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Hayden Panettiere's close friend has revealed the poignant final text she sent him weeks before her shock death at 36.

Joan Collins looked incredibly glamorous in a strapless dress as she enjoyed lunch with Elizabeth Hurley's son Damian in St Tropez on Monday.

A daily life full of stress and anxiety, punctuated by moments of sheer terror, is almost impossible for anyone to imagine who isn't living through it.

Reform's Robert Jenrick's declaration that he would slash an enormous £50billion from the benefits bill was a statement of intent far more radical than anything any other party is proposing.

AleRunner writes: "Solar has been doing the 'heavy lifting' to help Europe meet its energy needs amid a string of blistering heatwaves," Euronews tells us. Meanwhile, as Europe's energy demands rise with the heat, jellyfish have been causing shutdowns and reduced power output at multiple reactors at French nuclear plants, as we already discussed. Euronews reports: A new analysis from energy think-tank Ember found that solar output in European countries rose by up to 17 percent on heatwave days in June and July. Researchers say that this helped power the grid as electricity demand increased by as much as a quarter on hot days. Heatwaves often trigger a spike in electricity consumption due to the sudden need for cooling, mainly from energy-intensive air conditioning (A/C) units. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that space cooling, which is mostly A/C units and fans, consumed around seven percent of the world's electricity in 2022. Even in countries where A/C ownership is low, countries experience energy demand spikes when scorching temperatures hit. During the early summer heatwaves of 2025, France, for example, recorded an evening electricity peak that was 25 percent above the off-season average due to air conditioning. Ember's analysis found that during the late-June heatwave this summer, daily electricity demand rose byup to 28 percent in Italy, 23 percent in Hungary, 14 percent in France and 13 percent in Spain compared with pre-heatwave days. It says as heatwave-driven demand increased, solar was the only major power source to perform "better than usual." Compared with other days in June and July, average daily solar generation during the heatwaves was 17 percent higher in France and Hungary, five percent higher in Spain and the same in Italy.

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Donald Trump angrily shouted 'quiet' at a female CNN reporter after she asked about his relationship with his 35-year-old aide Natalie Harp.

Chris Appleton showcased his very muscular frame on Sunday as he worked out in a London park ahead of making his Strictly Come Dancing debut next month.

Ricky Gervais has declared he will marry his partner of 44 years, Jane Fallon in a bid to dodge inheritance tax - despite long-swearing off marriage. 

We've chosen some of the most popular new petrol and hybrid cars on sale in Britain that have a very close electric equivalent.

The Daily Mail has confirmed that Hickerson had filed a petition for dismissal at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles on August 13.

Paula Musgrove, Lindsay Clancy's mother, took the stand on Monday afternoon during day 14 of her daughter's murder trial.

The shadow housing secretary said that senior staff there and at other universities presented Mr Arday with 'glee' because of his age and ethnicity rather than his talent.

Alma and Niamh Kinsella, in their 30s, their younger sister Ella Hendricken, in her 20s, and the boy were travelling in a Hyundai on the M9 in County Kildare when the horrific crash occurred.

The daughter of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor welcomed the child with her husband Jack Brooksbank earlier this month.

$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP

Today's submitter John F. was migrating data from a Microsoft platform to a Microsoft platform, using Microsoft tools. Absolutely nothing could go wrong, right?

Right?

A few years ago, I was working on a migration. We had sold part of our business, and so we had to extract a whole bunch of customer documents and metadata to provide to the buyer. The documents were stored in SharePoint on-premises, so the first step was extracting the metadata and storing it in a SQL Server database.

A colleague had used Microsoft's ETL tool SSIS to get the process started, and it generated a database schema. But after taking over, I wanted to change to PowerShell for greater control. For speed reasons, I decided to use System.Data.SqlClient.SqlBulkCopy, and getting that going required making sure my PowerShell script had all the correct data types.

One of our fields was the customer number. Customer numbers were up to 10 digits, but the first two were usually 0. Now, I prefer storing customer numbers as text, but someone in the distant past thought, This is a number, and SharePoint has a Number field, so I will use that.

Under the hood, Number fields in SharePoint are actually Doubles. Using a Double to store something exact like a customer number is not really ideal, but double-precision is absolutely enough to represent 10 digit numbers accurately. So what went wrong?

Well, remember we used SSIS to create the original table schema in SQL Server. I then used this table schema to write my script. But it turns out that in SQL Server world, the double-precision type is called float. If you want single-precision, you have to say float(24). I didn't know this, and so when I saw the SQL Server column as a float, I entered float as the corresponding .Net type in my script.

Oops.

So numbers came out of SharePoint as double. They were then converted to float before being inserted into SQL Server. Almost all records were fine, but large customer numbers had their last few digits changed. Testers didn't notice, but fortunately someone picked it up in the full load. We had to generate a list of changed numbers to patch the data after the fact.

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She made headlines after undergoing the contrvoersial 'Barbie Waist' surgery in Bali two months ago. 

The It Ends with Us actress, 38, took to her Instagram Stories with a heartfelt message about the late stars a day after Panettiere's shock death at the age of 36 on Sunday.

Upbeat and vivacious, she's known for bringing a healthy dose of positivity to the Strictly Come Dancing judging panel.

Moscow's embassy in London blamed the UK for the 'escalation of the Ukraine crisis' after the drones were used on the territory for the first time.