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Victoria Beckham: From Celebrity Brand To Luxury Business

Victoria Beckham's Paris Fashion Week show caps a turnaround year: a first operating profit of £7.3m, powered by beauty, leather goods and two new CEOs.

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Oct 3 • 11:25 AM EDT • Business • forbes.com
'Back from outer space': How Karina Rykman escapes from Earth in her new album 'Late Checkout'

Space, touring and the daily grind collide on Rykman's latest record.

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Oct 3 • 11:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • space.com
Capcom plans to evolve RE Engine into an "AI-generation game engine"

Capcom has detailed plans to turn its RE Engine into an "AI-generation game engine" as part of its ongoing REX Project overhaul.

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Oct 3 • 10:47 AM EDT • Technology • eurogamer.net
Resident Evil Dev Capcom Plans To Embrace AI In Game Development

The next iteration of RE Engine is being built so Capcom can make games "together with AI"

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Oct 3 • 10:31 AM EDT • Technology • polygon.com
Roma to try for Real Madrid’s Endrick again in January

As reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport, Roma will try to bring Real Madrid starlet Endrick on loan in January.The Giallorossi had all but agreed a deal bring the 20-year-old to the Italian capital in ...

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Oct 3 • 9:00 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Chang’e-6 lunar soil contains a surprising magnetic time capsule

Scientists studying Chang’e-6 lunar soil have discovered a previously unknown magnetic mineral in natural Moon samples: a form of metallic iron called γ-Fe. Found inside tiny impact-glass particles, the nanoscale iron can preserve a stable magnetic signal, potentially acting like a microscopic fossil of the Moon’s long-lost magnetic field.

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Oct 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Science • sciencedaily.com
Purplish: ‘The Great Colorado Ballot-O-Rama’ Part II

In the second half of the Purplish live event, the temperature rises on reporters in the host seat as they try to make the many ballot questions more digestible.

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Oct 3 • 8:00 AM EDT • Politics • kunc.org
Borussia Dortmund to make ‘another attempt’ to sign Marcel Reguła

After missing out on Marcel Reguła in the summer at the eleventh hour, Borussia Dortmund are set to make another attempt to sign the newly capped Poland international, according to Ruhr Nachrichten, ...

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Oct 3 • 7:50 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Business moves in and around downtown

The Railyard changes hands, books replace flowers, and Bus Stop moves across the street.

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Oct 3 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • capitolcitynow.com
Capcom details plans to evolve RE Engine into an ‘AI-generation game engine’

Programmer says Capcom’s goal is a future ‘where we create games together with AI’…

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Oct 3 • 6:47 AM EDT • Technology • videogameschronicle.com
The scores are in. Who received low, high scores in health inspections?

Several restaurants in Bryan and Effingham Counties scored above 90 on the most recent health inspection.

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Oct 3 • 5:05 AM EDT • Health • thestate.com
Rockstar Officially Discusses GTA 6's Open-World Map of Vice City

Rockstar officially reveals one of the ways that GTA 6's open-world design works with Vice City and its story.

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Oct 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Technology • gamerant.com
Brazil is regulating AI use in elections. Here’s why it’s been a challenge.

Brazil’s polarized political landscape is rife with disinformation – a challenge that can be turbocharged by artificial intelligence.

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Oct 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Science • csmonitor.com
Africa’s young entrepreneurs have great ideas. What they need is capital and business support

Africa’s young entrepreneurs need early capital, practical support and access to markets.

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Oct 3 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • fortune.com
Newcastle Have A Generational Talent In Sean Steur

The Dutch prodigy combines Ajax-bred technicality with remarkable poise, offering Matthias Jaissle a press-resistant engine capable of anchoring the Magpies’ ambitious new era for years to come.

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Oct 3 • 3:44 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
AI's race to transform the world before the money runs out

Never has so much cash flowed into a new technology as is pouring into AI, eclipsing the sums splurged on railways or the internet when those technological revolutions sucked in capital.

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Oct 3 • 1:06 AM EDT • Business • reuters.com
High School football recap: Week 6
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Oct 2 • 11:54 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Politics Unplugged Podcast: Breaking down the Arizona Governor’s race with Howie Fischer

The dean of the Arizona capitol press corps, Howie Fischer, comes in to break down the Governor’s race. Then Dennis and Colin talk about the “redemption” of Deshaun Watson.

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Oct 2 • 10:55 PM EDT • Politics • azfamily.com
Capcom Announces Plans to Transform the RE Engine Into an AI-Generation Game Engine — ‘Our Goal Is a Future Where We Create Games Together With AI’

Resident Evil and Street Fighter developer Capcom revealed some big changes coming to its RE Engine, which they plan to gradually improve and transform into an "AI-generation game engine."

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Oct 2 • 9:33 PM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Florida State, other ACC realignment targets push to expand conference cap in college sports bill

The bill initially required five years of independence and capped any league reporting more than $700 million in annual revenue at 19 teams.

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Oct 2 • 8:52 PM EDT • Sports • nytimes.com
Kings’ Sabonis Sent to Raptors in 4-Team Trade Idea

A blockbuster proposal ships the three-time All-Star north to anchor Toronto’s frontcourt, landing Sacramento a massive haul of veteran defensive depth and promising future draft capital.

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Oct 2 • 8:18 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alaska Science Forum time capsule: The secret life of a red fox family

A trail camera exposed a year that included new additions to the skulk.

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Oct 2 • 8:08 PM EDT • Science • adn.com
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Philly Mayor Cherelle Parker on 1,000 days in office and what comes next

Mayor Cherelle Parker discussed her administration’s work in Kensington, Philadelphia’s political landscape and the competition she’ll face in 2027.

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Oct 2 • 6:29 PM EDT • Politics • nbcphiladelphia.com
Potential measles exposure on a train in Minot | Health and Human Services North Dakota

BISMARCK, ND (Oct. 2, 2026) – A passenger with measles traveled on Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder, which departed Chicago on Sept. 23 and arrived in Minot the morning of Sept. 24. This created a potential exposure risk for passengers and anyone at the station while the train was scheduled to be in Minot from approximately 9:06 to 9:51 a.m. CT. The passenger reported getting off the train to use the restroom at the Minot station at approximately 9:30 a.m.Anyone who was at the Amtrak station in Minot while this train was stopped, as well as passengers who were traveling on this train, may have been exposed to measles. Individuals who may have been exposed and have received at least one dose of measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine or previously had measles (likely those born before 1957) do not need to quarantine but should monitor for symptoms for 21 days after exposure. Individuals who have not received a dose of the MMR vaccine should quarantine (stay home) and monitor for symptoms for 21 days following exposure.

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Oct 2 • 5:55 PM EDT • Health • hhs.nd.gov
Pharr International Bridge Expansion

More capacity for U.S.–Mexico trade. Pharr International Bridge Director Luis Bazan says phased truck operations for the bridge expansion are expected to begin in mid-September, with the official grand opening scheduled for November 12. The Pharr Truck Expo brought transportation professionals and the community together as the city prepares for this next chapter.

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Oct 2 • 5:26 PM EDT • Business • texasborderbusiness.com
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Rare two-headed turtle hatchling discovered on Cape Cod

A two-headed turtle hatchling is one of three bicephalic terrapins that have been found on Cape Cod over the past five years.

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Oct 2 • 4:49 PM EDT • Science • livescience.com
Fiery crowd caps Mississippi redistricting hearings. Opponents urge: ‘Leave our maps alone’

Tempers flared Thursday at a packed redistricting hearing at the Mississippi Capitol, where a large majority of speakers criticized what they said was a power grab aimed at diminishing Black political power and further entrenching Republican dominance over state politics.

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Oct 2 • 4:28 PM EDT • Politics • wral.com
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Kennedy Center Honors move to new venue amid building closure

The Kennedy Center Honors gala will move to Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., after the center’s closure amid a legal battle over the addition of Trump's name to the building.

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Oct 2 • 4:07 PM EDT • Entertainment • latimes.com
Why BrightSpring Health Services (BTSG) Stock Is Up Today

What Happened? Shares of healthcare services provider BrightSpring Health Services (NASDAQ:BTSG) jumped 4.8% in the afternoon session after BMO Capital analy...

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Oct 2 • 3:50 PM EDT • Health • stockstory.org
Part of Capitol complex in downtown Sacramento evacuated due to threat

California lawmakers are not currently in session, but construction crews and legislative employees were at the site.

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Oct 2 • 3:49 PM EDT • Politics • sacbee.com
Buncombe sheriff hopefuls spar over jail staffing, mental health

ASHEVILLE - Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller and his political opponent, Gary Parris, butted heads over a range of issues at a candidate forum hosted Oct. 2 by the Council of Independent Business Owners. Among issues on which they clashed were mental health, staffing issues and jail overcrowding.

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Oct 2 • 3:00 PM EDT • Health • charlotteobserver.com
Studying Science in an Anti-Scientific Time

This Chronicle Review Deep Cut was first published in 2025. By Julianne Werlin Thanks for reading The Chronicle Review! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe The last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science had to be understood in its human context — were encountering the funhouse-mirror version of their own views in right-wing critiques of climate scientists. It was enough to give some prominent scholars pause. “Was I wrong to participate in the invention of this field known as science studies?” asked Bruno Latour, the most famous sociologist of science in the world, in 2003. “Should we apologize for having been wrong all along? Or should we rather bring the sword of criticism to criticism itself and do a bit of soul-searching here: What were we really after when we were so intent on showing the social construction of scientific facts?” In response, Latour proposed a change of method and attitude. Science studies, now chastened and contrite, would no longer seek to strip facts of their authority, but to enrich and enhance them. What this meant in practice was never fully clear. But his diagnosis of problems resonated, even if his solutions did not. Latour’s exercise in public hand-wringing signaled a shift in mood. By 2016, with the first election of Donald Trump, the idea that skepticism of science was a right-wing position, not a left-wing one, had become a commonplace, discussed eagerly in The New York Times. For liberals, vaccine denial during the Covid era and Trump’s second-term attacks on the funding of scientific research, covered extensively in these pages, added a new urgency to the defense of science on both practical and principled grounds. There was little appetite for a sociology or philosophy of science that emphasized the messiness and missteps of the scientific process rather than its integrity and triumphs. The distinguished historian of science Peter Dear’s new book, The World as We Know It: From Natural Philosophy to Modern Science (Princeton University Press, 2025), which seeks to tell the story of 18th- and 19th-century science for a general public, may seem comfortably remote from these bitter contests. In its 16 short chapters, Dear draws swift, sure sketches of major discoveries from Newton to Einstein, ably guiding the reader through debates on stellar nebulae, animal taxonomy, atomic chemistry, evolution, and other flashpoints in the history of science. But though a work of history, Dear’s book must still negotiate our polarized present. In a blurb on its back cover, the historian of biology Lynn K. Nyhart alludes to the “present moment, when scientific knowledge is being swamped by misinformation and its institutions are under siege.” Dear himself, in his conclusion, refers to the “yard signs” and “bumper stickers” that proclaim “Science Is Real.” One antidote to both anti-science propaganda and to reductive slogans in science’s defense is a robust history and philosophy of science: exactly what Dear’s scholarship has long offered. But his new book illustrates how difficult such work has become. Dear, an emeritus professor of history at Cornell University, is best known as a creative and philosophically minded historian of the Scientific Revolution. His edited volume The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument (1991) analyzed the rhetoric of Galileo’s thought experiments to brilliant effect. Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (1995) was a major contribution to the analysis of scientific experiments in early modern Europe and beyond, while Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge in Transition, 1500-1700 (2001), now in its third edition, remains one of the best overviews of the profound epistemological upheavals of 16th- and 17th-century science. But Dear has also ventured into later periods. Nearly two decades ago, in The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (2006), he turned to the 18th and 19th centuries to sketch a history and theory of scientific knowledge. Aimed at a generalist audience, Dear’s simple prose belied serious philosophical ambitions. Science, Dear argued, has two aspects: “natural philosophy,” the quest to understand the true nature of the universe, and “instrumentality,” the applied skills and technologies that allow us to manipulate the world for human advantage. Both strands are ancient, but the innovation of the phenomenon we call “science” was to yoke them together. As Francis Bacon wrote, “Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known, the effect cannot be produced,” an insight typically abridged to “knowledge is power.” Or, in Bertrand Russell’s characteristically blunt phrase, science has two functions, “1. to enable us to know things, and 2., to enable us to do things.” So far, so conventional. But Dear took issue with this familiar story in one respect. Bacon’s formula implied that theory and practice could be fused in a single method. In fact, Dear argued, the quest to understand nature and the desire to manipulate it were coupled only loosely. They could come together, but they could also pull apart. Focusing on natural philosophy, the “knowing” half of the scientific circle, he used a series of case studies from cosmology, taxonomy, chemistry, electromagnetism, and quantum theory to show how theories changed over time, in dialogue with practice, but never reducible to it. Take the case of matter, the basic substrate of the physical world. In the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists not only disagreed about what it was, but also about how well it could be known. In 1789, the chemist Antoine Lavoisier dismissed speculation about the atomic composition of chemicals as “discussions entirely of a metaphysical nature,” as he sought to orient chemistry away from philosophical abstraction and toward laboratory results. But in the 19th century, atoms returned with a vengeance in the atomic chemistry of John Dalton, who wanted to explain the underlying structure of nature. It was not just that Dalton and Lavoisier had a different set of experimental results, or even a different theory, Dear showed. What counted as an explanation had changed. In arguing that scientific theories depended on their intelligibility to human beings with complex arrays of beliefs and commitments, Dear was in sympathy with science studies. Key figures such as the sociologist Steven Shapin emphasized the importance of psychological mechanisms like trust in the formation and acceptance of scientific ideas. But in focusing on the scientific pursuit of knowledge, not its politics or economics, Dear resisted the more cynical perspective of some of his colleagues. The Intelligibility of Nature strikes a very different note than Shapin’s collection of a few years later, Never Pure: Historical Studies of Science as If It Was Produced by People With Bodies, Situated in Time, Space, Culture, and Society, and Struggling for Credibility and Authority (2010), to name just one example. Walking a very fine line, Dear depicted science as driven at once by complex social dynamics and by the intellectual power of real discoveries. It was a testament not only to his own acumen but also to the vitality of the field that he was able to do so. Nearly two decades later, The World as We Know It returns to the questions broached in The Intelligibility of Nature. Like Dear’s earlier study, it begins with the Newtonian cosmos and ends with debates between Einstein and Bohr on quantum physics. Beyond its terminal figures, many of the same characters appear in both studies, including the naturalists John Ray and the Comte de Buffon; the chemists Étienne François Geoffroy, Antoine Lavoisier, and John Dalton; as well as Charles Darwin and Michael Faraday, among others. Its subject is nearly identical: As in The Intelligibility of Nature, The World as We Know It considers natural philosophy as opposed to instrumentality, here defined as the “desire to create a picture of what the world is really like — the world as God knows it — rather than simply having instrumental or operational control over it.” The two books also overlap in insights — and sometimes even in language. The reader who has learned in The Intelligibility of Nature that Buffon’s method of classifying animals “reflected his belief in the importance of the senses and empiricism in learning about nature (a doctrine associated with Newton and the philosopher John Locke)” will experience a sense of déjà vu on reading, in The World as We Know It, that the classification “reflects Buffon’s commitment to the epistemological stance of Newton and his philosophical underlaborer John Locke, who stressed the role of the senses in creating natural knowledge.” Later in the passage, we read that, “because of its stress on understanding the ways of life of animals in their environments, Buffon’s approach could almost be labeled (anachronistically) as ‘ecological.’” And again, “an anachronistic way of putting it would be to say that Buffon recommends an ecological mode of understanding.” Likewise, in The Intelligibility of Nature we read of Dalton that he was initially drawn to meteorology, and that: He did a bit of experimental work on these things, especially having to do with the water-holding capacity of gases, but his real interest lay in understanding what, at an underlying natural-philosophical level, was really going on physically.” Whereas, in The World as We Know It: He did experimental work on these things, especially concerning the water-holding capacity of gases — although not at a very refined level quantitatively — but he was continually trying to develop a theoretical conception of what was happening physically. The final full chapter of each book closes on the same resigned note. Intelligibility: These days, most serious work on the natural philosophical underpinnings and implications of quantum mechanics is performed not by physicists but by philosophers of science. Among scientific practitioners themselves, Bohr’s attempt to use instrumentality as sufficient grounds for a respectable science has met with a high degree of success. And again, in The World as We Know It: Bohr’s and Einstein’s concerns are now questions that are mostly discussed by philosophers of science rather than by physicists themselves. The marginalization of these sorts of questions amounts to the demise of natural philosophy, at least in physics, in the 20th century. Quantum mechanics “works,” and that’s good enough for most scientists who encounter it. Examples could be multiplied. When handling the same subject matter, some echoes are inevitable. Scholars should not feel that because they have written “Isaac Newton died in 1727” in one book, in the next they must describe him as perishing, expiring, or meeting his maker. But the repetitions of language and arguments (not to mention six reproduced images) threaded throughout The World as We Know It are more extensive than that. They should have been caught by Princeton University Press or its reviewers, and revised. Because the two books have so much in common, it is easy to see where they diverge. The World as We Know It is a less theoretical work than its predecessor. The sociology of knowledge that organized The Intelligibility of Nature has been reduced in scale and folded into readings and examples. The taut interplay between history and theory, which gave the earlier study so much interest, is there, but it is subtle. In the earlier book, the case studies demonstrated theoretical claims about the character and development of science. In the later work, each narrative of discovery is an end in itself. Insights emerge from the history, but they do not control the organization of the study. With the theory muted, it can be hard to understand the logic uniting Dear’s sprawling history of more than two centuries of scientific knowledge. The 16 brisk chapters cover an enormous amount of material. But the closer the volume edges to comprehensiveness, the more obvious the missing elements become. A chapter on “Institutions and Pedagogy,” describing the birth of the research university, illustrates the problem. Inserted roughly halfway through the book, the unnumbered chapter is designed as an “entr’acte,” in acknowledgement that it does not fit the study’s organization around scientific discoveries. Yet as Dear is well aware, no general history of the development of modern science can bracket its 19th-century institutionalization and professionalization. It was the 19th-century university, after all, that gave us the “scientist,” a term coined by the Cambridge philosopher William Whewell. Dear’s history of scientific discoveries implies a wider social and institutional history, but it remains largely subterranean, only occasionally extruded under the pressure of the narrative. It must be said that the balance is not all on the side of the earlier study. There are some advantages to the more historical, less theoretical organization of The World as We Know It. Dear’s accounts of paradigm shifts are remarkably lucid, no small accomplishment given that they span fields and centuries. He makes excellent use of the wealth of new scholarship on Darwin and his influences, to which he has himself contributed. It is satisfying to see puzzle pieces from Buffon’s natural history, Georges Cuvier’s animal taxonomy, Thomas Robert Malthus’s demography, and Charles Lyell’s geology recombined seamlessly in the Darwinian jigsaw. Likewise, Dear’s discussion of stellar nebulae, divided between chapters two and 15, shows vividly how Newton, Kant, Herschel, and Hubble reimagined insights and observations as they sought to discover whether the diffuse light that filtered through early telescopes was a glowing, gaseous substance or discrete but distant stars. Yet despite such pleasures, the book remains a more modest work than The Intelligibility of Nature. Dear has clearly not changed his views about the history of science. But in the two decades that have elapsed, the discipline and the world around it have changed, making it harder to write a sociologically and philosophically ambitious history of science for the general reader. That is a shame, because in the age of Silicon Valley and biotechnology, both the reciprocity and the tensions Dear identified between the epistemological and instrumental ambitions of science are more evident than ever. In recent years, some of the most exciting new books on the history of science in early modernity have focused precisely on this pressure point. Important studies such as Pamela H. Smith’s From Lived Experience to the Written Word (2022), James Poskett’s Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science (2022), and Vera Keller’s The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge (2023) all shed new light on how early modern science negotiated the relationship between its instrumental and epistemological ambitions, or in Russell’s phrase, knowing and doing. There is every opportunity for a philosophically informed approach to draw new insights from this wealth of material. Dear, unfortunately, has not done so in The World as We Know It. But for future scholars of the history of science, his body of work over nearly four decades may provide just the model. Julianne Werlin is an associate professor of English at Duke University. 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The Political Recap: President Trump using taxpayer dollars for ads?

Capitol Bureau reporter Tyler Englander breaks down what you missed in Virginia politics this week.

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Oct 2 • 2:44 PM EDT • Politics • wric.com
Scientists seek new ways to protect Sierra Nevada meadows

Sierra Nevada meadows may cover a relatively small portion of the landscape, but scientists say they play an important role in supporting wildlife, storing water and maintaining biodiversity.

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Kennedy Center Honors to move to Capital One Arena amid Trump name fight

The event will take place on Dec. 7.

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'The Watcher' Season 2 finally kicks off at Netflix, 4 years after its renewal

Ryan Murphy fans will have a turn to be "watchers" once again.

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Oct 2 • 2:13 PM EDT • Entertainment • bellinghamherald.com
Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents

Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history riskier.

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Leading GOP Senate PAC pauses spending on NC candidate Michael Whatley

In a blow to Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley, the leading PAC to maintain the Republican majority withdrew from his campaign, while other North Carolina Republicans find their races at risk.

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First look: Metallica opens Sphere Las Vegas residency in epic fashion

LAS VEGAS — James Hetfield had one question for fans: “Do you want heavy, Vegas?” the Metallica frontman asked the capacity crowd assembled before him and his fellow bandmates —

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Bishop’s computer science chair says AI is eliminating ‘grunt work’ and reshaping digital jobs

Dr. Russell Butler, chair of Bishop’s University’s Department of Computer Science, says artificial intelligence is increasingly taking over routine digital “grunt work,” changing the skills students and workers may need in the years ahead. Photo courtesy of Bishop’s University. Click here to read our platform! Get local news like this every morning. Subscribe free below. Subscribe Pulse Newsroom Artificial intelligence is already taking over some of the routine digital work once performed by entry-level employees, according to Bishop’s University Computer Science chair Dr. Russell Butler — a shift he believes will make expertise, judgement and the ability to evaluate AI-generated work increasingly important. Butler described the change as automation reaching what he calls the “bottom of the cognitive pyramid” during an interview with The Pulse about AI, university education and the future of digital work. His argument is not that humans are disappearing from the workplace. Instead, he sees their role changing as AI becomes capable of handling more of the repetitive tasks involved in computer-based work. “Everything’s converging on just AI basically doing all the grunt work,” Butler said. The bottom of the cognitive pyramid Butler is from Lennoxville, completed his undergraduate studies at Bishop’s and later earned his PhD at the Université de Sherbrooke. He joined Bishop’s in 2019 and now chairs its Department of Computer Science. He uses AI in research, teaching and other creative work, and said the technology is increasingly capable of handling routine digital tasks that once required substantial human time. “You’ve got the grunt work, like moving things around in Excel, doing basic programming tasks,” Butler said. “That’s like the bottom grunt work that the entry-level worker would have done two or three years ago.” Butler went further, saying in his view that much of this type of work has already been absorbed by AI tools. He connected that change to a shift he sees taking place in computer science, where entry-level roles have declined while experienced workers can use AI to increase what they can produce. “A senior developer now has access to essentially an unlimited amount of junior developers on demand,” Butler said. He was describing AI systems metaphorically, not literal employees. His point was that one experienced developer can now ask AI tools to produce code or other technical work that might previously have been assigned to more junior workers. That raises a broader question for universities and employers. If some of the simpler work traditionally given to newcomers can now be done by machines, how do people gain the experience needed to become senior workers themselves? Students doing work that once required years of programming Butler said he is already seeing the change inside his classroom. He created a Bishop’s course called CS208, Coding in Plain English, to show students — including those without traditional programming backgrounds — what they can accomplish using AI. Some come from disciplines such as psychology or neuroscience with no previous programming experience. “What I’m finding is that students who have zero programming experience, they come in from another discipline like psychology or neuroscience or something, they are now able to get up and running with real data sets,” Butler said. Butler’s own doctoral work involved neuroimaging, and he said he has assigned students work he considers comparable to the kinds of analysis he performed during his PhD. He described giving students a real dataset, an expected result and instructions to use AI to complete the analysis. Butler said those students have been able to carry out work at a level he associates with tasks he once performed after years of programming experience. That does not mean a student using AI instantly acquires the same knowledge as an experienced computer scientist. But Butler sees it as evidence that AI can dramatically lower the technical barrier between having a problem to solve and producing a working result. The role of the person using the system then changes. They need to know what to ask for, understand enough about the subject to judge the answer and take responsibility for what is ultimately produced. What about AI hallucinations? One persistent concern surrounding generative AI is hallucination — when a system produces information that sounds convincing but is false or unsupported. Butler said that problem has improved substantially in newer systems and is not as severe as it was with earlier models. He pointed in particular to newer AI systems’ ability to search the web, consult scientific databases and return source links rather than simply generating a citation from their internal model. Butler nevertheless said users should verify what AI produces. “You should verify,” he said while discussing citations generated with AI. His position is that hallucinations have become less common in the systems he uses, not that incorrect AI output is impossible. Human checking remains part of the process. Hours of work compressed Butler offered another example from his administrative work at Bishop’s. The university has been comparing CEGEP courses with first-year Bishop’s courses to determine where students may qualify for advanced standing. Traditionally, Butler said, that means reviewing two sets of course descriptions and manually matching one institution’s courses with another’s. As department chair, that could require hours of reading and comparison. He said AI can now be given both sets of material and asked to generate an initial mapping automatically. “It saves me hours and hours of work,” Butler said. Butler said the AI-generated mapping can also produce a better result than he would produce himself. He sees similar opportunities in businesses. A company may receive specifications, drawings, emails or other digital material from customers and then have employees convert that information into an internal format before anything can be manufactured or delivered. AI can increasingly perform parts of that intermediate processing. In Butler’s view, the employee does not necessarily disappear. Instead, the job becomes more about checking the result. “The human is still there,” he said. Judgement could become more valuable That change is central to Butler’s view of where digital work may be headed. If AI can produce a first draft, write basic code, compare documents or process large amounts of information, he argues that knowledge and judgement become increasingly important. “The real scarce resource going forward is going to be domain knowledge, expertise, and… credentials, authority, the ability to work with other people,” Butler said. He is therefore encouraging students not only to learn AI tools but also to broaden their education. He mentioned acting, fine art and photography as examples of courses that can help develop what he described as taste and intuition — the ability to recognize what is good, what is not and what should be changed. “And that’s the skill that they need now because the grunt work has been automated and now it’s about evaluating what the AI produces and telling it how to improve or expand the output,” Butler said. That does not remove the need for technical knowledge. Butler’s argument is that the emphasis may shift away from manually completing every step of a task and toward directing, checking and improving work produced with AI assistance. He also stressed that humans remain responsible for final decisions. “At the end of the day, the human has to make the final call,” Butler said, pointing to the question of accountability. Physical work may be different Butler draws a distinction between digital work and jobs requiring people to manipulate the physical world. He expects AI to continue advancing quickly in tasks performed almost entirely on computers. He is more cautious about claims that humanoid robots will soon be able to replace workers such as plumbers or electricians. Butler said those trades would not be replaced “anytime soon” in his view and described some current robotics demonstrations as overhyped. He described the situation as counterintuitive. “It’s almost like we solved the highest level first,” he said, contrasting advances in digital AI with the harder problem of building robots capable of operating reliably in the physical world. Butler’s argument is that some digital occupations could face automation sooner than trades requiring complex physical work. The wider AI shift in the Townships Butler’s comments come as local institutions are increasingly grappling with how AI should be used. The federal government recently announced up to $162 million over five years for 10,000 AI-related placements through Mitacs. The Université de Sherbrooke told The Pulse that the number of its collaborative research and innovation projects supported through Mitacs has approximately doubled since 2018-19, while the number of placements has approximately tripled. UdeS also said it already has projects involving both AI adoption and the application of AI to other fields. At Bishop’s, Butler said part of his role involves building the Computer Science department’s local presence, connecting students with regional partners and strengthening relationships with the Sherbrooke technology ecosystem. Those developments put universities in a difficult position. They have to prepare students to use the tools employers increasingly have available while also making sure graduates understand enough to recognize when those tools are wrong, incomplete or being applied to the wrong problem. The risk of losing human skills Butler does not see AI as risk-free. Later in the interview, he raised a separate concern: as AI becomes better at reading, writing, programming and other cognitive tasks, people could lose some of the underlying skills that historically helped produce new ideas. “The other danger is that we’re going to lose the human skills,” Butler said. He specifically mentioned reading and writing and argued that people could lose some of the lower-level understanding that contributes to breakthroughs. Butler said AI systems are based on existing human knowledge and argued that they become much more powerful when paired with a capable person. That tension runs through his view of the technology. AI can remove hours of routine work. It can allow beginners to perform tasks that once required substantial technical training. It can give experienced workers significant leverage. But the more capable the technology becomes, the more important it may be for people to develop the judgement needed to decide what should be done in the first place. For Butler, that is where education may have to change. Students still need to understand their field. They still need to know when something is wrong. And they still need to be able to make the final decision. But if AI increasingly handles the bottom of the cognitive pyramid, the value of a worker may depend less on how quickly they can perform the grunt work and more on whether they understand what the work is supposed to accomplish. Don’t miss the next story that affects your community. Join thousands of readers getting The Pulse every morning—plus breaking news alerts when it matters most. If you value this kind of local journalism, consider supporting it. Subscribe, share and like! Subscribe Share

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Kennedy Center Honors to be held at Capital One Arena amid fight over adding Trump's name

The 49th annual awards are set to take place at Washington's downtown arena, a Kennedy Center spokesperson said Friday. Few other details were immediately available, and an explanation for the change wasn't given.

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GTA 6 Age Rating Confirms New Details on Sex, Drug Use, Decapitation, and More

GTA 6 has received a rating of PEGI 18, revealing mentions of "decapitation," the ability for players to snort cocaine at any time, "scenes of sexual fetishes," and much more.

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3 new business openings worth knowing about in downtown and North Raleigh

A yoga studio, a 35-year-old coffee shop expanding near its Hillsborough Street home, and a round hotel reborn after a $36 million makeover.

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Theft at a laundromat, appletinis and a new Capitol Square cafe

This week in the newsletter, the Indigo Girls are coming to Madison (please don't steal their clothes), a pitch for appletinis and a new cafe takes shape downtown.

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NVIDIA Launches DGX Spark 64 GB Desktop AI Systems

Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more to run locally. Coming this month, NVIDIA DGX Spark will be available with 64 GB of unified...

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Expert Game Picks: Raiders or Chiefs?

Take a look at who the experts are picking to win Sunday's game.

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The Oral Microbiome Trend Is Going Mainstream and the Science Behind It Is Compelling

Prebiotic toothpastes and microbiome rinses are going mainstream and dentists say the science backs them up.

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Show-Me-State Politics: SNAP changes impacting Missouri; November’s busy ballot

KY3’s Tyler Wayne and KY3 Missouri Capitol Bureau Chief Hannah Falcon look at this week in Missouri politics.

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GOP super PAC pauses spending in North Carolina Senate race, shifting money to Kansas

The new moves from the Senate Leadership Fund reflect a difficult landscape for Republicans, with increasingly competitive races in red states.

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AWS Launches Aurora Capability to Query Data Lakes Without Moving the Data

Moving enterprise data around is one of the less glamorous parts of the running modern data stack. Nevertheless, it is critical to getting the right data to the right applications when they need it. Companies build their data pipelines to shuttle information between databases and data lakes. This creates a plethora of challenges, including the […]

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Kennedy Center Honors to be held at Capital One Arena amid fight over adding Trump's name

This year's Kennedy Center Honors will be held at Washington's Capital One Arena instead of the usual riverfront venue | KNSS Radio

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Kennedy Center Honors to be held at Capital One Arena amid fight over adding Trump's name

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Kennedy Center Honors to be held off-site for the first time in the ceremony’s history

The center announced that the celebration will be held at Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, D.C., due to the closure of the main building for planned renovations.

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Beshear, Calipari share the stage in Arkansas during KY governor’s book tour

The two discussed Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of Senate Bill 150 in 2023.

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Analysis-Vance's fraud crackdown may raise costs for US health insurers, enrollees

NEW YORK, Oct 2 (Reuters) - A crackdown on Obamacare health insurance could raise prices for US consumers and insurers by removing healthy, low-cost enrollees, adding pressure to a shrinking marketplace.

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Miami Dolphins Academy Fall Donation Presented by Baptist Health Delivers Equipment to Plantation High School Tackle Football Program

Community service projects across South Florida will bring together volunteers, partners and community leaders throughout October, culminating on Jenkins’ birthday.

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Presidio Investors Sells Podium Entertainment To Flexpoint Ford And Shamrock Capital

Presidio Investors has sold Podium Entertainment to Flexpoint Ford and Shamrock Capital, completing an investment that began in 2019 when Podium was an early-stage, founder-led audiobook publisher. GoldState Music is joining the new ownership group as a minority investor. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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$1 million state grant awarded to SFM Skatepark in Rome

The SFM Memorial Skatepark in Rome has been awarded a $1 million grant through the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York, which will help push forward Phase 2 of the project to include more amenities such as seating, landscaping and a modified access road, according to Governor Kathy Hochul.

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🛫Real Madrid ease fears after Mbappé’s trip to Paris

Real Madrid has moved to dispel any hint of controversy, stating that Kylian Mbappé’s trip to the French capital was fully agreed upon between the player and the club. Unable to train or receive tr...

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BioHealth Capital Region - Regional Life Sciences Roundup - October 2, 2026

Each week, our Regional Roundup delivers the most important and timely life sciences news from around the region. From groundbreaking research to fundraising…

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Brittany Broski, aka ‘kombucha girl,’ is coming to Eastern KY. How to get tickets

Her celebrity talk show, “Royal Court,” boasts some of the most renowned faces and references in pop culture.

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Bernhard Capital completes exit from inaugural fund with sale of Epic Piping

The sale of United Weld Holdings, the parent company of Epic Piping and BendTec, to One Equity Partners has closed, according to Bernhard Capital Partners. Epic Piping is UWH’s flagship operating company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Bernhard announced in July it had agreed to a deal to sell UWH. “Epic has […]

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Patriots team captain reveals two biggest keys to upsetting Bills

Patriots safety Kevin Byard revealed what the defense needs to do on Sunday to have the best shot at upsetting the Bills.

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Tom Cruise's latest risky business

Tom Cruise doesn't play things safe. Yes, obviously, I'm referring to him hanging off assorted aircraft and other insane things he does in his cinematic stunt-o-ramas. But in his 45-year history in Hollywood, Cruise has done a lot of different roles and navigated through various reinventions.

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A Decade After His First Presidential Run, Bernie Isn’t Alone

It’s a mark of the influence of Bernie Sanders’s first presidential campaign that the American political landscape before he ran looks unrecognizable now. Most of the hundreds of socialists who now ho...

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Shemar Moore says his daughter 'saved my life' after he was in a 'dark place'

NEW YORK – As Shemar Moore's run continues on "S.W.A.T. Exiles," the spinoff of the CBS drama "S.W.A.T.," he says art has imitated life.

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Coastal forces shape building sciences practice

When Built Environments relocated to Wilmington, the firm’s partners weren’t looking for the lazy tranquility one hopes for when on vacation. Instead, they sought sultry heat. They wanted to understand whipping coastal winds and punishing precipitation – the kind that tropical storms produce. That’s because how materials degrade can reveal a lot about how they can be improved. “We specifically chose the Wilmington market because it does fall within Climate Zone 3A, which is a coastal warm-humid climate,” said Jarrett Davis, who joined Built Environments in 2023 to lead the company’s building science practice. “There’s not a lot of product research in that climate zone, but there are a lot of structures here that get weatherized pretty severely.” Built Environments has provided building science, material testing and code compliance consulting for 25 years, ever since principal materials scientist Steve Doggett founded the company in Minnesota. “There are very few manufacturers that understand fully how their own materials and products work, whereas we know their shortfalls and their benefits out in the real world on jobsites,” Doggett said. “That’s why the original Built Environments was formed, to make buildings better.” He said the 15-employee company is just as comfortable on a jobsite, retrofitting a high-end beachside property, for example, as it is recreating some of the coast’s most intense weather conditions in the great indoors. The company operates an A2LA-accredited ISO/IEC 17025 mechanical testing laboratory on Wright Street. The year-old facility has expanded Built Environments’ in-house capabilities, Doggett said. “We’re able to simulate that hurricane wind (and) rain and perform structural and impact testing on wall assemblies, roof assemblies and glazing assemblies,” he said. “There are certain requirements that those windows and doors need to meet as far as wind ratings and pressure ratings and things of that nature.” Standard Glass Co.-Glass Depots, of Wilmington, is currently testing a new glazing system using Built Environments’ stress testing, the partners said. One method involves what’s called a “large missile cannon.” “We take 8-foot two-by-fours, and we shoot them at assemblies, so they have to withstand that impact,” Davis said. “It’s pretty cool to see, I’m not going to lie.” In many cases, the lab can run a full, wall-scale test of a product in a matter of weeks or months, whereas “it might take midrange manufacturers years,” Doggett said. “We’re nimble. We can cut that time in half.” The lab also develops intellectual property. Doggett, for example, shares a patent with Sustant LLC, of Minnesota, on a fastener patch to increase the air and water tightness within building envelopes. “We have too many ideas and not enough time,” he said. But the partners noted that they or their fellow principals – of which the company has four total, including a principal engineer and a principal codes and standards expert – could be anywhere on a given day, including in the courtroom providing expert testimony in contentious insurance cases. “Let’s say there is a fire on a structure,” Davis said. “We can analyze all the specific materials within that assembly – an exterior wall or something like that – because there are loads that require certain heat release. And so, we can measure each one of those materials, if need be, to say if this was likely or not a code-approved assembly.” Despite what can be inferred in a lab, the partners said nothing beats learning from how materials change over time under real-world strain. Take, for instance, the curious case of the creaking condo. “We recently had a customer that came to us trying to assess a sound issue of a roof. It was making noises that no one could explain or account for. How do you tackle something like that?” Doggett asked rhetorically. “There’s really no generally agreed-upon methodologies.” The problem turned out to be a faulty installation of a commercial roof system. “The building in this particular case was not local,” he said. “In the initial installation, the commercial roofing contractor installed the wrong fasteners in the wrong locations into the deck, and essentially the solar radiation was causing the building to move quite substantially early in the morning when the sun initially hit that assembly after a quite cool evening, causing the threads on the fasteners to kind of jump within the material, within the metal.” Built Environments designed an effective repair methodology that was within budget, the partners said. “We get the bizarre,” Doggett said. “I will say that’s something that has stayed the same over 25 years.” The partners said they are hiring, and that Cape Fear Community College is one of their main recruiting grounds. Davis and Doggett look for talented people who can understand traditional methodologies yet are open to on-the-job training and new understandings, they said. After all, it’s not just weather that can ruin a building. “My favorite saying is,” Davis said, “‘What are the eight most expensive words in construction? That’s how my daddy used to do it.’”

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Coastal forces shape building sciences practice

When Built Environments relocated to Wilmington, the firm’s partners weren’t looking for the lazy tranquility one hopes for when on vacation. Instead, they sought sultry heat. They wanted to understand whipping coastal winds and punishing precipitation – the kind that tropical storms produce. That’s because how materials degrade can reveal a lot about how they can be improved. “We specifically chose the Wilmington market because it does fall within Climate Zone 3A, which is a coastal warm-humid climate,” said Jarrett Davis, who joined Built Environments in 2023 to lead the company’s building science practice. “There’s not a lot of product research in that climate zone, but there are a lot of structures here that get weatherized pretty severely.” Built Environments has provided building science, material testing and code compliance consulting for 25 years, ever since principal materials scientist Steve Doggett founded the company in Minnesota. “There are very few manufacturers that understand fully how their own materials and products work, whereas we know their shortfalls and their benefits out in the real world on jobsites,” Doggett said. “That’s why the original Built Environments was formed, to make buildings better.” He said the 15-employee company is just as comfortable on a jobsite, retrofitting a high-end beachside property, for example, as it is recreating some of the coast’s most intense weather conditions in the great indoors. The company operates an A2LA-accredited ISO/IEC 17025 mechanical testing laboratory on Wright Street. The year-old facility has expanded Built Environments’ in-house capabilities, Doggett said. “We’re able to simulate that hurricane wind (and) rain and perform structural and impact testing on wall assemblies, roof assemblies and glazing assemblies,” he said. “There are certain requirements that those windows and doors need to meet as far as wind ratings and pressure ratings and things of that nature.” Standard Glass Co.-Glass Depots, of Wilmington, is currently testing a new glazing system using Built Environments’ stress testing, the partners said. One method involves what’s called a “large missile cannon.” “We take 8-foot two-by-fours, and we shoot them at assemblies, so they have to withstand that impact,” Davis said. “It’s pretty cool to see, I’m not going to lie.” In many cases, the lab can run a full, wall-scale test of a product in a matter of weeks or months, whereas “it might take midrange manufacturers years,” Doggett said. “We’re nimble. We can cut that time in half.” The lab also develops intellectual property. Doggett, for example, shares a patent with Sustant LLC, of Minnesota, on a fastener patch to increase the air and water tightness within building envelopes. “We have too many ideas and not enough time,” he said. But the partners noted that they or their fellow principals – of which the company has four total, including a principal engineer and a principal codes and standards expert – could be anywhere on a given day, including in the courtroom providing expert testimony in contentious insurance cases. “Let’s say there is a fire on a structure,” Davis said. “We can analyze all the specific materials within that assembly – an exterior wall or something like that – because there are loads that require certain heat release. And so, we can measure each one of those materials, if need be, to say if this was likely or not a code-approved assembly.” Despite what can be inferred in a lab, the partners said nothing beats learning from how materials change over time under real-world strain. Take, for instance, the curious case of the creaking condo. “We recently had a customer that came to us trying to assess a sound issue of a roof. It was making noises that no one could explain or account for. How do you tackle something like that?” Doggett asked rhetorically. “There’s really no generally agreed-upon methodologies.” The problem turned out to be a faulty installation of a commercial roof system. “The building in this particular case was not local,” he said. “In the initial installation, the commercial roofing contractor installed the wrong fasteners in the wrong locations into the deck, and essentially the solar radiation was causing the building to move quite substantially early in the morning when the sun initially hit that assembly after a quite cool evening, causing the threads on the fasteners to kind of jump within the material, within the metal.” Built Environments designed an effective repair methodology that was within budget, the partners said. “We get the bizarre,” Doggett said. “I will say that’s something that has stayed the same over 25 years.” The partners said they are hiring, and that Cape Fear Community College is one of their main recruiting grounds. Davis and Doggett look for talented people who can understand traditional methodologies yet are open to on-the-job training and new understandings, they said. After all, it’s not just weather that can ruin a building. “My favorite saying is,” Davis said, “‘What are the eight most expensive words in construction? That’s how my daddy used to do it.’”

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New restaurant and museum celebrates shows & movies filmed in NC. What’s inside?

The menu includes movie theater-inspired snacks and creatively-named beers.

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‘Containerabad’: Pakistan’s capital and truckers bleed money amid lockdown

As Islamabad prepares for another opposition march, drivers and businesses are counting the cost of the barricades.

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Made in Iowa recap: Sukup Manufacturing innovating for the next generation

For Sukup Manufacturing Co., innovation has never been limited to the products rolling off the manufacturing floor. It can mean a robot installed decades before automation became a manufacturing buzzword. It can mean building a childcare center across the street from the plant, opening an on-site health clinic or establishing an engineering presence in Ames…

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Grand jury indicted ex-Idaho health official on felony misuse of funds. A judge dropped the case.

The first criminal charges, now dismissed, emerged from a yearslong investigation launched by Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador.

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Wizards Notes: Open Practice, AJ Dybantsa Buzz, Vukcevic Update

Updates from the open practice that the Washington Wizards hosted inside Capital One Arena on Thursday night

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Downtown church’s history follows Madison’s story for 175 years

Christ Presbyterian Church will celebrate its 175th anniversary this weekend, having survived fires, fought segregation and seen pastors tried for heresy.

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Wisconsin tight ends prepare for Michigan State, familiar faces

Emmett Bork and his Badgers teammates are developing a "mess-you-up" mindset and await their next test vs. the Spartans.

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A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data

While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.

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Capitol News Illinois | Optimistic data-center report met with criticism

A new study predicts data centers expected to be built in Illinois over the next decade would create thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in property-tax revenue.

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Michael Allen can’t be trusted on ICE

Twenty-one months into President Donald Trump’s second administration, his approach to immigration enforcement is clear: using untrained, masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents resulting in both the arrests and killings of Americans and the destruction of families and communities. It is a strategy that scapegoats brown-skinned Americans, denies people their right to legal representation […]

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The science behind ‘fairy rings’: Why mushrooms grow in circles

Folklore once blamed dancing fairies for rings of mushrooms appearing in fields and forests; a new Swedish study suggests fungi spread outward to escape temporarily unfavorable conditions underground

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Prep sports recap for Oct. 1, 2026

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBDWYZZ) — It didn’t take long for Richwoods to get comfortable in the postsseason. Senior Acosia Morris ran on an 86-yard run on the first place from scrimmage as host Richwoods beat Hollsboro, 65-6, in a regional quarterfinal game in girls flag football at Peoria Stadium on Thursday. Morris added a long touchdown […]

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Needlepoint shops see surge as Gen Z seeks creative escape

Crafts like knitting and quilting used to be pastimes for gray-haired ladies wiling away the hours, crocheting sweaters for grandchildren or embroidering lacy handkerchiefs. But today, traditional “Granny Crafts” are

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Four Life Science Startups Compete for the BioTools Innovator 2026 Award

After participating in BioTools Innovator’s four-month accelerator program, these finalists will contest on stage for a $250,000 prize during a capstone pitch event.

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Nets GM Marks Remaining Flexible With Trade Assets

Armed with thirteen first-round picks and massive future cap space, Sean Marks is hunting for a blockbuster superstar deal while cultivating a high-upside young core in Brooklyn.

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Business park rises from remnants of former Lowe's store in Sparks

A former Lowe's hardware store took one more step in its transformation into an art and innovation campus in Reno-Sparks as it celebrated the opening of its business park.

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SpyGlass Pharma Acquires Advanced Vision Science, Securing Commercial IOL Supply, Accelerating Lens Portfolio Expansion

IRVINE, Calif.—SpyGlass Pharma, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGP), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on transforming treatment paradigms for patients with chronic eye conditions, has announced the acquisition of all the outstanding shares of common stock of Advanced Vision Science, Inc. (AVS), an ophthalmic medical device company and manufacturer of intraocular lenses (IOLs) and lens materials, for approximately $13 million in cash. This acquisition secures scalable commercial IOL supply and accelerates lens portfolio expansion capability for SpyGlass Pharma, the announcement noted.

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Oct 1 • 8:27 PM EDT • Science • visionmonday.com
John Calipari gets a reality check on how capitalism works

The longtime basketball coach doesn't like paying players.

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Oct 1 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Student-athletes received $1.77B in revenue-sharing pay in '25-26

Sixty-eight schools reached or came within 5% of reaching the $20.5 million revenue-sharing cap over the first season of NIL payments.

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Oct 1 • 8:00 PM EDT • Sports • espn.com
J.D. Vance visits Florida to rally the Republican base. Skeptics remain

One attendee said he’s considering leaving the governor’s race option blank after backing James Fishback in the Republican primary.

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Oct 1 • 7:17 PM EDT • Politics • miamiherald.com
Recap: President Trump speaks at Peterbilt facility in Denton on Thursday

Update at 5:40 p.m.: Trump thanks the crowd for welcoming him. He concluded his speech with a short dance to “Y.M.C.A.” (1978) by Village People and walking off the stage.

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Oct 1 • 6:30 PM EDT • Politics • dentonrc.com
‘Comedy royalty’ to perform at Modesto’s Gallo Center. When, how to get tickets

He’s also an actor, producer, writer and film director.

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Oct 1 • 6:15 PM EDT • Entertainment • modbee.com
3 UK Exporter Stocks That Could Hold Up Better If Politics Shifts

UK politics is being ripped up again, with talk of a more left leaning Labour government under Andy Burnham, possible electoral reform and even Brexit being revisited. That mix is shaking assumptions about regulation, tax and the pound, which can punish some domestically focused groups while leaving certain global exporters relatively better placed. This article walks through three UK large cap stocks exposed to this news and explains how their international reach could matter for your...

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Oct 1 • 6:07 PM EDT • Politics • finance.yahoo.com
NASA SmallSats Launch to Advance Science, Technology, Orbital Operations

Three NASA-supported small spacecraft launched at 11:22 a.m. PDT Thursday to demonstrate new propulsion technologies, study how galactic dust and high-energy radiation move through galaxies, and advance capabilities for inspecting inactive satellites.

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Oct 1 • 5:46 PM EDT • Science • nasa.gov
Dane County budget plan would reduce health insurance costs, cut jobs

County Executive Melissa Agard’s proposal would eliminate vacant roles and tap $23 million in rainy day funds to make ends meet.

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Oct 1 • 5:05 PM EDT • Health • captimes.com
Construction starts on $45.1 million multifamily project in Centerton

Capstone Building Corp., a Birmingham, Ala.-based multifamily general contractor, recently started construction on The Emerald, a $45.1 million multifamily development in Centerton. The 256-unit, 312,414-square-foot development at East Centerton Boulevard...

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Oct 1 • 4:52 PM EDT • Business • talkbusiness.net
Disney plans restructuring of television business, WSJ reports

Oct 1 (Reuters) - Walt Disney plans a restructuring of its television business that could result in hundreds of layoffs and the consolidation of divisions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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Oct 1 • 3:50 PM EDT • Business • miamiherald.com
Can Donalds convince Black voters to leave the Democratic Party, like he did?

Byron Donalds, the Republican nominee for governor is hoping to capitalize on Black voters’ frustration with the Democratic Party.

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Oct 1 • 3:49 PM EDT • Politics • miamiherald.com
Political strategist Matt Klink recaps CNN's gubernatorial debate
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Oct 1 • 3:25 PM EDT • Politics • cbsnews.com
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Steve Oberman Joins SoundCheck Capital As SVP, Business Development

Former Tixr, See Tickets and Flavorus executive Steve Oberman joins SoundCheck Capital, a specialty finance company providing revenue-based financing to the

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Oct 1 • 3:22 PM EDT • Business • news.pollstar.com