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“Buildings are the single largest energy consumer in Europe. Transposition and implementation of the #EPBD is key to boosting the EU's current very low annual energy renovation rate (1%), reducing bills for citizens and businesses and the EU's dependence on imported fossil fuels, and achieving a zero-emission and fully decarbonised building stock by 2050.”

The Commission calls on EU countries to transpose the reinforced rules on the energy performance of buildings
The European Commission decided to open infringement procedures by sending letters of formal notice to all 27 EU Member States for failing to fully transpose into national law the provisions of the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EU) 2024/1275.

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in Britain for the first time in nearly 1,000 years following a secret journey from France.
The priceless 70-metre-long medieval artwork depicting the Norman conquest of England
was discreetly delivered to the British Museum in London in a high-security operation overnight on Friday.
Crafted from wool thread stitched onto linen, the tapestry accurately depicts the intertwined – sometimes bloody – histories of Britain and France, and is symboli…

Bayeux Tapestry smuggled into Britain for first visit in 1,000 years
The loan of the artwork is seen as symbolic of French-British relations as London works to mend ties post-Brexit.

Replaced article(s) found for math.DG. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DG/new
[1/3]:
- Family index for Fredholm extensions of semi-Fredholm operators
Marina Prokhorova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16060 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/111843359116350796
- Constructing stable Hilbert bundles via Diophantine approximation
Yucheng Liu, Biao Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15784
- Ricci Solitons of Left-Invariant Metrics on Lie Groups with Derived Algebra of Dimension at Most Two
Hamid Reza Salimi Moghaddam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10730 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/115920688396400257
- Mass and rigidity in almost K\"ahler geometry
Partha Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08627 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116204063956883755
- Classifying Slice-Regular Polynomials via Group Actions on the Twistor Space
Chunlin Liu, Giovanni Moreno, Haipan Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22788 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116617182455085202
- $G_2$ and the Maximally Symmetric (3, 8) Distribution with 6-Dimensional Square
Nicklas Day, Boris Doubrov, Igor Zelenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25910 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116639966776117301
- Cohn--Vossen-Type Inequalities for Three-Manifolds and Locally Conformally Flat Manifolds
Jialong Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.01368 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116679534951132380
- From Gradient Descent to Potential Theory: A Geometric Dictionary for Binary Classification
Catalin Vasii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00988 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116849328935224137
- A sharp relative comparison inequality for conformal fillings of Poincar\'e--Einstein manifolds
Nan Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13742 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116928601640640156
- A degenerate free boundary minimal annulus and non-uniqueness in spherical caps beyond the hemisp...
Alexander Pigazzini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23534 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/116996542129550830
- Special Lagrangians with multiple isolated singularities
Bryan Dimler, Filippo Gaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26302 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117007805427278588
- Demailly-Koll\'ar continuity on klt pairs, and applications to alpha and delta invariants
Tam\'as Darvas, Kewei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23505 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117155289132945927
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Bats decouple sonar gaze from steering to resolve sensory conflict https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.08.743555v1 "We induced auditory-visual conflict in free-flying echolocating Egyptian fruit bats", "animals could efficiently employ active sen…

Bats decouple sonar gaze from steering to resolve sensory conflict
When sensory modalities yield conflicting information, animals must rapidly reassess stimuli to select their actions. We induced auditory-visual conflict in free-flying echolocating Egyptian fruit bats by fitting animals with prisms that shifted the perceived visual location of a landing perch while echoes returned from its veridical location. Bats that course-corrected within a single goal-directed flight did so by decoupling sonar gaze from steering, to enable rapid reweighting of visual and …

I’m all alone on the Northwood bus headed to North Campus where I’m meeting (in my new office!) a student who I am trying to recruit to write a Master’s thesis on digital privacy.

About last night

Analysis: ABC's The View hasn't featured a single candidate running in a competitive midterm race since the FCC launched an "equal time" rule probe in February (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/05/2026

Exclusive: ‘The View’ throttles back political candidate bookings following FCC inquiry
Since February, the ABC daytime talk show has cut its bookings of candidates for office.

Lee-Yang paradigm of phase transition in eigenstate thermalized systems
Yongjiang Xu, Weixin Sun, Chushun Tian, Huajia Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13174 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13174 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13174
arXiv:2608.13174v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: As phase transitions in isolated quantum systems remain elusive, here we show how a thermodynamic-like phase transition, falling into the Lee-Yang paradigm, can arise in systems displaying eigenstate thermalization. Specifically, we show that in holographic conformal field theories, the eigenstate expectation of the auto-correlation function can be mapped to the partition function ${\cal Z}_{{gauge}}(z)$ of a virtual interacting instanton gas, with the conformal mapping of the imaginary time: $z=1-e^{-\tau}$ and the central charge $c$ mimicking the instanton fugacity and volume, respectively. We find that akin to the Lee-Yang paradigm, for $c\to\infty$ a pair of complex conjugate zeros of ${\cal Z}_{{gauge}}(z)$ move to the real axis located at the famous forbidden singularity. Passing through the singularity the system transits from the low- to high-fugacity phase, accompanied by dramatic changes in scaling behaviors of the free energy and dominant microscopic configurations. Our findings indicate that physics of phase transitions from eigenstate thermalization is very rich.
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The survey for the #ECB's banknote designs survey has a link to #Bluesky (ecb.europa.eu) which is on #WSocial.
They can't even bring themselves to label it "W" and just have it as BlueSky. 😂