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Pick-your-own cherries season has arrived in the Bay; here’s where to go

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:55 GMT

It’s been a wait, thanks to the cold and foul weather, but the most joyful time of the year for fruit lovers is finally here: the annual start of the pick-your-own-cherries season.Two major cherry-growing orchards have released dates for self-picking late this May: the Borello Family Farms aka U-Pick Orchards location in Morgan Hill (opening May 26) and Mike’s U-Pick in Brentwood (opening May 31). Here’s the Facebook announcement and website for Mike’s, which has two locations, and the Facebook announcement and website for Borello, which is opening one of its many locations from May 25-May 29 (with other locations opening soon). A few other places recently announced openings, too, including G&S Farms and Nunn Better Farms in Brentwood, the latter which was the site of much pickin’ last weekend ($4 a pound, two varieties).“Our farming region has had weird weather this year – not doing exactly what’s needed to ripen the fruit as quickly as...

Trump, allies plan effort to steal DeSantis’ 2024 moment

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:55 GMT

By Kristen Holmes | CNNDonald Trump and his allies are planning a coordinated effort to upend the media cycle around the presidential campaign launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, which will include videos and a social media blitz leaning on high-profile, Trump-aligned conservative commentators, sources familiar with the plans told CNN.The messaging strategy will involve some Trump surrogates appearing in Miami, where DeSantis is set to gather with donors beginning Wednesday. Make America Great Again, Inc., the Trump-aligned super PAC, will also have a presence in the city. The group plans to have a box truck playing a new attack ad as it circles the Miami hotel where DeSantis will be. The 60-second digital ad hits DeSantis on his tenure as a congressman in Washington, painting the Florida governor as a Washington “swamp creature” who was trying to cut entitlements while Trump was entering the White House. The ad presents a side-by-side comparison of Trump’s and DeSantis’ time in DC...

Facebook’s parent company Meta caps rounds of job cuts, offering remaining staff a cold clarity

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:55 GMT

By Alex Barinka, Aisha Counts and Sarah Frier | BloombergMeta Platforms Inc. employees received news Wednesday of the final round of previously announced job cuts, which affected thousands of workers in the company’s business departments. Now, remaining staff are hoping an uncomfortable limbo at the company can end.The layoffs complete the bulk of the restructuring Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg announced in March to eliminate 10,000 positions. Initial reductions affected the company’s recruiting and human resources departments, and in late April jobs in Meta’s tech groups were slashed. Zuckerberg has said further cuts will come in only a “small number of cases” for the rest of the year, giving those people left a cold sense of relief.The company, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said the layoffs were necessary to improve efficiency, after over-hiring during the pandemic. Meta promised faster product development and decision-making that sent its shares up more t...

East Bay business owner didn’t pay over employment taxes, gets a year in prison

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:55 GMT

OAKLAND — A federal judge sentenced a Berkeley resident to one year in federal prison Tuesday for committing employment tax crimes, authorities said.U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White handed the sentence down to Larry Kudsk following Kudsk’s guilty plea last August to one count of willfully failing to pay over employment taxes, U.S. Attorney Ismail Ramsey of the Northern District of California said in a statement. A federal grand jury indicted Kudsk in February 2022.REALTED: Child labor, mayhem, lewd comments to teen girls alleged at Oakland PopeyesAccording to Ramsey, court documents showed that Kudsk operated two construction businesses — Kudsk Construction Inc., and M. Gutierrez Inc. — that served as general contractors or subcontractors on various construction projects, some of them for the government.Kudsk was responsible for filing quarterly employment tax returns on both businesses, Ramsey said, as well as collecting and paying to the IRS employment ...

Latest sustainable funeral option: Mushroom coffins

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:55 GMT

By Raf Casert and Aleksander Furtula | Associated PressDELFT, Netherlands  — For those seeking to live in the most sustainable way, there now is an afterlife too.A Dutch intrepid inventor is now “growing” coffins by putting mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms, together with hemp fiber in a special mold that, in a week, turns into what could basically be compared to the looks of an unpainted Egyptian sarcophagus.And while traditional wooden coffins come from trees that can take decades to grow and years to break down in the soil, the mushroom versions biodegrades and delivers the remains to nature in barely a month and a half.In our 21st century, when the individual spirit can increasingly thrive way beyond the strictures of yore, death and funerals are all so often still hemmed in by tradition that may fall far short of the vision of the deceased or their loved ones.“We all have different cultures and different ways of wanting to be buried in the world. But I...

Sale closed in Fremont: $1.5 million for a four-bedroom home

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:55 GMT

38439 Farwell Drive – Google Street ViewA house located in the 38400 block of Farwell Drive in Fremont has new owners. The 1,584-square-foot property, built in 1960, was sold on April 6, 2023, for $1,500,000, or $947 per square foot. The property features four bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a garage sits on a 7,683-square-foot lot.Additional houses that have recently been sold close by include:A 1,635-square-foot home on the 5300 block of Tallman Court in Fremont sold in November 2022, for $1,450,000, a price per square foot of $887. The home has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.On Ballard Drive, Fremont, in November 2022, a 2,425-square-foot home was sold for $2,090,000, a price per square foot of $862. The home has 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.In September 2022, a 1,877-square-foot home on Ballard Drive in Fremont sold for $1,633,500, a price per square foot of $870. The home has 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. 

Saturn’s iconic rings are disappearing

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:55 GMT

By Ashley Strickland | CNNSaturn’s iconic icy rings may not be around for future skygazers to glimpse at through their telescopes, according to new research.A new analysis of data captured by NASA’s Cassini mission, which orbited the gas giant planet between 2004 and 2017, has revealed new insights into how long the rings have been around and when they may vanish from sight. The findings have been shared in three studies published in May.Our solar system and its planets formed about 4.6 billion years ago, and scientists have long debated the age and origin of Saturn’s rings. Some astronomers have argued that the bright, icy rings must be younger than expected because they haven’t been eroded and darkened by interactions with meteoroids across billions of years.The Cassini data has led to a new finding, published May 15 in the journal Icarus, that supports this theory of the rings appearing long after Saturn’s initial formation. Additional studies published on May 12 in Science Advan...

Should You Buy NFTs?

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:55 GMT

Sponsored ContentOne of the largest NFT marketplaces in the world, Open Sea, was worth $1.5 billion in July 2021, and the amount accumulated by January 2022 was staggering. Despite the market drops, there is still a high demand for NFTs.Before finding out How and Where to Buy NFT, let us first find out why people want to invest in NFTs. In other words, you too might consider buying NFTs in light of the following reasons.1. Helping artists with NFTsHistorically, artists have been victimized by publishers, producers, and auction houses that force them into contracts they don’t want to be in. There are three main problems:Creators are often required to surrender their IP as part of their contracts, and they don’t have any control over how their work is displayed or adapted.In many cases, artists don’t get paid much for their work, and they miss out on profits when their work gets sold on secondary markets, meaning multinational corporations make the most money.NFTs co...

What to watch: Truth stings in ‘You Hurt My Feelings,’ with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:55 GMT

Knotty relationships wherein honesty doesn’t always prevail figure prominently in two of the best releases this week, one that’s popping up in theaters, the other on Apple TV+.Our Memorial Day weekend roundup also features a decent Gerard Butler spy thriller and a shockingly good Shudder! shocker and a worthwhile documentary on PBS.Here’s what’s worth seeing this long weekend:“You Hurt My Feelings”: It’s impossible not to develop a little crush, even if it’s a fleeting one, on Julia Louis-Dreyfus whenever she’s onscreen. Part of her appeal can be attributed to her frequently portraying people we relate to: Flawed humans who don’t always say and do the appropriate thing and often find themselves tangled up in a tight ball of neuroses.With “You Hurt My Feelings,” she’s paired, for a second time, with her ideal filmmaking muse, the sly chronicler of modern uneasiness and disorienting moral aches and pains, Nicole Holofcener. Never heard of her? Check our her work. You won’t be disappoi...

San Jose: Scooter driver who was ejected after hitting brush pile dies in hospital

Published Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:55 GMT

SAN JOSE — A man who crashed a motorized scooter on San Jose city streets died in a hospital two days after the collision, according to authorities.The Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner identified him Wednesday as 37-year-old Foster City resident Andrew Zoen Hou Lam.Police said he was riding a motorized scooter southbound on Lundy Avenue near Rosebriar Way around 10:53 p.m. on May 15 when he struck a brush pile in the bike lane and was ejected from the scooter.He was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and died there on May 17.Related ArticlesCrashes and Disasters | Trial begins for California man accused of killing woman, 5 dogs during police chase The death was the 16th traffic death on San Jose city streets of 2023.