The director has revealed suitably grand scale of his forthcoming Homeric adventure, which was shot with Imax cameras and stars Matt Damon as OdysseusChristopher Nolan says he has used over more than 2 million ft of film for his adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, which is in post-production, after the director finished shooting in August.In an interview with Empire magazine, Nolan said: “I’ve been out on [the sea] for the last four months. We got the cast who play the crew of Odysseus’s ship out there on the real waves, in the real places … We really wanted to capture how hard those journeys would have been for people. And the leap of faith that was being made in an unmapped, uncharted world.” He added: “We shot over 2 million ft of film.” Continue reading...

A review of abortion law in Scotland commissioned by the Scottish Government, and undertaken by a group chaired by a former trustee of the UK’s largest abortion provider, has recommended that Scotland scrap the 24-week time limit and allow abortions on social grounds, including for sex-selective purposes, right up to birth. In Scotland, 98% of the 18,710 abortions performed in 2024 were done so under section 1(1)(a) of the Abortion Act, which is interpreted by abortion providers to allow abortions to happen for social reasons. There is currently a 24-week limit on section (1)(1)(a), which means that abortions for social reasons cannot happen after 24 weeks. Click here to sign up for pro-life news alerts from LifeNews.com The report recommends that this 24-week limit be scrapped, and social abortions be allowed right through to birth. Between 24 weeks and birth, two healthcare professionals (this is not limited to doctors, it could include nurses, midwives or others unspecified by the report) would decide if an abortion was “appropriate” (page 9). The subjective definition of “appropriate” includes considering a woman’s current or even future “social circumstances.” (page 9, point 5.2.C) Pro-abortion health professionals could approve abortions at full-term on purely social grounds – and they would not have to document them. The report also recommends: That there be no specified grounds for abortion up to 24 weeks (page 9, point 3), making abortion lawful for any reason, which means that sex-selective abortions would be made legal – the report specifically suggests “that no specific reference is made to sex-selective abortion within any updated abortion legislation” (page 9, point 6) – preventing provisions being added to legislation to prevent sex-selective abortion. Removing the important safeguard of two doctors signing off on abortion. (page 10, point 9) The Scottish Government creates a duty to provide abortion services – or a ‘right to abortion’ (page 11, point 27) That there should be no certification requirements at any gestation (page 10, point 11) That any healthcare professional could perform an abortion at any gestation (page 10, point 9) That healthcare professionals who conscientiously object to abortion would have a duty to refer (page 10, point 18) The proposed changes go far beyond the already extreme current proposals in England and Wales, which would only amend the law for women performing their own abortions. “Expert group” conflict of interest The report was commissioned by the Scottish Government and undertaken by the Abortion Law Review Expert Group, which was chaired by a former trustee of the UK’s largest abortion provider. The group consisted of 13 individuals, the majority of whom have either been on the board or worked for the UK’s largest abortion provider BPAS, or have a history of pro-abortion campaigning, including BPAS’ current Head of Advocacy. The change would position Scotland drastically away from the European Union. Abortion law in Scotland is already extreme, with the time limit double that of the most common abortion limit among EU countries, which is 12 weeks. The proposed law change would position Scotland’s abortion law even further away from a large number of EU countries. The law change would also likely lead to an increased number of viable babies’ lives being ended well beyond the 24-week abortion time limit and beyond the point at which they would be able to survive outside the womb. Sex-selective abortion would become legal in Scotland Sex-selective abortion usually targets baby girls due to a preference among certain parents and some cultures for having sons. The UK Government maintains that, under current legislation in England, Wales and Scotland, abortion on the grounds of the sex of the baby is illegal because it is “not one of the lawful grounds for termination of pregnancy” set out in the Abortion Act (which stipulates that abortion can only be performed under specific grounds). The report recommends that there be no specified grounds for abortion up to 24 weeks (page 9, point 3), making abortion lawful for any reason, which means that sex-selective abortions would be made legal – the report specifically states “that no specific reference is made to sex-selective abortion within any updated abortion legislation” (page 9, point 6) – preventing provisions being added to legislation to prevent sex-selective abortion. Potential abortion “tourism” If this proposed change becomes law, Scotland would have one of the most extreme abortion laws in the world, and a different time limit from across England and Wales, where it will remain at 24 weeks, and many EU countries, where the most common abortion time limit among EU countries is 12 weeks. This could result in women travelling from England, Wales, around Europe, and from elsewhere globally to get legal very late term and sex-selective abortions in Scotland – making Scotland the “late term and sex-selective abortion tourism capital of the world”. Potential for scandal-ridden private abortion providers to move into the “Scottish market” There are also currently no private abortion providers operating in Scotland, with abortions taking place in NHS hospitals and clinics. The potential for a large increase in demand for expensive late-term abortions, sex-selective abortions and removal of safeguards which could lower costs of providing abortions at all stages of pregnancy, could attract private abortion providers to move into the Scottish abortion “market” – either private providers from England and Wales, or abroad. In England and Wales, there have been a number of scandals at the two major private abortion providers, MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes) and BPAS. Further details covering some of the scandals that have occurred at these abortion providers are outlined here. The general public and women in particular do not support the law change Polling shows that only 1% of women support introducing abortion up to birth and 70% of women support a reduction in the time limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks or below. The same poll showed 91% of women also oppose sex-selective abortion. In 2016, there was an attempt to make the same law change in England and Wales, but campaigners have been wary about seeking to fully decriminalise abortion there again after there was a major nationwide backlash. A full list of the media coverage covering the backlash is available here. UK’s largest abortion provider, which is a member of the campaign, makes it clear it wants to remove all gestational time limits A number of the members of the expert group have either been on the board or worked for the UK’s largest abortion provider, BPAS. BPAS have made it explicit that they are campaigning to remove all gestational time limits for abortion. This position was affirmed by their then CEO, Ann Furedi, who at the launch of the campaign to ‘decriminalise’ abortion stated, “I want to be very, very clear and blunt … there should be no legal upper limit”. Catherine Robinson, spokesperson for Right To Life UK, said: “This report is one of the most extreme in UK parliamentary history, drawn up by radical activists whose views do not align with public opinion and who stand to gain from their proposals. What is being suggested is an extreme and inhumane change to the law, which polling shows is widely opposed by women.” “This proposal would result in the time limit being scrapped and abortion would become available on social grounds, up to birth.” “Sex-selective abortion would also be made legal in Scotland.” “This would leave Scotland with one of the most extreme abortion laws in the world.” “It would also likely lead to an increased number of viable babies’ lives being ended well beyond the 24-week abortion time limit and beyond the point at which they would be able to survive outside the womb.” “The Group recommending these abhorrent changes was chaired by a former trustee of BPAS, the UK’s largest abortion provider, and staffed with a collection of pro-abortion fanatics, including BPAS’ current Head of Advocacy, a clear conflict of interest that discredits the report.” “It was grossly inappropriate for abortion providers like BPAS, who benefit from changes that would largely remove their own criminal liability, broaden who can perform and where abortions can occur, and from the reduction in oversight, data collection and scrutiny that these changes would introduce, to be allowed to be at the heart of such a group. “Polling shows the public does not want abortion up to birth. Women in particular do not want it. MSPs should listen to them, not to a group of campaigners pushing their extreme agenda”. “If these campaigners get their way, babies in the womb could legally have their lives ended throughout all nine months of pregnancy.” “The law change would position Scotland drastically away from the European Union, where the most common abortion time limit among EU countries is 12 weeks.” “The Scottish Government should provide more support for women facing unplanned pregnancies, rather than seek to introduce an extreme law change that would make it legal to end a baby’s life right up to when they are about to be born.” LifeNews Note: Republished with permission from Right to Life UK. The post Politicians in Scotland Want to Legalize Abortions Up to Birth appeared first on LifeNews.com.

Author(s): Jann ZossoThe first explicit calculation of electromagnetic memory from a Lorentz symmetry-breaking wave equation reveals a novel mechanism that enhances the amplitude of electromagnetic memory by orders of magnitude.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 201602] Published Thu Nov 13, 2025

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In the book Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach you can find the following problem this is actually a multi-graph with loops. Their definition of expander and a hint are attached below My question is whether there's a reasonable proof of this excercise, or any that uses the hint. I am relatively convinced that the authors did not know how the proof for this excercise goes. A relatively straightforward calculation shows that for any $S$ as in the hint one has $$\mathbb E[e(S,\overline S)]\geq d|S|$$ now, if $e(S,\overline S)$ was binomial, then a simple aplication of Chernoff plus a union bound would suffice, this is what I think the authours might've been thinking about; this random variable is in fact, not binomial. Otherwise, one might think to prove that the second largest eigenvalue of the stochastic adjacency matrix is at most $4/5$ with high probability, which would imply the expandedness property asked. From what I've researched online, this seem like the way to go. I've only found results that prove stronger things with very involved ideas and methods. See here where they prove $\lambda\leq \frac32 d^{-1/4}$ with probability $\geq 1-O\left(e^{-\sqrt d/2}\right)$ which is of course not good enough for constant $d$, and they consecture that there is some $\alpha<0$ such that $\lambda_2<d^\alpha$ with high probability, they don't mention whether this is true for $\alpha=0$ which might make you hink it's maybe known, but I haven't been able to track down that reference or prove it myself (if it was true for $\alpha=0$ with some non-trivial implicit constant that might be enough for me). You may also see here where the author proves something that implies the excercise for $d\geq3$ but seems like too strong of a result and the proof is of course way more complicated than what I would expect for an excercise, and again uses the trace method; no mention of large deviations of edge counts. Asides from that, I haven't been able to find any paper that implies the case $d=2$. Even more evidence for the authors just thinking this was simpler than it was is that on a draft version of the book, they provide the following hint which to me seems like they're trying to prove vertex expansion instead of edge expansion. All of this makes me think they put the excercise, noticed they were thinking about something else and just said "Whatever, it's probably some Chernoff thing, can't be that hard". Am I going crazy?

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Sometimes (very often) I like to gaslight myself into thinking I don’t need my vyvanse to function. I woke up later than usual this morning and if I had taken my vyvanse I probably wouldn’t of gotten much sleep, debated taking dex instead but thought f*ck it I don’t need medication. Did some exercise and ate lunch, felt even better. I got to work, wasted 30 minutes chatting with coworkers, sat down and started working. 20 minutes in i’m thinking shit, this is actual torture. How the f*ck am I going to get through 8hrs of this. I was seriously contemplating driving back home to get my meds. Somehow, I managed to get through it by taking 5 toilet breaks and an extra 15 minute dinner break, and about an hour of wasting time chatting. Was the longest 8hrs of my life. The funny thing is, i’ll do the exact same thing in a couple of weeks. This is a reoccurring issue of me thinking I don’t actually have adhd. 🤣 submitted by /u/Live_Broccoli_2180 [link] [comments]

I have trouble to get the logic straight on ACL binding. Let's get a simple example going and I try to explain what I mean. Let's just imagine two hosts in two different universes and we are somewhere in the middle. We want to check one specific interface for traffic between those two hosts. Host A can sent and Receive to Host B and vise versa. Is it unnecessary to bind the following ACL on the interface to both ingress and egress? ipv4 access-list TestCounter 10 permit ipv4 host <HostA> host <HostB> ipv4 access-list TestCounter 20 permit ipv4 host <HostB> host <HostA> ipv4 access-list TestCounter 30 permit ipv4 any any interface TenGigEx/x/x/x ipv4 access-group TestCounter ingress interface TenGigEx/x/x/x ipv4 access-group TestCounter egress So technically traffic sent from Host B to Host A will never match because such traffic will never be seen on Ingress and vise versa Host A -> Host B on Egress will never be seen. But it remains the "same" or not? ACL 1 for Host A -> Host B on Ingress and ACL 2 for Host B -> Host A for Egress or put everything in one ACL and do ingress/egress like the example? submitted by /u/MiniQpa [link] [comments]

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[Civil Appeal Nos. 281-282 of 2015]. The present Appeals arise from a long-standing and deeply rooted dispute between two sections of Kuruba community in Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh i.e., the Kapadam families of Gungulakunta village and the Kamatam families of Yerrayapalli village. The controversy, extending over several decades, centers upon the performance of religious rituals and the custody of idols and paraphernalia associated with the deity Lord Sangalappa Swamy, who is the common deity worshipped by both the sects. The litigation traces back nearly a century. The first in the series of suits was O.S. No.486 of 1927 filed before the District Munsif Court, Anantapur by members of the Kamatam (respondents herein) sect of Yerrayapalli, seeking custody of pooja articles and religious paraphernalia relating to Lord Sangalappa Swamy, which included items such as bronze horses, idols of Lord Sangalappa Swamy, and other articles of worship.

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