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Quick Cook: Make this Alphabet Soup for All Ages

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:30 GMT

This is the most requested soup across all three generations in my family, because it has something for everyone — nostalgia for the grandparents, kale and hearty vegetables for the parents and, for the kids, letter-shaped pasta.It’s a forgiving recipe, subject to the whims of toddler food preferences, refrigerator contents and seasonal availability. But what makes or breaks this recipe (beyond the obvious requisite that it be salted enough … please, PLEASE season your soup!) is the quality of the pasta and its preparation.I will only endeavor to make a pot of this soup, if I have a package of Eduardo’s Alfabeto pasta (made by Dolce Italia Foods), because the letters are actually big enough to identify in your mouth or, let’s be honest, splattered into sentences by first graders across the dinner table. Be sure to cook the pasta al dente in salted water and keep it separate from the soup until it’s time to eat. Just ladle the soup over individual portions of the alphabet pasta so th...

How the Warriors can advance in the in-season tournament with a win against Sacramento

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:30 GMT

SAN FRANCISCO — Despite a six-game losing streak, suspensions and disarray, the Warriors have a chance to win their in-season tournament group and advance to the quarterfinal.The odds aren’t that bad, but they have to win the final group-play game. If they beat the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Minnesota Timberwolves earlier that day, the Warriors win their Group C. If Minnesota beats Oklahoma City, the Warriors will have to beat the Kings by a substantial point differential to win a three-way tiebreaker over Sacramento and Minnesota, as all three would be 3-1 in group play.“It’ll be fun. A lot of fun. It’ll be a lot like Game 7, the atmosphere, the excitement, the angst,” said Draymond Green, who returns from his five-game suspension for Tuesday’s game. “The feeling I’m expecting is that i’ll feel like a Game 7.”Heading into Tuesday’s games, the Warriors have a plus-5 point ...

Pac-12 bowl projections: CFP bid seems likely as UW, Oregon collide, but New Year’s Six berths await both

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:30 GMT

Helpful reminders on the postseason selection process before we plunge into the latest Pac-12 bowl forecast:— The Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl will host the College Football Playoff semifinals, leaving the Pac-12 champion to participate in the Fiesta, Peach or Cotton bowls unless it qualifies for the CFP.— The Pac-12 is contractually tied to seven games this season: the New Year’s Six, Alamo, Las Vegas, Holiday, Sun, LA and Independence bowls. If there are more eligible teams than available spots, the conference will attempt to secure invitations to other bowls with vacancies.Victories by Washington and Oregon last weekend didn’t secure a College Football Playoff berth for the Pac-12. The  conference could end up on the outside of the four-team event once again.But the undefeated Huskies and one-loss Ducks have seemingly clinched spots in the New Year’s Six — and the cash windfall that comes with it — regardless of the outcome of the conference title game Friday ...

Elon Musk’s Cybertruck is already a production nightmare for Tesla

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:30 GMT

By Dana Hull | BloombergThe Cybertruck hasn’t even hit the market yet, and Elon Musk already is lamenting that Tesla Inc. has dug its own grave.Its stainless steel body may be able to withstand bullets and arrows, but it’s going to be a bear putting the panels together. It will be Tesla’s first high-voltage vehicle, offering the benefit of faster charging, but also potential pitfalls. And it will be Tesla’s only product dependent on in-house battery cells that are years behind schedule.In these respects and others, the Cybertruck will be a big step backward from how Tesla has progressed in its approach to carmaking. The last vehicle Musk spoke about the way he’s described the Cybertruck was the Model X, the sport utility vehicle that’s never reached high volumes because of what its chief executive officer described on several occasions as hubris.“Model X became kind of like a technology bandwagon of every cool thing we could imagine all at once,” Musk said of the SUV in May 2017. “T...

Woman arrested for allegedly stealing Amazon packages in Piedmont

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:30 GMT

(KRON) – A woman accused of stealing Amazon packages, mail, and a license plate has been arrested by the Piedmont Police Department.  Piedmont police were alerted by their Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) that someone was driving a vehicle with a stolen license plate.  Why scammers love gift cards and what to watch out for ahead of Black Friday Officers located the vehicle in the area of Linda Avenue and Kingston Avenue. According to police, officers conducted a vehicle search and found several stolen Amazon packages, credit cards, IDs, and mail. The officers detained two subjects, who both had priors for auto theft and mail theft, police said. The driver was arrested and booked at Santa Rita Jail without incident, police said.  Piedmont PD advises the following prevention measures to protect home package deliveries:Have your packages delivered to a place where the packages can be received in person such as the home of a trusted neighbor who is...

Mountain lion spotted in Rohnert Park

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:30 GMT

(BCN) -- Rohnert Park public safety officials warned residents that a mountain lion was spotted near the Crane Creek Canyon Trail early Tuesday morning.According to the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety, a concerned citizen reported seeing a mountain lion on the Five Creek Trail near the Crane Creek Canyon Trail. Flaring reported at Chevron Refinery in Richmond The wild animal was seen going toward Snyder Lane and the mountains, according to the department. Visitors and travelers are advised to use caution in the area. More information about safety around the animals can be found at the Mountain Lion Foundation at https://mountainlion.org/.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Stock market today: Wall Street rises following strong consumer confidence report, Fed hopes

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:30 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks edged higher on Wall Street in morning trading on Tuesday following a strong report on consumer confidence and a boost to hopes that the Federal Reserve is finished with its aggressive interest rate hikes.The S&P 500 rose 0.1% and remains on track to close out November with its strongest monthly gain of the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 113 points, or 0.3% to 35,447 as of 11:12 a.m. Eastern. The Nasdaq rose 0.1%.Bond yields fell. The 10-year Treasury yield, which influences mortgage rates, slipped to 4.35% from 4.39% late Monday. The yield on the two-year Treasury, which tracks expectations for Federal Reserve action, fell significantly, to 4.78% from 4.89% late Monday.U.S. crude oil prices rose 2.5%.Investors are closely watching several economic updates this week for more clues about how consumers feel and whether the rate of inflation is still easing. They are betting that the Fed will continue to hold its benchmark rate steady. That senti...

Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh chosen to host the 2030 World Expo

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:30 GMT

ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, France (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh chosen to host the 2030 World Expo.Source

Murat Yakin stays as Switzerland coach for Euro 2024 despite winless run and tension with players

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:30 GMT

BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Switzerland coach Murat Yakin has kept his job for next year’s European Championship after the national soccer federation on Tuesday resisted calls to fire him.The Swiss qualified for Euro 2024 despite a run of eight qualifying games since June when the team beat only Andorra. Leads were wasted by conceding late goals amid reports of tension between the coach and senior players Granit Xhaka and Manuel Akanji.The vote of confidence came four days before Yakin is due at the Euro 2024 draw in Hamburg, Germany.“Even though we have drawn four matches and lost once in the last qualifying matches, Murat Yakin has our full confidence,” Swiss soccer federation president Dominique Blanc said in a statement.Yakin’s hold on the job seemed shakier after Swiss coach Urs Fischer became available after being fired by Union Berlin, which he led from Germany’s second division to the Champions League.Speculation also centered on Lucien Favre, the former coach of Bo...

The family of an infant hostage pleads for his release before the Israel-Hamas truce winds down

Published Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:30 GMT

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Kfir Bibas has spent nearly a fifth of his life as a Hamas hostage.The 10-month-old was taken from his home in a southern Israeli kibbutz on Oct. 7, when Palestinian militants abducted about 240 people and dragged them to Gaza.Kfir was the youngest of about 30 children who were taken hostage. Under a current temporary cease-fire, Hamas has released women, children and teens, but the infant with red hair and a toothless smile hasn’t been included on the lists of those set to be freed, according to his family.With most other young hostages already released, Kfir’s fate and that of his 4-year-old brother, Ariel, are now a rallying cry for Israelis seeking the speedy release of all the hostages. A demonstration in support of the Bibas family was held in Tel Aviv on Tuesday.“There is no precedent for something like this, for a baby who was kidnapped when he was 9 months old,” Eylon Keshet, a cousin of Kfir’s father, told reporters. “Is baby Kfir the enemy of Hamas...