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West Ham’s Nuno Espirito Santo is calling for clarification on what constitutes a foul

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💥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: West Ham Head coach Nuno Espirito Santo has called for clarity on what constitutes a foul at set-pieces, warning that current levels of clashing and blocking are "almost crazy".The Hammers boss became the latest Premier League boss to comment on the issue as he invited refereeing officials to visit clubs and explain to players "what's wrong, what's the communication, how far can you go... because we see things that are not normal".Speaking ahead of Monday's FA Cup tie against Brentford, Nuno revealed he had…

James Acaster Review – Stand in Great Form with a Tangled Tribute to the Same | comedy

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💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Comedy,James Acaster,Comedy,Culture,Stage 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 'II am the UK's #1 James Acaster tribute act! says Craig Simmons, standing on stage in a shiny blazer and tuxedo shirt. But Simmons is at a crossroads, tired of Acaster's mental health material, but doomed once he repeats it — at least until he finally launches a standup career of his own. That's the conceit of this new touring show featuring a performer who we assume is the real James Acaster - although based on his 2014 show (later…

The Indian state of Karnataka indicates its intention to ban social media for those under the age of 16

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✨ Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Government & Policy,Social,Bengaluru,Karnataka,Social media ban 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The Indian state of Karnataka, home to the tech city of Bengaluru, plans to ban children under 16 from using social media, joining a growing global movement aimed at limiting young people's access to online platforms despite questions about implementation and effectiveness. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah announced the decision during his state budget speech on Friday. He said: “To prevent the negative effects on children of using mobile phones, the use of social media will be prohibited for children under the…

Mansfield Town vs Arsenal: Why an FA Cup tie is a ‘shotgun wedding’ for League One Stags

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✨ Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Huge sums of money have been pumped into Mansfield Town since John Radford bought the club in 2010.The Stags were a cash-strapped non-league team at the time, and did not own their own stadium or training facility.They now own both, and have since moved into two divisions and doubled their average home attendance to about 8,000 in that time.However, throughout the years of development, preparing to host Arsenal has been likened to preparing for a “big wedding”, according to Caroline, as “there is not a…

How C# Strings Silently Kill Your SQL Server Indexes in Dapper

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I recently spent time digging into a production performance issue. The application was running hot — CPU averaging over 50% and spiking into the 90s. We pulled a diagnostic snapshot and started working through the top queries by CPU time. The number one offender? A straightforward Dapper query. Simple WHERE clause on an indexed column. Should have been lightning fast. Instead, it was averaging thousands of milliseconds of CPU per execution across hundreds of thousands of executions per day. A two-character type mismatch that was…

Fred Curley: Former American 100-meter world champion was banned for two years

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Curley won gold in the 100 meters at the 2022 World Championships, in addition to the men's 4x100 meters titles in 2019 and 2023.He also stood on the podium in the 100-meter dash at the previous two Olympics, winning a silver medal in Tokyo 2020 and a bronze medal in Paris 2024.“Given this level of experience and having been a member of the testing group since 2017, the court said Curley should have exercised more caution,” an IU statement said."Unfortunately, complex doping substances may only…

I had a front row seat at Blur v Oasis – here’s what a new play and a baffling mistake brought about | stage

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Theatre,Britpop,Oasis,Blur,Music,Pop and rock,UK charts,Stage,Culture,Birmingham Rep,Damon Albarn,Liam Gallagher,Noel Gallagher 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: "At this point, it's Israel/Palestine. Rangers/Celtic. Nobody remembers how it started. All they know is, 'I like this team and I don't like that team.' The whole country is going crazy. That's what happens in a civil war – everyone starts thinking about blood."IIn a new play titled The Battle, these words are spoken by the fictional Damon Albarn, as he leads his band Blur into a contest with Oasis for summer No. 1 and…

Pasqal plans quantitative expansion of $2 billion SPAC listing, promises to ‘stay French’

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🚀 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Hardware,IQM,PASQAL,quantum computing,SPACs ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Amid investors' continued appetite for all things quantum, another European company in this space is exiting the private markets. Just two weeks after Finnish quantum unicorn IQM announced it would go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), its French rival Pasqal is doing the same. Accompanied by a separate $200 million private financing round, Pasqal's SPAC deal will see it merge with Bleichroeder Acquisition Corp II and subsequently list on the Nasdaq. The merger values Pascal at $2…

Winter Paralympics 2026: Russian and Belarusian athletes parade behind national flags at the opening ceremony

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The opening ceremony was held at the Arena di Verona, a 2,000-year-old amphitheater and UNESCO World Heritage Site, although no competitions were held in the city.More than 660 athletes from 56 countries in six sports will take part in the games, which run until March 15, with Great Britain sending a 25-strong team to compete.No Great Britain athlete attended Friday's ceremony, for logistical rather than political reasons, as several members of the team competed across the Dolomites on Saturday morning.In all, only 28 of the…

Tell HN: I’m 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again134 points by shannoncc 2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 73 commentsI’m ready to retire. In my younger days, I remember a few pivotal moments for me as a young nerd. Active Server Pages. COM components. VB6. I know these are laughable today but back then it was the greatest thing in the world to be able to call server-side commands. It kept me up nights trying to absorb…