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Bain Capital commits $4m to help the Boston nonprofit GreenLight Fund expand nationally The largest corporate gift in the group’s 16-year history will target social problems in cities By Jon Chesto Globe Staff,Updated April 19, 2021, 8:15 p.m. Email to a Friend GreenLight Fund founders Margaret Hall and John SimonPhoto courtesy of The GreenLight Fund Bain Capital, the Boston private-equity titan, has invested in dozens of for-profit companies over the years. But now Bain’s partners ar...

Date Time New principles regarding fossil fuels to guide Yale’s endowment The Yale Board of Trustees last week approved a new set of ethical investment principles (PDF) to guide the university’s decisions concerning companies producing fossil fuels. The five principles, recommended by an expert faculty panel appointed in October by President Peter Salovey, create new standards for the activities, behaviors, and characteristics of fossil fuel companies that would warrant divestment. The prin...

A 31-year-old Pensacola woman has been sentenced to prison for a fatal, drunken driving crash last year in Santa Rosa County.

PG&E: Several execs captured pay raises in 2020, SEC docs show Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA) Apr. 9—Several top PG&E executives harvested hefty increases in their pay during 2020, a year in which the company emerged from bankruptcy and caused a fatal wildfire in Shasta County, a regulatory filing on Thursday shows. William Smith, who was interim PG&E chief executive officer during 2020, captured $6.17 million in pay, as measured by his total direct compensation, according to a com...

Grappling Report: Science finally has the answer for which chokes work the fastest Share this story As a comparatively niche sport, there’s very little in the way of scientific study conducted on Jiu-Jitsu. As time goes on and interest in BJJ grows, we’re starting to see a gradual increase in the number of people interested in the more technical aspects of the sport. Just recently, a group of scientists conducted an experiment to see how long it would take a selection of chokes to put an op...

Both inside and out, New Englands defensive front has left much to be desired over the past couple of seasons. The unit hasnt been able to pressure opposing quarterbacks with any regularity and it is frequently susceptible to being run on at will by other teams ball carriers. Enter Matt Judon, an outside linebacker/edge rusher with the prototypical measurable numbers that Bill Belichick craves: 6-3, 260-ish, with long arms. At 28 years old, he has the right amount of experience in the league a...

arrow Arriving at SNL, February 2020. Jen Carlson / Gothamist There is a term in Portuguese, saudade, which my Portuguese-American sister-in-law tells me has "no absolute English translation." But it is meant to describe "a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves," according to Wikipedia, which also notes that, "Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had ...

Sunday morning coming down Eating lunch at Vellee’s in the skyway during a break in the Chauvin trial last week, I heard a good cover version of the Crowded House hit “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” I loved that song for its craft and uplifting spirit when it hit the charts in 1987 and later went to see Neil Finn (the group’s primary songwriter) when he performed solo one Monday night at the old Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. I thought if I ever put a 60-minute setlist together, as the ar...

Filed under: Colts Chris Ballard Ranked as NFL’s 6th Best GM Regarding his Ten Most Expensive Free Agent Signings According to The Athletic’s T-6. Chris Ballard, Indianapolis Colts Average signing score: 2.0 Philip Rivers helped get the Colts back into the playoffs on a below-market deal for higher-end starting quarterbacks, so his signing lands in Category 1 even though Indy might have wanted a second season from him. Justin Houston ranks tied with Joey Bosa for ninth in sacks (19) while ...

Quincy Exchange Club Honors These First Responders This year’s Law Officer of the Year award went to Adams County Sherriff’s Department Deputy Jared Summers. Summers was involved the arrest of a murder suspect and was shot at during his apprehension.  He also performed CPR on 3 separate people during the pandemic year.  ACSD Chief Rich Wagner introduced Summers and one of the CPR recipients Amber Feldner presented the award. The Firefighter of the Year award was presented to Michael Dad...