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Concord Monitor · Oakland, CA

Avram Niebling

Avram McBride Niebling died from injuries sustained in a tragic accident on November 4, 2026. Born to Charles and Mabel (Harlakenden Churchill) Niebling in Oakland, CA on September 6, 1986, Avram moved with his parents to Boscawen, NH in 1987. He attended Merrimack Valley schools, Bishop Brady High School, and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated with dual degrees in economics and finance from the Whittemore School of Business at UNH in 2009.Avram grew up in a chaotic household with three close siblings and many childhood activities. He was a confident and gregarious child. From an early age, he was a talented athlete and enjoyed and excelled at all sports, especially ice hockey. He played high school and junior hockey, on the UNH Club team, and in various pond hockey tournaments. As a child and adult, he loved time spent at “The River”, his family’s multigenerational summer home in the Thousand Islands of Upstate New York.Avram was a brilliant and successful entrepreneur.

Daily Detective News · Oakland, CA

What predictive policing software does, and what audits found

Predictive policing software is a family of tools that sift past crime records to spot where crime tends to cluster, or who may be involved. Commanders use the output to place patrols ahead of events. The systems forecast patterns; they decide nothing about a person’s conduct. Scale is what separates these tools from the paper crime maps departments kept for decades. Modern systems score city blocks, and sometimes people, from years of reports. Named independent reviews now ask two questions: do the forecasts work, and do they steer enforcement onto some neighborhoods more than others? How does predictive policing software work? The inputs are ordinary records: dates, places, and offense types from past incidents. The software hunts for clusters and repeats, then prints forecasts, usually as grids or lists ranked by risk. A department turns that output into a patrol plan, which typically sends officers to the estimated time and place of a crime.

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The Student Life · Berkeley, CA

Nearby: Berkeley, CA

The other blue wave: diving into the 5Cs’ blue-haired population

This semester, I noticed that blue-haired students kept spawning. Intrigued, I approached nine of these students to find out how this trend came out of the blue. Though there were shared sentiments among students — being blue helped them stand out, pushed back against stereotypes or brought them closer to themselves and others — everyone had a different story to share. My first exposure to a blue-haired person at the Claremont Colleges was my first-year fall, when Phoebe Fogel SC ’28 and I took “Introductory Ancient Greek.” Fogel, a Classics and English major from Massachusetts, dyed her hair blue the summer before her senior year of high school. Her explanation: “I just think it looked cool.” I soon found out that many of my blue-haired subjects are new to the 5Cs, including Miriam Allen SC ’30 and Walker Lewis PO ’30. Allen and Lewis, who both hail from Berkeley, California, felt that changing their hair solidified their sense of selves in moments of instability.

Berkeleyside · Berkeley, CA

Nearby: Berkeley, CA

A Turkish cafe comes to South Berkeley, a new Japanese BBQ option in Oakland, and more East Bay restaurant openings

Editor’s note: Nosh covers food and restaurant news across the East Bay, and each week we publish one article covering all the restaurant openings and one article covering closings. Have a tip for Nosh? Submit it here. Subscribing to the Nosh newsletter is the best way to stay up to date on all of the openings and closings, breaking news, deeper developments, and events in the East Bay food scene. Cafe Adeline Taking over a former antiques shop, this new Turkish cafe serving egg breakfasts, Turkish tea, omelettes, sandwiches and more soft opened Nov. 7 in South Berkeley. In a nod to the space’s history, the cafe is using antique cups and plates. Cafe Adeline 1999 Ashby Ave. (at Adeline Street), Berkeley Highwire The Bay Area coffee company opened its latest location Nov. 2 in central Alameda at the Star Harbor apartments. Like the local chain’s other coffeeshops, the new location serves a full range of Highwire coffees in addition to teas and baked goods.