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Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1904, the City of Niagara Falls was incorporated, with a population of approximately 7,000 residents. Niagara Falls was already a major tourist attraction with numerous hotels established in the 1880s, and it was the honeymoon destination for most of Canada and the USA. Today, you can visit the far superior Canadian Falls and play golf, visit War of 1812 historical sites, or deposit some money at the casino.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/niagara-falls-ont

For the #NewJersey Primary the almost complete vote counts are:
Democrats: ~786,145
Republican: ~453,000
Looking at Wikipedia both vote counts seem all time highs for primaries with the Democrat last big primary in 1981 with 633,000 votes.
People are paying attention this cycle on both sides of the isle.

sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 81 nodes and 150126 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Preorders on maximal chains: hyperplane arrangements, Cambrian lattices, and maximal green sequences
Mikhail Gorsky, Nicholas J. Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08858

Preorders on maximal chains: hyperplane arrangements, Cambrian lattices, and maximal green sequences
We study preorders on (equivalence classes of) maximal chains in the general context of polygonal lattices endowed with suitably nice edge labellings. We show that, given a quotient of polygonal lattices, such edge labellings descend to the quotient, and that there is an induced order-preserving surjective map on the preordered sets of equivalence classes of maximal chains. Under a natural condition ensuring that the domain is a poset, the map is a contraction of preordered sets. We apply this …

A Radio Flaring, Chromospherically-Inactive K Dwarf
Dale A. Frail, Scott D. Hyman, Michele L. Silverstein, Emil Polisensky, Evangelia Tremou, Simona Giacintucci, Hodari-Sadiki Hubbard-James, Jacinda Byam, Steve B. Howell, Robert F. Wilson, Matthew Lastovka, Tracy E. Clarke, Namir E. Kassim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07255…

A Radio Flaring, Chromospherically-Inactive K Dwarf
We report on an unusual radio source J180526-292953, initially identified as a steep spectrum, polarized point source toward the Galactic bulge and found to coincide with the nearby K dwarf HD317101A. We conducted a multi-wavelength radio study utilizing new GMRT observations and archival data from ASKAP, MeerKAT, and the VLA. At 1.5 GHz, HD317101A exhibits highly polarized coherent emission with variable activity lasting several hours with an apparent period of 3.7 days, which is consistent wi…

Pairwise similarity method for majority domination problem
N. I. Shushko, D. V. Lemtyuzhnikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08886 https://

Pairwise similarity method for majority domination problem
The paper considers the problem of finding the number of dominant voters in two-level voting procedures. At the first stage, voting is conducted among local groups of voters, and at the second stage, the results are aggregated to form a final decision. The goal is to determine the minimum proportion of voters supporting a proposal for it to be accepted. The paper uses the method of pairwise comparisons to analyze the structure of the problem and develop heuristic algorithms with guaranteed accu…

In recent months, immigration agents, often masked, have arrested and detained undocumented people at court hearings, school drop-offs, and in one case, shortly after a mother gave birth.
💥The agency has, under many administrations, separated children from their parents, and denied people contact with lawyers and family members. 
⚠️ And some high-profile cases seem politically motivated, as well:
In early March, ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil,
a graduate student …

ICE raids push immigrant communities into the shadows, hindering environmental justice efforts
Noncitizens may no longer feel safe showing up to public meetings to fight harmful local policies, advocates say

Et surtout, continuez Š poster des questions débiles.
https://actu.orange.fr/question-du-jour-2025-07-11-CNT000002jwJii.html
Bientôt sur vos écrans : "selon vous, faut-il donner des shots de rhum piment Š des nourrissons pour les hydrater ?"

Good Morning #Canada
I was going to post something about Preston Manning's birthday, but the related web surfing about how the parties he founded provided platforms for the worst Canadian politicians was too depressing. So instead, I'm starting a new feature called "Mercer Memories," where Rick Mercer gets centre stage on days where nothing interesting happened or topics don't pique my interest. You're welcome...
#CanadaIsAwesome #MercerMemories
https://youtu.be/yi1yhp-_x7A?si=dMmAuI2p0Sy_mXgO