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Opinion: Reject Neguse’s Protect America’s Rock Climbing Act and protect Wilderness instead

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:01:52 GMT

We humans want the most out of life, so why shouldn’t we push to get more of what we want?That’s what some rock climbers must be thinking. They want to enter designated Wilderness in order to drill permanent anchors into wilderness rock faces, turning these wild places into sport-climbing walls.When the Wilderness Act became law in 1964, it put wildlife and wild lands first, decreeing that these special places should be left alone as much as possible. This unusual approach codified humility, arguing that some wild places, rich in wildlife and natural beauty, needed as much protection as possible.So far, the Act protects less than 3% of what Congress called “untrammeled” public land in the Lower 48. These are unique places free of roads and vehicles and most manmade intrusions that afflict the rest of America.The Wilderness Act also prohibits “installations,” but to get around this, a group called the Access Fund has persuaded friends in Congress to introduce a bill that would, in ef...

More than half of US employers ready to try four-day workweek

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:01:52 GMT

More than half of American employers offer a four-day workweek, or plan to, according to a survey released Tuesday. A poll of 976 business leaders by ResumeBuilder.com, the job-seekers website, found that 20 percent of employers already have a four-day workweek. Another 41 percent said they plan to implement a four-day week, at least on a trial basis. American employers have experimented with a four-day workweek over the decades, typically in times of recession. But the idea has gained traction in recent years.  If a four-day week ever becomes standard, it would mark the biggest change to the national work schedule since the five-day workweek, adopted by automaker Henry Ford in 1926.  We can’t say, however, that the four-day workweek would rank as the most profound change to the American workplace, not even in the last three years. That distinction probably goes to remote work, a movement that exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic and shows no signs of ...

Fast Lean Pro Reviews SCAM? My Experience and Complaints!

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:01:52 GMT

Fast Lean Pro is a Japanese weight loss secret that naturally manages healthy weight loss. This supernatural mixture helps to activate the fat-burning process for an effective result, as provided with fasting practice.Harvard University study reveals that fasting helps with fast and efficient weight loss. But intermittent fasting is indulged by people though 68-70% of people are obese in the United States. In order to attain the benefits of intermittent fasting without indulging it in practice, the experts have researched and analyzed the fasting switch inside the body, which, when activated, provides the desired results. i.e., you can attain the benefits of fasting without fasting. Seems Skeptical, right?Fast Lean Pro Reviews!Fast Lean Pro is a natural solution made as a dietary formula that is claimed to support this principle of fasting. It is natural, safe, and effective and has already supported thousands of men and women with incredible weight loss results.Take a quick glance ...

Silicon Valley tech executive considers jumping into US Senate race to replace Dianne Feinstein

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:01:52 GMT

Lexi Reese, a former tech executive and documentary filmmaker, has filed paperwork to run for the open U.S. Senate seat in California.A San Mateo County resident, Reese is a former Google and American Express executive and the former chief operating officer for Gusto, an HR company for small businesses. She announced her exploratory committee for the seat on Thursday, saying an official announcement about a decision is forthcoming.“Today’s economy isn’t working,” Reese said. “Californians are exhausted and stretched thin. They’re working harder and more than ever, but everything costs too much. We have more people working than any time in our lives, yet folks are struggling with more widespread financial fragility and income inequality that puts the American Dream out of reach, especially for women and people of color.”If she enters the race, Reese will join three well-known Democrats vying to replace retiring Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Reps. Barbara Lee of Oakland, Katie Porter of Irvi...

Review: ‘Flash’ starts with much promise before fading to cliche

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:01:52 GMT

By Jocelyn Noveck | Associated Press“It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” went a famous ’70s commercial catchphrase. But we learn in “The Flash” — the much awaited, long gestated new DC Studios offering — that it’s Father Time one musn’t cross. Because trying to change the past can really mess you up when you get back to the future and realize you’ve inadvertently changed that, too.But of course, we already knew that. We learned it from Marty McFly, immortalized by Eric Stoltz in “Back to the Future.”Relax! Of course it was Michael J. Fox, though Stoltz was initially cast in the role. But in “The Flash,” Barry Allen (Ezra Miller) realizes just how badly he’s messed up the space-time continuum when he arrives back from changing the past — just one teensy little thing, really — and learns that in his current world, Fox never replaced Stoltz. “I’ve destroyed the universe,” he frets in...

Suspect arrested after body of woman found on California freeway

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:01:52 GMT

A Downey man was arrested Wednesday night, June 14, on suspicion of killing a woman whose body was found on the eastbound 60 Freeway in Diamond Bar earlier that day.Authorities found Sercan Naldoken, 32, at John Wayne Airport and took him into custody, a California Highway Patrol statement said.The coroner’s office identified the victim as Lisa Renee Conduff, 56. She lived in Downey.The CHP did not say how it identified Naldoken as the suspect and whether he knew the victim. The agency didn’t disclose how the woman died, either, or if it believes the suspect was catching a flight to flee.A CHP officer saw an Acura sedan on the right shoulder of the eastbound 60 Freeway, east of Diamond Bar Boulevard, around 10:45 a.m. and stopped behind it to offer help, said Officer Joseph Davila, a CHP spokesman. There was no one in the car. The officer looked around and found the body.It wasn’t clear who had driven the car.Naldoken was being held Thursday at the Inmate Reception Center in Los Ang...

California woman charged after pit bull attack sent 2 people to hospital

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:01:52 GMT

Police arrested a 32-year-old woman on suspicion of felony child abuse after her pitbull bit two people, including a minor, earlier this month in Fountain Valley, police said Thursday.Around 10:14 p.m. on June 1, officers responding to Brookhurst Street and Talbert Avenue found a man and minor with dog bite injuries. The minor, described only as older than 10, suffered severe injuries, Police Sgt. Henry Hsu said.The victims were transported to a local trauma center. Their current conditions were not available on Thursday. A pitbull described as vicious by police later was euthanized by Orange County Animal Control, Sgt. Hsu said.Jessica Gallegosparrilla was arrested on a charge of felony child abuse on June 6. Two days later, she was charged with two additional felony counts of mayhem and assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm and pleaded not guilty, court records show.Details on the circumstances of the attack and the relationship between Gallegosparrilla and the two vic...

Photos: Mariah Carey shot ‘I Don’t’ music video at this California mansion listed at $28.8 million

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:01:52 GMT

A glimpse of the living room from the foyer. (Photo by The Luxury Level)The kitchen. (Photo by The Luxury Level)Another view of the kitchen. (Photo by The Luxury Level)The dining room. (Photo by The Luxury Level)The shower in the primary bathroom. (Photo by The Luxury Level)The tub in the primary bath. (Photo by The Luxury Level)The sauna. (Photo by The Luxury Level)The back patio. (Photo by The Luxury Level)A view of the house and the infinity pool lit up at twilight. (Photo by The Luxury Level)The gazebo and waterfall light up at twilight. (Photo by The Luxury Level)Show Caption of ExpandA palatial Calabasas estate where Mariah Carey set a wedding dress ablaze in the break-up music video for her 2017 hit “I Don’t” is on the market for $28.75 million.Designed in a classic French chateau style, the ornate 16,850-square-foot residence clad in solid limestone has seven bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and a grand foyer with twin floating staircases topped by a 30-foot-high dome.Dallas-based arc...

As migrants get humanitarian aid in Los Angeles, Texas Gov. Abbott vows to continue busing ‘effort’

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:01:52 GMT

Dozens of Latin American migrants placed on a California-bound bus from Texas at the behest of that state’s governor and dropped off in Downtown Los Angeles appeared Thursday to have found new accommodations after relief and humanitarian groups descended on the church that briefly housed them.Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday he was planning to continue such actions, even as local officials continued to criticize them as political stunts while vowing to welcome those seeking sanctuary.The 42 migrants — among them an estimated 16 children, including some infants — were taken from the Union Station depot on Wednesday to St. Anthony Croatian Catholic Church in nearby Chinatown, where they got immediate attention from aid groups and public safety teams who knew they were coming. Officials said the migrants came from countries including Guatemala, Honduras and Venezuela.Most spent the night at the church, although officials said some were picked up by relatives, and others ...

Californian man stands trial for killing his lover’s husband

Published Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:01:52 GMT

Trial began Thursday for a man accused of killing his lover’s husband, who was found beaten and stabbed at a Westminster apartment in 2014 in what prosecutors allege was a murder for financial gain.Roberto Saavedra-Gallardo is charged with conspiring with Olga Vasquez-Collazos in order to carry out the special-circumstances murder of 58-year-old Adrian Zapata.Prosecutors allege that Saavedra-Gallardo and Vasquez-Collazos wanted Zapata out of the way so that they could carry on their own relationship, and to obtain a penthouse condominium Zapata owned in his native Peru, along with his retirement and insurance money.Deputy District Attorney Janine Madera told an Orange County Superior Court jury that Saavedra-Gallardo was the one who actually killed Zapata, who was found dead in his bed. The prosecutor alleged that Saavedra-Gallardo hit Zapata at least twice in the back of his head, fracturing his skull, before stabbing him at least seven times in the neck and shoulder.Saavedra-Galla...