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We’re in October now and I know you’re probably itching for my horror movie issues, but you have to wait just a few days more. I think I’m going to start on those next week and I have some absolute gems planned for this, the scariest month. For today though, we have to reflect on a different kind of horror. Imagine you’re one of Hollywood’s hottest actresses and you’re going through some weird public perception stuff with your spouse.

The Boilermakers already played without one of their regular starters during the Big Ten tournament earlier this month. Caitlyn Harper suffered a season-ending knee injury against Penn State at the end of February, removing plenty of experience from the lineup.  Purdue will be without another regular starter Monday during the WNIT’s second-round matchup at Butler. Coach Katie Gearlds said Saturday that Madison Layden “decided to opt-out” of playing in the WNIT, leaving the Boilermakers without one of their top-scoring options.

Today’s issue of Dust On The VCR is a subscriber request! This spooky selection comes from my comrade Joe Phelps, a college acquaintance of mine who has grown into a genuine friend over the years, which I really appreciate since the inverse is so common. Joe is a fellow creative spirit, which is pretty evident if you’ve ever been to either of his local businesses: the Pilcrow Cocktail Cellar in Downtown Birmingham or Ampersandwich in Avondale.

If you hadn’t already noticed, many of the most interesting kitchens in Paris are led by Japanese chefs, like Masahiro Kawai at Chez Michel and Toshitaka Omiya at Alliance - both included in our selection of 50 Restaurants for the Fall. We can add chef Ryuya Ono to that list, thanks to his exciting new (red hot?) restaurant Magma. It’s a seemingly modest… ncG1vNJzZmiokae2tK7YpqaurJhjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opJqfnZY%3D

Maharana Pratap or Pratap Singh (May 9, 1540 – January 19, 1597) was a Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar, a region in north-western India in the present day state of Rajasthan. He belonged to the Sisodiya sept of Rajputs. In popular Indian culture, Pratap is considered to exemplify the qualities like bravery and chivalry to which Rajputs aspire, especially in context of his opposition to the Mughal emperor Akbar. The struggle between Rajput confederacy led by Pratap Singh, and the Mughal Empire under Akbar, has often been characterised as a struggle between Hindus and the invading Muslims.

Quarterback discourse is, as a whole, a great deal better than it was 10 years ago when I started doing this job. A lot more information and statistics are publicly available now. Film reviews that dive into the nuances of the position are more common. The voices in the industry now include people who talk about things in-depth rather than at the surface level. We’ve come a long ways. But we’ve still got a long, long, LONG ways to go based on the most recent discourse surrounding Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow.

Last week, on the long car ride home from a ski race in the western Adirondacks, with Kobi totally spent and sleeping in the back seat of the car, I tuned into a podcast about the medical writings of Maimonides. Maimonides, a 12th-century Jewish rabbi, doctor, and philosopher, exhibited masterful organization and summarization of vast knowledge from various scholarly realms. For instance, he took the entire Talmud, an intricate collection of thousands of pages filled with dense academic debates, and distilled it into the Mishneh Torah—a set of six volumes of systematically organized jurisprudence.

This is Seeking Rents, a newsletter and podcast devoted to producing original journalism — and lifting up the journalism of others — that examines the many ways that businesses influence public policy across Florida, written by Jason Garcia. Seeking Rents is free to all. But please consider a voluntary paid subscription, if you can afford one, to help support our work. Major League Baseball wants Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature to let team owners pay their minor league players less than minimum wage.

One of the best things I get to do is talk to interesting people. Major Libby Weiss is an American-Israeli who was out of the military but like many in the IDF, was called up after October 7. She tells her story of service in the 2014 war with Hamas and what she’s doing today. What she’s learned and what we need to learn. ncG1vNJzZmilkafBqa3ZqKOlnaJjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89opJqin6d6rbXBm7Bmr5WewLR5yJ2dZqeeYrWmvoyjpq6qnprG