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She secretly funds psychedelic trips for Bay Area firefighters. Is this the future of mental health treatment?

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:14 GMT

For Angela Graham, it all started eight years ago.Nearly two decades of encountering disturbing scenes while on the job triggered extreme anxiety, nightmares and uncontrollable anger in the retired Santa Clara County firefighter. She tried talk therapy, medication and a treatment that involves moving one’s eyes in a specific pattern while processing traumatic memories called EMDR.But none of it really worked for her.Then, through an acquaintance, Graham discovered a clinic in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico, that offers guided psychedelic trips with mushrooms and DMT to help people heal from mental health problems. The psychedelic journey she took last year felt like “being turned inside out” — and jumpstarted her road to recovery.“You know, I’m not a hippie,” said Graham, who retired in June after 17 years. “But they might have been on to something.”The experience was so life-altering and cathartic that it pushed Graham to form the S.I.R.E.N....

Readers challenge the math, but agree idling engines emit a LOT of carbon, carbon dioxide: Roadshow

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:14 GMT

Q: A gallon of gas burned puts over 26 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, not 20, as a reader stated earlier this week. I think all high school chemistry teachers should have students make this calculation.All you need is the formula for gas (C8H16), its density (73% that of water), first chemical principles involving molecular weight, and liter-gallon conversion.John AntounA: Yours was one of several responses I got on that.Q: Mr. Ortendahl claimed that burning a gallon of gasoline released 20 pounds of carbon into the atmosphere. Instead, it’s 20 pounds of carbon dioxide released.I am whole-heartedly in favor of his point about better light timing. Any engine idling creates unnecessary pollution.Luther Abel, AlamedaA: And…Q: There are 5.5 pounds of carbon in a gallon of gas. After combustion, 20 pounds of carbon dioxide are emitted. Smarter lights would still make a huge difference. Why are we not seeing them? The technology has been around for a long time a...

One week after sullying the Women’s World Cup, Luis Rubiales is now a Spanish soccer outcast

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:14 GMT

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — One week after the president of the Spanish soccer federation kissed a player during the Women’s World Cup awards ceremony, his reputation is in tatters and he’s out of his job.Luis Rubiales, whose leadership of Spanish soccer had already been marked by successes tinged with scandal, wrecked his career by offending millions worldwide with his conduct at the final in Sydney, Australia, when he also grabbed his crotch in a victory gesture.“Rubiales cannot run Spanish soccer again,” Spanish minister María Jesús Montero said Sunday, a day after he was provisionally suspended by FIFA for 90 days.“We had enough of him when he marred the great triumph of women’s soccer with his intolerable attitude.”FIFA moved against Rubiales after he refused to step down and defiantly told an emergency assembly of his federation on Friday that he was the victim of a “witch hunt” by “false feminists.”On a day that will go down as one of the ugliest in Spanish soccer, Rubiales...

A school bus driver fostered a decades-long bond with his students

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:14 GMT

Watch Video: School bus driver fosters bond with hundreds of studentsZelienople, Pennsylvania — On the outside, it may look like a normal family reunion. But Reid Moon of Zelienople, Pennsylvania, is no ordinary patriarch. And this is no ordinary family.Moon says he has about 200 kids. But no, they’re not his biological children.“No, they’re not biologically my kids, but emotionally they surely are,” Moon told CBS News.That is how attached he became and still is to the students who rode his school bus, a job he held for 27 years before he retired.However, it wasn’t exactly his first choice of employment. He said he “sort of fell into the job.”Not sort of, he did fall into the job. In 1990, he fell off a roof while working as a handyman. After that, he wanted a job closer to the ground. But, ironically, he said no job has ever lifted him higher.“It’s the children,” Moon said. “And being in a position where you can lov...

2 people in their 70s die in Frederick Co. house fire

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:14 GMT

Two people died when their home in Frederick County, Maryland, caught fire on Aug. 27, 2023.(Courtesy Frederick County Sheriff's Office) Two people died when their home in Frederick County, Maryland, caught fire on Aug. 27, 2023.(Courtesy Frederick County Sheriff's Office) Two people are dead following a house fire in Frederick County, Maryland, early Sunday morning.Thomas Wiles, 74, and Joy Wiles, 75, died in a house fire in the 6800 block of Stonewall Court East in Adamstown just before 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, according to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office.A third person was found unharmed and was rescued from a basement apartment in the home.The 911 call came shortly after 2 a.m., according to the sherif...

National Cinema Day is back with $4 movie tickets

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:14 GMT

New York (CNN) — If you haven’t seen some of the summer’s hottest blockbusters, there’s no time like the present.Sunday is the second annual National Cinema Day. At more than 3,000 participating theaters across the country the price of a movie ticket is just $4. The last time the average movie ticket was priced this low was in 1989, according to survey data from the National Association of Theatre Owners. Last year, the average ticket price was $10.53.Theaters have been working to regain their footing post-pandemic. Summer hits like “Barbie” have helped buoy sales numbers, with AMC seeing its highest quarterly attendance since 2019. But movie theater chain AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc is still millions in debt and the ongoing strike by Hollywood actors and writers has caused film production to screech to a halt. National Cinema Day could give the theater business a boost.Last year’s Cinema Day, when tickets were only $3, drew 8 million participants and raked in $23.8 million at th...

Do you have ‘gymtimidation’? Here’s how to fix it

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:14 GMT

(CNN) — It happens to every gymgoer at some point. You’re getting ready to head to the gym or begin using a piece of equipment, and suddenly you feel stressed and anxious. Maybe it’s because of what you’re wearing, a lack of fitness or uncertainty about how a group class will operate. These negative feelings — dubbed “gymtimidation” — are real, and they can prevent you from achieving your fitness goals. That’s a real problem, experts say.There is a wealth of evidence that being physically fit is key to preventing chronic illness and death. Staying active also helps you sleep better, reach or maintain a healthy weight, and control your blood pressure. In addition, exercise is a powerful force in combating stress, anxiety and depression — a real irony when it comes to the issue of gymtimidation.“Gym anxiety affects people who are young, old, male and female,” said Brookelyn Suddell, director of group fitness strategy and development for Crunch Fitness in New York City. “It affects peo...

Accidente aéreo durante entrenamiento deja tres soldados estadounidenses muertos

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:14 GMT

Tres marines murieron cuando un avión se estrelló en una isla frente a la costa norte de Australia durante un ejercicio de entrenamiento multinacional, dijo el Cuerpo de Marines en un comunicado este domingo.El avión de rotor basculante MV-22B Osprey se estrelló “mientras transportaba tropas durante un ejercicio de entrenamiento de rutina” en la isla Melville, al norte de Darwin, según el comunicado.Otros cinco en “estado grave” fueron transportados al Hospital Royal Darwin a unas 60 millas al sur de la isla, según el comunicado. “Había un total de 23 personas a bordo”, añadió.Un portavoz confirmó a NBC News que todos los que estaban a bordo eran marines.“Los marines a bordo del avión volaban en apoyo del ejercicio Predators Run”, decía el comunicado, y agrega que “la causa del incidente está bajo investigación”. Desplome de helicóptero militar de EEUU deja al menos tres muertos y varios heridos Muere el pi...

Fire sparks in kitchen of Davie home, 2 transported to hospital

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:14 GMT

Fire rescue crews and police responded to a fire that initiated in the kitchen of a home in a Davie townhouse complex. The flames ignited in a house located on the 11000 block of Southwest 15th Manor, around 6:15 a.m. on Sunday.Davie Fire Department reported one adult and one child that sustained smoke inhalation, both were transported to Broward Health Medical Center in serious condition.American Red Cross is assisting approximately 10 adults and 10 children from other units who have been displaced at least for the night.The fire remains under investigation.Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.

A US Marine Osprey crashes during drills in Australia, killing 3 and injuring 20, some critically

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:21:14 GMT

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A United States Marine Corps aircraft with 23 Marines aboard crashed on a north Australian island Sunday, killing at least three and critically injuring at least five during a multinational training exercise, officials said.Three had been confirmed dead on Melville Island and five were flown in serious condition 80 kilometers (50 miles) to the mainland city of Darwin for hospital treatment after the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey aircraft crashed around 9:30 a.m., a statement from the Marines said.“Recovery efforts are ongoing,” the statement said, adding the cause of the crash was under investigation.Aircraft had been sent from Darwin to retrieve more survivors from the remote location but no further details on the fate of the other 15 Marines on board had been released hours later.A U.S. military official reported to Australian air traffic controllers a “significant fire in the vicinity of the crash site,” according to an audio recording of the conversation bro...