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Hmmmm… here is a problem I did not anticipate.
Every time I empty the main pond hole of water, (the actual hole under the liner) water returns within an hour or two. I’ve done it 4 times now, and it keeps filling back up with water.
Obviously there is water underground infiltrating into the pond hole, and/or the water table itself is above the bottom of the hole. It is not coming from either of the other holes because they both have the same amount of water in them as they did this morning.
I have “watered” the blueberry patch and hazelnut tree a lot with the water that I have been cleaning the filter with… and we also had lots of water flying around outside the liners yesterday as I tested the pump. So it is quite possible that the ground around the pond is simply well saturated.
I think I am going to have to just keep removing the water (and putting it into the sewer) until it does not refill. We have a week of hot weather coming. Surely that will be enough time for everything to dry out completely.
Otherwise I might run into some issues if the rains return before I can anchor down the pond liner with gravel and get the plumbing in!
How is time already running short!?
Never underestimate the ability of water to find a place where it is not wanted. 😆
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy

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Zariski-dense deformations of standard discontinuous groups for pseudo-Riemannian homogeneous spaces
Kazuki Kannaka, Toshiyuki Kobayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03476

Zariski-dense deformations of standard discontinuous groups for pseudo-Riemannian homogeneous spaces
Let $X=G/H$ be a homogeneous space of a Lie group $G$. When the isotropy subgroup $H$ is non-compact, a discrete subgroup $Γ$ may fail to act properly discontinuously on $X$. In this article, we address the following question: in the setting where $G$ and $H$ are reductive Lie groups and $Γ\backslash X$ is a standard quotient, to what extent can one deform the discrete subgroup $Γ$ while preserving the proper discontinuity of the action on $X$? We provide several classification results, in…

Modeling Emission-Line Surface Brightness in a Multiphase Galactic Wind: An O VI Case Study
Zirui Chen, Zixuan Peng, Kate H. R. Rubin, Timothy M. Heckman, Matthew J. Hayes, Yakov Faerman, Crystal L. Martin, S. Peng Oh, Drummond B. Fielding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02443

Modeling Emission-Line Surface Brightness in a Multiphase Galactic Wind: An O VI Case Study
We present a fast and robust analytic framework for predicting surface brightness (SB) of emission lines in galactic winds as a function of radius up to $\sim 100$ kpc out in the circum-galactic medium. We model multi-phase structure in galactic winds by capturing emission from both the volume-filling hot phase (T $\sim 10^{6-7}$ K) and turbulent radiative mixing layers that host intermediate temperature gas at the boundaries of cold clouds (T $\sim 10^4$ K). Our multi-phase framework makes sig…

🪧 Labor’s Crisis Is Not a PR Problem
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Labor’s Crisis Is Not a PR Problem
Union approval is at historic highs, yet density keeps falling. The problem isn’t messaging but the lack of strategy that can turn popularity into power.

Fabrication of oxide/FeSe multilayer films using the PLD technique
Tomoki Kobayashi, Hiroki Nakagawa, Ryo Ogawa, Atsutaka Maeda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23591 https://

Fabrication of oxide/FeSe multilayer films using the PLD technique
In this study, we demonstrate the successful fabrication of TiO2/FeSe/STO and TiO2/FeSe/LaAlO3 heterostructures using PLD. When the growth rates were sufficiently low, anatase TiO2, which has been reported to induce superconductivity in FeSe, could be grown epitaxially on FeSe. For TiO2/FeSe/STO, the FeSe/TiO2 interface was relatively clean, as confirmed by the observation of Laue fringes in FeSe(001) reflection. Although a thinner FeSe layer is expected to enhance Tc, our results instead sugge…

Light-programmable reorientation of the crystallographic c-axis of Tellurium thin films
Yuta Kobayashi, Arata Mitsuzuka, Haruo Kondo, Makoto Shoshin, Jun Uzuhashi, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, Masamitsu Hayashi, Masashi Kawaguchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18584

Light-programmable reorientation of the crystallographic c-axis of Tellurium thin films
Tellurium (Te), a two-dimensional material with pronounced structural anisotropy, exhibits exceptional electrical and optical properties that are highly sensitive to its crystallographic orientation. However, conventional synthesis techniques offer limited control over the in-plane alignment of Te's crystallographic c-axis, hindering large-scale integration. Here, we report a novel, non-contact method to dynamically manipulate the c-axis orientation of Te thin films using linearly polarized pic…