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Cowboys QB flexes Super Bowl 59 ring from last year's stint with Eagles https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-will-grier-flexes-super-bowl-59-ring-philadelphia-eagles

Got my water/utility bill for the spring/summer yesterday. (we get billed 3 times a year as part of our general city utilities bill including water, sewer and garbage/recycling fees).
Figured it would be a big water year this year so I've been wanting to see this. And of course, I have data going back to 2019ish.
Today's bill only goes to August 1st, so it doesn't include when we started to fill the #pondpool!
This was already a dry year in the spring and we were doing lots of watering in the front yard for the new ground cover in the modified driveway and the 3 new fruit trees.
Verdict:
2024: Apr 12 - Aug 7: 122, 200L
2025 Apr 14 - Aug 1 (7 less days!): 136,600L
It will be interesting to see if the August pond filling will add a big chunk onto our summer/fall consumption or if that is offset by both the brief August water restrictions, and the departure of both kids this fall to consume other people's water. ;=)
If you want an indication of how much water people use vs. yards: look at our August 2022 bill, which captures when we were on our cross-Canada roadtrip for 30 days in July/August of the 100 day period.
#water #consumption #gardening #utility #PortAlberni

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense
Auriane Egal, Denis Vida, Fran\c{c}ois Colas, Brigitte Zanda, Sylvain Bouley, Asma Steinhausser, Pierre Vernazza, Ludovic Ferri\`ere, J\'er\^ome Gattacceca, Mirel Birlan, J\'er\'emie Vaubaillon, Karl Antier, Simon Anghel, Josselin Desmars, K\'evin Bailli\'e, Lucie Maquet, S\'ebastien Bouquillon, Adrien Malgoyre, Simon Jeanne, Ji\v{r}i Borovi\v{c}ka, Pavel Spurn\'y, Hadrien A.…

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense
Mitigation of the threat from airbursting asteroids requires an understanding of the potential risk they pose for the ground. How asteroids release their kinetic energy in the atmosphere is not well understood due to the rarity of significant impacts. Ordinary chondrites, in particular L chondrites, represent a frequent type of Earth-impacting asteroids. Here, we present the first comprehensive, space-to-lab characterization of an L chondrite impact. Small asteroid 2023 CX1 was detected in spac…

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4
Brent W. Barbee, Matthew A. Vavrina, Rylie Bull, Adrienne Rudolph, Davide Farnocchia, Russell TerBeek, Justin Atchison, Joshua Lyzhoft, Jessie Dotson, Patrick King, Paul W. Chodas, Dawn Graninger, Ronald G. Mink, Kathryn M. Kumamoto, Jason M. Pearl, Mary Burkey, Isaiah Santistevan, Catherine S. Plesko, Wendy K. Caldwell, Megan Harwell

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4
Near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on 2024-12-27 and its probability of Earth impact in December 2032 peaked at about 3% on 2025-02-18. Additional observations ruled out Earth impact by 2025-02-23. However, the probability of lunar impact in December 2032 then rose, reaching about 4% by the end of the apparition in May 2025. James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations on 2025-03-26 estimated the asteroid's diameter at 60 +/- 7 m. Studies of 2024 YR4's potential lunar impact effects …

And it won't move anybody's opinion by whatever the Planck unit for opinions is
https://bsky.app/profile/geoffgreen.org/post/3lvvx7rrtsc2t

Geoff Green (@geoffgreen.org)
I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.

Zach Evans set to retire: Former blue-chip RB abruptly ends NFL career after brief stints with Jets, Rams

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/zach-ev

Demonstrating Narrative Pattern Discovery from Biomedical Literature
Hermann Kroll, Pascal Sackhoff, Bill Matthias Thang, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Wolf-Tilo Balke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09687

Demonstrating Narrative Pattern Discovery from Biomedical Literature
Digital libraries maintain extensive collections of knowledge and need to provide effective access paths for their users. For instance, PubPharm, the specialized information service for Pharmacy in Germany, provides and develops access paths to their underlying biomedical document collection. In brief, PubPharm supports traditional keyword-based search, search for chemical structures, as well as novel graph-based discovery workflows, e.g., listing or searching for interactions between different…

So FFOTUS wants to spend our tax money building a palace ballroom with enough golden gilt to make even Louis XV barf.
That palatial ballroom will effectively replace the entire East Wing of the US White House.
The East Wing - the E. Wing for short.
Given the proclivities of our rapist president perhaps that 'E' should be repurposed to so we can call that ballroom:
The Epstein Memorial Ball Room.

Un très court article sur l'agriculture urbaine Š Québec aux années 1970 (avec, en prime, un bref rappel des années 1930).
« Une mauvaise herbe est une plante qui a maîtrisé toutes les compétences de survie, sauf celle d’apprendre Š grandir dans le rang. Soyez une mauvaise herbe... »

QUÉBEC DISPARUE | Les enfants du premier jardin communautaire en 1977
À la demande générale, Le Soleil, en collaboration avec les Archives de la Ville de Québec, présente une série consacrée à des facettes disparues de la ville de Québec. Chaque semaine, elle rappellera le souvenir d’un immeuble, d’un commerce, d’un secteur ou d’un boisé disparu. À partir d’une image ancienne, un montage vidéo vous amène jusqu’à notre époque.

So, we came early to the #baseball game for the Chipper Jones Bobblehead. We were successful, but we'll see how the game looks come the 6:05pm start time. The game is Stripers vs Durham Bulls.
#milb