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Fixing one of the more confusing intersections in Charlottetown is top priority for public works this year.
A roundabout will soon connect Belvedere Avenue, Brackley Point Road and St. Peters Road, commonly referred to as the Vogue Optical intersection.
Whether motorists are actually driving on it sometime this year depends on when federal infrastructure money starts flowing down to municipalities from the Build Canada Fund.
"Right now, we are in final design, basically waiting for word from Build Canada when we can apply,'' said Coun. Terry Bernard, chairman of the city's public works committee. "That's our number one project, right now, through public works.''
The city still has one piece of property left to purchase before work starts, but that is expected to happen soon. Ongoing conversations have also been taking place with land owners who will be affected.
Bernard said the city believes the federal money will be moving fairly quickly, and if it does, the roundabout could be finished before the year is out. However, if it takes until mid-summer to go through the application and tender process, then construction of the actual roundabout could be pushed into 2017.
Bernard said the department would like to at least start work this year. That involves replacing water and sewer lines below the road surface, similar to what took place at the Mount Edward Road-Allen Street roundabout.
The city is also looking at changes to another confusing intersection where Longworth Avenue, Euston Street and Weymouth Street meet, also known as the Ken's Corner intersection.
Consultants will be looking at the intersection and coming up with a plan to redesign it.


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Clifford Meth has a nice tribute to Marie Severin with lots of comments from her contemporaries. Severin is currently in the hospital recovering from a stroke.
“Marie Severin has mastered every skill connected with comics as no one—-man or woman—-has,” Johnny Romita said upon reflection. “I was lucky enough to have worked with her for many years at Marvel Comics… Her EC years speak for themselves. She could do humor better than most; did powerful pencils from plots; inked and colored stories and countless covers with personality and clarity, as well as any colleague I ever worked with. And then there were those barbed but sensational birthday cards she dashed off, which are among the most prized art I still have in my studio.”

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In a follow-up to an accident we reported on Thursday. Nebraska State Patrol reports that they responded to an injury accident on Tuesday evening at 9:50 on K9 2.6 miles South of Palmer, Kansas.
According to the report Roger K. Mikels of Miltonvale, Kansas was driving Northbound on K9 when the passenger side wheel dropped off the pavement. Mikels overcorrected causing the truck to go into the east ditch a second time where it struck a fence and overturned.
Mikels was taken to Clay County medical Center.

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Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by TM, Oct 20, 2009.
Really? This is still going on?
Get. A. Life.
If Fisher had of just gone and did nothing, most people wouldn't have had a clue it even happened.
Most of the football world knows now.
How many times do you take a simple matter and complicate it by completely blowing it out of proportion with completely irrelevant points?
First, if you are dumb enough to spend thousands, that's on you. You did it and no one forced you. Stop complaining.
Second, just because you buy the merchandise doesn't make you automatically right. A guy with a ferrari isn't given the right to be involved in the decision makings of ferrari.
Third, your last point is so damn stupid it makes little sense to anything. It's not like the team is moving to Indianapolis. It's not like this was done to the franchise.
It was done at a charity event honouring a friend. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Titans organisation directly.
It's charity. Get over it.
Nothing from the season changes, we are still 0 - 6.
Speaking of ignorant...claiming that 10 people who agree with you = an entire fan base.
If I were you, I wouldn't be telling anyone about having no idea.
It's about 5:30 in the morning and I'm still seeing local and national media attention on "Jersey Gate". I've seen a story about it on the local news and a National TV station.
For all of you that think that everyone that didn't like what Fisher did needs to get a life or are overreacting, why in the heck is this getting so much media attention? There's a reason why it's getting so much media attention. I don't like the fact that Fisher has brought more negative media attention to the Titans organization. But don't worry all of you people that think what Fisher did was great, he said he would do it again if he had the chance. I wonder what jersey he'll be wearing if he gets the chance again? Somehow I think he'll be donning that jersey in a different city while coaching a different team.
The media isn't a representation of the people.
Never said they were, and not sure why this statement is relevant?
Gunny, you might feel a little differently if you lived in Nashville. The Titans are more than just a football team to many who live here.
I have listened to the sound bite again and what he said was, " I just wanted to see what it felt like to be a wiener."
Man I love the www... if someone has the audacity to disagree with you... well they must be morons, idiots, not true fans, have their priorities out of whack, etc. People view and process things differently. Why on earth when someone has a differing opinion than that of your own must he/she be deemed somewhat of a lesser minded individual? I've just never felt the passionate need that's on display here to convert people to my way of thinking and quite honestly am most happy keeping company with people with divergent opinions than that of my own. I'm sure most on here are the same way, but it's not reflected in how they deal with their fellow goTitans members. I know the justification for this in many cases would be, "Well he/she started it first". To me that's about as lame as it gets... you can't let the assholes of the world dictate our behaviour... or else eventually the world will be habitated with nothing but assholes... much like these boards would appear to be at this very moment (and I know for a fact that's not the case).
I think simply the fact that their are obviously many fans who feel put off by the coach's display (whether justified in their feelings or not) indicates that Fisher's lame act was a mistake. Football is a business, in businesss you shoud probably try to steer clear of annoying your most rabid customers (again regardless of whether said custy is justified in feeling the way they do or not). If Fisher doesn't see this, I'm thinking Bud will.


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Ukraine is confident that the International Monetary Fund will help cover part of the state budget deficit this year. Around $5B is expected to be received, said Oleksiy Ustenko, a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance. According to him, Ukraine has the highest recorded budget deficit for all the years of its independence. To close it, €18B will be provided by the EU, $10B will come from the US and $5B is expected from the IMF, and the additional $5B will be sourced through partner countries and international financial institutions. Ustenko notes that Ukraine had problems with its budget last year, but Ukraine’s allies helped it to survive those challenging times. Ustenko also clarified that it is currently difficult to predict the development of the economic situation in the country, as the war is ongoing.


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InOrbit, which develops cloud-based software that helps operations staff with the monitoring and management of their robot fleets, has announced Time Capsule, a new offering aimed at giving roboticists and operations greater insights into the reasons why their robots might be failing in certain locations or scenarios. The Time Capsule offering is immediately available for new and existing InOrbit customers, the company said.
The InOrbit platform lets robot companies install agent software (the InOrbit Agent) on each robot, which then starts to collect data that is integrated into the cloud-based platform. For Time Capsule, the data from the platform is captured and presented through an integrated dashboard, giving roboticists and engineers a visualization of a robot’s path, a heat map or indication of when an autonomy exception/incident occurred. This helps companies discover the root cause analysis of incidents, allowing them to improve their systems, InOrbit said.
“One of the things we saw was that people have a lot of the data that they’re recording, but then getting into the data and making it actionable was really hard,” said Florian Pestoni, CEO and co-founder of InOrbit. “For example, a robot could be moving around a warehouse and it bumps into something, which triggers an incident. You really want to know after the fact what happened just before and just after the incident. With Time Capsule, you can immediately go and see all the incidents, go to the time that is relevant, and then a robotics expert can apply root cause analysis to understand what happened, and hopefully, how to prevent that in the future.”
The company also updated its user experience with easier-to-use dashboards and interfaces, with the goal of providing data based on a person’s role at the company. For example, an executive can access key performance indicators about the overall fleet performance, while a roboticist can configure their dashboard with different data sources and visualizations to provide detailed information about a single robot or location.
Another improvement is the ability for customers to get situational awareness about a robot, including understanding the robot’s position on a map, seeing through multiple cameras, visualizing other sensor data such as a point cloud generated by lidar, or tracking the robot’s movement. If a robot gets mislocalized, InOrbit said its intuitive tools can fix the problem in seconds, or allow an operator to give it a “gentle nudge” to go back to operating autonomously.
InOrbit’s Time Capsule dashboard lets users view a robot’s path, heat map, or time-based incidents when autonomy exceptions occur.
“The whole value of autonomous robots is that they’re autonomous, so they should be doing their thing without having somebody constantly driving them,” said Pestoni. “You want the robot to be doing its thing, going back and forth in a warehouse, or on a farm, or whatever the task is. But you also want to deal with unique cases, especially in an unstructured environment, those will happen. That’s why our focus is more on this idea of nudging, which is teleoperating the robot, but to get the robot back to operation as quickly as possible.”
Customers of InOrbit have praised the company for its operational approach. “As we’ve been preparing our introduction of a brand new robot, InOrbit has been with us every step of the way in enabling targeted real-time observation that we have rolled out to our distributed team,” said Steve Croft, executive vice president of operations at Savioke Robotics, which develops autonomous mobile robots that deliver items in hospitality settings. “On top of that, InOrbit is solving a critical need we have by bringing key data together for offline analysis as we continuously refine our technology.”
Another robotics company, Agility Robotics, said that robotics companies need to continuously improve their tools and infrastructure. “If the last year has taught us anything, it’s that it’s never too early to optimize the operation of autonomous robots,” said Michael Norrell, vice president of operations at Agility. “In order to achieve this, it’s critical that robotics companies deploy tools and infrastructure that enable continuous improvement and continuous learning across the company in order to realize the promise of this emerging technology.”
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Public Health announced today that Douglas County has its first confirmed case of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, which is likely associated with travel. This individual is isolated at home and doing well. Public Heath is identifying and contacting anyone that has been in close contact with the positive case.
“It is important that Douglas County residents do not panic but continue to follow recommendations to protect themselves, others, and slow the spread of COVID-19.” said Kathy Ronchi, Douglas County Health Officer. “I am confident in our community’s ability to support each other in the difficult days ahead.”
With no medicine or vaccines to treat or prevent COVID-19, Douglas County Public Health wants everyone to follow these simple steps:
- Stay home when sick
- Frequent handwashing with soap and water for 20 seconds
- Cover coughs and sneezes
- Avoid touching your face
- Clean and disinfect commonly touched surfaces
- Practice social distancing – six (6) feet from others
- Avoid public gatherings of more than 10 persons
“Public Health and Emergency Management are working together with local, state, and federal partners to implement response plans; but it is important to understand that everyone has a role in reducing the spread of COVID-19.” said Dave Sletten, Douglas County Emergency Manager.
The COVID-19 pandemic is quickly evolving and many rumors exist. Public health is committed to sharing accurate information and is notified of confirmed test results.
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It happens, usually with those who drink a lot. As we age, we face and handle stresses differently. In our 20s, most of us feel immortal and unstoppable. By 30, most of us realize we are not. So, the cheery, drunken attitude can suffer for booze is an uninhibitor, which means we might spew forth a lot of stuff that irritates, angers or we fear that normally we would keep to ourselves.
By the time I hit 35, it was noticed by friends that when smashed, I was often no fun, belligerent, often apt to detonate at the slightest trigger or sullen. I had to cut my drinking way down and even today, might get happy, but never smashed. Plus, I noticed in myself and have heard from other drinkers that as they aged, they know within a drink or two if they are going to have fun or not. If not, then they make the drinks last or stop drinking.
Plus, by 30, the body has changed, has begun to slow down, accumulate bits of damage from idiot stunts when 20, reflexes drop a bit and emotional out look often alters. At 25 one could drink all night, get up after an hours sleep, go to work, feel bad, but put in a days worth on the job, get off work feeling OK, and go out and party a bit that night. At 35, often one awakens with the hangover and feel like they’re about to die. They’ll skip work or not do a real good job and might feel like crap by days end and might prefer to sleep afterwards instead of going out.
Changes in the body.
Plus, real heavy drunks destroy brain cells. That effect accumulates over the years and can change the drunken personality.

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Few things are dividing Americans today as much as the issue of COVID-19 vaccines, as fear takes a firm hold on large segments of our society. The matter was not helped much when President Joe Biden went before the nation to essentially declare war on the unvaccinated.
A declaration that accompanied a federal vaccine mandate push that critics insist is unconstitutional. But then, the precedent was set in Democratic strongholds such as New York City, where Mayor Bill de Blasio announced last month that residents will be required to show proof of at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine to dine in a restaurant, workout at the gym or attend performances of the arts.
It was on that note that a New York City restaurant hostess was assaulted after asking a group of diners from Texas to prove they had been vaccinated before seating them, NBC News reported.
The incident took place Thursday at Carmine’s Italian restaurant on the Upper West Side, and was captured on video and shared online by NBC New York reporter Adam Harding.
In a statement, a Carmine’s spokesperson said: “It’s a shocking and tragic situation when one of our valued employees is assaulted for doing their job — as required by city policies — and trying to make a living.”
Carmine’s on the UWS says a hostess was assaulted after asking a group for proof of Covid vaccine to eat inside. “It’s a shocking and tragic situation when one of our valued employees is assaulted for doing their job – as required by city policies…” @NBCNewYork after football. pic.twitter.com/xrqZoNm74R
— Adam Harding (@HardingReports) September 17, 2021
Three people, ages being 21, 44 and 49, were arrested after the scuffle broke out and now face charges. Police said the hostess was repeatedly punched and had a necklace broken.
In California, following Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom surviving a recall election which was precipitated in part by his heavy-handed response to the pandemic, Los Angeles County celebrated with its own vaccine mandate.
(With the state sending out millions of unsolicited mail-in ballots to registered voters, Democrats may never lose another election there.)
The county will require proof of vaccination at all indoor bars, wineries, breweries, nightclubs, and lounges under a health order “aimed at further armoring the region against the pandemic,” the Los Angeles Times reported.
Citing LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer, the paper said a mandate will be issued by Friday requiring patrons and employees to have at least one dose by Oct. 7 and be fully vaccinated by Nov. 4. The county has a standing requirement for masks to be worn in indoor public settings.
“This is a reasonable path forward that will position us to be better able to break the cycle of surges,” Ferrer said.
What the mandates don’t address is that the vaccinated can still contract COVID-19 and that these breakthrough cases can infect others. The matter of natural immunity continues to be swept under the rug as well, even as the science begins to show more and more that natural immunity offers superior protection.
Social media users were supportive of the New York hostess, who was just doing her job — the real problem with these mandates is that it forces employees at these establishments to become enforcers.
Here’s a sampling of responses to the story from Twitter:
Im so sorry for the hostess. She was just doing her job. These women should be ashamed. If they dont like the rules in NY stay out of NY. I hope they are prosecuted for assault and fined.
— Judy LaTorre (@JudyLaTorre6) September 17, 2021
This is F’ing ridiculous! These women would not try that crap if they were back in Texas! Per the report, they do not live that far from me, either.
— Bobby Don Welch (@Bobby_Don_Welch) September 17, 2021
I pray that this essential worker is ok. This was sadly predictable because the Mayor made an arbitrary date, without preparing workers and staff with necessary tools and backup to deal with this obvious inevitability = violence. pic.twitter.com/XRLljx3uCc
— Jan Lee (@janccrc) September 17, 2021
Hey I’m pro-vaccine and pro-following all the rules but this is what happens when you force a hostess to act as a security guard.
— The Mighty Pathos (@TheMightyPathos) September 17, 2021
Restaurants will need to start hiring bouncers soon. It is a shame that a hostess has to put up with this for simply enforcing the rules. Those people need to spend time in jail or should simply not visit NY.
— Mike Gasparino (@MikeGasparino) September 17, 2021
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Dr. Shuichi Ikeda (Appointed Professor of Center for Intractable Diseases at Shinshu University Hospital) is suing Dr. Riko Muranaka for libel regarding her articles on the monthly magazine “Wedge” and its web magazine “Wedge Infinity” at Tokyo District Court.
Dr. Riko Muranaka’s articles have pointed out the scientific issues of the mouse experiment regarding the HPV vaccine that was presented by Dr. Shuichi Ikeda at the meeting of the Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare of Japan on Mar 16, 2016, and on TBS news programme “NEWS 23” broadcast on the same day. If he has any argument, he must pursue this in a scientific forum, not in court. It is quite inappropriate for Ikeda, a doctor and scientist, to take scientific issues to court.
The MHLW issued a statement on 24 Nov 2016 that said Dr. Ikeda’s presentation disseminated misunderstandings of the HPV vaccines to Japanese society, and asked Dr. Ikeda to correct his presentation, show the reproducibility of these results and publicize it with a thorough reflection on his conduct. However, Dr. Ikeda has not corrected his presentation nor publicized any data to date.Regardless of the statement, in 2017 the MHLW allowed Dr. Ikeda’s group to continue their study with only a slight reduction in grant support, and with the same protocol and the same principal investigator for another three years. It is not acceptable to continue a study that Dr. Ikeda, who takes scientific issues to the court, serves as principal investigator on, using taxpayers’ money.
1. We ask Dr. Ikeda to make the raw data of the mouse experiment openly available, and correct his presentation and publicize this.2. We ask Dr. Ikeda to withdraw the libel lawsuit against Dr. Riko Muranaka.3. We ask the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to take appropriate action regarding Dr. Ikeda's study group (i.e. to dismiss Dr. Ikeda's group or change the principal investigator).
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Five College Consortium Agrees to Purchase Library Annex Land
HADLEY — The Five College Consortium has signed an agreement to purchase 46 acres of land in Hadley as the site of a 2.5 million-volume Library Annex that will provide shelving to supplement the capacities of the collaboration’s on-campus libraries. Most of the land, which lies between North Maple Street and Rocky Hill Road in an area of mixed retail, residential, and light industrial uses, will be preserved as open space, with about 20% of the site used for the project.
The initial phase of the annex is a 38,000-square-foot facility that includes 30,000 square feet for shelving and approximately 8,000 square feet for processing intakes and retrievals. The consortium is pursuing approval for a shelving facility that might grow to 150,000 square feet — a size not expected to be reached for several decades.
Five Colleges has selected Cutler and Associates of Worcester as the project’s design-build firm. Groundbreaking is planned for July, with the facility expected to open in May 2016. The annex will address space requirements identified in the master plan of the UMass Amherst Libraries and the projected needs of Smith College during an anticipated major renovation of its Neilson Library.
The annex will also be available to serve the shelving needs of all Five College libraries for print materials. Primarily intended to house infrequently used print materials, the annex will benefit from climate-controlled conditions that are better for long-term preservation of print materials than the conditions in the on-campus library stacks.
The next stages in the project are for the land’s current owner to pursue removing the property from the state’s agriculture program and for Five Colleges to develop a conservation-management plan to protect endangered-species habitats on the site.


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A registered dietitian can identify what your body needs most, but if that is not someone you have access to – following the guidelines below is a good starting point to begin revitalizing your body, brain chemistry and self-esteem with proper nutrition. And remember: You don’t have to overhaul your entire diet overnight. Start by simply being a bit more mindful about what you put in your body — for instance, skip processed convenience foods and fill your plate with lots of fruits and vegetables. Have fun by experimenting with different recipes or various ways to prepare foods you eat regularly. Here are more changes to consider making:
1. Stay hydrated. Your body needs regular hydration, so be sure to drink plenty of water. Women should aim for about 2.7 litres (91 ounces) of total water — from all beverages and foods (yep, foods have water too!) — every day, and men an average of approximately 3.7 litres (125 ounces daily) of total water, according to the Institute of Medicine.
Drinking water flushes out toxins and aids in overall digestion and healing.
2. Start your day right with a good breakfast. You need the fuel from food — not just a quick cup of coffee — to keep you going through the morning, and your brain functions better with a breakfast boost as well. The best breakfasts include a mix of protein, fibre and healthy fats – this combo will keep you full for at least three hours and prevent blood sugar dips that can affect mood. Try some eggs with sautéed spinach and a pear, or low-fat Greek yoghurt with a handful of nuts and a sliced banana.
3. Cut out the caffeine. Whether from coffee, tea, soda or even food (like chocolate), caffeine can exacerbate anxiety and insomnia, which are especially prevalent in early sobriety. Sleep troubles are common partly because addiction disrupts the body’s circadian rhythms, making it difficult to fall (or stay) asleep without your drug of choice.
If you find it impossible to completely cut out caffeine, limit intake to two beverages per day and neither too close to bedtime. (The effects of caffeine can last from eight to 14 hours.) Decaffeinated coffee is a better choice, but even decaf has a little caffeine.
4. Choose foods closest to nature. In other words, it’s better to eat an apple than to drink apple juice or eat applesauce, and it’s better to opt for a dry nut and fruit trail mix than an energy bar.
5. Read labels. Don’t worry about the calories and fat grams, but instead focus on the ingredients and minimize foods with a laundry list of items on the label (especially ingredients you don’t recognize or can’t pronounce).
6. Avoid sugary foods and refined carbohydrates. As mentioned above, it’s very common for those in recovery to turn to sugary, starchy foods to provide the rush and comfort that drugs or alcohol once provided. The result can be a “cross addiction,” or transfer addiction, in which a dependence on one substance is replaced with another.
Sugar functions much as a drug does, triggering the release of the feel-good brain chemical dopamine in the same area of the brain affected by cocaine and heroin. In fact, a much-publicized study in PLOS ONE showed that rats preferred sugar to cocaine.
Turning to healthy sugars (especially those found in fruit), “good” carbs (such as brown rice and quinoa) and protein (low-fat dairy, nuts, legumes) can help fight the siren song of pastries, cakes, candy and cookies.
Try satisfying combinations with a touch of sweet, such as apple slices and all natural almond butter, string cheese and a peach or low-fat Greek yoghurt mixed with berries and walnuts.
7. Eat antioxidant-rich foods. Fruits and vegetables are jam-packed with powerful antioxidants, making them a good choice for rebuilding a strong immune system during recovery. Add fresh fruit (consider apples, strawberries and blueberries) and raw or lightly-cooked vegetables (broccoli, peppers and carrots are vitamin-packed choices) to your daily diet.
As a bonus, these nutrient-dense foods help restore skin and hair, which often deteriorate when using alcohol or drugs.
8. Power your body with protein. When it comes to nurturing a recovering brain, protein is a key building block. Amino acids from proteins are used to make the neurotransmitters that allow your brain cells to network and communicate.
Heavy use of drugs or alcohol combined with a decrease in nutrients also lowers your liver’s ability to filter toxins. If your liver isn’t extremely damaged, quality protein in food can help it become more efficient. Just be sure to choose healthy, easy-to-digest protein sources like fish, poultry and beans.
9. Fill up with fibre. Since alcohol and drug abuse upset your digestive system – often causing diarrhoea, indigestion and constipation — adding fibre to your diet will go a long way toward helping your body recuperate. Fill up on fruits and vegetables and start replacing white flour foods (white pasta, rice and bread) with 100% whole grains (brown rice, quinoa, barley).
Foods like brown rice, black beans, artichokes, peas and pears will also provide valuable roughage for your system, which can improve elimination. Start slow and in small doses so your body adjusts to the additional fibre; for example, add a piece of fruit to your breakfast and then some vegetables to your snack. The next day, keep those foods in your diet and then add some beans to your salad at lunch.
10. Choose healthy fats. To assist in cellular repair and the absorption of vitamins and nutrients, it’s essential to consume an adequate amount of “good” fats. These include olive oil, flaxseed oil and omega-3s (found in fatty fish, nuts and flaxseeds).
11. Be a smart snacker. Eating regular, healthy snacks that contain some protein will help regulate your blood sugar, which keeps your mood stable. Light snacks might include hummus with carrot sticks or raw unsalted almonds and cashews.
Adding healthy eating to your addiction-fighting arsenal along with the therapeutic aspect can go a long way toward helping you make the right choices to stay sober.
If nothing else, a well-rounded diet will help you look and feel better — and being happier with the person you see in the mirror is no small thing.
The clearer eyes, hair and skin and heightened energy and mood that good food can bring are proof of progress and of your commitment to a better life.

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PETALUMA (CBS SF) — Two Los Angeles men who allegedly targeted homes across California, ripping off mail including personal checks in cities spanning the state and in Sonoma County, have been arrested in Petaluma, authorities announced Tuesday.
Petaluma police said 30-year-old Juan Nunez-Alvarado and 32-year-old Anderson Hernandez, both of Los Angeles, were being held in Sonoma County jail on a variety of charges.READ MORE: Oakland Unveils Environmental Impact Report On A's Howard Terminal Stadium Project
Nunez-Alvarado was arrested on suspicion of burglary, forgery, passing fictitious checks, intent to defraud 10 or more persons, and possession of controlled substance.
Hernandez was arrested on suspicion of possessing fictitious checks and intent to defraud 10 or more persons.
Investigators said Petaluma officers were called to a local bank located at 203 South McDowell Boulevard on Monday morning after a customer attempted to cash a doctored check.
As Nunez-Alvarado left the bank, officers detained him as he attempted to enter a vehicle with Hernandez inside. When asked to explain the $1,100 doctored check he attempted to cash, Nunez-Alvarado provided a convoluted explanation. The bank staff found information on the check had been altered and the account holder did not know either subject.READ MORE: Twitter Announces 'Super Follows,' Will Let Users Charge Followers To See Premium Posts
As officers spoke with Hernandez, they noticed a large, open trash bag containing what appeared to be opened mail and initiated a more thorough search. An extensive amount of mail and checks, not in either subject’s name, were found in the bag. Both were then arrested on suspicion of mail theft.
Officers spent hours sorting through the opened mail, as well as business and personal checks, which had already separated by the suspects.
Eventually, investigators determined there were over 200 suspected victims in several cities in 14 counties stretching the length of California. Of the victims identified, 57 were Sonoma County residents.
Of the Sonoma County victims contacted thus far, it is believed the suspects retrieved mail left in U.S. Postal boxes over the prior weekend, when mail is not removed until weekdays.MORE NEWS: Decision Ending Ban On High-Capacity Magazines Back Before 9th Circuit
Petaluma police are working with the U.S. Postal Inspector to notify all other suspected victims outside Sonoma County, who can then contact their respective jurisdictions.


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Singer teases X-Men: Apocalypse
Bryan Singer has shown a snippet of the script for X-Men: Apocalypse by posting a photo of it on Instagram.
The film's director ramped up the excitement among fans by taking a photo of part of the first page of the script, leaving them guessing at what the rest of the page could contain.
It shows titles reading "Act One" and "Sequence One 1-15", with what appears to be an opening monologue underneath that includes references to the Nile, a fire, and the Four Horsemen.
X-Men: Apocalypse stars Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Hugh Jackman and Channing Tatum, and is due to be released on May 19, 2016.
The most recent X-Men instalment, Days Of Future Past, was released in May this year.


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The contract of mutual insincerity
When institutions punish honesty, people lie about their beliefs to escape sanction. When people vote to punish institutions, institutions lie about reality to escape accountability.
[This post is mostly about the misuse of language, substantially about the abuse of Jews, and, eventually, about the fall of Claudine Gay. Please allow me apologise to Norm for the title and get some relatively uncontroversial scene-setting out of the way before I get spicy.]
The uncontroversial bit
Because laws are codified in words, by definition, in states ruled by laws, words have consequences. When those laws keep order, the only legitimate domestic conflicts are battles of ideas. Because we also express ideas in words, words are the weapons we use to fight such battles. So reshaping words can become an arms race.
Orwell knew this. If it’s not enough for bad actors to conceal political intent through obscure language, they can go full Ministry Of Truth. But Orwell’s department of propaganda acted for an imaginary totalitarian state, albeit one modelled after real ones.
The UK’s and the US’s 20th-century histories are dominated by their joint wars, hot and cold, against totalitarian states. As well as their commitment to liberal democracy, Britons and Americans share a common language and overlapping cultures. The Very Online refer to this space they share with one another, and with other similar countries, as “the Anglosphere”. Their citizens are supposed to live in places where, and at a time when, their free universities preserve and protect their heritage from ignorance and barbarism. That state-subsidised freedom of thought is supposed to complement their free markets and free presses (and open networks), which, in turn, are supposed to respond to the demands of diverse consumers of concepts and content.
The Anglo ideal is that free citizens are free within their means to choose what they buy; that they’re free without constraint1 to choose how they vote—and to vote secretly, in a space where the message they send to their politicians cannot be judged either by those around them or those with power over them.
But, in both countries, what happens when people exercise those freedoms doesn’t always please those whose duty it is to serve the people.
The voters have spoken, damn them, and they won’t shut up…
In such ostensibly free societies, even established power is open to democratic contest. The pesky voters often refuse to do what their betters believe is best for them. Lately, in both the UK and the US, the voters have been peskier than usual.
One reason that these pesky outcomes have surprised elites is that members of those elites tend not to have too much to do with the bulk of voters—”How could we have lost?! I don’t know anyone who voted Brexit!”.
Another reason they are surprised is that even opinions within their peer groups are not as uniform as they comfort themselves to believe. That is, the people they do know are not always honest about how different their views are from their own. There are no secret police listening, but there are still social and career penalties for thoughtcrimes. The easiest way to avoid paying is not to speak your mind. Revealed preferences are the surprising flipside of preference falsification, the plot twists to establishment narratives.
…so we’ll have to speak over them…
When electorates vote within the rules to deny establishments what they want, members of those establishments are tempted to change those rules.
In the rest of the EU, political elites have had ways of dealing with inconvenient democratic choices: When French and Dutch voters rejected the EU Constitution, they were bypassed; then, pretty much the same changes to the bloc’s governance were repackaged as the Lisbon Treaty. When Irish voters rejected that, they were made to vote again.
Such shenanigans are harder in nations with a bloody-minded popular commitment to fair play and a history of mocking and rejecting totalitarian politics.
But those attitudes didn’t stop, for example, one rich woman from going to court to force the UK Parliament to vote to endorse the result of a referendum that it had already promised voters it would honour. The howling irony was that the outcome of this forced vote then embedded Brexit even more firmly in the UK’s future (because Brexiters could point to a Commons majority vote in addition to a referendum majority), forced a “harder” Brexit (because the votes of hard-Brexit MPs now had to be courted by a soft-Brexit PM), and wasted money and time telling us things we already knew.
And those attitudes didn’t stop many MPs from frustrating the implementation of that same vote to the extent that they tried to set up a banana parliament (with a howlingly ironic name), just down the road from the real one, or continuing to block the country’s departure from the EU with such contemptuous enthusiasm that it eventually triggered a landslide vote against their cause in a General Election fought almost solely on the issue of Getting Brexit Done.
Now, political enemies of former US President Donald Trump fear that Americans might elect him again, and some of them are trying to block this foolhardiness on the part of The Little People by judicial means. But even some of his most enthusiastic transatlantic opponents fear this will undermine the credibility of opposition to him and lead to a backlash.
…or change what they’re saying
So—unlike in the EU—in the US and the UK, gaming or changing constitutional rules can be conspicuous, difficult, and counterproductive. But, if you can’t find words to persuade voters to vote the way you want, if you can’t change the rules or exploit obscure laws to thwart disagreeable voters’ will, you can still change the words themselves.
Before constitutional changes and policies and laws become electoral issues, they begin as public debates. In free democracies, even if you make a claim in such a debate from a position of power, your power doesn’t include the power to take people who contest that claim to court and lock them up; it doesn’t include the power to delete their dissent from the press or the library or bookshops or the Internet. If you keep losing an argument for a policy in public, you might never even get a chance to lose a vote on it.
What if your claim is false—and you know it’s false? Your only remaining options are to keep lying or redefine the truth. You can tell voters that a political change that leads to the highest legal immigration levels of all time, of which a higher-proportion of immigrants come from majority-non-white countries, is “racist”. You can claim that a implementing the results of a referendum, two parliamentary votes, and a single-issue General Election is “dictatorial”. And, when everything else fails, you can ascend to Peak Chutzpah, and accuse voters of having fallen for the lies of a foreign power and assert that they were really saying anything with their vote to leave the EU other than that they wanted to leave the EU.
Compulsive lying takes a toll…
If you know any compulsive liars, but you aren’t a compulsive liar yourself, you must have asked that timeless question: “How do they do it?”
Staying honest requires no housekeeping, because reality exists independently of us and takes care of its being consistent with itself all on its own. (Of course, material reality throws up anomalies all the time, but finding ways to reconcile those with our own, tidier, mental models of the world is the business of science and art.)
But big lies and frequent lying take mental energy. The definition of a lie requires that the liar is aware of the truth he misrepresents, of the falsity of claim he has made, and of the inconsistency between them.
If you tell more lies to people who still believe you, eventually you have to at least make them consistent with each other. So the best compulsive liars usually hold an entire imaginary version of reality in their heads, one robust enough to avoid obvious self-contradictions. When you hold a fantasy world like this tightly enough that you believe it, psychologists calls it delusion. Such a mismatch between the world and your perception of the world is a foundational pathology of much mental illness.
If you aren’t clinically deluded, you either have to hold your imaginary world at arm’s length—and work twice as hard as everyone else to keep score on the two realms2—or you can try to recruit everyone else to help you build and sustain a parallel reality from its component lies. This socialised or distributed delusion is the foundation of cults, religions, ideologies, and academic Theory-with-a-capital-’T’ (not the lowercase-’t’ theory of physics, subject to the harshest and most exacting tests that radio telescopes and rocket ships and lasers bounced off the Moon can inflict, but the cargo-cult theory needed to provide pseudoscholarly justification for ideologies that voters won’t freely vote for).
…but institutional lying takes a team
So, when compulsive lying scales up to the level of the institution or the state, it’s even more inevitable and important that we find ourselves asking the same question of organisations as we ask of individuals: “How do they do it?”
In a totalitarian society, keeping grand conspiracy theories, like Marxism, alive is easier. If you are a dictator, you control the flow of information to the masses, you imprison your critics, you rewrite history.
In a free society, even your goal is merely to sustain less-grand but still-high-status conspiracy theories, like that Donald Trump planned to buy the NHS, you need to be more devious, more subtle.
If there are free media, you can’t control the flow of information to the masses, so you complain of a “disinformation” crisis and use it to justify making the media less free. Or you subsidize your own conspiracist media outlets.
If there is a preserved canon of falsifiable knowledge, you can’t rewrite history, so you change the meanings of the words in which that knowledge is written.
The golden bonus of this last tactic is that you can pretend that arguments about words aren’t serious politics. Every time your enemies point out your attempts to manipulate reality by manipulating meanings, you can accuse them of ignoring the substance of an issue to obsess about symbols; you can accuse them of indulging in “culture wars”.
“Culture wars” are wars of words
But culture wars are politics by other means. If you are losing the fight by the existing rules and you are involved in the business of rule-making, you may try to bend the rules to get your way, and rules are made of words. The bigger the gulf in belief between rule-makers and the ruled on an issue, the more likely a controversy is to revolve around disagreements about the definitions of those words, the more likely it is for contentious policy to be justified by claims that contradict their longstanding and popular meanings:
“Trans women are women.”
“Israel is an ‘apartheid state’, committing ‘genocide’.”
“That isn’t ‘plagiarism’; it’s ‘duplicative language without appropriate attribution’.”
As with so many such strategies on the political battlefield, this one is popular in academia, the theatre of war where so many speeches to the troops open: “Let us begin by defining our terms…”.
The purest form of this martial art is waged in dictionaries and encyclopaedias. This is how the default Wikipedia entry for “Cultural Marxism looked in 2014:
This is how it looked in 2021:
If you’re a nerd about such things, this example illustrates well the decline from a global academy that accommodated quite a few Marxists, who were often at least superficially rigorous and would be comfortable with the longstanding textbook definition of the phrase, to a global academy that accommodates many more vulgar-Left activists (including post-modernists), who are anything but and who prioritize activism over its opposite: scholarship. Even if you accept that “cultural Marxism” is a conspiracy theory, why a supposedly serious reference work would present that definition of the phrase before the far more longstanding and better-supported one is not a question to which the answer is purely logical.
This was Merriam-Webster’s secondary definition of “racism” in 2020:
2a: a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles
This is what it changed to in 2020:
2a: the systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of another
specifically : WHITE SUPREMACY sense 2
You can read about how Merriam-Webster redefined “racism” here. But while that commentary rightly warns of the danger of the new definition embedding unevidenced claims about “systemic racism”, it skips over another danger: This new definition overlaps with the widely held reframing that holds that racism is only racism when prejudice is accompanied by power.
The attraction of this definition for the political partisan is that all one has to do to protect one’s hatred of another tribe of humans from accusations of racism is to demonstrate that one’s enemies are in some way “powerful” or “privileged”—a gambit grimly recognisable to Tutsis, and Igbos, and Jews, but a gambit so long endorsed by the professoriat that you question it in polite company at your peril.
The Gay Affair
Which brings us to Claudine Gay and to the preference falsification we began with.
“Preference falsification refers to misrepresenting private beliefs and thoughts in public. It is universal and occurs in many contexts.
“This behavior can be due to people's discomfort holding a minority opinion and the social pressure to conform in a group setting.
”Classic experiments by Solomon Asch demonstrate the tendency to yield to the majority, even when the majority is wrong.”
There are few institutions where the sanctioning of wrongthought is more likely to lead to such self-censorship than our universities. Few university leaders pursued wrongthinkers with more zeal than Claudine Gay.
But it wasn’t for contributing to a climate that threatened free inquiry that Gay became prominent globally. This is the air academics breathe now. It was for refusing to say unequivocally that scholars’ calling for the genocide of Jews on campus was against Harvard’s rules:
One of the other elite-university presidents who testified similarly had to resign for doing so at the start of December. But Gay hung on to her position, even when new pressure mounted on her as more and more examples of her copying the content of other researchers’ published work into her own were uncovered.
Even other progressive academics were shocked by the response of many of Gay’s peers to this self-inflicted crisis of credibility. [If you aren’t a subscriber to The Atlantic, I recommend you enjoy this piece as your one free article. I found it all the more devastating because I disagreed with much of it.] This academic in particular was shocked because so much of the response was simply to change the meaning of words that everyone had long agreed the meaning of:
‘The true scandal of the Claudine Gay affair is not a Harvard president and her plagiarism. The true scandal is that so many journalists and academics were willing, are still willing, to redefine plagiarism to suit their politics. Gay’s boosters have consistently resorted to Orwellian doublespeak—“duplicative language” and academic “sloppiness” and “technical attribution issues”—in a desperate effort to insist that lifting entire paragraphs of another scholar’s work, nearly word for word, without quotation or citation, isn’t plagiarism. Or that if it is plagiarism, it’s merely a technicality. Or that we all do it. (Soon after Rufo and Brunet made their initial accusations last month, Gay issued a statement saying, “I stand by the integrity of my scholarship.” She did not address those or subsequent plagiarism allegations in her resignation letter.)
‘[conservative activist Christopher ]Rufo won this round of the academic culture war because he exposed so many progressive scholars and journalists to be hypocrites and political actors who were willing to throw their ideals overboard. I suspect that, not the tenure of a Harvard president, was the prize he sought all along. The tragedy is that we didn’t have to give it to him.’
Canaries in the coalmine again
Gay didn’t mention plagiarism in her resignation letter; she also didn’t mention Jews. A common complaint from Gay’s supporters has been that media attention to her plagiarism is disproportionate. But the reason this lesser issue is being elevated is because of the earlier relegation of the greater moral question of why universities so keen on policing other prejudices are more relaxed about the longest hatred.
At first it seems like another example of a perennial “progressive” reflex that continues to repel me: the elevation of matters of etiquette over matters of morality. In this case, however, it was conservatives who resorted to “bringing down Capone for tax evasion”. They couldn’t get her over the question of racial hatred, so they got on her for copying her homework.
As so often with “culture wars”, our war correspondents only paid serious attention to the conflict long after it had started, when the chronically losing side finally hit back. Open hostility on campus to most other minorities would have triggered swifter and stronger action by university administrators—even unintended-but-perceived hostility would have brought on the same; but, for too many “progressives” there’s something different about Jews.
Antisemitism on university campuses inspired by the recent Hamas/Israel conflict led US lawmakers to call university leaders in for questioning. Their answers were not convincing. Everything that followed followed from that.
It’s sad that the Jews were, once again, written out of their own story—another recent example: no mention of the word here in the National Portrait Gallery’s new page about the Kindertransport3—but at least the reason Gay went was directly relevant to her professional competence. The output of the working scholar is original thought expressed in original words. Despite failing to do her job according to her employer’s own standards, Gay won’t be removed from Harvard’s faculty, be made to admit fault, or suffer a significant reduction in her large salary4. So, while the vast diminution of in her power within the university was well justified, by comparison with the treatment of those deemed to have offended other minorities, Jews on campus haven’t received justice.
The price of freedom
A lesson we can learn from Jews who survived persecution to tell their own stories, from Jews who fled totalitarian states to the UK and US to speak to us through their scholarship and musicianship and friendship, and through so much more—from Jews who survived to recreate their own language—is literally to watch our words, to be vigilant against our own thoughts being turned against us.
When a public debate turns on matters of fact, but one side tries to turn it toward matters of meaning, hear a klaxon. When an authority or a peer tries to shame you for using particular words with particular meanings, fear your own reluctance to offend. When you yourself are tempted to cheat with definitions in the hope of an easier win in argument, resist.
Yes, we may feel limited to party candidates, but there’s nothing to stop voters from registering their objection to this (literally) nominal constraint by spoiling their ballots in ways that must, by law, be recorded.
One of my favourite true-crime facts is that police investigators are more suspicious of suspects whose respective accounts of their actions at the time of a crime match so well with each other that they sound like they have been practised together in advance.
UPDATE, 5th January 2023: Since I linked to that page on the National Portrait Gallery’s website, the words “predominantly Jewish” have been stealth-edited into its text.

domain: sociology