It remains unusually cold. Apparently this is a 10-year record. So it's skipping out for breakfast and back again for reading and TV.
It's even cold in Florida. They're very worried about the fruit. If it drops below something like 25 degrees (that's old money) for more than 4 hours, they're done for. The world will have no orange juice for a year, and Florida will become even more dependant on tourists.
So they spray water on the trees. The water freezes and keeps them warm. That's what the man said.
Later that night, I'm reduced to moderate drinking by the temperature. The big signs outside the banks say it's 18 degrees. That's about minus six or seven in new money. Of course, there are few as hardy (I'm sure that's not the word you would use) as me so the place is empty, and the girls are complaining about how little money they're making. I check-up, on the internet, when I get back, on Kentucky minimum wage laws. Recalling what was being said, it is quite clear the management assume a certain average of tips, and top that up to the minimum wage level. If the tips don't come in, they're supposed to pay the minimum, but it sounded like complaining only gets you looking for another job. On top of which, if there are few customers, they just shut, and send the staff home, so when they come to work, especially in this weather, they have no idea how much money they're going to make.
Now I'm not one of these people who think the owners should take all the risk, but it as well to remember that when they were campaigning for the sale of alcohol in restaurants two years ago, the argument was that it would create more jobs. But are they jobs worth creating?
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The man from Florida has a point. In our day we used to call it the latent heat of fusion.
In the transition from water to ice, 80 calories are released for every gram of liquid water that transforms to ice (and of course, visa versa for the reverse process). These days it is referred to as the enthalpy of fusion and is quoted in kjoules/kg. For water the value is 333.5 kj/kg.
The reason for this is all down to the thermodynamics of the transformation process (shades of Flanders and Swann) and is due to the change of entropy associated with a change from a less orderd to a more ordered state.
Try running that up the flagpole and see who amongst your drinking buddies salutes!
P.S. You may have to work in different units with Americans!
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