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Rory McIlroy has revealed the 'ironic' message he received from disgraced former Masters champion Angel Cabrera ahead of his emotional triumph at Augusta.

A booklet given out at several English Heritage sites says that the word comes from the name of the goddess Eostre without mentioning Christianity at all.

A few yards from the entrance of Prince Harry's Sentebale headquarters in Lesotho is the tiny brick house where five young orphans live with their granny.

Elements suspected of interference in the UK might be included on the top tier of the Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS).

Jacqueline O'Donovan, 57, from Kilburn, north west London built up O'Donovan Waste from a small company worth £175,000 to an empire that turned over £22million in profit in 2022.

The Hollywood actor, 72, who was booted due to his repeated 'offensive and inappropriate' language, made the comment during the latest shopping task.

Bill Gates ' former island retreat has hit the Florida real estate market for a whopping $23.5million - and for those looking for seclusion, it's the ultimate paradise.

Cooper shot to fame last month in the Netflix hit Adolescence, where he played the role of 13-year-old Jamie Miller - a teenager accused of the brutal murder of a female classmate.

The bridge has now reopened and traffic has returned back to normal

Formula One cars, the world's fastest racecars, need to grip the track for speed and safety on the curves — leading engineers to design cars that create downforce. And racing fans are even told that "a Formula 1 racecar generates enough downforce above a certain speed that it could theoretically drive upside down," writes the automotive site Jalopnik. "McMurtry Automotive turned this theory into reality after having its Spéirling hypercar complete the impressive feat..." Admittedly, the Spéirling's success can be solely attributed to its proprietary 'Downforce-on-Demand' fan system that produces 4,400 pounds of downforce at the push of a button... For those looking to do the math, Spéirling weighs 2,200 pounds. With the stopped car's fan whirling at 23,000 rpm, the rig was rotated to invert the road deck... Then, the hypercar rolled forward a few feet before stopping while inverted. The rig rotated the road deck back down, and the Spéirling drove off like nothing happened. The McMurtry Spéirling, as a 1,000-hp twin-motor electric hypercar, didn't have to clear the other hurdles that an F1 car would have clear to drive upside down. Dry-sump combustion engines aren't designed to run inverted and would eventually fail catastrophically. Oil wouldn't be able to cycle through and keep the engine lubricated. The car is "an electric monster purpose-built to destroy track records," Jalopnik wrote in 2022 when the car shaved more than two seconds off a long-standing record. The "Downforce-on-Demand" feature gives it tremendous acceleration — in nine seconds it can go from 0 to 186.4 mph (300 km/h), according to Jalopnik. "McMurtry is working towards finalizing a production version of its hypercar, called the Spéirling PURE. Only 100 will be produced."

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The former England manager has listed a new job online, wiping out his identity as 'football manager'. He stepped down from the Three Lions in July last year after losing the Euros final.

Maura Higgins was certainly living the high life on Friday as she mingled with the likes of Kendall Jenner and Hailey Bieber at Coachella .

M&S is launching its own 'Dubai-style' chocolate - and the new treat is a variation of its Big Daddy bar that was hugely popular with shoppers last year.

Kylie Jenner and Timothee Chalamet indulged in a very public display of affection at Coachella on Saturday but a body language expert has since hinted that all is not what it seems.

Taking to Reddit , the poster, believed to be from the US, admitted she and her brother-in-law both warned the quirky moniker may lead to the child 'being bullied' in future.

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Scotland, Wales, the Midlands and many northern regions saw average property asking prices rise this month, Rightmove said.

We talked about singletons a bit last week. That reminded John of a story from the long ago dark ages where we didn't have always accessible mobile Internet access.

At the time, John worked for a bank. The bank, as all banks do, wanted to sell mortgages. This often meant sending an agent out to meet with customers face to face, and those agents needed to show the customer what their future would look like with that mortgage- payment calculations, and pretty little graphs about equity and interest.

Today, this would be a simple website, but again, reliable Internet access wasn't a thing. So they built a client side application. They tested the heck out of it, and it worked well. Sales agents were happy. Customers were happy. The bank itself was happy.

Time passed, as it has a way of doing, and the agents started clamoring for a mobile web version, that they could use on their phones. Now, the first thought was, "Wire it up to the backend!" but the backend they had was a mainframe, and there was a dearth of mainframe developers. And while the mainframe was the source of truth, and the one place where mortgages actually lived, building a mortgage calculator that could do pretty visualizations was far easier- and they already had one.

The client app was in .NET, and it was easy enough to wrap the mortgage calculation objects up in a web service. A quick round of testing of the service proved that it worked just as well as the old client app, and everyone was happy - for awhile.

Sometimes, agents would run a calculation and get absolute absurd results. Developers, putting in exactly the same values into their test environment wouldn't see the bad output. Testing the errors in production didn't help either- it usually worked just fine. There was a Heisenbug, but how could a simple math calculation that had already been tested and used for years have a Heisenbug?

Well, the calculation ran by simulation- it simply iteratively applied payments and interest to generate the entire history of the loan. And as it turns out, because the client application which started this whole thing only ever needed one instance of the calculator, someone had made it a singleton. And in their web environment, this singleton wasn't scoped to a single request, it was a true global object, which meant when simultaneous requests were getting processed, they'd step on each other and throw off the iteration. And testing didn't find it right away, because none of their tests were simulating the effect of multiple simultaneous users.

The fix was simple- stop being a singleton, and ensure every request got its own instance. But it's also a good example of misapplication of patterns- there was no need in the client app to enforce uniqueness via the singleton pattern. A calculator that holds state probably shouldn't be a singleton in the first place.

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She's known as the Queen of Pop - but American singer-songwriter Madonna is also seemingly the Queen of feuds thanks to her long-list of celebrity enemies.

Sue Thorpe, a detective for Northumbria Police, harassed and verbally abused surf instructor Barry Henderson, 58, when he dumped her, a court was told.