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California's Rob Bonta and a 13-state group challenge the appointment of current and recent Nexstar personnel to Tegna's board, after a preliminary injunction (State of California)
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases

Attorney General Bonta to Court: Nexstar/Tegna Violating Court Order to Stop Merging
Files motion for clarification and other compliance relief SACRAMENTO — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today, as part of a bipartisan coalition of 13 attorneys general, filed a motion for clarification in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, raising concerns about actions by Tegna Inc. (Tegna) and Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nexstar) that are in apparent violation of the court’s hold-separate order.

The #cost of the #ClimateCrisis is starting to appear to the public - not the purchase price of an EV, but the cost of food. That hits every day.
Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops

Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops
Record June temperatures expected to cut grain harvest by 9m tonnes to its lowest level since 2018

The #cost of the #ClimateCrisis is starting to appear to the public - not the purchase price of an EV, but the cost of food. That hits every day.
Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops

Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops
Record June temperatures expected to cut grain harvest by 9m tonnes to its lowest level since 2018

The Butterfly Defect Effect in Cylindrical Shell Buckling: Non-localized Interactions of Localized Imperfections
Uba K. Ubamanyu, Antoine Blond, John W. Hutchinson, Pedro M. Reis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19245 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19245 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19245
arXiv:2607.19245v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate the buckling of axially compressed cylindrical shells containing localized defects, focusing on interactions among multiple defects and between them and the shell edges. Using high-fidelity finite-element simulations, we first characterize the parameter space of single-dimple sensitivity, defect-edge coupling, and pairwise defect-defect interactions. Building on this deterministic baseline, we run stochastic simulations of shells with randomly distributed imperfections whose amplitudes are sampled from a log-normal distribution. Post-buckling deformations form non-axisymmetric, butterfly-shaped patterns whose `wings' reach far across the shell surface. This spatial extent induces unavoidable interactions with neighboring defects and the clamped edges, so that buckling is not necessarily initiated by the deepest defect. A larger defect population raises the likelihood of an extreme defect, producing a statistical size effect: as the mean number of defects grows, the mean knockdown factor decreases asymptotically and its variability decays exponentially. The butterfly defect effect qualitatively explains the scatter in historical experimental data by correlating the knockdown factor with the cylinder length-to-thickness ratio ($H/t$) rather than the radius-to-thickness ratio ($R/t$) alone, thereby establishing $H$ as a key parameter for stability alongside $R$ and $t$. Nonetheless, the knockdown factors obtained here remain well above those reported in historical experiments, indicating that the localized Gaussian dimple, though nearly the worst-case imperfection for spherical shells, is not so for cylinders.
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The DOJ withdraws subpoenas that would have forced three NYT reporters to testify about sources, after a federal judge criticized the DOJ for sloppy legal work (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/usmediatimesair-force-one-42429e4d4da8accc42b6c3…

Government withdraws subpoenas of 3 reporters for The New York Times
The government has withdrawn subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for articles about President Donald Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet. The withdrawals in U.S. District Court followed a remarkable back and forth between a visibly irritated Judge Arun Subramanian and government attorneys. They come at a time when the Trump administration is vigorously going after news organizations whose reporting and coverage it doesn’t lik…

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#YEG

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Firefighters rescued a small dog that had been missing for weeks after finding it swimming into the San Francisco Bay.
The dog had gone missing over the Fourth of July weekend, according to the Menlo Park fire protection district.
But someone called 911 on 16 July to say they had seen a dog enter the bay near the Dumbarton Bridge in East Palo Alto.
The dog “just kept swimming”, according to a Menlo Park fire district Instagram post.
The Menlo Park fire protection distri…

Small dog missing for weeks rescued while swimming in San Francisco Bay
Team of firefighters saved the pup from the water near East Palo Alto in a mission that utilized boats, trucks and a drone

Vz-GAL Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies: Revisiting the CO-H2 Conversion Factor Tension
Prachi Prajapati, Axel Weiss, Dominik Riechers, Tom J. L. C. Bakx, Leindert A. Boogaard, Diana Ismail, Pierre Cox, Andrew J. Baker, Roberto Neri, Matthew Lehnert, Chentao Yang, Emilio Romano-Diaz, Hiddo S. B. Algera, Stefano Berta, Edoardo Borsato, Kirsty M. Butler, Asantha Cooray, Bethany Jones, Amelie Saintonge, Paul van der Werf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18440 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18440 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18440
arXiv:2607.18440v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The CO luminosity-to-H$_2$ mass conversion factor ($\alpha_{CO}$) remains a debated uncertainty in determining molecular gas masses of high-redshift dusty star-forming galaxies (DSFGs). Dynamical mass constraints have often favored $\alpha_{CO}=0.8$~$M_{\odot}~{(K~km~{s}^{-1}~{pc}^{2})}^{-1}$, whereas dust- and radiative-transfer-based methods imply higher values. We revisit this ``tension" using the largest homogeneous sample of 21 unlensed $z\sim1-4$ DSFGs, with securely measured \coonezero luminosities from the VLA \vzgal survey and resolved ($\sim{0.1}^{\prime\prime}$) ALMA 1~mm dust continuum imaging. For 12 galaxies with robust modeling constraints, we derive molecular gas masses using dust spectral energy distribution modeling and the TUNER LVG framework, adopting a solar-metallicity gas-to-dust mass ratio of 100. Although not fully independent due to shared assumptions on dust properties, these approaches yield mutually consistent gas masses corresponding to $\alpha_{CO}\sim1.5-11.5$, with a median near the Galactic $\alpha_{CO}=4.3$. Isotropic virial dynamical masses agree with these gas masses when realistic molecular gas sizes are adopted, while our proposed ``mixed" (rotating, pressure-supported, thick-disk) estimator systematically underestimates dynamical masses, producing low $\alpha_{CO}$ limits. Using GN20 ($z=4.055$) as a case study, we show that resolved gas geometry and kinematics reconcile the discrepancy with LVG-derived $\alpha_{CO}$. Our results suggest that current data do not require $\alpha_{CO}=0.8$, and intermediate to near-Galactic values remain dynamically viable given uncertainties in gas geometry, dust properties, and gas-to-dust ratios. Further progress in calibrating $\alpha_{CO}$ in the early universe will require resolved molecular gas observations, physically motivated ISM modeling, and stringent constraints on dust properties.
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NHL Productions plans to produce and distribute game telecasts for four teams when the season begins, since Main Street Sports shut down; more clubs might join (Joe Reedy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/nhl-tv-hurricanes-blue…

NHL to produce telecasts for Hurricanes, Blue Jackets, Wild, Blues
The Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes are one of four teams that will have their game telecasts produced and distributed by the NHL for the upcoming season. The league announced Tuesday that the Columbus Blue Jackets, Minnesota Wild and St. Louis Blues will also have local broadcasts done by NHL Productions when the season begins in late September. The NHL is branching out into centralized production of local telecasts because regional sports networks are disappearing. Seven franchises h…

UK music blog Drowned in Sound is launching its first-ever print issue, 26 years after its launch, and will distribute 50K free copies across 500 music venues (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Music blog Drowned in Sound launches first print edition
Music blog and online community Drowned In Sound is launching a print magazine some 26 years after it first launched a digital publication.