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A reformed football hooligan who scooped a whopping £1,000,000 on the EuroMillions has revealed he nearly missed out on his life-changing windfall due to a technicality.
Daniel Wright, whose semi-autobiographical book Northern Monkeys chronicles his journey through the hardcore Bradford City supporter scene known as "The Ointment," was on holiday when fortune struck. Speaking to podcaster James English, he explained how he was simply passing time while his girlfriend was in the shower when he decided to check his emails.
He explained: "I just thought I'd check my emails, and I saw on that said 'You've won on EuroMillions.' I thought it would be £2.50 or something."
Curious to discover the actual amount, Daniel launched the official lottery app, which displayed a prominent alert about his triumph. He recalled: "I wasn't really paying attention. I thought I'd won £1,000, then I thought 'That's not £1,000. I must have counted it 10 times, then I shouted 'Woo!' Like Rick Flair."
However, Daniel's celebration was tinged with worry due to a potential complication surrounding his massive prize.
"I won the UK matchmaker," he reveals. "But I was in Cape Verde at the time. If I'd bought that ticket in Cape Verde, I wouldn't have got paid."
Fortunately, Daniel's ticket had been purchased through his regular weekly direct debit arrangement, despite him being abroad when the draw took place.
When he contacted lottery officials to claim his fortune, they grilled him about his location during the ticket purchase: "They said to me, 'Where did you put the ticket on?' And I said 'Well, it's a standing order, so it just comes out my bank every month'.
"They said, "Alright, that's alright – but if you'd have bought the ticket while you were abroad, we won't pay you. Imagine that. Imagine if that happened to you.
"So, if you ever win the lottery and you're on holiday, don't ring them until you get back."
Daniel still had another 10 days remaining in Cape Verde, so he couldn't collect his winnings until a fortnight later.
That gave him plenty of time to start fretting whether the entire thing was an elaborate prank, considering it was shortly after April Fools' Day, and then to begin worrying that someone might attempt to sell a story about his criminal history.
He continued: "I think The Lottery knew that I've been in jail, but it's not it's not a rule that you can't be in in jail and play the lottery."
When he finally did collect his prize money, he wasn't entirely certain what to do with it.
"It's strange feeling because you don't know what to do really," he remembered. "You can do what you want so I went traveling for a bit. I got one of those train tickets that goes around Europe, and you can get on and off wherever you want for a month. But after a bit, I got bored of that.
"Even though it's great going looking at all these different cities, but like there's only so many cathedrals and museums you can see before you think 'F***, I want to do something else'
"So I moved away. I put some money into a couple of businesses here and there and then I just concentrated on writing books. I always wanted to write a novel and I thought 'I've got the perfect chance now,' just so I did that."
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.NET and Structured Query Language (SQL) developers these days are expected to do more with less time, while still maintaining code quality and adhering to best practices. Amazon CodeWhisperer is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding companion that can help developers accelerate and enhance their software development with code generation, reference tracking, security scans, and customization capabilities.
In this blog post, we will explore how you can use Amazon CodeWhisperer to accelerate your .NET and SQL development. CodeWhisperer provides the following benefits:
Generative AI on AWS holds great promise for businesses seeking to unlock new opportunities and drive innovation. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a robust suite of tools and capabilities that can revolutionize software development, generate valuable insights, and deliver enhanced customer value. AWS is committed to simplifying generative AI for businesses through services like Amazon CodeWhisperer.
CodeWhisperer streamlines .NET developers’ use of AWS services by providing optimized code suggestions for AWS service SDKs such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Lambda, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is an open-source plug-in for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) that makes it easier for developers by providing an integrated experience to create, debug, and deploy applications on AWS. Getting started with CodeWhisperer in VS Code is simple.
Step 1: Install AWS Toolkit for VS Code, which is available as a free download from the VS Code Marketplace.
Step 2: Set up CodeWhisperer authentication. You can authenticate as an individual developer by using an AWS Builder ID (through your organization using AWS IAM Identity Center) or by using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Step 3: Familiarize yourself with user actions and shortcuts available to you as a user of CodeWhisperer.
CodeWhisperer is also now available for Microsoft Visual Studio in preview. To learn more, visit  Amazon CodeWhisperer new enhancements and Using CodeWhisperer with Visual Studio.
C# is a general-purpose, object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft. It is widely used for building .NET applications for desktop, web, and mobile. CodeWhisperer, when producing code suggestions in C#, takes many factors into consideration for code generation, including function and variable names, comments, and the contents of the file. CodeWhisperer will understand your intent and provide suggestions based on the single or multiple line directional prompts and comments. Writing unit tests is an important part of creating software applications, and CodeWhisperer can help you more quickly develop these tests for your C# code.
SQL is a programming language used with relational databases. It allows you to perform operations on databases, such as creating tables, and inserting, querying, and modifying data. CodeWhisperer can generate ANSI SQL, Transact-SQL (T-SQL) and database-specific SQL Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements. It can also help with providing recommendations on database connectivity and queries in any of the supported programming languages.
Note that in the following examples, the code recommendations provided by CodeWhisperer are generated using artificial intelligence, and therefore, are non-deterministic. The code generated for you may differ from what is shown in this post.
CodeWhisperer considers the context of the active file, its dependencies, and provided comments to generate the code suggestions. Including contextual information, such as the appropriate namespaces, will give you better results from CodeWhisperer.
Creating a utility, or helper, method is a common use case that developers run into on a daily basis. We will start with a simple example that demonstrates how CodeWhisperer can generate a string extension method for validating an email address using a regular expression.
Type in (or copy and paste) the following comment in your C# source file opened in VS Code, Visual Studio or any of the supported IDEs and press enter:
CodeWhisperer will then start providing code suggestions, as shown in Figure 1. You can accept the suggestions by pressing the tab key.

Figure 1: Extension method for validating regular expressions, generated by CodeWhisperer
CodeWhisperer can accelerate tasks like generating code for classes. You can generate full or partial C# classes for constructs like entities, models, or controllers, complete with constructors, properties and methods.  You just have to provide a comment describing the intent and behavior of the class.
Type in (or copy and paste) the following comment and press enter:
CodeWhisperer can provide multiple code suggestions. You can view the suggestions using the arrow keys and accept the one that closely matches your requirement. In this instance, CodeWhisperer auto-generates the Product and ShoppingCart with the properties that are mentioned in the user prompt:
CodeWhisperer can generate unit tests for your code. In the following example, we generate unit tests for the Product and ShoppingCart class (from the previous example) by providing the following user prompt. We add the prompt to the same code file used in the previous Product example so that CodeWhisperer uses the context of the file to suggest relevant code.
Type in (or copy and paste) the following comment and press enter:
It generates the following code:
ASP.NET Core Middleware are software components for handling HTTP web requests and responses. ASP.NET ships with many built-in middleware components that can be plugged into the pipeline, depending on the use case. You can write custom middleware for custom scenarios not handled by the built-in middleware. Following is an example for a custom middleware component.
Type in (or copy and paste) the following comment and press enter:
For this prompt, CodeWhisperer generates middleware code that returns an HTTP 401 (unauthorized) response status code when an API key is not passed in a request header.
The following code is generated:
Next, we will illustrate an example using Amazon Comprehend, a natural-language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to uncover valuable insights and connections in text.
Providing additional contextual information helps CodeWhisperer generate even more relevant code. For this example, we import the related namespaces, Amazon.Comprehend and Amazon.Comprehend.Model, from the AWS SDK for .NET into the code file.
Type in (or copy and paste) the following prompt and press enter:
The following code is generated:
CodeWhisperer can help accelerate the development of AWS Code Development Kit (AWS CDK) for .NET projects. You can generate C# code to model infrastructure by providing simple descriptions as comments. Here is an example of generating code to create an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) queue, an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic, and a subscription of the queue to the topic.
Type in (or copy and paste) the following user prompt (indicated by the comment block):
The following code is generated:
CodeWhisperer can help integrate 3^rd-party libraries and packages to your existing code base without spending hours reading the official documentation for the library.
You can use CodeWhisperer to integrate Polly, a popular open-source library for handling HTTP web request failures, into your .NET code. Polly provides an elegant way to handle web request transient errors by performing retries, and defining policies to prevent system degradation during error scenarios. For better code recommendations, the “Polly” namespace can be imported into the code file to give more context.
Type in (or copy and paste) the following prompt and press enter:
The following code is generated:
CodeWhisperer supports code generation for ANSI SQL. We will review a few examples to demonstrate how you can build SQL scripts and queries using CodeWhisperer.
CodeWhisperer can accelerate SQL development by generating commands to create, modify, or delete your database objects, including tables, indexes, stored procedures, views, cursors, and database users.
Type in (or copy and paste) the following prompt in a sql file to create a database with several tables.
This generates the following code:
Figure 2: SQL code generated by CodeWhisperer defining a database and several tables
In the same IDE window that generated the previous example, type in (or copy and paste) the following user prompt to add a new column to the Employee table and create a foreign key reference to the Department table:
This generates the following code:
Enter the following prompt in the same ID window to generate a stored procedure that uses the already created structures:
This generates the following code:
You can use CodeWhisperer to generate complex queries for retrieving, manipulating, and persisting data. We will review several examples with user prompts and the corresponding generated SQL.
Type in (or copy and paste) the following user prompt and press enter.
The following SQL is generated in response to the prompt. It includes a correlated subquery, aggregate functions, and several joins.
To create a temporary table with data, type in (or copy and paste) the following prompt:
It generates code using a temporary table to store intermediate data for later use:
If you installed the AWS Toolkit for VS Code for these examples, you can remove it if you no longer need it. Navigate to the extensions item in VS Code and enter “AWS toolkit” in the search box. Right-click on “AWS Toolkit” and choose uninstall.
In this blog post, you have learned about using Amazon CodeWhisperer, a generative AI service on AWS. You have set up CodeWhisperer on VS Code and practiced several ways to generate C# and SQL code. By inferring natural language comments and contextual information, CodeWhisperer provides code snippets to accelerate your development. With CodeWhisperer, you can use keyboard shortcuts to get a new recommendation if the first one doesn’t meet your needs.
Try out Amazon CodeWhisperer on your coding projects today.
AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider, making it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud and build nearly anything you can imagine. Give your Microsoft applications the infrastructure they need to drive the business outcomes you want. Visit our .NET on AWS and AWS Database blogs for additional guidance and options for your Microsoft workloads. Contact us to start your migration and modernization journey today.
Renuka Krishnan is a Partner Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services in Atlanta, GA. She has over 15 years of experience architecting and implementing solutions with a focus on Microsoft technologies. She is passionate about helping partners and customers migrate, modernize and optimize their Microsoft workloads on AWS.
Siva is a Partner Solutions Architect in Amazon Web Services based out of Nashville, TN. He has over 14 years of experience specialized in Infrastructure Migration & Modernization focussed on Microsoft & VMware workloads. He has helped several Customers & work closely with Partners to achieve their Migration & Modernization goals.

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Winning numbers drawn in Monday’s Washington Pick 3  San Francisco Chronicle
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The Nebraska Lottery has announced the winning numbers for all its major draws held on November 10, 2025. This means that players from across the state are now checking their tickets to see if they’ve won prizes in Powerball, Mega Millions, and Nebraska Pick 5. 
The Powerball winning numbers for November 10 were: 3, 10, 12, 31, 42, and Powerball number 11. Nobody matched the six-number combination to take the top prize, so the jackpot continues to grow. 
Now, the next Powerball jackpot is estimated at around $467 million with a cash option of about $219 million. Even though no one won the jackpot, many players matched partial combinations and won smaller prizes. 
A handful of tickets nationwide won from $50,000 to $2 million, based on the Power Play multiplier option. 
The next Powerball drawing will be this Wednesday, November 12, at 10:59 p.m. Eastern Time.
The Mega Millions winning figures for the recent draw were 8, 20, 32, 43, 68, and the Mega Ball number 5. 
The Megaplier for this draw was 3x. 
No jackpot winner was blazoned in Nebraska, but several lower prizes were claimed statewide. 
The Mega Millions jackpot has now risen to about $230 million, with a cash option of $108 million. Drawing for Mega Millions are held every Tuesday and Friday at 1100 p.m. Eastern Time.
For Nebraska’s own Pick 5 game, the winning figures for November 10 were , 13, 25, 30, 37.
Pick 5 offers lower jacks compared to the public games but has better odds for original players.
The jackpot for the coming Pick 5 draw now stands at $90,000. Tickets for Pick 5 cost $1 per play, and players need to match all five figures to win the jackpot.
The MyDaY figures for November 10 were 
Month 5, Day 12, Year 04. 
The 2by2 figures were 
Red 11, 19; 
White 12, 21. 
The 2by2 game gives players diurnal chances to win up to $22,000, and prizes double when tickets are bought for seven successive draws.
Players can check their tickets by visiting any Nebraska Lottery retailer, using the official Nebraska Lottery app, or checking results on the Nebraska Lottery website. Winners have 180 days from the draw date to claim their prizes. 
For lower prizes, tickets can be redeemed at any lottery retailer, while larger prizes must be claimed at a Nebraska Lottery claim center or posted with a completed claim form. Players are advised to keep checking their numbers and keep them safe until they claim their winnings.
The Powerball and Mega Millions jacks continue to rise, attracting players across the country. With Powerball now reaching over $467 million, numerous Nebraskans are anticipated to share in the upcoming draw. 
Indeed though the odds of hitting the jackpot are long — about 1 in 292 million for Powerball and 1 in 302 million for Mega Millions — numerous players continue to win lower quantities every week.
The Nebraska Lottery reminds players to play responsibly and only spend what they can go. Lottery games are meant for entertainment, and prizes are always a matter of chance. 
For those who may need help managing their lottery spending, resources and support are available through the Nebraska Problem Gambling Helpline at 1-833-BETOVER(238-6837).
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DC Lottery results: See winning numbers for Powerball, DC 2 on Nov. 10, 2025  Yahoo News UK
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Seventeen players in New Jersey won $10,000 or more last week playing Powerball, Mega Millions and New Jersey Lottery games.
The New Jersey Lottery announced its weekly winners on Nov. 10. Here’s a look at where these tickets were sold from Nov. 3 to Nov. 9, as provided by the lottery agency:

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