Veteran starter David Price offers to move to the bullpen if it helps the Dodgers
“I expect to be ready to start by the regular season,” Price said. “It settled me down and got me into the flow of the game.”AdvertisementDodgers David Price throws during spring training at Camelback Ranch on in Phoenix. Two of Price’s fastballs were clocked at 94 mph and three hit 93 mph. If I can get it up to 94-95 and maybe even more, that’s a good sign.”Was Dodgers manager Dave Roberts surprised to see Price hit 94 mph? AdvertisementWho fills what roles will be determined, but at least one veteran starter is willing to accept a Price reduction.
Source:Los Angeles Times
March 09, 2021 00:56 UTC
Capitol security review identifies deficiencies as Congress debates upgrades
Honoré’s recommendations call for an additional 854 positions in the Capitol Police ranks, on top of 233 positions that are open now. According to their findings, threats to lawmakers have increased fourfold since a year ago, both within D.C. and in members’ home states. Such an approach would allow the public regular access to the Capitol grounds but allow law enforcement to quickly shut down the area. Democrats emerging from Monday’s briefings welcomed the task force’s recommendations as common-sense responses to safeguard against threats of domestic terrorism. It’s not just security,” Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) said after a briefing Monday afternoon.
Source:Washington Post
March 08, 2021 22:39 UTC
Meet 30 Inspirational Women This Women’s History Month
She is also global chair of the 30% Club and the chair of the Financial Alliance for Women, working to combat gender and race inequality at board and senior management levels. Sarafina El-Badry NanceEl-Badry Nance is an Egyptian-American astrophysicist, science communicator, & women's health advocate. Opeyemi SofolukeSofoluke is the EMEA Lead for Global Technology, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) at J.P. Morgan. She is a digital ambassador for for All Bright as well as being a contributor and talent spotter for Women’s Health magazine. She has done this in addition to a significant amount of work around the world working with inner city youth.
Source:Forbes
March 08, 2021 21:33 UTC
Sophia Loren and Haile Gerima are the honorees of Academy Museum’s opening gala
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures announced Tuesday that its gala leading up to the Los Angeles museum’s Sept. 30 opening will honor actress Sophia Loren and Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima. The gala, to be held Sept. 25, will celebrate Loren as recipient of the museum’s inaugural annual Visionary Award, honoring an artist or scholar whose work has contributed to advances in cinema. AdvertisementOscar-nominated director Ava DuVernay — an advisor to the museum’s 2022 exhibition “Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971” — will co-chair the Sept. 25 gala along with producer Jason Blum and writer-director Ryan Murphy. In January film historian, scholar and archivist Jacqueline Stewart joined the museum as chief artistic and programming officer, overseeing exhibitions, programming and education. AdvertisementThe Academy Museum had originally planned to open on Dec. 14, 2020; that date was pushed to April 30, 2021, because of the pandemic, then again to Sept. 30.
Source:Los Angeles Times
March 08, 2021 21:00 UTC
Second thoughts on love at first sight
Steven Spielberg’s film left Andy awestruck. “Probably for the best,” wrote Ron. “He was an American living in Tangier and after seeing him for about a month I decided I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him,” wrote Eileen, of Delran, N.J. AD“Before we were set to leave the country, I called home to say goodbye to my mother,” Eileen wrote. Wrote Eileen: “Despite the paths not taken and my wonder at what my life might have been, I am content.
Source:Washington Post
March 08, 2021 21:00 UTC
Biden Cancels Visit to Vaccine Maker After Times Report on Its Tactics
Emergent has more than $600 million in contracts with the federal government to manufacture coronavirus vaccines and to expand its “fill-and-finish” capacity for completing the process of manufacturing vaccines and therapeutics. A senior administration official said only executives from Merck and Johnson & Johnson would attend the White House session on Wednesday. An Emergent spokeswoman did not immediately respond on Monday to questions about the cancellation. The spokeswoman, Nina DeLorenzo, had previously defended the company’s business with the government in written responses to questions, saying, “When almost no one else would invest in preparing to protect the American public from grave threats, Emergent did, and the country is better prepared today because of it.”The Times investigation focused on the stockpile, which became infamous during the coronavirus pandemic for its lack of critical supplies such as N95 masks and other personal protective equipment. When asked about The Times article during the White House press briefing on Monday, Ms. Psaki said, “The administration is going to undertake a comprehensive review and audit of the national stockpile.”Decisions about how to spend the repository’s limited budget are supposed to be based on careful assessments by government officials of how best to save lives, but The Times found that they were largely driven by the demands and financial interests of a handful of biotech companies that have specialized in products that address terrorist threats rather than infectious disease.
Source:New York Times
March 08, 2021 20:51 UTC
Tesla’s ‘Brutal Selloff’ Worsens, Market Value Losses Hit $300 Billion As Investors Move Away From Big Tech
The Tesla selloff steepened after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Thursday that inflation will rise as the economy recovers, a development that sent Treasury yields surging–and stocks tumbling. Surprising FactTesla, which carries about 1.5% of the S&P 500’s weight, is the worst-performing top ten stock in the index on Monday. That’s how much market value Tesla has lost since January 26, when the firm was worth about $848 billion. TangentIn February, value stocks outperformed growth stocks like Tesla by the widest margin since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, Bank of America said in a note to clients last Tuesday. “The difficulty today is that we have the most interest-rate-sensitive stock market in Wall Street history,” Jim Stack, the president of Whitefish, Montana’s InvesTech Research told Forbes in February.
Source:Forbes
March 08, 2021 20:36 UTC
Cuomo To Face Impeachment Effort In NY
ToplineRepublican state lawmakers are planning to introduce an impeachment resolution against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), the state assembly’s GOP leader announced Monday, as the beleaguered governor faces mounting pressure to resign—including from his own party’s leadership—amid accumulating allegations of inappropriate behavior. The New York governor is facing mounting pressure to resign amid accumulating allegations of sexual ... [+] harassment against him. John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPxKey FactsThe GOP’s state assembly leader, Will Barclay, announced his party’s plans to introduce the resolution at a press conference Monday afternoon. Further Reading“New York State Senate’s Top Democrat Calls On Cuomo To Resign After Fifth Accuser Comes Forward” (Forbes)“Two More Former Aides Accuse Cuomo Of Inappropriate Conduct” (Forbes)
Source:Forbes
March 08, 2021 20:26 UTC
Cubs, Sox to let some fans into stands as COVID numbers fall
Thousands of fans of the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox will get to see their teams play in person this season, Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced on Monday. That means the White Sox can admit as many as 8,122 fans to Guaranteed Rate Field beginning on opening day, and the Cubs will be allowed to admit as many as 8,274 fans per game. Major league teams have been announcing in recent weeks that fans will be allowed to return to stadiums. The Cubs open their season on April 1 against the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the White Sox play their home opener on April 8 against the Royals. "Can't wait to get to Wrigley and get the season started with some fans in the stands."
Source:Fox News
March 08, 2021 20:15 UTC
Meghan Markle Opens Up About Her Dad Thomas Markle's 'Betrayal'
“There was such an obsession about anything in my world, including tracking down my parents,” Meghan told Winfrey. “And I did everything I could to protect both of them in that media frenzy. But for over a year, the UK tabloids were trying to find my dad, offering people so much money to try to find his address.”Once they did, they descended on him gleefully, she said.
Source:Huffington Post
March 08, 2021 20:03 UTC
Capitol Police 'understaffed, insufficiently equipped' to handle violent mob: Lt. Gen. Honoré review
HONORE'S 'OFFENSIVE' COMMENTS SHOULD DISQUALIFY HIM FROM CAPITOL SECURITY REVIEW, REPUBLICANS TELL PELOSIHonoré's impartiality in conducting such a review in the first place has become a point of concern for Republicans, who cite his past disparaging comments made online against Capitol Police. National Guard troops currently supplement U.S. Capitol Police, "which is temporarily sufficient but not a permanent solution." Honoré reiterated that he made those statements before he was appointed to conduct the security review, McCarthy said. "Structure dictates behavior, and a Capitol Police Board dominated by political appointees is no way to maintain the security of the Capitol," McCarthy said. According to the report, Congress must direct Capitol Police to address immediate shortfalls, currently 233 officers, through enhanced recruiting and incentive programs.
Source:Fox News
March 08, 2021 19:52 UTC
Supreme Court Backs Georgia College Student’s Free Speech Suit
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a student in Georgia could pursue a lawsuit challenging speech restrictions at his college even though he sought only nominal damages. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority in the 8-to-1 decision, said a request for even a token sum, typically a dollar, satisfied the Constitution’s requirement that federal courts decide only actual cases or controversies in cases. The fact that the college had withdrawn the speech code challenged in the suit, he wrote, did not make the case moot. “Despite being small,” Justice Thomas wrote, “nominal damages are certainly concrete.”In a spirited dissent, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the majority’s approach will have the effect of “turning judges into advice columnists.”“If nominal damages can preserve a live controversy,” he wrote, “then federal courts will be required to give advisory opinions whenever a plaintiff tacks on a request for a dollar.”
Source:New York Times
March 08, 2021 19:52 UTC
Trump a likely factor in flurry of Senate GOP retirements
The acknowledgement that the GOP remains the party of Trump is likely a contributing factor in the increasing number of Senate Republican retirement announcements. "I think there's a growing recognition this is not the Republican Party of days of yore, still very much the party of Trump," Reed said. OLD GUARD SENATE REPUBLICANS ANNOUNCE 2022 RETIREMENTSTwo other Senate Republicans are also mulling retirements – 87-year old Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. "After President Obama won election in 2008, there were seven Senate GOP retirements, but that still didn't prevent Republicans from winning back six seats in the Senate two years later," Walsh pointed out. And the increasing number of Senate GOP retirements means more Republican primaries over the next year and a half.
Source:Fox News
March 08, 2021 19:52 UTC
NC woman adopted as infant discovers biological father is on FBI's Most Wanted list after DNA test
Kathy Gillcrist began searching for her biological parents in 2017, FOX Television Stations reported. Gilmor followed the clues that led to the revelation of Gillcrist's biological father, which was ultimately confirmed with DNA testing. Kathy Gillcrist was the product of a previous relationship between Bishop and a different woman, who gave her for adoption. "I was raised by people with a great sense of humor ... and I laughed," Gillcrist told the outlet. The FBI described Bishop as a longtime insomniac who reportedly had been under psychiatric care in the past and had used medication for depression.
Source:Fox News
March 08, 2021 19:41 UTC
These Homebuilding Stocks Will Keep Benefitting From A Hot, Pandemic-Related Housing Boom
Employees work in the roof assembly area of the Blueprint Robotics facility in Baltimore, Maryland, ... [+] U.S., on Tuesday, April 10, 2017. Major individual homebuilding stocks like LGI Homes (up 18.2%), Toll Brothers (up 24.3%), DR Horton (up 14.9%), Lennar (up 13.1%) and KB Homes (up 27.6%) have delivered outsized gains year-to-date. Reichardt also says that as the pandemic wanes, consumers may choose to purchase other big-ticket items – like vacations – instead of homes. Within the homebuilding sector, Reichardt is bullish on DR Horton, Taylor Morrison and Pulte Group. Key BackgroundA confluence of factors has contributed to a flourishing housing market that has benefitted homebuilding companies.
Source:Forbes
March 08, 2021 19:41 UTC