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Ana Paula Veloso Fernandes, 36, is said to have premeditated the horrific acts as she admitted to killing 10 dogs in order to test the strength of the poison before using it on her victims.

Enfield argued that the ensuing outrage reflected imported sensitivities from America rather than typical British attitudes.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is laying off around 550 employees, or roughly 11% of its workforce, as part of an effort to "restructure and establish an appropriate size to ensure future success." According to JPL Director Dave Gallagher, the job cuts "are not related to the current government shutdown." CNBC reports: JPL is a research and development lab funded by NASA -- the federal space agency -- and managed by the California Institute of Technology. "While not easy, I believe that taking these actions now will help the Lab transform at the scale and pace necessary to help achieve humanity's boldest ambitions in space," Gallagher wrote in a separate mekor to JPL employees and contractors. Gallagher, in the public announcement, noted that the reorganization of JPL began in July, and "over the past few months, we have communicated openly with employees about the challenges and hard choices ahead." "This week's action, while not easy, is essential to securing JPL's future by creating a leaner infrastructure, focusing on our core technical capabilities, maintaining fiscal discipline, and positioning us to compete in the evolving space ecosystem -- all while continuing to deliver on our vital work for NASA and the nation," Gallagher wrote. Gallagher said that JPL employees will be notified of their status on Tuesday, and the "new Lab structure ... will become effective Wednesday."

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Dr Saurabh Sethi, a gastroenterologist, from California in the US, regularly shares advice to his more than 1.3 million followers on the platform.

She is now the mother of three healthy children

Noa Argamani, 27, was dragged away from Avinatan Or, 32, on a motorbike in a harrowing image that went viral and came to sadly embody the atrocity of October 7.

He was trying to travel to Romania to carry out the sickening abuse

Joe recently worked on a financial system for processing loans. Like many such applications, it started its life many, many years ago. It began as an Oracle Forms application in the 90s. By the late 2000s, Oracle was trying to push people away from forms into their newer tools, like Oracle ApEx (Application Express), but this had the result of pushing people out of Oracle's ecosystem and onto their own web stacks.

The application Joe was working on was exactly that. Now, no one was going to migrate off of an Oracle database, especially because 90% of their business logic was wired together out of PL/SQL packages. But they did start using Java for developing their UI, and then at some other point, started using Liquibase for helping them maintain and manage their schema.

The thing about a three decade old application is that it often collects a lot of kruft. For example, this procedure:

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE BOB(p_str IN VARCHAR2) AS BEGIN dbms_output.put_line(p_str); END;

Bob here is just a wrapper around a basic print statement. Presumably, the original developer- I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that dev was also named Bob- wanted a convenient debugging function while tracking down an error, and threw this into the codebase.

As WTFs go, the function isn't that interesting. But you know what is interesting? Its legacy. This procedure is older than any source control history the company has, which means it's been in the codebase for at least twenty years, but probably much longer. Nothing invokes it. It's survived a migration into SVN then into Git, countless database upgrades, a few (unfortunate) disaster recovery events, and still sits there, waiting to help Bob debug a problem in the database.

Joe writes:

I still don't know who Bob is. Nobody knew who Bob was when I asked around. But Bob, if you're still out there, just know that you are now cemented into a part of the software that hundreds of companies used to manage loans.

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Despite the celebratory atmosphere, experts caution that the fragile ceasefire hangs by a thread, with the future uncertain as Hamas must still fulfill critical demands.

The Reform UK leader singled out Gordon Brown for criticism for selling off gold reserves too cheaply and imposing too much red tape.

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I'm 87, and need the landline to call my doctor. I also missed the few phone calls from friends that I usually get on my birthday.

It serves everything from bubble tea to samosas

Security minister Dan Jarvis said Matthew Collins, the deputy national security adviser, was in fact responsible for providing evidence about two alleged spies.

Katy Perry broke her silence on her romance with Justin Trudeau as she made a cheeky onstage comment during her London concert at The O2 Arena on Monday.

At the beginning of April, I was introduced to a man called Yehuda Cohen. Cohen's son Nimrod had been flung from its burning turret by Hamas terrorists, then dragged into captivity.

EXCLUSIVE: The farcical yet deeply concerning incident unfolded on earlier this month at HMP Downview, a closed women's prison on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey.

Carrie Elizabeth Romney, 64, was found lying next to the garage in the Los Angeles suburb of Valencia.

A brazen woman was caught on camera as she tried to snatch a man's cellphone while he filmed the aftermath of a crash involving her white Mercedes G-Wagon.

Developer reveals second attempt at new housing estate after concerns from Government and community