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DHS threatens Sister Norma Pimentel's migrant aid with 6-year funding ban
https://religionnews.com/2025/12/12/dhs-seeks-to-bar-federal-funds-from-sister-norma-catholic-charities-of-the-rio-grande-valley/

Throughput Maximization for Multiuser Communications with Flexible-Sector 6DMA
Xiaoming Shi, Yunli Li, Xiaodan Shao, Jie Xu, Rui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10944 https://

Throughput Maximization for Multiuser Communications with Flexible-Sector 6DMA
This paper presents a cost-effective and easily-deployable flexible-sector six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) architecture for future wireless communication networks, which enables flexible antenna configurations to match users' spatial distribution for capacity enhancement. Different from conventional sectorized base station (BS) with fixed-position antennas (FPAs), the flexible-sector 6DMA-enabled BS employs multiple directional sector antenna arrays that can flexibly move along a common …

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
INTERCEPTOR LEADER: [V.O.] Interceptor Leader to Control. Request instructions!
SERVALAN: Hold position, Interceptor Leader, and wait for instructions from Assault Leader One. We will attack when the Liberator breaks out of Alpha Sector. Four should do it nicely. Well, Dastor, I think it's time we had a little strategic counsel. Bring this - Jarvik to me.

Locating Centers of Clusters of Galaxies with Quadruple Images: Witt's Hyperbola and a New Figure of Merit
Nixon Hanna, Paul L. Schechter, Michael A. McDonald, Marceau Limousin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11356

Locating Centers of Clusters of Galaxies with Quadruple Images: Witt's Hyperbola and a New Figure of Merit
For any elliptical potential with an external parallel shear, Witt has proven that the gravitational center lies on a rectangular hyperbola derived from the image positions of a single quadruply lensed object. Moreover, it is predicted that for an isothermal elliptical potential the source position both lies on Witt's Hyperbola and coincides with the center of Wynne's Ellipse (fitted through the four images). Thus, by fitting Witt's Hyperbolae to several quartets of images - ten are known in Ab…

I sometimes write posts which go through twists and turns that make them look haphazard and are met with incomprehension or even scorn from readers who think I've accidentally made them laugh though I actually carefully constructed the piece with phrasing to build up to an often non-sequitur type of punchline.

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata

Responsible AI Adoption in the Public Sector: A Data-Centric Taxonomy of AI Adoption Challenges
Anastasija Nikiforova, Martin Lnenicka, Ulf Melin, David Valle-Cruz, Asif Gill, Cesar Casiano Flores, Emyana Sirait, Mariusz Luterek, Richard Michael Dreyling, Barbora Tesarova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09634

Responsible AI Adoption in the Public Sector: A Data-Centric Taxonomy of AI Adoption Challenges
Despite Artificial Intelligence (AI) transformative potential for public sector services, decision-making, and administrative efficiency, adoption remains uneven due to complex technical, organizational, and institutional challenges. Responsible AI frameworks emphasize fairness, accountability, and transparency, aligning with principles of trustworthy AI and fair AI, yet remain largely aspirational, overlooking technical and institutional realities, especially foundational data and governance. …

TESS Discovers a Second System of Transiting Exocomets in the Extreme Debris Disk of RZ Psc
Adalyn Gibson, Meredith A. MacGregor, Ward S. Howard, Ann Marie Cody, Mark Swain, Jennifer A. Burt, Laura Venuti, Evgenya Shkolnik, Neal J. Turner, Alan Didion, Jaime Nastal, David Makowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09920

TESS Discovers a Second System of Transiting Exocomets in the Extreme Debris Disk of RZ Psc
We present the TESS discovery of only the second system of transiting exocomets with a sufficient number of events to measure the size distribution in the RZ Psc system, enabling comparisons with the $β$ Pictoris and Solar System size distributions. Twenty-four transits with absorption depths (AD) of 1--20\% were observed across three TESS sectors of the 20-50 Myr K0V star, detected as part of our TESS survey of extreme debris disks identified by their IR excess. We discover that the ADs (and …

"the drops in sales volumes are largely the results of French and EU car manufacturer’s own strategic choice to prioritise large, more profitable models [.] Despite lower sales volumes, their operating margins have increased. This premiumisation trend is not new, but it has accelerated in recent years, to the point of backfiring, with manufacturers now facing a sharp drop in sales and factories standing idle.
Rolling back the EU’s 2035 targets won’t solve the problem."

Maintaining the 2035 target: Ensuring a viable future for Europe’s automotive industry - I4CE
In the run up to the publication of the European Commission’s proposals for an automotive package on 10 December, car manufactures have stepped up the calls to relax the CO2 standards and the 2035 phase-out of new combustion-engine vehicles by including some flexibilities. They highlight the challenges the industry has faced in recent years, growing competitive pressure from China, and insufficient demand for electric vehicles in Europe as reasons for the sector needing more time for the tra…