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![]() ![]() The Combat Triangle - The dwarves of Keldagrim will make blueprints of anything, given the chance. ![]() Void Knight - This mighty warrior has seen his fair share of battle, but until the war is won his resolve will not falter.Triple Trouble - Using every style of combat, three warriors face off against the mighty King Black Dragon.Summoning Concept Art 1 - This wallpaper showcases the wolpertinger, spirit wolf, Pikkupstix and Summoning obelisk.Summoning Concept Art 2 - Avert your eyes, wee lads and ladesses, for the cockatrice will stare into your soul and turn it to stone!.Summoning Concept Art 3 - This hydra delivers a heady mix of strength and, well, heads.Summoning Concept Art 4 - These titanic creatures from the second batch of Summoning are not to be messed with.Bordiss's Blueprints - Dwarven engineering can be beneficial to RuneScape - just check out these plans for a renewable energy source.Here is the result of their studies in combat. ![]() ![]() Dark energy is a substance that permeates space-time, causing it to expand outward. The difference between a black hole and a gravastar is that, instead of a singularity, the gravastar is filled with dark energy. ![]() It's such a theoretical concept that my spell checker didn't even recognize the word. So we're all set for now.Īnother attempt to eradicate the singularity - one that doesn't rely on untested theories of quantum gravity - is known as the gravastar. But because of the extreme time dilation effects around black holes, from our perspective in the outside universe it takes billions, even trillions, of years before they go boom. This resistance to continued compression eventually forces the material to un-collapse (i.e., explode), making black holes only temporary objects. Perfectly microscopic, but definitely not infinitely tiny. All the material that has ever fallen into the black hole gets compressed into a ball not much bigger than this. The discreteness of space-time prevents matter from reaching anything smaller than the Planck length (around 1.68 times 10^-35 meters). And two, it makes it impossible for singularities to form inside black holes.Īs matter squishes down under the immense gravitational weight of a collapsing star, it meets resistance. One, it takes the dream of quantum mechanics to its ultimate conclusion, explaining gravity in a natural way. ![]() This theoretical chunkiness of space-time provides two benefits. In the world of loop quantum gravity, space and time are quantized - the universe around us is composed of tiny discrete chunks, but at such an incredibly tiny scale that our movements appear smooth and continuous. This is called a Planck star, and it's a theoretical possibility envisioned by loop quantum gravity, which is itself a highly hypothetical proposal for creating a quantum version of gravity. ![]() ![]() ![]() The strange extremes of United means that they may well triumph in a one-off game, but over a season that pattern is emerging again. There is still the Champions League round-of-16 tie against Atletico Madrid to cling onto, a team whose own run of form has been equally poor of late. They had been fortunate to beat West Ham in their previous game at Old Trafford 13 days earlier and the winter break that followed has seen no material change in performance amid the tumult going on at the club behind the scenes. It is a squad in flux with divergent priorities and their minds largely elsewhere. That includes some of those who played on Friday night, including Paul Pogba, Juan Mata, Phil Jones, Dean Henderson as well as the absent Jesse Lingard. ![]() United’s players know that another round of change is coming and many will leave in the summer. There is bewilderment in the wider game why Darren Fletcher, the club’s technical director, has a place on the bench on matchday. So fearful were the club of any leak that might undermine Ole Gunnar Solskjaer that his struggles over the 18 months prefacing his departure had not triggered any contingency plan. The Ralf Rangnick experiment is running out of any momentum it might have had - and much of that is to do with the temporary status of a capable coach. It is hard to escape the feeling that United are currently precisely the kind of candidate to fall foul of the competition’s caprice. The FA Cup can do strange things to big clubs. Of course, there was the first-half missed chances and then handball and finally the penalty shoot-out which is always a volatile event, but it should never have come down to those fine margins for United. The team itself is a mix of individuals from different curtailed managerial eras and the defeat at home to Middlesbrough on penalties in the fourth round of the FA Cup featuring players signed by five different managers. In his first month as chief executive, Richard Arnold has overseen a transfer window that did not see a single new recruit, an interim manager looking every bit like a struggling supply teacher and then the arrest of the club’s best young talent and flagship for the academy. Long before then, the 1930s were a disaster, when the club diced with bankruptcy and was one defeat away from relegation to the third tier.Įven so, that was then - before days of the worldwide United record-annual-revenue commercial behemoth. After 1977, it was another six years until the next trophy, Ron Atkinson’s 1983 FA Cup. The club has been here before, and much worse - 10 years passed between Sir Matt Busby’s last league title in 1967 and Tommy Docherty’s FA Cup triumph in 1977, and the interim included a relegation. The lessons of history suggest that it required the force of personality of one man to turn it around, although English football in 2022 is an industry quite unlike the relatively parochial game of the late 1980s.įor the United of the present day only an unlikely Champions League triumph this season will see them pass five years without a major trophy. Paul Gascoigne, John Barnes, Glenn Hysen and Trevor Steven - all on Ferguson’s wishlist at certain points during that period - went elsewhere. Even with their financial power, United found it hard to attract players in those days. It can be easy to reimagine the Ferguson years but there was not much in the 1988-1989 season to suggest the great turnaround that was ahead. The last time Manchester United went five years without a trophy, it ended with the 1990 FA Cup that would launch the era of their tenacious 48-year-old manager Alex Ferguson whose side had hit rock-bottom the season before and needed something to show there was light at the end of the tunnel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It sees the default rate for junk-rated companies getting to 4% by year-end, more than double the 1.7% figure from the end of 2023, though still off the peaks of the post-COVID era. And hottest Twitter Trends New York, United States right now are Summer Walker, Disney, Andy Rourke, Panthers, Hertz. The total tweet volume of Grant Williams from United states is 78362 tweets. S&P Global's reading of the situation isn't much more promising. Today's Top Twitter Trending New York, United States topics are Disney, Summer Walker, Panthers, Mike Malone, Sleep Token. Currently, Grant Williams is the No 1 trending topic on Twitter in United states. The ratings giant expects defaults for companies with speculative-grade debt to rise to 4.9% by March 2024, up from 2.9% at the end of the first quarter of 2023, and exceeding the long-term average of 4.1%. Still, an uptick in bankruptcy filings clearly demonstrates increasing economic stress.ĭata from Moody's suggests that the bankruptcy trend is just getting underway. Bankruptcies tend to wipe out stockholders, and give companies an opportunity to restructure their debt and come out the other side with a healthier balance sheet. It's worth noting that a bankruptcy filing is not necessarily a death knell for a company. It often indicates a user profile.Ī look at the other recent bankruptcies from recent days (handily compiled by Bloomberg) shows a consistent theme: exorbitant liabilities, mostly in the form of debt. ![]() Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]() |
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