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Wayland Baptist School of Business celebrates arrival of Starnes Market Ticker

Wayland Baptist University’s School of Business celebrated the arrival of its new market ticker this month at its campus in Plainview.

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Sep 21 • 5:46 AM EDT • Business • lubbockonline.com
Getting nonstop political texts? Here’s what you can do to stop them

Political campaigns and pollsters can fill your inbox ahead of an election. Here’s what federal and Ohio guidance says about opting out, blocking and reporting unwanted texts.

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Sep 21 • 5:09 AM EDT • Politics • dispatch.com
LASK capitulation a major factor in Celtic’s current woes

Despite starting the campaign well enough, Celtic’s form has taken a massive nosedive over the last week or so and the reason behind that is the topic of much debate…LASK vs Celtic, Linz 25 August...

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Sep 21 • 5:01 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Examining the cost of money in campaigns

Despite The Beatles proclamation that “money can’t buy me love,” nearly every political campaign and candidate in American politics knows the great impact of a full war chest.

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Sep 21 • 5:00 AM EDT • Politics • indianacapitalchronicle.com
England latest: Cole Palmer withdraws from Thomas Tuchel's squad ahead of long international break

Cole Palmer was recalled to Thomas Tuchels squad after being snubbed for the 2026 World Cup; Palmer has scored four goals in seven games this season for Chelsea; Palmer had previously stated he felt back to his best after an injury-hit 2025-26 campaign

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Sep 21 • 4:25 AM EDT • Sports • skysports.com
Whether you like it or not, celebrities have an impact on politics

The global groundswell of support for Macklemore’s pro-Palestinian advocacy serves to remind us that maybe celebrity activism really is that deep after all, writes Cheek’s Varsha Yajman. Subscribe In the last week, publications, podcasts, and influencers that have either rarely or never spoken about Israel’s genocide in Palestine have flooded my social feed. And it was all because singer Ed Sheeran and his team dropped Macklemore as his opener for saying “Free Palestine” on stage. Millions raised, millions speaking up in support of Palestine - all of this confirming my view that, whether I like it or not, celebrities do have an impact on political outcomes. And this is interesting when much of the time celebrity activism can induce an eye roll - I love to see Charli XCX pointing out a Palestinian flag in the crowd, but it’s hardly the bold symbol of allyship that some fans would make it out to be. But there’s a line between healthy scepticism and outright dismissal - and I’d argue that the latter lets the rich and powerful off far too easily. For instance, actress Jennifer Lawrence, once outspoken about her political views, last year told The Times she no longer believes celebrities have a role to play: “Celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for. So then what am I doing? I’m just sharing my opinion on something that’s going to add fuel to a fire that’s ripping the country apart.” While it’s a narrative she might find comfort in, it simply is not true. Grassroots movements often garner worldwide attention when celebrities and other high-profile spokespeople bring a mainstream platform to their causes. And this frustrates me. We have had three years of a live-streamed genocide. Macklemore himself has been calling for a Free Palestine long before he booked the Sheeran concert. Yet it’s the high-profile fallout of the last week that finally seems to have made saying “Free Palestine” socially acceptable in the mainstream. It feels like the collective mood has shifted, where calling out censorship is now the obvious response - not just the business of ‘radical’ activists. To recap, Sheeran’s decision followed an ultimatum from billionaire Robert Kraft, owner of Gillette Stadium, one of the venues Sheeran was scheduled to perform at: either drop Macklemore as your opener after only two of the eight scheduled shows, or you do not play at any stadiums. Sheeran’s disappointing decision to stand on the side of billionaire-led censorship has ultimately seen a surge in support for Free Palestine. It began when all his openers and his backing band pulled out of Sheeran’s tour, in solidarity with Macklemore and with the Palestinian cause. It was met with an uproar of support from those who had never or barely touched politics before: influencers lip-syncing to Macklemore’s music, singers like Jack Antonoff singing “Free Palestine,” and publications and podcasts standing with Macklemore. And finally, we saw material support: Macklemore donated $1 million in profits from his two nights opening for Sheeran’s tour to several Palestinian aid groups and called for Sheeran and Kraft to match it, which they have since promised to do. We’ve also seen children’s entertainer Ms Rachel follow suit with a $1 million donation to Palestinian aid, and publication PopBase has donated $10,000. Anera, a humanitarian aid group working in Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan, said donations since Macklemore’s announcement were more than triple this month’s daily average. The group’s Instagram page has also gained 8,000 followers. Macklemore far from the first celebrity to speak and participate in politics in the Western World. In 1924, singer Al Jolson supported Republican candidate Warren G. Harding for president, and decades later, celebrities such as Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, and Aretha Franklin voiced their public support for the Civil Rights movement. More recently, in the lead-up to the 2024 US election, ‘The Daily Show with Trevor Noah partnered with the organisation Power the Polls to recruit poll workers to address shortages- a problem disproportionately affecting voters of colour. The campaign saw 170,000 new sign-ups - 35,000 of which came directly through the TV show’s link - resulting in the recruitment of 713,000 total poll workers that year, an almost three-fold increase on the organisation’s goal. Alongside recruiting workers, celebrities in the US (where voting in elections is not compulsory) have made a huge difference by calling for people to register to vote. Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris in 2024 saw over 400,000 visitors on the voter registration site within 24 hours of her Instagram post. In 2023, Swift had urged her fans to register, resulting in 35,000 new voter registrations. Similarly, Ariana Grande promoted voter registration in 2019 by setting up booths at concerts on the American leg of her tour, resulting in over 33,000 voters registering. And the same thing is happening closer to home. This year, musician Jack River successfully called for government action to ensure creatives in Australia do not have their work scraped by generative AI companies. Celebrity as the mediator between the punter and the politician Celebrity activism isn’t just a feel-good news story - research tells us it actually makes a difference. By directing attention to issues affecting the average person, like voting inaccessibility or a lack of action on a genocide, researchers Alfred Archer and Amanda Cawston state that “celebrities can play a useful bridging role between political elites and the people they represent”. Alternatively, in a world where talking about politics is “not cool,” or where people lack exposure or knowledge to engage with politics, celebrities can act as an educational resource or an entry point into the political world - when they speak up about an issue, their audience gets exposed to it. Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields festival is a perfect example. Rodrigo partnered with twelve organisations focused on women’s issues, such as reproductive rights. These organisations had stalls at the festival for people to meet them and were also featured heavily on social media, giving their issues global attention and raising $20 million for the organisations. We have also seen celebrities at award shows such as the Emmys wearing F*CK ICE pins, referring to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s treatment and detainment of people - generally people of colour. When celebrities speak up about political issues in public forums, they put the issue at the forefront of mainstream media, rally their supporters, and make it clear that, however much they disagree, the government cannot simply ignore it. Our over-reliance on celebrities versus our politicians As much as I love seeing my favourite celebrity use their platform for a good cause, there is an important question to ask: not whether celebrity activism is good or bad, but whether we should have to rely on celebrities. And the answer would, in an ideal world, be no. In an ideal world, or merely a just world, action on Palestine would’ve happened decades ago, climate change would be taken seriously, and most importantly, people would understand their democratic rights. However, that is not our reality. Only around 28 per cent of Australian Year 10 students reach proficiency in civics and citizenship. In the US, almost two-thirds of people under 30 say high school civics education didn’t prepare them to understand voting deadlines, how to research candidates, or how to vote by mail. When civics education is weak, our trust in these institutions and our understanding of change-making processes also decline. ​This is where celebrity steps in and becomes our main source of reliance. As Mary R. Connelly notes in _The Tartan, “_Celebrities will always be involved in campaigns in one form or another, but their presence is not what causes people to vote blindly. The lack of political engagement and literacy is what allows celebrities to wield their influence on the political sphere so impactfully.” About the author ​Varsha Yajman is the Digital Content Producer at Cheek Media. She is a youth advocate and lawyer with a background in climate litigation and is passionate about looking at the intersection between race, climate justice, and mental health. Thanks for reading Cheek Media Co. ! This post is public so feel free to share it. Share

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Sep 21 • 3:54 AM EDT • Politics • cheekmedia.substack.com
Governor Evers tours College of Business and Economics

Chancellor Corey A. King and UW-Whitewater leaders welcomed Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers for a visit to the UW-Whitewater College of Business and Economics, the state’s largest business school. During a one-hour walkthrough at Hyland Hall, Gov. Evers and local elected officials visited classrooms and interacted with students, faculty and staff on campus.

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Sep 21 • 1:05 AM EDT • Business • royalpurplenews.com
Grammy Camp Is Expanding in 2027 With a New Perk for Aspiring Musicians

The annual camp is also adding a fifth city to its 2027 program.

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Sep 21 • 12:32 AM EDT • Entertainment • fresnobee.com
Young people in Morocco split over whether politics can deliver change as election draws near

In Morocco’s election race, a rural funeral has become an unexpected campaign stop for candidates aiming to engage disenchanted young voters

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Sep 20 • 11:16 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Young people in Morocco split over whether politics can deliver change as election draws near

SIDI MOUSSA EL MAJDOUB, Morocco (AP) — A funeral in rural Morocco for an elderly woman became an unlikely campaign stop for candidates trying to motivate disenchanted young voters ahead

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Sep 20 • 11:08 PM EDT • Politics • 2news.com
Young people in Morocco split over whether politics can deliver change as election draws near

SIDI MOUSSA EL MAJDOUB, Morocco (AP) — A funeral in rural Morocco for an elderly woman became an unlikely campaign stop for candidates trying to motivate disenchanted young voters ahead of parliame…

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Sep 20 • 11:08 PM EDT • Politics • thehill.com
Young people in Morocco split over whether politics can deliver change as election draws near

SIDI MOUSSA EL MAJDOUB, Morocco (AP) — A funeral in rural Morocco for an elderly woman became an unlikely campaign stop for candidates trying to motivate disenchanted young voters ahead of parliamentary elections Wednesday. Moroccan young people’s struggles to find jobs and opportunity drove Gen Z-led protests last year and a surge of migration to […]

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Sep 20 • 11:08 PM EDT • Politics • dailyjournal.net
Penguins Make First Roster Cut Of Camp
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Sep 20 • 10:57 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Phoenix Suns 2026-27 Player Profile: Khaman Maluach

After a tantalizing Summer League, the Duke product enters a pivotal sophomore campaign. Discover how his floor-spacing potential and defensive growth could propel him into the starting lineup.

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Sep 20 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Avera encourages direct conversations during suicide prevention campaign

Avera highlights vital warning signs and urges direct conversations through its annual ‘Ask the Question’ campaign during National Suicide Prevention Month.

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Sep 20 • 6:00 PM EDT • Health • kotatv.com
Bruins Suddenly Place Recent Trade Acquisition on Waivers

The Boston Bruins are set to compete in their first exhibition contest of the 2026-27 NHL campaign on Sunday evening, as they’ll take on the Washington Capitals on home ice. However, before the matchup, the Bruins have made a personnel move as they work toward getting their roster finalized. The Boston Bruins Have Waived Forward […] The post Bruins Suddenly Place Recent Trade Acquisition on Waivers appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 20 • 5:56 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Eckerd’s conservation corps plants new microforest on campus

Eckerd College Conservation Corps led their first CPS event of the fall semester on Sept. 8. Students and ECCC members collaborated with Jared Freed–landscape designer and project manager for Wilcox

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Sep 20 • 5:15 PM EDT • Science • theonlinecurrent.com
Eckerd’s conservation corps plants new microforest on campus

Student Emma Frantz using a shovel to help dig out the holes for the plants. A larger shovel was needed for harder ground. Photo by Amelia Welborn.

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Sep 20 • 5:04 PM EDT • Science • theonlinecurrent.com
HCA Healthcare (HCA) Acquires a Healthcare College. Can Training Capacity Improve Staffing?

HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA) announced on September 15 that it had completed its acquisition of The College of Health Care Professions. The institution serves more than 8,000 students annually through 10 Texas campuses and online programs, offering more than 20 accredited healthcare programs. For HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), the opportunity is to connect education more […]

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Sep 20 • 4:33 PM EDT • Health • finance.yahoo.com
Ebola outbreak update: Cases and deaths; Dungu health zone, Haut-Uélé province now affected

A total of 73 new confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) were reported on September 18, 2026, including 25 community deaths. Of these confirmed cases, 46 were from Ituri province, 18 from North Kivu, 6 from Haut-Uélé, and 3 from Tshopo. A new health zone, Dungu, in Haut-Uélé province, was affected during the day. As this zone borders South Sudan, strengthening cross-border surveillance is necessary. During the day on September 18, 2026, 12 deaths within Ebola Treatment Centers (ETCs)—10 in Ituri and 2 in North Kivu—were unfortunately recorded, bringing the total number of deaths for the day to 37. However, 41 patients were declared recovered (30 in Ituri, 6 in Haut-Uélé, 3 in North Kivu, and 2 in Tshopo) after testing negative for EVD twice. Since the start of the epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a cumulative total of 7,614 confirmed cases, including 3,676 deaths, has been recorded, representing a case fatality rate of 48.3%. The epicenter remains Ituri province, which accounts for 77.2% of the confirmed cases reported across the seven affected provinces and also accounts for 63.0% of the new confirmed cases. A new health zone was affected on September 18, 2026. Consequently, 63 out of 167 health zones (37.7%) across 7 provinces are affected. Subscribe to Outbreak News TV on YouTube Response measures feature 97% traveler screening at entry points, surveillance expansion to new area Dungu, and community outreach sensitizing over 110,000 people in one day. The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s health system faces deep, structural constraints that predate the current Ebola outbreak and make epidemic response far harder. These problems are most acute in rural areas and the conflict-affected east. Outbreak News Today is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Eastern provinces have seen health facilities damaged, looted, or abandoned. Insecurity delays patients, blocks supply deliveries, and exposes staff to attacks. Millions of displaced people live in camps with poor water, sanitation, and health services, increasing outbreak risk. Vast distances and poor roads mean many people walk hours or days to reach care. These same weaknesses explain why Ebola has continued to spread into new, under-prepared health zones even as some original hotspots show improvement: surveillance, laboratory turnaround, contact tracing, and infection control remain thin outside the best-supported sites. The Ministry of Health and partners have scaled up treatment centres, laboratories, and vaccination in the current outbreak, and some digital surveillance systems (DHIS2) provide a useful backbone. However, the underlying gaps in staffing, basic infrastructure, reliable funding, and logistics have not been closed. Without sustained investment in those foundations, the system will remain vulnerable to both routine disease burden and the next large outbreak. If you like the reporting on Outbreak News Today, please consider a paid subscription for $5/month or $30 a year. Help support the cause of this niche journalism. It is appreciated.

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Sep 20 • 2:59 PM EDT • Health • outbreaknewstoday.substack.com
Tennessee Democrat to propose bill to ban corporations from political spending

A Tennessee Democrat is set to push for new restrictions on corporate campaign spending, following the seminal steps of a movement to limit dark money in politics.

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Sep 20 • 2:48 PM EDT • Politics • timesfreepress.com
Todd McLellan Rips Red Wings Veterans After Embarrassing Camp Finale

Todd McLellan sharply criticized Red Wings veterans after Detroit’s final training-camp session, saying the kids out-executed them by a wide margin.

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Sep 20 • 2:43 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Anchorage Assembly members float new campaign requirements for local political offices

The proposed change could require would-be candidates to submit a minimum number of signatures gathered from qualified voters in order to appear on municipal ballots.

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Sep 20 • 2:39 PM EDT • Politics • adn.com
Fulham 1-1 Man Utd: What Arbeloa said

This is just the fourth time that Fulham have failed to win any of their opening five games in a top-flight campaign (with 1951-52, 2011-12 and 2020-21), while they have been relegated in two of the previous three (51-52 and 20-21). There were 26 shots in the first half of this match between Fulham (nine) and Manchester United (17), the most in the opening half of a Premier League game with no goals scored on record (since 2003-04).

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Sep 20 • 2:21 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Reporting From Alaska- Sullivan injects Fairbanks Memorial Hospital into partisan politics

HOSPITAL CAMPAIGN: The tiny print on some new ads for Sen. Dan Sullivan featuring numerous shots of Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, says that Steve Frank is not speaking for the hospital foundation when he speaks about the hospital. But most people won’t read or notice the fine print. Frank is the tr

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Why politicians should pay more attention to the polls (reprise)

Welcome to the 231st edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), a polling newsletter that always welcomes new readers. So please don’t keep TWIP a secret; share it with your friends and colleagues: Share The Week in Polls With all the stories swirling around Reform, JL Partners and political polling, I am finally tearing myself away from talking about the regulation of polling this week - and instead re-running a previous piece reminding us why the solution to problems with polls isn’t simply to ban or ignore them. Rather, we need them to play a vital role in making our politics - and politicians - better. This is followed by summaries of the latest national voting intention polls, seat projections from MRPs and the most recent party leader ratings. Subscribers who pay for the full edition can also read ten insights from the latest polls and analyses, including: A trio of organisations and a pair of professors have been casting their eyes over the Liberal Democrats ahead of the party’s autumn conference; What impact did the summer heatwave have on views on climate change? and Which wins out between chocolate and cheese? If you are not yet a paid subscriber, you can read all ten by starting a free trial now: Get FREE 7-day trial For more polling news as it comes in ahead of next week’s edition, you can also follow The Week in Polls on Bluesky. Picking up on my doubt last week about whether or not 35% of British train travellers have tried to order a takeaway for delivery to a railway station or carriage, thank you to reader Iain, who has been in touch to say he has done just that… in India. Another quick pair of updates, this time on the controversies around Reform and polling. Politico has a further scoop - “Farage aide caught in donor sting attended Egypt retreat with JL Partners” - and Ian Dunt has written about the problems with polling too: “Seeing the response of many polling experts in the last few weeks suggests that they are nervous about what is happening and keen to mitigate against it. Seeing the response of journalists, which has been basically non-existent, suggests the precise opposite.” My usual reminder as well: please do hit reply if you’ve spotted a poll, focus group or new piece of poll-based research that you think should be in contention for coverage in a future edition. Thank you! And with that, on with the show. How politicians get public opinion wrong I have written before about the benefits that come from widespread availability of high-quality political polling. We need more polls and more good coverage of polls. However, what I’ve not dug into before is the research into how accurately politicians estimate public opinion on issues. Thankfully we have academic research to tell us. First, the bad news: We present results from a study of 866 politicians in four countries.1 Politicians were asked to estimate the percentage of public support for various policy proposals. Comparing more than 10,000 estimations with actual levels of public support, we conclude that politicians are quite inaccurate estimators of people’s preferences. They make large errors and even regularly misperceive what a majority of the voters wants. Politicians are hardly better at estimating public preferences than ordinary citizens. Walgrave, S., Jansen, A., Sevenans, J., Soontjens, K., Pilet, J.B., Brack, N., Varone, F., Helfer, L., Vliegenthart, R., van der Meer, T., Breunig, C., Bailer, S., Sheffer, L. & Loewen, P.J. (2023a), “Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries”, The Journal of Politics, 85(1): 209-222. The bad news is not quite as bad as that makes it sound because, when asked whether the majority of public opinion was for or against various policies, politicians picked the wrong option ‘only’ 29% of the time. However, this included getting it wrong even when public opinion is far from evenly split on an issue: They do not only get it wrong when the public is divided and hard to read (e.g., when there is a 51%:49% distribution). Seventy percent of the misplacements occur for policies with a relatively clear distribution of at least 60% (dis)agreeing citizens. Moreover, the public scored only slightly worse than politicians, picking the wrong option 2.7 out of 8 times on average, compared with 2.3 times for politicians. Turning to the other measure of accuracy (not which side is in the lead but what the percentage support is for each side), politicians on average were 18 percentage points out in their guesses. Again, this was only slightly better than the public, whose error came in at 21 percentage points.2 Further research, using the same mix of countries, gives a little more comfort about how (in)accurate perceptions are: We show that politicians have a better understanding of public opinion when they think the issue matters to voters. Further, when an issue is personally important to politicians they more accurately estimate their party supporters’ opinions. The results confirm that politicians hold more accurate perceptions of voters’ preferences when they think it is important to do so but not necessarily when the issues actually are important to voters. Butler, C., Walgrave, S., Soontjens, K. & Loewen, P.J. (2024), “Politicians are better at estimating public opinion when they think it is more salient”, Party Politics: 1–13. Even so, it’s not a good picture. The remedy for this? Politicians should spend more time reading the polls. So forward this newsletter to someone you know… Share For a more general argument against banning polls, see my 2024 piece. Is “Let Bartlet Be Bartlet” good advice or not? The latest episode of my Political Fictions podcast heads across the Atlantic for a dip into one of the political TV classics: Mark and Cory talk about a giant of American political drama for the first time this week, as they tackle The West Wing. They talk about Let Bartlet Be Bartlet, the nineteenth episode of series one. In it, Mark wonders if The West Wing is actually the epitome of the “Boris Johnson school of politics”, Cory outmanoeuvres Mark into confirming we will record a Christmas Special about Love, Actually and they debate whether the central message of this episode has been misunderstood. Cory’s email newsletter is Paperback Rioter and Mark has a family of email newsletters. Subscribe to our newsletter for some additional bonus content and to get alerted whenever a new episode comes out. Our theme tune is “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” by Kevin MacLeod/incompetech.com and licensed under the Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. You can also listen to our episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, the web or YouTube. Elsewhere from me… [ A Lord's Eye View How to fix the problem of money in our politics Welcome to my latest update on work in the House of Lords. This time I am taking a look at how our political system is regulated, and the protections we need to keep democracy safe from becoming simply a contest to see who has the biggest bank account… Read more 5 days ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Mark Pack ](https://lordseyeview.substack.com/p/how-to-fix-the-problem-of-money-in?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web&embedding_publication_id=1269283) If you spot a factual error… Borrowing an idea from Stuart Ritchie and others, if you spot a factual error in an edition of this newsletter, I will give you a free 12-month subscription to the paid-for version (or an extra 12 months on your existing one). Factual errors qualify, but grammatical errors or disagreements over interpretation do not, and my decision is final. Messages about both of those are always welcome, though. Voting intention and leadership ratings Here are the latest voting intention polls from different pollsters. It is all pretty static at the moment, with a small and consistent Labour lead in nearly all the polls. The table is also online here, along with explanations about what is included. It is updated regularly throughout the week as new polls are released. Next are the seat projections from MRPs, also sorted by fieldwork dates, listing those which are based on dedicated fieldwork (rather than models based on averages of other polls). Because such MRPs are published infrequently, some of the entries below are quite old. Finally, here is a summary of leadership ratings, with a graph from PollCheck: Detailed numbers from the latest polls are online here, and both that and the graph are updated regularly throughout the week as new data comes out. For historical figures on both voting intention and leader approval stretching back to the 1930s, including Parliamentary by-election polls, see PollBase. 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If you are subscribed to other email lists of mine, please note that unsubscribing from this one will not automatically remove you from the others. If you wish to be removed from all my lists, simply reply to this email to let me know. A quintet of Lib Dem polling analyses, and 9 other polling insights you shouldn’t miss The following ten findings from the most recent polls and analyses are only for subscribers who pay for the full edition, but you can sign up for a free trial to read them straight away. Ahead of the start of Liberal Democrat conference, we have a trio of organisations and a pair of professors with pieces out about Ed Davey’s party:

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Sep 20 • 1:02 PM EDT • Politics • theweekinpolls.substack.com
Carter Jensen Makes Kansas City Royals Rookie Single-Season History

Jensen added to a spectacular rookie campaign with an impressive feat on Saturday.

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Sep 20 • 12:59 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Bournemouth 0-1 Liverpool: What Rose said

"It's about details and right now it is really disappointing, but I am quite confident we can change the situation points-wise." This is the ninth time in their history that Bournemouth have failed to win any of their opening five matches of a league campaign (drawn three, lost two), and second in the Premier League, after 2023-24. Bournemouth have made just two changes to their Premier League starting XIs under Marco Rose this season, the fewest of any side.

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Sep 20 • 12:32 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Storytelling Bootcamp: Shop Owner Fulfills Dream with Downtown Business

Whether it’s in an ice cream shop or a clothing store, Beth Kornick has always loved the retail industry.

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Sep 20 • 12:00 PM EDT • Business • dailyinterlake.com
Matt Campbell praises emergence of Penn State run game

Penn State's run game finally clicked as Quinton Martin Jr. emerged with a big day vs. Buffalo.

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Sep 20 • 11:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Campbell County health and food inspections (9/11/26–9/107/26)

GILLETTE, Wyo. — The Consumer Health Services Division of the Wyoming Department of Agriculture conducts inspections of retail food establishments throughout Wyoming (where there is not a local health department that does inspections) to help ensure safety of Wyoming residents. Campbell County establishments are inspected at least once a year by the WDA. All of […]

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Sep 20 • 11:00 AM EDT • Health • county17.com
Andrew Copp Puts Red Wings Roster on Notice

Andrew Copp says only a small group of Red Wings forwards have cemented roles as competition intensifies throughout training camp.

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Sep 20 • 10:22 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Serie A official line-ups: Frosinone vs. Como

Frosinone welcome Como to the Stadio Benito Stirpe on Sunday afternoon, as both teams look to extend their good start to the campaign.It kicks off at the Stadio Benito Stirpe at 14.00 UK time (15.00 C...

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Sep 20 • 8:10 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Puck Drop Preview: 2026-27 Tampa Bay Lightning

Last Word On Hockey's Puck Drop Previews are back for the 2026-27 season! As the regular season approaches, Last Word will preview each team's current outlook and stories to watch for the upcoming year. We'll also do our best to project how things will go for each team throughout the campaign. Today, we're previewing the …

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Sep 20 • 7:56 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
‘Voters are like, No thanks’: Trump’s tariffs fall flat with the working class

It’s become an article of faith for trade hardliners in both parties that a protectionist agenda is a guaranteed pathway to building support among working-class voters. But now that President Donald Trump is testing that theory in practice, it is largely flopping on the campaign trail.

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Sep 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • cnn.com
California Republicans walk tightrope as Trump jumps into campaigning

California Republicans running in the state's most competitive House races are appearing to keep some measure of public distance from Trump ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

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Sep 20 • 6:00 AM EDT • Politics • latimes.com
Byron Donalds emphasizes FSU roots for Florida governor bid

Byron Donalds is embracing his FSU alumni status as he campaigns to become the next governor of Florida.

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Sep 20 • 5:02 AM EDT • Politics • tallahassee.com
AC Milan vs Lecce – Predicted lineup and team news

AC Milan will aim to keep their perfect, unbeaten run alive in Serie A this campaign as they host Lecce at the San Siro on Sunday, in what is their last outing before the international break arrives.T...

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Sep 20 • 1:20 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
A Fiery Return To European Competition for The Lads

Amid fireworks, noise and sheer passion, Sunderland’s 2026/2027 European campaign got off to a perfect start.

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Dwight Powell back with Mavs for training camp?

Dwight Powell back with Mavs for training camp?

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Nets Announce Dates for Media Day and Training Camp

The Brooklyn Nets are officially getting ready for the 2026-27 season. Here’s when Media Day and training camp will take place as Sean Marks, Jordi Fernández and the rest of the roster prepare for a new campaign.

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Exeter’s Ridl blow

EXETER winger Campbell Ridl is set to miss much of the season after suffering a knee ligament injury. Ridl was a breakout star last season scoring 17 tries in 24 games including one in the final defeat to Northampton. The 21-year-old former England U20 flyer was hurt in Exeter’s opening pre-season game when they lost […] The post Exeter’s Ridl blow appeared first on The Rugby Paper .

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Wales on a high as hard work pays off

By HARRY TOVEY Wales ...............50pts . Tries: Keight 6, Tuipulotu 10, 42; Lockwood 21, Davies 25, Jones 33, Neumann 38, Callender 69 Conversions: Bell 7, 11, 26, 39, 43 South Africa .. 19pts Tries: Jacobs 17, Tshiremba 49, Samboya 55 Conversions: Dolf 50, 56 WALES opened their WXV Global Series campaign with a stunning victory […] The post Wales on a high as hard work pays off appeared first on The Rugby Paper .

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Republicans find transgender issues a powerful political weapon in midterm campaigning

He's unpopular, his war is going badly and the US economy is strained.Axios reported that Elon Musk's "America PAC" has begun an ad blitz attacking Democrats over their unpopular transgender positions...

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See how MS politicians are using Ole Miss-LSU game to campaign

Mississippi politicians are using the fanfare around the Ole Miss clash with former coach Lane Kiffin and LSU to their advantage.

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See how MS politicians are using Ole Miss-LSU game to campaign

Mississippi politicians are using the fanfare around the Ole Miss clash with former coach Lane Kiffin and LSU to their advantage.

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Business Bash connects students with campus clubs and career opportunities

Students gathered in the Schneider Hall courtyard Sept. 17 to explore business-focused Registered Student Organizations (RSOs), departments, majors, study abroad programs and career resources at the annual Business Bash hosted

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Paige Bueckers, Wings handle business vs. Mercury to mark end of an era at College Park Center

The Wings played their 181st and final regular-season home game at the venue located on UT-Arlington's campus.

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Nottingham Forest 0-1 Coventry: What Glasner said

Nottingham Forest have failed to score in their first three home games in a league campaign for the first time in their history. Among ever present sides since the start of last season, only Tottenham have won fewer home games (three) and earned fewer home points (16) in the Premier League than Nottingham Forest (four wins, 21 points).

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Krösche and Hütter concede Freiburg outperformed Frankfurt

Eintracht Frankfurt ended SC Freiburg’s perfect start of the campaign with a 2-2 draw at Deutsche Bank Park on Saturday afternoon. However, Markus Krösche and Adi Hütter conceded that the hosts we...

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Wisconsin vs Eastern Michigan football highlights at Camp Randall Stadium

Wisconsin is dominating Eastern Michigan in a Week 3 college football game Sept. 19 at Camp Randall Stadium. Check out our best photos.

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UC temporarily blocked from enforcing transgender name and pronoun rules

In a conservative win, campus members of an education advocacy organization may refer to transgender people using names and pronouns that are not consistent with that individual's gender identity, according

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Arsenal taught ‘big lesson’ by rampant Brighton

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta said that his side were taught a “big lesson” by Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday. The Seagulls obliterated the Gunners’ perfect start to the Premier League campaig...

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Analysis: Moyes' Toffees moving in right direction

Manager David Moyes will be delighted at the start his Everton side have made to the campaign. The Toffees won none of their final seven games as they finished 13th last season and missed out on the European qualification that at one stage had been within their grasp. Everton also suffered a tough end to the transfer window, with key attacking midfielder Iliman Ndiaye going to Manchester City in a £65m deal and striker Beto, their top scorer last season, leaving for Fiorentina for £14.6m.

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Opinion: When political money flows into Alaska, voters deserve to know whose it is

Ballot Measure 2 would do more than change how Alaskans vote; it would also repeal campaign-finance disclosure rules adopted in 2020.

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Seattle’s progressive values need businesses to succeed

As the Seattle mayor and council begin deliberations on the city budget, they should remember that a strong economy supports city services.

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Red Bull New York sign homegrown forward Dennis Nelich

By MLSsoccer staffTRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: SigningRed Bull New York have signed homegrown winger Dennis Nelich through the 2027-28 season, with options extending until the 2030-31 campaign, the club a...

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The Big Holes in Wearable Heart Rate Variability And Readiness Scores

On September 9th, Apple announced it was revamping its Apple Watch Health Sensing System, rolling out a Readiness score (0 to 10), and increasing the frequency of heart rate variability (HRV) outputs 24-fold. This can be viewed as upping its competition with various other consumer wearable sensors. These “readiness scores” as a composite of multiple metrics, with heart rate variability (HRV) being front and center for most. The majority of Americans are now using wearable sensors, which equates to well over 100 million adults. HRV and Readiness scores are increasingly being marketed as a measurement of autonomic nervous system health, a digital marker for future disease, a clock for biological age, and a holistic metric to promote healthspan and even longevity. (Apple also introduced a new longevity tab and “Health Age”.) None of this has been proven. In this edition of Ground Truths I am going to review what we know about heart rate variability and readiness scores. Heart Rate Variability HRV is the variation in normal heart cycle timing. The variability of the heart rate, the barely perceptible millisecond changes in time between consecutive heart beats (see R-R intervals in the Figure below, left panel), is due to interplay between the sympathetic and parasympathetic (vagal nerve) inputs. Distinct from heart rate, individuals with the same heart rate can have very different HRVs. It is a rough reflection of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity, inadequate to say whether a person’s ANS function is abnormal. For more than three decades, heart rate variability (HRV) has been measured and several studies have found an association of low HRV and clinical outcomes, particularly a link with higher all-cause and cardiovascular mortality. There have also been less well established links of low HRV to risk of early cognitive impairment, dementia, mental illness, Type 2 diabetes and substance abuse. An important reminder is that HRV is a surrogate marker without any established cause-and-effect relationship. If you increase your HRV, that doesn’t mean it will improve health outcomes. In fact, there is no hard evidence for that. All that work linking to health outcomes was done with electrocardiogram (ECG) derived HRV. Now, in the era of consumer wearables, this is getting assessed differently, by optical pulse (yes, the lights you see) plethysmography (PPG) or what is called pulse rate variability (PRV). They are not the same, as shown below (right panel) and only concordant when the delay between the ECG and pulse is kept constant, which basically means at rest. I should mention there’s also what I will call MPV, a mattress mechanical movement sensor, a derived heart rate variability, that companies like Eight Sleep use, even further away from directly measuring HRV. HRV has not one uniform measurement but many different types of quantification, such as RMSSD, the magnitude of difference between successive R-R intervals of normal sinus beats (N-N) or SDNN, the standard deviation of NN intervals, both in milliseconds. SDNN is one of the so-called frequency domain HRVs (others are LF, HF, LF/HF). Different wearable sensors use different metics; Apple has relied on SDNN and nearly all of the others use RMSSD, which is generally considered the more accurate metric. There’s also the different length of time measured, such as for a matter of minutes, all day, or an overnight’s sleep. Short measurements are especially problematic since they don’t capture enough of respiratory modulation and other factors that influence HRV. Share Ground Truths How well does HRV correlate with PRV? There are very limited studies, especially independently done. One that is commonly cited was conducted by Air Force researchers in only 13 healthy adults assessing Oura ring 3 and 4, Whoop 4.0, and Garmin Fenix 6 and showed a correlation coefficient of 0.88 to 0.97 and a mean absolute percentage error from 6 to 10%. The correlation is not a perfect 1.0, but there’s at least a fairly high level of correlation. HRV is supposed to increase during the night due to takeover of the parasympathetic nervous system, and higher during deep sleep. A recent example of my 1 week, all day “HRV,” and one during sleep is shown below. As you can see, the N of 1 data are inconsistent for the same days from different sensors (Oura, AppleWatch, Fitbit Air, and Eight Sleep) by patterns, absolute numbers, and comparison with prior days and weeks. The largest study in over 8 million Fitbit users (the old version, not Google Fitbit Air, introduced in May 2026) gives you a sense of the effect of age, sex, and the 2 different main HRV (here PRV) metrics, with RMSSD on the left and SDRR (=SDNN) on the right below. That study, from data collected in 2018, is a major outlier, since all the more recent ones are tiny with respect to sample size. Many of the companies have not had independent evaluation of their HRV, such as Eight Sleep, but have published a low standard error on their website. There are some other published studies on the correlation between HRV and PRV, but they are all small and only in healthy adults. A scoping review emphasized the lack of study in underrepresented individuals, including the aged, people of color (which affects the PPG signal), and individuals who are underweight or obese. Add the typical adult age 60 plus with one or more chronic diseases. For example, one study in over 900 adults found poor correlation of HRV and PRV, non-uniformly underestimated across many chronic diseases (cardiovascular, endocrine, neurological, respiratory, and others), concluding PRV is “an invalid surrogate for HRV.” A recent systematic review of 43 studies comparing HRV and PRV found reasonable pooled absolute standardized error (HRV as gold standard) but only 10 of the studies provided quantitative synthesis in ideal conditions. Their main conclusion was similarly cautious: “PPG-derived HRV [PRV] should not be regarded as universally interchangeable with ECG-derived HRV across all devices, populations, and recording contexts.” Factors Affecting HRV and PRV That gets me to the long list of factors that affect HRV (and PRV) besides the device, the type of measurement (RMSSD, SDNN or others), the person’s signal, the sensor site, the duration of data capture, if weighting by sleep stage is used, how artifact is processed and corrected. And this list is not complete!: Oura puts out data from their community of users (who input data) on what affects their overnight HRV. The factors currently provided are: no alcohol (increase 8%), melatonin (increase 2%, float tank (increase 2%), wine (decrease 4%), and party (decrease 14%) in overnight HRV. Must be some big parties! Subscribe What is a PRV measurement good for? It has been falsely characterized as an index of “autonomic balance” and a specific indicator of stress. A 2018 review of the studies available for HRV and its relationship to stress, not using any of the current wearables, found that stress can lower HRV. But so can many other factors. The non-specificity of the signal, indexed to the table above, is striking. Evidence from a UK Biobank study of over 46,000 participants with actual HRV looked at genetically predicted HRV, a genetic risk score, that failed to show the expected HRV-mortality link, indicating that _HRV is likely not causa_l, but rather a reflection of person’s physiologic state. A review of consumer wearable HRV data from 5 longitudinal studies showed that nighttime PRV was not associated with perceived stress, and surprisingly higher HRV, in the largest cohort (N=717 participants), was correlated with higher stress. An Oura ring cohort of 525 first-year college students found a link between overnight PRV and perceived stress, but that was also seen with resting heart rate, sleep, and respiratory rate. Several very small studies have examined the relationship of HRV and athletic injuries or guiding training with mixed, and predominantly negative results. HRV biofeedback training with paced breathing had no significant effect on reducing stress or raising HRV, as demonstrated with sham controlled trials. When HRV for multiple days showed a decline in conjunction with body temperature, the Oura ring published data for prediction of Covid. The WHOOP company sponsored an observational study, published in 2026, of 30,000 users for 72 weeks, without a control group, that reported reduced alcohol intake (5.8 % points) by self-report. That doesn’t tell us much, and particularly about the merits of HRV for behavioral change. If you use the same device and conditions as longitudinal trends for multiple (at least 2-3) weeks that may be the one way to get something useful from the measurements. Data for overnight sleep with minimal motion and using RMSSD is the best proxy for real HRV. The reason to look at trends rather than any given night is that it more likely represents something, even though you won’t know with certainty what the “it” is. Keep in mind there are no data, no peer-reviewed evidence, to show that HRV fluctuation in-person has any correlation with health outcomes. Share Readiness Scores These are proprietary scores that integrate different metrics for each of the wearables: no algorithms have been disclosed. They are unvalidated against health outcomes. In a review of 14 composite health scores of readiness and recovery, HRV contributed 86% to the scores, followed by reading heart rate (79%), physical activity and sleep duration (both at 71%). That review noted the substantial variability in measurement protools and lack of standardization. Sleep staging is notoriously inconsistent and inaccurate by these sensors, which adds further to the HRV uncertainties for what the scores, which use sleep stage data, mean. Only resting heart rate has been shown consistently across devices to be extremely accurate. I’ve made a Table to summarize what we know about which metrics are included, the scores, any peer-reviewed studies that compared the readiness score with health outcomes, and the corresponding (if any, NA-not available) citation. You will note that some companies do not use the term “readiness," such as WHOOP for recovery, and Garmin, which has 2 different scores, one of which is Body Battery. Eight Sleep uses the term “Fitness Score.” They all include HRV; Apple includes a new metric they call “Recovery HRV” which among other components uses 7-days of sleep, but it is unclear what this means or how it is differentiated from other scores (there are clearly no data for outcomes). We have no knowledge of how the different components are weighted or whether any of these scores are better than resting heart rate, HRV alone, physical activity, or any other single metric. Since none of these are standardized, they are not interchangeable, so if you get a 90 for Oura that has no relationship to a 90 on a Google Fitbit Air. Notably, the company can update its algorithm for readiness score at any point without notification to device users. Without any useful evidence of actionability for these scores or established relationship with health outcomes, it is hard to make a case for their value. At the Apple recent announcement they showed their Readiness score (0-10) on the watch (Figure below) but there are no published data on this score, not even on their website. It’s available only on their new Watch Series 12 or Ultra 4 [of course, ;-)]. That exemplifies the problems with these scores, lack of data and evidence for being meaningful to promote health. Perhaps the best study (which isn’t saying much) is the WHOOP Recovery for golfer performance, because it did correlate with an objective outcome, even though there was no control group and the authors were all from the company. Among the 389 pro golfers, an absolute 10-per cent point increase in Recovery score was associated with about 0.5 fewer strokes per round. But that’s hardly a health outcome! WHOOP is also conducting a study in over 2,700 runners to see if their recovery score will be linked to less injuries and improved performance, but that is not yet published and has no control group or randomization. Putting This in Context For two decades I’ve been enthusiastic about the potential for digital health and particularly wearable biosensors. Over the years, we’ve seen some great progress for their ability to promote physical activity and accurately detect atrial fibrillation (the first FDA cleared deep learning AI for consumers). That work was the subject of rigorous research. But there are holes in the data and evidence for other metrics. One notable one is the “VO2 max” story that I wrote about earlier this year. At that time many subscribers asked me to cover heart rate variability, which I finally got to here. When I dived into the research and publication for HRV and readiness scores, I expected to find at least some that were of high quality and demonstrated their utility by linkage to health outcomes. To my surprise, I found none. The wearable sensor measurements for HRV (PRV) are, for the most part, accurate, but that validation work has only been done in small studies of healthy adults and does not take into account the long list of factors, from the device, software side, and the user side, that affect HRV measurements. Moreover, this metric chiefly relies on optical sensing and, as we have learned for heart rate PPG sensing, may be less accurate in people of color. Keep in mind that all of the health outcome association evidence comes from ECG-derived HRV; none are from wearable sensor data. I will repeat the key point: there's no peer-reviewed evidence to show that in-person HRV fluctuation—or efforts to raise your HRV— has any correlation with health outcomes. For those of you who look at your HRV on awakening, or even 2+ week trends of it being low, I hope this context helps to relieve any anxiety. Yes, low HRV (not PRV) has been shown to increase risk of some diseases as summarized above. But efforts to raise your HRV—a surrogate metric— has not been established for improving any health outcomes. HRV does not have any evidence of causality (the genetic evidence actually goes against this possibility). In this summary, I have not included data for other wearable sensors such as Polar, Samsung, Withings, Suunto, Amazfit, Coros, Ultrahuman, or additional mattress sensors. These are beyond my first-hand experience, and as far as I know from my in-depth review none have any peer-reviewed published data that differ from the 6 sensors I’ve reviewed here. From the points I’ve gone over above, we’re not ready for readiness scores. Besides being proprietary, they are predominantly based on metrics that have their own issues. It’s compounding the problem, like building a house without a solid foundation that has never undergone a rigorous inspection, and then selling it. Like I mentioned for PRV, you can look at trends over weeks rather than any single day, to get a handle, but even that may not be helpful. There’s simply no evidence that these scores meaningfully relate to health outcomes. I’d emphasize they might, but that requires doing prospective or randomized studies to prove it. None exist. There’s great promise for HRV/PRV utility_. For example**,**_ Prof Maiken Nedergaard, who discovered the brain glymphatics that are essential in eliminating metabolic waste products from the brain during sleep, has posited that HRV could be a non-invasive marker for neuromodulator oscillations, brain-body regulatory circuits, and brain clearance. That would be extremely useful, but like everything else on HRV and readiness scores it requires solid research and validation. The lay media isn’t helping much to get the story straight. Earlier this year The Economist published a piece entitled “The most useful indicator of your overall health” which ordained HRV as an “accumulated stress score.” That’s akin to the false assertion about VO2max: “V02 max is the singular most powerful marker for longevity.” As I’ve summarized here, that is not established. The fact is that so many things can lower HRV, including physical exercise (especially an intense workout), reduced sleep quality, stress, the list above, no less the device, signal, and software. Whatever fluctuations observed have not been correlated with any health outcome. Sadly, “datamaxxers” are widely using HRV and readiness scores that have never been validated to mean anything. We already know that for some people using the sensors for sleep metrics, it can induce “orthosomnia,” an obsession to get high sleep quality, with associated high levels of anxiety. In an experiment done by a company to promote sleep quality for its employees, “For those employees who did use the trackers, many reported feeling perfectly rested until their tracker told them they had had a terrible night. Others were told that they had slept like a baby when they had actually been lying awake worrying about the quality of their sleep. “ The same problem can result from preoccupation with HRV or readiness scores, with anxiety that would lead to further reduction in both. It you are using a wearable like >100 million American adults, it’s OK to look at these data, but contextualized with the major caveats reviewed here. If you are one to require evidence that HRV or readiness scores are linked to health outcomes, you may not even want to look. The companies make it hard to turn them off! Let me end with the companies that make and sell wearables. Apple’s doubling down on HRV (24-fold more reporting and heart rate very 5 seconds) and introduction of a Readiness score tells us that consumers have bought into these metrics and they are joining the club. However, all of this is occurring with a backdrop of tens millions of users, claims about the data that are not backed up by adequate evidence, marketing way out in front of whatever limited data exists, and not being transparent about their readiness score algorithms. The companies can well afford to do the research that is needed to connect these metrics with health outcomes show, once and for all, that increasing HRV or using readiness scores promotes our health. If they believed and invested in the products they are selling, we’d not be in this position of not knowing. That’s essentially where we are with HRV and readiness scores. Perhaps someday this will change and we’ll have good reason to embrace them. NB: I wrote this post. No AI. I have no conflicts of interest with any of its content. Loading... Ground Truths has 215,000 subscribers from every US state and 214 countries. 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Evaluating Knicks’ Biggest Roster Hole Ahead of Training Camp

The Knicks will look to figure out the backup shooting guard spot.

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Puck Drop Preview: 2026-27 St. Louis Blues

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MRN BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Edward Jones

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Brentford 3-0 Chelsea

Campbell: Fantastic win; Damsgaard outstanding, Keane Lewis-Potter was also very good. Took on and beat Chelsea in midfield and never reverted to a low block; a clear sign of the development of the team under Andrews. Brilliant game and evening if you're a Brentford fan and I hope we see more.

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Serie A | Juventus-Atalanta

Juventus and Atalanta are preparing to meet at the Allianz Stadium on Serie A Matchday 5.Ahead of the fixture, here are five numbers to know about the Bianconeri’s start to the league campaign.28Juv...

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Colorado Politics Calendar Sept. 21-27

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Can Leeds move closer to 40 points against 'unimpressive' Palace?

"You've got to wait until at least 10 games into a season to talk about that stuff," said Kaiser Chiefs bassist Simon Rix when quizzed about Leeds United's chances of qualifying for European football this season. Daniel Farke's side are yet to lose a Premier League game in 2026-27, picking up eight points from their opening four games of the season. Defender James Justin has also highlighted "the aspiration is to get to 40 points first and foremost" in their second campaign since Championship promotion.

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Defending from front is Liverpool's 'attacking weapon'

Alexander Isak says joining Liverpool last summer was an "easy decision". Isak missed pre-season for Newcastle last summer and trained at his former club Real Sociedad amid uncertainty around his future with the Magpies, saying promises made to him there had been "broken". This campaign, the 26-year-old has already matched last term's tally of three Premier League goals, after only four games.

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Walk this way: Pinellas Republican House campaigns hit the doors on Super Saturday

Republicans outnumber Democrats in Pinellas by almost 50,000 voters.

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Campaign to combine health care advocacy with civic engagement and voting comes to Philadelphia’s Point Breeze neighborhood

Young people face health care decisions shaped by policy. Vot-ER is working to connect health care experiences with civic engagement and voting.

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Where to watch Wisconsin vs. Eastern Michigan: Time, TV channel

The Wisconsin Badgers' football team is back at Camp Randall Stadium Saturday morning as the Badgers host Eastern Michigan.

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London Science Museum Cuts Ties With BP After Decades Of Campaigning

The London Science Museum has cut ties with BP after decades of campaigning and pressure from activists, scientists, and schools

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Lloyd Memorial football hosts Campbell County. See game photos

Lloyd Memorial High School football beat Campbell County on Friday, Sept. 18, 2026. Check out these game photos from a key Northern Kentucky matchup.

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AI fears are fueling progressive Democrat's campaign in Michigan battleground district

Will Lawrence, a progressive Democratic congressional candidate in Michigan, is trying to harness unease over the rapid pace of artificial intelligence development to defeat Republican Rep. Tom Barrett

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Emma Bonino, Italian politician and activist 1948-2026

Radical campaigner who confronted society’s taboos at a time when the Catholic Church still held political sway

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Warriors Add 2 Intriguing Prospects, Cut 6-Foot-10 Forward

The Golden State Warriors added two intriguing prospects and cut a 6-foot-10 forward as training camp roster competition heats up. The post Warriors Add 2 Intriguing Prospects, Cut 6-Foot-10 Forward appeared first on HEAVY.

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Politics Unplugged Podcast: The governor’s race with Stacey Barchenger

Arizona Republic reporter Stacey Barchenger returns to look at the governor’s race and another Hobbs investigation from legislative Republicans. Arizona’s race for governor is entering a volatile final stretch, with Gov. Katie Hobbs holding a major advertising advantage over Republican challenger Andy Biggs. The Politics Unplugged podcast breaks down the campaign cash gap, the increasingly negative messaging and the fight for voters before early ballots go out.

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Politics Unplugged Podcast: The governor’s race with Stacey Barchenger

Arizona Republic reporter Stacey Barchenger returns to look at the governor’s race and another Hobbs investigation from legislative Republicans. Arizona’s race for governor is entering a volatile final stretch, with Gov. Katie Hobbs holding a major advertising advantage over Republican challenger Andy Biggs. The Politics Unplugged podcast breaks down the campaign cash gap, the increasingly negative messaging and the fight for voters before early ballots go out.

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Politics Unplugged Podcast: The governor’s race with Stacey Barchenger

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Twins Make Trevor Larnach Decision With Just Nine Games Left

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Trump administration begins building border wall in Big Bend region of Texas

The start of construction marks an important milestone in the administration's $46 billion plan to line the border with walls, barriers, roads and technology as it seeks to make good on a key campaign promise by Trump to finish the wall.

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Campobasso puts neighbors before politics

Dear Editor, In today’s world, it seems easier than ever to divide ourselves by politics, opinions and differences. What I appreciate most about John Campobasso is that he refuses to see people through...

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Sep 18 • 6:26 PM EDT • Politics • news.halstonmedia.com
Vance campaigns in red Iowa but barely mentions competitive Senate race

(CNN) — Vice President JD Vance hit the trail in Iowa Friday — a state his boss won by double digits that’s now home to competitive Senate and gubernatorial contests

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Sep 18 • 5:28 PM EDT • Politics • kten.com
Come for the whimsy, stay for the science: Free All Science. No Fiction live show Saturday, Sept. 26, at OSU

Oregon State University employees and students can score free tickets to an All Science. No Fiction live show Saturday evening on the Corvallis campus, hosted by Jes Burns and Brandon Swanson from Oregon Public Broadcasting.

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Sep 18 • 5:00 PM EDT • Science • today.oregonstate.edu
Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds

The Kremlin is once again seeking to undermine confidence in American democracy with online influence campaigns, U.S. officials said.

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Sep 18 • 4:37 PM EDT • Politics • nytimes.com
Vance campaigns in deep-red territory, highlighting risks for GOP

JD Vance went for a campaign twofer on Friday: He visited a deep-red district in a swing state where the GOP desperately needs to mobilize voters. It’s also the state that happens to be the first to get a say in who will be the 2028 Republican nominee.

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Sep 18 • 3:33 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Former First-Round Pick Named Breakout Candidate for Boston Celtics

Following Jaylen Brown’s offseason departure, the Boston Celtics will need some players to step up to fill his void next season. One particular young Celtics player has been named as a breakout candidate for the team heading into the 2026-27 campaign. Hugo González Named Breakout Candidate for Boston Celtics Greg Swartz of Bleacher Report recently […] The post Former First-Round Pick Named Breakout Candidate for Boston Celtics appeared first on HEAVY.

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Sep 18 • 2:30 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Trump administration begins building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region

The start of construction marks an important milestone in the administration's $46 billion plan to line the border with walls, barriers, roads and technology as it seeks to make good on a key campaign promise by President Donald Trump to finish the wall.

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Sep 18 • 2:10 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Flyers Training Camp Day 2: Absences, Observations & More

Day 2 of Flyers training camp kicked off in Voorhees, New Jersey, starting with Group C on Friday. The groups […]

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Sep 18 • 2:05 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
In campaign ad, Republican Rep. Salazar says Hispanics feel betrayed by Trump

The move comes as some Republican candidates try to distance themselves from Trump in an attempt to win over voters

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Sep 18 • 2:04 PM EDT • Politics • spectrumlocalnews.com
Browns list CB Tyson Campbell as questionable for Sunday
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Sep 18 • 1:40 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Tanenbaums establish a new chair for science in women's sport

A transformative gift from Larry and Judy Tanenbaum is helping create a unique chair dedicated to women’s sport.

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Sep 18 • 1:30 PM EDT • Science • defygravitycampaign.utoronto.ca
Leadership, faith big topics at Business School's annual Summit

Building a culture in the workplace. Leaning on faith in a business setting. Understanding the character behind success. Following your… More on this post

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Sep 18 • 1:03 PM EDT • Business • news.campbell.edu
Olympiacos Starts European Campaign With Victory; Armando Gonzalez Emotional

Mexican and Olympiacos forward Armando González fueled a spirited comeback at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium, dedicating a milestone European goal to his mother and country during a thrilling continental debut.

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Sep 18 • 12:35 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alice Walton Foundation, Mercy break ground on massive Bentonville health care campus

The project has its roots in recent efforts to address the number of NWA residents who leave the region for specialized treatment.

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Sep 18 • 12:33 PM EDT • Health • fayettevilleflyer.com
120-Acre Whole Health Campus Begins Taking Shape in Bentonville

The Alice L. Walton Foundation and Mercy have broken ground on a 120-plus-acre health care campus in Bentonville that aims to expand access

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Sep 18 • 10:53 AM EDT • Health • armoneyandpolitics.com
Hutchinson, Campbell Rip Lions' 'Terrible' Defense: 'There Will Be Changes'

Aidan Hutchinson and Jack Campbell ripped the Lions' defensive performance after their Thursday night loss to the Bills.

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Sep 18 • 10:05 AM EDT • Sports • foxsports.com
Alex Ovechkin claims he’s ‘not in politics’. His pro-Putin video says the opposite

After the NHL star appeared in an ad campaign for United Russia, it’s fair to start pressing about the impact of his stances – even if he doesn’t want to talk about it

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Sep 18 • 9:18 AM EDT • Politics • theguardian.com
Kilmarnock v Hearts: Pick of the stats

Kilmarnock have lost all three of their home league games this season, last losing four in a row in the Scottish Premiership in August 2017, and last doing so within a single campaign in May 2015. Hearts have scored a league-high four goals from set-pieces (excluding penalties) in the Premiership this season, while Kilmarnock have conceded the most from non-penalty set-pieces (5). After their 1-0 victory in March, Kilmarnock are looking for back-to-back home wins over Hearts in the league for the first time since March 2014.

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Sep 18 • 9:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Ronaldo named in Portugal squad for Nations League

Cristiano Ronaldo was called up for the start of Portugal's Nations League campaign on Friday as Jorge Jesus named his first squad since taking over as coach.Jesus, 72, coached five-time Ballon d'Or winner Ronaldo at Al-Nassr before leaving in May after guiding the club to the Saudi Pro League title.

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Sep 18 • 8:16 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Kentucky in final planning stages of new entertainment district

The Univ. of Kentucky’s plans to move forward with its on-campus Sports Adjacent Entertainment District are not only full-go -- they’re approaching the final planning stages before construction begins.

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Sep 18 • 7:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • sportsbusinessjournal.com
Dan Campbell Makes Blunt Admission About Lions Defense

Dan Campbell details coverage busts, missed run fits and containment failures after the Lions allowed 41 points in their road loss to the Bills.

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Sep 18 • 7:40 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com