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Democrat whose upset win is sending her to Congress faces a felony charge
Rep.-elect LaKesha Womack of North Carolina, who beat a GOP incumbent, goes to court Dec. 1 after being accused of failing to return a rental car in 2019.
2 Atlanta music venues to be renamed, partnering with Scana Energy
Scana Energy has entered into a partnership with Live Nation for naming rights for Atlanta venues Buckhead Theatre and Lakewood Amphitheatre.
Luka Doncic Ruthlessly Mocks Hawks Fans During Lakers Win
Lakers star Luka Doncic made waves by reminding the Atlanta Hawks of their 2018 draft-night mistake during his team's win on Monday. The post Luka Doncic Ruthlessly Mocks Hawks Fans During Lakers Win appeared first on HEAVY.
Lakers’ Luka Doncic On Fire, Spurs’ Wembanyama Shines
Luka Doncic scores 32 points as the Lakers beat the Hawks 124-114. Victor Wembanyama drops 40 for the Spurs. Get the full game breakdown here.
“Not Moved” – NBA World Scoffs at Lakers’ Six-Game Winning Streak and Forthcoming Games Citing Schedule Strength
The LA Lakers are among the NBA’s hottest teams, with a six-game winning streak that has propelled them to a Western Conference-leading 10-2 record. The Lakers’ latest win came on Monday, when they beat the Atlanta Hawks 124-114.
Luka Doncic Taunts Hawks Fans With Painful Draft History
Luka Doncic scored 32 points against Atlanta and reminded fans they could have drafted him. He now leads the NBA in scoring while wearing a Lakers jersey.
Doncic leads Lakers past Hawks, Pistons win
Luka Doncic scored 32 points as the in-form Los Angeles Lakers rolled to a sixth straight victory with a 124-114 defeat of the Atlanta Hawks on Monday.In other games on Monday, the Detroit Pistons improved to 7-3 with a 122-111 defeat of the Washington Wizards after 24 points from John Collins.
Seminole Science Observes Hispanic Heritage Month with Annual Festival
Seminole County's best source of news since 1908. This local newspaper covers Sanford, Lake Mary, Altamonte Springs, Longwood, Oviedo, Casselberry, Geneva and parts of Volusia County such as Deltona, DeBary and Osteen.
Oak Park alliance to host business mixer
The Oak Park Neighborhood Alliance will host a free mixer Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Lake Charles to connect business leaders and promote economic growth in the area.
TST Best Bets: November 9, 2026
The Los Angeles Lakers play the bak end of a back-to-back this afternoon against the Atlanta Hawks.
Lakers vs Hawks Injury Report: Austin Reaves Listed
Will Austin Reaves play against the Atlanta Hawks?
Cougars handle business against California in Lake Tahoe 86-68
The No. 10 Houston Cougars took control Sunday Night in an early-season victory over the California Golden Bears, 86-68.
16 business updates in Grapevine, Colleyville, Southlake
Discover 16 business updates in Grapevine, Colleyville and Southlake including new openings, coming-soon locations, expansions and one closure.
Bringing maternal healthcare to rural NC. Grant-powered community health centers offer hope.
From the mountains of Graham Co. to coastal Pender County, community health centers are providing essential maternal health services.
Scientists looking to find relatives based off DNA of partial skull found in Mountlake Terrace
Forensic genetic genealogists have processed the DNA of a partial skull found in a home that was sold in Mountlake Terrace in 2025.
Illinois River tagging effort to count invasive carp and help protect Lake Michigan
Scientists will monitor about 1,000 silver carp caught and tagged near the confluence of the Illinois and Fox rivers to track their movements in these waterways.
New York Republicans face infighting after election losses
Some Republicans are also calling for state GOP Chairman Ed Cox to step down.
New York Republicans face infighting after election losses
Some Republicans are also calling for state GOP Chairman Ed Cox to step down.
Lakeshore businesses want to grow, but need more employees
During an annual survey from Lakeshore Advantage, business executives indicated improved sales numbers but a continued lack of necessary workforce in Ottawa and Allegan Counties.
Rams’ Matthew Stafford addresses his true status amid elbow injury update
Coach Sean McVay’s Los Angeles Rams are trending upward after a solid 20-13 road win over the Washington Commanders that included three sacks from the “scary” good edge rusher Myles Garrett in his return to the lineup. A Terrance Ferguson injury gave new players a chance to step up on offense including Blake Corum at running back. Rams QB Matthew […] The post Rams’ Matthew Stafford addresses his true status amid elbow injury update appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Lakers vs. Hawks Preview: Streaking teams collide
The Lakers look to extend their winning streak to six against the Hawks on Monday.
4 Huge Takeaways After Reaves Leads Shorthanded Lakers Past Pistons
The Lakers' victory over the Pistons in Luka Doncic's absence provided us with some valuable insight.
Detroit Pistons lose to Luka-less Lakers in disappointing performance
Against a Los Angeles Lakers team missing the league’s No. 1 scorer in Luka Doncic, the Detroit Pistons submitted a disappointing performance.
Detroit Pistons lose to Luka-less Lakers in disappointing performance
Against a Los Angeles Lakers team missing the league’s No. 1 scorer in Luka Doncic, the Detroit Pistons submitted a disappointing performance.
Competition, entertainment proves 'electric' start for WTGL
PALM BEACH GARDENS - New York Golf Club's Rose Zhang recently sky dived for the first time, completing a tandem jump in Lake Elsinore, California, before the 2026 Solheim Cup. Yet, the adrenaline she felt standing in an open door of a plane at 10,000 feet was not quite like standing over the first tee shot in WTGL history.
Natural History Museum of Utah hosts first of its kind ‘ScienceFest’
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) — Visitors at the Natural History Museum of Utah had the opportunity to meet scientists and learn about research as a part of “ScienceFest” this weekend. The event offered ...
Loxahatchee man accused of stealing from storage unit, businesses in $24K theft scheme
WPEC CBS 12 provides local news, weather, sports, traffic and entertainment for West Palm Beach and nearby towns and communities in South Florida including the Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast, serving Stuart, Royal Palm Beach, Fort Pierce, Vero Beach, Port St. Lucie, Okeechobee, Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, Wellington, Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Lake Worth, Boynton Beach, Greenacres, Belle Glade, Palm Beach, and Riviera Beach.
Palm Beach County opens damage survey for businesses hit by historic flooding
Palm Beach County businesses hit hard by last week's historic flooding can now report their losses through a survey that could help determine future assistance.
Blake Shelton, Riley Green And More Voice Coaches Have Thoughts On Carson Daly’s New Today Show Gig
Daly is getting all the love!
Boynton Beach man becomes third arrested in alleged $32M Delray Beach THC scheme
A third suspect was arrested Friday in a multimillion-dollar drug and money laundering investigation involving a Delray Beach business, "Not Your Bakery."
Walker Kessler Makes Obvious NBA MVP Case for Luka Doncic
Walker Kessler had high praise for his teammate.
Martinook, Svechnikov score twice as Hurricanes top Blackhawks 9-2
(AP) — Jordan Martinook scored two of Carolina’s four first-period goals in the Hurricanes’ 9-2 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday night.Andrei Svechnikov added two goals, and Seth Jarvis, Jackson Blake, Sebastian Aho, Shayne Gostisbehere and Alexander Nikishin, making his season debut, also had goals.
‘Just heartbreaking’: At least 4 small businesses burglarized overnight in Lakeview
The owners of several small businesses were left to clean up a trail of damage Saturday morning after a string overnight break-ins.
Luka Doncic's injury update: Will Lakers star play against Detroit
Justin Timberlake denies ‘What Goes Around... Comes Around’ is about Britney Spears after decades-long rumor
He said the single is one of the best songs in his discography.
Justin Timberlake denies ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’ is about Britney Spears after decades-long rumor
Justin Timberlake said that ‘What Goes Around... Comes Around’ is not about Britney Spears but shared the real inspiration behind the 2006 song.
Why BYU-Utah Is Called The ‘Holy War’
This Saturday’s BYU and Utah college football clash doesn’t need a special name to make it exciting. These are two top-10 teams going at it in a game that has huge Big 12 and College Football Playoff implications. They’re in-state rivals, not all that far apart from Provo to Salt Lake City, and that brings […] The post Why BYU-Utah Is Called The ‘Holy War’ appeared first on HEAVY.
Rams' Quentin Lake apologizes to Justin Herbert for 'deli meat' remarks, Chargers not moving QB via trade
Herbert leads the NFL in interceptions and holds the league's worst QBR through seven games
Oswego County TodayJazz by the Lake Showcases the Jimmy Johns Trio, with special guest vocalist Julie Falatico Montalbono, at the Oswego Music Hall
The Jimmy Johns Trio with special guest vocalist Julie Falatico Montalbono will perform November 13 at 7:30 p.m. at Oswego Music Hall.
Smash-and-grab thieves target at least 5 businesses in Lakeview, Edgewater: VIDEO
Burglars targeted at least five North Side businesses early Saturday morning.
Letters: Magical time for Luka Doncic and the Lakers
Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section give their thoughts on Luka Doncic, the Lakers, Lincoln Riley, Justin Herbert and more.
Letters to Sports: Magical time for Luka Doncic and the Lakers
Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section give their thoughts on Luka Doncic, the Lakers, Lincoln Riley, Justin Herbert and more.
Lakers’ Luka Doncic accomplishes feat not seen since Kobe Bryant
Luka Doncic continues to rewrite the Los Angeles Lakers’ record books, accomplishing another remarkable scoring milestone previously achieved by Kobe Bryant. The superstar guard, who recently made NBA history during a win over the Sacramento Kings, has now recorded four consecutive 40-point performances, joining an exclusive group of franchise […] The post Lakers’ Luka Doncic accomplishes feat not seen since Kobe Bryant appeared first on ClutchPoints.
EAST TEXAS POLITICS: Texas’ next comptroller and attorney general discuss election wins, Republicans respond
Two Democratic statewide winners and two Republican leaders join Blake Holland this week
Green Bay Packers guard reveals how he’s adjusting to new role in the offensive line
The Green Bay Packers made an unexpected lineup decision in Week 8, assigning Laken Tomlinson to right guard despite the veteran having started at that position just once during his 12-year NFL career. Tomlinson said he is adjusting well to the new position, although the switch proved more challenging last week because of the condensed [...]
Laketown Squadron home games to air on Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network in 2026-27
All 24 home games also will stream on Pelicans+ and air on 106.7 FM The Ticket
Laketown Squadron home games to air on Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network in 2026-27
All 24 home games also will stream on Pelicans+ and air on 106.7 FM The Ticket
HCA Healthcare benefits: Caring for those who care for others
HCA Healthcare’s benefits are designed to support colleagues’ health, well-being, career growth and retirement at every stage of life.
The Lonely Island reveal real reason “SNL” released uncensored version of ‘Dick in a Box’
A bleeped version of the Justin Tiberlake and Andy Samberg favorite originally aired on NBC in 2006.
Aurora man charged following robbery at business on North Lake Street, police say
Around $427 was reported stolen from the business, police said.
Woodside Health acquires The Hills Medical Portfolio in West Lake Hills
Woodside Health acquired The Hills Medical Portfolio, a two-building healthcare real estate property on Bee Cave Road in West Lake Hills.
Great Lakes Sports & Entertainment Network to air Pistons-Wizards game Monday
The Detroit Pistons face off against the Washington Wizards, and there’s a new way to watch.
Great Lakes Sports & Entertainment Network to air Pistons-Lakers game Sunday
The Detroit Pistons will play the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday, and there’s a new way to watch.
Big discoveries, little scientists: ScienceFest returns to Salt Lake City
Natural History Museum of Utah hosts two-day event featuring science demonstrations, workshops and activities for all ages
Former employee accused of stealing tools, pawning equipment worth more than $15,000
Investigators say a former employee stole tools from two Lake Worth businesses and pawned the items at local shops, causing an estimated $15,297 loss.
Luka Doncic's remarkable scoring streak gives Lakers a new challenge
Luka Doncic has scored at least 40 points in three straight games, but another extraordinary statistical streak makes his recent Lakers performances even more impressive.
Seattleites rally in support of trans girls after state voters approve sports ban
Advocates and allies rallied at Seattle’s Westlake Park Thursday night in support of transgender girls, many still reeling from an election night blow. A state initiative that will restrict trans girls from competing in girls sports was approved by Washington voters, reversing a longstanding policy that has allowed K-12 students to play on teams that match their gender identity.
Lakers vs. Blazers Preview: It’s payback time
The Lakers look to win their first NBA Cup game against the Blazers on Friday.
Lakers hire Will Iger, son of new co-owner Bob Iger, as next G League announcer
Iger and venture capitalist Joshua Kushner reached a deal to purchase a majority stake in the Lakers for $12.5 billion in August.
Bronny James assigned to G League's Coachella Valley Lakers after playing limited minutes early in third NBA season
Family carnival business struggling with inflation and labor shortage
Blake Huston runs a third-generation traveling carnival, but soaring fuel, labor, and insurance costs are threatening the family business. Half of U.S. carnivals have closed in nine years. NBC News' Christine Romans reports.
Unlikely political newcomer unseats NC powerhouse despite big challenges
LaKesha Womack had never run for office before, had very little funding or outside support, and had even been unhoused at one point. She also has an outstanding felony charge. None of that stopped her from unseating one of the state’s most powerful politicians.
Kings G LaVine Keeps it Real About Defensive Struggles
The Sacramento Kings need to take a big step forward on the defensive end of the floor if they hope to start winning games. Starting shooting guard Zach LaVine was blunt about the team's struggles following Wednesday's loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Why Lakers assigned Bronny James to the G League
Bronny James has yet to convince JJ Redick of his viability as a rotational piece on the Lakers. His demotion to the G-League proves as much.
Lake Erie Maple Expo Rooted in Science and Family History
The Lake Erie Maple Expo brings producers together to explore maple syrup production, value-added products, industry innovations and changing environmental challenges.
Entertainment this week: Jim Norton, Placer Artists Tour and more
Friday, November 6 Afternoon Tea at Osteria Sierra – 1:30-3 p.m., Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, 111 Country Club Drive. Enjoy a refined afternoon tea experience every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 1:30pm to 3:00pm, featuring...
Health & Harvest Festival returns to Winter Garden Farmers Market
This year’s event will take place from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026, at the Winter Garden Farmers Market, 104 S. Lakeview Ave., Winter Garden.
Luka Doncic’s 3rd Straight 40-Point Game Sparks Lakers Against Kings to Continue 3-Game Winning Streak
Despite getting off to a slow start by his own standards Wednesday night against the Sacramento Kings, the NBA’s leading scorer this season, Luka Doncic, would come alive and lead his team to victory. Facing the injury-ridden and dysfunctional Kings, Doncic and the Los Angeles Lakers would shake off a lackluster shooting performance in the …
Northwestern Receives Encouraging Defensive Injury News Ahead of Iowa
Northwestern received encouraging injury news ahead of Iowa, with Robert Fitzgerald upgraded to probable, Brendan Flakes coming off the availability report and Jon Jon Stevens Jr. listed as questionable.
Woods Hole research ship heads to Lake Superior to hunt neutrinos
The R/V Neil Armstrong is making its first Great Lakes voyage, carrying Cape Cod science into fresh water for an experiment probing the universe.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Luka Doncic Scores 40 as Kings Fall to Lakers at Home
Luka Doncic’s historic scoring tear continues as Los Angeles exploits a massive free-throw discrepancy to stifle Sacramento, overshadowing a brilliant double-double performance from rookie guard Darius Acuff Jr.
Cyprus: Island of Snakes, Cats, and Ophiolites
The third-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea exposes an ancient piece of the ocean floor and hosts a clowder of cats.
City Council votes to terminate Ice Arena contract with Tahoe Sports & Entertainment
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – After years of what the City of South Lake Tahoe calls “significant concerns” about how Tahoe Sports & Entertainment (TSE) is running the Tahoe Ice […]
Chargers’ Justin Herbert breaks silence on Quentin Lake’s savage comments
It has been a rough season for Justin Herbert and the Los Angeles Chargers , to say the least. Los Angeles Rams defensive back Quentin Lake added to the Bolts’ misery when he rubbed salt in the wounds of Herbert and company following the Chargers’ 24-9 loss on Sunday at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. During a recent appearance on the St. Brown Podcast, […] The post Chargers’ Justin Herbert breaks silence on Quentin Lake’s savage comments appeared first on ClutchPoints.
These Salt Lake City blocks inspired Smith Entertainment Group's downtown plan
Smith Entertainment Group says it wants to plug ideas from a few Salt Lake City sections into its design near the Delta Center, per new project documents.
Quentin Lake says Justin Herbert was ‘seeing ghosts’ against Rams
The Los Angeles Rams are currently gearing up for their upcoming game on the road vs the Washington Commanders. The Rams are coming off a dominant home win over the spiraling Los Angeles Chargers , one in which they held the Chargers’ offense to just nine points on the afternoon. Now, Rams safety Quentin Lake has given his glowing review of how the […] The post Quentin Lake says Justin Herbert was ‘seeing ghosts’ against Rams appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Luka Doncic Loses A Stat And The Lakers Love It
Luka Doncic went backward in one stat on Monday, and the Lakers are thrilled. Here is why losing a technical foul is actually a big win for their star.
Orlando Health Watson Clinic opens new freestanding ER in North Lakeland
Orlando Health Watson Clinic Lakeland Highlands Hospital opened a new freestanding emergency department in North Lakeland.
Lakers predicted to 'fire off' these 2 trade candidates
Los Angeles doesn't have many trade assets.
Brewing up brilliance with the Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences Society
On Friday, Oct. 30, the Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences Society (CDSS) held a Potion Making event in the Lake Erie room of the Oakland Center, combining clinical concepts with Halloween fun. The event ran from 2 to 3 p.m., allowing new students to learn dilution skills while experienced students gained practice. Attendees experimented with dilution...
The Miami Heat Are Losing What Made Them Dangerous
The Miami Heat have built their identity around toughness, defensive intensity, and holding opponents accountable. Those qualities have defined the franchise for years, but through the first seven games of the 2026-27 NBA season, the team has struggled to uphold those standards with the Heat's disastrous start. Miami's 138-117 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers …
Hochul beats Blakeman to win another term as NY governor
NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul beat Republican Bruce Blakeman Tuesday to win reelection for a second full term as governor as New York Democrats turned out in droves in
Luka Doncic’s Season Off to Historic Start
Lakers superstar Luka Doncic is off to a historic start to the 2026-27 NBA season, averaging 38.3 PPG and putting up unprecedented offensive numbers. The post Luka Doncic’s Season Off to Historic Start appeared first on LA Sports Report.
The Last Disney+ Original?
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Okay, on to this week’s issue. We (finally) have another major Disney+ TV show to talk about, so that’s my main focus for today. Plus, we had a lot of new shows come out, including the fourth seasons of The Diplomat and Tulsa King! And Love is Blind! The Lowdown! Also, four (four!) straight-to-streaming films came out this week, featuring a lot of big names and celebrities, so I’m going to look at those. All that, mixed news for the WNBA, Reacher ends its run on the charts, Skydance does well in September viewership, NYU’s Sundance dominance, all the flops, bombs and misses, and a whole lot more. Let’s dive right in! (Reminder: The streaming ratings report focuses on the U.S. market and compiles data from Nielsen’s weekly top ten viewership ranks, Luminate’s Top Ten Data, JustWatch and Reelgood interest data, Samba TV household viewership, company datecdotes, Netflix hours viewed data, Google Trends, and IMDb to determine the most popular content. While most data points are current, Nielsen’s data covers the weeks of October 12th to October 18th, 2026. You can find a link to my terminology here.) Subscribe Television - Disney+’s Porridge Problem Listen, per my headline, VisionQuest isn’t the last Disney+ Original. At least, I’m pretty sure it’s not. They have other MCU shows in development. Well, maybe one: But it sure feels like the end of an era. I’d call it their “porridge too hot” era, to quote myself from The Ringer. I told Ben Lindbergh that Disney+ seemingly couldn’t figure out the right amount of content. In the heights of the Streaming Bubble Era (circa 2019 to 2022), they started releasing an insane amount of TV shows. After their growth slowed, they’re down to two or three shows a year, and that might be down to 1 by 2027. Here’s my TV shows by year chart: Even at the time, I thought Disney was making too many shows (that cost too much). Today? They’re definitely making too few shows (though the budgets are more in check, at least according to the reporting). Porridge too hot, porridge too cold; too many shows, now not enough. Which makes evaluating VisionQuest so interesting. This show didn’t have a great lead-in, whether it be a Marvel Cinematic Universe film (the last non-Sony-produced-Spider-Man flick came out The Fantastic Four from July of 2025) or Marvel Cinematic Universe TV show (the two this year were Wonder Man back in January and _Daredevil: Born Again_in May, both of which underwhelmed). And so far, VisionQuest hasn’t quite recaptured the MCU Originals glory, but it has some signs of sparks. First, it made Samba TV, though at a lowly ninth place. At least it made it, a feat some other Marvel shows didn’t accomplish. (Ironheart landed on the Samba TV charts one week at tenth place, but Wonder Man and Daredevil: Born Again both missed.) VisionQuest also made Luminate, though with only 3.0 and 7.6 million hours. But it missed Nielsen in its first week. The best news might be its 7.8 on IMDb, on 12K reviews so far, great numbers, even for a superhero show. Looking at those numbers, this show will really need to pick up in future weeks—and it may since it’s coming out weekly—or Disney will have another disappointment on its hands. Disney+ binge-released their last few shows to try to boost numbers, but that meant shows like Iron Heart and Wonder Man didn’t last long on the charts. _Daredevil: Born Again’s_last season missed entirely (though it came out weekly). Here’s the Disney+ Originals by totals: And for a fun new look, here are those same shows, rearranged by the years they came out: That really shows that, in addition to Disney+ releasing fewer shows, those shows just don’t hit like they once did. If I had to offer one main explanation, it’s that Marvel Studios moved away from characters who starred in the Avengersmovies (The Scarlett Witch, Vision, Hawkeye, Loki, Falcon, Winter Soldier) to characters who didn’t (Moon Knight, She-Hulk, Iron Heart, Wonder Man, Daredevil). It sounds trite, but more popular IP tends to do better than less popular IP. In Marvel’s case, beloved, decades-old characters trump newer ones. And yes, I think this is a problem for Disney. The failure of Marvel TV shows to linger for weeks on the charts, unlike in 2021 and 2022, explains why Disney’s share of the charts has plummeted: That’s a strategic issue. Yes, these shows are really expensive, but without them, Disney+ will struggle, especially if Disney+ keeps raising prices AND licenses out its shows non-exclusively. My recommendation? Return to the core value proposition, which is Disney+ as “genre HBO”. The goal is six shows a year, coming out weekly, spaced out throughout the year. When a show hits, keep it coming back. Make three to four of those shows Marvel or Star Wars, and fill out the rest with IP swings like Percy Jackson, Goosebumps or something like National Treasure. And make YA-skewing shows like Coven Academy to fill out the schedule. Disney, you can get this porridge just right, er, make the right number of shows. Quick Notes on TV Netflix’s sophomore, er, junior, er, senior season slump abated very, very slightly this week. I speak of The Diplomat, which returned for its fourth season on 15-Oct. Credit where credit is due, this show debuted in April of 2023, and has put out new seasons every year since. Has that helped the viewership? Not really. This season opened to 16.4 million hours, which is down significantly from the first season (21.7 million hours) and down somewhat from the second season (18.0 million hours), but it is up from last year’s 14.2 million hours opening. On Samba TV, it opened to third place; that’s also very good. On Luminate, it opened to 25.0 million hours, which is good, but over thirty million hours is a hit on that platform. Netflix wisely renewed it, since it’s steady and, frankly, Netflix needs hits.1 Paramount+ put out Tulsa King’s fourth season on a Friday. After putting out most of their big, usually-Taylor Sheridan-scripted shows out on Sundays last year, they’ve clearly moved to Fridays going forward. Was this a thought-out strategic change, Netflix mimicry, or a data-inspired move? Tough to say. Fridays are crowded with new movies, but so are Sundays with new shows. Anyways, this one is coming out weekly, and we haven’t seen it hit the Nielsen or Luminate charts yet. But it did make Samba TV at fifth place, which is a good opening. Still, if this doesn’t make Luminate or Nielsen next week, I’d call it a disappointment. Netflix had two unscripted shows hit the charts this week, one a docu-series and one a reality competition show. Tyson is a four-episode docu-series about one of boxing’s most popular fighters, and it made both the Samba TV and Luminate charts, but not Nielsen. That’s a solid run for only four episodes (assuming it didn’t cost an arm and a leg to produce). Netflix’s latest season of Love Is Blind also returned for its eleventh season, which opened to 10.0 million hours, down from previous seasons. It also had 11.0 million hours according to Luminate, roughly in line with the Nielsen numbers. Last issue, I analyzed the triple successes of Below, Carrie and Crystal Lake, noting that all three have done well. I mostly used Nielsen, but all three shows also made Samba TV (see above). Crystal Lake in particular did very well on Luminate, getting 35.0 million hours, top for Peacock among first seasons: The top “show” of the week would have been Thursday Night Football again, at 41.7 million hours. This is still above last year’s game, but it continues the season’s overall downward trend, which happens every year. (Though a big week is coming, based on the news stories I’ve seen.) As I said before, I’ll do a deeper dive on all the October games later this month, with comparisons to previous years. One company is quietly on a roll, when you consider the shows it makes and streams. I speak of Skydance—a point Variety made—noting that it produces Neagley and Reacher for Amazon, along with Paramount+’s Lioness, which means it produced three of the top four shows of September according to Nielsen. By the way, Neagley fell off the Nielsen charts after four weeks, which is a pinch short for how well it started, but it’s still a huge success. (Interestingly, it finished just 7.3 million hours ahead of the cancelled Ride or Die.) The point, though, which I’ve made before, is that Prime Video still has a problem with how many co-productions it buys, most notably _The Boys_from Sony and Reacher/Jack Ryan from Skydance. It’s not a critical flaw—everyone licenses shows—but Amazon still struggles to make its own hits. Reacher finally fell off the Nielsen charts, so here’s its final rank for season four: We’re just getting started with this issue, but the rest is for paid subscribers of the Entertainment Strategy Guy, so if you’d like to find out… ...An example of the algorithm NOT picking a film… …whether or not Netflix buys shows simply for the movie poster… ...if East of Eden is above the Obliterated Line... ...what four star-studded straight-to-streaming films didn’t chart... ...and a whole lot more... ...please subscribe! We can only keep doing this great work with your support. If you want an idea of just how much content you’d get in a full issue, check out this older issue.
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