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Rams safety Kam Curl: Our defense has 'a chance to be legendary' https://www.nfl.com/news/rams-safety-kam-curl-our-defense-has-a-chance-to-be-legendary

Not only will the Ring Road not solve the traffic issues as report after report has highlighted only 3% is bypass traffic, but it will CPO and affect 54 homeowners.
The N6 will encourage private car use, raise emissions, waste money, and not even solve traffic.
https://www.

Galway Ring Road CPO issued as residents seek clarity
The marathon N6 Galway City Ring Road project has moved a step closer following the publication of the compulsory purchase order (CPO) notice last week, but families facing the loss of their homes say they are still waiting for direct communication about what happens next.

#Zürich

"Durchsage ihres Lokomotivführers: Wegen einer Stellwerkstörung kann diese S11 ab Winterthur nicht weiterfahren. Sie müssen mit einem anderen Zug nach Zürich weiterfahren."
Montag.
#SBB #övlife #Winterthur

Solutocapillary instability in slipping falling films
Sanghasri Mukhopadhyay, S\'everine Millet, Bastien Di Pierro, Asim Mukhopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17519 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17519
arXiv:2605.17519v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a comprehensive framework for gravity-driven, surfactant-laden thin films flowing over slippery substrates, elucidating how wall slip modifies the coupled hydrodynamics and interfacial transport. A long-wave model is formulated with a conservative bulk-surface mass balance and a Navier slip condition. The Orr-Sommerfeld eigenvalue problem governs the linear regime, while a weighted-residual model captures the nonlinear evolution over a range of equilibrium surfactant coverages, Marangoni strengths, and adsorption kinetics. The analysis predicts a non-monotonic variation of the critical Reynolds number with equilibrium coverage, exhibiting a maximum at intermediate $\Gamma_e$, and a slip-induced transition from single- to double-hump solitary structures with increasing Marangoni number, accompanied by attenuated capillary ripples. Under fast adsorption kinetics, the surface field homogenizes, preserving the mean film shape and flux while flattening both the surface concentration $\Gamma$ and the bulk inventory $\chi h\phi$. A spurious interfacial mass growth reported by Pascal et al.(PRF, 2019) and D'Alessio et al.(JFM, 2020) is resolved through a revised surface balance ensuring strict conservation. Wall slip thus emerges as a key control parameter, reducing viscous resistance and mitigating Marangoni back-stress. The slip parameter $\beta$ is a useful control knob for surfactant-laden films. Slip prevents fragile multi-hump bound states, promoting a single broad crest or an almost flat, uniform sheet by carefully bonding $\beta$ to wave selection, ripple damping, and the bulk-surface surfactant balance.
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From Licensing to Open Access: Designing a Sustainable Transition in Operational Weather Data
Emma Pidduck, Umberto Modigliani, Victoria L. Bennett, Fabio Venuti, Florian Pappenberger, Florence Rabier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21673 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.21673 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.21673
arXiv:2605.21673v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This translational article documents the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) transition from a restricted data licensing model to open access under CC BY 4.0, completed in October 2025. The policy context included EU open data requirements and alignment with international data exchange frameworks. The transition was implemented through a tiered service model that kept core forecast data open while offering operationally supported delivery as a cost-recovered service. Between 2020 and 2025, ECMWF executed an iterative planning cycle: setting an annual target for revenue reduction, specifying additions to the open tier under that target, provisioning infrastructure, and assessing outcomes to update assumptions. Drawing on internal administrative records (2014 - 2025), we describe design choices, operational constraints, and early outcomes. In the six months following the end of the transition, more than 93% of previously paying organisations retained a Service Agreement, while open endpoint download volumes increased substantially. We discuss trade-offs in defining the open tier (resolution, parameters, schedule), the reduction of compliance overheads formerly associated with redistribution restrictions, and the scalability implications of global distribution. We note an emerging sustainability question as AI-based forecast products become freely available. The early evidence is consistent with the view that a tiered service model can be designed to reconcile open-access obligations with operational sustainability, subject to monitoring over longer contract renewal cycles (typically annual).
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
The Flying Lizards:
🎵 Money (That’s What I Want)
#TheFlyingLizards
https://guydavidov.bandcamp.com/track/the-flying-lizards-money-that-s-what-i-want-guy-davidov-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mHx2EsLJlImS6tENOt22o

Dutch consumer electronics retailer and energy supplier Coolblue is adding a new 'free' to its range (following 'free washing' and 'free drying'): 'free dishwashing', available every day between 12:00 and 15:00 with connected Bosch/Siemens dishwashers.
https://www.coolblue.nl/en…

The Beezal Mop Podcast
Journeying through filmmaking in discussions with creatives across a wide range of professions...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-beezal-mop/

5 storylines worth following on 2026 Raiders schedule https://www.raiders.com/news/5-storylines-2026-raiders-schedule-release-nfl-seattle-seahawks-buffalo-bills-los-angeles-rams