Man held in Peru for allegedly trying to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas to South Korea
Man held in Peru for allegedly trying to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas to South Korea Source: www.yahoo.com
Man held in Peru for allegedly trying to smuggle hundreds of tarantulas to South Korea Source: www.yahoo.com
Busy holiday schedules filled with shopping, planning, traveling, parties, and an endless supply of tempting baked goods can easily throw a wrench in our normal eating and workout routines. While the holidays may be the hardest time of year to maintain your fitness goals and stick with a workout plan, it’s not the best time to start making aggressive weight loss goals. But there’s no reason you can’t enjoy yourself armed with a few strategies to get you through the season to keep you healthy and fit. Holiday Fitness Tips Here are some tricks and tips that can help you stay fit, active, and healthy through the holidays! 1. Focus on Maintaining Instead of Losing Weight Reigning in our bad eating habits early can put us in a much better position to get started on those healthy New Year’s resolutions. […]
Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. As the air cools into autumn, San Francisco also enters the perfect season for mole — a quintessential hearty Mexican sauce that requires a melange of nuts, fruits, chili peppers, and spices such as cumin and cinnamon. A “Moles to Die For” contest drew a crowd of some 60 people to the Mission District on Saturday to taste moles from six chefs who brought their recipes from different regions of Mexico.The contest, organized by the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts at 2868 Mission St., marks the finale of the Día de Los Muertos season. Guests spent two hours on Saturday tasting, feasting, and returning to taste and feast again on samples from the six contenders. In the background was Mexican dance music, […]
This 28-year-old is risking her financial future to support her unemployed mom. Is it worth going deeper into debt? In a recent Reddit post, Annie, a 28-year-old college student, shared her history of balancing financial obligations at home while working and covering the cost of her tuition. She lives with her mother, Erin, 48, and her two younger brothers, but her earnings are stretched thin to help keep their household afloat. Recently, Annie got a new job with similar pay but a better bonus structure, though she regrets telling her mom, who has since frequently asked for financial support. The most recent request – a $500 bill to repair a wall damaged by the family’s dog – was one Annie couldn’t fulfill. “I had to borrow from a financial institution and I have a credit card that is maxed out […]
Longtime labor organizer candidate Chyanne Chen has won the tight District 11 race on Sunday, with a slim 190-vote lead over moderate candidate Michael Lai. Chen will succeed termed-out incumbent Ahsha Safaí. “I’m proud and honored to be Supervisor-elect for District 11,” Chen wrote in a statement. “This was a close election, and I am committed to bringing people together to fight for stronger communities, safe neighborhoods and improved services.” “We couldn’t do it alone,” Chen told Mission Local. Chen was bolstered by some $700,000 in outside spending by labor unions and an Asian-American political group, dwarfing the money behind Lai. “This is definitely a victory that belongs to the community. It belongs to everybody.”By 2 p.m. Sunday, Lai conceded on social media, saying he called Chen “to offer her congratulations as the first Asian supervisor for District 11 and offer my help […]
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Elizabeth PineauRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Russian air strike on Ukraine on Sunday shook a fragile consensus among the Group of 20 major economies drafting their joint statement at an annual leaders summit in Rio de Janeiro, three diplomats familiar with the talks told Reuters.European diplomats are now pushing to revisit previously agreed language on the topic of global conflicts after Russia unleashed its largest air strike on Ukraine in almost three months. The United States responded by lifting prior limits on Ukraine's use of U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia.The escalating conflict could upset a hard-fought consensus that G20 negotiators reached around 5 a.m. on Sunday, after an overnight push to ready the joint statement for final review by leaders arriving in Rio.That preliminary consensus after six days of negotiations included streamlined language […]
King of the streets Source: missionlocal.org
Anduril Industries Co-Founder and CEO Brian Schimpf has a conversation with Yahoo Finance's Josh Lipton about the relationship between escalating geopolitical conflicts around the world and the innovations in US defense technology. "Anduril has done well in [the] prior Trump administration. It's done very well in a Biden administration and I think we'll continue to do well in any future administration," Schimpf explains at the annual Yahoo Finance Invest conference. To see every interview from Yahoo Finance Invest, click here. For the full interview with Brian Schimpf, click here. This post was written by Daniel A. Nelson Source: finance.yahoo.com
The San Francisco Department of Elections just dropped the results of another 6,281 ballots, bringing the grand total of ballots to 409,747 — 78.46 percent of the electorate.Very few ballots are left to be counted — only around 3,300 of them. That includes — just 500 vote-by-mail ballots and 2,800 provisional ones cast at polling places throughout the city and the City Hall voting center. There are only two remaining contested races: District 11 supervisor and the fourth and last seat on the Board of Education.In District 11, Chyanne Chen is still in the lead with 11,971 votes to her moderate opponent Michael Lai’s 11,781 — just a 190 vote gap. Lai gained two votes from yesterday. Today, 329 ballots in total have been counted in District 11, including 42 vote-by-mail ballots and 287 provisional ones.In addition, there are few outstanding votes remaining citywide […]
A North Carolina lawmaker is going viral on TikTok after his office allegedly told a female constituent in an email to “move to China” after she raised concerns about the state’s abortion policy.The constituent, who asked to remain anonymous due to concerns for her safety, told NBC News on Saturday that she sent an email to Republican state Sen. Danny Britt on Nov. 7 to say that her family “desperately wants to expand.”“But because of You, [President-elect Donald] Trump and the republican party and the strict abortion laws in this country we cannot,” she wrote in the email, a copy of which was shared with NBC News. “Thanks for ruining our futures! You all are terrible people.”In response, Britt’s legislative assistant Camille McDougald allegedly told the constituent to consider moving to another country.“Thank you so much for the email. I […]
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