I had some random money in Capital One Money Market but it's giving me only 0.80% so I opened their 360 Performance Savings which has fluctuating interest rate. Today it is 4.3% but I think it was close to 5% last month. I moved some other money there too while I decide what do to with it next.
our wells fargo money market account is some trivial amount. The cash back from my apple card goes into their 4.15% savings and my Wise account (for when I need to get money to the 18 y.o. in the UK) is offering 4.3% on dollar balances
For sale. 4,939 square foot house in Las Vegas, 8/6. Price cut $125k to $1.15m. There enough room to hang all of your sports memorabilia. Well, unless you're the previous owner.
Alex Cora protests that Verlander is taking too long and deserves a pitch clock violation. Verlander says "I didn't shake [off the pitch signal at] that at bat. Verlander then invites Mr. Cora to have carnal relations in a more private location.
Fresh off a ten-hit, 6-4 victory over the visiting Kansas City Royals, our Oakland Athletics faced off against the Royals in game two of the three-game series tonight in Oakland. The 35-90 last place A’s are still five games behind the 40-87 Royals, but the Royals have lost their last three and seven of their last ten games.
Tonight, Dany Jiménez (0-1, 6.75 ERA) got his first career start, serving as an opener for the A’s. He faced lefty Angel Zerpa who is 1-1 with a 6.08 ERA. This was only Zerpa’s second start of the 2023 campaign.
Yes... HA HA HA... YES! Kyle Harrison delivered on a promise. The San Francisco Giants just might have their next big pitching prospect. He had as much hype around him as any rookie the Giants have ever had and he didn’t disappoint tonight in his major league debut.
65 pitches, 5 strikeouts, 1 walk. Topped out at 97 mph with his four-seamer. Dominated an elite group of hitters with his fastball. The majority of major league hitters can handle a four-seamer just fine. The weird part of the night was how he handled the righties better than the lefties in the Phillies’ lineup, but I think that’s to be expected with a secondary pitch either handedness seemed to be able to spot right away.
Bobby Miller was better than his final line would suggest, but late issues and a blowup outing for Caleb Ferguson gave the Dodgers an 8-3 loss at the hands of the Guardians on Tuesday night in Cleveland.
The Dodgers started off hot, but cooled off massively against Noah Syndergaard, as the veteran clawed his way into a quality start.
[WaPo] Trump mapped out his 2024 economic plan to advisors. Based on three people who claimed to be there, the everyone was aghast that his central policy is to impose an universal 10% tariff on anything imported, a policy suggested by Robert Lighthizer - a lawyer for 43 years before becoming Donald Trump's trade secretary. It was Lighthizer who convinced Trump that trade wars were good and - somehow - Trump convinced himself that foreigners - not American consumers - paid tariffs. This would re-ignite inflation, set off a global trade war, and disrupt supply chains yet again. One person in the article pointed out that the tariff was a tool so that people could bribe Trump to create exceptions.
All that Trump cares about is that tariffs work in *his* favor. It's just another form of corruption, just like stupid high permit fees and timelines, like in San Francisco. Ess Eff Silly Hall is filthy. Filthy, I tell you.
ABC investigation indicates that one of Trump's Mar-A-Lago employees - the IT director who was allegedly instructed to destroy the security video files and failed to adequately do so by flooding the server room by draining the pool into it - has apparently flipped on Trump, retracted his previous false statements after being threatened by Jack Smith with a letter noting that he knows he committed perjury, and is now cooperating.
T... two hundred and fourteen for half a year? In my mind, I picture a clear acrylic barrel - like the type they throw nail clipper and scissors in - except it's two-thirds filled with handguns.
It's ahead of Reagan National which is only at 22. Last week an airline employee was caught with a loaded gun by TSA. News didn't name the airline or what job the employee holds.
I can see a corner of the Gateway project and the Anchor House project as I walk to BART in the morning. If I'm in the area of Hearst and Spruce around 6:30 a.m., workers are arriving at both sites.
BERKELEY – The California men's soccer team opens the 2023 season in North Carolina, where the Golden Bears take on a pair of nationally ranked opponents in UNC Greensboro on Thursday and Wake Forest on Sunday. Thursday will mark Cal's first meeting with the Spartans, while the Bears hold a 2-1-0 all-time record against the Demon Deacons.
California men's soccer senior Wyatt Meyer was named to the Preseason All-Pac-12 Team, the Conference announced Tuesday.
A talented central defender and defensive midfielder, the Berkeley native was named to of the 2022 All-Pac-12 Second Team after starting 16 games and posting a career-best three assists last season.
The well-rounded Meyer – an English major who's pursuing a minor in history – also earned kudos for his work in the classroom, as he was named to the 2022 Pac-12 Fall Academic Team and to the College Sports Communicators' Academic All-District Team.
SAN JOSE – As the first day of classes approaches for UC Berkeley's student body, California men's gymnastics junior Tyler Shimizu will have one extra thing on his mind – the Xfinity U.S. Championships, held at the nearby SAP Center in San Jose this year. The meet has the highest stakes of Shimizu's young career, as he will be going toe-to-toe with many of the nation's best gymnasts competing for a spot on this fall's Team USA squad. The top-10 finishers in the all-around will earn spots on the national team; Shimizu himself will be competing in the floor exercise, pommel horse and parallel bars.
Shimizu earned a berth to the national meet with a 12th-place all-around finish at this year's NCAA Championships, posting a score of 79.398 as one of the top-six gymnasts who had not already pre-qualified.
SACRAMENTO – Archie Williams, a former track & field star who was a member of the Cal Athletics Hall of Fame inaugural class, is set to receive posthumous honors Tuesday as the California Museum (a private, non-profit institution focused on the history and culture of the State of California history) inducts him and six other notable figures into the California Hall of Fame.
To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, each inductee must have lived in California for at least five years and "made achievements benefiting the state, nation and world while inspiring others to pursue their dreams." All 156 members of the Hall, which is now on its 16th annual class, were handpicked by that year's Governor and First Lady/First Partner.
BERKELEY – California men's and women's cross country hit the ground running in Berkeley this past week just a fortnight ahead of the season opener at the USF Invitational on Sept. 1. A pack of 31 Golden Bears convened at Edwards Stadium to officially open the 2023 campaign.
Cal cross country has a five-fixture slate on the docket, with the Bears set to travel all across Northern California and the Pacific Northwest this fall. The team will begin in its own backyard for the USF Invite in San Francisco, then travels to Oregon for the Bill Dellinger Invitational before returning to the Bay Area for the Bronco Invitational hosted by Santa Clara. Postseason action will commence with the conference championships in Chambers Bay, Washington before Cal competes at the NCAA West Regionals in Sacramento.
strictly speaking he got paid to leave but that still doesn't change the fact that it was an impermissible family benefit. I think this is about getting the Heisman back tbh
Interesting complex of Native American mounds not far from Tuscaloosa. Complex boasted a population of around 10k folks 800 years ago, before the coming of Cristobal Colon and after him, the Spaniards under de Soto who marched across the SE looking for gold and the seven cities of Cibola.
At least 10 people died in the crash of a Wagner-linked private plane outside Moscow, according to Russia’s emergency services. Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who led a failed mutiny in June, was on the plane’s manifest, according to state-run outlet RIA, citing the country’s aviation authority.
Prigozhin had largely disappeared from the public eye after leading the short-lived rebellion, which saw his mercenary fighters briefly occupy a military headquarters in southern Russia and march on the capital, shocking President Vladimir Putin and the country’s military leadership. Under a deal brokered with Putin by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin agreed to call off the mutiny in exchange for pardons and the ability to relocate his fighters to Belarus.
Since then, Prigozhin has been spotted in his hometown of St. Petersburg attending a Russia-Africa summit, and in a blurry video shot in near-darkness that purported to show him instructing his troops in Belarus on how to conduct themselves on their new base in exile.
DBD Street Journal
What interest rates are you getting on your bank accounts?
My wife just told me that Vanguard money market - the default fund you get if you just put cash in and don't do anything with it - gets over 5%.
Update: VMFXX yield is currently 5.27%
https://advisors.vanguard.com/investments/products/vmfxx/vanguard-federal-money-market-fund
4.25% on my Citi high-yield online savings account. 0.5% at my local credit union 😞
I had some random money in Capital One Money Market but it's giving me only 0.80% so I opened their 360 Performance Savings which has fluctuating interest rate. Today it is 4.3% but I think it was close to 5% last month. I moved some other money there too while I decide what do to with it next.
4.25% APY on my Ally savings account.
our wells fargo money market account is some trivial amount. The cash back from my apple card goes into their 4.15% savings and my Wise account (for when I need to get money to the 18 y.o. in the UK) is offering 4.3% on dollar balances
For sale. 4,939 square foot house in Las Vegas, 8/6. Price cut $125k to $1.15m. There enough room to hang all of your sports memorabilia. Well, unless you're the previous owner.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2590-E-Viking-Rd-Las-Vegas-NV-89121/7090248_zpid/?
Bathroom decor suggests… not an SMU fan?
That is dreadful.
Rescue
Pucker
https://twitter.com/10NewsFirst/status/1694174928013070356
Dude gets rescued after his stereotypical beach-drawn SOS works
https://twitter.com/USCGSoutheast/status/1694051017145417838
Me…solid first couple of seasons in the Denis Leary show.
PRO
49ers name Trey Lance as QB3. Oof.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1694420004827988058?s=46&t=B722FHwDcAQyy68mYajTNg
Update: Lance not at practice.
https://twitter.com/MaioccoNBCS/status/1694430099901477161
Alex Cora protests that Verlander is taking too long and deserves a pitch clock violation. Verlander says "I didn't shake [off the pitch signal at] that at bat. Verlander then invites Mr. Cora to have carnal relations in a more private location.
https://twitter.com/MLBMetrics/status/1694160337694593330
The Yankees are in LLLLLLLLLast place
https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings
Their longest losing streak since 1941. Which is glorious.
Lamar Odom gets roasted for having a Michael-Scott-esque flat screen TV. Goes out and gets a new one.
https://twitter.com/LamarOdom/status/1693484655989956628
Q.Ron Rodgers loses his $3m State Farm endorsement deal
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2023/08/22/aaron-rodgers-spokesperson-state-farm/70654480007/
Patrick mahomes takes over as the main spokesperson.
Athletics defeat Royals 5-4 in Oakland
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/8/22/23842558/athletics-royals-diaz-gelof-oakland
Fresh off a ten-hit, 6-4 victory over the visiting Kansas City Royals, our Oakland Athletics faced off against the Royals in game two of the three-game series tonight in Oakland. The 35-90 last place A’s are still five games behind the 40-87 Royals, but the Royals have lost their last three and seven of their last ten games.
Tonight, Dany Jiménez (0-1, 6.75 ERA) got his first career start, serving as an opener for the A’s. He faced lefty Angel Zerpa who is 1-1 with a 6.08 ERA. This was only Zerpa’s second start of the 2023 campaign.
Yay! But man that was close.
Kyle Harrison has a good debut as Giants lose, 4-3
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/8/22/23842305/san-francisco-giants-final-score-kyle-harrison-has-a-good-debut-as-giants-lose-4-3
Yes... HA HA HA... YES! Kyle Harrison delivered on a promise. The San Francisco Giants just might have their next big pitching prospect. He had as much hype around him as any rookie the Giants have ever had and he didn’t disappoint tonight in his major league debut.
65 pitches, 5 strikeouts, 1 walk. Topped out at 97 mph with his four-seamer. Dominated an elite group of hitters with his fastball. The majority of major league hitters can handle a four-seamer just fine. The weird part of the night was how he handled the righties better than the lefties in the Phillies’ lineup, but I think that’s to be expected with a secondary pitch either handedness seemed to be able to spot right away.
Watching Gamecast of Doval blowing the save was particularly discouraging. But nothing Giants fans haven't seen before.
Giants are in a really tough schedule stretch and it's going about as you'd expect.
Dodgers held in check by Noah Syndergaard, Caleb Ferguson blows Bobby Miller’s lead in loss to Guardians
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/8/22/23842405/dodgers-bobby-miller-caleb-ferguson-noah-syndergaard-guardians
Bobby Miller was better than his final line would suggest, but late issues and a blowup outing for Caleb Ferguson gave the Dodgers an 8-3 loss at the hands of the Guardians on Tuesday night in Cleveland.
The Dodgers started off hot, but cooled off massively against Noah Syndergaard, as the veteran clawed his way into a quality start.
DBD AV CLUB
OUR CRUMBLNG DEMOCRACY
[WaPo] Trump mapped out his 2024 economic plan to advisors. Based on three people who claimed to be there, the everyone was aghast that his central policy is to impose an universal 10% tariff on anything imported, a policy suggested by Robert Lighthizer - a lawyer for 43 years before becoming Donald Trump's trade secretary. It was Lighthizer who convinced Trump that trade wars were good and - somehow - Trump convinced himself that foreigners - not American consumers - paid tariffs. This would re-ignite inflation, set off a global trade war, and disrupt supply chains yet again. One person in the article pointed out that the tariff was a tool so that people could bribe Trump to create exceptions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/22/trump-trade-tariffs/
It is impressive in a way that trump doesn’t understand what tariffs are and literally nobody can get it through his head
Like it doesn’t matter how much you try, he’s never getting it straight
Insert (I don't care.gif) here.
All that Trump cares about is that tariffs work in *his* favor. It's just another form of corruption, just like stupid high permit fees and timelines, like in San Francisco. Ess Eff Silly Hall is filthy. Filthy, I tell you.
Indicted fake Georgia elector declares in a court filing that he falsely certified himself as an elector on Trump's instructions.
https://www.axios.com/2023/08/22/georgia-fake-elector-trump
ABC investigation indicates that one of Trump's Mar-A-Lago employees - the IT director who was allegedly instructed to destroy the security video files and failed to adequately do so by flooding the server room by draining the pool into it - has apparently flipped on Trump, retracted his previous false statements after being threatened by Jack Smith with a letter noting that he knows he committed perjury, and is now cooperating.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/recent-obstruction-charges-trump-cooperation-mar-lago-worker/story?id=102431568
John Eastman was the first to surrender and post bail at the Fulton County jail... because he's busy with other stuff
https://www.gazettextra.com/news/nation_world/john-eastmans-bar-trial-resumes-a-week-after-he-was-indicted-with-trump-and-others/article_5292e573-ce74-5e7b-9c35-273414776703.html
Apropos: here's John Eastman's mug shot
https://www.ajc.com/politics/first-mug-shots-in-trump-georgia-election-case-released/AMDXQP2OF5HCTGE6EYCY3D2OPQ/
Its mid-August. The Pittsburgh airport has confiscated its 26th handgun that someone tried to bring onto a plane this year.
https://www.wtae.com/article/pittsburgh-international-airport-gun-indiana-county/44880509
214 confiscated Jan 1-June 30 2023 at the Atlanta airport. SOOOOOO many guns around in this open carry state. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/tsa-has-found-more-guns-hartsfield-jackson-airport-than-any-other-city-us-officials-say/SZUODFJ4JZEABAOLGP3FSRG35Y/
T... two hundred and fourteen for half a year? In my mind, I picture a clear acrylic barrel - like the type they throw nail clipper and scissors in - except it's two-thirds filled with handguns.
It's ahead of Reagan National which is only at 22. Last week an airline employee was caught with a loaded gun by TSA. News didn't name the airline or what job the employee holds.
CAL
Go Bears!!!
An update regarding new construction on and near campus
https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/08/21/flurry-of-major-campus-construction-projects-to-mark-new-academic-year
I can see a corner of the Gateway project and the Anchor House project as I walk to BART in the morning. If I'm in the area of Hearst and Spruce around 6:30 a.m., workers are arriving at both sites.
Bear hug
https://twitter.com/calmbball/status/1694171711992979815?s=46&t=GQgGzEvm18uQQTwlNk7fFw
[MSOC] Cal Starts Season In North Carolina
https://calbears.com/news/2023/8/22/mens-soccer-cal-starts-season-in-north-carolina.aspx
BERKELEY – The California men's soccer team opens the 2023 season in North Carolina, where the Golden Bears take on a pair of nationally ranked opponents in UNC Greensboro on Thursday and Wake Forest on Sunday. Thursday will mark Cal's first meeting with the Spartans, while the Bears hold a 2-1-0 all-time record against the Demon Deacons.
They should go beat UNC soccer team
[MSOC] Wyatt Meyer Chosen To Preseason All-Pac-12 Team
https://calbears.com/news/2023/8/22/mens-soccer-wyatt-meyer-chosen-to-preseason-all-pac-12-team.aspx
California men's soccer senior Wyatt Meyer was named to the Preseason All-Pac-12 Team, the Conference announced Tuesday.
A talented central defender and defensive midfielder, the Berkeley native was named to of the 2022 All-Pac-12 Second Team after starting 16 games and posting a career-best three assists last season.
The well-rounded Meyer – an English major who's pursuing a minor in history – also earned kudos for his work in the classroom, as he was named to the 2022 Pac-12 Fall Academic Team and to the College Sports Communicators' Academic All-District Team.
[MGYM] Shimizu Heads To U.S. Championships
https://calbears.com/news/2023/8/22/mens-gymnastics-shimizu-heads-to-us-championships.aspx
SAN JOSE – As the first day of classes approaches for UC Berkeley's student body, California men's gymnastics junior Tyler Shimizu will have one extra thing on his mind – the Xfinity U.S. Championships, held at the nearby SAP Center in San Jose this year. The meet has the highest stakes of Shimizu's young career, as he will be going toe-to-toe with many of the nation's best gymnasts competing for a spot on this fall's Team USA squad. The top-10 finishers in the all-around will earn spots on the national team; Shimizu himself will be competing in the floor exercise, pommel horse and parallel bars.
Shimizu earned a berth to the national meet with a 12th-place all-around finish at this year's NCAA Championships, posting a score of 79.398 as one of the top-six gymnasts who had not already pre-qualified.
[T&F] Archie Williams To Be Inducted Into California Hall Of Fame
https://calbears.com/news/2023/8/22/track-field-archie-williams-to-be-inducted-into-california-hall-of-fame.aspx
SACRAMENTO – Archie Williams, a former track & field star who was a member of the Cal Athletics Hall of Fame inaugural class, is set to receive posthumous honors Tuesday as the California Museum (a private, non-profit institution focused on the history and culture of the State of California history) inducts him and six other notable figures into the California Hall of Fame.
To be eligible for the Hall of Fame, each inductee must have lived in California for at least five years and "made achievements benefiting the state, nation and world while inspiring others to pursue their dreams." All 156 members of the Hall, which is now on its 16th annual class, were handpicked by that year's Governor and First Lady/First Partner.
[XC] Back In Camp: Cross Country
https://calbears.com/news/2023/8/22/back-in-camp-cross-country.aspx
BERKELEY – California men's and women's cross country hit the ground running in Berkeley this past week just a fortnight ahead of the season opener at the USF Invitational on Sept. 1. A pack of 31 Golden Bears convened at Edwards Stadium to officially open the 2023 campaign.
Cal cross country has a five-fixture slate on the docket, with the Bears set to travel all across Northern California and the Pacific Northwest this fall. The team will begin in its own backyard for the USF Invite in San Francisco, then travels to Oregon for the Bill Dellinger Invitational before returning to the Bay Area for the Bronco Invitational hosted by Santa Clara. Postseason action will commence with the conference championships in Chambers Bay, Washington before Cal competes at the NCAA West Regionals in Sacramento.
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Huskies lose starting RB for the season. Cal travels to UW in Week 4.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38240720/washington-huskies-lose-rb-cam-davis-season
Reggie Bush filed a defamation lawsuit against the NCAA for claiming that he got "paid to play". I don't understand you, Reggie.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38242433/ex-usc-star-reggie-bush-file-defamation-lawsuit-ncaa
strictly speaking he got paid to leave but that still doesn't change the fact that it was an impermissible family benefit. I think this is about getting the Heisman back tbh
Alabama
Per US News & Report, the University of Alabama is the third best university in Alabama
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/al?schoolType=national-universities&_sort=rank&_sortDirection=asc
Yeee -- OUCH, I'm not telling my sister about this - she's coming out to root against Auburn in a couple weeks.
https://moundville.museums.ua.edu/about/
Interesting complex of Native American mounds not far from Tuscaloosa. Complex boasted a population of around 10k folks 800 years ago, before the coming of Cristobal Colon and after him, the Spaniards under de Soto who marched across the SE looking for gold and the seven cities of Cibola.
Roll
Tootsie
…a fantastic movie starring Dustin Hoffman as Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels/Emily Kimberly/Edward Kimberly….
Agreed - and surprisingly has aged very well.
Rock 'n
Been a long time since I...
I think I found the gold helmet from the Joe Roth era
I meant to reply to that house in vegas
Defenestration can take different forms...
Ukraine live briefing: Plane believed to be carrying Wagner chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin crashes in Russia, according to Russian state media
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/23/russia-ukraine-war-news/
At least 10 people died in the crash of a Wagner-linked private plane outside Moscow, according to Russia’s emergency services. Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who led a failed mutiny in June, was on the plane’s manifest, according to state-run outlet RIA, citing the country’s aviation authority.
Prigozhin had largely disappeared from the public eye after leading the short-lived rebellion, which saw his mercenary fighters briefly occupy a military headquarters in southern Russia and march on the capital, shocking President Vladimir Putin and the country’s military leadership. Under a deal brokered with Putin by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Prigozhin agreed to call off the mutiny in exchange for pardons and the ability to relocate his fighters to Belarus.
Since then, Prigozhin has been spotted in his hometown of St. Petersburg attending a Russia-Africa summit, and in a blurry video shot in near-darkness that purported to show him instructing his troops in Belarus on how to conduct themselves on their new base in exile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR3fD5YyN3g
At least he didn't throw himself off a roof.
Or fall off a balcony
Or fall down “several” flights of stairs