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Lucy Davis has received a heartfelt message of support from her US counterpart Jenna Fischer after revealing that she has been diagnosed with incurable cancer.

A number of people who were on board the boat were detained

As the luxury department store teeters on the brink of collapse, the PR guru who inspired Ab Fab has called on potential buyer Mike Ashley to bring the magic back.

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French scientists found that older adults who hadn't suffered a heart attack or stroke previously were not significantly more likely to suffer one within three years of quitting the pills.

Abdul Khan used the messaging platform Snapchat to groom the teenager by telling her he was a 14-year-old boy - when he was actually 27.

sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: For more than half a century, physicists have searched for one of the strangest particles predicted by modern theory. It would be made almost entirely of gluons, the elusive subatomic particles that carry the strong nuclear force. Now, using a particle collider in Beijing, researchers say they have effectively proved the existence of such a "glueball." In a preprint posted last month on arXiv and in a presentation last week at the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP), the researchers argue that a particle called X(2370), which they produced by smashing electrons into positrons at high energies, has the properties expected of a glueball. "It's an experimental triumph," says Colin Morningstar, a particle physicist at Carnegie Mellon University who was not involved in the finding. "It's the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature."

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Jonathan Ross' rarely-seen son Harvey looked completely unrecognisable with long hair and a beard as he attended Death Note The Musical with his parents on Tuesday.

Rhianan Rudd, of Bolsover, Derbyshire, was charged with terrorism offences and investigated by MI5 after downloading a bomb-making manual and saying she wanted to blow up a synagogue.

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The Office star Lucy Davis has revealed she's been diagnosed with terminal breast cancer, and she 'doesn't know how long she has left.'

Forget Belgian truffles and Swiss chocolate - this bar is about as British as they come, with cocoa grown not in the tropics but in Berkshire.

After spending a lot more time with the celebrity TV chef in recent months amid his fallout from his own family, Adam Ramsay-Peaty has picked up Gordon's recognisable mannerisms.

The highly anticipated first season of HBO's reboot of Harry Potter has yet to be released. 

Middle class areas will have to take in more migrants, Andy Burnham said on Tuesday. The Prime Minister said he would make sure arrivals were not only placed in the 'poorest communities'.

"You submitted a pull request."

Indika was, in fact, reviewing the comments she'd gotten on that very same pull request, when her boss, Bill, walked up behind her. What she didn't understand is why Bill said it like it was an accusation.

"Yes?" she replied.

"Okay, well, we don't do that here. You're new, so I'll let it slide, but please review the developer guide."

Well, Indika had reviewed the developer guide, or at least thought she had. As it turned out, there was the official, company wide developer guide. That's the one she'd read. But Bill maintained his own, for his team. He hadn't ever told her about it, but apparently assumed she'd have the oracular blessings of Apollo and find it by herself.

It had this to say:

Branching is prohibited. Merging is a time wasting activity and goes against CI principles. Only use git to commit, push, and pull.

And rebase, presumably, if everyone was just committing on the main branch?

Indika asked one of her co-workers, Elise, over coffee: "Is this real?"

"Yeah," Elise said. "I'm not sure how he found out about your PR, I don't think anybody added him to the review. I mean, why would they?"

"Oh, I sent him the link," Indika said. "Just a whole, 'I'm new here, look at me doing the work!' type heads up."

"Oh yeah, definitely don't do that."

"So we do use PRs?"

Elise nodded. "Of course we do. We're not crazy. We just make sure Bill never finds out."

That seemed like a terrible way to work, but Indika went along with it, at least for a few weeks. Then an opportunity presented itself; she and Bill bumped into each other in the kitchenette grabbing coffee, and nobody else was around. At this point, Indika had already submitted a number of PRs without Bill knowing.

"Bill, I've been meaning to ask, what's your rationale for prohibiting branching?"

Bill loved being asked that question. "Well, well, it comes from twenty years of experience. What exactly does a branch get you?"

"A distinct history of changes that can be maintained and eventually merged in once a large unit of work has been done without disrupting other work that might be in flight?"

"Another point of conflict! A chance for the code you're working on to get stale. A chance to fall behind the rest of the team. Now, for a large open source team, with a lot of collaborators, a branch might make sense. I'm skeptical, but I can at least understand it. But for our internal team? It's just developers seeing a new toy and going, 'oh, shiny!'"

Indika sipped her coffee and went back to her desk. She was fortunate to have a window nearby, and looked at the squirrels playing in the branches of the tree.

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