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Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson were both joined by their adult sons at the New York premiere of their upcoming comedy on Monday.

Locals may have experienced power cuts, too

A new study analyzing distorted sound waves from the early universe suggests we may live in a massive cosmic void "with roughly 20% lower than the average density of matter," writes Indranil Banik in an article for The Conversation. "Not every physicist is convinced that this is the case. But our recent paper analyzing distorted sounds from the early universe, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, strongly backs up the idea." Slashdot reader alternative_right shares an excerpt from the report: My colleagues and I previously argued that the Hubble tension might be due to our location within a large void. That's because the sparse amount of matter in the void would be gravitationally attracted to the more dense matter outside it, continuously flowing out of the void. In previous research, we showed that this flow would make it look like the local universe is expanding about 10% faster than expected. That would solve the Hubble tension. But we wanted more evidence. And we know a local void would slightly distort the relation between the BAO angular scale and the redshift due to the faster moving matter in the void and its gravitational effect on light from outside. So in our new paper, Vasileios Kalaitzidis and I set out to test the predictions of the void model using BAO measurements collected over the last 20 years. We compared our results to models without a void under the same background expansion history. In the void model, the BAO ruler should look larger on the sky at any given redshift. And this excess should become even larger at low redshift (close distance), in line with the Hubble tension. The observations confirm this prediction. Our results suggest that a universe with a local void is about one hundred million times more likely than a cosmos without one, when using BAO measurements and assuming the universe expanded according to the standard model of cosmology informed by the CMB. Our research shows that the ACDM model without any local void is in "3.8 sigma tension" with the BAO observations. This means the likelihood of a universe without a void fitting these data is equivalent to a fair coin landing heads 13 times in a row. By contrast, the chance of the BAO data looking the way they do in void models is equivalent to a fair coin landing heads just twice in a row. In short, these models fit the data quite well. In the future, it will be crucial to obtain more accurate BAO measurements at low redshift, where the BAO standard ruler looks larger on the sky -- even more so if we are in a void. The average expansion rate so far follows directly from the age of the universe, which we can estimate from the ages of old stars in the Milky Way. A local void would not affect the age of the universe, but some proposals do affect it. These and other probes will shed more light on the Hubble crisis in cosmology.

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Brooklyn Beckham has been flexing the Peltz's wealth during a St Tropez getaway with his in-laws - dwarfing his family's current getaway in the same location.

She burst on to the London scene in the Nineties as a lingerie model, landing magazine covers and starring in ad campaigns for household favourites Diet Coke and Pizza Hut.

If agreed the new larger nursery could offer an additional seven child places

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Charles White-Thomson, of the Adam Smith Institute, explains its system to measure the government against its own targets - and how it is doing.

From stealing thousands of pounds from their grandmother's pension, to running over an elderly landlord's foot, these 14 individuals will serve jail time

The team was honoured with a special reception at No 10 Downing Street, hosted by Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.

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Writing in his column for Gardeners' World, horticulturalist and broadcaster Monty Don suggested we need not have a fixed idea of what a 'good' garden looks like.

Georgia Goldstein travelled to Hart Medical in Westminster, London , a few months ago to undergo the procedure.

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To ensure that several services could only be invoked by trusted parties, someone at Ricardo P's employer had the brilliant idea of requiring a token along with each request. Before servicing a request, they added this check:

private bool IsValidToken(string? token) { if (string.Equals("xxxxxxxx-xxxxxx+xxxxxxx+xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxx+xxxxx", token)) return true; return false; }

The token is anonymized here, but it's hard-coded into the code, because checking security tokens into source control, and having tokens that never expire has never caused anyone any trouble.

Which, in the company's defense, they did want the token to expire. The problem there is that they wanted to be able to roll out the new token to all of their services over time, which meant the system had to be able to support both the old and new token for a period of time. And you know exactly how they handled that.

private bool IsValidToken(string? token) { if (string.Equals("xxxxxxxx-xxxxxx+xxxxxxx+xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxx+xxxxx", token)) return true; else if (string.Equals("yyyyyyy-yyyyyy+yyyyy+yyyyy-yyyyy-yyyyy+yyyy", token)) return true; return false; }

For a change, I'm more mad about this insecurity than the if(cond) return true pattern, but boy, I hate that pattern.

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