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Looking at the players who make the Penguins scream the most

More than 11,000 years ago, children in what is now New Mexico splashed in muddy puddles made from sloth footprints, new research shows.

Measuring quality of any kind requires the science of creating a measure or key performance indicator for a subjective property and turning it into a quantifiable attribute. Measuring quality should be a means to drive operational and delivery improvements. But there’s a cost to measuring quality and a human capacity to how many metrics people can track, so there’s an art to picking the ones that drive the most significant business impacts.

The business leaders who hire engineering firms such as mine like to see the numbers, the metrics that claim to quantify the value we create. While they may not understand the esoteric subtleties of refactoring to improve readability and conciseness, they can appreciate when code coverage increases from 85% to 90%. The numbers are going up! So something valuable must be happening, right?

You know what legacy software is. It’s what other people write and what other people use. Right? Wrong. “The minute you ship code, you have legacy software,” argues Jean Yang, founder and CEO of Akita Software. “There's stuff that binds you. You can't change it. I don't remember things I did last week, and I think that's true of every single person out there that creates code.”

As the COVID-19 pandemic continued to surge in October 2020, most office workers found themselves entering the seventh month of home working. With vaccines on the horizon and (pre-emptive) rumors that offices would start to reopen in the new year, some organizations decided to never return to an office-based environment — at least not one recognizable to the pre-pandemic way of working.

Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) leader Eliécer Erlinto Chamorro, alias Antonio García, has said on his Twitter account that the guerrilla militias under his command were interested in reaching peace deal with future President Gustavo Petro after he takes office on August 7.

This picture of icicles is totally from a Leafs game, guess which one. | Photo by Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI via Getty Images

Not really.

Material-cost inflation, anti-building rules, NIMBY attitudes, and barriers to innovation have created a housing-affordability crisis.

NEW YORK—In a journalistic dispatch posted on the news agency’s website, Associated Press reporter Will Jarvis wrote the words “Watermelon gazpacho is a great starter for summer parties” on Monday in an article that will not be winning a Pulitzer Prize this year. “For a refreshing start to a summer get-together…

The fact that a high-profile lone wolf attack may not be based on any political or religious motive doesn’t worry some terrorist groups. by Jeffrey D. Simon For many Americans, the events of September 11, 2001, were the first time they ever felt vulnerable to terrorism. The suicide attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and …

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MTN’s potential takeover of Telkom might not raise issues of competition, say communication experts

Peer support has been pivotal to inmates taking responsibility for their health

The government of Manitoba sent large education tax rebate cheques to companies belonging to people on the Forbes billionaires list, a CBC News analysis has found.

Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (2nd R) hugs USA’s Abby Steiner (R) beside teammate Jenna Prandini and Twanisha Terry (L) after the women’s 4x100m relay final during the World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon on July 23, 2022. | Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images

Just...wow. What a race.

In the last 10 years, Balbir Singh's family members left no stones unturned to regain his memorabilia, which he had donated way back in 1985 to SAI.

"In your old age you want to be able to draw happiness from looking at what you have achieved in your life," late hockey legend Balbir Singh Sr had once said about his missing memorabilia.

By Jugjet Singh

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Junior Hockey League Division One Overall champions Tunku Mahkota Ismail Sports School (SSTMI) Thunderbolts scraped past their sister school, SSTMI Juniors, 3-2 at the school today.

Vienna, Austria

All times GMT +2

24 Jul 2022 11:30     CZE v UKR (Pool A)     4 - 3
24 Jul 2022 13:45     FRA v POL (Pool A)     1 - 1
24 Jul 2022 16:00     ITA v AUT (Pool A)       1 - 3

Pool standings

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Plzeň Litice, Czech Republic

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24 Jul 2022 11:30     IRL v TUR (Pool A)         2 - 2
24 Jul 2022 13:45     POL v ITA (Pool A)         0 - 2
24 Jul 2022 16:00     WAL v CZE (Pool A)       3 - 1

Pool standings

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Ghent, Belgium

All times GMT +2

Men

24 Jul 2022 11:00     GER v AUT (Pool B)     8 - 1
4 Jul 2022 13:15       NED v FRA (Pool B)     4 - 3
24 Jul 2022 15:30     ENG v SCO (Pool A)     2 - 1
24 Jul 2022 17:45     BEL v ESP (Pool A)         1 - 4

25 Jul 2022 12:00     FRA v AUT (Pool B)    
25 Jul 2022 14:15     GER v NED (Pool B)    

Pool standings

Women

24 Jul 2022 11:00     ENG v IRL (Pool B)         5 - 1
24 Jul 2022 13:15     GER v SCO (Pool B)     6 - 0
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Hockey Australia shares the Australian Olympic Committee’s (AOC) excitement and anticipation with today marking the 10 year countdown to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Lewis Prosser, Wales captain and the most capped male Welsh athlete, says that the squad’s “tight, close group” will hold them in good stead as they prepare for the first of two major championships in six months.

By Abdul Mohi Shah

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan target New Zealand for a place in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games’ hockey semi-finals with head coach Siegfried Aikman promising to make all-out effort to earn a place in the knockout stage.

Utrecht

All times GMT +2

23 Jul 2022 12:00     NED v AUS     0 - 3
25 Jul 2022 12:00     NED v AUS    

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