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Long Island Association marks 100 years of regional business growth
The Long Island Association marked its centennial with a celebration recognizing its century-long role in advocating for economic growth, infrastructure projects and business development on Long Island. The event honored key leaders and highlighted the association's ongoing commitment to supporting the region's business environment and community prosperity.
This gen’s top 10 PlayStation Studios games
As we near the six-year anniversary of the PS5, we thought we’d dive into our estimates for the top-grossing PlayStation Studios games since the start of the gen. Together, the 10 games we’re covering today have generated over $6.5 billion across PlayStation (84.7%), Steam (14.1%), and Xbox (1.2% via just Helldivers 2). Let’s have a look at the top 10. Spidey and Kratos sequels take the top two spots God of War Ragnarok takes the top spot with $1.4B in revenue via 21.6M copies – 20.1M on PlayStation (75.2% via PS5) and the rest on Steam. Around 27.5% of the copies sold on PlayStation were physical. It’s another PlayStation evergreen seller, too. This year, Ragnarok has already sold 1.1M copies, generating $60M (68% on PlayStation), outperforming new 2026 titles like Gears of War E-Day and Saros. Overall, our estimates show that Ragnarok has been accessed by 6.7M PlayStation Plus players (it was added to the Extra tier about two years ago). So it’s performed that well this year despite subscription cannibalisation. That’s the pull of God of War IP. And that Bautista series on Amazon is going to be massive - bigger than Fallout, I reckon. Next up is Spider-Man 2 with $1.3B across PS5 (over $1.2B) and Steam (nearly $70M). Spider-Man 2 has sold over 19.1M copies overall, so it should pass 20M early next year. Spider-Man 2 is an evergreen title that always spikes around the holidays (mostly concentrated around Christmas week): In December 2023, it sold 2.1M copies, up 20% from November 2023 (the month after release) In December 2024, Spider-Man 2 sold 460K copies (natural decay), up 60% from November 2024. Despite the Steam version launching in January 2025, it still sold more copies – and made more revenue – the month before. In December 2025, it sold 328K copies, up 30% from November 2025. This year’s December and Christmas will be somewhat limited by Spidey’s February 2026 addition to PS+ Extra, where 6.3M people accessed it for the first time. While subscription inclusions always cannibalise premium revenues to some extent, Spider-Man 2 did manage to sell 578K copies in August 2026 – the most its sold since Q1 2024, following hype from the Spider-Man Brand New Day movie. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe God of War Ragnarok and Spider-Man 2 continue to be huge evergreen tentpoles for Sony. Together, both titles have sold 3.4M this year (2.3M for Spidey and 1.1M for Ragnarok), generating a combined $172.9M ($115.8M for Spidey and $57.1M for Ragnarok). Again, some premium games would take a leaf out of Kratos’ book (not Spidey’s!) and would kill for these numbers in year 1. And we can see why Sony wants to take a leaf from Steam’s book, killing physical to get higher margins from catalogue sales, ensuring they get their cut, and having more control over supply and demand (and pricing for their first-party titles). Hot rods, hellpods, and horizons Gran Turismo 7 takes #3 this generation with $841.9M in revenue via 12.7M copies sold. For more info on GT7, you can check out our write-up from earlier this week. Around 1.1M people have already played GT7 this month, less than six days in. Next up – at #4 – is the first second-party game on this list. Helldivers 2 has generated $786.3M via 23M copies sold across Steam (66.1% of the copies), PS5 (25.7%), and the 1.5-year-later Xbox port (8.3%). And there are plenty of players very dedicated to the Super Earth cause, as over 4M folks have played Helldivers 2 for over 100 hours, while 462K played for over 500 hours. That dedication to democracy is pretty topical… Anyway, Helldivers 2 still attracts about 700K players per day (more if there’s a significant update), and its August addition to PlayStation Plus Extra has led to 1.6M new players overall. This year, Helldivers 2 has sold over 2.5M copies, generating $81.1M in revenue. It’s another evergreen hit for Sony, and draws in engagement numbers similar to Arc Raiders. The Helldivers 2 model, in my opinion, should be the way PlayStation approaches its live-service and second-party releases. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Horizon Forbidden West rounds off the first half of the top 10, generating $485.8M. That said, PlayStation completely stifled Horizon Forbidden West’s revenue by adding it to PlayStation Plus way too early (one year after launch). You can see the revenue drop-off clearly in our platform: As you can see: Forbidden West was still a healthy catalogue earner right before it was added to PS+ Extra, making about $1.23M a week on PlayStation across late 2022 and into January 2023. After it was added to Extra_, Forbidden West_’s weekly revenue halved to around $610K, basically overnight. Excluding launch month, Horizon Forbidden West generated about $67.2M on PlayStation in the period before the PS Plus addition. In the same period after it joined the service, that fell to $28.1M, a 58% drop. So, PlayStation didn’t trade a little bit of premium revenue for subscriber value here. It gave up well over half of it, and it cut momentum instantly for one of its premier franchises. Could you imagine the kind of cannibalisation if it launched day in date on Extra? Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe And the cannibalisation wasn’t a temporary blip that bounced back once the game left the service in September 2024. By then, 19 months on PS Plus had already hoovered up most of the install base that would have bought it, so there was barely a premium audience left to monetise. PlayStation even added it back to PS Plus on October 21 this year, and sure enough, weekly revenue dropped again (by around a third); though, the numbers are small now that Forbidden West is nearly four years old. Worth the trade-off. The usual suspects, platformers, and an Asia-driven second-party hit As for the rest of the list: Ghost of Yotei has now generated $410.1M via 5.5M copies on PS5. Yotei popped off a bit a few weeks ago due to a content update, which we covered here. The Last of Part Us I, a remake that we covered here, has generated $341.3M in revenue (67.2% via PlayStation) via 6.4M copies. It was also added to PS+ Extra about two years after launch, where 7.8M people accessed it for the first time. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart has made $334.9M (93.6% via PlayStation 5). It’s now passed 5M copies sold overall. It’s sold 250K copies this year, generating $13.5M in revenue. Time for another Ratchet? Stellar Blade has generated $316.9M via PS5 (59.7%) and Steam (40.3%). However, the share of Stellar Blade’s 5.4M copies sold is far closer (50.4% on PlayStation, 49.6% on Steam) – despite the Steam version releasing a year later. China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong account for 48% of Steam copies and 35% of PlayStation copies (about 41% overall). These markets are regionally priced lower than others, hence the difference. Astro Bot rounds out the top 10 with $292.6M in revenue via over 4.7M copies sold. We covered Astro’s recent performance here, covering how Astro Bot is another evergreen seller and has been a hit with families. Want more free estimates and insights in your inbox twice a week? Subscribe below! Subscribe Even these bottom five games have generated a combined $281.7M this year in catalogue sales. PlayStation wants those numbers to be bigger in the coming years, which is one of the reasons it’s killing the disc (alongside the better margins it and publishers get through digital). No more used discs means more D2C revenue for PlayStation. On that note, we recently chatted to the New York Times again about PlayStation’s digital future, so keep your eyes peeled for that! The last word Reply to this email – or reach out here – if you have any feedback for the newsletter – or want to request a game for us to cover. Want to see why these companies (and many others) are subscribed to Alinea? Get a free platform trial! [Alinea Analytics boasts the most accurate PC and console estimates in the business. Game makers use our platform to understand their audience, keep an eye on the competition, monitor sales trends, and spot new opportunities. We equip game studios and financial institutions with accurate data and the confidence to make smarter, data-driven decisions. Want to talk about all things games market data? We’d love to chat!]
Building a stronger behavioral health system for Ohio
The Ohio Education Research Center (OERC) in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs and the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University have partnered with the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health to support the state’s behavioral health professionals in selecting and delivering prevention and early intervention strategies that are b...
US attorney overseeing Trump’s ‘grand conspiracy’ probe into foes resigns
Jason Reding Quiñones, the senior federal prosecutor who led a sprawling investigation into President Donald Trump’s political foes, has resigned from the Justice Department.
SeaWorld's Christmas Celebration Kicks Off Tonight with Millions of Sparkling Lights, Spectacular Entertainment, and Return of Beloved “Miracles” Show at Orca Stadium
SeaWorld Orlando kicks off its spectacular 2026 Christmas Celebration tonight, Friday, November 6, transforming the park into a winter wonderland filled with millions of sparkling lights, dazzling holiday shows, festive music, and unforgettable family experiences!🎄 Running on select dates through January 4, 2027, this year's celebration features the highly anticipated return of “Miracles” at Orca Stadium, the beloved holiday orca presentation returning for the first time since 2019!
Cook County Awards $92K for Restorative Justice and Community Power Building Initiatives - Cook County Department of Public Health
Cook County Department of Public Health recently awarded $92,270 in Building Healthier Communities grants to three organizations to implement restorative practices in schools and community power building within suburban Cook County communities. Restorative practices, such as talking circles or peer mediation, offer alternatives to exclusionary discipline in schools.
Detectives release photos seeking suspect in two east Baltimore business burglaries
The Baltimore Police Department is seeking the identity of a man they say robbed two buisnesses in east BaltimoreBaltimore Police@BaltimorePoliceIdentity Sough
Ukraine seeks Norwegian funding for war risk insurance
Ukraine has urged Norway to become a major donor to a planned war risk insurance fund that aims to attract private investment despite ongoing Russian attacks, Ukraine Business News reported.
Family offices boost startup investments in October, backing women's health and caregivers
Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective was the most active family-office investor with three startup bets.
Whitmer issues order to protect reproductive health data
Yesterday Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued an executive directive to protect reproductive health data and ensure privacy for Michigan patients and providers.
Cigna Invests $1.5M in Regional Healthcare Access » CBIA
The Cigna Group Foundation is making a $1.5 million investment to improve access to healthcare in Greater Hartford.
What many get wrong about Amish or Plain Anabaptist communities, measles, and health
The U.S. has reported three measles deaths this week in three different states. All the affected were unvaccinated, and some were too young to get vaccinated, relying on herd immunity. Many states haven’t seen a measles death in more than 30 years. Measles is highly contagious, but it mainly spreads among those without immunity. Social factors typically shape these unvaccinated pockets. Many states describe these deaths as occurring among “under-immunized, rural communities.” (In the future, it could be among other tight-knit groups.) Small signals in the news point to many outbreaks right now among the Plain Anabaptists (APA), which include communities like the Amish and Mennonite. Many know APA communities from a distance through their bakeries, furniture, and roadside buggies. But most of us don’t know enough about them, their traditions, or how those traditions actually interact with health and disease. Rumors, misconceptions, and frustration fill those voids. Tristan Sharratt, a family nurse practitioner and rural health researcher who grew up near and works with these communities in Central New York (and a YLE reader who reached out!), says misconceptions continue to create major problems. If the U.S. wants to stop a tsunami of measles coming down the pipeline, or even support health in those communities proactively beyond measles (which is ideal), we must understand how specific communities protect themselves, their values, and the role broader society plays. This starts with a conversation and some self-reflection. Here are the top five lessons I learned from my conversation with Tristan.
Dodgers notes: Kyle Tucker, Andy Pages, Teoscar Hernández
Kyle Tucker’s first season as a Dodger was undoubtedly a disappointment, but it can be broken up into two phases. The first phase saw him underwhelm to the tune of a .221/.321/.350 slash line while producing negative value both offensively and defensively. Over his final 17 games of the regular season, he finished strong with […]
Missouri AD Expresses 'Disappointment' in Illinois Game Cancellations
Missouri Tigers athletic director Laird Veatch reacted to Illinois' decision to cancel multiple games.
Penn State Smeal forms new Risk Management and Actuarial Science Advisory Board
Dan Cahoy, chair of the Penn State Smeal College of Business Department of Risk Management, has announced the formation of a new department advisory board.
Penn State Smeal forms new Risk Management and Actuarial Science Advisory Board
Dan Cahoy, chair of the Penn State Smeal College of Business Department of Risk Management, has announced the formation of a new department advisory board.
Pennant CEO calls 2027 home health payment update ‘insufficient’
Reporting strong 2026 third-quarter profits and sales Thursday, Pennant Group CEO Brent Guerisoli expressed disappointment in the recently released 2.1% home health payment rate update for 2027.
On the Move: Week of Nov. 6
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Man and woman found shot in the head inside East Harlem apartment
mPolice are investigating a possible double murder after a man and his home health aide were found shot to death inside an East Harlem apartment.
Angie Nixon reveals what’s next after losing Florida’s U.S. Senate race
Despite losing the U.S. Senate race, the fight is not over for Angie Nixon, who launched a new PAC Thursday.
When does Christmas music start playing on local, SiriusXM radio stations in 2026?
Have you put your Halloween decorations away yet? Or, are you already barreling toward the holiday season?
Artemis II launch tore a hole in Earth's atmosphere, say scientists | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
The launch of Artemis II caused three distinct disturbances in Earth's ionosphere. Scientists say future launches could cause more disruption.
Whitmer directs state agencies to strengthen privacy protections for reproductive health data
In an executive order issued Thursday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer directed executive departments and agencies to conduct a review of “all policies, procedures, and practices governing the collection, maint...
Whitmer directs state agencies to strengthen privacy protections for reproductive health data
In an executive order issued Thursday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer directed executive departments and agencies to conduct a review of “all policies, procedures, and practices governing the collection, maintenance, storage, and retention of records and data relating to an individual’s reproductive health” and revise any such policies in order to ensure the privacy of that data.
High diesel prices dictate enactment of Stafford Act
During the last eight months, we have seen prices on a wide range of essential goods and products rise significantly. A major factor behind these increases is the surge in the price of diesel, which now stands at double what it was earlier in the year. The nexus of diesel fuel cost and consumer prices […]
Stats for Arkansas football's 2027 commitments
How Arkansas’ 2027 football commitments are faring.
‘The integrity of the game’: NFL owner ‘not a fan’ of sports gambling
Mark Davis owns two professional sports teams in Las Vegas, and both the Raiders and the WNBA’s Aces have partnerships with sportsbook BetMGM. But that doesn’t mean he’s a big supporter of the gambling boom that has taken over the sports world. In a new interview, Davis said that he’s “not a fan” of sports…
The world's best airline is updating its business and first-class experience
Singapore Airlines is rolling out new onboard seating, dining and entertainment options that are part of an over $2 billion Singapore dollar investment.
Business leaders pack the DECC for Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce dinner
The event is held to celebrate and recognize "outstanding" individuals and organizations for their contributions to the chamber and business community. The theme was "celebrating progress," highlighting innovation, investment, regional
Weekend paving project to close Putnam Business Park Drive exit on US 35
PUTNAM COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) — A paving project will close the Putnam Business Park Drive exit on US 35 in Putnam County this weekend. According to the West Virginia Department of Transportation, th…
Burglars hit Eugene home linked to Asian American business owners in second break-in since
HEADLINE: A resident asleep at home during recent Asian-American business owners targeted burglaryWEB SCRIPT:EUGENE, Ore. —The Eugene Police Department has con
Business Spotlight: Experience Wealth helps central Wisconsin families plan for what comes next
Planning for retirement, managing investments or preparing to pass a family business to the next generation? This week's Business Spotlight introduces Experience Wealth, a new Wausau financial planning firm founded by Steven Schreiner. Learn how his team helps central Wisconsin families and business owners navigate financial decisions and plan for what comes next.
Eugene home hit while resident slept inside; Asian-American business owners report theft
Another targeted burglary has been reported, according to the Eugene police Department.At 10:05 p.m. October 30, Eugene police responded to a neighborhood near
ASBMB 2026 member business meeting recap
ASBMB leaders updated members on the society’s finances, programming, advocacy, publishing and plans for future investment during the 2026 member business meeting.
Wisconsin reports infant death linked to measles outbreak
By Siddhi Mahatole Nov 5 (Reuters) - The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said on Thursday that an infant had died in connection with the ongoing measles outbreak in the state.
Connor Shaw’s nonprofit partners with Prisma Health to expand CPR education
Former South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw’s nonprofit, HRTHUDL, is partnering with Prisma Health to expand CPR education, raise awareness about sudden cardiac arrest and increase access to automated external defibrillators, or AEDs.
Elon Musk gambled $445 million to boost Republicans in the midterms. It came up short
Nobody may have suffered bigger losses Tuesday than President Donald Trump. But few others had more on the line than Musk, who gambled big and came up holding the midterm’s worst return on investment.
Federal Opportunity Zone expansion to drive housing, business growth in Cape Girardeau
A major federal designation is expected to bring new investment, housing and business growth to Cape Girardeau starting in 2027.
Health department warns of potential measles exposure at several Middle Tennessee locations. Here’s what to know
The health department noted that while the case currently poses no broad threat to the general public, the individual was in public areas across Middle Tennessee during their infectious period over the past week.
What to Expect From Best Buy's Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales This Year
Best Buy has five major sales for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas in 2026. Here is all the information you need to shop their best deals.
Connor Hellebuyck’s Departure From Jets Nearly Got Much Uglier
Connor Hellebuyck’s divorce from the Winnipeg Jets was messy.But according to one NHL Insider, it nearly got much uglier.Hellebuyck is arguably the best player in the history of the Winnipeg Jets, leading the franchise with 125 point shares.After the star netminder made it clear he no longer wanted to play for Winnipeg, Hellebuyck sat on […] The post Connor Hellebuyck’s Departure From Jets Nearly Got Much Uglier appeared first on HEAVY.
Phoenix Tailings prepares to open rare earth separation facility at Eastman Business Park
Greece, N.Y. — Phoenix Tailings is preparing to open a rare earth separation facility in the Rochester area.
Arts and Entertainment Agenda, Nov. 6 to 12
‘An Evening with Easy Jim’ at Belly Up Aspen, Nov. 6 The Grateful Dead tribute band Easy Jim will takes the stage at 9 p.m. Nov. 6 at Belly Up Aspen, 450 Galena St. Following...
New AI tool speeds up food science research and development
A food scientist at Penn State University is using artificial intelligence to make food engineering research more accessible and easier to apply. Xu Zhou in the Department of Food Science tells Brownfield, “What’s really exciting to me for the future application is people do not need to read thousands or hundreds of scientific papers or […]
Correctional Health Services Earns Full Accreditation
Governor Spencer Cox, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Executive Director Tracy Gruber, and Correctional Health Services (CHS) Director Dr. Marcus Wisner recently gathered to celebrate a historic milestone: achieving full accreditation from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) across Utah’s state correctional facilities. To resolve past long-standing operational hurdles – including a 43 percent staffing vacancy … Read More
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree headed to New York City
This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been cut down and is heading to New York City to mark the beginning of the holiday season in the city. The 76-foot
Gov. Whitmer issues executive directive protecting reproductive health data
The directive instructs departments and agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of all policies that relate to the collection, maintenance, and storage of reproductive health care data.
Jackson County interim executive asks judge to dismiss bribery charges as ‘political logrolling’
Interim Jackson County Executive Phil LeVota asked a federal judge to dismiss the four-count bribery indictment against him. He claims it was just “the everyday trading of political acts.”
USDA revising cost-share requirements for Dairy Business Innovation
MADISON, Wis. (WKOW) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is revising cost-share requirements for the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives program after discussions with the four DBI centers and dairy industry
Wisconsin infant is US’ third measles-related death this week
An infant in Wisconsin has died in connection with an large, ongoing measles outbreak, the state health department said Thursday. The death marks the state’s first measles-related death in more than 35 years and the third reported in the US this week.
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He’s just 19 and started getting interested in politics in middle school. Now, a Billerica teenager is headed to the Massachusetts State House
Soda-soaked eggs and a lost tooth: Med student teaches oral health in Lebanon
Moreen Ng, a medical student at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine, recently visited Hanover Street Elementary School in Lebanon to provide oral health education to third-graders in the face of limited dental care available in the Upper Valley.
Iowa Department of Health and Human Services releases measles exposure alert in Osage
The exposure occurred at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center.
MICHAEL AND OLIVIA DEFEND A JOURNALIST WHO IS FRAMED FOR MURDER, ON “CUPERTINO,” THURSDAY, NOV. 19
“Judith & Michael” – Michael and Olivia defend a journalist who is framed for murder in a case that exposes the vast surveillance apparatus tracking
TREE MAIL BRINGS THE NEWS TO PAIR UP TWO BY TWO KNOWING THEIR PARTNER COULD SEAL THEIR FATE, ON “SURVIVOR,” WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11
“Load the Ark, Two by Two” – A castaway faces major backlash for loose lips and creating a messy post-merge Tribal Council. Then, tree mail brings th
AN INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE HUNT TAKES AN UNEXPECTED TURN WHEN THE MARSHALS ARE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A DIAMOND HEIST SHOOTOUT, ON “MARSHALS,” SUNDAY, NOV. 29
Scarlett Burke Guest Stars as Shelby Gaines Judd Lormand Returns as Eddie Wilson Marque Richardson Returns as Patrick Burns “Bad Medicine” – Taske
Businesses still struggling with sea border, Stormont reports find
The studies, which look at the practical impacts of the Windsor Framework were commissioned by the Department for the Economy.
Miami University to receive $100M investment in its business school
The Farmer Family Foundation plans to give up to $100 million to the Farmer School of Business (FSB) at Miami University over the next decade.
Hollywood Christmas Parade Names “Entertainment Tonight” Co-Hosts as Grand Marshals
“Entertainment Tonight” co-hosts Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner will serve as co-grand marshals of the 94th Hollywood Christmas Parade later this month, organizers announced Thursday. The parade will begin at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 29, following pre-parade entertainment at 5:30 p.m. Erik Estrada and Laura McKenzie will host the event, joined by co-hosts Montel Williams […]
Miami adds another five-star to elite 2027 recruiting class
The Miami Hurricanes have landed a commitment from five-star Brysen Wright, who is also joining the 2027 recruiting cycle.
Eilers Family Sports and Human Performance Institute marks first-of-its-kind Notre Dame partnership across athletics and academics
Pat and Jana Eilers of Winnetka, Illinois, have made an additional $25 million gift to the University of Notre Dame to create the new Eilers Family Sports and Human Performance Institute, increasing their total investment in this area to $50 million. A first-of-its-kind partnership between Notre Dame Athletics and the University’s academic units, the institute will support cutting-edge research on physiology, neuroscience, data science, and athletic performance—integrating scholarship with one of the premier athletics programs in American higher education.
Infant's death linked to measles outbreak in southwest Wisconsin
It's the first measles-associated death in the state in more than 30 years, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Sixth measles-associated death recorced in Jefferson County
The state Health Department on Wednesday confirmed that an unvaccinated person in Jefferson County who tested positive for measles has died.
After Career in Business, Dave Winter Serves Hometown as Parish Life Director
The former investment manager and local shoe store owner now turns his skills, education, and experience to leading Holy Cross Parish in Springfield, Delaware County.
A Law Protecting Pregnant Workers Could Soon Cover Far Fewer Reproductive Health Conditions
The EEOC could narrow workplace accommodations for abortion, fertility treatment, and other reproductive health conditions.
German pension fund raided in probe of troubled real estate deals, including Chicago
At the heart of the probe are “loss making” investments by BVK in seven US real estate projects spanning Chicago, New York, Miami Beach, Beverly Hills and San Francisco.
South Heartland District Health Department wins Hastings Halloween scarecrow contest
A scarecrow named “Joy” helped the South Heartland District Health Department take top honors in the Hastings Parks and Recreation Department’s 2026 Halloween s
LIV Golf announces plan for liquidation, marking end of league
On the heels of BC Partners pulling its $300 million investment offer, LIV announced Thursday before a U.S. bankruptcy court in New Jersey that the league is moving into a liquidation phase.
How, and why, to stress test your business case
An important element of every investment proposal is knowing the answer to this question: What happens if the assumptions fail?
CARROLL CONDEMNS CHILD’S MISTREATMENT, RENEWS PUSH FOR JUVENILE MENTAL HEALTH DETENTION FACILITY
FRANKFORT, Ky. (Nov. 4, 2026) — Sen. Danny Carroll, R-Paducah, chairman of the Senate Families and Children Committee, issued the following statement in response to reporting on the mistreatment of a child at the McCracken Regional Juvenile Detention Center. “Leaving a child in a flooded cell for
Hailey Bieber’s Rhode Pledges $5 Million to Women’s Health Research as She Discusses Her PMDD Diagnosis
Hailey Bieber is drawing on her experience with premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, as Rhode makes its biggest philanthropic commitment yet. The beauty brand has ... Read More
ET Co-Hosts Named Hollywood Christmas Parade Grand Marshals
"Entertainment Tonight" hosts Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner to serve
ET Co-Hosts Named Hollywood Christmas Parade Grand Marshals
"Entertainment Tonight" hosts Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner to serve
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...
Research at School of Medicine and Health Sciences today creates the treatments and prescriptions of tomorrow
Research varies across a spectrum of topics, such as radon increasing the risk ovarian cancer, transport protein variants causing retinal dystrophy and using cell-free DNA to track cancer treatments.
Global Summit for Eye Health 2026: Turning pledges into eye care
Hunter Cherwek, MD, of Orbis discusses summit commitments, eye care workforce training, and AI in low-resource settings.
Mystery around 'The Batman: Part II' is growing. Scarlett Johansson has added to the suspense.
The two-time Oscar nominee said she struggled to understand her character in "The Batman: Part II."
How Russia's War Recruitment Machine Became Big Business
An increasing number of cases point to the human cost of a recruitment system in Russia that increasingly relies on private companies and intermediaries who often work on the fringes to bolster the ranks of a military depleted by the war against Ukraine.
US Department of Justice Intervenes in Health Insurance Whistleblower Lawsuit Brought by Lieff Cabraser Against Centene Corporation
The Lieff Cabraser law firm represents a former employee. NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–On October 27, 2026, the United States sued one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, Centene Corporation, for fraud under the False Claims Act. Lieff Cabraser’s Nashville Office is proud to represent the relator, who brought this matter to the government after internal
Rhode Island voters approve higher education bond, providing funds for new URI integrated health building
KINGSTON, R.I. – Nov. 5, 2026 – Rhode Island voters overwhelmingly approved Question 1 on Election Day, Nov. 3, authorizing a $275 million bond investment in the state’s public colleges and universities, including $165 million for a new integrated health building at the University of Rhode Island’s Kingston Campus. The bond approval represents a significant […]
Why Youth Are Turning to AI for Mental Health Advice
Hannah Simon — a child and adolescent psychiatrist and the medical director of the Brandt Behavioral Health Treatment Center and Retreat at Rutgers, which provides evidence-based behavioral health care and outpatient services to New Jersey youth and young adults — discusses the increased use of chatbots for mental health advice and best practices for using it as an educational tool.
State Launches New Rural Health Transformation Program Dashboard
NC Awarded $100M for Year 2, Funding to Come in Phases
Lucky Strike Entertainment (NYSE:LUCK) Q1 FY2027 Results: Inline Revenue, Wider Loss, and Debt-Reduction Focus
Lucky Strike Q1 FY2027 revenue inline, loss wider than expected; guidance reaffirmed as it targets debt reduction and same-store sales recovery.
Health expo offers hands-on look at health care jobs for local students
Hundreds of Columbia County high school students will get a hands-on look at careers in health care during the Columbia County School District Health Careers Expo.
MBody AI Doubles Deployment at Major Northeast Casino & Entertainment Destination
Nasdaq-listed physical AI company grows it’s support at Mohegan Sun’s Environmental Services (EVS) team after successful pilot program MBody AI Doubles Deployment at Mohegan Sun An extended three-year agreement follows a successful paid pilot and a larger multi-year commitment. Highlights Deployment Doubled: Mohegan Sun has doubled its MBody AI deployment, with expanded operations already underway.Three-Year Agreement: The commercial agreement covers both the previously announced original instal
South Heartland District Health Department wins Parks and Recreation Department’s 2026 scarecrow competition
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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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