By Anthony Castrovince The All-Star appetizer that is the Chevrolet Home Run Derby takes place Monday night at 8 p.m. ET, with a national broadcast on ESPN. Prince Fielder — a man who in both body and swing seems born for this very event — will seek to defend his crown. …read more
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By Jonathan Mayo Fifty of the best young talents in the Minor Leagues are set to compete at Citi Field on Sunday at 2 p.m. ET in the SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game. …read more
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MENSAJE SEMANAL: Fortalecimiento de nuestra economía con la aprobación de la reforma migratoria bipartidista
WASHINGTON, DC— En el mensaje de esta semana, el Presidente Obama dijo que, hace dos semanas, una gran mayoría bipartidista en el Senado votó a favor de aprobar la reforma migratoria de sentido común, que le aportará un gran impulso a nuestra economía, fortalecerá el Seguro Social, y modernizará nuestro sistema de inmigración legal para que sea más consistente con nuestros valores. El Presidente exhorta al Congreso a que tome acción rápidamente para arreglar nuestro sistema de inmigración que no funciona y mantener a los Estados Unidos fuerte durante muchos años más.
El audio y el vídeo de este mensaje estarán disponibles en línea en www.whitehouse.gov a las 6:00 a.m. ET, del sábado, 13 de julio, 2013.
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Hola a todos. Hace dos semanas, una gran mayoría de los senadores de ambos partidos votó a favor de aprobar una reforma migratoria integral y de sentido común, tomando un paso importante para arreglar de una vez y para siempre nuestro sistema de inmigración que no funciona.
Ese proyecto de ley fue un acuerdo de concesión, y ninguna de las partes consiguió todo lo que quería. Sin embargo, era mayormente consistente con los principios clave de una reforma de sentido común que la mayoría de nosotros en ambos partidos hemos presentado repetidas veces. Si se aprobara, el plan del Senado aprovecharía los logros históricos que hemos tenido en la seguridad de la frontera durante los últimos cuatro años con el plan de seguridad de la frontera más agresivo en nuestra historia. Este ofrecería un camino a ganarse la ciudadanía a los 11 millones de personas que están ilegalmente en este país; un camino que incluye pagar multas, aprender inglés, y colocarse al final de la fila detrás de todo el que esté intentando venir aquí legalmente. Y también modernizaría nuestro sistema de inmigración legal para que guarde más consistencia con nuestros valores.
El plan del Senado también proveería un gran impulso a nuestra recuperación. Y, el miércoles, emitimos un informe que detalla exactamente cuán grande sería ese impulso.
El informe se basa en los hallazgos de economistas y expertos independientes y no partidistas que llegaron a la conclusión de que, si el plan del Senado se convierte en ley, nuestra economía será un 5% mayor en dos décadas en comparación con el statu quo. Eso significa la adición de $1.4 billones a nuestra economía solo con arreglar nuestro sistema de inmigración.
Aquí en los Estados Unidos, siempre hemos sido una nación de inmigrantes. Eso es lo que ha mantenido dinámica a nuestra fuerza laboral, a nuestros negocios a la vanguardia, y a nuestra economía la más sólida del mundo. Sin embargo, bajo el sistema actual, a demasiados inmigrantes inteligentes y trabajadores se les impide contribuir a ese éxito.
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By Todd Zolecki The Phillies postponed Friday’s game against the White Sox at Citizens Bank Park because of rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Saturday, with the originally scheduled game starting an hour earlier at 3:05 p.m. ET and the makeup game starting at 8:15 p.m. …read more
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Oprah Winfrey will be joining forces with one of her all-time favorite experts, Dr. Phil McGraw, as the two reunite tonight, April 22, for a live two-hour taping of “Oprah’s Lifeclass.” Log on to Oprah.com and Facebook.com/OWNTV at 7 p.m. ET to watch the taping stream live and get ready for a revealing session all about the new rules for winning in the real world.
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By Alwyn Scott
NEW YORK — Travelers waited more than an hour for flights in New York and experienced delays at other U.S. airports on Sunday evening as furloughs of air traffic controllers began, reducing the ability of busy hubs to handle arrivals and departures, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The furloughs that started Sunday reduced staffing by 10 percent across the country. Last week, the FAA warned of delays up to 3½ hours at some airports as the agency cuts spending to meet reductions required under federal budget cuts.
New York‘s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports reported delays of more than an hour, and Philadelphia international airport also reported delays due to furloughs, the FAA said.
Los Angeles International reported nearly a 2-hour delay at 10 p.m. ET, and Newark Liberty International reported 28-minute delays, though the FAA couldn’t confirm whether those were related to the staff cuts. Delays of up to 58 minutes in San Francisco and 29 minutes in Orlando, Fla., were due to construction and weather, the FAA said.
“Relatively good weather throughout the country and light traffic helped minimize air traffic delays,” FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said.
The delays come as the FAA furloughs its 47,000 employees, including nearly 13,000 air traffic controllers who manage the nation’s airspace.
The furloughs are set to last through September, the end of the U.S. fiscal year, and are expected to save about $200 million of the $637 million the agency must cut from its $16 billion budget, the FAA said last week.
Paul Rinaldi, president of the Air Traffic Controllers Association, said about 1,200 to 1,500 controllers will be staying home each day, on average, and that some airports might be able to shift staffing to reduce the effect of the furloughs. U.S. airports handle about 25,000 flights a day, he said.
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By Bill Ladson Nationals third baseman and top prospect Anthony Rendon arrived at Citi Field at 9:50 a.m. ET on Sunday, and manager Davey Johnson immediately placed Rendon sixth in the starting lineup against the Mets. The Nationals called up Rendon from Double-A Harrisburg after placing third baseman Ryan Zimmerman on the 15-day disabled list.
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The new Antares rocket will launch at 5 p.m. ET (2100 GMT) from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
From: http://www.space.com/20752-private-antares-rocket-launching-sunday.html
Orbital Sciences will launch its Antares rocket test flight today at 5 p.m. ET.
From: http://www.space.com/20749-private-antares-rocket-launch-webcast.html
The game between Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins at TD Garden will be played Saturday afternoon, the National Hockey League announced. Game time is 12:30 p.m., ET.
By Jordan Shapiro, Contributor
Young video game designers will be included in the 3rd White House Science Fair to be held on Monday, April 22nd. This is the second time that winners of the STEM Video Game Challenge have been invited to the Science Fair. Now in its third year, the National STEM Video Game Challenge is a competition among middle school and high school kids who design their own video games. Presented by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at the Sesame Workshop and E-Line Media along with partners like the AMD foundation, Microsoft’s XBOX 360, and the Entertainment Software Foundation, the STEM challenge “aims to motivate interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by tapping into students’ enthusiasm for playing and making video games.” There’s still time for young people to enter this year’s STEM challenge before the April 24th deadline. Perhaps your kid could be honored at next year’s White House Science Fair. President Obama hosted the first White House Science Fair in late 2010. The fair is part of his Educate to Innovate campaign, which aims to encourage excellence in math and science. As the President said at the first Science Fair, “If you win the NCAA championship, you come to the White House. Well, if you’re a young person and you produce the best experiment or design, the best hardware or software, you ought to be recognized for that achievement, too.” Geeks, gamers, and developers should all be thrilled by Obama’s recognition of young game designers. It is further evidence that the video game stigma is waning. Gamification is already a hot buzzword in business management and product development. Game-based learning is quickly becoming a regular supplement to our education strategies. Including STEM Challenge winners as part of the White House Science Fair shows that developers are getting the kind of recognition they deserve. Although the common view is that video games are simply entertainment–an escape from the real world, I think video games function as interactive mythology. They can be understood as non-linear stories that help individuals derive meaning from the complicated paradoxes of everyday life. Obama’s decision to acknowledge excellence among young game designers celebrates the exceptional multidisciplinary thinking that’s involved in making interactive stories. Hopefully, this is another indication that we are moving away from the misguided divisions that permeate our education system. We can only hope that we inch toward a more holistic integrated concept of “knowledge.” Our current system creates rigid separations between the ways the sciences and the humanities define truth. Video games (in particular, the design and creation of games) have the potential create a world of adults who are practiced at using the deterministic technologies of scientific thinking to interact with the fuzzy ambivalent metaphors of the humanities. The White House Science Fair will take place on April 22nd around 2pm ET and will be webcast live at http://www.whitehouse.gov/live Jordan Shapiro is author of FREEPLAY: A Video Game Guide to Maximum Euphoric Bliss and co-editor of Occupy Psyche: Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on a Movement. For information
Antares’ first attempt on Wednesday was scuttled by a glitch. Liftoff is set for Saturday at 5 p.m. ET.
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” target=”_hplink”>releasing the first images of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing on Thursday, the FBI released new photos early Friday morning.
The new photos include close-ups of the suspects’ faces and were posted to the FBI website at 2 a.m. ET. One is wearing glasses and the other is not; both are wearing hats.
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PEP – , Inc. – Options on global beverage and snack food giant, PepsiCo, were humming with activity this morning after the company posted first-quarter earnings that handily beat analysts’ expectations. Overall volume in PEP options was roughly three times the average daily level for the stock as of 11:00 a.m. ET. Shares in the world’s largest snack maker jumped 5.8% in the early going to a record high of $83.45.
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President Obama will deliver remarks this morning at Healing Our City: An Interfaith Service which is dedicated to those who were gravely wounded or killed in Monday’s bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
The service, which wil take place at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston will be livestreamed on whitehouse.gov/live starting at 11 am ET.
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Mobile Mini Schedules 2013 First Quarter News Release and Conference Call for Monday, May 6
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TEMPE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Mobile Mini, Inc. (NasdaqGS: MINI) today announced that it will issue its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013 on Monday, May 6, 2013 before the financial markets open. Management will conduct a conference call that day at 12:00 noon ET to review these results.
To listen to the call live, dial (201) 493-6739 and ask for the Mobile Mini Conference Call. To listen to the call via the Internet, please visit www.mobilemini.com and click on the Investors Section. Additionally, a slide presentation, which will accompany the call, will be posted at www.mobilemini.com on the Investors Section and will remain available after the call. Please go to the website 15 minutes early to download and install any necessary audio software. If you are unable to listen live, a replay of the conference call may be accessed for approximately 14 days after the call at Mobile Mini‘s website.
About Mobile Mini
Mobile Mini, Inc. is the world’s leading provider of portable storage solutions. Mobile Mini is included on the Russell 2000® and 3000® Indexes and the S&P Small Cap Index. For more information visit www.mobilemini.com.
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The Orbital Sciences Antares rocket could launch from Virginia on Friday (April 19) at 5 p.m. ET (2100 GMT).
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Universal Electronics Inc. to Announce First Quarter 2013 Financial Results on May 2, 2013
SANTA ANA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI), (NAS: UEIC) announced it will host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, May 2, 2013 to discuss its first quarter 2013 earnings results. Management will provide a quarterly update as well as answer questions.
To access the call in the U.S. please dial 877-655-6895 and for international calls dial 706-758-0299 approximately 10 minutes prior to the start of the conference. The conference ID is 44476932. The conference call will also be broadcast live over the Internet and available for replay for one year at www.uei.com. In addition, a replay of the call will be available via telephone for two business days, beginning two hours after the call. To listen to the replay, in the U.S., please dial 855-859-2056 and internationally, 404-537-3406. Enter access code 44476932.
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Founded in 1986, Universal Electronics Inc. (UEI) is the global leader in wireless control technology for the connected home. UEI designs, develops, and delivers innovative solutions that enable consumers to control entertainment devices, digital media, and home systems. The company’s broad portfolio of patented technologies and database of infrared control software have been adopted by many Fortune 500 companies in the consumer electronics, subscription broadcast, and computing industries. UEI sells and licenses wireless control products through distributors and retailers under the One For All® brand name. More information is available at www.uei.com.
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Blackstone Reports Record First Quarter Results
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Blackstone (NYS: BX) today reported its first quarter 2013 results.
Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “Blackstone achieved strong first quarter results across the board. Revenue rose 29% year-over-year, and earnings were up 28%. Greater realizations, reaching $6 billion in the quarter, drove our second best quarter for cash earnings since becoming a public company. Blackstone also continues to show sustained asset growth. Although several of our investment businesses are already the largest of their kind in the world, every one reported year-over-year double-digit growth in total assets under management.”
Blackstone issued a full detailed presentation of its first quarter 2013 results which can be viewed at www.Blackstone.com.
Distribution
Blackstone has declared a quarterly distribution of $0.30 per common unit to record holders of common units at the close of business on April 29, 2013. This distribution will be paid on May 6, 2013.
Quarterly Investor Call Details
Blackstone will host a conference call on April 18, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. ET to discuss first quarter 2013 results. The conference call can be accessed via the Unit Holders section of Blackstone’s website at http://ir.blackstone.com/events.cfm or by dialing +1 (877) 391-6747 (U.S. domestic) or +1 (617) 597-9291 (international), pass code 149 943 55#. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available following the call at http://ir.blackstone.com/events.cfm or by dialing +1 (888) 286-8010 (U.S. domestic) or +1 (617) 801-6888 (international), pass code 472 905 13#.
About Blackstone
Blackstone (NYS: BX) is one of the world’s leading investment and advisory firms. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, the companies we advise and the broader global economy. We do this through the commitment of our extraordinary people and flexible capital. Our alternative asset management businesses include the management of private equity funds, real estate funds, hedge fund solutions, credit-focused funds and closed-end funds. Blackstone also provides various financial advisory services, including financial and strategic advisory, restructuring and reorganization advisory and fund placement services. Further information is available at www.Blackstone.com. Follow us on Twitter @Blackstone.
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Newell Rubbermaid To Webcast First Quarter 2013 Earnings Results
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Newell Rubbermaid (NYS: NWL) today announced its first quarter 2013 earnings results will be released Friday, May 3, prior to market open and will be followed by a live webcast at 8:30 a.m. ET. To listen to the webcast, please visit Events & Presentations in the Investor Relations section of Newell Rubbermaid‘s Web site at www.newellrubbermaid.com. The live webcast will be recorded and made available for replay.
About Newell Rubbermaid
Newell Rubbermaid Inc., an S&P 500 company, is a global marketer of consumer and commercial products with 2012 sales of approximately $5.9 billion and a strong portfolio of leading brands, including Rubbermaid®, Sharpie®, Graco®, Calphalon®, Irwin®, Lenox®, Levolor®, Paper Mate®, Dymo®, Waterman®, Parker®, Goody®, Rubbermaid Commercial Products® and Aprica®.
This press release and additional information about Newell Rubbermaid are available on the company’s Web site, www.newellrubbermaid.com.
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