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The 30 Rock star, who was driving his wife Hilaria's Range Rover with his brother Stephen as a passenger, slammed into a tree causing severe damage to the vehicle on Monday morning.

Former President Joe Biden has praised Donald Trump for his success in negotiating a peace deal which allowed the 20 remaining Hamas survivors to return home.

He was found to have been using his phone to engage in sexual acts and conversations while driving when his lorry veered onto the wrong side of the road

During a sustained campaign of strategic bombing in 1943, a significant portion of Hamburg was turned to rubble and tens of thousands of people were killed.

In his half-an-hour speech in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the US president, 79, thanked world leaders for the roles they played in the US-brokered ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.

The plans were rejected over a single issue which the developer says they have now fixed

Leaders from across the world stood behind the US President as he delivered a speech following the signing of an historic peace deal in the Middle East which has brought an end to the war in Gaza.

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Keanu Reeves and his longtime partner Alexandra Grant packed on the PDA on the red carpet after denying marriage rumors.

Meghan Markle once again proved her status as a style icon, showcasing her love of designer fashion and pristine tailoring.

Essex councillors fear new government rule changes could mean parking spaces for new homes be cut down

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.