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Bay Area treats: A picnic in paradise on Angel Island

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:42 GMT

Picnics are one of life’s many simple pleasures, but don’t confuse simple with boring. A picnic can be its own great adventure, especially when you have the opportunity to have one at a naturally, culturally and historically rich destination like Angel Island.Just inside the Golden Gate, amid sparkling waters and facing the California coastline, sits the San Francisco Bay’s largest natural island. It’s an everyman’s island getaway, an ideal spot for a Bay Area mini-vacation that won’t set you back an entire paycheck or even more than a day. Angel-goers can stroll the island’s ring road, take a hike through the wilderness or just sit and relax on one of the island’s many beaches or picnic areas, all the while enjoying breathtaking 360-degree views of the Bay.While the island has hosted visitors for relaxing day trips and sightseeing excursions since it gained official California State Park status in 1963, there were many who came long b...

Silicon Valley Bank seized as depositors pull cash

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:42 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seized the assets of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, marking the largest bank failure since Washington Mutual during the height of the 2008 financial crisis.The FDIC ordered the closure of Silicon Valley Bank and immediately took position of all deposits at the bank. The bank had $209 billion in assets and $175.4 billion in deposits as the time of failure, the FDIC said in a statement. It was unclear how much of deposits was above the $250,000 insurance limit at the moment. 2 Bay Area suburbs named best for young millennials Silicon Valley was heavily exposed to tech industry and there is little chance of contagion in the banking sector as a whole, with major banks holding sufficient capital to avoid a similar situation.The financial health of Silicon Valley Bank was increasingly in question this week after the bank announced plans to raise up to $1.75 billion in order to strengthen its capital position amid concerns about h...

Correction: Bike Path-Attack story

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:42 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story published Jan. 26, 2023, about the conviction of an Islamic extremist who killed eight people by driving down a New York City bike path, The Associated Press erroneously reported who imposed a moratorium on executions. It was U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, not President Joe Biden.Source

Standard time giving way to daylight saving in most of US

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:42 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Standard time comes to an end in most parts of the United States this weekend. You’ll lose an hour of sleep for one night but gain more daylight in the evening in the months ahead.The transition to daylight saving time is official at 2 a.m. local time Sunday across much of the country. Then on March 20, winter sunsets and spring is sprung.Until daylight saving time ends in the wee hours of Nov. 5, the sun will rise later in the morning than than it has during standard time but it will stay light for longer until the evening.It’s a good idea to set clocks an hour ahead before bed Saturday night.No time change is observed in Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas.A poll conducted in October 2021 found that most people in the United States want to avoid switching between daylight saving and standard time, though there is no consensus behind which should be used all year. The poll from T...

Nuevas reglas de la FDA para la realización de mamografías ayudarían a detectar el cáncer de seno

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:42 GMT

Todas las mujeres estadounidenses que se hacen mamografías pronto recibirán información sobre la densidad de sus senos, lo que a veces puede dificultar la detección del cáncer.Los nuevos requisitos, finalizados el jueves por la Administración de Medicinas y Alimentos (FDA, por sus siglas en inglés), tienen como objetivo estandarizar la información proporcionada a millones de mujeres, después de las exploraciones para detectar el cáncer de mama, e incluir recomendaciones para que hablen con su médico acerca de someterse a pruebas de detección adicionales.“La acción de hoy representa el compromiso más amplio de la agencia de apoyar la innovación para prevenir, detectar y tratar el cáncer”, dijo la Dra. Hilary Marston, directora médica de la FDA, en un comunicado publicado por NBC News. Le diagnostican cáncer de mama a una niña chilena de siete años “Este doble golpe es serio”: la extenista Martina Navratilova revela que sufre de cáncer ...

Esto es lo que años de dar paseos a turistas le hacen a un elefante

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:42 GMT

(CNN) — Puede que los elefantes sean conocidos por su tamaño y su fuerza, pero los turistas que se suben a sus lomos pueden hacerles mucho daño, como muestra esta foto compartida por un grupo de rescate de animales salvajes en Tailandia.El elefante Pai Lin tiene la espalda deformada. Crédito: Amy Jones/Moving Animals/WFFTLa imagen facilitada por la organización Wildlife Friends Foundation de Tailandia (WFFT) muestra a Pai Lin, una hembra de 71 años cuya columna vertebral se desfiguró tras 25 años de trabajo en la industria turística, donde se veía obligada a transportar hasta seis turistas a la vez.“La espalda de Pai Lin aún presenta cicatrices de antiguos puntos de presión”, afirma el grupo. “Esta presión continua sobre el cuerpo (de los elefantes) puede deteriorar el tejido y los huesos de su espalda, causando daños físicos irreversibles en su columna vertebral”.Los paseos en elefante son una actividad turística popular en países del sudeste asiático,...

Semi rollover closes 285 near Indian Hills

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:42 GMT

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) -- The Inter-Canyon Fire Protection District says a rollover crash has closed Highway 285 in both directions.The crash was reported before 11:30 a.m. Friday near Indian Hills and involved a semi.ICFPD did not say if anyone was injured in the crash. See travel times and delays here The Colorado Department of Transportation said the closure starts at Parmalee Gulch Road.Closure from CDOT at 11:45 a.m.There is no estimated time when the highway could reopen.This is a developing story. Please check back for the updates.

Who murdered 3 people in 1999 and where are their bodies?

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:42 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — “Their voices may now be silent . . . those who may know the truth are not,” the Colorado Bureau of Investigation shares as a part of its mission as it works to assist in bringing justice to cold case tragedies.There are hundreds of unsolved homicide cases, long-term missing person cases, and unidentified remains cases in our state where at least three years have passed since the crime happened. Cold case: Who murdered this man on Lookout Mountain? The Colorado cold case task force created a list of those cases dating back to 1970. The Problem Solvers are working to highlight cold cases in our state each week.1999 triple murderThe Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Westminster Police Department, and Thornton Police Department are working to solve a triple murder that happened 24 years ago.Detectives started looking into the suspicious disappearance of Sarah Skiba, 9, her father Paul Skiba, and Lorenzo Chivers in February of 1999. Chivers was an employ...

Chris Perkins: Here’s how jiu-jitsu could help Dolphins’ Tua Tagovailoa reduce concussions

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:42 GMT

If Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa strengthens his neck muscles, keeps his chin close to his chest when he falls, and learns to land on his shoulder and roll instead of landing on his back, it’ll go a long way toward avoiding concussions.That’s not me talking, that’s what Ailton Barbosa thinks. Barbosa is a third-degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and instructor at American Top Team/Coconut Creek, one of the nation’s best MMA teams.The Dolphins are having Tagovailoa study jiu-jitsu in the offseason. They hope it’ll teach him how to fall without that whiplash effect of his head hitting the ground.“I think it’s going to be helpful for him,” Barbosa said.Jiu-Jitsu turned out to be the winning idea for the Dolphins.Coach Mike McDaniel said the team had lots of ideas for teaching Tagovailoa how to fall and avoid concussions.“We were willing to go to any length,” McDaniel said at last week’s NFL scouting combine. ...

Are you a points and miles hoarder? Here’s how to get over it

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:52:42 GMT

Most personal finance advice boils down to this: Save as much as you can, and spend as little as you can.That’s the simplest way to accumulate wealth, build investment income and achieve financial independence (even if it’s not so simple in practice).Yet when it comes to travel rewards — those points and miles earned through airline, hotel and credit card programs — this conventional wisdom is turned on its head. Saving a million miles might sound impressive, but it’s generally a poor financial decision.“I hear all the time from business travelers who ‘saved their miles for retirement,’ and are devastated to learn that the purchasing power of their miles isn’t what it would have been five, ten, fifteen years ago,” Tiffany Funk, co-founder and president of travel rewards booking search tool Point.me, said in an email.“Programs have successfully made loyalty currencies feel so valuable that people are often reluctant to use them because they are afraid they are giving up too much valu...