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How often do trains derail? More often than you think

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:10 GMT

At least 15 people were injured late Wednesday morning after an Amtrak train derailed after colliding with a vehicle in Moorpark. The derailment happened around 11:30 a.m. when the train hit a public works water truck that was on the tracks at a railroad crossing near Los Angeles Avenue.Images from overhead showed three of the train's seven cars disconnected from the track, tilting sideways but managing to stay upright.Most of the injuries were minor, officials said, but the driver of the water truck was taken to a local trauma center for treatment.While passenger trains on average tend to be one of the safest modes of transportation in the United States, derailments do happen and are actually more common than you might think.The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) is a branch of the United States Department of Transportation that analyzes and compiles information about the nation's transportation systems.Since 1975, the agency has been tracking train derailments, as well as i...

Why are dogs freaked out by fireworks?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:10 GMT

Even though personal fireworks are illegal in many cities, we know many people ignore the law around the July 4th holiday weekend.This means the sight and sound of crackling bottle rockets, Roman candles, flowers and sparklers – legal or illegal – will echo through neighborhoods for several nights, which poses a unique risk to dogs.There are two main reasons why man’s best friend is easily spooked by fireworks.The first is the most obvious. Fireworks are loud.“Dogs have exceptional hearing,” Purina explains. “If a dog comes running to the sound of a crinkling food wrapper from a different part of the house, you can imagine how sensitive they are to firecrackers.“Smithsonian digs a little deeper.“Dogs hear more than twice as many frequencies as humans, and they can also hear sounds roughly four times further away. Reacting to every sound would demand too much energy, and so dog brains must determine which sounds are significant and which can be tuned out.”Fireworks, Smithsonian expla...

16 states, D.C. currently under poor air quality alerts - here's when things will change

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:10 GMT

Residents in more than a dozen states are currently blanketed in hazy skies and poor air quality as smoke from Canadian wildfires moves through the Midwest and Northeast. For many, the worsening air is expected to stick around for at least another day. As of Wednesday afternoon, five U.S. cities - Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C. - rank among the 10 metropolitan areas with the worst air quality in the world, according to IQ Air. Toronto, Canada, had the worst air quality at 186 AQI (air quality index). Areas in the U.S. are worse though. Decatur, Illinois, 40 miles east of Springfield, had the worst air quality in the country - 282 AQI - as of 4 p.m. ET, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow. Cities from Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin also had AQIs over 220. Amid wildfire smoke and sweltering heat, don’t overlook this button in your car Many of the Midwestern cities that have had high AQIs for much of the week are expected to see rel...

Obed Barbosa-Carbajal Killed in Head-On Crash on Arlington Avenue [Riverside, CA]

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:10 GMT

4 Injured in High-Speed Collision near Stover Avenue ResultedRIVERSIDE, CA (June 28, 2023) – Tuesday morning, a high-speed head-on crash at Arlington Avenue left 8-year-old Obed Barbosa-Carbajal dead and 4 others injured.The accident took place on May 16th, at around 7:30 a.m., along Arlington Avenue and Stover Avenue.According to reports, a driver in a white Honda Civic traveling westbound on Arlington Avenue veered into the opposite lane and collided head-on with a gray Nissan Sentra traveling eastbound.Inside the Sentra, paramedics discovered four people, three of whom were children. They transported all of them to a local hospital with moderate to severe injuries. Police believed they were siblings on their way to the school.Officials later reported that the youngest victim, an 8-year-old boy named Obed Barbosa-Carbajal, had succumbed to his injuries.While the remaining siblings, 25-year-old female driver Kially Barbosa-Carbajal, 16-year-old Mario Barbosa-Carbajal, and 10-...

How Dr. Anju Mathur is bringing change to the mainstream medical field through natual medicine and healthier living

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:10 GMT

Dr. Anju Mathur, Founder of Angel Longevity Medical Center and Angel Pure MD, is offering alternative solutions to a healthier life.Dr. Mathur’s journey to bringing better practices to treating patients began when she was working in her family practice. She found when she was treating her patients using traditional medical methods their symptoms weren’t improving over a long term period. Her patients would keep coming back while showing the same symptoms they had already been treated for. Dr. Mathur identified the problem was in the antibiotics she was prescribing to her patients. While the antibiotics would treat the symptoms for a short period of time her patients would eventually return with the same ailments.The medicines she was prescribing weren’t treating the reason why her patients got sick in the first place. Instead of treating any ailment and boosting the immune system the antibiotics were only suppressing the symptoms, and when the medicines completed their course throug...

Kasper Hytonen: The Finnish Trailblazer Leading the Digital Renaissance

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:10 GMT

As digital media evolves at dizzying speed, influencers worldwide grapple to stake their claim, standing out amid a cacophony of voices while maintaining their authenticity. Among these contenders, Kasper Hytonen has carved a distinctive niche. With a potent blend of expertise in content creation and a profound focus on spirituality, this Finnish maestro navigates the ever-shifting digital terrain with grace and effectiveness, charting a path that others could only dream of traversing. Kasper’s journey is a testament to perseverance, innovation, and a relentless spirit of entrepreneurship.In Finland, Kasper’s entry into the digital sphere was unplanned, but a fortunate accident sparked by the encouraging words of a friend. Recognizing his inherent flair for content creation, Kasper nurtured a modest Instagram page, cultivating it into a 200,000-strong community. This unexpected twist, a pivot from his mundane routine to a path of unprecedented growth, marked his foray in...

Letters: Delta death | New beds | Truth on homelessness | Study the science | Veterinary telehealth

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:10 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.Is Delta destined fordeath, tunnel or not?Your recent op-ed “Delta tunnel is too risky to bend environmental rules” (Page A6, June 21) articulates views of many dedicated individuals and organizations who have worked to “Save the Delta.” They deserve praise, much like those who bravely banded together to “Save the Bay” in an earlier era.On my computer monitor is the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s “Sea Level Rise Viewer.” It shows what will be happening to the Delta in the next several decades. The picture that emerges is that, with or without the tunnel, it will become a progressively brackish sea with a profoundly changed ecology.Up in the Sierras our heritage forests, stressed by drought, heat waves, bark beetles and fires, are undergoing massive change due to climate change. Much of this is already baked in and we’re hearing about “zombie” forests. One wonders if the Delta warrant...

Was Kevin Gausman the one who got away? He says split with SF Giants ‘water under the bridge’

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:10 GMT

TORONTO — The tweet, Kevin Gausman insisted Wednesday, was really about Oreos. It was late one night this past December, and Gausman was munching away in bed. It was only natural, then, for his mind to wander to the preferred method of consumption for his snack of choice.“There is a fine line between dipping an Oreo for the perfect amount of time or having it break off into the milk,” he wrote on Twitter. “Sometimes in risks you gotta take risks and be able to live with the consequences.”It just so happened, as Gausman tells it, that the message was sent mere hours after the Giants called off their introductory news conference with Carlos Correa, and some year and change since the organization didn’t make a competitive offer and let him walk for a five-year, $110 million contract with the Blue Jays.It only added to the fire that Logan Webb, one of Gausman’s closest friends and now the Giants’ sole ace, chimed in, too: “Can I get an ...

Chrissy Teigen explains how 4th baby came 5 months after she gave birth to baby no. 3

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:10 GMT

When it comes to choices about family planning, stars really are not “just like us!” Consider Chrissy Teigen and John Legend’s big news Wednesday.The Hollywood super couple revealed Wednesday that they had just welcomed the birth of a son, Wren Alexander Stephens, on June 19.  Of course this is happy news, but you wouldn’t be alone in thinking: Didn’t she just give birth?Yes, Teigen gave birth on Jan. 13 — five months ago — to the couple’s third child, a daughter named Esti.In Wednesday’s Instagram post, the model and cookbook author explained that Wren wasn’t the result of a remarkably short gestation period, but that he arrived via a surrogate. Teigen further explained that it was by design that she and Legend ended up welcoming two newborns in the brief span of five months.In multi-part Instagram post, Teigen said that she always had wanted to have a total of four children. She and Legend first became parents to Luna, 7,...

San Jose: Hobee’s opening a beer garden at historic Germania Hall

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:11:10 GMT

Historic building, meet legacy business.Breakfast notable Hobee’s, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest locally owned restaurant groups, has announced that it will open an eatery and beer garden in downtown San Jose’s Germania Hall, a North Second Street landmark since the late 1800s.A blue Victorian and a restaurant famous for blueberry coffee cake? Sounds like this match was meant to be.“We have been looking for a replacement for our San Jose location that lost its lease last year. This one was a long shot,” co-owner Camille Chijate told the Mercury News. “But we went to see it and just fell in love. The patio is going to be so amazing on summer nights, and we love all of the plans for St. James Park.”For this storied property, Hobee’s will veer out of its traditional lane and go with a beer garden concept, as had been featured by the previous occupant, Ludwig’s.“We have strong name recognition for breakfast and lunch, but I expect t...