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Children’s Author Todd Strauss-Schulson’s Revelation: “Your Mind Makes Thoughts Like Your Butt Makes Farts”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:57:39 GMT

From anxious kid to Hollywood director, Todd Strauss-Schulson had to learn mindfulness to work through all his anxious thoughts. His debut children’s book may be gross, but it’s a lesson in mindfulness for kids and parents alike. Anxiety, sorrow, fear – it’s not just the adult brain that has to go toe-to-toe with unpleasant thoughts sometimes. The kid brain is just as susceptible to the feelings, emotions, and thoughts that pop up through the day.It could be an anxiousness about fitting in at recess. It could be the sorrow of an early experience of loss. Maybe, it’s even the fear of the monster hiding under the bed. Kids have a lot to cope with between the ears – how about we start teaching them about mindfulness?But what is the best way to teach children about mindfulness and how to relate to their thoughts? That’s the riddle being solved by author Todd Strauss-Schulson.You probably know him as the Hollywood director behind A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas, The Final Girls (the ...

Letters: Homeless help | Misdirected outrage | Cancer screening

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:57:39 GMT

Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor.S.J. must help homelessget back on their feetAs some who has lived in downtown San Jose for more than 10 years, homelessness was always something normal to me. Not until I was around 14 did I realize that it was an actual problem.In 2023, a survey was done determining that San Jose is the leading city for homeless people in the South Bay. San Jose has 85 people living on the streets for every 100,000 people.If San Jose was able to create more housing for the homeless then rates could be cut down by a third, leaving more people to be able to worry less about housing and more about taking the next step in life and getting back on their feet.Melissa GutierrezSan JoseWill’s outrage should bedirected at abortion caseRe: “State pork ruling invites interstate economic war” (Page A7, May 18).George Will’s paroxysms over the Supreme Court’s decision to not hear a case that challenged California’...

San Jose community says goodbye to late Bishop Patrick J. McGrath

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:57:39 GMT

Scores of clergy joined family and community members at a funeral Mass on Friday for the Rev. Patrick J. McGrath, the bishop emeritus of the Diocese of San Jose who died May 7 at age 77.Bishop Oscar Cantú, McGrath’s successor, presided over the service at St. Joseph Cathedral Basilica in downtown San Jose. McGrath’s brother, Tom, was along with nephews, nieces and extended family members. Dignitaries in attendance included Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez, as well as several interfaith leaders who knew McGrath.A portrait of Patrick J. McGrath, retired bishop of the Diocese of San Jose, is displayed during his funeral Mass, on May 19, 2023, at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Joseph in San Jose, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) McGrath, known as “Bishop PJ” to many, was born in Ireland and came to the Bay Area in the 1970s to serve in the Archdiocese ...

Moscow bans 500 Americans from entering the country

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:57:39 GMT

By Johnny Hallam and Tara John | CNNFormer United States President Barack Obama, late night television host Stephen Colbert, and CNN’s Erin Burnett are some of the “500 Americans” Russia has banned from entering the country.Russia on Friday announced it was banning “500 Americans,” many prominent figures of US executive power, from entering the country “in a response to the regularly anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the Joe Biden administration,” according to a statement from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.The list includes Obama, former US Ambassador Jon Huntsman, several US senators and the next expected chairman of the joint chiefs Charles Q. Brown Jr.The rambling list of names also includes American late night TV hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert, and Seth Meyers.The statement also said: “The attached ‘list-500’ also includes those in government and law enforcement agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called Storming the Capi...

Oakland: Man charged in fatal baseball-bat beating of unhoused victim

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:57:39 GMT

OAKLAND — A man has been charged with murder in the fatal baseball bat beating of an unhoused man who was apparently attacked while he was sleeping in a Chinatown doorway, according to authorities and court records.The suspect, Reddick Mickle Jr., 46, of San Francisco, is on federal probation for a 2008 federal court drug conviction in Iowa, according to court records.He was charged Thursday in the April 26 killing of 69-year-old Ronard Spann. Spann, who authorities said was unhoused, was found about 7:33 a.m. bludgeoned to death in the doorway to a vacant business in the 300 block of Tenth Street. where it appeared he had been sleeping.Surveillance video recovered in the area showed Spann was beaten with an aluminum baseball bat, authorities said.Investigators were eventually able to identify Mickle as the suspect with the help of his former and current probation officers, the documents say.Investigators said Mickle did not know Spann and that the motive for the deadly attack...

Mt. Diablo's north entrance closed until September for storm repair

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:57:39 GMT

(BCN) -- State park officials said Wednesday that Mount Diablo's North Gate Road will be closed from Friday through mid-September to rebuild and stabilize a section of road damaged by storms this winter. The road will close to pedestrians, vehicles, equestrians and bicyclists. Visitors will still be able to access the summit and developed areas of the park from the South Gate entrance (2675 Mt. Diablo Scenic Blvd. in Blackhawk) on the Danville side of the mountain. For updates on the progress of the project, visit Mount Diablo's Facebook page.Copyright © 2023 Bay City News, Inc.

Brewers’ Miley to miss 6 to 8 weeks, Yelich back in lineup

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:57:39 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers left-hander Wade Miley is expected to miss six to eight weeks with a muscle strain in the back of his throwing shoulder.Brewers manager Craig Counsell announced the timeframe before Friday night’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays.Left fielder Christian Yelich returned to the lineup after missing two games with back issues, and left-hander Eric Lauer — coming off his first relief appearance of the season last Sunday — will start or follow an opener on Saturday.Miley went on the injured list Wednesday, one day after the injury originally thought to be a lat strain caused him to leave a game after throwing only 22 pitches. He underwent additional tests on Thursday.Counsell said the muscle involved controls movement of the scapula and is not a common throwing injury.“Because this is more unknown side, there’s going to be some wiggle room there,” Counsell said of the recovery timeframe.Yelich started Friday hitting .333 (16 of 48) ...

Lakers looking for boost after falling behind Denver in conference finals

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:57:39 GMT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Although the Los Angeles Lakers’ late-season transformation is one of this NBA season’s best stories, LeBron James and his teammates finally appear to be running out of steam in the Western Conference finals.They’ve also finally run into an opponent capable of making sure this story doesn’t have a completely happy ending.After looking weary and mistake-prone in Denver during their first back-to-back losses in over two months, the Lakers face a must-win Game 3 Saturday.Los Angeles has been on a prolonged roll ever since the trade deadline, going 27-12 while surging into the playoff picture, winning a play-in game and knocking out two higher-seeded opponents in six games. But that roll has finally been slowed by Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray and the respect-hungry Nuggets, whose superior late-game play was the reason they’re up 2-0.“This is not the NCAA Tournament,” James said. “It’s the first team to four wins. We have an opportunity to go home and p...

PGA Live Updates | Spieth, Rahm among those flirting with cut at PGA Championship

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:57:39 GMT

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler has joined Corey Conners in a share of the lead at the PGA Championship. Way down the leaderboard, there’s another race going on.Who gets to return to Oak Hill on Saturday?The cut was shaping up to be 5-over par, and every shot matters to Masters champion Jon Rahm and Jordan Spieth.Rahm was one shot outside the cut line until he made birdies on the 13th and 14th holes to get to 4 over. Spieth was moving in the right direction until he bogeyed the 11th, made double bogey on the 12th and a bogey on the 14th to fall to 6 over. Spieth was in a bunker in front of the reachable par-4 14th hole and sent that over the fence and out-of-bounds.He bounced back with a birdie on the 15th and was right on the cut line at 5 over.Among those certain to miss was Talor Gooch. That’s only significant because Gooch is No. 63 in the world. The top 60 after this week are exempt into the U.S. Open. Gooch did not enter qualifying, and therefore won’...

Jim Brown’s Records

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:57:39 GMT

Jim Brown’s RecordsThe National Football League records held by Jim Brown who played from 1957-1965 with the Cleveland Browns:Most seasons leading league rushing — 8, 1957-61, 1963-65.Most consecutive seasons leading league rushing — 5, 1957-61.Most seasons leading league in rushing attempts — 6, 1958-59, 1961, 1963-65.Most rushing yards per game average, career: 104.3, 1957-65.Fewest games to reach 12,000 career rushing yard: 115, 1957-1965.Most seasons leading league in rushing touchdowns — 5, 1957-59, 1963, 1965.Most consecutive seasons leading league in touchdowns — 3, 1957-59 (tied).Most seasons leading league in yards from scrimmage — 6, 1958-59, 1961, 1963-65.Most seasons leading league, combined net yards: 5, 1958-61, 1964.Most consecutive seasons leading league, combined net yards: 4, 1958-61.Highest average yards from scrimmage per game, career (100 games): 125.52 (14,811 yards/118 games)1957-65.Most rushing touchdowns, one half: 4, Nov. 18, 1962.First 1,500 yard rus...