Third baseman J.D. Davis has agreed to a $2.5 million, one-year contract with the Oakland Athletics just days after he was released by San Francisco.
Davis can earn an additional $1 million in performance bonuses, according to a person who spoke to The Associated Press on Friday night on condition of anonymity because the agreement was pending a physical.
Davis, who turns 31 next month, was cut by the Giants on Monday after beating the team last month in salary arbitration. He was entitled to just over $1.1 million in termination pay rather than a $6.9 million salary.
Davis was awarded the salary by a three-person panel rather than the team’s $6.55 million offer.
Under baseball’s collective bargaining agreement, negotiated contracts for arbitration-eligible players are guaranteed, while salaries decided by an arbitration panel are not. That allowed the Giants to release Davis for 30 days’ termination pay, which came to $1,112,903.
Davis hit .248 with 18 homers and 69 RBIs last year with the Giants, who obtained him from the New York Mets in August 2022. He also plays first base and outfield, but he became expendable when the Giants agreed to a $54 million, three-year contract with third baseman Matt Chapman.
During spring training this year, Davis was 6 for 15 (.400) with two homers and six RBIs in six games.
Other former Giants now with the A’s are pitchers Scott Alexander, Ross Stripling, and Alex Wood.
Despite some progress on the gender wage gap, women still make less than men, with women of color suffering the most. (Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko / Pexels)
by Bria Overs
On this year’s Equal Pay Day, there’s little to celebrate. Although women now earn more than ever have, the gender wage gap persists. And they’re feeling the pain in this current economy and political climate.
In 2023, women earned, on average, 21.8% less than men, according to the Economic Policy Institute. While that’s better than 2022, where women made 22.9% less, it’s not necessarily because jobs are starting to pay better — and higher education and self-advocacy only improved wages so much. The EPI found that the pay improvement is likely because men’s wages have stagnated.
Research from the National Partnership for Women and Families found that women lose $1.6 trillion yearly because of the wage gap. “That’s a lot of money that we want in the pockets of women and their families,” Jocelyn Frye, president of the organization, says.
For Black, Latina, and Indigenous women, the wage gap problem is compounded by racial and gender discrimination, along with occupational segregation. These factors not only contribute to pay disparity with white men, but also Asian women and white women. Because of the type of jobs these women work, many of which are hourly positions with little to no options for retirement savings, health insurance, and other benefits, this pay discrepancy adds to the racial wealth gap for each racial and ethnic group.
Frye adds that Black and Latina mothers, in particular, are more often the primary or sole breadwinners of their families, making them the “key to economic stability for their families.”
“When you ensure that they can participate in the economy equally, then they will do better, and their families will do better,” she says. “We know that centering women of color and the economic narrative is really critical to the economic growth of our families and our nation.”
The Wage Gap and Reproductive Justice
When women enter motherhood, they are hit with the “motherhood penalty” — a unique phenomenon where women see a decline in their earnings that can last the rest of their working years.
But beyond that, since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, several states have made women’s reproductive health a legislative target. So far, 14 states have banned abortions, while 11 states have gestational limits between six and 22 weeks, according to KFF.
“Many of the attacks we see, we believe, have multiple effects as we’ve seen across the board,” Frye says. “It’s not just about abortion, it’s access to IVF, access to OBGYN care writ large, it’s maternal health. All of those things affect the economic stability of families.”
Businesses Could Help Solve the Gap
Both Frye and the Economic Policy Institute believe federal and state policymakers should do more to close the pay gap. In 2017, the Trump administration suspended an Obama-era wage gap initiative that required companies with 100 or more employees to confidentially report to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) what they pay employees, categorized by job type, sex, race, and ethnicity.
The Salary Transparency Act and Pay Equity for All Act were introduced in Congress in March 2023, but there has been no movement in the year since. States like California, Maryland, and New York have passed laws requiring salary ranges on job postings.
However state efforts only partially solve the pay gap issue because women could easily fall on the lower end of the salary range. Besides, some employers still ask for previous pay history, making it more challenging for women to negotiate pay that reflects their worth.
While the nation waits for legislation, business owners can help with this issue by examining and addressing how they pay women in their workplaces.
“We really have to rely on employers to do their own due diligence and to include race and gender into the analysis they do because many will say they are looking at their gender pay gap, but then won’t look deeper,” Frye says. They should “look at how they’re enforcing and ensuring they’re looking at their workforce on a regular basis to minimize inequality.”
‘It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year.’
Ex-Republican presidential contender Mike Pence evidently has an ax to grind with his former boss, saying unlike some GOP colleagues he won’t endorse Donald Trump.
In a Fox News interview Friday, the former vice president espoused resentment towards Trump, telling host Martha McCallum it “should come as no surprise” he won’t back his re-election bid.
“We have not heard from you,” McCallum told Pence. “Will you be endorsing your former president? You were on the ticket with him last time around.”
RINO scumbag Mike Pence says he will not be endorsing Trump in the 2024 election pic.twitter.com/tk72zhGUIh
“Well, Martha, I appreciate the question,” Pence responded, “and it should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year.”
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The refusal to support Trump sets Pence apart from other failed GOP presidential candidates, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, who endorsed Trump upon exiting the race and urged the same from their peers.
However, the move is similar to that of disgruntled neocon ex-candidate Nikki Haley, who rather than urging her followers to back the former president’s re-election bid instead bitterly said Trump had to earn their support.
Nikki Haley drops out of race and skips endorsement for Trump: “I wish him well..” pic.twitter.com/venOaCOVpF
The ex-VP’s grudge toward the former president had already been made clear when he announced he’d compete against Trump in the 2024 presidential race — only to bow out nine months later.
Pence also showed his true colors last August when he essentially celebrated Trump’s federal indictment by special prosecutor Jack Smith, saying it illustrated no one is above the law.
The former Indiana governor was later chastised by Iowa State Fair-goers, who called him a “traitor” as he toured the fairgrounds.
Some Trump supporters heckle Mike Pence as he arrives to a radio interview at the State Fair. “Pence is a traitor!” one yells. Appears like they were waiting for him. pic.twitter.com/0SDwI7d9d5
The rift between Pence and Trump, of course, stems from the events of January 6, 2021 where the former president called on the former vice president not to certify the states’ electoral votes during the Congressional session meant to formalize the 2020 presidential election results.
Pence’s latest betrayal solidifies his position as a traitorous minion of the Deep State and an enemy of America, failing to come to the country’s aid when it needs him most.
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for asking the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, to step aside amidst allegations of padding of the 2024 budget.
In a statement released on Friday by the APC’s national publicity secretary, Mr. Felix Morka, the party dismissed the PDP’s stance as ‘crass buffoonery’ and defended Akpabio, asserting that he had not committed anything wrong to warrant his resignation.
APC further lambasted the PDP for allegedly lacking focus and purpose, accusing it of hastily jumping to conclusions without considering facts or due process.
The ruling party urged the PDP to redirect its energy towards strengthening democracy and stabilizing the nation instead of interfering in Senate affairs.
The statement read, “Exactly how is the suspension of Senator Abdul Ningi without first referring the matter to a Senate standing committee proof of a cover up? How is a committee of the full Senate conducting an inquiry in the matter, in full public view on national television, less independent and transparent or in violation of the Senate’s standing rules or any other laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria?
“Contrary to the PDP’s twisted argument, the Senate neither violated its standing rules and orders nor the Constitution by not referring the matter to a relevant committee. Rather, placing the matter before the committee of the whole, under public scrutiny, underscored the premium the Senate placed on transparency in the conduct of its proceedings.
“It was clear for all to see that the author of the allegation was unable to offer any substantiation or justification.”
The party laughed off PDP’s call on the Senate President to submit himself to anti-graft agencies for investigation, pointing out the irony of such a recommendation coming from a party it said has a tainted record on corruption.
Morka said, “It is eerily comical that the PDP, a party with a sordid legacy of monumental corruption would suggest that the President of the Senate should turn himself to anti-graft agencies for investigation.
“This is the entity that turned graft and corruption to statecraft, the same entity that cannot account for funds raised for the building of its own national headquarters, making such a ridiculous call. The PDP should lead by example and heed its own call.”
APC reaffirmed the Senate’s authority to govern its proceedings and handle internal matters independently, emphasizing the transparency of its actions in addressing the allegations against Akpabio.
The party urged the PDP to lead by example and adhere to its own calls for accountability and transparency.
“The legislative authority of the Senate includes the authority to make its own rules and adopt its own procedures for discharging its constitutional mandate.
“That extends to modifying its rules and standing orders in accordance with its rules and procedures, and in observance of all applicable legal and constitutional standards. It also has the authority to discipline its members in accordance with its institutional and constitutional due process,” the statement added.
‘Crass Buffoonery’ — APC Slams PDP’s Call For Akpabio’s Resignation Over Budget Padding Allegation is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
Human trafficking researcher Monica Petersen’s 2016 death in Haiti sparked a conspiracy theory that she was killed for investigating sex trafficking allegations involving former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton.
Seven years later, the debunked claim continues to spread online.
An Instagram post shows a split-screen graphic of Petersen and Hillary Clinton, with text that reads, “We will not forget about hero Monica Petersen who was ‘suicided’ while in Haiti investigating the Clintons for child trafficking,” implying that her death was made to look like a suicide.
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The claim is tied to a larger conspiracy theory called “pizzagate,” which alleges that Hilary Clinton and her campaign manager were running a child sex trafficking ring out of a Washington, D.C., pizzeria. PolitiFact has repeatedly debunked “pizzagate” claims.
The University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, which housed the Human Trafficking Center, posted an obituary for Peterson on Facebook on Nov. 15, 2016. The post said she died Nov. 13, 2016, in Haiti after leaving her position as a research assistant at the Human Trafficking Center in June 2016.
The Human Trafficking Center, which closed in June 2021, also made a December 2016 Facebook post sharing a Washington Post fact-check in which Claude d’Estrée, the Human Trafficking Center’s then-director, told the Post that Petersen was not in Haiti to research human trafficking or investigate the Clintons.
“I would like to bring this chapter of my dear friend and colleague’s life to a close. This does not mean we should end our vigilance around fake news and its very real consequences,” d’Estrée said.
D’Estreé told The Washington Post in 2016 that Petersen had been to Haiti many times before she died there at age 32, adding that she had been teaching and was exploring setting up a nongovernmental organization. D’Estreé said the death was a suicide but said the circumstances were unclear.
Some online conspiracy theorists pointed to a 2015 Facebook post by Petersen in which she said she was traveling to Haiti to do field work for three weeks. The post does not say Petersen planned to investigate the Clintons or the Clinton Foundation while she was there.
Other online conspiracy theorists cited a blog post Petersen had shared on Facebook that criticized the Clinton Foundation’s philanthropy in Haiti. The theorists said that Petersen wrote the post and that it’s evidence she was assassinated for investigating the foundation. Petersen did not write the article; a woman named Chantal Laurent did.
We rate the claim that Petersen was assassinated in Haiti while investigating the Clintons’ child trafficking Pants on Fire!
Q: Is one day isolation sufficient to stop forward transmission of COVID-19?
A: People with COVID-19 could potentially transmit it to others well beyond a day after developing symptoms or testing positive. New guidance from the CDC advises people to isolate until they have been fever-free and with symptoms improving for at least 24 hours, and then take precautions for five days, which covers the period when “most people are still infectious.”
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on March 1 updated its guidance on preventing the spread of respiratory viruses, consolidating advice on a range of common respiratory illnesses including COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
Since December 2021, the agency had recommended individuals isolate for at least five days after developing symptoms of COVID-19, or after a positive test if asymptomatic. After five days, the agency recommended various symptom-based criteria for leaving isolation combined with additional continued precautions, such as masking.
The new guidance drops the standard minimum of five days of isolation in favor of a symptom-based approach. The agency advises people to stay home and away from others when they are sick with a respiratory virus. People can cease isolation if, over a period of 24 hours, their overall symptoms have been improving and they have been fever-free without using fever-reducing medications.
Many people have had questions about what the new guidance means for people who have COVID-19. Some, like our reader, have referred to the idea that the guidance means only one day of isolation is needed. “do you agree with Biden that one day isolation for covid is fine and dandy??” asked one person on X, formerly known as Twitter.
But that’s not what Biden or the CDC is recommending.
“It’s not saying isolate for 24 hours,” epidemiologist Ronit Dalmat, a research scientist at the University of Washington, told us, referring to the CDC guidance. “It’s saying if you have a fever, absolutely stay home” until it has been gone for 24 hours, and also stay home until other symptoms are improving.
Nor does the CDC say people are guaranteed not to spread COVID-19 or other respiratory illnesses after their symptoms have improved. “Keep in mind that you may still be able to spread the virus that made you sick, even if you are feeling better,” the guidance says. “You are likely to be less contagious at this time, depending on factors like how long you were sick or how sick you were.”
The guidance recommends continuing to take precautions for five days after resuming normal activities. These include physical distancing, testing, improving air quality, using good hygiene and wearing a well-fitting mask, such as an N95 or KN95.
“The total number of days of precautions when sick, that is, a period of staying home and away from others plus 5 days of additional actions, covers the period during which most people are still infectious,” the CDC wrote in an FAQ.
“That whole period could be quite a while,” Dalmat said. “That could be 10 days for some people.”
The CDC said in background materials accompanying the new guidance that it looked at data from countries and states that had adopted similar policies for COVID-19 isolation and had not seen “clear increases in community transmission or hospitalization rates.”
“The updated guidance on steps to prevent spread when you are sick particularly reflects the key reality that many people with respiratory virus symptoms do not know the specific virus they are infected with,” the CDC said. The agency noted that its survey data indicated less than half of people with cold or cough symptoms would take an at-home COVID-19 test.
Some on social media have misinterpreted the guidance as an admission that it was always reasonable to liken COVID-19 to the flu, as was done early in the pandemic despite the marked difference in the diseases’ severity.
But the new CDC guidance acknowledges the continued seriousness of COVID-19 while also detailing the ways in which treatments, vaccines and population immunity have improved outcomes for people with the disease.
“COVID-19 remains a greater cause of severe illness and death than other respiratory viruses, but the differences between these rates are much smaller than they were earlier in the pandemic,” the CDC said. The agency explained that the risks are reduced due to the availability of COVID-19 treatments and population immunity to the virus, both from vaccination and prior infection. The agency also said that long COVID remains a risk, although the prevalence appears to be falling.
The Science on COVID-19 Transmission
Whether someone transmits COVID-19 depends on multiple factors. These include a person’s infectious viral load, but also the susceptibility of the people the infected person encounters and the precautions taken.
There’s no one-size-fits-all answer to how long a particular individual will shed infectious virus and how much they will shed. “Everybody has a slightly different ability to control the amount of virus in their system, which is a part of what makes the virus shed,” Dalmat said. Variation in how people’s bodies fight a virus affects “how much virus you are putting in the world that is infectious.”
There’s evidence that a relatively small number of people who shed particularly high levels of the virus over the course of their infections have been responsible for a disproportionate number of COVID-19 cases, and many people with COVID-19 do not infect others.
However, according to the CDC, the data on the typical overall length of shedding has not significantly changed, even as new variants of SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — have arisen. “Even as the SARS-CoV-2 virus has continued to evolve, the duration of shedding infectious virus has remained relatively consistent, with most individuals no longer infectious after 8-10 days,” the agency said.
The CDC accompanied this statement with a figure showing data collected by the Respiratory Virus Transmission Network from five U.S. sites between November 2022 and May 2023 (see below). One line on the graph (light blue) shows how often researchers were able to isolate and grow — or culture — virus from people with COVID-19.
Data from the Respiratory Virus Transmission Network on people who tested positive for COVID-19 between November 2022 and May 2023. Source: CDC; available on CDC website
Trying to culture the virus that causes COVID-19 from a respiratory sample — a laborious process used in research — indicates whether someone is carrying infectious virus. The figure shows that the proportion of people with culturable virus began to increase two days before symptoms begin, or before a positive test for those who were asymptomatic, peaking around one to two days after symptom onset. After that, the rate began falling, with around one-third of people having culturable virus at day five. By day 10, the percentage had dropped to around 10%.
A different study, published in 2023 in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, combined data from multiple studies done in people diagnosed with COVID-19 in 2021 and 2022. The average duration of shedding of culturable virus was just over five days from symptom onset or first positive PCR test, whichever came first.
Another metric for assessing infectiousness in people with COVID-19 is viral load, often measured as the amount of viral materials, such as RNA or proteins, found in a respiratory sample. A 2023 study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases found that median viral load for people diagnosed with COVID-19 peaked around three or four days after symptoms started. The study assessed people seeking testing for respiratory infections between April 2022 and April 2023.
Someone who is shedding infectious virus may or may not transmit it to others. One factor is that the average person is less susceptible to infection today than they were early in the pandemic, Dalmat said.
“Even if the person is producing the exact same amount of virus today as they could have three years ago, the people on the other end on average are less likely to get infected,” Dalmat said, explaining that today more than 98% of the population has had some exposure to COVID-19 itself, COVID-19 vaccines or both.
When people do get infected, the cases tend to be less severe.“Among the people who get infected with COVID these days, on average it is much rarer that it turns into a very serious illness,” Dalmat said, while also acknowledging that a lot of individuals “are still very vulnerable.” People at elevated risk for severe disease include those who are elderly or immune compromised.
While the CDC guidance harmonizes suggested precautions for COVID-19 and other common respiratory viruses, there are differences in the details of how COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses are spread.
The new guidance is meant to be a general rule of thumb but does not apply to health care settings or cases where there is an outbreak of a disease that requires special instructions, the CDC said. The CDC also said the agency is working on specific guidance for schools, which should be available prior to the 2024/2025 school year.
Masks, Tests and Other Precautions
Isolating from other people when sick is a key way to reduce one’s risk of spreading COVID-19. But the CDC guidance lists additional ways to reduce the chances of spreading a respiratory illness.
Masks can help prevent the wearer from spreading a respiratory virus. They can also protect others from inhaling a virus, particularly well-fitting masks such as N95 or KN95 respirators, the guidance says. Individuals can take measures to improve their hygiene and the air quality in their surroundings and maintain physical distance from others, such as by avoiding crowded spaces.
The CDC still recommends testing to help high-risk people who are sick determine whether to seek treatment for a specific virus. For instance, someone with COVID-19 may benefit from receiving Paxlovid within five days of when their symptoms start. The guidance also lists tests as a tool that can help people decide when they need to take precautions to avoid spreading disease.
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At-home rapid antigen tests can be helpful for people who are recovering from COVID-19 and want to see if they still have infectious virus, Dalmat said. In their research, she and her colleagues found that among people who tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid antigen test, subsequent negative antigen test results were “very, very highly correlated to whether you had infectious virus or not,” she said. That means people with COVID-19 who start to test negative on rapid antigen tests as they get better likely are no longer at risk of infecting others.
However, the CDC cautions that rapid antigen tests early in the course of a person’s infection often miss COVID-19. People who are sick should be taking precautions regardless of test results, Dalmat said. “They shouldn’t test and have a negative test be the end of it,” she said.
The authors of the Clinical Infectious Diseases study, which measured viral loads over the course of infection, wrote that “our data in combination with others’ suggest that symptomatic individuals testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 by PCR currently may not reliably test positive on a rapid antigen test until the third, fourth, or even fifth day of symptoms.”
The CDC guidance says people can end isolation when they have been fever-free and their symptoms have been improving for at least 24 hours. Dalmat cautioned that the definition of improving symptoms is somewhat ambiguous.
“Symptoms improving can mean different things to different people,” Dalmat said, adding that people should make sure their symptoms are truly getting better. “If your symptoms are not really improving – not kind of plateauing but really improving — you should continue to stay home and continue to take whatever measures you are taking in your household.”
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MESA, Ariz. — An hour and a half after A’s starter Paul Blackburn threw the first pitch of their Cactus League exhibition Friday afternoon, Jorge Soler watched strike three go by to finally bring an end to the first inning.
Two batters into the game, play was interrupted by an hourlong rain delay. Upon resuming play, they got in only slightly more action — two innings, or about 45 minutes — before the skies opened again, and the Giants had their third game this spring spoiled by rain.
Jordan Hicks was scheduled to make his fourth start of the spring but got his work in on the side instead, going four innings, manager Bob Melvin said. The upside to getting in the two innings they did was that Luke Jackson and Camilo Doval were able to pitch, the two relievers Melvin hoped to see Friday.
Four other games around the valley were canceled, but with the Bay Bridge rivals’ third meeting of the spring only serving as the undercard to MLB’s inaugural “Prospect Breakout” game featuring the top young players from both teams’ farm systems, there was plenty of motivation to play.
Both games were going to be televised on NBC Sports Bay Area but were canceled approximately 2 hours after the scheduled first pitch.
Hayden Birdsong, rated the Giants’ No. 7 prospect by MLB.com, was slated to start the later contest, with fellow top prospects IF Bryce Eldridge (No. 4 on MLB.com), IF Walker Martin (No. 5 on MLB.com), IF Maui Ahuna (No. 10 on MLB.com) and OF Rayner Arias (No. 6 on MLB.com) also set to participate.
The field staff for the game offered a fun blast from the past to pair with the eye to the future.
Joe Panik was going to serve as the first base coach, Ryan Vogelsong and Dan Runzler as the pitching coaches and Travis Ishikawa as a hitting coach. Jacob Heyward, a rising star in the organizational coaching ranks and the younger brother of Jason Heyward, was going to serve as manager.
Rhythm & News Podcast interview with KD Hall discussing how there is much to celebrate this women’s history month, especially for Black women, who have been the backbone of Black families, Black communites, and American society as a whole. Interview by Chris B. Bennett.
Joe Biden is the latest New World Order stooge to try to destroy Alex Jones — and like the rest, he will fail.
Alex Jones declares political war against Joe Biden, in this contemporary remix of a classic rant discussing the epic battle between humanity and the New World Order.
