Funny jokes one liners are the only jokes that are small funny jokes with one sentence so are called as one liners jokes. Enjoy these jokes and share it with your friends and family.
1) Headline in the Paper: A hole has appeared in the ladies changing rooms at the sports club. Police are looking into it.
2) Two robbers were robbing a hotel. The first one said, "I hear sirens. Jump!" The second one said, "But we're on the 13th floor!" The first one screamed back, "This is no time to be superstitious."
3) What's the difference between a policeman's nightstick and a magician's wand?
Answer- A magician's wand is for cunning stunts.
4) My horoscope read, "You're going places and you can't be stopped." Apparently the cop who gave me a ticket hadn't read it.
5) What's the difference between chopped beef and pea soup? Everyone can chop beef, but not everyone can pea soup!
7)An onion can make people cry but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
8) If all is not lost, where is it?
9) When you're finally holding all the cards, why does everyone else decide to play chess?
10) Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have a "S" in it?


While the Chevy Blazer hasn't made an appearance in the SUV market segment since 2005, it is making a comeback in a big way with its all-new 2019 iteration. From its stylish exterior design and upscale interior amenities to its powertrain options and infotainment and safety features, drivers from Gaffney, Spartanburg, Shelby, and Boiling Springs are certain to fall for the slew of updates that come with the all-new Chevy Blazer here at Burns Chevrolet of Gaffney.
Under the hood, the 2019 Chevy Blazer has two outstanding engine options to choose from. These range from the standard 2.5-liter four-cylinder, which produces up to 193-horsepower and 188 pound-feet of torque, to the 305-horsepower 3.6-liter V6 engine. Both of these powertrains can be combined with either a front-wheel drive system or an all-wheel-drive system and come connected to a nine-speed automatic transmission. The V6 engine provides its owners with a 3,500-pound towing capacity, which offers a convenient flexibility during your adventures in the local Gaffney area.
Taking inspiration from the Chevy Camaro, the Blazer doesn't hesitate with an exceptional exterior style; with a wide stance, a prominent grille, a high beltline, and your choice from a large variety of color options and wheel options. Inside the cabin, you'll also find plenty of style and sophistication for you and your passengers to enjoy. With premium leather-appointed and suede microfiber seats, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, sliding rear seat, panoramic sunroof, and plenty of passenger space for up to five adults, we're confident that every owner will be relaxed and ready for a comfortable commute.
You can also find many innovative infotainment and safety features in this all-new Chevy Blazer. The newest Chevy MyLink infotainment system comes with an eight-inch touchscreen, BOSE® audio system, 4G LTE Wi-Fi Hotspot, Apple CarPlay®, and Android Auto® connectivity, and much more. In terms of safety features, the Blazer has technologies like the adaptive cruise control and a rearview camera, which are equipped to ensure the safety of you and your passengers.
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Optoacoustic (OA) measurements can not only be used for imaging purposes but as a more general tool to "sense" physical characteristics of biological tissue, such as geometric features and intrinsic optical properties. In order to pave the way for a systematic model-guided analysis of complex objects we devised numerical simulations in accordance with the experimental measurements. We validate our computational approach with experimental results observed for layered polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel samples, using melanin as the absorbing agent. Experimentally, we characterize the acoustic signal observed by a piezoelectric detector in the acoustic far-field in backward mode and we discuss the implication of acoustic diffraction on our measurements. We further attempt an inversion of an OA signal in the far-field approximation.


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Salmonella causes, then feeds off gut inflammation
Salmonella bacteria cause and use inflammation in the gut to outgrow other …
Yun Xie - Sep 22, 2010 5:55 pm UTC
Color-enhanced scanning electron micrograph showing Salmonella Typhimurium (red) invading cultured human cells.
Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH
If you've ever had the misfortune to experience salmonella poisoning, you are familiar with symptoms like gut inflammation, nausea, cramps and diarrhea. As it turns out, a symptom might not merely be a result of invading pathogens—it can also be an accomplice to further transmission. Studies published a few years ago linked severe intestinal inflammation with improved growth of Salmonella Typhimurium in the intestinal lumen, but no one knew why at the time. A paper in a recent issue of Nature reveals the mechanism involved.
The authors began by referencing experimental methods that scientists developed in 1923, where a liquid called tetrathionate broth is used to selectively enrich the growth of Salmonella Typhimurium in samples that contain rival microbes. This led the authors to ask if tetrathionate is made in the gut, where it also could promote Salmonella Typhimurium growth.
Tetrathionate is S4O62-, but can be produced by the oxidation of thiosulphate (S2O32-). As it turns out, there's a lot of thiosulphate in the guts. Bacteria in the colon produce significant amounts of hydrogen sulphide (H2S), a very toxic gas, which is converted to the safer thiosulphate in the mucous membranes of the cecum.
In experiments on mice, the authors found that gut inflammation did indeed generate tetrathionate. When Salmonella Typhimurium infection inflames the intestines, the gut releases reactive oxygen radicals that go on to oxidize the thiosulphate into tetrathionate. Salmonella Typhimurium bacteria then use the tetrathionate as an electron acceptor (an important part of the fermentation process) to thrive and outgrow competing microbes in the gut.
Inflammation is a common disease symptom that affect many different body parts. The authors' findings open up questions about whether other types of inflammation may promote diseases. Understanding the mechanisms that explain the complex interactions between a pathogen and host will benefit therapeutic efforts.
Nature, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/nature09415
Yun Xie Yun Xie / Yun Xie is a contributing science writer at Ars, where she covers the latest advancements in science and technology for Ars. She currently works in scientific communications, policy, and review.
Email reenxie@gmail.com // Twitter @yun_xie

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Iacchus is a psychedelic/ambient project of Dan Forest formed in London, UK in 2007. A true musical innovator Dan is inspired by the likes of Ott., Shpongle and Dave Tipper. He has risen from the ashes of the break core-scene, revamping his sound with indigenous instruments infused melodically with psychedelic breaks.
Dan Forest made break-core, jungle and drum bass with a band called usedtobecool… but then about five years ago, he heard Shpongle and Ott for the first time. It led to a journey of discovery, mainly through the downtempo aspects of psychedelic music. He found elements of sound design and song structure more interesting and rewarding to work on.
But it was Tipper who inspired Dan to try much harder with his production. The whole explosion of the dubstep and glitch hop scene has also started to influence his music, so it's almost starting to go full circle back into more uptempo vibes.
The debut album of Iacchus "Subjectivity" was released in 2008. Then in 2011 he releases 2 albums "Together as One" and "There Is Only Infinity". Finally, in 2014, Mystic Sound Records is happy to release the fourth full-length album of this unbelievably talented musical producer – Frogspawn.
Masterly mixing a lot of different styles in his music, Dan achieved an unique and individual sound. Taking influence from glitch, dubstep and bass music, and stepping into dub and world music vibes with live recordings – everybody will find something familiar in the music of Iacchus while still experiencing an incredible journey of discovery.


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Interview with Katie Moore : Hudson Romantic
Posted on September 16, 2015. Written by Rachel Levine
Katie Moore and Ship of Fools
Katie Moore has been gracing Montreal with her gorgeous voice and down to earth demeanor from her early days at Barfly's Bluegrass Jam. She's sung with Chilly Gonzales, Patrick Watson, and Feist, but you can catch her solo, or singing with her band El Coyote, or hosting Montreal's Country Classics Hour on CKUT. But don't be fooled by all the coziness of her country side — she's got a sharp wit and an almost comedic bluntness to match. I talked to Katie about her new album released this September and also her upcoming show opening for The Barr Brothers.
Rachel Levine (RL): You've been making folk for a long time, often collaborating with others. For example, your song The One I Love is gone is sung with Andrew Horton. Do you prefer to work alone or with others?
Katie Moore (KM): I prefer working with other people. It's more fun. There's a feeling when you're doing something with someone else and it's coming out well and it's super gratifying and you feel this connection to the other person. It's part of what's so fun about playing music. There's also the solo aspect, writing the music, and music is good too. If you play you'll music you'll never be bored. You can always pick up your instrument. But the playing together aspect is where most of my friendships come from. It's a big part of my life.
RL: How do you find your collaborators?
KM: I meet them on Tinder. (laughs) They should have a Tinder for musicians. I guess it's a small town, Montreal. Everyone knows each other. And then there's places like Bluegrass Night at the Barfly on Sundays which has been going for like 17 years, and that's where I went many years ago when I didn't have anyone play country music with. I joined the open mic jam and that's where I met so many people that I still play with like Angela Desveaux and Andrew Horton. Warren Spicer produced the album and work with a lot and I met him at a going away party for a friend over 10 years ago and we had a jam. and it sounded good together.
RL: You have such mournful, haunting sad songs that are often about difficult topics. Do you think music is largely a balm for the bad times?
KM: For sure. For me, writing songs is therapeutic. I have something in my head and that's how I can get it out. Also, in terms of listening to music, when you're sad and you listen to a sad song, it might make you sadder, but it makes you feel like it's something that everyone goes through. Naming your emotions makes things better. I love sad songs.
RL: When it comes to writing music, do you start with lyrics or melody or some other method? How do you bring your music to your band?
KM: Usually I have some idea in my head that's something I've been thinking about a lot. I don't really know how I do it. I generally write the lyrics and melody at the same time. And I go from there. When there's a studio session coming up, I'll show the songs to Warren [Spicer] and he'll make a few suggestions or not. When we're in the studio I show it to the band and they play and they do their awesome stuff on it.
Fooled by the Fun
RL: Tell me about your new album, Fooled by the Fun. Where does that title come from? Is it a theme on the album?
KM: It is a track of a song and it's the last line of a chorus of a song and I guess it's this idea that we try to distract ourselves with lots of fun or whatever it is we're avoiding. It's not really a theme on the album.
RL: I love the cover of Fooled by the Fun…
KM: Jessica Moss, she did the cover. It's a collage. She did a bunch of collages. I liked that one. It's so iconic of some lake in Alberta. There's some weird gender neutral person on the front and the ladies in petticoats climbing the mountain. Jessica moss plays violin on the album too. She's one of those multifacted artists. It's disgusting. (she laughs)
RL: So, you're originally from Hudson? Can you tell me how place may have informed your songs?
KM: I'm from Alberta. I moved to Hudson when I was three and lived there until I moved downtown when I was 18. Definitely, it's on a lake and has so much space. It's a very different experience from growing up in Montreal. There were train tracks at the bottom of the garden that I found very romantic. You have people going through, passing through. Every morning the train went past. It was our wake up alarm after 7 a.m. I think it's such a beautiful place with lots of mental and physical space. I recorded half the album at my parents house in Hudson, this cute little old wooden house.
RL: Do you have anything else you'd like to share?
KM: I'm so excited for tomorrow to be opening for the Barr Brothers. The venue is amazing in that church and I love that band. I've been to see them many times and they're great people and make great music so I'm psyched.
Katie Moore opens for The Barr Brothers at Église St Jean Baptiste (301 Rachel E) for POP Montreal on Sept 17. 8 p.m. $35 at door.
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It's Snowing Babies!
Ever since I was a little girl, I've been fascinated by the little white porcelain figurines called "snow babies." My mother had a number of them and would place them on the mantel above the fireplace nestled in a bed of fresh pine and holly. I can still remember handing them to her since I was too short to reach the mantel. What can you tell me about snow babies? How long have they been around? Are they collectible? If so, I'd like to start my own collection.
Believe it or not, snow babies have been around since the early 1890s. And, yes, they are very collectible. However, over the decades a number of different ones have been produced, not all of which are authentic. So unfortunately, it's buyer beware.
Snow babies are small figurines, usually of a child, depicting a Christmas or winter sports activity. Like Hummel figurines, they emphasize the nostalgia of childhood and days gone by. But unlike Hummels, their manufacture wasn't tightly controlled.
Since their introduction in the last decade of the 19th century, snow babies have enchanted collectors all over the world, especially during the holidays. They're made of unglazed porcelain, also known as bisque, and show a children dressed in one-piece, hooded snowsuits covered in small pieces of hand-whipped crushed porcelain bisque, giving the appearance of fallen snowflakes.
The idea for snow babies evolved from early 19th-century German candy cake toppers, called tannenbaumkanfekt, used to decorate the tops of Christmas cakes and to decorate Christmas trees. Confectioners molded flour, sugar and gum for firmness into little figures, then painted them with vegetable dye. The best loved became known as zuckerpuppes or sugar dolls, which people used, along with igloos and polar bears, to create snow scenes under their Christmas trees. Later, confectioners began making them of marzipan, a mixture of crushed almonds, egg whites and sugar. They were especially popular with confectioners in Lubeck, Germany. One of them, Johann Moll, commissioned Hertwig and Company to re-create these adorable almond paste babies in porcelain bisque. The oldest ones were typically either all white with a painted face or painted in pastel colors.
Hertwig and Company began operation in 1864 in Katzhutte, Thuringia, Germany, making porcelain doll heads and bisque figures. However, the Hertwig snow babies didn't thrill German children, who naturally preferred the candy version. But their mothers loved them and used them to adorn their trees and homes during the Christmas season. Then they could pack them up and save them safely for another year.
The first snow babies produced by Hertwig were one to two inches tall, but the company also made some five to seven-inch ones. As production increased, Hertwig began creating snow babies in a variety of winter activities, such as sledding, skiing, and tumbling. Eventually, the company's artists made the figures' hands and feet more clearly defined, and even gave their little figures shoes. Although babies predominated, Hertwig produced some older children as well.
Because of Hertwig's success, many other German companies began to produce snow babies, including Wagner and Appel, Galluba and Hoffman, Bahr and Proeschild, Christian Frederick Klurg, and the Huebach Brothers.
In 1893, Josephine Peary, wife of the famous arctic explorer Robert, shocked the world by accompanying her husband to Greenland on his famous expedition to the North Pole, even though she was expecting a child. On September 8, 1893, Marie Ahnighito Peary, the first non-indigenous baby to be born that far north. The native Intuit came for miles to see the white-skinned baby they called her Ah-pooh-nick-ananny, Inuit for snow baby.
In 1901 Mrs. Peary wrote a book showing a photograph of her daughter wearing a white snow suit and called her a "snow baby." Suddenly, the German-made figures were in high demand. For many years the Nuremburg firm of Craemer and Co. exclusively exported the figures from Germany. In the U.S., Scholl and Company and Westphalia Imports, both of New York, sold them, as well as confectionery and baking suppliers in the German communities of New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee. They reached their peak of export to the U.S. between 1906 and 1910 as women's magazines featured them as Christmas decorations.
In 1910, the R. Shackman Company of New York, an importer of fancy goods, toys and novelties, advertised and distributed them at 20 cents each. In 1914, Sears and Roebuck and Marshall Field, who called them "Alaska Tots," sold them through their catalogs.
Prior to World War I, snow babies had highly detailed faces, with the paint fired onto the porcelain so that the color would be longer lasting. Some figurines had different pastel colors of ground bisque decoration while others were left all white except for painted faces. But then the Great War began and the export of snow babies came to a sudden halt.
When production resumed after the war, snow babies were smaller, usually ranging from one to three inches tall. Although the paint used came in vibrant primary colors, snow babies now had less facial detail than previous models. The paint was also less durable and prone to flaking. Models in more varied poses appeared, including children singing Christmas carols, riding polar bears, and building snowmen.
In the 1920s, Japanese manufacturers began to produce snow baby replicas, though they were generally of a lesser quality than those made in Germany.
The early Depression years brought a final group of snow babies from Germany. People once again used them to create Christmas scenes, as well as for package tie-ons and table decorations. There were babies riding airplanes, playing musical instruments, and riding polar bears. However, these later pieces lacked the detail of early snow babies and were less lovable, so their popularity declined during the 1930s and by the outbreak of World War II, snow baby imports stopped. Here in America, interest in snow babies declined from 1950 to the 1980s. In 1987, an American company, Department 56, began producing replicas of the original snow baby designs and had them made in Taiwan. This helped generate a new interest in them as well as in the early pieces.
Obviously, the most collectible snow babies are those produced before World War I. These generally sell for the highest prices. Any of the German ones are also collectible, but as a beginning collector, you need to be aware of cheaper versions made in Asia.
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Facebook's Timeline Profile design are rumored to be made public on the 19th of October. But if you cannot wait until then, why not masquerade as a Facebook app developer and get the new design right now? It could be something to do on a rainy day.
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Last week saw an interesting report from Rightmove which claimed that asking prices for properties are now at an all time high, above even the peak of the last boom.
Meanwhile, London apart, the usual House Price Indices, (whatever they are worth), suggest prices may actually be falling, albeit slightly. Therefore the gap between realistic actual prices and what a vendor wants for their property seems to be growing once more!
Demand in London, however, remains high for decent property as evidenced by the amount of sealed bids we are seeing.
As supply and demand is one of the only economic theories left with any credence it therefore seems that despite withering economic conditions house prices in the high demand areas will hold their value at least. We stand by our 3% growth prediction at present!
The difficulty all this brings is that this is happening at a time when some of the major mortgage lenders seem to be admitting privately, that they could be lending out less than last year, with the cost of funding increasing and the availability of cash to lend out being constrained.
We have recently seen another rash of interest rate rises from many of the major lenders, with fixed rates especially edging up again.
This looks set to continue even though Bank Base Rate is staying static. A recent report stated that the average two year fixed rate has risen to 4.15% up from 3.82% in October 2011, whilst five year fixed rates hit a low in January with an average rate of 4.57% but this has crept up to 4.72%.
The average rate for two-year trackers now stands at 3.63% up from its lowest level in August 2011 at 3.37%.
In terms of reasons for this rise, lenders point to the cost of funds, the cost of getting savers in, the cost of borrowing to lend, capital adequacy and levels of competition. Also important however, are service levels and plain old profit, which all play a part when there is a limited supply to lend.
The phrases "Mortgage Prisoners" and "Mortgage Time Bomb" have appeared on the front pages, which all seems very dramatic and may have you wondering whether this means that no-one can get a loan these days.
As ever, this is far too simplistic. Whilst it is true that lenders have tightened up their criteria in respect of interest only loans, affordability etc, there are fundamental differences to the dark days of 2008.
Much of the tightening up on the high street has been countered by the growing number of smaller, niche lenders, mainly building societies, who are able to look at applicants in the old fashioned way – blank sheet of paper and a human underwriter. Together with a more forward thinking Private Bank sector, these lenders are actively helping borrowers such as the self-employed and high net worth individuals.
When all this is taken together, these issues mean that it is more important than ever for buyers to take advice and have their finances in place at the earliest possible opportunity, not just to prove to the vendors that they are serious and can move quickly, but also to ensure they are not caught out by sudden rate rises or criteria changes by the lender.


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49cc two-stroke mopeds and mofas made in Belgium using HMW and Sachs engines. Produced from c1959 to the 1970s.
Bicycle manufacture began in 1898 by Frans Mariën in Koningshooikt named Korporaal (Corporal) and has always been one of the most representative Belgian bicycle manufacturers, having survived two world wars and several financial crises.
In 1912 the name was changed into "L'avenir" and at that time the company moved from Koningshooikt to Lier, to a factory near the railway station.
The best period for the company was after the first world war, between 1919 until the economic crisis of the 1930s, from which they were slow to recover.
Interrupted by the second world war and faced with numerous difficulties including the lack of spare parts, the company's 30 employees celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1948.
In the fifties they began manufacture of motorcycles and mopeds and in 1957 around 5000 mopeds left the factory. Production continued at this rate until 1971 when Japanese competition became too strong.
However, the construction of bicycles was running well and at end of 1970 they had sold more then 15.000 bicycles for the year.
Despite the good sales, there were still some hard years. A bicycle was at that time a simple product with a low price.
In 1966 the company started with the distribution of the Dutch "Gazelle" bicycles and in 1975 they built a brand new factory at Lier, with new production lines.
The oil crisis of 1973 provoked the rediscovery of the bicycle and l'Avenir survived.
Since 1966 there was co-operation with "Gazelle" and from 1978 also with the Italian brand, "Cicli Cinzia".
The 1980s started with the introduction of recreational bicycles, going further on the 90s, despite the heavy competition from the Far East.
L'avenir has seen two changes of the century and is doing very well, particularly when one considers that the average lifespan of a Belgian company is 40 years.
They always stayed independent and financed their production with their own capital and never borrowed foreign capital.
The company has now sold more then two million bicycles, known for their excellent quality.
A constant line followed by the l'Avenir company was their loyalty to the professional market of bicycle dealers, within the strong belief that only professionals could guarantee the quality on lifetime of their products, by keeping the sales and the maintenance on the same point.
it's been several years since I found an old L'avenir Moped in my Grandmother's farmhouse.
Today I decided to start rebuilding the Moped, so first comes Information research. Turns out, there's very little information available on this model on the net.
Hence I ask You if you would happen to have further information on this model. It's optically identical to the "L'Avenir 1955 HMW Moped" found in your database, but equipped with a Sachs engine instead of the HMW.
I am looking for orig. pictures, model name and colours of this (red) bike. The third picture is of my L'Avenir several years ago, I sold it (stupid)!. The last picture is of the sports-model with HMW-engine.
pourriez-vous me dire où trouver des informations sur les couleurs originales des modèles fabriqués par la marque l'avenir ?
from weerde (belgium)and i have recendly restored this l'avenir sports-bike from '63.
I was hoping that you may have the information for the manufacturer of Avenir locks that are sold in the United States. I got this contact form through research about Avenir in France that makes Mopeds.


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    /// <summary>
    /// <para>
    /// Wraps an implementation of a Fibonacci heap (abbreviated F-heap) by
    /// Michael L. Fredman and Robert Endre Tarjan, which represents a
    /// very fast priority queue, by mapping
    /// elements to Fibonacci heap items with a dictionary. Use
    /// <see cref="FibonacciHeap{T}"/> for handling the items yourself.
    /// </para>
    /// <para>
    /// Provides insertion, finding the minimum, melding and decreasing keys in
    /// constant amortized time, and deleting from an n-item heap in O(log n)
    /// amortized time.
    /// </para>
    /// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T">
    /// Type of the items held by this priority queue.
    /// </typeparam>
    [CLSCompliant(true)]
    public class PriorityQueue<T> : IPriorityQueue<T>
    {
        #region Fields

        /// <summary>
        /// Fibonacci heap handling all heap operations
        /// </summary>
        private readonly FibonacciHeap<T> heap = new FibonacciHeap<T>();

        /// <summary>
        /// Items of this priority queue.
        /// </summary>
        private readonly Dictionary<T, FibonacciHeapItem<T>> items = new Dictionary<T, FibonacciHeapItem<T>>();

        #endregion

        #region Public Properties

        /// <summary>
        /// Number of elements of this priority queue.
        /// </summary>
        public int Count
        {
            get
            {
                return this.heap.Count;
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Whether this priority queue is empty, or not.
        /// </summary>
        public bool Empty
        {
            get
            {
                return this.heap.Empty;
            }
        }

        #endregion

        #region Public Methods and Operators

        /// <summary>
        /// Clears this priority queue, removing all items.
        /// </summary>
        public void Clear()
        {
            this.heap.Clear();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Decreases the key of the specified item in this priority queue by subtracting
        /// the passed non-negative real number <c>delta</c>.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="item">
        /// Item to decrease the key of.
        /// </param>
        /// <param name="delta">
        /// Non-negative real number to be subtracted from the item's key.
        /// </param>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentOutOfRangeException">
        /// <paramref name="delta"/> is negative.
        /// </exception>
        /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">
        /// This priority queue is empty.
        /// </exception>
        public void DecreaseKey(T item, double delta)
        {
            var heapItem = this.GetHeapItem(item);
            this.heap.DecreaseKey(heapItem, delta);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Decreases the key of the specified item in this priority queue to the passed
        /// non-negative real number.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="item">
        /// Item to decrease the key of.
        /// </param>
        /// <param name="newKey">
        /// New item key.
        /// </param>
        /// <exception cref="ArgumentOutOfRangeException">
        /// The resulting key would be greater than the current one.
        /// </exception>
        /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">
        /// This priority queue is empty.
        /// </exception>
        /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">
        /// <paramref name="item"/> is not an item of this priority queue.
        /// </exception>
        public void DecreaseKeyTo(T item, double newKey)
        {
            var heapItem = this.GetHeapItem(item);
            this.heap.DecreaseKeyTo(heapItem, newKey);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Deletes the specified item from this priority queue.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="item">
        /// Item to delete.
        /// </param>
        /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">
        /// This priority queue is empty.
        /// </exception>
        public void Delete(T item)
        {
            var heapItem = this.GetHeapItem(item);
            this.heap.Delete(heapItem);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Deletes the item with the minimum key in this priority queue and returns it.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>Item with the minimum key in this priority queue.</returns>
        /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">
        /// This priority queue is empty.
        /// </exception>
        public T DeleteMin()
        {
            return this.heap.DeleteMin().Item;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the item with the minimum key in this priority queue.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>Item with the minimum key in this priority queue.</returns>
        /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">
        /// This priority queue is empty.
        /// </exception>
        public T FindMin()
        {
            return this.heap.FindMin().Item;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns an enumerator that can iterate through this priority queue.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>Enumerator that can be used to iterate through this priority queue.</returns>
        public IEnumerator<T> GetEnumerator()
        {
            return this.items.Keys.GetEnumerator();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Inserts the passed item with the specified key into this priority queue.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="item">
        /// Item to insert.
        /// </param>
        /// <param name="key">
        /// Key of the item to insert.
        /// </param>
        /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">
        /// <paramref name="item"/> has already been added to this priority queue.
        /// </exception>
        public void Insert(T item, double key)
        {
            var heapItem = this.heap.Insert(item, key);

            if (!this.items.ContainsKey(item))
            {
                this.items.Add(item, heapItem);
            }
            else
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException(
                    string.Format(
                        "This priority queue already contains the item {0}. The dictionary mapping items to priority queue items doesn't allow adding the same item more than once. Use the FibonacciHeap class for working on the Fibonacci heap items yourself.",
                        item));
            }
        }

        #endregion

        #region Explicit Interface Methods

        /// <summary>
        /// Returns an enumerator that can iterate through this priority queue.
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>Enumerator that can be used to iterate through this priority queue.</returns>
        IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
        {
            return this.GetEnumerator();
        }

        #endregion

        #region Methods

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the Fibonacci heap item the passed item is mapped to.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="item">
        /// Item to get the Fibonacci heap item of.
        /// </param>
        /// <returns>
        /// Fibonacci heap item the passed item is mapped to.
        /// </returns>
        /// <exception cref="InvalidOperationException">
        /// <paramref name="item"/> is not in this priority queue.
        /// </exception>
        private FibonacciHeapItem<T> GetHeapItem(T item)
        {
            FibonacciHeapItem<T> heapItem;

            this.items.TryGetValue(item, out heapItem);

            if (heapItem == null)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException(
                    string.Format("Unknown item: {0}. Use Insert for adding new elements to this priority queue.", item));
            }

            return heapItem;
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

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Home Cayman Farming fuels quality of life
Farming fuels quality of life
The hugely popular agriculture shows in Grand Cayman (the 47th annual event) and Cayman Brac in March, and in Little Cayman on May 3, make it clear something exciting is coming up from the ground here. And it goes beyond the range of heirloom tomatoes and sweet peppers now locally produced, and the strains of beef cattle and goats some farmers have nurtured for conditions on these islands.
What many people have come to realize is that all the fresh and healthful flavors featured at the agriculture shows not only improve the quality of life for Cayman residents, but also give visitors more to enjoy. Local food production may also help provide better protection from the financial blows that spiking import costs can inflict whenever the world's economy shifts off kilter, as in the recent recession. Imported food prices can swing dramatically, cutting into family budgets and lifting the prices at restaurant and food-store cash registers.
But why now, at a time of relative economic stability, does local food production become a hot topic of conversation in Cayman? Answers vary among government and outside agricultural experts, farmers, restaurateurs and food enthusiasts.
One explanation is changing preferences. In recent years throughout the Western world, the value of homegrown produce and meats has increased. Local food is fresher, more secure from price jumps and cheaper to get to market. And tastier, more sensible meals result when their ingredients come from one's own geographic region.
'Locovore' movement
This theme, which foodies refer to as "the locovore movement," has become a powerful force in restaurant cuisine and a big concern among people who think about the world's environment as much as they do about their own good health.
"It's true on the face of it – local foods are fresher and healthier, and they're just so much better on the palate. Plus, they also don't need huge amounts of fuel to be transported all over creation before they get on somebody's plate in Cleveland or Cayman or wherever," says American super chef Michael Symon, an author and Food Network commentator who is frequently seen on "Iron Chef."
In addition to his focus on taste, Symon is voicing an environmentalist position that more and more people in the food industry share. Today, Big Ag produces most of the food the world eats, on vast sugar plantations, endless grain fields, sprawling tomato fields, all close to railroad and shipping hubs that facilitate moving raw food from one part of the world to another.
Profit vs. taste
The main concern of Big Ag is profit for investors, not great explosions of taste in a diner's mouth. It's an agricultural system based on making money and transporting commodities from source to market. The locovore movement turns that model upside down. Food enthusiasts, small farmers, cooks, environmentalists and some economists like the local-grown idea because it's friendlier to the environment and tastes like real food, not cardboard.
Still, each faction that has a hand in growing, processing, transporting and preparing food has its own take on how "local" (say, less than 100 miles from farm to table) has become such a key word in the culinary lexicon. There are the true believers. "I'm telling you, local is just everything," says Thomas Tennant, a chef in Grand Cayman since 2010.
"I've been working like crazy in Cayman to encourage local produce and meats for restaurants, talking to farmers, asking them for more involvement in all kinds of food for our demanding diners," Tennant says. He cooked for Michael's Genuine Food and Drink in Camana Bay and, since a recent promotion, is a special operations executive with Genuine Hospitality Group, which owns that and other restaurants.
Not surprisingly, Tennant thinks it is chefs who have taken the lead in the locovore movement, both in Florida, where he now works at Genuine's headquarters, and in Cayman, which he visits one or two times a month.
"Chefs are the ones who have been going out and knocking on farmers' doors to get them to provide good, healthy food to serve on the islands. You have to be a bit of a psychologist, appeal to the local pride. Herbs, for instance, are a pride thing, Tennant says. "If you can get somebody to grow thyme just perfectly, that's a big win. Everybody uses thyme. Somebody should focus on the perfect garnish, and it would outsell all the thyme that's being imported in Cayman."
Government has helped
He and other chefs, though, acknowledge that the government has helped encourage a local agricultural industry, small in scope, but increasingly vital.
Juliana O'Connor-Connolly, Speaker of the House, embraces the advice of international agricultural economists as well as professional chefs like Tennant. She has helped establish a policy of encouraging backyard farming and more in all three islands. In advance of the Little Cayman Agricultural Show on May 3, she emphasized the value of growing produce, even on the smallest of plots.
She calls Little Cayman "an ideal place to test the sustainability of the grow-what-you-eat-and-eat-what-you-grow concept.
"I am pleased," she says, "that Little Cayman residents take the sustainability approach seriously."
The rest of Cayman seems to have taken it seriously, too.
Consider how easy it is for people not in direct contact with the agriculture to forget where lunch comes from. The beef may be from Venezuela or Argentina, pork chops might have shipped here from Brazil or from the Port of New Orleans, following a trip down the Mississippi River.
The rice might have sat in containers aboard ships that, months ago, sailed from Indonesia. There, huge corporate farms might have grown and harvested and processed the crops under who-knows-what conditions. Certainly, much of their inherent nutritional value might have been stripped off in the transition.
Tennant points out that "we may not be able to grow everything we use in Cayman, but there's a lot that we can. And we can make other choices. We like asparagus a lot, but when they're out of season here, should we pay all that extra cost to buy them from Holland? Does that make sense? Let's get what we can from here."
Tennant also notes that Cayman is not uniformly a farm-friendly environment. The land is rocky; many months are insufferably hot for many crops; the soil, not great to begin with, can be saline from all the sea water surrounding these islands. The heat is hard on farm animals, including cattle, sheep and chickens, all of which wilt under the sun.
"People have worked with the soil, built it up, grow some things hydroponically, used raised beds," Tennant says. "They do all kinds of things to make things right for their crops. They find ways to accommodate the farm animals."
Kent Rankin, a life-long farmer who lives and works the land in Bodden Town, is all for that and has been expanding his acreage for almost 30 years to supply the local agricultural market. In 2014, as in several other years, he has been awarded Farmer of the Year at the ag show.
Certainly, Rankin – "Biggie Rankin" to many — toils hard at his vocation. "I started out with pigs, cows," he says. "I ended up with goats, chickens, sheep." But he has found markets for everything he has grown, every increasing yield, year after year.
Successful farmers like Rankin are a blessing for chefs like Tennant and the many others on Grand Cayman who seek local supplies. But also, many have roadside fresh-vegetable stands available to people who drive by and have a few dollars in their pockets. Prices compare favorably with what consumers find in bigger, more urban food markets. But what customers buy is usually freshly off the vine or out of the soil.
All the ways local agriculture in Cayman satisfies people's sense of taste while also providing them with more nutritious meals is clearly important to those who dine out or take special care about what they serve at their own tables.
Other levels
But there are other levels at which the Cayman Islands benefits from growing at least a good fraction of its own food. It's wrapped up in the seemingly abstract notions of economics and international politics, but it really boils down to common sense.
Patrick Kendall, senior research economist at the Caribbean Development Bank in Barbados, has spent a lifetime studying the money game of agriculture as it plays among nation-states. He advises governments throughout the region on agricultural policy and also connects with investors. His take: It's a good thing for all states to encourage nutritional self-sufficiency, and Cayman is no exception.
In a landmark study a decade ago, he advised Caribbean states, many, like Cayman, net importers of food, to develop their own agricultural resources as much as possible, including by urging private and public investment.
He understands well that some – including Jamaica and Colombia, Guyana and Belize – are lucky enough to have abundant land fit for farming and grazing. Others, including some "some smaller islands, have tended to depend heavily on imports, using revenue from tourism to finance those imports."
A few of the bigger countries have created significant export industries through farming, with crops like bananas – but such dependence on single crops can be dangerous. Currently, diseases threaten output at some banana plantations.
Kendall urges the development of more diverse crops, even if on a backyard-garden basis, in every Caribbean state.
"What is clear is that there's increasing demand for food from rapidly growing emerging economies everywhere. That will continue to be the case, increasing the price of food over time," he said. "In addition to that, from time to time, there have been withdrawals of food from many exporting countries so they can feed their own people." That can result from crop failures, internal monetary issues, natural catastrophes and more.
"When that happens, then suddenly, food prices can spike, causing great hardship. In some parts of the world, there have been food riots, social instability. It's a very serious issue." Kendall's advice is for all states to insist upon some degree of childhood education that focuses on agriculture in some way that teaches kids how to grow their own food. "Kids should learn about agriculture as a life skill. We all should have these skills to know how to plant, even if just in the yard."
Kendall also suggests that states in a region like the Caribbean should work out the details to amass and then share food reserves, so that "when rice, grain, corn, soy beans should suffer a supply shock, you can then access these from a food bank. If you have to buy at a time of a supply shock, the prices, obviously, skyrocket, and it becomes very hard to get what you need."
In Cayman, the question might well be: What do we do if the price goes up? Way up?
Keeping local agriculture in the public's consciousness makes it easier for a population to shift to its own farming efforts if the need arises.
From another perspective, developing and then supporting local agriculture in a place like Cayman can just be a way to get stunning meals.
"If you can get fresh eggs – much, much better than those in the refrigerated bin at the supermarket." Says Chef Tennant, "that's a real bonus." Same with breadfruit and tomatoes.
"I mean, in the past, the traditional Caymanian meals drew from backyard vegetable gardens, seafood, chickens from the pen. This place has a wonderful cuisine." He ruminates on the meals he can prepare in the Cayman tradition: fresh conch during the season, a Cayman entree supreme. Fried snapper with pickled vegetables, wahoo escabeche.
As the locovore chef dreams on of splendid ingredients, all within short reach, he hopes this compelling trend continues in the Cayman Islands.
Chef Michael Symon
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Film & Cigar Review – Cult Of Chucky & Tatuaje Skinny Tiff
In case you are uninformed, "looney" and "nuthouse" and "cuckoo" are all normally accepted medical terms. I think. It would probably be best to verify that for yourselves before using them in a scientific context...
by The Doctor October 27, 2017
"You may feel a little prick." I'll always laugh at a tagline like that; frankly, I don't want to know anyone who doesn't think that is funny.
It's that time of year, friends of the Tuesday Night Cigar Club! All Hallows Eve is upon us once again. Time for TNCC chairman Matthew Cade to smoke his Tatuaje Monster cigar and for The Doctor to take the simultaneous plunge back into familiar waters. We reviewed Child's Play 2 for cigar and nostalgia purposes some time ago, but now it is time for more recent fare, the just released 7th iteration in the Child's Play series, the highly entertaining Cult of Chucky (the unrated version is now available for rental, the R-rated cut is streaming on Netflix). So grab your hacksaw in case you run afoul of murderous dolls and grab your hip flask of Woodford Reserve in case you run afoul of anything else. Let's go to the movies!
THE FILM – CULT OF CHUCKY (2017)
The previous Curse of Chucky teased the fans with an appearance by Alex Vincent reprising his role as Andy Barclay, and here he is again, all grown up and well into his thirties. Andy is on a dinner date with a lovely redhead, but this romance is short-lived, if it ever got off of the ground to begin with. Andy's date has Googled him (that snooping bitch!) and this is obviously unfortunate for Andy, as well as any designs he may have had about getting laid. Imagine having to explain that one on your third internet date? "What happened was, when I was a child, a nefarious, demon worshipping serial killer managed to transfer his homicidal mind and spirit into a Good Guys doll named Chucky using some sort of Satanic voodoo. He then proceeded to murder everyone I knew over the course of a few years. As the doll. How's your tiramisu?"
The date thusly over, Andy returns to his home, a secluded hunting lodge with floor-to-ceiling gun cabinets, a fridge filled with beer and a wall safe where he stores Chucky's decapitated (and still talking) head. Andy likes to take Chucky's head out and commiserate with him while splitting a joint and then torturing him with an acetylene torch. My medical opinion is that Andy has issues.
Alex Vincent as the adult Andy Barclay in Cult of Chucky. He has what we refer to in the medical field as extreme fucking baggage.
We are then treated to a really well done opening montage – The Doctor loves a good opening montage – leading us to the institutionalized Nica Pierce, played by Fiona Dourif (of course, as every fan of the Chucky movies is well aware, Fiona is the lovely daughter of actor Brad Dourif who is the voice of Chucky himself). Nica had originally claimed to anyone who would listen that the five people she had been accused of murdering were in fact done in by Chucky, but this doesn't work any better for her than it did for Andy's dating life. Nica has made progress in her "treatment" and is moved at the request of her doctor to a medium-level security nuthouse known as Harrogate. Now, behavioral medicine isn't my field of expertise – come to think of it, I am not sure what my level of expertise is anymore – but Nica's doctor can only be described as terrible. Harrogate itself looks like a replica of a building in Chernobyl, although the inside is slightly better and Nica seems somewhat sane when compared to the other looneys sharing the bin. In case you are uninformed, "looney" and "nuthouse" and "cuckoo" are all normally accepted medical terms. I think. It would probably be best to verify that for yourselves before using them in a scientific context. Nica's notorious past is well known by the staff as well as the other batty burghers of the ward, and not all of them are happy at her arrival.
Jennifer Tilly soon returns as Tiffany. She isn't around for long, but even a small supporting appearance from Jennifer is a welcome addition by The Doctor, for in my professional opinion she is still as lovely as ever with her gravelly voice, her sexy eyes, and her fabulous Decolletage. She delivers bad news about the fate of Nica's niece and she also delivers a new Chucky doll. Dr. Foley decides that this will be useful in therapy! Didn't I say he was a piss-poor doctor? Harrogate as a whole is really…just…awful when it comes to their ideas about how to treat the patients. As a film device, I found this to be endlessly amusing. In real life, I could probably be appointed administrator of Harrogate within six weeks, once again causing me to wax philosophical on why real life can't be more like the movies. I'd know just what to do with Chucky if the little pain-in-the-ass showed up at my place…
Jennifer Tilly, always a welcome addition and ravishing as ever.
Speaking of Chucky, apparently his alter ego Charles Lee Ray had learned how to possess multiple persons or objects at a time. Soon there is more than one Chucky running amok in Harrogate as part of therapy, and this is what all of the diehard fans know and love about these movies: the charm of Chucky, voiced as he only could have been by the inimitable Dourif, cursing, running around with a scalpel, and giving people the middle finger. In other words, basically the same activities that The Doctor engages in on a daily basis. I've always wanted to spend time myself in a nuthouse. There is something about rubber walls, twelve hours of sleep, and regular administrations of thorazine that I find appealing. Shit, I'll probably be there soon enough, tending to my own little turnip patch.
Honestly, who doesn't get a kick out of this little shit? It may only be his voice, but Brad Dourif has made Chucky his own.
Cult of Chucky is really well shot, with the director of photography employing a great use of color in stark extremes, from the bleakness of the fallen snow to shards of falling glass to the ever-present redness of blood and viscera. And boy is there plenty of that! The requisite splatter is delivered in spades in the unrated version available for rent on Amazon (that is not a pun, Chucky doesn't use a spade to kill anyone; at least not that I remember. I was, of course, drinking tall cans of malt liquor during my viewing). My advice is to cough up the extra buck to rent the unrated version, but then that probably comes as the very definition of a no-brainer to anyone interested in horror movies.
Excellent performances are all around in Cult of Chucky, from each one of the drawn-out residents of Harrogate to the urbane yet lascivious Dr. Foley, played with charm and creepiness by Michael Therriault. Alex Vincent is entertaining in his scenes as the adult Andy, but the real star here is Fiona Dourif as Nica. She is nothing short of fantastic, alternating between states of being damaged, hopeful, defeated, and potentially dangerous herself. I assume, as most people would, that her father definitely helped his daughter get her foot in the door career-wise, but Fiona has to perform on her own and she delivers an A+ here. Everyone needs help getting their feet into the collective doors. Why, I myself wouldn't be where I am today if a kindly night watchman hadn't left a cemetery gate unlocked so that I could go graverobbing with my faithful assistant, Igor… wait, that isn't part of my life, that's a scene from Frankenstein!
Cult of Chucky gets two thumbs up from The Doctor. I'm sure fans of the series have already seen it or have it on their radar, and I don't think you will be disappointed. Excellently acted, aesthetically pleasing and… well, its Chucky! Who doesn't love that little foul mouthed, homicidal son of a bitch? Rent Cult of Chucky, it's a nice appetizer for everything else in store during the festival of Samhain. As always, The Doctor wishes you all a clean bill of health.
THE CIGAR – TATUAJE SKINNY TIFF
reviewed by CADE
Photo courtesy of Tuesday Night Cigar Club's Instagram page.
Size: 6×38 (lancero)
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut
Price: $8.20 ($81.99 for a Skinny Monster sampler of 10 at Famous Smoke Shop)
The extremely veiny Connecticut wrapper exudes a strong barnyard aroma while there is a hint of sweetness when sniffing the foot. I got a faint but intriguing sense of orange peel on the cold draw.
First impressions are those of dry cedar and mineral. The draw is perfect and smoke production is surprisingly ample considering the ring gauge and the dryness of the wrapper leaf. Was the "Tiff" character in the Child's Play movies a dry character? Did she have a dry sense of humor? I'm ashamed to say that I never got that far in the series, I believe I stopped at Child's Play 3 which did not yet feature the voluptuous beauty that is Jennifer Tilly. Have you ever seen the remake of The Getaway? If not you're missing out homie…
Jennifer Tilly in the 1994 version of "The Getaway". You're welcome.
What were we talking about? Oh yeah, the cigar! The generic woodsiness and earthy mineral flavors rule the roost for the majority of the first third of the smoking experience.
In the second third this mild cigar begins to develop a subtle coffee note accompanied by a nice creaminess. The cedar is still there; however, the mineral is gone. Will the earthy mineral component return? Have you run off to rent The Getaway yet? So many questions, and I have no answers at this point…
The ash drops midway through the second third but overall construction has been nice (I especially took notice of the straight burn line). That creamy coffee profile is the main focus now but it is leaving a bitterness on the back end that I hope doesn't hang around much longer.
I'm going to attribute the bitterness to the cheap red wine I'm drinking. In the final third, we've got a resurgence of the woodsy note and the retrohale is now ALL OF A FUCKING SUDDEN delivering enough spice to make you wake up and take notice. Well hello, Tiff! There's still a coffee note present but the creaminess is long gone. This Monster is making a strong final impression for sure.
As I haven't seen the actual "Tiff" onscreen, I'm just going to call a very obscure audible here and associate this cigar instead with former Saved By The Bell actress Tiffany Amber Thieson's performance as Valerie in the later seasons of my beloved Beverly Hills 90210. Don't judge me asshole, it was and still is a phenomenal show. Well sultry Valerie was spicy, surprisingly strong, and ~ honestly ~ quite a sexual MONSTER at times!
Oh no, Tiff forgot to button the top button of her jeans! Oh wait a minute, she didn't forget at all…yowzers!
Pete Johnson, if you're listening, if you ever decide to make a bunch of Beverly Hills 90210 themed Tatuaje cigars it would behoove you to bring this highly regarded internet cigar/90210 expert in on that blending process. I already have something in mind for The McKay…
I thought this stogie was going to be boring and it surprised me. The final third jumped up a level in strength and spice while keeping some of the original flavors and I ended up enjoying it quite a bit. Whether that ties in to the fictional character of Tiff I don't know but any time a cigar proves to not be boring after earlier opinions would have pegged it as such – I'm appreciative.
I nubbed this Skinny Tiff and I'm now going to head back inside to watch Curse Of Chucky based on The Doctor's review. That's why we do this, folks, it's all a fun playful journey in this world of smokes and film. Now check out these two subjects and let us know what you think!!!
Happy Halloween everybody!
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Episode 59 – The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) / Undercrown Sun Grown cigar / Bloodwork Orange IPA
by CADE - Oct 24, 2017
Episode 60 – Halloween 4 & 5 / Don Pepin Garcia Original Blue Label cigar / Enjoy By 10.31.17 IPA
The Doctor attended The Poughkeepsie Institute of Technical Science or, as it is colloquially referred to, The Pits. His thesis paper "It's Far to Early to Tell" has been used in classrooms as an example of how NOT to formulate a medical science theory. The Doctor was previously employed in Mallorca, Spain as a master of ceremonies and first aid provider at local wine tastings before joining the Tuesday Night Cigar Club.


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The Morning Fix: Box-office trading gets closer to reality. Michigan says no to cannibalism. Rupert Murdoch goes after BSkyB
After the coffee. Before buying a vuvuzela to annoy my neighbors.
Box-office betting. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted to approve a vehicle that will clear the way for professional traders to bet on movie ticket sales. The movie industry's D.C. lobbying arm, the Motion Picture Assn. of America, has fought hard to stop this in its tracks, fearing that trading on box office could be manipulated and hurt the industry. Veriana, the company that got the approval, now has to stop legislation that would ban box-office futures trading. Veriana Chief Executive Rob Swagger blasted the MPAA and the legislation and promised to start lobbying Capitol Hill this week. The first movie traders could bet on is Sony's "Takers." That one stars Matt Dillon, and as much as I like him, it's been a while since he had the lead in a hit. His co-star, Zoe Saldana, is the flavor of the month right now, so maybe that will give the movie a little lift, but it still sounds risky to me. More on the decision and reaction from the Los Angeles Times and Variety.
Rupert wants control of BSkyB. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has made a bid to buy a controlling stake in British Sky Broadcasting, a satellite pay TV service. News Corp. already owns 39% of BSkyB and has offered $11.5 billion for the rest. BSkyB officials are willing to talk to Murdoch about a deal, but they want a higher price. More from Bloomberg and the Telegraph.
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Q: Can we dispense with the Manifold in General Relativity? I am studying Quantum Gravity  by Rovelli. In chapter 2, the author describes the path that Einstein followed to arrive to General Relativity (GR). At the end of the discussion of the hole argument, Rovelli (and I think also Einstein) arrives to the conclusion that (page 68-69):

There is no meaning in talking about the physical spacetime point

so that the manifold is in fact just gauge, a mathematical construct without physical meaning and that we have to describe physics as a theory of fields on fields, not fields on spacetime.
This has me confused: as I understand it, in GR the gravitational field is given by the curvature of the spacetime and therefore of the manifold, so it should have a physical meaning after all; I do not understand how the curvature have physical meaning while the underling manifold doesn't.
How can we dispense with the manifold if its curvature is the gravitational field?

A: One answer to your question may be found in this paper:
Robert Geroch. "Einstein algebras." Comm. Math. Phys. 26 (4) 271 - 275, 1972.
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01645521

See also
https://projecteuclid.org/journals/communications-in-mathematical-physics/volume-26/issue-4/Einstein-algebras/cmp/1103858122.full
Some excerpts are quoted below. Refer to the full article for details.

Abstract
An approach to quantization of general relatively using a reformulation of the classical theory in which the events of space-time play essentially no role is discussed.

In Section 2, we write down a set of definitions of tensor fields, the
metric, the Ricci tensor, etc., on a smooth manifold $M$. We then observe,
in Section 3, that the original manifold $M$ is used in these definitions at
just one minor point. This observation is made more explicit by the
introduction of what we call an Einstein algebra.

Section 3: Einsteins Algebras

In the previous section, we stated a sequence of definitions, leading
from a smooth manifold $M$ to a metric on $M$ and finally to all the tensor
operations on $M$. We now make the following observation: the manifold
$M$ entered the discussion of Section 2 at only one point: in the construction
of the ring $\scr I$ of smooth functions on $M$ and the subring $\scr R$ of the constant
functions. All constructions and definitions thereafter were purely
algebraic ones on $\scr (I, R)$.

We are thus led to the following definition. An Einstein algebra
consists of i) a commutative ring $\scr I$,
ii) a subring $\scr R$ of $\scr I$, isomorphic
with the real numbers (and such that the identity $1$ of $\scr R$ is the identity
of $\scr I$ and iii) a metric $g$, such that the contraction property is satisfied
and the Ricci tensor vanishes.
More generally, one could introduce
Einstein algebras with sources (e.g., electromagnetic fields, fluids, etc.)
by introducing smooth tensor fields to represent the sources, and suitably
modifying Einstein's equation. Thus, an Einstein algebra is a purely
algebraic object, making no direct reference to a manifold. Of course,
every space-time which is a solution of Einstein's equation defines an
Einstein algebra. One could just as well take, as the underlying mathematical
framework of general relativity, an Einstein algebra rather
than the usual smooth manifold with smooth metric tensor field.

(I bolded the key idea above. Refer to the full article for details.)
A google search for "Einstein Algebras" (in quotes) will point
to other articles that try to address the Hole Argument, which I have no comments about.

A:
At the end of the discussion of the hole argument, Rovelli (and I think also Einstein) arrives to the conclusion that (page 68-69): "There is no meaning in talking about the physical spacetime point"

As a matter of history, I don't think that this was Einstein's interpretation. This was the time period when he was stumbling around with the dead-end Entwurf theory. Einstein was at this point working with ideas that didn't include general covariance.
I don't own the Rovelli book, but I would imagine he's saying something like the following. Points in spacetime don't have specific labels. The identity of such a point is not an observable. In classical terms, only if there is an event at that point, e.g., the collision of two world-lines of particles, can we identify the event.

This has me confused: as I understand it, in GR the gravitational field is given by the curvature of the spacetime and therefore of the manifold, so it should have a physical meaning after all; I do not understand how the curvature have physical meaning while the underling manifold doesn't.

For comparison, consider a wavefunction in the Schrodinger picture. The wavefunction has some phase, which is not a physical observable. We find it convenient to work with the wavefunction and its phase, but we should not be misled into thinking that absolute phases are observables in quantum mechanics.

A:
How can we dispense with the manifold if its curvature is the
  gravitational field?

Your question is pertinent, and quantum gravity must provide an answer to it. Here are some hints for helping you to make up your mind, but quantum gravity is still an open issue.
1.According to today's knowledge and in spite of all attempts, curved spacetime is not quantizable, and thus it is not compatible with quantum mechanics. Spacetime and curved spacetime are mathematical models which have been introduced for the description of the principles of special and general relativity, introduced respectively by Minkowski in 1908 (Minkowski spacetime) and by Einstein and Grossmann some years later (curved spacetime). These models are very useful for the description of special and general relativity, but they are not compatible with quantum mechanics. In this answer I showed that there is a way to express gravity not only as curved spacetime but alternatively also as gravitational time dilation in flat, uncurved R3 space.
2.A second, alternative possibility would be to consider only the curved worldlines of the spacetime manifold, at the exclusion of the vacuum between these worldlines. Vacuum is not defined by theory of gravity of general relativity, vacuum is defined by quantum physics and possibly by cosmology (in the form of dark energy). Already Einstein saw this possibility of the lack of continuity of spacetime, but he did not believe in its feasibility, in a letter to Dällenbach he wrote:

"But you have correctly grasped the drawback that the continuum
  brings. If the molecular view of matter is the correct (appropriate)
  one, i.e., if a part of the universe is to be represented by a finite
  number of moving points, then the continuum of the present theory
  contains too great a manifold of possibilities. I also believe that
  this too great is responsible for the fact that our present means of
  description miscarry with the quantum theory. The problem seems to me
  how one can formulate statements about a discontinuum without calling
  upon a continuum (space-time) as an aid; the latter should be banned
  from the theory as a supplementary construction not justified by the
  essence of the problem, which corresponds to nothing "real". But we
  still lack the mathematical structure unfortunately. How much have I
  already plagued myself in this way!"

For the purpose of quantum gravity it is important to notice that for fundamental questions we should refer to the fundamental notion of proper time instead of the observer-dependent notion of coordinate time, that means, if we consider worldlines, at my opinion it does not make much sense to consider the parametrization by coordinate time, instead they should be parameterized by proper time. One consequence would be that all lightlike phenomena such as electromagnetic or gravity fields are reduced to zero.

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