crop reaches R5 because of a mistaken and, frankly, emotional belief that the "crop is made" by this grain fill stage.
In field trials conducted over 8 site-years in Indiana and Ohio (Brown, 1999), the thermal time from full dent (kernel milk line barely visible) to physiological maturity (kernel black layer) for three adapted hybrids ranging from 105 to 115 "day" relative maturities, ranged from 337 to 360 GDDs. Thermal time from the half-milkline stage to physiological maturity in those same trials averaged about 200 GDDs (Brown, 1999).
About 55 to 65 days after silking, kernel dry weight usually reaches its maximum and kernels are said to be physiologically mature and safe from frost. Physiological maturity occurs shortly after the kernel milk line disappears and just before the kernel black layer forms at the tip of the kernels. Severe stress after physiological maturity has little effect on grain yield, unless the integrity of the stalk or ear is compromised (e.g., damage from European corn borer or stalk rots). Kernel moisture content at physiological maturity averages 30 percent, but can vary from 25 to 40 percent grain moisture depending on hybrid and growing conditions.
White Nights and Dark Days (백야, 흑주, baeg-ya, heugju, lit. White Night, Dark Day) refers to the incident immediately following the fall of Lobotomy Corporation, during which L Corp's containment facilities rose to the surface in a beam of blinding light that shone for three days. It was the ultimate goal of L Corp's founder Ayin, with its purpose being to sow seeds of light in the City's denizens to heal the "sickness of the mind" and save humanity. Due to events prior to White Nights and Dark Days, the incident sparked an internal conflict between most of the Sephirot of Lobotomy Corporation's facility X-394 and the facility's artificial intelligence, Angela, resulting in a two-day struggle over control between both parties within the facility. The incident was eventually brought to an end through a compromise between facility X-394's Sephirot and Angela, with Angela taking the remaining accessible light and using it to create the Library.
She reveals to the Sephirot that Ayin never included her in his plan, despite having the vital role of overlooking everything in every single loop, orchestrating his script to the letter. This, along with her slowed perception of time made her experience almost a million years within the facility, time in which she fully developed sentience, describing it as "something a machine should never have", mockingly displaying it for them with a smile.
Two days pass by with both forces in stalemate, something that surprises Angela, the Sephirot seemingly holding up better than she expected them to, and Binah claiming it's only a matter of time for them break. Now a war of attrition, the Welfare and Security Teams begin to wane on their strength, with the amount of injured employees growing and regenerators at their limits. Meanwhile, Binah defeats Gebura in a one on one fight, taunting her with her familiarity with E.G.O. and its properties. By now, all employees from the Welfare and Disciplinary Teams have fallen.
Angela expresses weariness, seeing how even if two days are nothing compared to the time she was trapped within L Corp's time loop, the past days felt long and slow. By the current outlook of the battle, she determined the Sephirot's stand would only last for two more days, leaving her with only two or three days' worth of light. Seeing that outcome would end in neither of them reaching their goal, she makes a proposal to them at the dawn of the fourth day.
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