Memorial Day Inflation: Travel, BBQ And Booze All Cost More This Year Inflation may be more palatable than years past heading into this Memorial Day Weekend, but some of the most essential items for the unofficial kickoff of summer 2024 continue to burn a hole in ... 05/18/2024 - 2:15 am | View Link
Solemn tributes to fallen service men and women planned for Memorial Day in Elgin area For many Americans, Memorial Day weekend means backyard barbecues, boating, watching the Indy 500 and the unofficial beginning of summer. Lest anyone forget, however, the last Monday in May is a ... 05/18/2024 - 2:07 am | View Link
Memorial Day Expenses: Travel, BBQ, And Booze All Cost More This Year ToplineInflation may be more palatable than years past heading into this Memorial Day Weekend, but some of the most essential items for the unofficial kickoff of summer 2024 continue to burn a hole in ... 05/18/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade wants to ‘maximize each day' of his post-NBA career Now the Hall of Famer, who spoke to CNBC Make It while promoting a partnership with Google Workspace, is embracing his current moment. His myriad post-career projects include ownership of sports teams ... 05/18/2024 - 2:00 am | View Link
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A Guide to Public Holidays in Thailand Coronation Day. Date: 4th May every year. Celebrated on May 4, Coronation Day marks the day of the current Thai king’s formal coronation ceremony in 2019. King Vajiralongkorn came to the throne on 4 May 2019 at the age of 65. Coronation Day, known in Thai as Wan Chatramongkol, is a Thai public holiday. 05/17/2024 - 4:34 am | View Website
You asked, we answered: Why do we celebrate Memorial Day? The first Memorial Day observances were notable for having been organized by those Americans who were unable to fully participate in the conflict that defined their era: women and African Americans. Photograph (cabinet print) of Town Hall, Bolton, Decoration Day, 1886, showing elaborate decorations, including framed pictures of uniformed ... 05/16/2024 - 3:19 pm | View Website
The Origins of Memorial Day Official Birthplace Declared. In 1966, Congress and President Lyndon Johnson declared Waterloo, N.Y., the “birthplace” of Memorial Day. There, a ceremony on May 5, 1866, honored local veterans who had fought in the Civil War. Businesses closed and residents flew flags at half-staff. Supporters of Waterloo’s claim say earlier observances ... 05/16/2024 - 3:09 am | View Website
This Is the History and Meaning Behind Memorial Day Memorial Day was originally called "Decoration Day." In 1869, the head of an organization of Union veterans, Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, established Decoration Day as a way for the nation to honor ... 05/16/2024 - 1:29 am | View Website
A second flag of a type carried by rioters during the attack on the U. S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was displayed outside a house owned by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
An “Appeal to Heaven” flag was flown outside Alito’s beach vacation home last summer.
The first time Elle Barbeito skinned an invasive Burmese python she almost lost her lunch. Twice. Initially she nicked the snake’s stomach with the razor and semi-digested prey spilled out. Things got even more disgusting farther down the digestive system.
Despite the disgust, Barbeito was after beauty. And she found it, not only in the edgy fashion pieces she makes out of invasive Burmese pythons that she and her father catch, but in the larger process of removing a magnificent but highly destructive predator from her beloved Florida.
It’s a blisteringly hot morning in her father’s backyard in Cutler Bay, south of Miami, and the 27-year-old Barbeito pinches the skin on the belly of a thawing 7-foot python and starts meticulously cutting.
By KEN SWEET (AP Business Writer)
NEW YORK (AP) — The bank accounts of tens of thousands of U. S. businesses and consumers have been frozen in the aftermath of the abrupt shutdown and bankruptcy of financial technology company Synapse, which acts as a middleman between financial technology companies and banks.
Synapse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April and has shut down its services to some of its fintech or bank partners, including Evolve Bank & Trust.
By SEAN MURPHY (Associated Press)
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A wind farm in southwest Iowa suffered a direct hit from a powerful tornado that crumpled five of the massive, power-producing towers, including one that burst into flames. But experts say fortunately such incidents are rare.
Video of the direct hit on the wind farm near Greenfield, Iowa, showed frightening images of the violent twister ripping through the countryside, uprooting trees, damaging buildings and sending dirt and debris high into the air.
Several of the turbines at MidAmerican Energy Company’s Orient wind farm recorded wind speeds of more than 100 mph as the tornadoes approached just before the turbines were destroyed, the company said in a statement.
“This was an unprecedented impact on our wind fleet, and we have operated wind farms since 2004,” MidAmerican said.
While there have been isolated incidents of tornadoes or hurricanes damaging wind turbines, fortunately such occurrences are extremely rare, said Jason Ryan, a spokesperson for the American Clean Power Association.
Although requirements vary from state to state about how far turbines must be located from other structures, Ryan said the giant turbines are not placed directly next to homes and other occupied structures.
There are currently nearly 73,000 wind turbines in operation across the country, he said.
In the space of 10 days, two of South Florida’s international airports have been the scenes of big airliners — including the Boeing 757 used by former President Donald Trump — involved in separate wing-clipping incidents while they rumbled their way to remote parking places.
The Federal Aviation Administration acknowledged Wednesday it is investigating both episodes, neither of which involved any injuries.
The most recent incident involved an Atlas Air Boeing 747 cargo jet.
FORT LAUDERDALE — Say your neighbor has a yacht so big that it dwarfs the dock behind his home. Do you call the city to complain?
Michael Meldeau did. It wound up getting him sued by one Steven Howell, owner of the yacht.
The two men live on Delmar Place in Fort Lauderdale’s upscale Las Olas Isles, just north of Las Olas and west of the Intracoastal.
The yearslong feud isn’t your run-of-the-mill neighborhood dispute.