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Furnaces are the traditional means of heating buildings. These devices use fuel to generate heat and then use a fan to circulate this heat through the building. There are gas furnaces, oil furnaces and electric furnaces.
Heat pumps act as sort of a reverse air conditioner. Instead of transferring heat from inside the building to its exterior, these machines absorb heat from the air or ground outside and transfer it inside the building. Even in cold outside air, heat energy is present. This heat outside is absorbed into a refrigerant that is evaporated at a low pressure and piped inside the facility. Once inside, the refrigerant is compressed back into a liquid. This process releases the heat that is then distributed throughout the building.
Perhaps the chief advantage of furnace is the start-up cost. These devices are fairly simple machines that use a very well-established technology. As such, they are inexpensive to install. Also, the effectiveness of a furnace is not impacted by the weather. As long as the machine has fuel, it will have no problem in producing heat. These machines do have some drawbacks, however. Depending on local power rates and your source of fuel, they can be expensive to operate. Furnaces also produce carbon emissions that can be harmful to the environment. These machines also typically have more maintenance needs than heat pumps.
Heat pumps' greatest advantages are their energy efficiency and reduced environmental impact. Heat pumps are incredibly energy efficient, requiring less energy to use than traditional furnaces. This results in less carbon emissions and lower power bills. They also do not dry out the air the way furnaces do, so property owners won't have to purchase humidifiers to add moisture back into the air.
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SHAME (Steve McQueen, 2011)
The phrase 'Misery porn' never seemed so apt. The pacing and the composition render it thoroughly immersive, and with a velvety-woozy Manhattan backdrop, 'immersive' is exactly how I like my misery porn.
And the performances are so unaffected (and am I allowed to say 'raw'?) that they impact you on a primal level and even lend the cliché-riddled narrative an emotional force it doesn't properly earn.
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Here is the latest round-up of some of the cases at Blackpool Magistrates Court.
READ MORE: Thursday's round-up of cases at Blackpool Magistrates Court 08-02-18
William Kelly, 33, racially aggravated threatening behaviour and criminal damage
A chef made a race hate remark to his former boss and later ran amok in the restaurant he once worked at.
William Kelly went into The Sea Fish and Chip Restaurant, Church Street, Blackpool, and threw salt-and-peppers shakers and pickle jars around frightening people dining there and causing children to cry.
Kelly, 33, of Fairhurst Street, North Shore, denied racially aggravated threatening behaviour but was found guilty of the offence after a trial.
He admitted causing damage.
He was sentenced to a 16 months community order with up to 35 days rehabilitation to be supervised by the probation service, fined £100 with £350 costs and ordered to pay the victim £150 compensation.
He was also put on a 16 months restraining order which bans him from entering The Sea Restaurant or contacting the owner.
Prosecutor, Martine Connah, said Kelly had worked at the restaurant for three years but the owner said he had to let the defendant go because he was turning up drunk.
On May 22 the owner was outside the restaurant and said hello to Kelly when he saw him. Kelly racially abused the owner and swore and shouted at him.
On May 31, Kelly went into the restaurant and started throwing items about.
Stacey Patterson, 38, breach of bail conditions
A woman broke a condition of her bail when she left the address she was living at after a man at the property gave her a black eye.
Stacey Patterson, 38, formerly of Beresford Street, North Shire, now living at Egerton Road, North Shore, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with a bail condition.
Magistrates agreed to rebail her on the condition she lived at her given address, kept an overnight curfew there and reported to police three times a week.
Prosecutor, Martine Connah, said Patterson had been accused of burgling a Blackpool house and previously been bailed on the condition she kept a 9pm to 7am at her then address in Beresford Street.
On January 30, officials went to that address to fit the curfew monitoring tag to her but the home owner there said Patterson could not live there.
She was put on the wanted list and on February 6 police arrested her.
Stephen Duffy, defending, said Patterson had told him she was living at Beresford Street but she and a man who lived there fell out and he gave her a black eye.
Dean Brown, 20, assault
A son spat in his mother's face, magistrates heard.
Sales assistant Dean Brown, 20. was staying at his mother's flat on North Shore, after splitting up with his girl-friend in Scotland.
Brown went out drinking with friends and was drunk when he returned to the flat. He made a lot of noise and police were called and they removed him from the premises. But he returned later and his mother reluctantly let him in.
His mother tried to lock herself in the bathroom after Brown start to rant at her.
He then got into the room and spat in her face.
Brown admitted common assault.
His mother told police she felt "disgusted" at what he had done to her.
He was given a 12 month community order with 25 days rehabilitation and an eight week curfew.
Paul Fitton, 36, theft
A man described as having one of the worst alcohol problems a solicitor had ever come across has escaped being sent to prison.
Paul Fitton was drinking up to 12 litres of cider a day at his worst, his lawyer Brett Chappell told Blackpool Magistrates.
Fitton, 36, of Pleasant Street,North Shore, admitted stealing a bottle of sherry worth £7 from Sainsbury's. The court heard he was in breach of two suspended jail terms.
Bench chairman Clifford Boynton told Fitton, who is now on a alcohol rehabilitation programme: "You have come within a whisker of being sent to prison today.
"You have two suspended sentences both of which you have breached in the past.
"However you are taking this programme and you have accommodation.
"We believe the theft of this bottle is a blip."
The length of his suspended jail term was increased by six months and he was placed on a six week curfew.
Mr Chappell said:"On paper this man has an appalling record with over 100 convictions.
"However from the person I have come across before with one of the worst alcohol problems I have ever seen he is making progress."


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The Punchline
The historic mission of capitalism is to develop the productive forces to a degree that makes Socialism possible. Its in workers' interests that capital develops the productive forces as rapidly and as much as possible, not just because that is a precondition for Socialism, but because it also strengthens workers economic, social and political position in the short run, and provides the basis for their own transformation into a potential ruling class. The EU, and other formations like it, are the rational development of the kind of framework that capital requires to effectively expand and accumulate, so workers should not seek to hold back the development of such structures.
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- Marx's theory of Historical Materialism describes the way development of technology brings about new productive forces. From the first time a humanoid picked up a stick, or a rock to act as a tool, instead of using their hands, this evolution of the productive forces began, and along with different types of instruments of labour, went different ways of producing, which in turn led to different ways of consuming, and different forms of social organisation conditioned by it.
- The two things are not mechanically linked, and the new means of production create the potential for new ways of consuming long before society actually creates the new social forms appropriate to it. But, each new society grows out of the old, and develops the means of production and consumption to a higher level.
- Capitalism grew out of feudalism, and in the 19th century created the nation state, with a single centralised state, a single market, single currency, and single fiscal system, as the rational structure within which every firm would operate on the same level playing field, as the best means of capital accumulating.
- Just as capital has a natural tendency to grow, and also to become more concentrated and more centralised, so the rational structures within which it operates have a need to increase in size also. The bigger the single market within which capital operates, the greater its potential to operate on a much larger scale, and to obtain the significant benefits of economies of scale.
- In the middle of the 19th century, that was indicated by the industrialisation of the United States. As a late comer, to industrialisation, its industries developed, from the start, on the basis of a much larger minimum scale of operation, and higher level of technological development than those of Europe. The US Civil War, was about the creation of a single Federal State, and the removal of the rights of the individual states, as against it. As such a huge state, it had immediate benefits of the fragmented, and warring European states.
- European capital had also already gone beyond the limits of the nation state, almost as soon as those nation states were created. The Napoleonic Wars were about creating a large European State, and Britain's attempt to prevent it, as it would have challenged its dominance. The First and Second World Wars were simply extensions of that process. Logically, capital in Europe needs to operate on a continent wide scale, and it will continue to drive for such a structure either peacefully, as with the EU, or by war as happened in the US, or with repeated European wars over the last two centuries.
- Not only do workers have a vested interest in capitalism creating these larger, more rational structures, therefore, so that economic development and accumulation of capital can proceed at the fastest pace, but they have an interest in seeing that happen by peaceful, democratic means rather than violently, because it is workers who are always the ones called on to fight in such wars, and the physical destruction of capital they bring about not only destroys current wealth, but also hampers future growth of capital too.
- Our interest is not some Luddite, or spiteful attempt to restrict capitalist growth out of some moralistic opposition to the undoubted evils of capitalism, but to welcome capitalist growth, as the means of making possible a new kind of society whereby those evils can be eradicated.
- It has always been the case that such economic development benefits workers, both because it means that wealth in general rises, and the mass and range of new use values that enrich workers' lives is expanded, but also because the larger economic units always enable higher wages, and better conditions than the smaller units.
- The interests of workers lies not in turning backwards to smaller, less efficient economic units, but in organising themselves on this larger scale. That means not only EU wide trades unions, and workers parties, but demands that the EU rationalise the payment of benefits and collection of taxes across the whole economy, and it means the creation of EU wide worker co-ops, that can also benefit from the economies of scale that such a large market brings. It means a demand that the principles set out in the EU Draft 5th Company Law Directive, on industrial democracy, be implemented and extended, so as to restrict or remove the right of shareholders to elect company boards, and instead for the boards of companies to be elected from the firm's workers and managers.
- The days of the nation state are over. Reformist and nationalistic demands for nationalisation, are utopian and reactionary. They act to line workers up in one country behind their own nation state, against the workers in the same industry in other countries. At the very least, any such policy today, for example, in relation to the crisis in the steel industry, would call not for nationalisation by the British, French, German or other such state, but by the EU, as part of the creation of an EU wide steel industry, with all of the capital that such a huge state can provide.
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"Ricardo, rightly for his time, regards the capitalist mode of production as the most advantageous for production in general, as the most advantageous for the creation of wealth. He wants production for the sake of production and this with good reason. To assert, as sentimental opponents of Ricardo's did, that production as such is not the object, is to forget that production for its own sake means nothing but the development of human productive forces, in other words the development of the richness of human nature as an end in itself. To oppose the welfare of the individual to this end, as Sismondi does, is to assert that the development of the species must be arrested in order to safeguard the welfare of the individual, so that, for instance, no war may be waged in which at all events some individuals perish. Sismondi is only right as against the economists who conceal or deny this contradiction.) Apart from the barrenness of such edifying reflections, they reveal a failure to understand the fact that, although at first the development of the capacities of the human species takes place at the cost of the majority of human individuals and even classes, in the end it breaks through this contradiction and coincides with the development of the individual; the higher development of individuality is thus only achieved by a historical process during which individuals are sacrificed for the interests of the species in the human kingdom, as in the animal and plant kingdoms, always assert themselves at the cost of the interests of individuals, because these interests of the species coincide only with the interests of certain individuals, and it is this coincidence which constitutes the strength of these privileged individuals."
Rather than looking backwards, therefore, Marxists look forward. We see the unfortunate necessity for society to endure capitalism, precisely because it is the means by which the productive forces are developed, as the precondition for the establishment of Socialism. As Marx put it, in a debate with John Weston within the First International,
"They ought to understand that, with all the miseries it imposes upon them, the present system simultaneously engenders the material conditions and the social forms necessary for an economical reconstruction of society."
But also, even in the short term, the development of capitalism, creates the best conditions for workers, because it is during periods of more rapid growth that the demand for labour-power rises. At those times, the competition between workers is reduced, as it becomes easier to obtain employment, and indeed, employers begin to compete to attract workers. During such times, not only do workers wages and living standards rise, but they are able to increase their own organisation, to devote time to developing their own culture and so on. Marx describes it in "Wage Labour and Capital."
"And so, the bourgeoisie and its economists maintain that the interest of the capitalist and of the labourer is the same. And in fact, so they are! The worker perishes if capital does not keep him busy. Capital perishes if it does not exploit labour-power, which, in order to exploit, it must buy. The more quickly the capital destined for production – the productive capital – increases, the more prosperous industry is, the more the bourgeoisie enriches itself, the better business gets, so many more workers does the capitalist need, so much the dearer does the worker sell himself. The fastest possible growth of productive capital is, therefore, the indispensable condition for a tolerable life to the labourer."
The development of nation states went side by side with the development of capitalism. Marx points out that capitalism is not possible without large markets. Until such time as towns developed, there were no such large markets, and so it is impossible to produce commodities on the kind of scale that justifies the employment of capital. But producers need to be able to sell their commodities into markets where they know that the same property rules apply, and where various costs, such as the existence of different currencies are removed. The nation state provides the framework for that common set of rules.
Even in the 19th century that became obvious in relation to regulating competition between firms, which, left unchecked, threatened to destroy the system, by destroying the source of profits, the working-class. Foresighted industrialists like Wedgwood petitioned for parliament to introduce limits on working hours, because, as they stated without such legislation, competition would drive each firm to try to extend hours as much as possible so as to gain advantage.
As Marx put it,
"Factory legislation, that first conscious and methodical reaction of society against the spontaneously developed form of the process of production, is, as we have seen, just as much the necessary product of modern industry as cotton yarn, self-actors, and the electric telegraph." (Capital I, Chapter 15, p 451)
"Some of the masters themselves murmured:
"On account of the contradictory decisions of the magistrates, a condition of things altogether abnormal and anarchical obtains. One law holds in Yorkshire, another in Lancashire, one law in one parish of Lancashire, another in its immediate neighbourhood. The manufacturer in large towns could evade the law, the manufacturer in country districts could not find the people necessary for the relay system, still less for the shifting of hands from one factory to another," &c.
And the first birthright of capital is equal exploitation of labour-power by all capitalists." (Capital I, Chapter 10, p 276)
Already, by the middle of the 19th century, capital had expanded on a massive scale, and had become concentrated into a number of very large privately owned businesses, and increasingly also centralised, as these larger businesses began to take over their competitors. The minimum scale required for efficient and profitable production, grew ever larger. It led to even the large private capitalist enterprises being themselves taken over by new socialised capitals in the form of joint stock, and then limited liability companies, and co-operatives.
In the United States, the industrialisation, concentrated in the northern states, began from a higher level than industrialisation in Europe, because it started on the basis of the much later technological development of the productive forces, and the requirements for huge markets that demanded. When the Industrial Revolution began in Britain, it took place on the basis of hand spinning of yarn, and hand loom weaving. A hundred years later, when that industrialisation takes off in the US, it takes place on the basis of huge, steam powered, multi-spindled, spinning machines, and similarly huge power looms. It required the rapid development of a large single market, and single state across the United States, and a Civil War was fought to bring it into existence.
It was inevitable that the small warring, states of Europe would not be able to keep pace with the economic development of such a giant economy, and within little more than half a century, it went from being an essentially colonial peasant economy, based upon small farmers, to being the predominant industrial power, and continued to increase its dominance from that point forward, until such time as a new huge economy, in the form of China arose to begin to challenge it. Whatever, romantic fantasies the Brexiters engage in about Britain being the fifth largest economy, the fact is that compared to these huge economic powers, Britain is a minnow, and a minnow that is continuing to decline in importance.
None of the individual EU states, including Germany, are big enough to compete with the US or China. Capital, for more than a century, is now only rationally organised in Europe on the basis of a single market, which in turn requires the establishment of a single currency, single fiscal regime, and consequently a single state standing behind it, able to enforce those rules, to provide capital with a level playing field within its borders. That is the underlying reality, which has led to the various European wars over the last two centuries, including the two world wars of the twentieth century. As I wrote some time ago, there will be a single Europe one way or another.
In 1917, recognising this drive towards expansion that is fundamental to imperialism, Trotsky wrote,
"Let us for a moment admit that German militarism succeeds in actually carrying out the compulsory half-union of Europe, just as Prussian militarism once achieved the half-union of Germany, what would then be the central slogan of the European proletariat? Would it be the dissolution of the forced European coalition and the return of all peoples under the roof of isolated national states? Or the restoration of tariffs, "national" coinage, "national" social legislation, and so forth? Certainly not. The program of the European revolutionary movement would then be: The destruction of the compulsory anti-democratic form of the coalition, with the preservation and furtherance of its foundations, in the form of complete annihilation of tariff barriers, the unification of legislation, above all of labour laws, etc. In other words, the slogan of the United States of Europe-without monarchy and standing armies-would under the foregoing circumstances become the unifying and guiding slogan of the European revolution."
At the time, Trotsky was considering such a potential, resulting from German expansion into Central Europe, and excluding Britain, France and Russia. Today, the EU has brought about such a union on an even wider scale, and by peaceful, if thoroughly bureaucratic, means. It would be lunacy to respond to the inadequate development of that union, and its undoubted bureaucracy by demanding a return to the outmoded nation states, which hamper economic development, and the development of the productive forces on an even greater scale.
Our answer to the inadequate economic development and development of the productive forces in the EU, is to promote those aspects of socialised capital, which are themselves the harbinger of the new society. We need worker owned co-operatives, across the EU, combined in a European Co-operative Federation, linked to an EU wide Trade Union Confederation, and a European Labour Party, that engages in a struggle for a democratisation of the existing structures, including an extension of industrial democracy, as formulated in the EU's Fifth Draft Directive on Company Law.
The solution to problems such as those afflicting the steel industry, currently, cannot be addressed by looking backwards to national isolation, but only by looking forwards to a more rational organisation of the productive forces on a European scale, taking advantage of the potential for a more rational, long-term economic plan across the continent, within which decisions on future investment can be taken, and which can mobilise the vast amounts of capital that such a state can bring about.
It is not the EU or the Euro that is responsible for that, but conservative ideology, and economic dogma designed to protect the fictitious wealth of interest-bearing capital, by keeping asset price bubbles inflated at the expense of the real economy. The problems of Greece could be resolved overnight by even a rational capitalist EU state. Instead of the continual loans of money-capital to Greece, which disappear to cover existing debts, what Greece requires is the accumulation of real capital, the creation of globally competitive industries, along with a similar programme across the whole of the EU periphery.
Instead of handing bribes to Turkey in a scandalous programme of sending back refugees, the EU could instead, provide Greece with the resources to introduce civilised means of processing migrants and refugees, speeding up and rationalising the process, whilst also providing useful work for Greek workers. The recent tragedy of migrant workers dying in the English Channel, shows the need for Britain to be part of such a comprehensive solution.
The problems of the steel industry are just an indication of the kinds of problem that other industries in Britain would face outside the EU, and outside a rationally organised European economy. It would mean that each state would organise capital on an inadequate scale, so that it was too small to compete effectively on a global scale. As with the steel industry today, it would lead to demands to protect threatened industries, at the expense of workers in the same industry in other countries. That would lead to further demands in those countries for similar protectionism, via nationalisation, import controls and so on. It would be a recipe for dividing workers internationally, and thereby weakening them.
Even the IMF and OECD, are now arguing that, especially with interest rates currently so low, a programme of fiscal expansion is called for. Monetary policy has not just failed to promote economic growth, but has undermined it. It was not intended to promote growth, but only to prop up stock, bond and property markets. In doing so, it undermined investment in real productive-capital. The Tory Brexiters are claiming that the IMF had said that the UK economy would decline as a result of austerity, in 2014, but it grew. As with most of the economic claims of the Tories and of the Brexiters, that claim is bogus.
The UK economy's growth in the period from 2009-2010, was ended by the austerity policies of the Tories, and the economy, in 2014, therefore, only grew from the low level those austerity policies had sunk it to. Moreover, in 2014, Osbourne himself abandoned large chunks of his austerity programme, and engaged in fiscal expansion, via capital spending.
The solution to the economic problems faced by workers across Europe does not reside in a step backwards to the nation state, but a step forwards to a United States of Europe, and opposition to current conservative policies of austerity, wherever they exist.


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PEST analysis stands for "Political, Economic, Social, and Technological analysis" and describes a framework of macro-environmental factors used in the environmental scanning component of strategic management. Some analysts added Legal and rearranged the mnemonic to SLEPT; inserting Environmental factors expanded it to PESTEL or PESTLE, which is popular in the UK. The model has recently been further extended to STEEPLE and STEEPLED, adding education and demographic factors. It is a part of the external analysis when conducting a strategic analysis or doing market research, and gives an overview of the different macroenvironmental factors that the company has to take into consideration. It is a useful strategic tool for understanding market growth or decline, business position, potential and direction for operations.
The growing importance of environmental or ecological factors in the first decade of the 21st century have given rise to green business and encouraged widespread use of an updated version of the PEST framework. STEER analysis systematically considers Socio-cultural, Technological, Economic, Ecological, and Regulatory factors.
The Model's Factors
Political factors, are how and to what degree a government intervenes in the economy. Specifically, political factors include areas such as tax policy, labour law, environmental law, trade restrictions, tariffs, and political stability. Political factors may also include goods and services which the government wants to provide or be provided (merit goods) and those that the government does not want to be provided (demerit goods or merit bads). Furthermore, governments have great influence on the health, education, and infrastructure of a nation.
Economic factors include economic growth, interest rates, exchange rates and the inflation rate. These factors have major impacts on how businesses operate and make decisions. For example, interest rates affect a firm's cost of capital and therefore to what extent a business grows and expands. Exchange rates affect the costs of exporting goods and the supply and price of imported goods in an economy
Social factors include the cultural aspects and include health consciousness, population growth rate, age distribution, career attitudes and emphasis on safety. Trends in social factors affect the demand for a company's products and how that company operates. For example, an aging population may imply a smaller and less-willing workforce (thus increasing the cost of labor). Furthermore, companies may change various management strategies to adapt to these social trends (such as recruiting older workers).
Technological factors include ecological and environmental aspects, such as R&D activity, automation, technology incentives and the rate of technological change. They can determine barriers to entry, minimum efficient production level and influence outsourcing decisions. Furthermore, technological shifts can affect costs, quality, and lead to innovation.
Environmental factors include weather, climate, and climate change, which may especially affect industries such as tourism, farming, and insurance.Furthermore, growing awareness to climate change is affecting how companies operate and the products they offer–it is both creating new markets and diminishing or destroying existing ones.
Legal factors include discrimination law, consumer law, antitrust law, employment law, and health and safety law. These factors can affect how a company operates, its costs, and the demand for its products.


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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Between Play and Grief: Selections from the Latino American Collection
Saturday, Mar. 16, 2019 – Sunday, Sep. 8, 2019
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Between Play and Grief: Selections from the Latino American Collection features a survey of works from the MFAH collection of modern and contemporary Latin American and Latinx art.
The exhibition presents more than three dozen works of art acquired by the MFAH over the past 10 years. The selection spans six decades of artistic expression, from figures who were actively in dialogue with leading postwar artistic movements such as Nouveau Réalisme, Arte Povera, and Pop Art in the 1960s, to contemporary artists whose work speaks to their identities as both insiders and outsiders within an American experience.
All of the artists in the exhibition rely on parody and dark wit to express social and political realities. Between Play and Griefincludes the work of Amalia Mesa-Bains, Antonio Berni, Juan Carlos Distéfano, Alberto Heredia, Luis Jiménez, Rómulo Macció, César Augusto Martínez, Mondongo, Celia Alvárez Muñoz, Luis Felipe Noé, Marcos Raya, Vincent Valdez, and Jorge de la Vega.
Between Play and Grief coincides with the Latino Art Now! conference organized by the Inter-University Program for Latino Research at the University of Houston from April 4 to April 6, with presentations at more than 30 venues across the city.
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In order to improve the efficiency of the heating system even further, the pipes are laid in Lithotherm clay plates, which can be seen in the top picture as the orangey-brown filling between the lighter-coloured pipes.
The grooves in the Lithotherm plates are open at the top, increasing the radiating surface towards the floor covering by approximately 60%.The increased upward flow of heat produces a well-balanced floor temperature, ensuring that the heat entering the room is maximised and the heat lost towards the ground is minimised. This is also helped by installing the clay plates on a layer of high-efficiency insulation. We want to squeeze every bit of heat out of our sustainably-produced hot water!


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The Queue: I don't think I can fix this with any number of DOTs
Unfortunately, some problems just can't be fixed, and I think this is one of them.
(Actually I'm lying. A single Spinning Crane kick took care of it. But you have to admit I was a little overwhelmed there.)
Is it true that when a Gnome laughs a Dragon gets its wings?
I think we have an anatomy problem here, because I feel quite confident that dragons are born with wings. You've seen whelps hatch from eggs, right? They have wings!
But if they don't naturally have wings and are instead granted them by the power of Gnomes (presumably before hatching), then I'm more powerful than I realized! A single laugh could cause swarms of dragon whelplings to take flight, terrorizing the skies in my name!
Except sometimes they just terrorize me. And I can't just give myself wings to get away. Dang. I knew there was a flaw in this logic…
I think that the Horde vs Alliance conflict is more like a Horde vs Alliance leaders conflict. I think it's a bunch of unfinished bussiness (Genn vs. Sylvannas, Tyrande vs. Garrosh, Jaina vs. all the horde, etc) that somehow managed to encompass entire countries and that common people in both factions would be perfectly fine with a long truce, even lasting peace between the factions. What's your opinion on this?
There's certainly a lot of personal animosity involved in the current conflict, I agree. However, just because we see these conflicts amongst or leaders doesn't mean that the average citizen of the Alliance or Horde doesn't have their own animosity towards the opposing faction. Residents of Stormwind or Ironforge might be content to stay safe within their territory, where they aren't threatened by the Horde, and only deal with their own threats.
But what of their allies the Night Elves, who are constantly harassed by the Horde? The Elves have plenty of reasons to fight the Horde, even without the influence of their leaders, and the rest of the Alliance is equally obligated to aid them. And it didn't exactly work well when Genn Greymane decided to nope out of the Third War by building a giant wall around his kingdom instead of going to the aid of his allies.
…for which I continue to hold a strong animosity towards Genn, though I am obligated to share a faction with him if I want to play a Gnome. He selfishness certainly helped the Scourge attack Loaderon and Silvermoon… which led to the fall of his now-nemesis Sylvanas and the formation of a Horde bastion in the ruins of Loadaeron, right on his doorstep. Not to mention unleashing the Worgen when he finally had to act against the Scourge, which wound up cursing his entire race. Despite his rage for Sylvanas, I feel he very much created his own doom, and I don't trust the guy. I don't really see how anyone else could entirely trust him either, or quite how he's became the right-hand man of Varian and then Anduin. His rage, I think, will get him into trouble in the end, but he's hardly the only member of the Alliance with reasons to hate the Horde.
For the Horde's part, that's harder, as the Alliance are rarely the aggressors. But I suspect all these years of war are hard to overcome, and will be harder to overcome when the Alliance retakes Lordaeron.
The game's story may focus on Genn and Sylvanas, but I hardly think everyone else would just peace out if, somehow, the two of them stopped fighting.
Which Hearthstone Character would you like to see in WoW? In my case i would like a storyline around Rin, the first Disciple (Warlock Legendary in HS) and Azari The Devourer. I mean, just look at her, she is an awesome elder warlock demon worshipping gnome woman who killed her kin in order to start the cult of Azari, a powerful demon we havent heard of.The possibilities are great, maybe Azari is an independent demon, or maybe is a lesser demon taking advantadge of a power vacuum, maybe Rin always had magic potencial but she never got a chance in life until Azari came to her, i dont know, there are some cool characters in HS that are from the world of warcraft but are actually not in WOW. Some of them might be good additions.
Hearthstone has a lot of crazy characters, but if I were to choose just one… well, it's no surprise that it's a Gnome. The new expansion has a Mage card called Toki, Time-Tinkerer and she is my favorite. Give her a long quest chain with Chromie where the two of them spend a zone-spanning quest chain arguing about the proper use of time travel and sending you on a lot of contradictory quests. I need this in my life, Blizzard. Help a Gnome out here.
⌛ Messing with timelines to meet your heroes from the past is definitely a good idea, right? RIGHT? 💫https://t.co/kzkxqPqWD2 pic.twitter.com/nIZSGJZMrr
— Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) April 5, 2018
(For more, please see my 20k word fanfic on the matter.)
Random Q4tQ: I have a second account that is not currently active but has up to Cataclysm unlocked on it (I'm just not paying the monthly subscription). If I were to pay for the BfA/free Legion combo, would it also unlock panda-land and AU!Draenor? Or would I have to buy a new 'base game" key?
Not saying I'm definitely going to do this, but just for curiosity sake
Yep! After an expansion is released, typically the previous expansion's content is rolled into the base game — with Legion, Blizzard is just doing it a little early.
What is the quickest way to get a low level character from Silvermoon to Stranglethorn?
If you look at the map, you would think this is a nightmare of a trip — but it's not nearly as bad as it appears. There's a red orb at the back of the throne room in Silvermoon City that will teleport you to Undercity. From there, run to the blimp tower in front of the city gates to hitch a ride to Grom'gol in Stranglethorn. It's relatively fast and relatively safe.
Which is to say: you kids have it easy these days. Back in my day, I had to corpse hop all the way through the Wetlands to reach the nearest boat dock to Stormwind or Ironforge — and those roads were not safe for lowbies. Blizzard has really taken all of the challenge out of this.
Though in fairness, that takes most of the annoyance out of it, too. I guess I'm okay with that.
And that's it for today, everyone. Come back tomorrow for your weekly adventures with Anne, and I'll be back next week.
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Interaction of Fast Highly Charged Ions with Insulating Straight and Tapered Glass Capillary Surfaces
Date of Award
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
First Advisor
Dr. John A. Tanis
Second Advisor
Dr. Emanuel Y. Kamber
Third Advisor
Dr. Asghar N. Kayani
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Nikolaus Stolterfoht
Glass capillaries, fast, highly charged ions, insulators, tandem accelerator, oxygen ions, protons
Transmission of fast highly charged ions through insulating single straight cylindrically-shaped and tapered funnel-shaped glass capillaries of microscopic dimensions has been studied using MeV/u proton and oxygen beams. The beams, obtained from the WMU tandem Van de Graaff accelerator, were transmitted through the capillaries and then counted with a silicon surface barrier detector.
The interaction between 1 and 3 MeV protons and 12, 16 and 24 MeV O5+ ions and the inner walls of the straight and tapered glass capillaries was investigated by measuring the transmission energy dependence. The straight capillaries had diameters of 0.18 and 0.14 mm and lengths of 14.4 and 11.2 mm, respectively, for an aspect ratio of 80 for both samples. The tapered capillary had an inlet diameter of 0.71 mm, an outlet diameter of 0.1 mm and a length of 28 mm for an outlet to inlet area ratio of 20x10-3. The obtained data were reproducible for the energies used and the results indicate that the incident ions traverse the capillaries without significant energy loss. The transmission dependence on the incident charge state was examined using 16 MeV O5+ to O8+ ions on the tapered capillary. The results obtained show that the incident charge state has the maximum transmission through both capillaries with the existence of small fractions of ions (< 1%) that capture an electron or lose one, two or three electrons.
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Recommended Citation
Ayyad, Asmaa Mohammed, "Interaction of Fast Highly Charged Ions with Insulating Straight and Tapered Glass Capillary Surfaces" (2013). Dissertations. 195.


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Perturbed over being ignored by his party,former SAD (B) Samana MLA Jagtar Singh Rajla may switch his loyalties to the Congress.
Sources said he had a discussion with former Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh and the announcement of his joining is not far. Confirming his reported meeting with Amarinder,Jagtar said,All loyalists of the Tohra legacy are feeling suffocated in the SAD and I am no different.
Son of former MLA from Samana,Hardial Singh Rajla,Jagtar was considered a close confidant of late Akali leader Gurcharan Singh Tohra. He was elected as the MLA from Samana in 1997,but was not given the ticket in 2007.
When Gurcharan Singh Tohra re-joined SAD,I was promised a ticket from Samana by the Badals. But once Tohra died,no one bothered about Tohra loyalists, he said.
I was ignored to favour an outsider, he said without naming the party nominee from Samana in 2007,Surjit Singh Rakhra. Rakhra had lost the election. He said he had met SAD president Sukhbir Badal and asked him to do something about the repeated sidelining.
SADs Patiala Lok Sabha candidate Prem Singh Chandumajra,however,sounded hopeful of resolving the differences. He said,I will talk to Rajla and urge him not to quit the party, adding,at this stage we want leaders to join us and not leave us.
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When the service debuted, it lacked much of the functionality that later titles included, but Xbox Live grew and evolved on the Xbox and many aspects of the service were included with the Xbox 360 console out of the box, rather than through a later update.Microsoft's 5000th patent was Live-related and gave Xbox 360 users access to watch other gamers compete against each other over Xbox Live.A Gamertag is the universal name for a player's username on Xbox Live.A Gamertag used online must be unique and can be up to fifteen characters in length, including numbers, letters, and spaces.In February 2013, Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business, shared that Xbox Live members now number 46 million, up 15 percent from a year ago, during the Dive into Media conference in Southern California.In June 2014, Microsoft retracted the Xbox Live Gold requirements to download streaming media apps (including Netflix, Hulu, You Tube, Internet Explorer, Skype, and others), though various rental or subscription fees may still apply.An updated version of the service became available for the Xbox 360 console at the system's launch in November 2005, and a further enhanced version was released in 2013 with the Xbox One.
A player's Gamertag account status can be checked using a variety of online tools, which is useful especially when looking for a new Gamertag, or confirming that a Gamertag exists.
On November 15, 2007, Microsoft celebrated Xbox Live's 5th anniversary by offering its then over 8 million subscribers the title Carcassonne free of charge and awarding gamers who had subscribed to Live since its inception 500 free Microsoft Points.
Due to intermittent service interruptions during late December 2007 and early January 2008, Microsoft promised to offer a free Xbox Live Arcade game to all Xbox Live users as compensation, in an open letter to all Xbox Live members from Mark Whitten, Xbox LIVE General Manager.
Critics scoffed at it, citing poor broadband adoption at the turn of the century.
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I like the party because it brings back old memories and it's like the beta days are back... But it's not very fun.... I wish u could buy betas thoReplyDelete
- Anonymous24 July 2014 at 08:28
Beta party is BORING! NO music and it's just plain boring!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous24 July 2014 at 11:31
My rating for the beta partyReplyDelete
Shopping: 2/5 (the items are okay)
Setting: 5/5 (i love the yard with a swimming puddle)
over all, it is okay,
p.s i think a new item in the beta party is gonna be a panda banner
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new code for 1 diamond -> twelveReplyDeleteReplies
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I think the beta party is great - i don't really care if there's no music it brings back old memories. :)ReplyDelete
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'Tis the season for pasta salads. They're a summertime staple at picnics and backyard barbecues for good reason: They can be prepped in advance, feed a crowd, and hang out for hours. Most importantly, they're easy-breezy, exactly what a dish on a hot summer day should be.
Except that, in reality, pasta salad is often the most snoozeworthy dish on the picnic table—bland, mushy, oily, heavy, or all of the above. It's the dish that we bypass entirely or shuffle to the sides of our plates after a few bites to make room for the things we actually want to eat.
This summer, let's change that. Pasta salad can be so much more than macaroni slicked in mayonnaise and tri-colored spirals swimming in Italian dressing. Here are some tried-and-true tips that I've accumulated over the years for making bright, beautiful pasta salads, plus a recipe that puts the tips to good use.
Pick the right size and shape. Opt for pasta that can be stabbed with a fork or scooped with a spoon, especially for outdoor gatherings (save spaghetti for another occasion). Use the shape and size of the ingredients in your salad to guide your pasta choice. Think rigatoni or penne for fat rounds of roasted zucchini; orzo or pearled couscous for small cubes of cucumber. Fusilli, gemelli, and casarecce are all-around favorites of mine because they have plenty of crevices to trap dressing, cheese, and herbs.
Don't skimp on salt. Cook your pasta in a large pot of generously salted water. Dishes served cold or at room temperature require more seasoning than warm dishes, so make sure your pasta is well seasoned from the get-go.
Drain but don't rinse! Keep the sticky starch on the pasta; otherwise the dressing and other ingredients will slip and slide right off the pasta and into the bottom of the bowl.
Dress right away. Warm pasta absorbs flavors better than cold pasta, so toss the freshly-cooked pasta with enough dressing to evenly coat. To prevent clumping and mushiness, spread the dressed pasta on a sheet pan. It'll cool faster, too.
And dress brightly! There are so many good choices: pesto thinned with a little olive oil, a lemony-yogurt dressing, or just good extra-virgin olive oil and a little acid drizzled and tossed. Avoid butter in pasta salads (it'll congeal as it cools) and use a light hand with balsamic and other dark vinegars since we eat with our eyes first, as they say.
Load up on fresh, seasonal vegetables. Zucchini and summer squash, peppers, eggplant, sweet corn, green beans, cucumbers--all are great options in the summer. And proportion is key. The best pasta salads have roughly equal parts volume of pasta and vegetables, so be generous. For a pound of pasta, plan on 1 to 2 pounds of vegetables as a rule of thumb.
And cook those veggies! Of course there are exceptions, things like cherry tomatoes (technically a fruit, but let's roll with it), slivered green onions, and the freshest, sweetest corn stripped from the cob. But in general, vegetables should be sautéed, roasted, grilled, or at least blanched. (Raw broccoli or carrot sticks with soft pasta? No thanks!)
Vary the textures and flavors. Some of my favorite pasta salads feature one vegetable prepared in two different ways. My Half-Blistered Tomato Pasta Salad (which mixes roasted and raw tomatoes) in Mighty Salads uses this trick. A pasta salad with half grilled corn and half fresh would be lovely, too.
Double up on the cheese. There's absolutely no rule anywhere that limits you to one cheese! Choose complementary cheeses to add flavor and texture. Think torn chunks of creamy mozzarella with wisps of nutty parmesan, dollops of fresh ricotta with crumbled aged provolone. To keep the cheese looking its best, add it near the end so it doesn't take on the color of the dressing and other ingredients.
Shower with herbs. And LOTS of them! Basil, mint, parsley, chives, dill, tarragon, and cilantro: individually or in combination, roughly chopped or torn. Keep in mind that tender herbs like basil and mint oxidize quickly, so add them at the last minute when the pasta has cooled. Use a light hand with assertive herbs like oregano and sage—they quickly become flavor bullies.
Go nutty. Most pasta salads cry out for a little crunch. Enter walnuts, slivered almonds, pistachios, and pine nuts to the rescue. Just make sure they're chopped finely enough to nestle up with the pasta.
Pack a punch. Briny, salty things like capers, pickled onions, and preserved lemon are such a good way to enliven pasta salads.
Taste and season (again!) before serving. Even if the seasoning seemed just right when assembling the salad, it might not be hours later. Add another pinch or two of sea salt, a squeeze of lemon, and a drizzle of good extra-virgin olive oil to gild the lily.
This peperonata pasta salad is a new favorite of mine. Peperonata—the classic Southern Italian side dish of sweet peppers, onions, and tomatoes melted in olive oil—is a swell companion to pasta. It's packed full of vegetables and serves as the dressing (a win for pasta salad, a big win for you). My peperonata borrows elements from two recipes: a generous heap of capers from Suzanne Goin's version in Sunday Suppers at Lucques and cherry tomatoes added off the heat from Joshua McFadden's take in Six Seasons. Better yet, the peperonata can be made several days in advance and tossed with freshly-cooked pasta whenever you're ready. Creamy mozzarella, shaved Parmesan, slivered almonds, and loads of basil keep each bite interesting. Serve it as a main course, or pair it with grilled meat. Italian sausage and cold beer are smashing accompaniments.
So repeat after me: No more sad pasta salads this summer. Make this one, or create your own using these tips, and watch people clamour for seconds.
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Brrrrrr… no question, winter is here. Frost is in the air – the perfect setting for holiday cheer. Whether you want to shop 'til you drop, bask in the glow of light shows, make the tots happy with Rudolf or Santa, or cozy up to the classics from The Nutcracker to 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, we've got it all right here. Craving a little sophistication in your festivities? Then we've got just the ticket with a stroll through an historic mansion, or an evening of chamber music with an internationally renowned conductor. Read on for all the ways to celebrate the season…
THURSDAY DECEMBER 9th
Twinkle, twinkle
Plug in and amp up your holiday spirit with millions of lights in the gorgeous, whimsical display at the Shady Brook Farm Holiday Light Show. Enjoy acres of imagination and illumination from the comfort of your own car, or on a moonlit hayride (reservations recommended for hayride). From dusk 'til 10pm, now through January 11, 2011.
To market, to market
Always a treat, the Princeton Farmers Market cranks it up for the holidays. Besides the usual bounty of local produce, poultry, eggs, cheese, breads and baked goods, the Holiday Market includes local crafters and artists.You'll find pottery, baskets, paintings, rugs, jewelry, cards, books, DVDs, and so much more for great gifts. From 11am – 6:30pm.
Seek and ye shall find
NJ Unemployed may not be able to guarantee you that new job, but we can pretty much promise that you'll feel better when you join fellow job seekers for a networking celebration. Commiserate and take a break from the holiday hustle and bustle with folks in the same boat from 6 – 8 pm at Princeton Sports Bar & Grill (128 Nassau Street, Princeton). Register here.
FRIDAY DECEMBER 10th
Lead the way
Internationally renowned conductor and pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn – son of famed author Aleksander Solzhenitsyn – has led symphonies throughout the world, from Baltimore and Nashville to London, Tokyo, Sydney and Moscow. A winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, he serves on the piano faculty of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, and has been featured on radio and television specials, including CBS Sunday Morning and ABC's Nightline. In this celebration for music lovers, Solzhenitsyn joins the Princeton University Orchestra as both a pianist and conductor in an all-Shostakovich program. He'll play Piano Concerto No. 1 with conductor Michael Pratt, and will conduct Symphony No. 8 at the Richardson Auditorium at 8pm. Tickets are $15.
Something to sing about
As if visions of sugarplums weren't enough, you can experience a musical adaptation of Clement Moore's delightful holiday classic, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas at the Kelsey Theatre at 7:30pm. Bring an unwrapped new toy for Toys for Tots, and just to be sure you're in the proper spirit, join in the pre-show carolling in the lobby. Tickets are $10.
Artists are your elves
Santa helps celebrate at the Grand Opening Reception of the Holiday Outpost at Artworks from 11am – 6pm. Local artists and craftspeople help you fill those holiday stockings with unique jewelry, art, woodworking, t-shirts, ceramics, ornaments, photography, teas, and accessories. Enjoy and indulge!
SATURDAY DECEMBER 11th
On your toes
All the holiday magic and joy of The Nutcracker, without the hassle of going into the city? Sign us up! Susan Jaffe – world-renowned former principal dancer with American Ballet Theater – and Risa Kaplowitz – former principal dancer with the Dayton Ballet and Manhattan Ballet – have been delighting local audiences with the Youth Ensemble at DanceVision since 2007, and this enchanting production is right at our doorstep at Montgomery High School at 7pm. Tickets are $25.
Light it up
Grab your earmuffs and warm up a chilly night with 15,000 lights! Your tiny tots will be aglow when they see the 16-minute light show displayed on the 35-foot Norway spruce on Ferry Street. Presented by the New Hope Chamber of Commerce and Winterland, the toe-tapping light show is set to holiday music at 6pm, 8pm, and 10pm. Best of all? It's free.
Reindeer games
What holiday season would be complete without Rudolf's red nose? The whole family will love the Off-Broadstreet Theater production of Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, tailor-made for the kid in all of us. Early risers will be happy for the 10am showtime, and the $4 tickets won't take a bite out your holiday budget.
Near and far
Whether you like it local or your tastes run to the exotic, we've got you covered. The Gifts of Natural Art and Craft Fair, Slow Food Central New Jersey brings together local farm vendors, food producers, arts, gifts of nature, and crafts from 10am – 2pm. In case the free admission isn't enough, you can feel good about knowing that a portion of proceeds will be donated to D&R Land Trust.
The International Bazaar at the Chancellor Green Rotunda, Princeton University from 1 – 4pm was organized by the student group Emerge to celebrate international development initiatives, and showcase and sell the crafts, cultural performances, culinary arts from more than 15 countries.
SUNDAY DECEMBER 12th
No humbug here
So nice when the holiday drama is on stage instead of in your house! Charles Dickens himself would delight at the McCarter Theater production of A Christmas Carol. The show is at 5:30pm, and tickets are $33 and up, but call soon to reserve… the 1pm show is already sold out!
History and holiday
Ready for more elegant and grown-up holiday festivities? The Festival of Trees is the perfect antidote to overexposure to Santa, red-nosed reindeers, and industrious elves. Relax and stroll through the galleries of Morven, the beautifully restored former governor's mansion, and enjoy the gorgeously decorated trees festooned by local businesses and garden clubs. Noon to 4 pm. Tickets are $6.
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Belfast Girl7th September 2010 to 12th September 2010 - 7.30pm
Price: £14 / £11 ConcPrices available at box office, email or via telephone.
Venue: Studio
Company: London Irish Theatre
Writer: John Dunne
Director: Mary Tynan
In the wake of the Saville Report of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, comes a play which considers the human dimension of the Northern Ireland question, and uncovers the personal costs of political struggle. Written by John Dunne, and directed by Mary Tynan, Belfast Girl is set in the aftermath of the Good Friday agreement. Annie is the Belfast Girl of the title: a working class protestant who grew up during the troubles. Her marriage to Orangeman Billy is on the rocks, and an unexpected visit from English Catholic Dave, her childhood sweetheart who she hasnt seen since her teens, brings matters to a head in an explosive manner. Annies brother Macca also has his own journey to make, as he has to choose between his best friend and his unionist allegiances on the one hand, and his familial loyalty to his sister on the other.
Belfast Girl is the third incarnation of John Dunnes play. The previous versions Belfast and A Belfast Boy have both received critical acclaim from the press, and Belfast was a Time Out Critics Choice.
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In the other matches of the round Rocky Gorge got by Maryland rivals the Baltimore-Chesapeake Brumbies 24-9. The Brumbies actually held a 9-3 lead into the second half but tries from Josh Brown, Bryan Perez, and Ben Cima would seal it for Rocky Gorge. Lastly, the Pittsburgh Harlequins beat Washington Irish 30-17.