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Pac-12 bowl projections: Oregon to the CFP, USC climbs to the Alamo and Cal sneaks in

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:00 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.The final fortnight of conference play carries plenty of unknowns across the Pac-12, but this much is clear: Washington would qualify for the College Football Playoff as an undefeated conference champion.At 13-0, with wins over at least five ranked teams, the Huskies would not be shoved aside in favor of a one-loss champion from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 or SEC.But what if they stumble and the last team standing in ...

Los Gatans can give thanks for premade holiday meals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:00 GMT

Living in Silicon Valley offers many Thanksgiving options for eating out or picking up entire meals to serve at home. Just make sure to have plenty of good local wine on hand: Testarossa’s 2021 Rancho La Viña Pinot Noir (Santa Rita Hills) and 2021 Sierra Mar Chardonnay (Santa Lucia Highlands) are ideal. Other Santa Cruz Mountains standouts are 2022 Gali Pinot Noir Cuvée, 2021 Cinnabar SCM Pinot Noir and the 2019 Kings Mountain Clone 13 Pinot Noir. With dark meat turkey, vegetarian options like eggplant and mushrooms, or maple glazed ham, the 2020 Perrucci Family Syrah would be killer.Los Gatans can make it a spicy New Orleans-inspired Thanksgiving with The Bywater’s dinner package that includes house-smoked turkey, braised greens, andouille sausage and oyster stuffing, honey pecan yams, Bywater macaroni salad, cranberry sauce with winter spices and turkey gravy. They’ve made it easy to add on a Manresa Bread pie or pumpkin tart, too.Preorder at https://www.exploretock.com/thebywater...

Opinion: Cal, Stanford need innovative alumni to bring schools into future of college sports

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:00 GMT

The daunting question surrounding Big Game this year is not who will win.It’s whether the Stanford and Cal athletic programs will survive in the fast-changing world of college sports.Most fans have moved on from the collapse of the Pac-12 Conference and migration of our programs to the Atlantic Coast Conference. The events were written off as sad eventualities of an economic system that most fans neither understand nor want to unravel.Understanding the future of college football in a Name, Image and Likeness world while media companies such as ESPN go through turmoil is just too much business to worry about. After all, most fans view this as just a game for bragging rights.But that’s a dangerous view that could endanger every sport at both schools, not just football.Here’s the sobering reality that Stanford and Cal collectively face: If we don’t take the business of college football and, by extension, all college athletics seriously, we won’t be part of it in the next three to five ...

More than 1,000 California State University workers are on a one-day strike

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:00 GMT

(KRON) – Teamsters Local 2010, representing 1,100 skilled trades workers at California State University, are on a one-day unfair labor practice strike on Nov. 14 across 22 CSU campuses. CSU skilled trades workers are made up of plumbers, electricians, carpenters, plant operators, HVAC technicians, auto mechanics, painters, metal workers, and more. According to the Teamsters, the organization has been in negotiations with the University for over nine months.  APEC: How to navigate traffic, street closures, and tow away zones The one-day strike will result in interruption of services provided by Union workers, including deliveries and waste pickup. Strike sanctions will also shut down construction on campuses being performed by unionized building trades workers.Last week, the Teamsters and California Faculty Association members rallied at the Board of Trustees meeting, demanding CSU finally bargain in good faith and address stagnated salaries and poor working conditions. A...

Commercial bus, semi-truck collided on Ohio highway; “Multiple people” reported injured

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:00 GMT

ETNA, Ohio (AP) — A charter bus carrying students from a high school was rear-ended by a semi-truck on an Ohio highway Tuesday, leaving three people dead and 15 others injured, according to an emergency official.Licking County Emergency Management Agency Director Sean Grady said the charter bus was transporting students from a school in eastern Ohio. There were a total of 57 people onboard, he said.The accident occurred shortly before 9 a.m. on Interstate 70 West in Licking County, near the Smoke Road underpass. The cause was not immediately known.Source

3 killed, 15 taken to hospital when semi crashes into bus carrying students on Ohio highway, emergency official says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:00 GMT

ETNA, Ohio (AP) — 3 killed, 15 taken to hospital when semi crashes into bus carrying students on Ohio highway, emergency official says.Source

Fire that indefinitely closed section of vital Los Angeles freeway was arson, governor says

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:00 GMT

The site of a fire is seen under Interstate 10, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, in Los Angeles. Los Angeles drivers are being tested in their first commute since a weekend fire that closed a major elevated interstate near downtown. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)(AP/Jae C. Hong) The site of a fire is seen under Interstate 10, Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, in Los Angeles. Los Angeles drivers are being tested in their first commute since a weekend fire that closed a major elevated interstate near downtown. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)(AP/Jae C. Hong) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arson was the cause of a massive weekend fire that charred and indefinitely closed a vital section of a major Los Angeles freeway, causing major traffic headaches for hundreds of t...

Parents protest staffing decisions at McAuliffe International School

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:00 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — A demonstration at McAuliffe International School was planned for Tuesday morning.An outspoken parent group is upset over more possible firings.Parents and members of the Parents Safety Advocacy Group made signs and gathered outside McAuliffe International School after more disagreements were made over staffing decisions.The parent group believes that interim principal Micah Klaver will likely be fired after being on leave for three months already, along with seven other staff members. This is on top of other concerns that the school is being unfairly targeted. Former McAuliffe principal suing Denver Public Schools over firing FOX31 reached out to the district on these allegations, and they said they are aware of a potential protest but could not comment on staffing decisions.The next Denver Public Schools board meeting is Thursday at 4:30 p.m.Previous concerns at McAuliffeThis protest comes after McAuliffe was already the center of an investigation into their so-...

Disney says it has $40 billion economic impact in Florida as it battles DeSantis in court

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:00 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Disney on Tuesday released a study showing its economic impact in Florida at $40.3 billion as it battles Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his appointees over their takeover of the district that governs the entertainment company’s massive resort in central Florida.Disney accounted for 263,000 jobs in Florida, more than three times the actual workforce at Walt Disney World, according to the study conducted by Oxford Economics and commissioned by Disney, covering fiscal year 2022. The study attributed its multibillion-dollar impact to its supply chain and employees’ spending.The jobs include Disney employees as well as jobs supported by visitor spending off Disney World property. In central Florida, Disney directly accounts for 1 in 8 jobs, and for every direct job at Disney World, another 1.7 jobs are supported across Florida, Oxford Economics said.The time period in the study is before the takeover earlier this year of Disney World’s governing district b...

AWS digital sovereignty pledge: A new, independent sovereign cloud in Europe

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:33:00 GMT

From day one, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has believed it is essential that customers have control over their data, and choices for how they secure and manage that data in the cloud. Last year, we introduced the AWS Digital Sovereignty Pledge, our commitment to offering AWS customers the most advanced set of sovereignty controls and features available in the cloud.AWS offers the largest and most comprehensive cloud infrastructure globally. Our approach from the beginning has been to make AWS sovereign-by-design. We built data protection features and controls in the AWS cloud with input from financial services, health care and government customers — who are among the most security- and data privacy-conscious organizations in the world. This has led to innovations like the AWS Nitro System, which powers all our modern Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and provides a strong physical and logical security boundary to enforce access restrictions so that...