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Apple co-founder to sell huge Carmel Valley ranch for $35 million to become public nature preserve

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:04:02 GMT

A legendary Silicon Valley tech leader who bought a vast ranch in Carmel Valley 40 years ago is selling the property to a conservation group to become a new public preserve and cultural site.In 1977, Mike Markkula gave two unknown, shaggy-haired computer programmers, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, $250,000 to help turn their young partnership into a new company. He become the third employee at Apple, served as its CEO and chairman of the board, and at one time owned 26% of the company.Markkula, an engineer who had worked at Intel before meeting the duo, used part of his fortune to buy one of the largest properties in Monterey County, the historic Rana Creek Ranch, a 14,100-acre landscape that stretches 8 miles through Carmel Valley, between Salinas Valley and Big Sur.After listing the property for sale off and on since 2013, Markkula, of Woodside, has signed an agreement to sell it to the Wildlands Conservancy, an environmental group based in San Bernardino County, for $35 million. E...

El papa Francisco agradece a los peregrinos las oraciones que le “sostuvieron” durante su estancia en el hospital

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:04:02 GMT

(CNN) — El papa Francisco agradeció a los peregrinos sus oraciones, que, según él, le “sostuvieron” durante su reciente estancia en el hospital.El papa se dirigió a los peregrinos desde la ventana de los aposentos apostólicos del Vaticano durante el rezo del Ángelus, que fue aplazado la semana pasada por recomendación de los médicos. A diferencia de otros papas en el pasado, el papa Francisco no vive allí.“Quisiera expresar mi gratitud a todos los que me han sostenido en la oración y en la cercanía espiritual”, dijo el papa este domingo.Subrayó que el apoyo de los peregrinos le había proporcionado “gran ayuda y consuelo” mientras se recuperaba de una operación abdominal en un hospital de Roma.Finaliza sin complicaciones la operación abdominal del papa Francisco, dice el VaticanoEl pontífice, de 86 años, también aprovechó la ocasión para compartir sus condolencias con todos los afectados por el incidente del barco de migrantes frente a las co...

DC subscribers to Victoria’s Secret-owned online lingerie retailer will get subscription fee refunds, AG says

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:04:02 GMT

Adore Me, the lingerie startup acquired by Victoria’s Secret & Co., will refund District subscribers for improperly charged subscription fees, Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced Friday.An estimated 2,500 consumers in D.C., as of 2021, who have VIP Memberships and store credits from recurring charges will be eligible for a refund. Patrons who filed a complaint with the attorney general’s office who don’t have active membership will also be provided full refunds.“Under DC law, consumers are entitled to timely, accurate, and complete information about every purchase they make. No one should be surprised by a recurring charge or forced to jump through endless hoops to cancel a subscription, yet this is precisely how Adore Me’s business model operated,” Schwalb said in a news release.Attorneys general from 32 jurisdictions joined the settlement, which alleged Adore Me broke several consumer protection laws by not disclosing terms in its VIP Members...

The woman who founded Father’s Day was a renegade, great-granddaughter says

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:04:02 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — You could call her the mother of Father’s Day. The late Sonora Smart Dodd launched the celebration of dads in 1910 in her hometown of Spokane, Washington. As a result, she is the one responsible for those annual gifts that run the gamut from embarrassingly silly-looking neckties to kids’ finger paintings crafted with so much love by those tiny hands that they can bring a tear to the eye of even the most stoic father.It’s a tradition Dodd decided to start as she sat in a Spokane church on Mother’s Day 1909, listening to a sermon about — what else? — Mother’s Day.“And it bugged her,” Dodd’s great-granddaughter, Betsy Roddy, told The Associated Press in 2017. “She thought, ’Well, why isn’t there a Father’s Day?”Dodd and her five younger brothers, after all, had been raised by their father after their mother died in childbirth in 1898.William Jackson Smart became a farmer after fighting in the Civil War. He not only held down both parental roles but did it with “leade...

Trasladan a 10 personas a hospitales tras disparos en una celebración del Juneteenth; dos están en estado crítico

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:04:02 GMT

(CNN) — Varias personas fueron tiroteadas durante la noche de este domingo en Willowbrook, Illinois, según el jefe del batallón del distrito de protección contra incendios, Joe Ostrander.Los testigos dicen que una celebración de Juneteenth [Día de la Emancipación] se desarrollaba en el estacionamiento en el momento del tiroteo.Los informes de un tiroteo en Lilac y la Ruta 83 llegaron alrededor de las 12:30 a.m. hora local.Los informes iniciales hablaban de cinco víctimas. Al final, 10 pacientes fueron trasladados a cuatro hospitales locales con heridas que iban desde rozaduras a heridas de bala, dijo Ostrander.Aumentan las ventas de armas en EE.UU. en medio de una serie de tiroteos masivosDos de ellos se encuentran en estado crítico.Al menos 12 ambulancias acudieron al lugar de los hechos, añadió.Willowbrook es de aproximadamente 33 kilómetros al oeste de Chicago.CNN se puso en contacto con la oficina del sheriff para obtener más información sobre el tiroteo.The-CNN-Wire&trade...

The Bacon Brothers plant native greenery near Annapolis between shows

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:04:02 GMT

Matthew Johnston, Kevin Bacon, Michael Bacon, Brigid Zuknick and Stacy Huston at the at the Broad Creek Park stream project.(Courtesy Arundel Rivers Federati) Matthew Johnston, Kevin Bacon, Michael Bacon, Brigid Zuknick and Stacy Huston at the at the Broad Creek Park stream project.(Courtesy Arundel Rivers Federati) Michael and Kevin Bacon returned to Annapolis, Maryland, this week to play a few concerts at Rams Head on Stage. But between shows, the brothers put on their work boots and volunteered to plant native plants at a stream restoration project.The Bacon Brothers joined forces with the Arundel Rivers Federation and local scouts on Saturday to plant hundreds of native plants that will help filter sediment an...

Soccer project tracking social media abuse identifies 300 people from World Cup posts

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:04:02 GMT

GENEVA (AP) — A project using artificial intelligence to track social media abuse aimed at players at the 2022 World Cup identified more than 300 people whose details are being given to law enforcement, FIFA said Sunday.The people made “abusive, discriminatory, or threatening posts (or) comments” on platforms like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, soccer’s governing body said in a report detailing efforts to protect players and officials during the tournament played in Qatar.The biggest spike in abuse was during the France-England quarterfinals game, said the final report from a project created jointly by FIFA and the players’ global union FIFPRO. It used artificial intelligence to help identify and hide offensive social media posts.“Violence and threat became more extreme as the tournament progressed with players’ families increasingly referenced and many threatened if players returned to a particular country – either the nation they represent or where they play foo...

Oatmeal Banana Pancakes / Belkys

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:04:02 GMT

Ingredients:2 large very ripe bananas (will yield 1 to 1/4 cups mashed)3/4 cups quick cooking oats1/4 tsp. kosher salt1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon1 large egg1 tbs. baking powder3/4 cup whole wheat flourmilk, dairy or non-dairy as needed (3-5 tbs.)Butter or oil to fry pancakesMethod of Preparation:In the bottom of a large bowl, mash bananas. Stir in oats and salt. (If you’d like, you can microwave the mixture for 30 seconds just to warm it through but not necessary.)Use a fork to stir in cinnamon, egg and baking powder until thoroughly combined. Stir in flour then add milk as needed- 3-4 tbs. Create a thick but not cookie dough-like batter.Heat griddle or frying pan over medium heat. Add butter or drizzle oil and add pancakes in 1/4 cup mounds. You can flatten them a bit if they seem too thick. Cook until lightly browned underneath and bubbles appear on the pancake surface. Flip and cook on the second side. Lower heat is better on these pancakes. Repeat with the remaining batter.Se...

US lawmakers target Pentagon plan to ramp up missile production for Ukraine

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:04:02 GMT

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee are making significant cuts to an ambitious Pentagon goal to ramp up production of missiles as it seeks to arm Ukraine while preparing for a potential conflict with China.Appropriators exacted more than $2.5 billion in reductions to sections of their Pentagon spending bill that deal with missile procurement across the military services, according to a draft committee report obtained by POLITICO that includes funding tables to accompany the legislation.The shift in funding to other accounts by the influential spending committee is a blow to a major pillar of President Joe Biden’s defense plans laid out in his most recent budget proposal. Billions of dollars worth of weapons poured into Ukraine, forcing military planners to reconsider how it buys munitions to be prepared for another conflict. The result was a first-ever request by the Pentagon for Congress to fund multiyear purchases of munitions in a bid to kick production i...

Police investigating shooting at Malden apartment complex that sent woman to hospital

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 14:04:02 GMT

Police are searching for evidence at an apartment complex in Malden Sunday morning in what officials confirm is a shooting investigation, and the Middlesex County DA confirmed that one woman was transported to the hospital as a result.Malden police and Massachusetts State Police are at Quarrystone at Overlook Ridge putting up crime scene tape and searching for evidence in the lobby. No other information was immediately available.This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.