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Royal College of Nursing cuts ties with Israeli drug company
Britainโs nursing union axes Teva UK as commercial partner over links to Israelโs military and corporate track record
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High School Sports Scores
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) โ Take a look at the various scores from all the high school sports across South Dakota. Volleyball Aberdeen Central 3, Tea Area 0 Mitchell 3, Pierre 0 Lincoln 3, Brookings 2 Sioux Falls Christian 3, Yankton 0 Harrisburg 3, Huron 0 Washington 3, Roosevelt 2 Sturgis Brown 3, Douglas 1 [โฆ]
Jalen Duren, Pistons agree to five-year, $200 million extension
After months of stall negotiations, Jalen Duren and the Detroit Pistons came to an agreement with a long-term deal late Thursday night.
Steelers may have found what they need to stay competitive
The Pittsburgh Steelers may have found exactly what they need to win.
Chris Bell listed as limited again
Dolphins WR Chris Bell limited at practice for second time this week
Science Driven Coffee Cup 2026: Simonelli Group and the University of Camerino chart the future of coffee through science
Science Driven Coffee Cup 2026, promoted by Simonelli Group and the University of Camerino, will explore coffee through chemistry, neuroscience, AI, sensory science and technology
Memorial Health begins $350 million expansion, closes Mets Road
Memorial Health will close Mets Road starting Monday, Oct. 5, as construction begins on a $350 million patient tower.
More than just a boost: Caffeineโs effects on teens
Energy drinks and coffee are common among teens. A pediatric cardiologist explains concerns about caffeine, heart palpitations, and sleep.
Pat McAfee goes on wild tirade after exchange with Jason Kelce on โMNFโ: โI hope you all rotโ
Pat McAfee aggressively shouted down fans sticking up for former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce after McAfee playfully scolded him for using the pronoun โweโ when discussing the team.
Local hospitals to conduct community health survey
Memorial Health partnered with Lincoln Memorial Hospital, Logan County Department of Public Health, Decatur Memorial Hospital and HSHS St. Maryโs Hospital to gather feedback from their respected communities on their needs.
Anderson retail center sells for $7.14M
The 40,000-square-feet retail center has 13 units and a mix of commercial and service-oriented tenants including Dollar Tree and Great Clips.
The Networking Mistake That Feels Productive but Quietly Stalls Your Business
The relationships that matter most tend to find founders who build something worth noticing.
On Main: Concord's downtown business owners say Main Street is on the rise. They also point to challenges that remain.
When Elyssa Alfieri thinks about Downtown Concord, she thinks about an old T-shirt she once had. Not the one with a slogan about the city being comatose. To Alfieri, that one was never true. โConcord got cool when you werenโt looking,โ read the shirt, designed by her friend, Katy Brown. โI really feel like thatโs [โฆ]
The first early vote numbers are inโand there are reasons for Democrats to feel bullish
NFL Expert Picks for Week 4
Thereโs no way to sugarcoat it: Week 3 was an absolute mess for NFL picks. We had been feeling pretty good about ourselves until Sunday rolled around and slapped us upside the head with the Commanders upsetting the Seahawks, the Steelers beating the Bengals, and Carolina falling to Cleveland. We roll on nonetheless, with a [โฆ]
Supreme Court denies Arizonaโs bid to delay start of takeover of healthcare in state prisons
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid by Arizona to block the start of a court-ordered takeover of healthcare operations in its prisons after the state was found to have provided inadequate care to incarcerated people and dragged its feet...
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Science Lab: Joey Porter Jr. trade to Cowboys โ the Great, the Good, the Hmm...
Welcome to "The Science Lab", a place where football facts and in-depth analysis always triumph over feelings.
Steelers' Aaron Rodgers Moves Up QB Rankings Entering Week 4
Pittsburgh Steelers star Aaron Rodgers moved up a quarterback ranking coming into Week 4.
Joey Porter Jr. Trade Gives Steelers Fresh Start
Former Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin always said he wanted volunteers and not hostages. It turns out general manager Omar Khan and current head coach Mike McCarthy feel the same way with the Joey Porter Jr. trade news that broke just after 11:30 P.M. Wednesday. The Steelers acquired a 2028 2nd-round pick and a โฆ
Over 11K Washington residents are losing access to federal health and food benefits
The law, signed by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025, includes $1.3 trillion in nationwide cuts to healthcare and food assistance programs
โDiggerโ review: Climate change satire will leave you feeling cold
Sometimes, a wildly talented and imaginative artist can make a film that leaves you entirely cold, worn out by the in-your-face-ness of it all. Such is the case with โDigger,โ
New research highlights how health care structures shape women's experiences of being heard
New research suggests that whether women feel heard in health care may depend not only on how doctors communicate, but also on the setting in which they receive care.
How the Yankees helped rewrite Baseball economics
Explore how the New York Yankees leveraged free agency to transform baseball and the lessons this offers for global markets.
Reigns Dev Is Closing Down As Leads Go Independent Again
'At the moment, you feel like you're in the washing machine and it's turned on and you're like, "Well, oh my God, this is going so fast."'
Grealish leads chances created chart
After a successful spell at Hill Dickinson Stadium last season, Jack Grealish was a welcomed back with open arms by Everton fans. Although the 31-year-old sustained a season-ending foot injury in January 2025, Grealish's eight-goal involvements proved to be valuable to David Moyes' side. As a dark cloud hung over the Toffees for their lack of action in the summer transfer window, Grealish was a shining light as he returned once again.
Padres Prospect Leads Lake Elsinore To Cal League Title
San Diego Padres prospect Orey Lott had an outstanding series for Lake Elsinore as the team won a title.
Amazon, GoodRx target U.S. prescription subscribers as health insurance coverage slips
Amazon.com, GoodRx and other companies offering online subscriptions that charge a flat fee for prescription drugs and other health services are reaping the benefits of Americans looking to combat rising costs and dwindling health insurance options.
Bass lawyers help influencers file complaint against Raman campaign
Two influencers have accused Nithya Raman's mayoral campaign of paying social media influencers who improperly disclosed the payments. The legal fees for their complaint are being covered by Mayor Karen Bass' mayoral campaign.
Jimmy Kimmel's monologue gets interrupted by a baseball bat-wielding Robert De Niro
"Do you feel threatened by me?"
Bengals hosted 5 players on workouts, signed multiple
The Bengals got to work with roster moves after an injury bug.
That Creepy Feeling Youโre Being Watched in the Dark? It Has a Scientific Name.
On a late-night drive to Zion, an unexplainable sensation of unseen eyes took over. It turns out that eerie backcountry feeling has a nameโand a deep evolutionary purpose.
September Monthly Review: Health MCP Guy?
For all the time I spend talking about APIs and data exchange, this newsletter has had embarrassingly little interoperability of its own. Itโs old-school SaaS, baby - UI or bust. Not all of that is my fault! Substack, for all its popularity, is (as mentioned before) really frustrating as my system of record. The primary user it optimizes towards is the reader, whose attention feeds the app, the Notes feed, and the recommendation network that Substack is actually selling. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Theyโre falling into the same trap that Medium once sprinted into, albeit at a much more glacial speed. Younger generations may not remember (or never knew) it, but Medium once lured publications like The Ringer and Signal v. Noise onto its platform, only to lose them as it rebuilt itself around a paywall and an algorithmic feed. Substackโs original pitch circa 2020 was the antidote (you own your list), but every new feed feature chips away at it. I get it: writers are generic supply in the eyes of the Substack product team. Generic supply follows demand, so the consistent pressure on the PMs is to generate demand, which leads to every product cycle going toward discovery (Notes, recommendations, the app, live video). The end result lackluster author tools (laggy and broken analytics are truly crippling) all despite the premium price point. The archive is where it crosses from authorial gripes to actual reader impact, though. Across Substack and LinkedIn, Iโve published 1,218 posts and nearly 900,000 words since 2018. Substackโs native search can see only the 464 posts that live on Substack, and even there itโs woefully inadequate at surfacing relevant content (even for the guy who wrote it)! Readers have the same problem, writ large. Ask the Archive Fixing search (for both my readers and my own use) turned out to be extremely non-trivial, unfortunately: Thereโs no public API for readers to access content RSS exists for new content notification, but it only carries the 20 most recent posts and cuts paid ones off at the preview The only Substack MCP is an admin tool for analytics The export exists for authors, but itโs painfully awkward and slow. So I built something to work around that: the Health API Guy MCP. Itโs a private MCP server holding the full text of everything Iโve written across Substack and LinkedIn. Add it to Claude or ChatGPT as a connector and you can ask things like: It pairs keyword search (for acronyms and case names, of which we have many) with semantic search. Every post is also labeled by topic, form, and court case, so you can pull a lawsuitโs (or multiple casesโ) entire docket across Substack and LinkedIn in one query: Hail, Healthapiguyhydra This is also a bit of me eating my own cooking. Iโve spent the year arguing that headless healthcare is arriving and that developers want primitives over abstractions. Last week in Hail, Benihydra, I watched Salesforce plug its platform into Claude and bet that the records underneath outlive whatever interface sits on top: Salesforce must believe that the Hydraโs immortal head is the records, permissions, and business logic (in that they will survive whatever happens to the interface). It felt a bit hypocritical to keep my own archive behind a Substack search bar. The archive is the body. Substack is one head, and now whatever tool you might use is another. Will the EHRs follow my lead? Probably not imminently, but one can hope! Why Founding Members Only The MCP is available to Founding Member subscribers. A few reasons: It costs money and time to run. Hosting, the database, Clerk usage and AI compute for search and labeling are significant operational costs (that increase with usage). Substack gives me no way to automate access. Thereโs no API to check whether someone is a paid subscriber, so every user is manual operations for now. Itโs a beta. Weโll need to improve things and parts will break. Iโd rather they break for a small group of dedicated readers who will tell me about it. The Founding tier deserved a real benefit. Until now it was mostly a generous tip. Now it comes with something. If youโre already a Founding Member, reply to this email with the address youโd like provisioned. If youโre not and want in, upgrade here. Larger teams (such as companies) can get access too: group subscriptions at the Founding tier come with the group discount. The admin for the subscription can reply with the list of addresses to provision. Get 20% off a group subscription Pricing Founding membership is now a flat $200 a year, replacing the old suggested $150 that readers could adjust. Existing Founding Members will have access grandfathered in at their previous rate. Month in Review Articles Published Make Networks Dumb Again (Sep 11): AI is making old analog networks cheaper to use and flooding them with machine traffic in the process. A plea for agent-native rails with the intelligence at the endpoints, and for Washington to drag them to ubiquity. Interoperability, Unbuttoned (Sep 29): Interoperability is a series of workflows in a trenchcoat, and this post finally takes the trenchcoat off. A color-coded map shows which provider workflows went digital, which are fragmented, and which still run on fax. Video Content Antitrustโs System of Record Problem (Sep 3): The FTCโs investigation into Epic prompted a ninety-minute webinar, now posted with chapters and a smoothed transcript. We get into why market definition, missing B2B share data, and the SSNIP test leave antitrust poorly suited to systems of record, plus why information blocking may be doing more than any pending lawsuit. The Information Exchange: Cerner Milking Edition (Sep 18): This was so fucking fun. Ryan Tucker, Ryan Brickner, Brad Thorson, and I try an Around the Horn format, complete with points, penalties, and a mute button. We debate whether Oracle Health is dead, who would actually buy Cerner (IBM enters the chat), p(Doom), and why the front desk still hands you a clipboard. Regulatory Ask Not What Your Network Can Do (Sep 23): CDCโs RFI on public health data intermediaries lists use cases already served, unevenly, by eCR, lab reporting, IZ Gateway, and syndromic surveillance. The real opportunity sits in one question about AI: a network that can handle the next emergency without another interface project. Court cases Particle v. Epic: The Naughty Schoolteacher (Sep 4): After a summer-long vigil, the answer on Epicโs early summary judgment bid is two paragraphs and a remedial assignment. Particle advances to the next grade, and market definition gets another year of discovery. The Epic Discovery Files (Sep 8): Texasโs motions to compel arrive with a 251-page appendix of requests, objections, and meet-and-confer letters with Cravath. Inside: Epic using generative AI for document review, denied interoperability requests in scope, and Noerr-Pennington raised against lobbying discovery. Epic v. Health Gorilla: โWorking as Designedโ (Sep 9): Epic wants nothing to do with the data breach MDL, and explaining why puts fresh discovery on the public docket. The spiciest allegation: Health Gorilla told GuardDog to scrub its law firm business from its website instead of cutting off access. Veeva v. Epic: Legal Bypass Surgery (Sep 15): Veeva asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to skip the Court of Appeals, while law professors and three policy groups line up as amici. Meanwhile, Epicโs lawyers apologize for another round of citation errors, including a quote that never existed. Texas v. Epic: Behind the Black Bars (Sep 17): The court portal served up Epicโs unredacted filings, revealing a $5 million document review budget and the AI workflow behind it. Also inside: the 200-plus company names Texas wants searched, and one very expensive Zoom invitation. OpenEvidence v. Doximity: Consequences Will Follow (Sep 25): OpenEvidence tells the court it will not comply with a discovery order, and its own lawyers at Quinn Emanuel say they wonโt defend the choice. Add years of Slack reported unrecoverable, and Rule 37 sanctions come into view. Health Tech Keeps Choosing Violence (Sep 28): Doximity moves to end OpenEvidenceโs case, Epic asks Texas to show its work, and a sleepy Audacious Inquiry patent fight sprouts antitrust and information blocking counterclaims. The main event is a long-sealed Cognizant v. Infosys ruling that hints where system of record antitrust claims can survive. EHRs One Verb for Oracle Health (Sep 14): Oracleโs earnings call quantifies every data center to the decimal point, while Oracle Health gets a single verb: โaccelerate.โ Panning the few healthcare mentions turns up an agentic care management system, a research-to-care ledger play, and the question of whether healthcare gets Larryโs patience. Epicโs Forretress Under Siege (Sep 30): Judy Faulkner tells a panel Epic paused hundreds of projects to harden its software and calls it a โshame,โ while a spokesperson insists the roadmap hasnโt changed. Project Glasswing, a Pokรฉmon-branded QAN sprint, and a trove of Jodel grievances reconcile the two Epics and preview the Jevons paradox coming for all software. Industry Analysis Scanning for a Network (Sep 1): Scan.com raises $220M to build the imaging network labs never got, speedrunning Zocdocโs consumer-to-B2B pivot. Its wedge to network density may be the most American one available: personal injury litigation. The Front Desk Wants the Damn Whole Building (Sep 16): Hello Patient buys Converse Health, pushing its AI front desk into referrals, chart work, and prior auth. The copilot categories keep blurring, and your distribution partner is still your final boss. Cross-industry Comparisons A Different Patchwork Quilt (Sep 10): Healthcare loves to envy open banking, but the US version has no mandate, a toll booth at Chase, and data quality problems of its own. The grass isnโt greener; itโs another American patchwork quilt, and perhaps a worse one. Hail, Benihydra (Sep 21): Salesforce brings its platform into Claude, Slack, and its own agent, inviting the interfaces that might replace it. Cut off one head and more grow back, so long as the records underneath stay put. Living on A Trade Secret Prayer (Sep 22): Six credit unions are suing Fiserv, the Epic of core banking, by claiming their own member records as trade secrets. Banking has no Cures Act, so its lawyers reach for legal alchemy that healthcare has already tried. Other News None this month External Media Nabla Accelerate NYC: I kicked off fall conference season at Nablaโs Accelerate event in New York, where Delphine Groll opened by asking the room to picture the company it wants to become and the one it doesnโt. I liked her framework of bureaucracy, fear, and ego as the blockers. I also love vendor conferences/events in general - different vibe than industry biggies. Healthcare 101 with Nikhil Krishnan: I briefly guest lectured Out-Of-Pocketโs Healthcare 101 class. Appreciated Nikhilโs takeaways cover whether AI doctors can query HIEs, why healthcareโs data-liberation rules beat most industriesโ, and the hi-res graphic is in the comments. HCN: Epic Probed by the FTC: I joined the HCN guys to talk through the FTCโs investigation into Epic. Cedricโs new hairdo was an unexpected plot twist. The episode also covers MFN drug pricing, healthcare M&A and Eli Lillyโs acquisition streak. Fall Conferences: At eHealth Exchangeโs Annual Meeting in Austin on Oct 27, Iโll moderate a panel on the tensions between AI, HIEs, and timely patient access with Jean Ross (Primary Record), Therasa Bell (Kno2), Byron Crowe (Doctronic), and Michael Marchant (Freenome). Hereโs the rest of my schedule if you want to meet up: CommonWell (Redwood Shores, CA): Oct 13-14 Will be participating in a fun Jeopardy event Open@Epic (Madison, WI): Oct 20-23 Will be enjoying Verona, Willy Street, and other local adventures eHealth Exchange and Sequoia Project (Austin, TX): Oct 27-29 Yeehaw HLTH (Vegas): Nov 15-18 Groundhog Day, Venetian Edition RSNA (Chicago): Nov 30-Dec 2 See me at โGoverning AI in Breast Imaging: What Health Systems Are Actually Doingโ Digital Health Counsel 2026 AI Summit (Seattle): December 2-3 Will likely be speaking to a bunch of lawyers about information blocking Posts I Liked ChatGPTโs Epic integration: game changer or nothing burger?: Joshua Liu, MD offers five thoughts on OpenAIโs Epic launch, starting from the point that it rides the same open APIs available to anyone. He argues read-only access leaves ordering to Art and the ambient startups, and asks why HCA is piloting it alongside Commure. Heโs sorta a must-follow at this point - consistently excellent, thought-provoking takes. Epic, Lilly, and the Discovery pass: Seth Chaney reads Epicโs first major Discovery deal (with Eli Lilly), as well as its revised developer terms on commercial displays, as the pipe finally opening between EHRs and pharma. Life sciences and health continue to collide. Scott Rossignol on EHR payer platforms and ePA fees: Scott argues the top ambulatory EHR vendors are turning the prior auth mandate into a per-member-per-year toll on payers, for an API whose operating cost has nothing to do with covered lives. His fix is two lines of regulatory text: put the CRD/DTR/PAS certification criteria in the Base EHR definition, and bring payer-facing ePA connectivity under ยง 170.404โs cost-based fee rules. Itโs a good solution. Health API Guy is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe
๐ฅ Edu Aguirre reveals: how Jorge Jesus betrayed Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo feels betrayed and deceived by Jorge Jesus, which explains his departure from Portugalโs training camp. In Portugalโs match against Norway, Cristiano Ronaldo was expected to play...
Banijay Entertainmentโs Scripted Secret: Find the Talent, Then Back the Ideas
With 170 labels across 25 territories, Banijay Entertainment has plenty of scale. But at Iberseries & Platino Industria, Steve Matthews, head of scripted, creative, made clear that the companyโs globa...
Liverpool want to make move for 'special' sensation soon
Liverpool are still getting linked with a lot of new players even though the transfer window is shut. The club spent over ยฃ150 million on new players in the summer but, it still feels like there are ...
Australian businesses raise prices as card surcharge ban takes effect
SYDNEY, Oct 1 (Reuters) - Australian businesses said a ban on card surcharges that took effect on Thursday would force them to raise prices, casting doubt on government claims the change would lower living costs by eliminating more than $1 billion in annual card fees.
Barcelona fear international break could derail Hansi Flickโs flying start
Barcelona entered the international break in excellent form, but the pause has brought a familiar concern for Hansi Flick.According to SPORT, there was already a feeling inside the club that the huge ...
Case Mgmt Profiles โ Broward Health North โ Genesis Siliezar-Orellana, MSW
For Genesis Siliezar-Orellana, MSW, social work is about making sure patients feel heard, seen and supported. She attended Florida Atlantic University, earning both her undergraduate degree and Master of Social Work, before coming to Broward Health North as a social work intern, where she completed eight months of clinical training. She joined the hospitalโs team [โฆ]
Skanska Completes $27.3 Million Broward Healthโs Freestanding Emergency Department in Sunrise
Skanska has announced the completion of Broward Healthโs freestanding Emergency Department in Sunrise, FL. Spanning 18,000 square feet, the new $27.3 million facility is designed to deliver faster, more accessible care in a community long considered a medical desert, while supporting the regionโs continued population growth. The facility is designed to accommodate a broader spectrum [โฆ]
Not your everyday coffee in a Serbia cafe. Enjoy it in the company of alpacas
A cafe in northern Serbia has unusual hosts | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM
Not your everyday coffee in a Serbia cafe. Enjoy it in the company of alpacas
A cafe in northern Serbia has unusual hosts | WWL
North Huskies advance to sectional semifinals
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) โ The North Huskies girls flag football team is moving on to the semifinals after beating Reitz 14-6. The Huskies will take on Castle at the Reitz Bowl, 10 a.m. Saturday kickoff.
East Providence rallies to take down Classical, 3-1
After dropping the opening set, East Providence rallied to take down Classical, 3-1, handing the Purple their second loss of the season.
Scientists explore turning beach sargassum into fish food
As the worldโs population continues to grow, so does the challenge of feeding it.
Vivoโs X Fold 6 accidentally feels like a throwback
The tall, square-ish foldable is now launching internationally, after releasing in China this summer.
Camp Storylines: Ace Bailey Feeling 100 Percent
After overcoming summer back spasms and adding twelve pounds of muscle, the All-Rookie standout prepares to battle for minutes in Utahโs crowded, high-upside wing rotation.
What Does Your Office Say About Your Business? by Jennifer Kraner
What does your space say about you and your business? More importantly, does it give you the best possible first impression? The minute a client, customer or patient walks through your door, theyโre forming an opinion about your business โ sometimes consciously, sometimes without even realizing it. Your space is communicating something about you, whether you intend it to or not. At Big Sky Design, we work with all kinds of commercial businesses, including many medical practices, law firms and other corporate offices, and Iโve seen first hand how much thoughtful design can influence that first impression. For businesses in medical, legal, and financial fields, three things are particularly important: trust, privacy and professionalism. Your space should communicate all three while also reflecting who you are as a business. That can be challenging, especially in a new construction project. Often, so much of the budget goes toward the actual construction that things like lighting, comfortable seating, artwork and finishing touches get pushed to the side. But those are often the elements that make a space feel complete โ and memorable. Think about your waiting room. Is it comfortable? Is the lighting welcoming? Does the layout make sense? When someone walks through the door, do they immediately know where to go and whom to speak with? In a medical office, thereโs another important consideration: privacy. Reception areas can become surprisingly noisy places, with phone calls, conversations between staff and patients, and people discussing personal information. Hard surfaces throughout a space allow sound to bounce around, making it difficult to maintain privacy. We recently worked with an eye doctor's office that had exactly this problem. The reception desk had a large opening, and staff were making and taking phone calls right next to patients who were waiting. We designed an acoustic treatment that acted as a divider between the staff and waiting areas. It absorbed sound, but it also became a branded design element. It was a visual reminder to everyone in the space to be mindful of their voices and what others might be able to hear. Those kinds of thoughtful details can make a tremendous difference. And good commercial design doesn't have to mean making your space flashy. Sometimes itโs as simple as a calming color palette, beautiful artwork, plants, carefully selected lighting or comfortable upholstered furniture. In a medical setting, those touches can help soften what might otherwise feel clinical and reduce anxiety for patients who are already nervous about an appointment. Iโve been in waiting rooms where everyone feels packed together, and you can hear every conversation โ even whatโs happening in the restroom next door. Thatโs not the experience you want to create. Your office should also feel like your business. Are you telling people that youโre clean and modern? Sophisticated and unique? Warm and welcoming? Or, unintentionally, are you telling them that your business is outdated? You donโt necessarily need a complete renovation to change that message. Fresh paint, updated lighting, new artwork, better seating or a few branded design elements can make a space feel current and intentional. At Big Sky Design, weโve worked with radiology, dermatology, and dental practices, among many others. Every practice is different, but the goal is always the same: creating a space that reflects the business behind it and gives every person who walks through the door a positive first impression. Because your office is part of your brand. Make sure itโs telling the story you want people to hear. Read more at bigskydesignonline.com.
Pete Davidson details his daily drug use before checking into rehab: โIt got scary because I didnโt feel highโ
Pete Davidson says he was doing acid, whippets, and ketamine while eating pills โevery dayโ at the height of his addiction, before checking into rehab after an emotional confrontation with his mother.
Pregnant 'DWTS' pro Witney Carson shuts down elimination gossip
'DWTS' pro Witney Carson took to social media following Week 3 of Season 35 to address rumors that she wished to be voted off alongside celebrity partner Guillermo Rodriguez because of her pregnancy.
Cedar Crossing Casino announces space exhibit, expanded entertainment lineup
Cedar Crossing Casino & Entertainment Center announced Wednesday that its Compass Center will open with an interactive space exploration exhibit.
Trump cuts to climate science leave us all vulnerable
The Island always feels vulnerable when extreme weather conditions like last weekendโs early-season norโeaster start heading our way. This time was no different, especially as forecasts became more and more dramatic and television meteorologists breathlessly updated viewers from windblown shorelines, reciting scripts filled with dire warnings about heavy rain, high winds, and coastal flooding. The [โฆ]
โDiggerโ review: Climate change satire will leave you feeling cold
Alejandro G. Iรฑรกrritu's latest film, starring an unrecognizable Tom Cruise, wears out its welcome far too quickly, writes Moira Macdonald.
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Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, with Progressive Twitch streamer Hasan Piker standing behind him, during an election event at the Congregation coffee shop on Aug. 3 in Detroit.
Student voters say they feel disconnected from politics, candidates, political campaigns
On Tuesday, Nov. 3, the 2026 election will fill more than 577 positions, ranging from the U.S. Senate โ Ohio to county officers like Summit County Common Pleas Court Judge. Students at the University of Dayton are split on whether they plan to vote, with some citing it as their civic duty and others feeling...
Civility in politics is in short supply. Former Georgia leaders say it still matters
Civility in politics can feel lost right now. But for some former Georgia elected officials, disagreeing while still finding common ground remains essential to governing and to maintaining public trust [โฆ]
Navarro opens up on health struggles that caused 'deep anger' on court
American Emma Navarro says she has gained her "life back" as she shares her long-running health problems that caused significant weight loss, fatigue, dizziness and left her "feeling deep internal anger" on the court.
Florence Pugh feels โrageโ over Cornell sexual assault scandal: โFear of it lives in our bodiesโ
Florence Pugh addressed Instagram censoring her post about sexual assault amid the โCornell 7โ scandal: โThe fear of it lives in our bodies,โ the โEast of Edenโ actress said.
New York-based Blank Street Coffee coming to Chicago
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Microsoft Fabric is where AI agents learn how the business works
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Thank you for opening your Chartbook email. RALPH BALSON. 1890โ1964. Oil and enamel, signed. Source: Gavekal This going to hurt - the two 7s in the US: diesel and mortgage rates Source: Gavekal In the US housing market, costs are soaring and the role of corporate, private equity-backed buyers is high on the mid-term election agenda. HEY READERS, THANK YOU for opening the Chartbook email. I hope it brightens your day. I enjoy putting out the newsletter, but tbh, what keeps this flow going is the generosity of those readers who clicked the subscription button. If you are persuaded to click, please consider the annual subscription of $60. It is both better value for you and a much better deal for me, as it involves only one credit card charge. Why feed the payments companies if we donโt have to. Subscribe It is striking how, since 2020, big banks have dropped out of the political spotlight in the US. For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Rates of the lung disease pneumoconiosis among working US coal miners have risen to levels not seen in nearly 40 years Source: Bloomberg Chinese Clean Technology Exports For contributing subscribers only. Subscribe Ralph Balson (1939) Portrait of Grace Crowley Cole, G. O. & Haseman, S. M., (2023) โโThe Substance of Paintโ: Class and Materiality in the Work of Ralph Balsonโ, Open Library of Humanities 9(2). Ralph Balson (1890โ1964) was an English plumber and house painter who emigrated to Australia in 1913 and subsequently became a key member of Sydneyโs artistic avant-garde. He is credited with having the first solo exhibition of purely abstract painting in Australia in 1941. Despite his role in developing Australian non-objective painting, Balson remained principally a house painter, working on his art practice at weekends. In 1955 he retired on a state pension and became a full-time artist. Balsonโs artistic education and methods were critically shaped by his working-class background. He did not travel abroad until 1960 and was an avid auto-didact. His materials, palette, techniques and compositional strategies were likewise informed by his trade. Balsonโs profession as a painter-decorator made him conspicuous within the predominantly middle-class Sydney art scene, though his painting partner Grace Crowley considered it an advantage in their pursuit of constructive painting. This paper explores the impact of Balsonโs trade on his trajectory towards pure abstraction. While his art was at odds with the predominantly figurative mode of class-conscious art in Australian Modernism, we argue that it is embedded in the experience of class through its creative adaptation of labour into aesthetics. Source: OLH Svetlana Alexievich, The Art of Oral History No. 1 Paris Review Issue 257, Fall 2026 Interviewed by Elena Kostyuchenko INTERVIEWER How were you able to go to Chernobyl? Did you need special papers? ALEXIEVICH It was a time of chaos. They let me right into the zone. โฆ More than anything, there was confusion. Adamovich [Ales Adamovich, the Soviet Belarusian writer], I remember, persuaded Gorbachev to send in the scientists, who showed up without even bringing their shaving kits. They were told that there had been an explosion at a nuclear power plant, but for some reason they thought that theyโd be there for only a day or two. The first time I went was several months later, and people kept telling me about things they didnโt understandโhow the fishermen couldnโt find worms, because theyโd burrowed deep into the earth, how the milk wouldnโt curdle at the cheese factories. The honeybees wouldnโt come out of their hives. The evacuations started, I think, in the first month. The old women hid, they wouldnโt leave. I mentioned radiation to one of them and she said, โIโve seen that radiation, all right! Itโs yellow with green in it. I saw puddles of it in my garden, and I told the other women, and we ran and looked, and she had it in her garden, and the other one, too!โ God, it was wild, the way the mind made sense of it. There was a story going around about Gorbachev telling the scientists to show him the radiation. โWe canโt, itโs invisible.โ โBut I want to see it!โ I also ran into the soldiers whoโd been flown in on helicopters from Afghanistan. I asked them, โWhat are you doing here with your machine guns?โ They said, โWeโre collecting the radiation, thatโs what.โ So you had some of them running around with their guns, others out in the village washing off firewood or burying soil in the soil. These were the kinds of things that exploded our worldview. They made you realize that culture was just a chest filled with old manuscripts. There were no books in there that could help me. Our philosophers turned out to be useless when faced with the unprecedented. Derrida, Baudrillardโphilosophy fell silent. What was happening? How would we live with it? Thatโs when I decided it simply needed to be witnessed. Which is what I did. INTERVIEWER I wanted to ask about how you talk to people. โฆ ALEXIEVICH Yes, we sit and we talkโabout what interests me and about life in general. About love, about everything in the world. That way, what comes out is three-dimensional. If you cut straight to the part you need, which is what journalists do, it wonโt be interesting, and it wonโt be the truth, either. Not the whole truth. INTERVIEWER Do people always open up when you ask questions, or can questions get in the way? ALEXIEVICH You have to ask questions, of course. Your job is to scour away the banality and return people to their true selves, to make them face what they rarely tap into. With every new person, you have to find a new way to do it. When you ask an interesting question or you share what happened to you, you help people really think about what theyโre saying and not just repeat whatever theyโve picked up from the newspaper. But not everybody is capable of it, not everyone wants to put themselves through that. Either the chemistry starts to kick in or it doesnโt. A person might be wonderful, but you can tell that the conversation just isnโt going to happen. You can try to push it, but it will be a product of your own intellect, rather than of that mysterious connection. Life doesnโt come from the mind. Some people I can call two years after our last conversation, and theyโll say, โOh, Svetochka! I think of you all the time,โ and weโll start talking again. With others, that wonโt happen. That doesnโt mean theyโre not extraordinary people, just that you canโt connect with them. They might have some insight, but you donโt have the right antenna to pick up their signal. Source: The Paris Review Colorized Franco-Prussian war โฆ the ruins of Strasbourg with a French photographer and his mobile dark room. Ralph Balson (1961) Matter Painting If youโve scrolled this far, you know you want to click: Subscribe
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The Patriots are looking at a pair of free agents heading into Week 4.
Conference League 'very winnable'
Brighton owner Tony Bloom says he is looking forward to seeing what the Seagulls can achieve after results he described as the "best in the history of the football club". In a rare interview, Bloom told BBC South East victory over Manchester United in the Carabao Cup, a 3-0 win over Premier League champions Arsenal and beating Coventry City 5-0 had boosted confidence at the club. Bloom helped transform Brighton's fortunes after he became majority shareholder in 2009, when the team were struggling in the third tier of English football and playing at a temporary ground.
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Hispanic Voters on the Texas Border Have Soured on Trump
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Stacked contests impact Cincinnati girls volleyball power rankings
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Trading cards: A hobby-turned business
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Derek Hough gets frustrated after being cut off by โDWTSโ producers while giving feedback
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Pirates Star Brandon Lowe Opens Up About Free Agency
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Marine veteranโs coffee business gives back to those who served
Operation Coffee, based in Menasha, donates to veteran charities
Marine veteran's coffee business gives back to those who served
Operation Coffee, based in Menasha, donates to veteran charities
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Senate passes bill to reshape future of college sports
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