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Perfect Picnic Spots: The summit of Mount Diablo

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:53:34 GMT

Heading up the twisty mountain road that winds up mighty Mount Diablo is enough to make you lunge for a thesaurus. How many ways can one say “hairpin curve” or “twisting road”? The coiling road, the enfolding curves,  the — it’s twisty, people. Best to gaze out at the spectacular views, instead, and ignore the convolutions, because endless horizons await.At 3,849 feet, Mount Diablo may not be the highest mountain in the Bay Area — that honor goes to Santa Clara County’s Mount Hamilton. But from the summit on a clear day, you can see all the way out to the Farallon Islands, north to Mount Lassen, south to Hamilton and Loma Prieta and see 40 of California’s 58 counties. You can catch a glimpse of early aviation history, too.Commercial aviation was still new back in 1928, when a navigation beacon was placed atop the mountain. Charles Lindbergh had made his historic solo Atlantic crossing the year before. San Francisco Airport was celebrat...

St. Patrick’s Day fare: With its potatoes, cabbage and bacon, Colcannon is an Irish classic

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:53:34 GMT

My dad, who has lived in Santa Rosa for more than 40 years, is from Galway, Ireland, and the home in which he was born is older than the United States. (I was a teenager when I first heard this extraordinary fact, and I was awestruck.) So many of the foods and traditions we enjoy here around St. Patrick’s Day resonate with me. Like all cultural holidays, this one offers the opportunity to embrace the link between generations and countries and to share the joys of my heritage with my children and friends.Serving corned beef and cabbage on March 17 may be a foregone conclusion here in the U.S., but it isn’t a traditional Irish meal. (I’m not complaining though. I like everything about corned beef.) Instead, roast chicken or boiling bacon (Irish-style bacon made from the pork shoulder and similar to ham) are common meals for the day, and potatoes and soda bread are non-negotiable.In my dad’s youth, food was still cooked using the fireplace. They made soda bread by placing hot coa...

3 tasty, protein-packed breakfast bars and power bites to eat on the go

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:53:34 GMT

Sunscreen, water bottle and a healthy snack are the necessities to pack for your next Zen-inducing hike. But the snack part can be tricky. Granola is too crumbly and messy. Store-bought protein bars are loaded with sugar. And are you really going to bust out a sandwich on the trail?Homemade bars and power bites, a culinary social media trend that blew up last year, are the answers. Loaded with oats, nut butters, seeds or dried fruit, they involve minimal or no baking, and they’re highly adaptable and easy to transport, not just on hikes but for school lunches and breakfast on the go.Zero-Waste Chef blogger Anne-Marie Bonneau makes a Chocolate Cranberry Granola Bar with flaxseed meal and water — instead of egg — to bind the oats, bittersweet chocolate and pumpkin seeds together. Simmer + Sauce’s Andrea Potischman devotes a whole section of her blog to bars and bites, like Cowboy “Cookie” Power Bites and Apricot-Almond Breakfast Bars, which get their moist chew...

Man who allegedly posed as 16-year-old arrested for inappropriate sexual contact with minor

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:53:34 GMT

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- A 20-year-old man who police say posed as a 16-year-old on social media to arrange and meet a minor for an inappropriate sexual relationship has been arrested. Officers with the San Jose Police Department responded on Feb. 26 to a San Jose residence on a report of an inappropriate sexual relationship between a juvenile and an adult male, according to a news release from the department. Antioch girl, 14, reported missing On arriving, detectives learned that the suspect had contacted the victim on social media and posed as a 16-year-old boy. The suspect arranged to meet with and had inappropriate sexual contact with the victim, police said. The suspect, it was learned, had applied to work at several law enforcement agencies and was working as a security guard at the time. An arrest warrant was obtained for the suspect.KRON On is streaming live news now.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100...

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Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:53:34 GMT

HARDCOVER FICTION1. “Storm Watch” by C.J. Box (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) 2. “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus (Doubleday) 3. “A Day of Fallen Night” by Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury) 4. “Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” by Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf) 5. “Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver (Harper) 6. “The Last Kingdom” by Steve Berry (Grand Central Publishing) 7. “The Boys from Biloxi” by John Grisham (Doubleday) 8. “I Have Some Questions for You” by Rebecca Makkai (Viking) 9. “Fairy Tale” by Stephen King (Scribner) 10. “The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi” by Shannon Chakraborty (Harper Voyager) 11. “Mad Honey” by Picoult/Boylan (Ballantine) 12. “Encore in Death” by J.D. Robb (St. Martin’s Press)13. “Remarkably Bright Creatures” by Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco) 14. “The House in the Pines” by Ana Reyes (Dutton) 15. “Murder Your Employer” by Rupert Holmes (Avid Reader)HARDCOVER NONFICTION1. “The Courage to be Free” by Ron DeSantis (Broadside) 2. “Spare” by Prince Harry (Random House) ...

US defense chief’s visit to Israel reveals divisions on Iran

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:53:34 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Long-running differences between the Biden administration and Israel over how to stop Iran’s rapidly accelerating nuclear program spilled into public view Thursday, as the U.S. defense secretary discussed Tehran’s nuclear ambitions with his Israeli counterpart during a visit to the country.Even with efforts to revive the landmark 2015 nuclear deal stalled for months, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin insisted in comments in Tel Aviv that “diplomacy is the best way to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant made no mention of the moribund nuclear talks, instead telling Austin: “We must take all measures necessary to prevent Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon.” He appeared to suggest that Israel could resort to military action to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities. “The Iranian nuclear threat requires us to be prepared for every course of action,” Gallant said and repeated twice for emphasis. The distinction between ...

Vuelo MH370: ¿qué pasó con el avión de Malaysia Airlines desaparecido y su búsqueda?

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:53:34 GMT

(CNN Español) — Sucedió hace ya nueve años, pero sigue siendo uno de los misterios más grandes de la historia de la aviación: qué pasó con el vuelo 370 de Malaysia Airlines que desapareció el 8 de marzo de 2014 cuando iba en ruta de Kuala Lumpur a Beijing con 239 personas a bordo.El pasajero más chico tenía apenas dos años. El mayor, 76. Eran un grupo variado: había veraneantes, viajeros habituales y hasta peregrinos budistas. ¿Qué fue lo que les pasó?La desaparición del vuelo de Malaysia AirlinesEl avión partió de la capital de Malasia el 8 de marzo de 2014 a las 12:41 a.m., según la reconstrucción de los hechos realizada por las autoridades tras la misteriosa desaparición, que reportó previamente CNN. Aproximadamente media hora después, uno de los sistemas de comunicación del avión envío lo que luego se convertiría en su última transmisión. Nadie detectó nada extraño.A partir de la 1:21 a.m. se empezó a desencadenar una serie de sucesos inesperados y que aún no se han podido...

Las dietas Mediterránea y MIND reducen los signos de la enfermedad de Alzheimer en el tejido cerebral, según un estudio

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:53:34 GMT

(CNN) — Las personas que consumieron alimentos de las dietas Mediterránea basada en plantas y MIND enfocada en el cerebro tuvieron menos signos distintivos de la enfermedad de Alzheimer (placas pegajosas de beta-amiloide y ovillos de tau en el cerebro) cuando se les hizo la autopsia, encontró un nuevo estudio.La dieta MIND es la abreviatura de Mediterranean-DASH Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay.De hecho, las personas que siguieron más de cerca cualquiera de las dietas tenían “casi un 40% menos de probabilidades” de tener placas y ovillos en el tejido cerebral para ser diagnosticados con alzhéimer, según el estudio.“Las personas que obtuvieron la puntuación más alta por adherirse a la dieta mediterránea tenían una cantidad promedio de placa y ovillos en el cerebro equivalentes a 18 años menos que las personas que obtuvieron la puntuación más baja”, según un comunicado sobre el estudio.“Los investigadores también encontraron que las personas que ob...

Spanish league reports match-fixing attempt to authorities

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:53:34 GMT

MADRID (AP) — The Spanish league on Thursday reported to authorities an alleged match-fixing attempt after a former Girona player said he was offered money to lose.The league came forward after Aday Benítez said in a streaming sports show that he was offered 50,000 euros ($53,000) if Girona lost a match at the end of the 2016-17 season.Benítez said he did not accept the offer, saying it would have been “absurd” to do as Girona was gaining promotion to the first division. He did not give any other detail about who made the offer.The league noted that “match-fixing and proposing match-fixing is a crime” in Spain.Last month, Spanish police detained six people for their alleged involvement in a scheme to possibly fix a Copa del Rey game in 2021. The game under investigation was Levante’s 8-0 victory at lower-tier Huracan Melilla.Authorities took notice of the game after numerous bets were made in Melilla both online and at betting parlors.___More AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer...

¿Cuándo se celebra el Día del Padre en España en 2023 y por qué?

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:53:34 GMT

(CNN Español) — El Día del Padre se ha convertido en una festividad generalizada en España desde hace años a pesar de que no es un festivo oficial en el calendario.Cada año, incluido 2023, la celebración se lleva a cabo el 19 de marzo, lo cual coincide directamente con San José, una fiesta de corte católico celebrada en varias comunidades autónomas del país.Pero esto es más que una mera coincidencia: el Día del Padre en España debe su origen a esta fiesta católica. En el país más de la mitad de la población, el 58,2%, profesa esa religión.Origen del Día del Padre en EspañaDe acuerdo con la institución de idiomas Don Quijote, el origen de esta celebración en España se remonta a principios del siglo XX en Estados Unidos, donde una mujer de nombre Sonora Smart Dodd pidió el nacimiento de esta fecha en Washington.“En 1909, mientras escuchaba el sermón dedicado al Día de la Madre en la iglesia de Spokane (Washington), Dodd se dio cuenta de que no había un día especial para ho...