C202 US Coast Guard G5 departed JBA west from Reagan National
VV377 US Navy G5 west from JBA
RCH870T C-17 Globemaster west from JBA load-in..heading to Cincinnati Metro to drop off equipment for Not AF1 Joe's town hall tomorrow >>73469 pb
some housekeeping
>>73859 pb
Saw dis after clicking out last night.
SAM864 USAF turn and burn from Lackland AFB-a nice view from 41k ft and 535 kts
Didn't hang around at all.....
morning
ty for da tunes w.
Smiths a fav.
>lindell yesterday said CA voted fer trump.
knew we were red...no doubt about it ever.
Big Landlord Launches $5 Billion House Hunt
Tricon Residential plans to add 18,000 rental houses in pact with Texas pension fund, other investors. One of America’s biggest landlords is teaming up with an insurance company, a global investment company and a Texas pension fund to buy $5 billion of U.S. houses to turn into rentals.
Tricon Residential Inc., TCN 0.14% a Toronto company that operates one of the largest pools of U.S. rental homes, said it has struck a home-buying pact with the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Pacific Life Insurance Co. and one of the company’s existing foreign investors, which it declined to name. The parties will together contribute up to $1.55 billion in cash, which will be combined with debt to give the venture purchasing power of about $5 billion. Tricon, which operates about 25,000 U.S. rental homes as well as several apartment complexes in the U.S. and Canada, said it expects to be able to buy about 18,000 houses through the new venture. The deal suggests that signs of a slowdown in the red-hot residential real-estate market haven’t diminished the allure of rental homes among big investors, who have become major forces in many of the country’s hottest markets. “We get 6,000 calls a week for a home and we’ve only got 200 available,” Tricon Chief Executive Gary Berman said in an interview. “We want to take advantage of that demand.” Home prices have surged to levels that are straining affordability for many house hunters. Rents for single-family homes have largely kept pace, preserving much of the healthy margins to which yield-starved investors have grown accustomed since diving into the rental business a decade ago.
Tricon, as well as rivals American Homes 4 Rent and Invitation Homes Inc. , have reported record occupancy and rents since last year’s lockdown, when the pandemic sparked a rush for spacious suburban living. These companies and other big investors were originally attracted to single-family homes at the depths of the 2008 housing bust, when foreclosed properties could be bought at steep discounts and by the thousand. With little competition from regular buyers, investors dominated the market for a few years, setting a floor for falling prices around the Sunbelt cities where they have been concentrated. They kept buying on the open market once the flood of foreclosures subsided, offering all cash and not quibbling about ugly carpet or paint colors. When Covid-19 hit and demand for suburban rentals shot up, they ramped up their purchasing with billions of dollars from institutional investors seeking investment income. Now, in many of the hottest markets, including Phoenix, Miami and Houston, more than one in five houses sold is being bought by an investor.
“The competition is probably as intense as we’ve ever seen it to buy a home,” Mr. Berman said. Yet rising rents, as well as the sheer number of homes that sell every year in the busy Sunbelt markets where Tricon operates, have kept the business of buying, sprucing up and renting out houses profitable and enticing for big investors like pensions and sovereign-wealth funds, he said. Tricon says new lease rates in April were up 16% from a year earlier, and renewals rose 4.4%. Mr. Berman said Tricon is looking to pay about $250,000 a home, and plans to spend $25,000 on closing costs and renovations at each property. Unlike larger competitors American Homes 4 Rent and Invitation Homes, which focus on households earning more than $100,000 a year, Tricon tries to find houses to rent to people earning between $60,000 and $100,000. The firm believes that such renters are more likely to be long-term tenants, which means lower turnover costs and steady cash flow.
Tricon expects to buy about 6,000 houses annually for the next three years. Those, along with thousands of other houses that the firm is constructing and buying directly from builders, will give the firm about 50,000 homes in 2024.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/big-landlord-launches-5-billion-house-hunt-11626781403
Top member of Myanmar's NLD dies under detention of COVID-19
Nyan Win, a prominent member of Myanmar's formerly ruling National League for Democracy party and a close aide of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, died of COVID-19 on Tuesday while under detention in the wake of the Feb. 1 military coup, the NLD said. The 78-year-old NLD Central Executive Committee member was transferred to a government-run hospital in Yangon on July 11 and died there after contracting the coronavirus in the city's infamous Insein Prison, which is known for holding many political prisoners.
Nyan Win was also a party spokesman and headed the legal advisory body of Suu Kyi's administration. He served as her lawyer while she was under house arrest during the previous era of military rule.
Myanmar has seen a spike in COVID-19 cases, with over 5,000 new coronavirus infections on average this week, and is struggling with a shortage of hospital beds and medical oxygen.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2021/07/5a68af317016-top-member-of-myanmars-nld-dies-under-detention-of-covid-19.html
Nasdaq partners with major banks to spin out trading platform for pre-IPO stocks
Nasdaq Inc. said on Tuesday it had partnered with major U.S. banks, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc GS.N, Citigroup Inc C.N and Morgan Stanley MS.N, to spin out its platform that allows investors to trade in stocks of private companies.
As part of the deal, Nasdaq Private Market will become a standalone, independent company that will receive investments from SVB Financial Group SIVB.O, Citi, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. Financial terms of the venture were not disclosed. The marketplace can be used by private companies, brokers and investors to access, connect, manage and execute their stock transactions, Nasdaq said. It added that the platform will manage private company stock transactions such as tender offers, auctions and investor block trades, among others. The Nasdaq Private Market, which was established in 2014, will retain its core operating teams, the company said, and will maintain its presence in New York and San Francisco.
https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/nasdaq-partners-with-major-banks-to-spin-out-trading-platform-for-pre-ipo-stocks-2021-07
gets it fren
when they started spamming all the made-up shit last year it was obvious but perhaps not to all.
The amount of effort put into that shit....way better places to spend it.
Tokyo Olympics Chief Doesn't Rule Out 11th-Hour Cancellation Of Entire Event
As COVID cases among Olympians pile up in Tokyo, and their biggest sponsor - Toyota - became the latest to bail on the event, Tokyo 2020 organizing committee chief, Toshiro Muto has not ruled out a last-minute cancellation of the Olympics, according to CNBC.
When asked at a news conference if the event may be canceled, Muto said he would keep an eye on infection counts and coordinate action with other organizers if necessary. "We can’t predict what will happen with the number of coronavirus cases. So we will continue discussions if there is a spike in cases," said Muto, adding "We have agreed that based on the coronavirus situation, we will convene five-party talks again. At this point, the coronavirus cases may rise or fall, so we will think about what we should do when the situation arises." The Olympics were already postponed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will now be held without spectators. Athletes, meanwhile, will compete in empty venues to minimize spread.
Earlier Tuesday we reported that the number of infected athletes and others associated with the games has hit 71, while new COVID-19 cases in Tokyo hit 1,410 on Saturday, the highest daily level in nearly six months as the Delta variant continues to spread. On Tuesday, 1,387 cases were recorded. Overall, Japan has seen over 840,000 cases and 15,055 deaths.
Muto, a former top financial bureaucrat with close ties to Japan’s ruling party, is known for his careful choice of words, while officials are facing a domestic public angry about coronavirus restrictions and concerned over a possible spike in cases triggered by Games attendees arriving from abroad. Organizers, for whom International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said cancelling the event had never been an option, have promised to keep the Games “safe and secure”.
But experts see gaps in an Olympic “bubble” that mandates frequent testing and has been designed to limit participants’ movements. -CNBC
"I really want to apologize from my heart for the accumulation of frustrations and concerns that the public has been feeling towards the Olympics," said Seiko Hashimoto, who sits alongside Muto as organizing committee President.
On Thursday, the first indicator of how the Olympics may go will come in the men's soccer tournament - which will be held one day before Friday's opening ceremony as Japan faces off against the South African team which may struggle to field 11 players due to the coronavirus. Meanwhile, two members of Mexico's baseball team tested positive at the hotel before departure for Tokyo and have been isolated - as have the rest of the team pending the results of more tests.
"My biggest concern is, of course, there will be a cluster of infections in the (athletes’) village or some of the accommodation and interaction with local people," said Kenji Shibuya, former director of the Institute for Population Health at King’s College London.
In a recent poll conducted for the Asahi newspaper, 68% of those asked expressed doubt that the Olympic organizers can control infections, with 55% opposing the games going ahead.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/tokyo-olympics-chief-doesnt-rule-out-11th-hour-cancellation-entire-event
someone had to tell me (mebby you or frb) about the original one as I cared so little for wut they said at that point-still don't.
It went on for about an hour before I eben knew