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TGI Fridays: 1,000 UK jobs to go despite rescue deal

The deal to save the chain will see more than 30 of its restaurants close.




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Hampshire & Isle of Wight: Sunday's Big Picture

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Hampshire & Isle of Wight.




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Hampshire & Isle of Wight: Wednesday's Big Picture

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Hampshire & Isle of Wight.




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D-Day hero who inspired a Call of Duty character

Call of Duty: Vanguard character Lt Arthur Kingsley was based on World War Two paratrooper Sidney Cornell.




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Barnsley father's wedding day blunder

Neil Crossley from Barnsley forgot his daughter Amy when walking down the aisle




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South West Armistice Day services 'well attended'

Memorial services across the South West take place for Armistice Day on Monday.




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'Sad day' as most southerly Post Office to close

Len and Linda Trott are retiring after running the Post Office in The Lizard since 1988.




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Crowds gather to pay Armistice Day respects

Civic leaders led tributes in scores of ceremonies to mark the occasion across north-west England.




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Armistice Day silence interrupted by protester

A single protester has a sign wrestled off her during the silence at Forbury Gardens in Reading.




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Berkshire's Big Picture: Wednesday's image of the county

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Berkshire.




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Cumbria Black Friday scams warning

Westmorland and Furness Council trading standards safe shopping advice.




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'We remember those caught in conflict today'

Thousands of people turn out across the North East and Cumbria to pay their respects.




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In pictures: Remembrance Sunday poppies and parades

People across the south of England pay their respects to fallen service men and women.




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Free parking day to help late holiday shoppers

Weymouth Town Council says it has made 23 December a free parking day to help last-minute shoppers.




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Dorset's Big Picture: Wednesday's image of the county

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Dorset.




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West of England events mark Armistice Day

Events take place across the region to mark the armistice at the end of World War One.




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Thousands gather in town to mark Armistice Day

Bedworth has marked 11 November on the actual day every year for more than 100 years.




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Fire boss withdraws from role after four days

Ben Brook was appointed as the service's new Chief Fire Officer on Friday.




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Will the first Microsoft Lumia come in time for the holidays?

When Microsoft announced it was rebranding its phone hardware as “Microsoft Lumia”, it hinted that there might be a new phone on the way, with the Nokia Conversations blog post quoting Senior VP Tuula Rytilä as saying “we are looking …




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Dao Day 2024 – a regression in the making

It’s twenty four years to the day since A List Apart published John Allsopp’s seminal treatise A Dao of Web Design. It must be one of the most vital and cited articles ever to be written about web design. In it John quoted the Tao Te Ching as a way of persuading us web designers to be like The Sage and “accept the ebb and flow of things”.

John compared the nature of print with the web:

The fact we can control a paper page is really a limitation of that medium. You can think – we can fix the size of text – or you can think – the size of text is unalterable. You can think – the dimensions of a page can be controlled – or – the dimensions of a page can’t be altered. These are simply facts of the medium.

And they aren’t necessarily good facts, especially for the reader.

We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility.

Those demands for flexibility led – 10 years later – to responsive web design as a best practice, and on to the present concept of fluid design.

However we’re currently battling against another regression. As John himself wrote recently, “having escaped the gravity well of web pages being ’print, only onscreen’, they became ’apps, only in the browser’”.

The better way of doing things will win out. Why? Because more people benefit from the accessible outcomes of fluid design, and it is coupled with a lower design and technical debt, even if the initial effort is higher. Meanwhile plus í§a change, plus c’est la míªme chose, or as the Lao Tse wrote 2,500 years ago “Well established hierarchies are not easily uprooted. So ritual enthrals generation after generation.”

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This Cinema's Screening The Muppet Christmas Carol Every Day In December Up To Xmas Eve

41 times in all.




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“Walthamstow FC exist and they’re playing on Saturday, and that’s a start …”

Do you remember when bloggers just sometimes did short posts about things they had enjoyed and just wanted to share them? I know, I am such a boomer*. Anyway, here is one of those, with a couple more to follow...




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New m-orchestra mini-album A Blessing out today

What better time for some spooky music than Halloween week? And so today I am pleased to say the new m-orchestra mini-album A Blessing has been released for your listening delight! It features seven tracks, including the two singles that...




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Whitmer’s 2,000 days of FOIA inaction

‘Michiganders should know when and what their governor is working on’




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Carbon's 3rd Birthday

Three years ago I blogged about WSO2 Carbon for the first time. I enthused about a composable server architecture and why it was important for a SOA platform.

At that point there were just 4 Carbon products. Today there are 13 products, the core framework, Stratos, and Carbon Studio all based around the Carbon Architecture.

There are two really important things I think have worked really well:

  • The composability is obviously important and we now have a set of customers doing exactly that - using p2 to combine the correct components and effectively "build your own server" with the right function for their specific needs and requirements.

    But even more interesting for those customers has been the consistency and completeness of the platform that has arisen out of Carbon. The fact that there is a "menu" or palette of low-level components (features) and high level components (products) that all interoperate, behave the same, use the same identity, clustering, registry, key management, etc has really offered customers the opportunity to build out compelling architectures.
  • The kernelization is almost just a corollary of componentization: as you build the components and identify which ones to re-use, we found a common core across those 13 products. The result is that when we came to address cloud - starting later in 2009 - we very quickly realized that there were just a few core places in which to address multi-tenancy, elasticity and metering. I have to admit this was something I for one hadn't thought of, but has been probably the most powerful driver behind the success of StratosLive and Stratos. 
There were certainly people then who doubted that OSGi was a stable basis for an ESB or Server and I hope that the 1bn+ transactions a day that eBay are doing through WSO2 ESB are enough to disprove that.

All in all, it is amazing to see how far Carbon has come and what it has enabled in 3 years.





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Black Friday, bloody Friday

On est enfin à ce jour qui magnifie la contradiction de nos sociétés. A lors qu’on nous met en garde tous les jours contre l’obsolescence programmée de notre unique planète, notre société de sur-consommation nous intime l’ordre de consommer jusqu’à plus...









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Workflows without Engines: Modeling for Today’s Heterogeneous Information Systems  




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The Four Federal Gun Control Efforts Trump Should Dismantle on Day One

Trump, should immediately remove Dettelbach from office, fire every ATF employee and disband the entire rouge department. @ATFHQ




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National Day Awards 2024

The National Day Awards are presented to individuals who have dedicated their service to the betterment of Singapore. We warmly congratulate our PSS members who were awarded these prestigious awards, on being recognised for their efforts in nation-building.

 




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Body in freezer case: Suspect remanded for seven days

KUALA LUMPUR: The man who allegedly murdered a woman believed to be his mother and stuffed her body in a freezer about three years ago at a house in Taman OUG, Jalan Klang Lama here has been remanded for seven days starting today.

Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Rusdi Mohd Isa said the 53-year-old unemployed suspect will be remanded until Nov 19.

He said the suspect has no prior criminal record, and the police are still awaiting a health report from the hospital as well as the autopsy report on the victim’s body.

“The suspect himself contacted the police to surrender, and his actions are still under investigation,” he said in a statement today.

At about 8.45 am yesterday, police were alerted about the discovery of a woman’s body at a house in Taman OUG, leading to the arrest of the suspect.

The victim’s body was sent to the University Malaya Medical Centre for a post-mortem and the case is being investigated under Section 302 of the Penal Code.




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FashionValet founders grilled by MACC for the sixth day

PUTRAJAYA: The founding couple of FashionValet Sdn Bhd, linked to the investment loss of Khazanah Nasional Bhd (Khazanah) and Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB), continued giving their statement to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).

The vehicle carrying the couple arrived at MACC headquarters here at 2.50 pm.

Today marks the sixth day of their statements being recorded after the MACC detected several suspicious account transactions in its probe into investment losses totalling RM43.9 million.

MACC Chief Commissioner Tan Sri Azam Baki was reported to have said that the commission was reviewing and investigating the cash flow received by the e-commerce business platform founders.

MACC is also reported to have frozen several of the couple’s private and company bank accounts worth about RM1.1 million through Op Favish on Nov 6.




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Zendaya, Tom Holland in cast for Christopher Nolan's next movie

Celebrity couple Tom Holland and Zendaya are the highlight names in the cast for Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan's next movie.




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Random Photo: R Daycare

Random Photo: R Daycare




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Random Photo: CatTaturday

Random Photo: CatTaturday




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Random Photo: Caturday Henchmen

Random Photo: Caturday Henchmen




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Random Photo: Sweet N' Salty Caturday

Random Photo: Sweet N' Salty Caturday




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Random Photo: Caturday Friends

Random Photo: Caturday Friends




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Random Photo: Good Old Days

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Random Photo: It's Monday Once Again

Random Photo: It's Monday Once Again




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Corel Kicks Off Black Friday Early with Savings of Up to $125 on Select Products

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Veterans Day - Land of the Free Because of the Brave

Veterans Day - Land of the Free Because of the Brave




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Amazon Prime Big Deal Days 2024 - Hand Picked Items For Geeks

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The Internet Card Declined Scam: Just in Time for Holiday Shopping!

Ah, the holidays—where buying gifts online should be about finding the perfect ugly sweater, not losing your credit card info to some sleazy scammer. But beware, the ''card declined'' scam that is on the rise and poised to play Grinch this season. ...




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AJK protesters call it off a day after 'demands met'

JAAC head calls on govt to announce compensation for families of three deceased protesters




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Megan Thee Stallion and BTS' RM reveal 'Neva Play' collaboration set to drop this Friday

Megan wrote on Instagram, “NEVA PLAY WITH RM OUT FRIDAY HOTTIES X ARMY #MEGJOON.”