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Steelers rookie QB Will Howard relishing being mentored by 'legend' Aaron Rodgers: 'He's been awesome to me'

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Tuning the Magnetic Anisotropy Energy of MoS$_2$-supported Mn$_{12}$ complexes by Electric Field: A First-Principles Study
Shuanglong Liu, Adam V. Bruce, Dmitry Skachkov, James N. Fry, Hai-Ping Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12020

Tuning the Magnetic Anisotropy Energy of MoS$_2$-supported Mn$_{12}$ complexes by Electric Field: A First-Principles Study
In this work, we examine low-energy adsorption configurations of four dodecanuclear manganese single-molecule magnets [Mn$_{12}$O$_{12}$(O$_2$CR)$_{16}$(H$_2$O)$_4$] (Mn$_{12}$), where the ligand R being H, CH$_3$, CHCl$_2$ or C$_6$H$_5$, on a molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) monolayer using force field and density functional theory calculations. The van der Waals interaction is shown to be crucial for determining the adsorption energy. Some electrons transfer from the substrate to the molecules …

More than 20 years ago I did this lecture recording on Web Caching as part of my Web Technologies lecture at the University of Jena ;-)
https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00002277

Salient, which uses AI to automate the post-loan origination process for lenders, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z, a source says at a $350M valuation (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/28/loan-servicing-ai-salient-6…

Exclusive: Loan servicing startup Salient raises $60M Series A
The process is still mostly manual but banks are investing tech in the area.

This really bums me out. JD Twitch’s mixtapes are legendary. Much respect and admiration for him donating all the proceeds to a local food bank. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/03/jd-twitch-of-scottish-…

Vibration of Soft, Twisted Beams for Under-Actuated Quadrupedal Locomotion
Yuhao Jiang, Fuchen Chen, Jamie Paik, Daniel M. Aukes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02547

Vibration of Soft, Twisted Beams for Under-Actuated Quadrupedal Locomotion
Under-actuated compliant robotic systems offer a promising approach to mitigating actuation and control challenges by harnessing pre-designed, embodied dynamic behaviors. This paper presents Flix-Walker, a novel, untethered, centimeter-scale quadrupedal robot inspired by compliant under-actuated mechanisms. Flix-Walker employs flexible, helix-shaped beams as legs, which are actuated by vibrations from just two motors to achieve three distinct mobility modes. We analyze the actuation parameters …

Sesame: Opening the door to protein pockets
Ra\'ul Mi\~n\'an, Carles Perez-Lopez, Javier Iglesias, \'Alvaro Ciudad, Alexis Molina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05302 ht…

Sesame: Opening the door to protein pockets
Molecular docking is a cornerstone of drug discovery, relying on high-resolution ligand-bound structures to achieve accurate predictions. However, obtaining these structures is often costly and time-intensive, limiting their availability. In contrast, ligand-free structures are more accessible but suffer from reduced docking performance due to pocket geometries being less suited for ligand accommodation in apo structures. Traditional methods for artificially inducing these conformations, such a…

And I threw in the bonus track and it was
AMAZING!
AMAZING!!!
Wesnoth music truly has things we can all learn from...one of them is Rhythm!
Weight of Revenge is last...but not least and it will be some days, maybe even one or two weeks until we get there but that is LEGENDARY...weight of revenge, you can look for it now...instead of waiting for me to upload it to the fediverse...

Now that we have had our brief bit of fun with the #poolpond, it’s time to drain it so work on completing it can continue! It took just over 12 hours for my little spare pond pump to empty the main pond of about 80% of its water.
It will be empty by morning. I will empty the filter and intake bay as well just to clean everything out. The movement of the past couple weeks through the system will have loosened up a bunch of the gunk still on the various rocks in the filter so a full pump out should remove all that.
I will then concentrate on finishing the piping in the bottom of the main pond for the intake for the second pond and the “periscope” for the bottom returns.
Then I can work on building the rock wall to line the inside of the pond. Or at least experimenting to see if it will work at all!
If it *does* work and I have enough rock to at least start on the bottom layers of the inside wall, then I’ll be able to achieve another milestone: placing the final pebble on the bottom. Important, because that will prevent any groundwater from infiltrating and causing the rubber liner to bubble out.
Really really want to get past that mark before the autumn rains come! For obvious reasons! ☔️
Other jobs that need to be done before winter:
- finish the manifold for the second pump to distribute water to the sprayers and filter and figure out how and where to house and conceal it.
- Dig the electrical trench from the house all the way around the long side of the pond to the back tool shed so we can start wiring it in.
- Clipping the wires on the pumps and adding extension wire to them so they can reach said electrical supplies.
- permanently shore up/modify the borders of the ponds where they were found to be low.
- make a few other minor terraforming modifications for the stream and some of the edges so the water goes a little more where I want it to and a little less where I don’t.
#poolpond #backyardProject #portalberni #ponds #watergarden