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Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-03-28/alfalfa-hay-beef-water-colorado-river

Hay consumes a vast share of the Colorado River's water
Much of the Colorado River's water is used for agriculture. A new study shows 46% of the water that is diverted is used to grow hay to feed cattle.

Galactic Science -- Rapporteur Talk of the 8th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy
Sandro Mereghetti (INAF, IASF-Milano)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04729

Galactic Science -- Rapporteur Talk of the 8th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy
The most recent observational and theoretical results in the rapidly expanding field of high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics were discussed at the international conference ``Gamma-2024'' that took place in Milano in September 2024. This contribution summarises the 'rapporteur talk' relative to the Galactic science given at the end of the conference.

Mitigation of the Flexing-Filtering Effect in Time-Delay Interferometry
Shivani Harer, Martin Staab, Hubert Halloin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04316 https:…

Mitigation of the Flexing-Filtering Effect in Time-Delay Interferometry
In early 2024, ESA formally adopted the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) space mission with the aim of measuring gravitational waves emitted in the millihertz range. The constellation employs three spacecraft that exchange laser beams to form interferometric measurements over a distance of 2.5 million kilometers. The measurements will then be telemetered down to Earth at a lower sampling frequency. Anti-aliasing filters will be used on board to limit spectral folding of out-of-band las…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 9, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 28 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, 5 call for papers, and 3 conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 39!) […]

A Relativistic Jet in the Radio Quiet AGN Mrk 110
Ailing Wang, Tao An, Kenneth I. Kellermann, Hua Feng, Emmanuel K. Bempong-Manful, Roland Timmerman, Shaoguang Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03970

A Relativistic Jet in the Radio Quiet AGN Mrk 110
We report the discovery of a relativistic jet in Mrk~110, a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy historically classified as a radio-quiet active galactic nucleus (AGN). Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations reveal intermittent jet activity during 2015--2016 and 2022--2024, with proper motion measurements yielding superluminal velocities of $\sim3.6\pm0.6\,c$ and $\sim2.1\pm0.2\,c$, respectively. The recent jet component decelerates to $\sim 1.5\pm0.2\,c$ at a projected distance of 1.1 p…

☀️ Deutschlands Strom wird grüner: 2024 kamen fast 63 % des erzeugten Stroms aus Erneuerbaren Energien.
#Windkraft lieferte im Winter besonders viel, #Solarenergie brillierte im Sommer. Beim #Windkraft

Energiewende: So viel Strom kam gestern aus erneuerbaren Energien
Bis 2030 sollen insgesamt 80 Prozent des produzierten Stroms in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien kommen. Daten zeigen, wie der Strommix aktuell aussieht und welche Rolle der importierte Strom spielt.

Dallas Cowboys 2024 starter named 'expendable' trade candidate https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-2024-starter-expendable-trade-candidate-jalen-tolbert

Altijd goed , de objectieve cijfers rondom migratie.
#cbs

Minder immigratie in 2024, vooral minder kennismigranten
In 2024 kwamen 316 duizend immigranten naar Nederland. Dat waren er 19 duizend minder dan het jaar ervoor. Zowel de immigratie uit EU-landen als uit overige landen was lager dan in 2023, het aantal immigranten met de Nederlandse nationaliteit bleef gelijk. Vooral het aantal kennismigranten dat van buiten de EU naar Nederland kwam daalde. Dat meldt het CBS op basis van recente cijfers.

Sennheiser generated €492.3 million in sales in 2024, despite “volatile market conditions”
#MusicTech #MusicBiz

Sennheiser generated €492.3 million in sales in 2024, despite “volatile market conditions”
The Sennheiser Group generated sales of €492.3 million across the 2024 financial year, despite facing “turbulent times” across the economic landscape. 

'He's having a terrific offseason': Cowboys counting on second-year jump from LT Tyler Guyton https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45433728/nfl-dallas-cowboys-tyler-guyton-tyler-booker-dak-prescott

Anatomy of a mass disappearance in Mexico -- EL PAÍS English https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-28/anatomy-of-a-mass-disappearance-in-mexico-mom-i-fell-into-the-hands-of-the-mafia.htm…

Anatomy of a mass disappearance in Mexico: ‘Mom, I fell into the hands of the mafia’
EL PAÍS reconstructs the last movements of a group of 40 migrants from Cuba, Honduras and Ecuador who disappeared on December 21, 2024, in San José El Hueyate, on the coast of Chiapas. Six months later, no authorities have begun to search for them.

Online Budget-Feasible Mechanism Design with Predictions
Georgios Amanatidis, Evangelos Markakis, Christodoulos Santorinaios, Guido Sch\"afer, Panagiotis Tsamopoulos, Artem Tsikiridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24624

Online Budget-Feasible Mechanism Design with Predictions
Augmenting the input of algorithms with predictions is an algorithm design paradigm that suggests leveraging a (possibly erroneous) prediction to improve worst-case performance guarantees when the prediction is perfect (consistency), while also providing a performance guarantee when the prediction fails (robustness). Recently, Xu and Lu [2022] and Agrawal et al. [2024] proposed to consider settings with strategic agents under this framework. In this paper, we initiate the study of budget-feasib…

Mit Roger und dem Petermännle im Tonbachtal
https://www.nationalpark-schwarzwald.de/nationalpark/blog/2024/mit-roger-und-dem-petermaennle-im-tonbachtal

“Excursion (same-day) travel to the United States by automobile dropped abruptly at the start of 2025, after holding consistently positive throughout 2024. Same-day returns fell by 40.3% year over year in May 2025”
That is an extremely high amount of change. After September 11, it was in the 30% range.
I miss my cross-border trips, but it’s just a bad risk reward calculation right now. #canada

The average surface temperature of the Mediterranean Sea is at record level for this early in summer, at 3°C above the 1982-2011 average. Could end up well above the 2023-2024 record summer peaks (Jul-Aug) of 28°C.
https://www.ceam.es/ceamet/SST/SST-trend.html

Plastik-futternde Pilze:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/plastic-eating-fungi-could-be-glimmer-hope-cutting-ocean-pollution-2024-08-08/
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Today I'll introduce you to the last and oldest sibling of our stray cat offspring: this is Nele, born on May 31st, 2024. As her siblings and her mother, she still lives on our property. #caturday #catcontent

„Schau Katja, für den 80 cm breiten roten Radweg bekommt Bochum demnächst den Titel „Aufholer“ vom @…“
06/2024

wut??

Sin noticias de la línea C-9 Cercedilla-Cotos: la renovación, paralizada 🚞
Gracias a @… por su labor de investigación, y por reportar algo que estš pasando desapercibido en los medios...
Espero que lo arreglen antes del invierno ☃️
#MovilidadSostenible

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 583 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29417 Unterschriften bis zum 09.07.2025.

El Pais is doing an amazing work in showing how citation metrics is a call for abuse (gaming to be more precise).
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-sci…

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

Die @… diskutiert nicht nur, sondern kann wen auch ganz schön in die Mangel nehmen. Aber in nett.
From: @…

Why Raiders Will Be Better in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-christian-wilkins-pete-carroll-ashton-jeanty-john-spytek

Estlink 2 geht wieder in Betrieb
Ein Ende 2024 beschädigtes Unterseekabel in der Ostsee funktioniert wieder. Der Schaden an der Stromleitung Estlink 2 zwischen Estland und Finnland sei behoben, die Verbindung voll funktionsfähig und seit der Nacht zu Freitag wieder am Strommarkt verfügbar, teilte der estnische Netzbetreiber Elering mit.
Estlink 2 war am ersten Weihnachtsfeiertag 2024 durch einen Sc…
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Stromkabel in der Ostsee: "Estlink 2" ist wieder am Netz
Ende 2024 hatte der Tanker "Eagle S" das Ostseekabel "Estlink 2" beschädigt. Schneller als gedacht konnten die Reparaturen jetzt abgeschlossen werden. Ermittler vermuten weiterhin Sabotage.

Vote: Choose central Ohio's high school boys Athlete of the Year for 2024-25 https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/06/30/vote-who-is-central-ohios-high-school-boys-athlete-of-th…

Healing Melodies
- we've known for a long time that music has healing power -
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

It’s taking me way longer to set up for my seminar than last time. Like 6 hours longer lol - such is my tinnitus induced sleep deprivation - despite it being a similar simple bunch of machines.
If anyone happens to be in Karlsruhe and wants to come and laugh at me / wants to offer moral support - feel free to join! 😁 This time it’s called ‘Let Sound Be Sound: Technology, Perception, and the Question of Music’. Somehow it’s my third visit to the Akademie. 🤪

Where is AIED Headed? Key Topics and Emerging Frontiers (2020-2024)
Shihui Feng, Huilin Zhang, Dragan Ga\v{s}evi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20971 ht…

Where is AIED Headed? Key Topics and Emerging Frontiers (2020-2024)
In this study, we analyze 2,398 research articles published between 2020 and 2024 across eight core venues related to the field of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Using a three-step knowledge co-occurrence network analysis, we analyze the knowledge structure of the field, the evolving knowledge clusters, and the emerging frontiers. Our findings reveal that AIED research remains strongly technically focused, with sustained themes such as intelligent tutoring systems, learning analyt…

Der Kontinent des Krieges https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9952

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
Khalid M. Saqr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21232 https://…

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
A 20-year analysis of CrossRef metadata demonstrates that global scholarly output -- encompassing publications, retractions, and preprints -- exhibits strikingly inertial growth, well-described by exponential, quadratic, and logistic models with nearly indistinguishable goodness-of-fit. Retraction dynamics, in particular, remain stable and minimally affected by the COVID-19 shock, which contributed less than 1% to total notices. Since 2004, publications doubled every 9.8 years, retractions ever…

Giants WR Jalin Hyatt on transforming body to rebound after dismal Year 2: ‘That’s what darkness does to you’ https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-wr-jalin-hyatt-on-transforming-body-to-rebound-after-dismal-y…

#OTD 2024. Rotterdam.

Scaling solutions for current-carrying cosmic string networks. II. Biased solutions
F. C. N. Q. Pimenta, C. J. A. P. Martins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21494

Scaling solutions for current-carrying cosmic string networks. II. Biased solutions
The charge-velocity-dependent one-scale model is an extension of the canonical velocity-dependent one-scale model which explicitly incorporates additional degrees of freedom on the string worldsheet, such as arbitrary currents and charges, expected in physically realistic models. A previous paper [Pimenta and Martins, Phys. Rev. D 110, 023540 (2024)] started an in-depth classification of its possible asymptotic scaling solutions, with the goal of identifying distinguishing features which may be…

MOA-2022-BLG-091Lb and KMT-2024-BLG-1209Lb: Microlensing planets detected through weak caustic-crossing signals
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond, Hongjing Yang, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Tanagodchaporn Inyanya, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Przemek Mr…

MOA-2022-BLG-091Lb and KMT-2024-BLG-1209Lb: Microlensing planets detected through weak caustic-crossing signals
The light curves of the microlensing events MOA-2022-BLG-091 and KMT-2024-BLG-1209 exhibit anomalies with very similar features. These anomalies appear near the peaks of the light curves, where the magnifications are moderately high, and are distinguished by weak caustic-crossing features with minimal distortion while the source remains inside the caustic. To achieve a deeper understanding of these anomalies, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the lensing events. We carried out binary-len…

28 Years of Sun-as-a-star Extreme Ultraviolet Light Curves from SOHO EIT
Emily Sandford, Fr\'ed\'eric Auch\`ere, Annelies Mortier, Laura A. Hayes, Daniel M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18990

28 Years of Sun-as-a-star Extreme Ultraviolet Light Curves from SOHO EIT
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) has been taking images of the Solar disk and corona in four narrow EUV bandpasses (171Å, 195Å, 284Å, and 304Å) at a minimum cadence of once per day since early 1996. The time series of fully-calibrated EIT images now spans approximately 28 years, from early 1996 to early 2024, covering solar cycles 23, 24, and the beginning of cycle 25. We convert this extensive EIT image archive into a time series of …

Control of pedestal-top electron density using RMP and gas puff at KSTAR
Minseok Kim, S. K. Kim, A. Rothstein, P. Steiner, K. Erickson, Y. H. Lee, H. Han, Sang-hee Hahn, J. W. Juhn, B. Kim, R. Shousha, C. S. Byun, J. Butt, ChangMin Shin, J. Hwang, Minsoo Cha, Hiro Farre, S. M. Yang, Q. Hu, D. Eldon, N. C. Logan, A. Jalalvand, E. Kolemen
https://

Control of pedestal-top electron density using RMP and gas puff at KSTAR
We report the experimental results of controlling the pedestal-top electron density by applying resonant magnetic perturbation with the in-vessel control coils and the main gas puff in the 2024-2025 KSTAR experimental campaign. The density is reconstructed using a parametrized psi_N grid and the five channels of the line-averaged density measured by a two-colored interferometer. The reconstruction procedure is accelerated by deploying a multi-layer perceptron to run in about 120 microseconds an…

London's water works https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/09/hampton-water-works.html

Advances in aviation radiation mitigation were demonstrated during the Gannon storm
W. K. Tobiska, B. Hogan, L. Didkovsky, K. Judge, J. Bailey, K. Drumm, K. Wahl, A. Sosnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00887

Advances in aviation radiation mitigation were demonstrated during the Gannon storm
The validation of a strategy for aviation radiation hazard mitigation in development for decades has been completed using two commercial airline flights in 2024 and 2025. This article provides a historical review of the primary elements leading to that strategy, including the building of aviation radiation awareness and collaborative efforts by global aviation and radiological bodies that established mitigation standards. The validation of an ALARA strategy was accomplished using two UAL 990 fl…

Die Union fordert Krankenhäuser effizienter zu machen. Ich hätte da eine ungewöhnliche Idee: könnten sich Krankenhäuser darauf konzentrieren, eine möglichst effektive Gesundheits­versorgung sicher zu stellen,¹ statt Gewinne machen zu müssen,² könnte das ganz entgegen der neoliberalen Lehre effizienter sein.
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¹z.B. in kommunaler Trägerschaft
²Asklepios Kliniken machte 2024 insgesamt 136 Millionen Euro, Fresenius Helios 772 Millionen Euro, usw, und diese Gewinne werden von un…

Hey! We just came back from a nice afterwork cycling.
Currently we do an hour of easy cycling every day.
Especially after work it really a blessing.
As I'm STILL behind with the recent trips I just browsed the archives for some beautiful memories of a hike last year.
This trail doesn't offer epic vistas but the trail itself is just a gem.
The blog:

from my link log —
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
saved 2024-10-28

EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…

Estonia issues arrest warrant for Moroccan wanted for major pharmacy data breach https://therecord.media/estonia-arrest-warrant-pharmacy-data-breach

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Bilal Saleh Husain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12685 https://…

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their susceptibility to adversarial attacks, particularly jailbreaking, poses significant safety and ethical concerns. While numerous jailbreak methods exist, many suffer from computational expense, high token usage, or complex decoding schemes. Liu et al. (2024) introduced FlipAttack, a black-box method that achieves high attack success rates (ASR) through simple prompt manipulation. This paper investigates the underly…

Giants WR Jalin Hyatt attributes 'darkness' to massive offseason weight gain

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-wr-jalin-hyatt-at…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Bombay Bicycle Club:
🎵 Always Like This (Glastonbury 2024)
#BombayBicycleClub
https://micsmith.bandcamp.com/track/always-like-this-ft-bombay-bicycle-club
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tzmUppkUmYCAhl4Q8ubtY

👨‍💻 Project MUSE - CrossCurrents-Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024 (https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074).

Project MUSE - CrossCurrents: Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074

Project MUSE - CrossCurrents-Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024

"Auf der österreichischen Tauernautobahn hat sich Medienberichten zufolge am Samstagmorgen ein Mega-Stau gebildet. Er reiche von der A10 bis nach Bayern zurück, berichtet der Radiosender Ö3. Das seien rund 45 Kilometer – Autofahrer müssten mit einer Wartezeit von fünf Stunden rechnen."
"Schon Pfingsten 2024 waren 28 Kilometer gemessen worden."
Wir haben zwei Probleme:
- zu viele Autos
- zu viele Idioten

from my link log —
aa-56: an astronomical ephemeris calculator program.
http://www.moshier.net/aadoc.html
saved 2024-05-28 https://

A comprehensive Darcy-type law for viscoplastic fluids: I. Framework
Emad Chaparian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06184 https://arxiv.or…

A comprehensive Darcy-type law for viscoplastic fluids: I. Framework
A comprehensive Darcy-type law for viscoplastic fluids is proposed. Different regimes of yield-stress fluid flow in porous media can be categorised based on the Bingham number (i.e. the ratio of the yield stress to the characteristic viscous stress). In a recent study (Chaparian, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 980, A14, 2024), we addressed the yield/plastic limit (infinitely large Bingham number), namely, the onset of percolation when the applied pressure gradient is just sufficient to overcome the yield…

Was kann man noch alles so mit den Rohdaten des Marktstammdatenregisters machen?
Man kann berechnen, wie viele #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr gebaut wurden.
#Balkonsolar #Solarenergie

Доля расходов россиян на еду подскочила до рекорда с начала войны.
Стремительное ускорение инфляции после накачки экономики триллиоными расходами на войну ударило по карманам российских потребителей. Доля расходов граждан РФ на покупку продуктов питания в апреле 2025 года достигла максимума с начала войны в Украине, показало исследование холдинга «Ромир».
В среднем потребители тратили на еду 34,6% своих расходов против 33% в начале года и 28,6% в апреле-2024. Зафиксированный «Ромир…

Two elected #Democrat political officials in #NorthernCalifornia town booked and held on $1 million bail for #arson & #insurance sch…

Cowboys TE Jake Ferguson ready to bounce back after 'fluke' season https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-te-jake-ferguson-ready-to-bounce-back-after-fluke-season

#Gletscher in der #Schweiz, den #USA und #Kanada haben zwischen 2021 und 2024 rund 12 % ihrer

Gone with the glaciers: Researchers track unprecedented ice loss
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the United States, and Switzerland lost around 12% of their ice between 2001 and 2024.

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
Alice P. Curtin, Shion Andrew, Sunil Simha, Alice Cai, Kenzie Nimmo, Shami Chatterjee, Amanda M. Cook, Fengqiu Adam Dong, Yuxin Dong, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen-fai Fong, Emmanuel Fonseca, Jason W. T. Hessels, Ronniy C. Joseph, Victoria Kaspi, Calvin Leung, Robert Main, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Ryan Mckinven, Daniele Michilli, Mason Ng, Ayush Pandhi, Aaron B. Pearlman, Ziggy Pleunis, Mawson W. Sammons, K…

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
On 2024 December 28, CHIME/FRB detected the thus-far non-repeating FRB 20241228A with a real-time signal-to-noise ratio of $>50$. Approximately 112~s later, the X-ray Telescope onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was on source, the fastest follow-up to-date of a non-repeating FRB (Tohuvavohu et al. in prep.). Using CHIME/FRB and two of the three CHIME/FRB Outriggers, we obtained a Very Long Baseline Interferometry localization for FRB 20241228A with a 1$σ$ confidence ellipse of 11$^{\pr…

Former Pro Bowl WR Diontae Johnson hoping to revive his career with Browns after calamitous 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Pixies:
🎵 The Vegas Suite (6 Music Session, 21 Oct 2024)
#Pixies
https://open.spotify.com/track/304fddzE78zrBtZv42biyB