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October is made for raking in all the outdoor fall fun before the cool weather leaves, and for cozying up indoors for frightfully fantastic food, frights, and fun. From harvesting fall fests and farms to ghoul-worthy food and drinks, spooky good times are hiding around every corner. Seasonal Food, Drinks at Coughlin’s Law With two locations, Coughlin’s Law brings you twice the amount of nice with a bountiful fall menu. Image via Coughlin’s Law The Harvest Sangria is fall in a glass with pinot gris, apple cider, brown sugar simple, apple brandy, cinnamon, and cloves. Warm up with a Fireside Margarita made with blanco tequila, lime juice, apple cider, cinnamon burnt honey, triple sec, and mezcal float. Taste the season with an Autumn Negroni with chai infused gin, fig infused sweet vermouth, and campari. The Applewood Smoked Old Fashioned features single barrel Knob Creek, fall spiced cider reduction, cinnamon burnt honey, and cherry vanilla bark bitters. All October long you can enjoy Pumpkin Beer Flights of three 9oz pumpkin beers. The highlight flight selection is Coughlin’s Brewing Outlaw Pumpkin and the other seasonal beer options will change as supplies last. Monster Mystery Family Night at Kamin Science Center Get up to some frightfully good fun during Monster Mystery Family Night on Friday, October 16th from 6pm – 10pm at Kamin Science Center. Image via Kamin Science Center Come dressed in costume and help solve the mystery of the stolen Halloween candy while using real forensic techniques to determine which monster committed the crime. You will explore all five floors of the science center as you analyze the fingerprint, hair, and footprint clues using a fingerprinting exercise, hair analysis, and footprint matching. Stay for the big reveal of the who-dunnit at 9pm and leave with a treat. An on-theme show will be featured in the Buhl Planetarium and there will be two showings of the theatrical science show “Frankenscience.” Admission is $15 for nonmembers and $10 for members. Fall Fest Fun and a Family Musical at Pittsburgh Playhouse Celebrate the season at the Pittsburgh Playhouse’s third annual Fall Fest, a free community street festival with food, crafts, and games. Grab a bite from food vendors, paint a pumpkin, and win prizes at this fun-filled fall outing perfect for all ages. Make a day of it and see the frightfully fun family musical Boo’s Halloween House Party, with performances running during Fall Fest! A highlight of Fall Fest, this spook-tacular 45-minute family musical is co-written by Point Park University alumnus Ahmad Simmons and Lazlo Graves and features music, dancing, laughter, and Halloween thrills for little monsters, grown-up ghouls, and everyone in between. Image via Pittsburgh Playhouse Both Fall Fest and Boo’s Halloween House Party run October 23rd – 25th, 30th – 31st, and November 1st at the Pittsburgh Playhouse at Point Park University located at 350 Forbes Avenue. Fall Fest takes place along Forbes Avenue with Boo’s Halloween House Party performances in the Highmark Theatre. Learn more at Fall Fest or by calling 412-392-8000. Groups of 10 or more save up to 30%. Fall Fest Fun at Triple B Farms Triple your fall fun with a trip to Triple B Farms to enjoy their annual Fall Fest, pumpkin picking, flower picking, and local professionally-grown fruits and vegetables, fresh baked goods, homemade fudge in the market. Back again are the apple and pumpkin donuts and the ever-popular Apple Fries with caramel dipping sauce. You’ll find additional tasty treats available in the food barn. Image via Triple B Farms All Fall Festival activities are designed for adults and children to enjoy together outdoors! Fall Admission includes Hen House Hustle (NEW this year!), Big Boo Barn, Scootin’ Scooters, Grain Bin Basketball, Singing Chicken Show, Education Acres & Farm Animals, Hayrides, 2 Corn Mazes, Giant Slides, Jumping Pillows, Farmcade Games, Rope Maze, Tire Mountain, Pumpkinland, Barnyard Carnival, and more. Pick up your Fall Fun Activity ticket online or in-store. Tickets are $18 each and children ages 2 and under are free. (PYO Pumpkins, PYO Flowers are an additional cost.) Rocktoberfest at The Waterfront Beers of the Burgh and Zero Fossil Energy are teaming up once again to take Oktoberfest tradition to the next level with Rocktoberfest at The Waterfront on Saturday, October 10th from 4pm – 9pm under the Homestead Grays bridge. Rocktoberfest is a FREE family-friendly music fest celebrating the season by using Zero Fossil’s solar stage to turn sunshine into rock’n’roll. Come Rock Out to NASH.V.ILL., TV’s Norm, 9FiftySeven, and Gene the Werewolf. There will be food vendors, beer and cocktails, live art, a vendor market, animal encounters, face painting, and more! Reflections in Glass at The Westmoreland Experience Reflections in Glass, a five-day celebration of creativity and collaboration between The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and Pittsburgh Glass Center from Wednesday, October 14th – Sunday, October 18th from 10am – 5pm each day. Discover original glass creations by 15 artists from Pennsylvania and beyond, each inspired by a work of art on display in museum galleries. Image via The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and Pittsburgh Glass Center For a spooky good time, get your ticket to the one-night-only event Glass After Dark on Friday, October 16th 5:30pm – 8pm where you can enjoy music, sip a signature cocktail from the cash bar, and meet the participating artists. Pittsburgh Glass Center’s Light Lab will provide live illuminated glass demos of neon and plasma. Enhance the evening by purchasing exclusive Penn/Fairmount handcrafted glassware (glassware purchase includes one free drink). Tickets to this event are $5 for members and $15 for non-members and also includes access to Reflections in Glass. Admission to Reflections in Glass is $10 for nonmembers (ages 18+), $5 for children (ages 4-17), Children 3 and under are free. On Wednesday, October 14th – Saturday, October 17th, admission will be free for Westmoreland Museum and Pittsburgh Glass Center members. Admission on Sunday, October 18th is free for all! Advance registration is recommended for all days. The post Harvest All the Seasonal Fun with Fall Fests, Spooky Good Nights, and Ghoul-Worthy Food and Drinks appeared first on Made In PGH.

A defense expert says hockey star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother were bicycling in the travel lane when they were struck and killed by a motorist two years ago, and concludes their intoxication and lack of legally required bicycle lights created a roadway hazard that a driver could not reasonably avoid.

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Art by Luisa Preissler We are delighted to announce a partnership with ReelShort, who has optioned the first three books in the Hidden Legacy series. The Nevada trilogy is coming to a very small screen. What is ReelShort? ReelShort is a platform that produces video designed to be viewed on your phone or tablet. The episodes are short, usually 1-2 minutes each, but there will be a lot of them, about 60-80 per book. This format is often called vertical drama, because you swipe up on the phone to get to the next episode. ReelShort is based in Silicon Valley with production hubs in LA, Atlanta, and New York. We are very excited about this development. We do not have a date for you at this point, so more to come. A small warning: screen adaptations often fall apart before ever getting released. We are, however, optimistic, because ReelShort reached out to us, and they seem to be very enthusiastic about this project. We expect this to be completely over the top in the most hilarious of ways. AI usage ReelShort is a wide platform. They produce their own content but they also license existing content from other markets. Some of these licensed dramas are AI. We have it in writing that ReelShort will be hiring all HUMAN talent for this production. Meaning no AI actors will be used for human roles in this adaptation. Explanation of AI usage and Ilona Andrews, Inc. stance Everything that follows in this section is our opinion and views and does not reflect ReelShort’s policies. Vertical dramas are very popular in China. It is a $15 billion dollar market. According to China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) and the China Netcasting Services Association, over 90% of recently released vertical micro-dramas rely heavily on generative AI. Here is a Youtube video from Today. This is Xu Peng, one of the talented Chinese actors who has now retired from acting at the age of 30. Image from iQiyi His roles dried up because China shifted to AI in a microdrama market. You can read the full article at CNA Lifestyle. He now sells vegetables, which is a great job as well, but that is not why he went to an acting college. We do not want to see it happen in US. Kid 2’s friend is an actress, who is currently in LA, and she says that a lot of studios drastically scaled back the number of projects. There are fewer and fewer roles available already. For these reasons, we strongly insisted on no AI replacement of human actors. Why the distinction of human? We have to be realistic. AI is horrible for environment, but right now it is a relatively inexpensive way to generate special effects. One instance where it can be used to a good effect is in potentially dangerous scenes featuring animals. We are not going to link it here, but one of the Soviet era films has a scene that deeply scarred Ilona as a child. The film was released in 1966, and in it, a horse attempts to walk down the stairs, falls, and breaks her leg. They left it in. We do not oppose the use of AI for scenes where animals could be potentially injured. The post Hidden Legacy Goes Vertical: ReelShort first appeared on ILONA ANDREWS.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth boarded the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln at sea today, one day prior to the ship returning to its home port of San Diego. Hegseth’s visit came at the end of Lincoln’s record-setting 321-day deployment, during which the ship spent 264 consecutive days at sea without a port call. This deployment surpasses the previous record of 206 consecutive days set by the carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in 2020. The secretary spent most of his nearly 15 minutes of remarks praising the Lincoln’s crew and its attached Carrier Air Wing 9 for the successes the ship’s strike group achieved off the coast of Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury from February through August. Those operations consisted of 40 straight days of combat operations beginning Feb. 28, followed by participation in an ongoing, monthslong blockade of Iran in and around the Strait of Hormuz. “Here we are this morning — on this beautiful morning — we came here intentionally to recognize, to honor to showcase. … wanted me to personally thank you, each and every one of you, from the Oval Office for what you have done here, for what you did in Epic Fury, ensuring that Iran never gets a nuclear weapon. … And then the follow-on blockade, which has been impenetrable from day one,” Hegseth told the crew. He also recounted all of the strike group’s achievements over the six months: conducting 3,693 combat sorties, delivering 1.37 million pounds of ordnance, launching 450 Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles, shooting down 77 one-way unmanned attack drones, sinking 64 Iranian warships, destroying 21 anti-ship cruise missiles and defending against four fast-attack craft and explosive-carrying wooden sailing vessels. Regarding the thousands of sorties, Hegseth pointed out that the flights occurred without a single aircraft mishap. Speaking of the dangers the Lincoln crew endured during their deployment, Hegseth drew a comparison between delivering remarks off the coast of California and what it was like to be in combat conditions. “We landed on the most beautiful of days, in the middle of an empty flight deck because is gone, and landing in the middle of the night in dangerous territory with a full flight deck during combat operations, and you didn’t miss a beat,” Hegseth told the crew. “That’s why we’re here; the world needs to understand that, the country needs to understand that,” he added. In recognition of the Lincoln strike group’s successes in prosecuting Operation Epic Fury for more than five months in the Middle East, Hegseth presented the crew with the Presidential Unit Citation — the highest military decoration that can be awarded to units for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy. “I draw inspiration from the mission that you executed so successfully. You have changed the arc of history: ensuring that crazy people — theocrats — never get a nuclear weapon changes the arc of history. … And it’s because of what this strike group has done, and other great Americans are still doing now,” Hegseth told the crowd. He added that he was also very grateful for the support shown by the crew’s family members during the strike group’s long deployment. “So, if you would, when you greet your families tomorrow, just pass my gratitude from the president and myself,” Hegseth said. “Let them know their long wait, we believe, was in service of a righteous and historic mission,” he added. This was by no means the only lengthy deployment the Lincoln has been on over the course of its service. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the ship was deployed for 294 days between 2019 and 2020. It was deployed for 290 days between July 2002 and May 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. By Matthew Olay, Oct. 7, 2026 The post Hegseth Visits USS Lincoln Ahead of Homecoming After Record-Breaking Deployment appeared first on Seapower Magazine.

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Sunday night's matchup between the Ravens and the Falcons will see two of the league's best running backs on opposite sidelines. But one of them is just fine with the "best" title going to the other. Baltimore's Derrick Henry was asked about Bijan Robinson on Thursday and cut off the reporter before he could even finish the question. “He’s the best in the game right now — he’s doing it all,” Henry said, via Jamison Hensley of ESPN. “I ain’t gonna shy away from it. He’s doing a great job, hell of a back. He does a great job in their system. Then [he] does a great job when the play is not exactly how they want it — he knows how to make guys miss, and be able to get vertical, and get the most out of a play, for sure.”Henry noted that while he doesn’t know Robinson well personally, the two have chatted a bit on social media.“I’m sure I’ll talk to him after the game,” Henry said.We’ll see which running back will come out on top Sunday night.

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Editor’s Note: This article discusses sexual assault. If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence or harassment, help is available. You can visit The Office of Prevention and Education at Northeastern to file a report, and view information for supporting survivors. Survivors may also contact RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline. Several Northeastern Greek life organizations posted statements on Instagram this week as support pours in for a former Cornell University student who alleged seven Chi Phi fraternity members of gang raping her in 2024. The former student, identifying as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit against Chi Phi and Cornell Sept. 16, according to reporting from The Cornell Daily Sun. The case has quickly gained national attention, sparking widespread conversation about how universities handle sexual assault cases. According to the lawsuit, on the night of Oct. 19, 2024, Jane Doe arrived at the Chi Phi house to meet her friend, a brother at the fraternity. Once there, she alleges she was forced to take drugs and raped over the course of several hours by seven men, including the friend. Northeastern Panhellenic, the governing council for social-Greek lettered sororities on campus, posted on Instagram Oct. 1 in support of Jane Doe and provided links to resources, including the National Sexual Assault Hotline and the Office of Prevention and Education at Northeastern University. “Northeastern Panhellenic stands in solidarity with Jane Doe, the victim in the Chi Phi case at Cornell University, and with all survivors of sexual assault and violence,” the organization wrote in the post. “As organizations built on female empowerment, we will not look away,” it wrote. “We all bear a responsibility to create a welcoming, safe, and inclusive environment where everyone can exist without fear.” Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten wrote in a Sept. 28 statement that Jane Doe’s statement to police in 2024 “described her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” (The New York Times reported Oct. 1 that Cornell police excluded parts of Jane Doe’s interview after the incident where she said she had been raped when corresponding with Van Houten.) New York Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to conduct a criminal investigation. Northeastern’s chapter of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, which is member of the Interfraternity Council, or IFC, wrote in a statement posted to their Instagram that story sexual violence is “never acceptable.” “Taking advantage of someone who is under the influence and unable to consent is never acceptable under any circumstances,” Beta Theta Pi posted. “Not speaking up while being aware of the situation is never acceptable.” In an Oct. 2 statement, Northeastern’s IFC wrote that “fraternity culture is our culture, and its failures are ours to confront.” “We are disgusted by what Jane Doe endured, and we know our community is not immune to it,” the IFC wrote. They went on, “We intend to follow this with action, and we encourage our community to hold us to it.” In an Oct. 1 statement from Northeastern’s chapter of Alpha Chi Omega, the sorority included resources for survivors, including the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and Northeastern’s We Care office. “In Alpha Chi, raising awareness for domestic violence and supporting survivors is at the heart of our philanthropy. These issues affect people we love, people we know, and people in our own community,” the sorority wrote. “To Jane Doe and to every other survivor, we want you to know that we hear you, we believe you, and we stand with you,” Alpha Chi Omega posted. Northeastern’s chapter of Sigma Kappa addressed its members, community and “every survivor” in its statement, writing that violence “of any kind has no place at Northeastern. We are committed to listening, learning, and supporting those both inside and outside of our sisterhood.” Editor’s Note: This story was updated Oct. 4 at 5:30 p.m. to add context about Van Houten’s decision to not bring criminal charges against the seven men in 2024. The post NU sororities and fraternities post statements condemning alleged 2024 gang rape at Cornell appeared first on The Huntington News.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — TOTE Services, LLC, a leading U.S. maritime services company specializing in vessel construction management and ship management, today signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Transportation – Maritime Administration to serve as vessel construction manager for the Missile Range Instrumentation Vessel program. The MRIV will support the Missile Defense Agency in advancing national security. Immediately following this award, TOTE Services also executed a shipyard subcontract with Hanwha Philly Shipyard to construct the first MRIV. This ship will be the first in a planned series of vessels for MDA. The MRIV program was announced this summer by U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought. Since then, TOTE Services has been working as VCM to negotiate and finalize contract terms, advance the vessel design and secure firm fixed pricing. In traditional government shipbuilding, this process could extend to a year or more. Because MARAD has elected to build these ships using the VCM model, TOTE Services can accelerate the design and negotiation timeline and complete these tasks in less than three months. “Signing the Missile Range Instrumentation Vessel contract and executing the shipyard subcontract brings us closer to delivering the next generation of U.S. defense capability,” said Jeff Dixon, President of TOTE Services. “Our proven Vessel Construction Management model means we’re hitting the milestones sooner and making meaningful progress faster.” The MRIV design is based on the National Security Multi-Mission Vessels (NSMV), which have been built at HPSI under TOTE Services’ management. The MRIV has the same hull design and an overall 70% commonality with the proven NSMV design — reducing construction risk to enable a faster, more reliable construction process. The VCM approach offers advantages over traditional government acquisition strategies, reducing acquisition costs by at least 50%. By defining requirements upfront and approving change orders quickly, the model improves schedule certainty and ensures vessels are mission-ready when they are delivered. “The Missile Defense Agency depends on a strong domestic industrial base to keep our nation safe,” said Sen. Dave McCormick (R-Pennsylvania). “Announced at my 2026 Pennsylvania Defense & Innovation Summit, the partnership between Hanwha Philly Shipyard and TOTE Services will strengthen our military readiness, expand American shipbuilding capacity, and reinforce Pennsylvania’s critical role in our national security. Pennsylvania has long served as an arsenal of democracy, and this project is another example of our Commonwealth delivering for America.” “As a Florida-based maritime company, TOTE Services has a proven record of supporting critical government vessel programs and strengthening our nation’s maritime capabilities,” said Rep. John Rutherford (R-Florida). Its partnership with Hanwha Philly Shipyard on this Missile Defense Agency project demonstrates how the Vessel Construction Management model can efficiently deliver assets that enhance America’s security and military readiness.” HPSI will build the MRIV using the active production line, existing supply chain, and skilled workforce already in place from the NSMV program. The NSMV program transformed the shipyard from a dormant yard with a few dozen workers into a national security asset that now employs more than 2,000 production workers. The MRIV contract builds directly on that momentum, bringing new defense construction work to the yard and positioning it for continued growth as the nation rebuilds its shipbuilding capacity. “Hanwha Philly Shipyard’s workforce continues to demonstrate why Philadelphia remains one of the nation’s premier shipbuilding centers, with Hanwha and TOTE Services bringing valuable maritime expertise to the project,” said Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05). “Together, they are creating skilled union jobs, investing billions into our regional economy, and helping deliver capabilities that strengthen our national defense.” As the current ship manager and operator of the existing MARAD and MDA vessels, Pacific Tracker and Pacific Collector, TOTE Services brings deep operational and technical expertise to the MRIV program. The MRIV vessels will replace the Pacific Tracker and Pacific Collector, built in 1965 and 1970, which currently support missile range instrumentation missions. The program is an interagency collaboration between the Department of Transportation, the Department of War, and MDA, under the existing VCM contract vehicle between MARAD and TOTE Services. The first MRIV is scheduled for delivery in 2030. From TOTE Services, Oct. 7, 2026 The post TOTE Services to Manage Construction of Missile Range Instrumentation Vessels for MARAD appeared first on Seapower Magazine.

The Amazon EKS capability for AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) now accepts type-specific configuration. You can control whether ACK controllers resolve cross-namespace resource references (enableCrossNamespace, which is disabled by default), and disable the controllers for specific ACK services (disabledServices), when you create or update a capability. Turning services off is now the recommended way to run the capability alongside ACK controllers that you manage yourself, and to migrate to the capability one service at a time.