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Markets Stock Markets
By Gordon Scott
What is Euronext?
Euronext is the largest stock exchange in Europe and sixth largest in the world. It was originally created by the mergers of the Amsterdam, Paris, and Brussels stock exchanges. Over the years, it merged with several other exchanges, most notably the New York Stock Exchange, before being acquired itself by the Intercontinental Exchange. In 2014, Euronext was spun off to become an independent entity once again.
Euronext is a stock exchange operator company
It operates the largest stock exchange in Europe, a combination of three former exchanges from France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
The company was once acquired by Intercontinental Exchange, but now has returned to operating independently.
Understanding Euronext
Euronext formed in 2000 with the merger of three European exchanges. It later acquired the Portuguese stock exchange and the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE), expanding its offerings to include equities, exchange traded funds, warrants and certificates, bonds, derivatives, commodities and indices. It maintains headquarters in Amsterdam with major offices in Brussels, London, Lisbon, Dublin, and Paris. As of 2017, Euronext listed 1,300 issuers representing a €3 trillion (euros) in market capitalization.
Euronext itself trades in Amsterdam with the symbol ENX.
Some of its more notable benchmark indices include:
AEX in Amsterdam
BEL 20 in Brussels
CAC 40 in Paris
PSI 20 in Lisbon
Euronext 100—a pan-European blue-chip index
Timeline History of Euronext
2000: Euronext NV formed by merging the stock exchanges of Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam.
2002: Euronext buys LIFFE and the Portuguese stock exchange.
2005: Alternext created.
2007: Euronext merges with New York Stock Exchange to create NYSE Euronext.
2010: Euronext London created.
2013: Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) buys NYSE Euronext.
2014: Euronext re-emerges from ICE via initial public offering. (ICE retained ownership of the New York Stock Exchange and LIFFE.)
Alternext and Enternext
Regulated solely by Euronext, the Alternext is an equity trading market, opened in 2005, that offers streamlined listing requirements and trading rules to better meet the needs of small and mid-sized firms while ensuring investor transparency.
EnterNext is the Euronext subsidiary, created in 2013, dedicated to financing and promoting small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) in the financial markets. It comprises the 750 listed companies on Euronext markets in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal.
Merger Madness
In 2006, the Nasdaq made an attempt to acquire the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Noting the race to scale, the NYSE Group decided to go after Euronext. The Nasdaq-LSE merger did not progress.
However, the Deutsche Börse in Germany tried unsuccessfully to outbid the NYSE Group. The German group tried on two occasions to merge with the new NYSE Euronext but lost out to Intercontinental Exchange.
In 2017, the European Union's antitrust watchdog formally blocked the planned $28 billion merger between Deutsche Börse and London Stock Exchange Group after the parties failed to offer sufficient remedies to assuage antitrust concerns.
Paris Stock Exchange
The Paris Stock Exchange (PAR) trades both equities and derivatives and posts the Consumer Advisory Council or CAC 40 Index.
Founded in the 1600s, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange is the world's oldest
Founded in the 1600s with the Dutch East India Co. the Amsterdam Stock Exchange is considered the oldest in the world. It merged to form Euronext Amsterdam in 2000.
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
The New York Stock Exchange, located in New York City, is considered the world's largest equities-based exchange in terms of total market capitalization.
London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE)
The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE) is a futures and options exchange in London, England.
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
The Intercontinental Exchange is a market-based in Atlanta, Georgia that facilitates the electronic exchange of energy commodities.
Euronext Dublin
Euronext Dublin was formed in March 2018 when the Irish Stock Exchange merged with Euronext.
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There is a balance between adult-led, and child-initiated learning. We introduce the 'Letters and Sounds' phonics scheme. Children use the outdoor learning environment throughout the year.
In Key Stages 1 and 2, children experience a broad, balanced and exciting curriculum covering the core subjects (literacy and mathematics) as well as foundation subjects (Science, ICT, RE, History, Geography, Art, DT, Music, PSHCE, MFL ( in KS2).
Children receive daily lessons in literacy and mathematics. In Key Stage 1 we continue with the 'Letters and Sounds' phonics scheme and use a variety of reading schemes. Some subjects are taught through interesting topics, which cover more than one subject area. Children's learning experiences include visitors, and educational visits.
The school provides a range of extra-curricular clubs and activities, including: football, netball, choir and lessons in the guitar and ukulele.
Homework is set regularly throughout the school.
Please see below, links for our Long Term Curriculum Overview and our Reading for Pleasure Statements.


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I periodically sift through my Twitter feed and pick out things I want to save, rather than let them fall down the memory hole. Feel free to "RT @adzebill" anything here.
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Anyone who doesn't think Hollywood is developing an edgy live-action My Little Pony movie has not been paying attention. H. G. Wells's epitaph was "I told you so, you damned fools!". His Outline of History persuaded Costa Rica to abolish its military. Workers building the Homer Tunnel in the 1950s were fed kea soup by their Bulgarian cook, a local codger tells the Little River Informer. A Mormon at the door. I thought they only came in pairs, so was waiting for another to appear in my peripheral vision like a velociraptor. In my experience, two hundred 13-year-old boys would make short work of a zombie apocalypse provided they had enough cricket bats. When someone says "90 per cent of the time", it's a guess, not a statistic (90 per cent of the time). If someone called Perrin Rowland were to meet someone called Rowland Perrin (both exist), would they stick together or explode? To artificially inseminate queens, apiarists often need to extract semen from bees. It's as easy as "Hey, bee: semen!" Thank you, you're wonderful, I'm here all week. The shampoo is designed to stand upright, and the conditioner on its head, but this obviously isn't enough and I need a mnemonic. "Our upright stance is a SHAM; topsy-turvy is the human CONDITION." #haircaremnemonic The Hobbit credits are so long they have a three-act story arc. There's a "making-of the credits" featurette in the DVD release. In fact the Hobbit credits have their own credits. Be sure to stay to the end of the credits credits for a surprise! [SPOILER: You get to go home.] @adzebill
This entry was posted in Tweetdumps on 24 Oct 2015 by Mike.
As a kid I thought the aristocracy were battle rankings: a Duke beats an Earl, unless the Earl's on his home ground or has special powers. If a Viscount beats enough Knights he levels up, and evolves into a Count. Like Pokémon. Tangerines, tangelos, mandarins, tambourines, clementines, satsumas. One of these isn't even fruit. What a mess. NZ Home magazine seems convinced all new houses should be grey shoeboxes with sliding glass walls. Like Baby's First SketchUp. Can a novelist still write about jigsaws, or are jigsaws now symbolic, incurring an automatic Metaphor Penalty? There are 10 types of people in the world: those who have heard that binary joke 1 to 9 times and… scratch that, 9 types of people. Poor Taylor Kitsch: going from lead in John Carter to lead in Battleship is like getting an awful haircut which then catches on fire. Labelling something a First World Problem, then feeling guilty and taking it back. #firstworldproblems A "soul patch" is just a toothbrush moustache grown on the other lip. Nobody would have one if they were called "underhitlers". NZ syndrome (n): "Gold! Woo! We rule! Give 'em a taste of Kiwi! And now adjust all the rankings for population because we're so little." I think of the Olympics as a video game: events are levels, the medals achievements, there's no boss fight, and somebody else is playing. "Synergy" is when a combination of items is much greater or more terrible than the sum of its parts, as in the phrase "classic Dutch rock". @adzebill
If The Bourne Legacy had breathed new life into the franchise the two-word review would be Bourne Vita. "Have-you-read?" lists let you count books read when your brain was pink and ill-formed; ones you've forgotten; ones you never understood. Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth ends with Lily Bart spending her last $20 on a derringer and gunning down everyone who did her wrong. That's from Funhouse, the Quentin Tarantino script Tony Scott was supposed to film. It concludes with a shootout on the deck of the Titanic. I'm trying the Paleocene Diet: it's based on ancestral adaptive nutritional needs. Every meal is fruit or insects and I only eat at night. Plain burlesque is getting tired. I predict hot new trends: burlesque on stilts, canine burlesque, and, inevitably, canine stilt burlesque. Snobby Evelyn Waugh would pretend to think Julian Huxley (then head of UNESCO) was still at London Zoo and ask, "How are the giraffes?" Arthur Evelyn St John Waugh was his full name. Cannot understand why he went by Evelyn Waugh. He could have been St Waugh. Coffee smells great and tastes nasty; it's the anti-durian. In fact if you mix coffee and durian they are annihilated in a huge explosion. "You can't go past Meryl Streep", opines the person behind me. But she's a master of disguise! You probably have, unbeknownst! Oscar Wilde really needs to work on his aphorisms. Some of them are longer than 140 characters. My old high school is merging with its hated arch-rival. The resulting bloodshed should solve any overcrowding problems. Chatham Island time is 45 minutes ahead of mainland New Zealand. There's just one other time zone with a 45-minute offset: Nepal. The ancient Greeks imported their papyrus from Byblos; hence bibliography, bibliotheque, and Bible. Now that's successful branding. The great tonsure debate was resolved, in favour of the Anglo-Saxons, by the Synod of Whitby in 664. Anglo-saxon monks shaved the crowns of their heads, whereas Irish monks shaved all the front half. Like the world's most extreme mullet. Nostradamus successfully predicted the date and place of his own death! Less impressively, it was: "Tomorrow, right here in my sickbed." Wilfrid Blunt, in the preface to his history of italic handwriting, includes a shoutout to his homies Sir Sydney Cockerell and the Marquess of Cholmondeley. (While Blunt was writing Sweet Roman Hand, his younger brother Anthony was busy upstaging him by spying for the Russians.) @adzebill
This entry was posted in Tweetdumps on 13 May 2014 by Mike.
Jack Black and Jack White should get their own musical sitcom variety hour. Called (naturally) the Black and White Minstrel Show. A seven-year-old once explained to me that baby teeth are your drafts, but adult teeth are published. Robbie the Robot did not say "Danger, danger, Will Smith!" (Oops.) But if he did, wouldn't that have improved Lost in Space? And I, Robot? Not many people know that if you peer through the transparent window on a New Zealand $20 bill, you can see a person's iwi affiliation. Is there a Māori word for the pained-yet-serious facial expression Pākehā get when listening to a long mihi they don't understand? A Te Reo speaker suggested "pukehakana": a combination of puke, pakeha and pukana. Dalmatian (n): dog or person. Dalmation (n): the act of putting spots on everything (or, vulgarly, spotifying). I can hardly wait for all the superhero movies to be rebooted yet again as steampunk. Realised at the breakfast table that I assumed the Queen reads The Times, because Great Uncle Bulgaria did in The Wombles. "We now have only seven sheep for each one of us." WELL WHERE ARE MINE, @nzherald? I WANT MY SHEEP! Advice to new Aucklanders: If you need to cross Dominion Road in rush hour, improve efficiency by doing it near the funeral home. Apparently all the muppets can be divided into Chaos Muppets and Order Muppets e.g.: Ernie/Bert. Everybody is stumped by Big Bird though. I put it that Big Bird has transcended the artificial dichotomy of chaos/order and achieved enlightenment. He is a Zen Muppet. Big Bird's constant questions are actually koans. He's trying to enlighten the other muppets. I'm glad Katie Holmes "feels comfortable in her own skin". The alternative is too horrific to contemplate. @adzebill
This entry was posted in Tweetdumps on 27 Jan 2013 by Mike.
The wolf spider Lycosa tarantula is named after Taranto, Italy, and so, indirectly, are both the tarantella and those giant New World spiders. As a kid, this always bothered me: "There are no tarantulas in Europe!" Finally, it's sorted. Yes, I was an odd child. Rhythmic construction drill outside sounds just like the dramatic BRWAANG BRWAANG chords in Inception. How do I wake up? Knitting jargon: SABLE (Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy) means owning more yarn than you could knit in your life. Unless my book-buying habits change radically, I may have reached BABLE. If the Anglicans had only figured out a way to play rugby in the Cathedral it would have been rebuilt by now. I am now an Aucklander. Yet I still distinctly remember the rest of New Zealand. Must take a while to kick in. I would be much more likely to watch Game Of Thrones if they reshot it with a cast of guinea pigs. Hope you've all taken your anti-nausea pills, because Prezi is in da house! The nose on that kid's SpongeBob backpack is so three-dimensional it would have scandalised the Victorians. The further into the gallery show we go, the less crowded it gets. As if the visitors were being quietly eaten by the art. If called up on stage by a mime and invited to have a lightsaber duel with retractable tape measures I think I would acquit myself well. Pointy shoes; stripy trousers; flowery shirt, cuff links, untucked; sunnies on spiky gelled head. Kiwi manhood on parade. What shocked Flaubert about De Sade was that, in all of Justine, "there isn't a single tree, or a single animal." @adzebill
Did you ever wish writing were more like programming a computer? If so, LaTeX could be the word processor for you! In an almost empty theatre, the oldies are all going to their allocated seats in the back rows. Perhaps the projector's in focus from back there. P.T. Barnum had signs in his museum saying "This Way to the Egress!" Those looking for it ended up outside, and had to pay admission again. Ironic trucker caps are beating woolly beanies in the the First-Year Headgear Playoff at UC today. I'm not sure why Roman Catholics have outcompeted Italic Catholics; they're neither emphatic nor bold. A tuatara doesn't realise it's supposedly got a third eye. It just wonders why people keep staring at the top of its head. First they came for Dr Seuss, but I was not a huge fan, so said nothing. Then they came for the Smurfs, but the theme tune was annoying so I did not speak up. When they come for the Wombles, will anybody still care? While I wouldn't wish a terrible sex scandal on anyone, Jamie Oliver would be much improved by a few years in the wilderness. Thomas Jefferson was fluent in 6 languages; Martin Van Buren was the only president with English as a second language. Madison was the only president fluent in Hebrew, Hoover the only one who could speak Mandarin. Newly-freed slaves wore a conical hat, or pileus, as, apparently, do graduating PhDs at the University of Sussex. Must be a tough programme. No matter how tempting, throwing "just one" chip to the gulls is always, always a mistake. "The policeman's job should be hard. He's there to protect the free citizen, not to chase criminals, that's an incidental part of his job. The free citizen is always more of a nuisance to the policeman that the criminal. He knows what to do about the criminal." —Orson Welles @adzebill
This entry was posted in Tweetdumps on 4 Dec 2012 by Mike.
If Cameron Crowe ever directed a concert film starring Sheryl Crow, Counting Crows, and the Black Crowes, it would be murder. A lesser man would doubt his self-image when his entire extended family decided he would make a perfect Santa. "Tweet about doorknobs," said the amateur Social Media Douchebag overheard in cafe. "Also, have an angry profile picture." This soap dispenser sprays pink snot onto my palm with a sneezing noise. I bet the designer thinks it's just SO witty. Lonely Planet: "Christchurch is one of NZ's most exciting cities." Presume the word "five" was left out for space reasons. If guilty feet really have got no rhythm, mass prison "Thriller" dances would identify the wrongly-convicted. In Blue Valentine, Ryan Gosling woos with beard and ukulele, divorces with hipster moustache and melodica. SYMBOLISM. This edgy Gosling film thus heralds the coming melodica craze; will be seen as a pivotal moment by future melodica historians. Airports, airports / I love airports / They're my favourite place in the world [100% original lyric never before uttered by human tongue] From its Wikipedia summary, the plot of Happy Feet 2 is nearly as complex as Hamlet, and longer than both Othello and Macbeth. Not wanting to rain on the Chch love parade, but one of our remaining tourist attractions is an old fridge full of used books. "What's the holdup?" Botanist: "Please, sir, I have to write all my descriptions in Latin!" (Looks enviously at the entomologist, who is nearly done.) Journal publishers are just the caricatured pig-in-a-top-hat-and-spats hate figures of the academy, aren't they? "Nobody understands how HARD it is to sell people's research back to them!" you can almost hear them wail, from inside their money bins. @adzebill
This entry was posted in Tweetdumps on 12 Nov 2012 by Mike.
Ah, that little frisson of horror and shame when you accidentally type your password in the wrong field and can READ IT. Our HR software lets me request annual leave or sick leave in the years 1900 through 2100. Handy for the working time traveller. To get their license, every used-book store in NZ must stock at least one (1) copy of Muldoon's Rise & Fall of a Young Turk. Thai restaurant playing salsa remix of Coldplay's Clocks. Numerous people in this process could have come to their senses. Quite like Franz Ferdinand cumbia cover in Español though. As kids in St Louis, William Burroughs's mum and T S Eliot used to walk to dance classes past Prufrock's Furniture Store. "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising." —Cyril Connolly "Of course, you realise, Connolly, that whoever wins the war, we shall emerge a second-rate nation." —Orwell (Eric Blair), aged 11 Halloween costume I'd like to see: 6 five-year-olds dressed as jawas, one with a taser. Trick or treat! Historic Moments in Knitting 1: Lord Raglan orders the Earl of Cardigan's Light Brigade charge in the Battle of Balaclava. Voting is essentially ineffectual thus irrational, so why not vote for irrational reasons? Me, I like the orange felt pens. I always wanted to read a time-travel story starring a elderly couple named Rex and Gloria Mundy. Thomas Friedman is a case study of how far you can go with a moustache and unshakeable self-confidence. The disco scenes in Scarface are so badly choreographed, they almost look real. Reading Schaller's field observations of pandas: each day they eat for 14 hours, and poo 20 kg of semi-digested bamboo. That's a the weight of a six-year-old. Helpful if you're an artist who wants to sculpt an entire primary-school class in panda poo. @adzebill
Best pregnancy-t-shirt ever: "We're hoping for a pony." The time management book Eat That Frog was shelved in the Cookery section. I am now completely sick of "Keep Calm and Carry On" and its even naffer offspring. "Kia Kaha Forever Strong". We need real #eqnz posters. Like "Keep Shoes by Your Bed". "Keep Cash as ATMs Fail." The Kaikoura public toilets proudly display photos of people tagging them. Because there are cameras pointing into every urinal and stall. I wrote "Refill the soap dispenser please" in my notebook and held it up to the camera. Anyone cheering for the end of the "ukulele craze" is merely hastening the impending "melodica revival". Hipster moustaches and melodica orchestras: another nightmarish vision of the future from your humble sibyl. Why are there so many musicals about Hitler when Mussolini is easier to rhyme? Plus, y'know, the opera thing. Ideal title: "Duke". This needs to happen. Mussolini / meany / beanie / genie. The songs write themselves. It ends with "O My Esso", a tear-jerker sung by the gently-swinging hero, before "Ultimo Atto" brings the house down. (Guess who gave the eulogy at Pucchini's funeral, by the way? Yep.) Great to see $2.5 million of #eqnz relief money letting the Court Theatre grapple with our shared earthquake trauma by staging a Roger Hall play about folk dancing. Sometimes it seems the main thing wrong with the world is there's no band named after Dog Vomit Slime Mould. Its Linnaean name, Mucor septicus, would be a good album title. Unfortunately, platypus custard isn't kosher: "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk" (Exodus 23:19). If birds only had opposable thumbs like us, they'd be able to make tools and build complex structures! Oh wait. Today's punctuation: the obelus (†), used in my field to indicate which birds in a list are extinct. Someone outside having a big sweary yell at the world in general. Good to see that vibrant urban culture returning to the central city. Contrary to popular belief, George Washington did not have a set of wooden teeth. They were hippopotamus ivory. I learnt Jabberwocky by heart as a child, but didn't realise that Carroll invented the words chortle and burble. CERA: Your building's demolished. Wait, no it's not. HIM: Yes it is. CERA: No it's not. HIM: I have photos. CERA: [puts on hold for 2 hours] The Macarena is playing beside the bouncy dome at Miranda Hot Pools. "Number 83: two cheeseburgers", bleats the PA. @adzebill
This entry was posted in Tweetdumps on 1 Oct 2012 by Mike.
Come on, New Zealand. You can make me pretend to know who Dan Carter is. But you can't make me pretend to care. Can't wait for @Herodotus, who's tweeting the Histories, to get to his eyewitness account of the Flying Snakes of Buto. "This guy says he saw thousands of skeletons of snakes with bat wings!" "Cool! He's obviously not on drugs! Let's make him the Father of History!" I think we've lost the battle of "blog" vs "blog post". People who just "wrote a blog": where do I read that "blog"? In your blog? NZ ships in the 1860–70s helped supply Pacific-caught slaves to Queensland plantations. And Fiji had the KKK. Rousseau abandoned 5 illegitimate babies at a foundling hospital; Ben Franklin noted that hospital had an 85% mortality rate. Google Wave was actually a great product; it was the users who were insufficiently well designed. Any unpleasant activity can be redeemed by adding "positive" to it: positive procrastination, positive discrimination, positive thinking. The last sentence of Henry Darger's autobiography reads, "There is one really important thing I must write which I have forgotten." Rumour of the day: an exterminator supposedly claims the CBD is infested with rats with manes that come from SE Asia. How does an action hero commandeer a strange car without bunny-hopping or stalling as they figure out the clutch? I'd have some sympathy for the protagonist if they accidentally washed the window instead of indicating. Not that Jason Bourne indicates. The trade paperback was invented in 1952 by Jason Epstein, who founded the New York Review of Books & married NYT reporter Judith Miller. Jason and Judith must surely argue about whose legacy will endure longest: US troops in Iraq, or paperback books. In Betty Kenward's society columns whenever the Queen, was mentioned a comma was added after her name (grammar be damned). This superfluous nominal comma could be named a Kenward Comma in her memory. Pushkin and Lermantov were killed in separate duels by the same pair of pistols. Happy to see the student who could not add 66 and 8 without a calculator has passed Engineering Intermediate. @adzebill
This entry was posted in Tweetdumps on 12 Sep 2012 by Mike.
A rare white kiwi is hatched, and every children's-book author in New Zealand enters a grim race only one can win. I would so join a historical-reenactment tramping club in which everyone wore tweed three-piece suits. The Tweedy Tramping Club would require gentlemen to don a tie for photo shoots but a simple kerchief would suffice whilst hiking. Vincent Price born May 27; Peter Cushing born May 26; Christopher Lee born … May 27! Might just be something to this astrology nonsense. For an Engineering project on rural water delivery, student designed a bullock cart, randomly referred to throughout the report as a bollock cart. Through a terrible error of scale, the plans would only work for a bullock less than four feet long. #stonehenge Helped a Geography student understand the difference between South America and South Africa, and cleared up which one the Amazon was in. I am not paid enough to argue with ECON105 students who have just discovered economic theory and claim reality is in error. Watering pot plants with the water from the dehumidifier, humming "The Circle of Life" to myself. I think planking is lovely; so nice to have our own truly gormless fad to look back on (qv. CB radio, pet rocks, spelling). Plankers have plenty of time to work out what to say to their future grandkids' mocking inquiries. I predict 20% "Yeah, that was a bit dumb" to 80% "Oh, no, I never did no planking, not me." #buttheinternetneverforgets Just reminding you Werner Herzog got shot during a a TV interview and insisted in continuing. Also, he rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a car crash. "Vautours charognards" [hooded vultures] is my Menacing Foreign Phrase for the week. Daytime soaps are just superhero comics in mufti. Fans of one have no grounds for mocking fans of the other. John Perry Barlow thought the Net was the Wild West because he lived in Wyoming. What bias do we island-dwellers have? I'm not an architect, but I don't know what I don't like. @adzebill
This entry was posted in Tweetdumps on 30 Aug 2012 by Mike.
After an hour disassembling & reassembling my back wheel, figured out why the rear tyre won't inflate. My bike pump is broken. Not a total loss: that folksy anecdote will serve me well when I become a motivational speaker. #isyourpumpbroken #mynextbook Hot Jew Buns are like hot cross buns, but with a star of David. You leave one of each batch undecorated, for Elijah. The irony of course is that Hot Jew Buns are leavened. "She estimated the owl was about 61cm in length." i.e. two feet. Imperial measurements offend newspapers more than swearing. "Spurious metric" = the idiotic result of converting rough Imperial measurements to precise SI units without the use of common sense. If you don't spell "w00t" with two zeroes you are not taking the internet SERIOUSLY enough. Word 2011 now has six different styles of underlining available right in the toolbar. Finally, my underlining needs are being met. I once joked about combining murder mysteries and handcrafts, to create a book series that would be guaranteed to sell. But someone has beaten me to it. Maggie Sefton's Knitting Mysteries: Knit One, Kill Two · Dropped Dead Stitch · Dyer Consequences. The world is surely then crying out for the Crochet Mysteries: Telltale Slip Knot · Double Treble Trouble · The Last Corsage · By Hook or By Crook At El Bulli they tried and failed, for two weeks, to make risotto out of sunflower seeds. God damn that's a metaphor for something. "Nice costume!" I said to the passing hipster. #oops @adzebill
Love love love the wind turbine sentinels of the Manawatu Gorge. Protecting Woodville from the hordes of Mordor. Ground zero for the Psocoptera (Psocidae) infestation in my pantry: dried porcini. Going in the freezer from now on. Psocopterans pseriously psuck. Walking home in the dark through Hagley Park the trees shook, the Avon sloshed, and the shelducks wheeped and honked in alarm. Ferns are like sexless Barbie/Ken dolls, shedding doll-dandruff that turns into thousands of tiny detached genitals. The scattered genitals seek out each other, have sex, and sprout tiny sexless Barbies. The ferny life cycle is truly odd. My moisturiser is supposedly "anti-fatigue". It says on the label. But I'm puzzled: how exactly is my face getting tired? I can only think it's some sort of Yiddish invective. "When I look at you, my face gets tired." E.O. Wilson had a Nature-cover paper denying kin selection is a factor in eusociality. Suspect Nature only accepted it because of his rep. He's been quoted as saying, "I think that'd be a pretty poor scientist, who couldn't reverse his view from new evidence." Which is true. At my count Wilson was wrong about island biogeography models, biophilia, & consilience. Looking forward to the retractions. Bought my first issue of NZ food mag Dish. The writing is definitely low-calorie and gluten-free. Nuggets of rich advertising embedded in a frothy matrix of sugary photography, artificially-enhanced opinion, and Wikipedia. Pre-decimal English currency was so ludicrous it parodied itself: half-crown, guinea, florin, farthing, & tuppence-ha'penny. £2.3s.6½d. The West Australian coat of arms features kangaroos holding boomerangs, so I presume it was focus-grouped. @adzebill
This entry was posted in Tweetdumps on 11 Jul 2012 by Mike.
I'm looking forward to Sex and the City III, where the Revolution comes and our heroines are sent off to a re-education camp. Many men would pay money to watch them scratch lice from the seams of their overalls with broken DKNY lenses and fight over stale bread. Blood is only thicker than fresh water: marine fishes leach water to the sea, but river fishes are constantly being diluted. My most entertaining haircut was in Berlin. I contemplated the result solemnly, said "Fantastische", and all the hairdressers cracked up. Pitting a kilo of cherries is surprisingly gruesome. Spatters, stains, a bowl of glistening entrails. Cleanup felt like Dexter. This morning's baking has been sorted into Eccles Cakes and Unsucceccles Cakes. An owl's eye is as big as a human's, an ostrich's much bigger. Some bird eyes are so big they nearly touch, behind the scenes. Your eyeball is about an inch in diameter. This is perhaps the least-useful rule-of-thumb measure I know. Science isn't everything, but we know the universe is 13.75 billion years old and 930 yottametres wide no thanks to astrology. A thesis is Death By Chocolate: eaten slowly in one go, by an unlucky few, who usually feel a bit ill afterwards. We were going to call our band The Boston Molasses Disaster, but were pre-empted by a band actually from Boston. Swans: avian hydrangeas. Discuss. In the midst of chaos and destruction, there's no reason a gentleman can't keep his beard neatly trimmed. @adzebill
This entry was posted in Tweetdumps on 24 Mar 2012 by Mike.
World Sweet World magazine suggested wrapping paper is unsustainable and we should all give each other biscotti for Xmas. They gave a sample biscotti recipe. Every ingredient is imported, except for four eggs. And the flour they forgot to include. The best idea I heard today: arrange the entire score of The Sound of Music for a costumed ukulele ensemble. Bearded uking nuns = sublime. I hope @justinethinks's Sound of Ukulele Music plan doesn't include dancing, because crossdressing ukulele nuns DANCING is just silly. Wouldn't The Sound of Music be better without all those Nazis? They don't even get any songs. Alternative staging: keep the Nazis, add chorus of Austrian jews gradually led offstage through show. "So long, farewell…" What the world needs is a mashup of The Sound of Music and its contemporary, West Side Story, pivoting on Maria. With those classic songs "I've Just Met a Problem Like Maria", "Climb Evr'y Mountain Tonight", and "Gee, Gauleiter Krupke". It's a shame "Ich liebe leben in Österreich" isn't grammatical, because it scans better than the English. If you think science removes our "sense of wonder", compare the Tuwharetoa account of Taupo's origin (guy threw a tree) with the real one. Namely, a gigantic explosion heard round the world, and the skies turning blood red over China and Rome. Eat Pray Love listed as someone's favourite book raises a red flag; Eat Love Pray raises a whole fluttering regiment. If you want me to open your spammy attachment, my good sir, you'll need to choose a more trustworthy name than Mr Milosevic. @adzebill
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Mere days after Toshio Furukawa (Piccolo)'s cryptic tweets about finishing up a mysterious recording session, Mayumi Tanaka (Kuririn) has let slip via her blog just what exactly it was: a continuation of Dragon Ball Kai… with a hitch.
It won't be aired in Japan, but overseas, Dragon Ball Kai is continuing.
Right now, we are recording the part at the Tenka'ichi Budōkai, where Goten and Trunks infiltrate the adults' division by one standing on the other's shoulders.
The image is definitely clearer than before.
We talked about how we want it to air in Japan, too.
This is yet another twist in the Kai saga, which saw the show conclude after only the Cell arc, a scandal that resulted in the replacement of nearly the entire score, and a natural disaster that prevented its final episode from being broadcast. And with partial foreign funding of the upcoming Dragon Ball Z movie, there is the tantalizing possibility that overseas rights-holders wanted the Boo arc badly enough to help finance it. In the absence of an official statement from any of the relevant entities, however, we can merely speculate.
The only question that remains is, why record the dialogue in Japanese if the show will not be broadcast in Japan? It seems like a great deal of trouble to go to simply to maintain consistency in home releases abroad, so perhaps the show may eventually see daylight in Japan, in one form or another. Only time will tell.
Well with the upcoming movie taking place after Buu… It would be a lot better to finish Kai and then have the movie (maybe even make it a Dragon Ball Kai movie? I wouldn't mind, just a name).
Who gave you the idea it's Funimation?
It may be, after all they play a big role in this too. I can see them funding this for more money in the future. Dragonball Z is what made them what they are today.not to menction Nickelodeon wants their newly-owned franchise to make money for them too.
I had proposed the idea too funimation to continue Kai themselves a while ago because it would seriously get them money so maybe they had listened.
This is rare indeed, but not unheard of. "Sonic X" was also continued strictly for the purposes of overseas business. Although the original Japanese dialogue was shown in a Chinese broadcast.
😯 Well, put this in the ever growing "news I really did not think I'd here these past few weeks" category. I'm not particularly fond of Kai myself, but this is cool for the Kai fans out there. Enjoy.
This is great for a number of reasons.
First, anything that will extend the lifespan of the franchise is just fantastic. With more Kai and the new movie and continued games, that's what's happening. I remember recently being in Walmart and hearing a little girl tell her mom, "I want Dragon Ball Z Kai!" I remember feeling that way, and it has been very successful on Nicktoons.
OMFG!! Hopefully this means all of Kai dubbed in French, too!
Holy crap! I am going to be so delighted if this is true, especially if there's an English dub to go with it.
Don't some markets get DBZ and Kai in Japanese with local subtitles? Maybe this is for those markets.
Well, France and Portugal have broadcasted it subtitled.


Turns out, it really is a dog's life.
Canines dominate the latest list in TV Guide Magazine's 60th anniversary celebration, taking three of the top five spots and 20 places overall. But there's still room for cats, birds and barnyard critters, not to mention a dinosaur (sorry, Barney didn't make the cut!).
We limited our picks to one animal per show so Looney Tunes, Muppets and Disney characters wouldn't hog all the attention.
1. Lassie (dog), Lassie The beloved collie enjoyed a 19-year TV run — and not in dog years. Who but Lassie could let us know every time little Timmy fell down a well?
2. Mister Ed (horse), Mister Ed When this palomino started talking to his befuddled owner, Wil-burrr (Alan Young), we laughed ourselves hoarse!
3. Eddie (dog), Frasier The adorably precocious Jack Russell terrier always had a leg up on his costars, even if Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce won more Emmys.
4. J. Fred Muggs (chimp), Today Monkeyshines were the order of the day on NBC's morning show from 1953 to 1957, when the temperamental chimp upstaged host Dave Garroway. TV Guide Magazine honored him for many years with an annual list: the J. Fred Muggs Awards for Distinguished Foolishness.
5. Scooby-Doo (dog), Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Ruh-roh! Any number of phony ghosts would've gotten away with it if it weren't for this meddling pooch.


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$750K bond set for man accused of attempting to break into Oak Brook home on Thanksgiving
Sean Anderson, 24 , of Westchester
OAK BROOK - A bond has been set for a Cook County man accused of attempting to break into an Oak Brook home on Thanksgiving night.
Sean Anderson, 24, of Westchester, was charged with one count of armed violence, attempt home invasion, attempt residential burglary and unlawful possession of a weapon, according to a news release from the DuPage County State's Attorney's Office.
Anderson appeared in bond court Saturday morning where Judge Susan Alvarado set a $750,000 bond, with 10 percent to apply.
According to the release, just before 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving, Oak Brook police responded to a home on Glenoble Court, after receiving a call that a man was attempting to break in. When officers arrived, they identified Anderson as the suspect, learning that he fled towards Roosevelt Road through the backyard, the release states.
Two on-duty officers saw Anderson and began to chase him down on foot, the release states. He was apprehended less than one quarter mile away on Roosevelt Road, near the Interstate 294 ramp.
According to the release, it is alleged that officers saw a loaded gun under Anderson, as they rolled him over from his stomach to his back.
The release states that further investigations allege the woman in the home heard knocking at the back door, believing it may have been her husband. She then opened the door, finding Anderson had already opened the screen door, further stating that he was from an energy company - demanding he be let inside, according to the release.
The woman shut the door and called for her husband. According to the release, when the husband arrived, Anderson, with a gun in hand, repeated that he was from an energy company, demanding to be let in. When the husband refused, Anderson fled, the release states.
According to the release, officials later discovered that Anderson is currently on parole for a 2018 car jacking in Cook County.
DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin reminds residents to be cautious opening the doors of their home.
"I want to remind homeowners not to open their doors to anyone they are not expecting or who does not have the proper credentials," Berlin said. "I commend the Oak Brook Police Department for their quick response and apprehension of Mr. Anderson."
Anderson's next court appearance is scheduled for Dec. 20 for arraignment in front of Judge Ann Celine O'Hallaren Walsh. If convicted of the most serious offense, he faces a penalty between 15 and 30 years in the Illinois Department of Correction, the release states.
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The ICT.OPEN conference had no less than five Leiden highlights. PhD candidate Anna Louise Latour won the pitch prize of 500 euros and PhD candidate Can Wang won the second prize in the Commit2Data poster competition. In addition, Professor Holger Hoos gave the keynote lecture on the first day and Suzan Verberne pitched the workshop ICT with Industry 2020. Finally, Felienne Hermans gave a workshop on social media.
In a three-minute pitch Anna Louise Latour won over the jury and the audience of one hundred people. The researcher talked animatedly about her research and used a lively example to sketch the problem: As a project manager, how do you ensure that an electricity network is as earthquake-resistant as possible, while taking into account your budget and uncertainties about what will break down? That's where she comes in the picture, says Latour in the pitch. She develops accessible methods to solve problems like this, in a programming language that resembles our natural language. Because users can often learn the language in a day, people without programming skills can still use these methods.
Suzan Verberne made those present enthusiastic about the workshop 'ICT with Industry', which NWO is organising together with the Leiden Lorentz Center. The edition in 2020 will be held at the Lorentz Center. The workshop brings young scientists together with professionals from industry and government and revolves around a number of case studies.
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Brave Iceland sunk by late Croatia strike
June 27, 2018 02:55·
A revamped but businesslike Croatia has topped its World Cup Group D as Ivan Perisic's last-gasp goal helped it maintain its flawless record with a 2-1 win that also ended Iceland's qualification hopes. Croatia enters the round of 16 with tons of confidence as the victor of Group D over pre-tourney favorites Argentina.
On the stroke of halftime, Aron Gunnarsson fired an angled shot that was bound for the top corner until Lovre Kalinic tipped it away.
Iceland and Croatia have crossed paths plenty in recent years.
Milan Badelj of Croatia celebrates after scoring his team's first goal against Iceland. In 2013, the two were pitted together in the playoff round of UEFA World Cup qualifying, with Croatia denying Iceland its first trip to the World Cup.
On 73 minutes Bjarnason fluffed a close-range opportunity but Iceland's lifeline arrived a minute later when Dejan Lovren handled a cross by Sigurdsson in the penalty area.
The Iceland defender Sverrir Ingason almost scored twice just moments later, heading just over and then again off the crossbar.
US approves marijuana-based drug for seizures
Jackson's group estimates the typical family using CBD to treat childhood epilepsy spends about $1,800 per year on the substance. The decision caps decades of work by the company to gain approval in the US for a medicine derived from the cannabis plant.
The Croatians, who outclassed Argentina with a 3-0 win, are through already and will top the group with a win or a draw against Iceland at the Rostov Arena in Rostov-On-Don.
Buoyed by the cacophonic "Viking Thunder Clap" from the crowd, Iceland poured forward in search of the goal which would see them through into the knockout stages but it was Croatia who would laugh last, as Ivan Perisic stole in to break Icelandic hearts as the game moved into stoppage time.
Iceland's Gylfi Sigurdsson became the second player to have scored and missed a penalty at the 2018 World Cup, after Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo.
Midway through the period it was the Nordic side, who had beaten Croatia in qualifying for Russian Federation, who took control, threatening from set-pieces and interceptions.
After a quiet opening with little action, Iceland started to gain control and apply pressure.
With qualification assured, coach Zlatko Dalic fielded the youngest Croatia team at a World Cup, making nine changes from the team that beat Argentina on Thursday.
Lukaku for England game, says coach Roberto Martinez
But Southgate is also mindful of England finally beating one of the stronger nations in a World Cup . I think back to Euro "96 and we got on a roll and there was a feeling of, 'we're invincible here".
Fallen Kingdom' Tops Box Office & Exceeds Expectations!
In total, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom has opened No. 1 in 67 worldwide markets to date and stomped the franchise across $4.4B. Openings in Brazil, Central America, Argentina, Colombia and Chile were among those that topped the previous film this weekend.
Heather Locklear accused of attacking deputy, EMT
TMZ says that Locklear was taken into custody last night after a 911 call brought the police and ambulance to the actor's home. For the second time this year, actress Heather Locklear was arrested for battery on a police officer and emergency personnel.
Spain snatch 2-2 draw with Morocco to top group
The Real Madrid man was unfortunate not to add a second after the break as his header was cleared off the line by Romain Saiss. He cut back with the outside of his right boot to Isco , who fired into the roof of Monir El-Kajoui's net from six yards.
Arizona pharmacist refuses to fill woman's prescription to end pregnancy
Arteaga said the he did not explain any further. "It doesn't make sense and it definitely is not fair in any way", she said. An already hard reality soon took another complicated turn when the pharmacist refused to fill the order from her doctor.
New Jersey man uses paddleboard to get across Hudson River for work
Eunice Rivers , of Jersey City, was on the ferry to NY when she spotted Holt and made a decision to take a video. A New Jersey resident, Holt had an important meeting to get to that morning in Manhattan.
Apple is working on noise-canceling AirPods and over-ear headphones
Finally, the thus-far-underwhelming sales of the HomePod hasn't deterred Apple's plans to ship out a new version by next year. The original HomePod was supposed to be released to consumers in December 2017 but was delayed until early this year .
Evangeline Lilly Doesn't Have Time for Men Complaining About Superhero Costumes
For all we know one could arrive in Captain Marvel as early as next spring, or we could be waiting until Avengers 5 (whatever form that takes).
Russia to play vs Spain in knockouts of FIFA World Cup 2018
A Nigeria win will guarantee their progression, but even a draw would be enough unless Iceland beat Croatia by two clear goals . Belgium now have three yellow cards to England's two, meaning this could be a battle of discipline more than anything.
IOS 12: how to install Apple's latest iPhone software right now
If not, using the new Control Center shortcut and toggling the feature off in camera settings (shown above) should fit the bill. If you have a spare iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch , then you can easily download the public beta and try it now for free.
Is Meghan Markle already pregnant?
The latest report doing rounds is that Meghan's husband Harry and the Queen too is furious over the interview. A royal source has said that Kensington Palace was given no warning about the Good Morning Britain interview.
Crude Oil Leaking Into Iowa River After Alberta Train Derails
The spill threatened to contaminate drinking water for residents about 150 miles (240 km) downstream in Omaha, Nebraska. Metropolitan Utilities District said it was monitoring pumps it uses to pull drinking water from the Missouri.
Mohamed Salah Considering Quitting Egypt
Osama Ismail, an EFA spokesman who is with the team in Russian Federation , implied that the CNN report was not credible. The player was reportedly bothered by that fact that Kadirov used his image without his consent and for political means.
Watch first trailer for The Hate U Give
Due to the pressure she was receiving from her community, Starr decides to stand up for what is right and becomes an activist. The movie is slated for an October 19 release.
EPS for Harley-Davidson, Inc. (HOG) Expected At $1.40
Rampart Investment Management Company LLC's holdings in Harley-Davidson were worth $211,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Shares of Harley-Davidson traded up $0.97, hitting $45.68, during mid-day trading on Wednesday, according to Marketbeat .
Switzerland's Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri subject to Federation Internationale de Football Association disciplinary proceedings
Both players have Kosovar roots and formed a double-headed eagle with their hands, which resembles the eagle on the Albanian flag. When asked about his celebration Shaqiri said, 'It's just emotion . "In football, you have always emotions".
Assistant Farbrace to coach England's T20 side against Australia, India
The three ODIs of the series will be played on July 12, 14 and 17, later, followed by five Test matches starting on August 1. Paul Farbrace will act as England coach for their forthcoming Twenty20 campaign against Australia and India.
Sweden's Jimmy Durmaz racially abused via social media after World Cup defeat
We obviously also didn't score on a couple of clear opportunities but what I did appreciate was the spirit of the team. It warms us all. "I would just like to say a few things regarding what happened after the game yesterday".
In sign of detente, North Korea skips annual anti-US rally
Anti-American slogans can also still be seen in Pyongyang and throughout the countryside, though they are not that numerous. It all culminates on July 27, which the North celebrates as the day of "Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War".
D'banj's One-Year-Old Son Dies In Pool Accident
Celebrities and fans around the world have been posting their condolence messages to the family on social media. The Nigerian singer and his wife, Lineo Didi Kilgrow, celebrated their son's first birthday just one month ago.
Uruguay, Saudi Arabia win
Sebastian Coates comes in for the injured Jose Gimenez in defence as Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez makes four changes for the clash. This is the first time Uruguay have won all three group games at a World Cup finals.
Shaqiri and Xhaka's pro-Kosovo goal celebrations criticised
Croatia's FA was fined 13,000 Swiss francs after its fans were involved in fights and throwing of objects during the same game. Brazil and Switzerland both have 4 points, with the latter playing against Costa Rica, who have collected no points thus far.
Peru beats Australia, but both sides knocked out
Suspects in N.J. custody in killing of Bronx teen
Trump threatens Harley-Davidson with taxes 'like never before' and eventual collapse
Meghan Markle makes royal history with Teen Choice Award nomination
Diego Maradona During Argentina v Nigeria Game
Denmark 0-0 France: Five things we learned
More bad news for Brendan Dassey of Making a Murderer
Should migrants be sent back without due process?
Governor Brown Declares State of Emergency Due to Pawnee Fire
Halle final loss drops Federer from No.1
Ebden seen off by Federer in Halle
Mother of Murdered Bronx Teen: Mayor De Blasio Never Reached Out
China defends its United States investment record
'Recipe for disaster' - Tendulkar urges two-ball rethink
Uruguay hammers Russian Federation 3-0 to top Group A


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Marijuana 'essentially' eliminated as UFC violation
2:12 PM ET The UFC has "essentially" struck marijuana as a punishable offense in its anti-doping policy, the promotion and anti-doping partner USADA announced Thursday. Beginning retroactively Jan. 1, a positive drug test for carboxy-THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, will no longer be considered a violation — unless USADA is able to prove that
UFC looks into psychedelics in brain health study
9:56 PM ET The UFC is looking to get involved with research into psychedelic drugs as a therapy for fighters' brain health. The promotion has been in contact with Johns Hopkins University about its psychedelics studies with an eye toward seeing if the drugs can be helpful for fighters dealing with brain issues, UFC president
Sources: UFC trying again for Edwards-Chimaev
12:08 PM ET Will the third time be the charm for Leon Edwards vs. Khamzat Chimaev? UFC is hoping so. The promotion has rebooked the welterweight fight for March 13, sources confirmed to ESPN. The bout will serve as the main event of a UFC Fight Night card. Edwards-Chimaev was originally set for Dec. 19
MMA Rank 30-21 – Which fighters will have the best 2021?
MMA HOFer says he lost TV job for being at riot
5:40 PM ET Pat Miletich, the first-ever UFC welterweight champion and one of the most decorated coaches in MMA history, announced in an Instagram video that he was fired by Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA) for being present at the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The Hall of Famer has been a color
UFC debate: Does Holloway or Kattar have more at stake on Fight Island?
8:07 AM ET When Max Holloway leaves the Octagon after Saturday's UFC Fight Night main event, he could be the loser of three straight and four of five. That would be quite a cliff from which one of the sport's most prestigious careers would be dangling. Calvin Kattar, meanwhile, is trying to build his resume.
UFC Fight Night: Max Holloway vs. Calvin Kattar — How to watch and stream, plus full analysis
11:24 AM ET Max Holloway and Calvin Kattar kick off 2021 and the UFC's latest run of events on Fight Island with the men's featherweight main event of a matinee UFC Fight Night on Saturday in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The main card of the promotion's first event of the year — and the
With relationship repaired, Dana White says 'real' Conor McGregor ready for UFC 257
7:23 AM ET UFC president Dana White says his relationship with Conor McGregor is solid going into 2021, after hitting a "bad place" in the second half of last year. The relationship between the UFC and McGregor started off on a high note in 2020, as McGregor headlined the UFC 246 pay-per-view against Donald "Cowboy"
White to meet Khabib, press for one more fight
10:20 AM ET UFC president Dana White is expected to meet with undefeated lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov this week in Abu Dhabi for the first time since Nurmagomedov announced his retirement in October. Nurmagomedov (29-0) is still the UFC's undisputed 155-pound champion, even though he has stated he does not intend to fight again. White
12:11 PM ET The world's biggest mixed-martial-arts promotion is adding to its contribution toward a long-running brain study. The UFC is donating an extra $1 million to the Cleveland Clinic to help fund brain health research for the next five years, the promotion announced Thursday. The Cleveland Clinic's Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in
Sister: Jailed UFC fighter was in bad mental state
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UFC's Fight Island events to have fans in arena
3:00 PM ET A limited number of fans will be in attendance for the UFC's first three live events of 2021 — marking the first time UFC events will be open to any spectators since UFC 248 on March 7 in Las Vegas. The Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism discussed permitting spectators during
Bold UFC predictions for 2021 include Khabib's return, Jon Jones and a mammoth crowd
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UFC fighter faces 2 counts of attempted murder
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Sources: Yan-Sterling set for March 6 at UFC 259
7:11 PM ET UFC bantamweight champion Petr Yan will seek the first defense of his 135-pound title when he meets Aljamain Sterling at UFC 259 on March 6, sources confirmed to ESPN. Both sides have agreed to the matchup, which was originally scheduled for UFC 256 on Dec. 12, but Yan was forced to withdraw
Ariel Helwani's Nose Awards: Which fighters, bouts shined brightest in 2020?
4:24 PM ET Remember how exciting the beginning of 2020 felt? The return of Conor McGregor? The buzz in Las Vegas reminiscent of his early rise in the UFC? What a way to start a new decade. Heck, the first quarter of 2020 was phenomenal too. We got a classic from Jon Jones and Dominick


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Constant, linear, exponential and fibonacci backoff functions for Scala 2.11

## Usage

TODO

Please refer to [documentation][4] for more details.

## Install

To use `backoff` in an [SBT][1] project, add the following dependency to your `build.sbt`:

```scala
libraryDependencies += "pt.tecnico.dsi" %% "backoff" % "1.0.3"
```

Or in [maven][3], you can add `backoff` to your `pom.xml`:

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<dependency>
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    <version>1.0.3</version>
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## Build instructions

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```

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History has told us this is about as cold as it can possibly get in March.
This Arctic Outbreak (relative to the time of year) is penetrating farther south than any other Arctic air since December-January. Temperatures in deep south Texas to Florida will end up some of the coldest of the entire winter season. Mid 20s are possible to deep South Texas with lower 20s into the Deep South of the U.S. Frost may get to nearly Orlando tomorrow night.
Extensive damage to peach & blueberry crop is expected in the Deep South. Also, corn has been planted in deep South Texas & is up. It will likely be frozen off. Vegetation is also highly-advanced for the time of year in southeastern Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina & Florida after a very warm February. Flowering Dogwoods are in peak blossom throughout southern Georgia already.
Katy Smith took this picutre of parahelic circle this morning south of Burnettsville. With temperatures as low as -3 in the area, ice crystals were being shed out of any clouds due to intensity of the cold. The refracting of light in the ice crystals causes the parhelic circle.
Halos, perhelic circles & perhelias (sun dogs) often occur in record-breaking cold in winter to early spring with the air filled with ice crystals from any clouds.
This all occurred after 1-2" south half & 1" or less of snow north half yesterday.
Lows this morning dropped to as low as -4. Wind chills bottomed out to as low as -24. The record low for West Lafayette is -5 in 1884.
Today's high of 11 ranks as a tie for the coldest March high temperature on record back to 1879. The record low high of 11 was set twice in early March 1960.
However, what makes our high of 11 today so extraordinary is that the 1960 11-degree highs occurred with 12-14" of snow on the ground. Ours occurred with March sunshine & 1".
The 1884 -5 record low had 4" of snow on the ground.
Some scattered snow showers & flurries are likely tomorrow with dustings of snow in places with gusty west winds to 30 mph. The wind will blow snow around tomorrow.
After single digits & wind chills -20 to -10 tomorrow morning, highs will run 16-21.
Current thoughts are on 6-9" Benton, parts of Newton, Jasper & 3-6" snowfall elsewhere Thursday PM-Thursday night to Friday morning.
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The farmer is the future
Julian Rose
| 13th June 2014
Farming in Poland, the traditional way. Photo: Jejma via Flickr.
In our modern world of supermarkets and on-demand delivery, its easy to forget about the few remaining 'real farmers' who grow healthy, wholesome food, writes Julian Rose. But it won't be long before we give them the appreciation they deserve ...
Food will always magically appear from ... well ... somewhere - and farmers, that is 'real farmers' like the Romanian and Polish peasants, are an anachronism, a romantic back-drop, a picture postcard of a time gone by.
At a farmer's fair in Krakow, South Poland, in early May, I spoke to a Romanian peasant.
He was demonstrating clay pot making using a foot treadle to spin the plate upon which the pots were being formed by his deft hands.
I remarked how attractive I found this technology due to its lack of reliance upon any electrical power source. He nodded, saying "No other power required."
The conversation swung to the need to remain independent -independent of state and industry controlled sources of power.
Because being dependent upon centralised power, be it energetic or political, means always owing something to someone or something; whereas to be free of such a burden enables one to form strategic relations where one pleases.
Interdependence on each other
This form of sharing creates a natural form of interdependence with fellow humans, rather than dependence on governments and corporations. He nodded again.
A colourful troupe of Gorale (Polish mountain farmers) were stamping their feet to the rousing notes of a merry fiddle while weaving a circular pattern through and amongst each other, shouting out in occasional bravura.
My Romanian friend was looking-on, his non-treadle foot tapping out the folk song's rhythms. After a little he turned towards me and said, "The farmer is the future."
Now this struck me as a very profound statement. Many may well cynically laugh at such an idea.
Food comes from the supermarket, no?
In those peoples' minds is the notion that food will always magically appear from ... well ... somewhere - and that farmers, that is 'real farmers' like the Romanian and Polish peasants, are an anachronism, a romantic back-drop, a picture postcard of a time gone by.
The majority of people in Westernised societies have long since abandoned any attempt to source their foods from anything other than the most convenient and / or cheapest supermarket stores that carefully screen-out any correlation between the end product and the grower.
That, after all, might shock the buyer into realising that there still are some human hands involved in the process whereby they acquire their daily meals.
It's much more comforting for them to imagine that their beloved supermarket somehow spirits their daily needs out of some super hygienic, sanitized, forever sunny, manicured Astroturf garden.
Eastern Europe is different - still
The Eastern European peasant family farmer does not know much about what goes on in the corporate run, European Union subsidised, monocultural deserts that churn out an almost endless supply of nitrate induced, vitamin depleted and pesticide protected - so called 'foods'.
He will not know what the majority of Westernised consumers dump into their trolleys on the way to the check-out desk, car boot and home freezer chest.
This farmer does know, however, that a very strange thing has happened to people over the past few decades. Something that seems to have taken them away from values which, to the good farmer, are pretty much sacrosanct.
Values like never wasting valuable resources and living from the fruits of one's labours. About independence and love of a way of life in the open fields, open air, one that somehow keeps one always close to God.
Exposure to the elements
All be it that this life pits man against hardships mostly unimaginable to the upwardly aspiring higher waged supermarket shopper. A shopper fretting that she must negotiate the precinct without her recently manicured hair suffering any distortion from the unexpected shower of rain that has afflicted the roofless car park.
Ironically, that shower of rain, a few drops of which might land on her precious head of hair, is about as close to nature as this lady is ever likely to get ... in her cosseted perpetual suburban sunrise.
What the peasant farmer knows - and the consumer doesn't - is that this shower of rain is actually a vital element in the nurturing process in which he / she is engaged; growing the foods that will feed the family, and if all goes well, providing a small income from the sale of any surplus.
Living with Nature's vagaries
What this farmer also knows is that, at any time, the crops and animals under his care might be taken by drought, flood or disease. Might be threatened by wild animals, thieving individuals or interfering officialdom.
This farmer lives day in day out with a perpetual level of uncertainty, which becomes so ingrained that it ceases to cause the sort of fear fuelled anxieties that haunt the urbanite. Instead, it becomes an integral part of the way of life.
There is wisdom in this insecurity, because life is uncertain and unpredictable, and trusting to a degree of fate is part and parcel of our natural response to challenges that spring up without due warning.
And where does all our 'wealth' come from?
The supermarket society - upon which our regular shopper's aspirations depend - is predicated upon a continuous and uninterrupted increase in the acquisition of wealth.
It soon becomes apparent however, that the material source of this wealth is not infinite, but finite - and that callously extracting these finite materials as though they were infinite does much damage to the fabric of the planet and brings much pollution to its vital arteries.
So much so in fact, that by the beginning of the 21st century, alarm bells have been ringing on an almost daily basis, warning of an unprecedented crisis lurking just around the corner - unless substantial remedial action is taken.
Yet no one seems to know what form this substantial remedial action should take; because no one who participates in this consumer driven way of life believes that 'they' could possibly be contributing to a fast approaching global crisis!
We still have 'farmers'?
No one, that is, apart from our peasant farmer, who does not suffer an insatiable hunger for material gain, but nevertheless remains caught up in its consequences.
This farmer must pay the price for other's insistence on living in the profit driven, fossil fuelled fast lane of unsuppressed greed. A lane that ultimately leads to global ecocide.
He will not be approached by those who depend upon the 'quality control' technicians whose role it is to scrutinize the sanitised products which line the supermarket shelves.
To these consumers, the farmer is a strangely primitive being who provokes a tremor of fear, almost disgust. Consequently, he has no buyer for his home grown carrots and beetroots; his orchard cherries, his free ranging chickens and eggs.
Neither will his wife have any buyer for the fresh milk she lovingly extracts from the docile farm cow. This milk is, after all, too good to ever get into any supermarket display cabinet.
The toxicity of industrial food
So with no one coming to the door to purchase the fruits of their labour, our farmer regretfully goes off the farm in search of some part time job to help support the family's needs. The farm activity contracts, producing just enough to feed the family.
While the younger generation abandon ship in favour of earning their livelihood in another place, another country and another way of life - the one that is mining the finite wealth of the planet as though it were infinite.
Then, one day, some shocking news comes across the airwaves of the world. News that the majority of foods on sale in shops and supermarkets are unsafe to eat. That they are the cause of multiple sicknesses and unprecedented rates of cancer and heart disease.
Epidemics are also spreading round the world that can no longer be controlled by conventional medicines and which the compromised human immune system is now too weak to fully resist.
A few days later it is admitted that normal resources of water have become largely undrinkable due to high levels of pesticides and hormones which have heavily polluted the rivers and streams that run through the desert-like, agrichemical soaked monocultural farms, whose produce still lines the supermarket shelves.
We want safe food!
In hundreds of cities and towns, panic breaks out. People desperately seek advice as to what to do and where to purchase safe foods.
The big chain stores try to reassure their customers and the mainstream media calls for people to be calm and listen to the advice of government. But the story is out and the old platitudes cease to have the desired affect.
Chaotic scenes become widespread as people become engaged in panicked attempts to stockpile what they hope are 'safe foods'.
However, the truth is that no one knows what foods are safe or not safe. What water is pure or polluted. What storekeepers are honest or lying.
No one had ever thought that anything like this could ever happen - so preoccupied were they with their materialistic concerns, consumer preferences and nine to five jobs. It never occurred to them that they could all be collectively complicit in triggering a global crisis of unprecedented proportions.
At least, almost all.
Back down the farm ...
Not long after this announcement was aired, a group of people nervously gathered outside our farmer's house. A woman with two young children knocked tentatively on the door. Some of the others were more openly agitated and even threatening.
The farmer came slowly to the door and opened it.
"What do you want?" he said.
"I want to know if you can sell us any safe food", said the lady. "My children are hungry and someone in the village said that on your farm the food is still not poisoned."
The farmer stood silent for a while. Others shouted out "We need food!"
Eventually he turned to his wife, "Well", she said. "You had better let them in."
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Birthday: August 11, 1983
Nationality: Australian
Age: 37 Years, 37 Year Old Males
Also Known As: Christopher Hemsworth, Christopher
Born in: Melbourne, Australia
Famous as: Actor
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Height: 6'3" (190 cm), 6'3" Males
Spouse/Ex-: Elsa Pataky
father: Craig Hemsworth
mother: Leonie Hemsworth
siblings: Liam Hemsworth, Luke Hemsworth
children: India Rose Hemsworth, Sasha Hemsworth, Tristan Hemsworth
City: Melbourne, Australia
education: Heathmont College
Chris Hemsworth is an Australian Actor best known for portraying the 'Marvel Comics' superhero, Thor, in the American flick 'Thor', a blockbuster that gave him international fame. While trying his luck in acting, he landed up with the role of Kim Hyde in the Australian drama series 'Home and Away'. He essayed the character from 2004 to 2007 and made a mark. He was also one of the contestants of the Australian version of 'Dancing with the Stars'. His film endeavours saw him essaying the role of George Kirk in the American science fiction adventure film 'Star Trek' (2009). He later gave voice over in the 12th installment in the Star Trek film franchise 'Star Trek Into Darkness' (2013). His big break came in 2011 with the super hit film 'Thor'. The Australian heartthrob reprised the role of Thor, the crown prince of Asgard, in the sequel of the film, 'Thor: The Dark World' (2013) and also in 'The Avengers' (2012) and its sequel 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' (2015). Other remarkable films of Hemsworth include 'A Perfect Getaway', 'Snow White and the Huntsman', 'Blackhat', 'Rush' and 'Vacation'.
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Chris Hemsworth was born on August 11, 1983, in Melbourne, Australia to Craig Hemsworth and Leonie (née van Os) as their second child among three sons. He has English, Irish, Scottish, and German ancestry.
His father is a social-services counsellor while his mother is an English teacher. His parents raised him and his brothers in Melbourne and in the remote interior of Australia called Outback, in Northern Territory.
He studied at the well-known coeducational government secondary college 'Heathmont College' in Heathmont, Victoria. After a few years, his family relocated to south-southeast of Melbourne, Victoria, in an island called Phillip Island.
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After college, he began doing bit roles in TV series including playing King Arthur in Canadian/Australian fantasy 'Guinevere Jones' (2002); as Jamie Kane in Australian series 'Neighbours' (2002); and as 'The New Vet' in Australian-Canadian children's series 'The Saddle Club' (2003) among others.
He auditioned for the part of Robbie Hunter in the 2004 Australian TV drama series 'Home and Away' which finally went to actor Jason Smith. He was later called back to play the role of Kim Hyde which made him relocate to Sydney.
His first on-screen appearance as Hyde happened on February 17, 2004 and he ended up playing the part for 3 ½ years till July 3, 2007, featuring in 185 episodes before leaving the show to concentrate on his film career.
The role of Hyde gave him name, fame and recognition fetching him several award nominations. He won the 'Most Popular New Male Talent' award at the 'Logie Awards' in 2005.
He participated in the Australian light entertainment reality show 'Dancing with the Stars Australia' in its fifth season that premiered on September 26, 2006. His partner in the show was professional dancer Abbey Ross. He was eliminated being sixth on November 7, 2006.
Embarking into films, he essayed a bit role of George Kirk, in the 2009 released blockbuster American science fiction adventure 'Star Trek' directed by J. J. Abrams. It was followed by August 2009 thriller adventure 'A Perfect Getaway' where he played Kale.
His first starring role came with the American independent crime-thriller flick 'Ca$h' that released in March 2010. Thereafter, he went on to prove his versatility playing varied roles with great oomph and style.
His real breakthrough in films came with the 2011 American superhero film 'Thor' based on the Marvel Comics character bearing the same title. He along with Tom Hiddleston auditioned for the role which ultimately went into his kitty while Hiddleston played the character of Loki.
Hemsworth earned much international acclaim for essaying Thor for which he gained 20 pounds of muscle. The film emerged as the 15th highest-grossing flick of 2011 and earned him several nominations including the 'Teen Choice Awards' and 'People's Choice Awards'.
The 2012 American superhero film 'The Avengers' saw him reprising the iconic character of Thor. The film not only came out as the highest-grosser of the year but also peaked as the third highest-grosser worldwide.
'The Avengers' and the 2012 hit American dark fantasy film 'Snow White and the Huntsman' where he played the character of Eric, the Huntsman, fetched him a 'Teen Choice Awards' in the category of 'Choice Summer Movie Star: Male'. He reprised the role of Eric in 'The Huntsman: Winter's War' (2016).
The year 2013 saw him reprising the role of Thor in 'Thor: The Dark World', sequel to 2011's 'Thor'; giving voiceover as George Kirk in 'Star Trek Into Darkness', sequel to 2009's 'Star Trek'; and portraying real-life character of James Hunt, the 1976 Formula 1 World Champion, in sports drama film 'Rush'.
In 2014, the 'People' magazine tagged him that year's "Sexiest Man Alive" in a yearly feature.
In 2015, he played a convicted computer hacker, Nicholas Hathaway, in action thriller mystery film 'Blackhat'; tickled the funny bones as Stone Crandall in the comedy flick 'Vacation'; and played Owen Chase in adventure drama 'In the Heart of the Sea' apart from playing Thor in 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'.
He essayed the role of Kevin Beckman, the handsome but dumb secretary of Ghostbusters in the 3D supernatural comedy film 'Ghostbusters' that released in July 2016. The film won him 'Favorite Movie Actor' award at the 'Kids' Choice Awards' on March 11, 2017.
On November 4, 2016, American superhero film 'Doctor Strange' emerged as a blockbuster garnering critical acclaim. The film saw Hemsworth reprising the character of Thor in its mid-credits scene.
Upcoming films of this ace actor include 'Thor: Ragnarok', planned for a November 3, 2017, release in the US; 'Avengers: Infinity War', planned for a May 4, 2018, release in the US; an untitled Avengers film to be released in North America on May 3, 2019; and a war drama film 'Horse Soldiers'.
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Early 2010 saw him dating Spanish actress Elsa Pataky and they married in December that year over the Christmas holidays. The couple is blessed with three children - a daughter, India Rose, who was born on May 11, 2012 and Sasha and Tristan, their twin sons who were born on March 18, 2014.
He is a fan of the Australian football and backs Western Bulldogs. He remained a star of the 2014 'Everything's Possible' campaign of Australian Football League.
He relocated with his family to Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia, his native country from Los Angeles, US in 2015.
He is closely associated with 'The Australian Childhood Foundation' and supports children facing neglect and abuse. He is a dedicated supporter of such cause and spends both time and money in protecting children from such quandary.
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1. The Avengers (2012)
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2. Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
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3. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
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4. Thor (2011)
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5. Doctor Strange (2016)
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6. Thor: The Dark World (2013)
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7. Rush (2013)
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8. Star Trek (2009)
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9. Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
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10. In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
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Veber sets the scene and introduces the key players. There's Richard Berry's seasoned hit man Jean Milan, whose hotel room window gives a bird's eye view of the Nice courthouse steps. That's where Michel Aumont's Randoni, a well-padded crim under police protection, will soon appear. He is in a van with a SWAT team - a nicely crafted situation ripe with subtle comedic opportunities. Patrick Timsit's distraught suicidal Fran�ois Pignon is given the room next door to the hitman; there are adjoining doors, and the fun begins. There's a faulty window blind, a cut curtain cord, a collapsing shower rose and when Pignon meets Milan in maladroit circumstances, he takes an unexpected shine to him. The feeling is not reciprocated as an incident involving a window ledge, a fall, a case of mistaken identity just kinda happens. Then we meet Pignon's wife Louise (Virginie Ledoyen), her aggressive shrink lover Dr Wolf (Pascal Elb�), and the hotel butler (Laurent Paolini) who always happens to arrive at the worst possible moment.
Veber prolongs the comedic agony to a comfortable 88 minutes and there are big smiles as the amenable hotel butler repeatedly arrives at the most inappropriate times, mistakenly interpreting different combinations of male bonding as compromising situations. It's essentially a buddy movie and a light hearted one at that. Though it may not have the bite of Veber's classic The Dinner Game (Le D�ner de cons), it's lovely writing in the hands of a cast who know how to deliver and it all adds up to good entertainment.


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