VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) — Valparaiso hired longtime Marietta coach Andy Waddle as its new football coach, athletic director Laurel Hosmer announced Monday. Waddle is scheduled to be formally introduced on campus Wednesday. He spent the last 12 seasons turning around the Division III program located in Southeastern Ohio. There, he went 55-61 after inheriting a winless team. He led the Pioneers to their first 8-0 start last season and matched the 1920 squad’s school record with a 13-game winning streak that started in 2023. In 2024, Marietta made its first postseason appearance since 1973. Waddle went 16-5 over the past two seasons and produced seven winning records over the last eight seasons. The Pioneers had only two winning seasons in the previous 20 years. “I think there is a great group of young men on the (Valparaiso) roster, and we’re excited to invest in those student-athletes and continue to add more high-quality people and football players to the program,” Waddle said of the program located in Indiana’s northwest corner. “I think Valpo is not only an outstanding fit for me professionally, but also an outstanding fit for me and my family.” Waddle spent eight seasons working with the defense as an assistant for his alma mater, Wittenberg, where he was an all-conference defensive back. He also has coached at Mansfield University in Pennsylvania and at Maryville College in Tennessee. “His experience building success and winning culture as a head coach, passion for developing student-athletes on and off the field and high character made it clear he was the right leader for our football program,” Hosmer said in a statement. The move comes two weeks after Hosmer announced the school would not give Landon Fox a contract extension after his deal expired. Fox was 21-42 in six seasons at Valparaiso. ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up . AP college football: and
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Did you miss out on Black Friday and find yourself feeling a bit of FOMO today? Well, there’s great news for you: Amazon is still rolling out record-low prices on nearly the entire Apple lineup (with the exception of iPads which are out of stock). This means that MacBook Air models are still available at massive discounts whether you’re looking for the version with the M2 chip or the newer M3 chip. The 2022 MacBook Air laptop with M2 chip and 256GB storage is currently on sale at Amazon for $749, down from its original price of $999 , which is a substantial 25% discount. See MacBook Air M2 at Amazon The 2024 MacBook Air M3 13′′ with 256GB storage is also on sale post-Black Friday: Priced at $844 down from $1,099 , it’s still $100 more than the M2 version (but it’s a record low price) so the choice is yours. This 2024 model features the newer M3 chip and improved performance that might not be immediately noticeable to the average user. But if you’re looking for the latest version, it’s a great deal too. See MacBook Air M3 at Amazon Why Choose The M2 Model? The MacBook Air M2 boasts a great 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display with vibrant colors and sharp details. With a resolution of 2560-by-1664 pixels at 224 pixels per inch, this screen supports up to 1 billion colors so that everything from photos to videos looks incredibly lifelike. The display also features True Tone technology, which automatically adjusts the white balance to match the color temperature of your surroundings, providing a more natural viewing experience. Under the hood, the M2 chip is a powerhouse of performance (and the M3 does even better): It features an 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores for seamless multitasking and smooth operation. The GPU delivers impressive graphics performance and makes this MacBook Air suitable for tasks ranging from photo editing to casual gaming. The MacBook Air M2 doesn’t skimp on connectivity options: It features two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports for charging, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 Gen 2. There’s also a MagSafe 3 charging port and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. In terms of wireless connectivity, it supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.3 for fast and stable connections. For those who frequently engage in video calls, the MacBook Air M2 comes equipped with a 1080p FaceTime HD camera. This is a good upgrade from the previous 720p camera and it offers clearer and more detailed video quality. The camera works in tandem with an advanced image signal processor with computational video for a better image quality. Battery life is another strong point of the MacBook Air M2 : Apple claims up to 18 hours of movie playback and up to 15 hours of wireless web browsing. See MacBook Air M2 at Amazon See MacBook Air M3 at AmazonPsychology will play a crucial role in World Chess Championship 2024: Viswanathan AnandHornets point guard LaMelo Ball will miss at least 2 weeks with a left calf strain
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Cyber Monday iPad deals 2024: Save big on iPad, iPad Air and iPad ProNew Delhi, Dec 28 (PTI) Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw, CR Patil, Chirag Paswan, K Ram Mohan Naidu and Jayant Chaudhary, alongside three chief ministers — Devendra Fadnavis, Chandrababu Naidu and Revant Reddy, will join hundreds of government and business leaders from across the globe in Swiss ski resort town Davos next month for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Naidu will also be joined by his son and senior minister in his state Nara Lokesh, while Karnataka’s Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar, Tamil Nadu Minister TRB Rajaa and Uttar Pradesh Minister Suresh Khanna will also be there for the five-day annual congregation of the world’s rich and powerful, starting January 20, 2025. Actor Bhumi Pednekar, known for films like Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, Pati Patni Aur Woh, Badhai Do and Saand Ki Aankh, would also be there. Besides over 50 Presidents and Prime Ministers from across the world, top officials of international organisations like the United Nations, IMF, World Bank, Interpol, NATO, European Central Bank and WTO are also expected to be in Davos for the WEF Annual Meeting 2025. Senior ministers from Pakistan and Bangladesh, including Bangladesh Government’s Chief Adviser and head of the interim government Muhammad Yunus would also be present. Vaishnaw, Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting and Electronics & IT, had also attended the last WEF annual meeting, alongside Smriti Irani and Hardeep Singh Puri from the Union Council of Ministers. This time, Vaishnaw will be joined by Jal Shakti Minister Patil, Food Processing Industries Minister Paswan, Civil Aviation Minister Naidu and Minister of State for Skill Development and Education Chaudhary. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also attended the meeting in the past, but there is no official word so far about his participation in the high-profile summit, for which the main theme this time will be ‘collaboration for the intelligent age’. Expected to be attended by nearly 50 heads of state and governments from across the world, the annual meeting would take place against the backdrop of a change of regime in the US and various geopolitical and macroeconomic issues, including the Ukraine war and continuing West Asia crisis. Both Modi and Donald Trump attended the WEF Annual Meeting in 2018 for the first time as India’s Prime Minister and the US President, respectively. While Modi became Prime Minister of India for the third consecutive term earlier this year, Trump is set to assume office for the second time on January 20, and his return is expected to be among the key topics of discussion at Davos. Maharashtra Chief Minister Fadnavis and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Naidu have been to Davos multiple times, while Telangana Chief Minister Reddy attended the WEF Annual Meeting in January 2024 as well. Besides government leaders and civil society members, the Indian presence would comprise top executives of business conglomerates like Reliance, Tata, Adani, Birla, Bharti, Mahindra, Godrej, Jindal, Bajaj and Vedanta groups. Besides Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, the next-generation leaders from their groups are also expected to be present, while technology leaders, including Salil Parekh of Infosys, Rishad Premji of Wipro, as also Sumant Sinha of ReNew, Vijay Shekhar Sharma of Paytm and Adar Poonawalla of Serum Institute are expected in the Swiss Alpine resort town. Geneva-based WEF, which describes itself as an international organisation for public-private cooperation, will convene leaders from government, business and civil society as well as scientific and cultural thinkers for its 55th annual meeting under the theme of ‘Collaboration for the Intelligent Age’. According to the WEF, the meeting will serve as a trusted global platform for dialogue and cooperation, bring together a diverse community of stakeholders, seek to connect the dots in an era of complexity and be firmly future-oriented — both in terms of insights and solutions. Several sessions are expected to be attended by Indian leaders, including one on ‘India’s Economic Blueprint’. As one of the world’s fastest-growing major economies, India has been growing at over 8 per cent, and this growth has been buoyed by a focus on promoting local innovation and startups in technology and manufacturing, representing a departure from traditional export-oriented models. The leaders would deliberate how India has capitalised on this new blueprint and to what extent it can continue to drive global growth. According to the WEF, the annual meeting will take place at a time when geo-economic fragmentation, geopolitical polarisation and divisions over values continue to impact countries and communities across the world. At the same time, exponential innovation and deployment around whole sets of inter-connected technologies — from AI and quantum to energy tech, biotech and health tech — offer an unprecedented opportunity to increase productivity and hence, standards of living. Reviving and reimagining growth is critical to building stronger and more resilient economies, and the meeting would seek to discuss how to avoid an Age of Fragmentation and instead work together on a can-do, people-centred agenda for an Intelligent Age. The global leaders would also deliberate on how to reinvent the muscle of collaborative innovation to get out of the current low-growth, high-debt world economy and address common challenges from climate change to the ethical use of AI. PTI BJ BJ BAL BAL This report is auto-generated from PTI news service. ThePrint holds no responsibility for its content. var ytflag = 0;var myListener = function() {document.removeEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);lazyloadmyframes();};document.addEventListener('mousemove', myListener, false);window.addEventListener('scroll', function() {if (ytflag == 0) {lazyloadmyframes();ytflag = 1;}});function lazyloadmyframes() {var ytv = document.getElementsByClassName("klazyiframe");for (var i = 0; i < ytv.length; i++) {ytv[i].src = ytv[i].getAttribute('data-src');}} Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Δ document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() );
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Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. (NASDAQ:FYBR) Stake Lessened by Swiss National BankRoot ( NASDAQ:ROOT – Get Free Report ) was downgraded by analysts at JMP Securities from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating in a research note issued on Friday, MarketBeat.com reports. ROOT has been the topic of a number of other reports. Cantor Fitzgerald upgraded shares of Root to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Thursday, October 3rd. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a $90.00 price objective (up from $82.00) on shares of Root in a research report on Tuesday, November 5th. Wells Fargo & Company increased their price objective on shares of Root from $64.00 to $78.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Friday, November 1st. Jefferies Financial Group decreased their price objective on shares of Root from $84.00 to $72.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, October 9th. Finally, UBS Group increased their price objective on shares of Root from $61.00 to $67.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Monday, November 4th. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, two have given a buy rating and one has issued a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Root presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $59.13. Check Out Our Latest Stock Report on Root Root Stock Down 0.2 % Root ( NASDAQ:ROOT – Get Free Report ) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October 30th. The company reported $1.35 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.61) by $1.96. Root had a negative net margin of 1.56% and a negative return on equity of 9.81%. The business had revenue of $305.70 million for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $272.77 million. During the same period last year, the business earned ($3.16) EPS. The company’s revenue was up 165.1% compared to the same quarter last year. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Root will post -1.2 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Insiders Place Their Bets In other news, major shareholder Meyer Malka sold 118,107 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 11th. The shares were sold at an average price of $82.71, for a total transaction of $9,768,629.97. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink . Also, Director Julie Szudarek sold 2,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, November 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $96.33, for a total transaction of $192,660.00. Following the sale, the director now directly owns 15,003 shares in the company, valued at $1,445,238.99. The trade was a 11.76 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . In the last ninety days, insiders sold 246,905 shares of company stock valued at $20,440,479. 11.71% of the stock is owned by insiders. Institutional Investors Weigh In On Root A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Hood River Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Root during the 2nd quarter worth approximately $9,547,000. Driehaus Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in Root in the 2nd quarter valued at $9,154,000. State Street Corp grew its stake in Root by 0.3% in the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 176,891 shares of the company’s stock valued at $6,683,000 after acquiring an additional 444 shares during the period. Tidal Investments LLC acquired a new stake in Root in the 1st quarter valued at $1,997,000. Finally, Bank of New York Mellon Corp acquired a new stake in Root in the 2nd quarter valued at $1,280,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 59.82% of the company’s stock. About Root ( Get Free Report ) Root, Inc provides insurance products and services in the United States. The company offers automobile, homeowners, and renters insurance products. It operates a direct-to-consumer model; and serves customers primarily through mobile applications, as well as through its website. The company's direct distribution channels also cover digital, media, and referral channels, as well as distribution partners and agencies. Further Reading Receive News & Ratings for Root Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Root and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
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(CNN) — For more on CNN’s interview with Sherrod Brown, watch CNN’s “Inside Politics Sunday with Manu Raju” this Sunday at 8 a.m. ET and 11 a.m ET. Sherrod Brown can boil down the loss of his Senate seat to this: Donald Trump and withering GOP attacks. And the top of his ticket didn’t help him much, either. As the veteran Ohio Democrat takes stock of the loss in his marquee race, he also has a blunt message for his party: Win back working-class voters or lose more elections. “I think that we don’t appear to be fighting for them,” Brown said when asked why Trump won the same blue-collar workers whom the Democratic senator has prided himself in courting through the course of his three-plus decades in Congress. “Workers have drifted away from the Democratic Party.” In a wide-ranging interview with CNN, Brown bluntly criticized his party for not addressing voter concerns over rising consumer costs and declining economic conditions. And he accused Republicans — including his foe in the Senate race, Trump-aligned businessman Bernie Moreno — of distorting his record as he battled the headwinds at the top of the ticket. And when asked whether he would run in 2026 for the seat being vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance, Brown pointedly refused to say. “I’m not dismissing anything at this point,” said Brown, 72, similarly leaving the door open when asked if he would run for governor. Brown held one of four Senate seats that Republicans flipped as they seized control of the chamber. They will now command a 53-47 majority over the next two years. But Brown, along with Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, had among the toughest slogs of any Democrat: running in red states while trying to maintain distance from their party’s nominee, Kamala Harris, as they tried to court Trump voters. Both men lost seats they’ve held since 2007. “I lost, but we ran ahead of the national ticket,” said Brown, who fell to Moreno by 4 points. “When the leader of your ticket runs 12 points behind, almost, you can’t overcome that, even though it was a close race in the end.” Asked whether he believed that Trump was the deciding factor in his race, Brown took a swipe at Moreno. “A lot of things made the difference. I’d say it’s the money and Trump. That kind of money, month after month after month, with nasty negative ads,” Brown said. “I guess that’s how you win a race. You lie, you spend a lot of money, and then you, as my opponent, hope that your candidate, Trump in this case, would win by a lot.” Moreno’s camp hit back. “Sherrod Brown is a bitter career politician who’s lashing out because he has to find a real job for the first time in his life and work for his paycheck like everyone else,” Moreno spokesman Phil Letsou said. Moreno’s campaign and his GOP allies outspent Brown and his allies on the air, with $251.9 million in total GOP spending compared with $232.7 million in total Democratic spending on the race, according to AdImpact data. But there was a late surge of Democratic spending in the final month of the campaign, with Brown and his allies edging out the GOP with $83.3 million on the air compared to $77.4 million for the GOP. In the interview, Brown said he believed going into Election Day that he would win his race. “I expected to win because I’m out a lot, and I talk to workers. I talk to people year-round ... I saw the enthusiasm in the crowds,” Brown said. “What I didn’t see is the ad they did at the end where Trump said, voting for Sherrod Brown is voting against me.” In one ad for the Moreno campaign, Trump called Brown “a radical left politician” and said: “You’ve got to go out and back Bernie Moreno.” And an ad from the Senate Leadership Fund — a top GOP super PAC — told Ohio viewers: “A vote for Sherrod Brown is a vote against Donald Trump.” Moreno’s attacks over Brown’s record are particularly grating to the vanquished senator. Asked whether he believed that Moreno ran a clean campaign, Brown said: “You can be the judge of that. I think when you run ads and they’re proven to be lies by fact checkers ... you can connect that dot.” Republicans targeted Brown heavily over trans issues during the race — a line of attack the GOP deployed across the country and that Trump wielded against Harris. After the primary, and through Election Day in the Ohio race, GOP advertisers spent a whopping $33.8 million on TV ads that referenced LGBTQ rights and transgender people’s access to bathrooms and involvement in sports. In one GOP ad, a narrator’s voice says, “Six more years of Sherrod Brown? He’s for they/them, not you.” “I cut an ad showing they lied,” Brown said, pointing to fact checks, including one that rated as false an ad that claimed Brown voted to “allow transgender biological men to compete in girls’ sports.” “But that’s what they do,” Brown said. “They spend, they lie about — they take an issue that they know polls well, they lie about it.” “They weren’t talking about how to make Ohio a better state,” he said. Brown cut two ads worth about $3.3 million defending himself on the issue, including one where a narrator calls the ad a “complete lie.” Letsou, the Moreno spokesman, defended the campaign’s attacks. “The truth is Sherrod Brown lost because he chose to lie to Ohioans repeatedly,” the spokesman said, citing the senator’s record on issues including trans people’s involvement in athletics, border security and “endless wars” during the Biden administration. When asked whether Democrats were out of touch on cultural issues and whether more should have been done to counter GOP attacks, Brown fired back. “I’m not out of touch with those issues,” he said. “I go home. I hear people all the time. I know how they focus group and they lie. I mean, how do you call me out of touch when they lie about an issue?” Brown, who served in the House for 14 years before being elected to the Senate in 2006, has long built a populist brand aimed at courting blue-collar workers, an appeal that has been successful over the course of a political career that started nearly half a century ago in the Rust Belt state. But he says his party has fallen sharply out of step with working-class voters, starting with the enactment of NAFTA in 1994 and subsequent policy decisions. And he said the problem also stems from a failure to communicate. “Republicans put inflation totally at the feet of higher government spending. That’s not what caused inflation,” he said. “Corporate profits are up. Stock market’s up. Wages have been flat. We need to take on those interest groups that cause that. Early on in his administration, President Joe Biden attempted to reassure Americans by arguing that price hikes would be temporary, with some administration officials describing the issue as “transitory.” The president later turned away from that messaging , but high consumer costs continued to dog Democrats through November. “That’s the mistake we made,” Brown said when asked about the “transitory” messaging. CNN exit poll data shows Trump won voters without a college degree by 14 points over Harris, 56% to 42%. Four years earlier, he won the group by only 2 points over Biden. Brown says Democrats consistently miss clear opportunities to appeal to those voters. A federal judge in Texas recently struck down a Biden administration rule that would have expanded overtime eligibility for about 4 million workers. Brown said it’s an issue that Democrats should hammer Republicans over, especially since the judge was nominated by Trump. “I’m pretty angry about it,” Brown said. “As you can see, one judge denied 4 million workers in this country their overtime. We ought to be talking about that. ... And I know that very few Democrats have talked about it. And Trump and his crowd, his corporate crowd, they’re always looking out for their rich friends, hope it goes away and hope it gets ignored. “But I’m not going to let it get ignored.” CNN’s David Wright and Sheden Tesfaldet contributed to this report. The-CNN-Wire TM & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.