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Global Beta Smart Income ETF ( NYSEARCA:GBDV – Get Free Report )’s stock price dropped 1.7% during mid-day trading on Friday . The stock traded as low as $23.33 and last traded at $23.44. Approximately 3,000 shares changed hands during mid-day trading, a decline of 70% from the average daily volume of 9,924 shares. The stock had previously closed at $23.84. Global Beta Smart Income ETF Stock Down 1.7 % The stock has a 50 day simple moving average of $23.44 and a 200 day simple moving average of $23.44. Further Reading Receive News & Ratings for Global Beta Smart Income ETF Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Global Beta Smart Income ETF and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .MINNEAPOLIS — Coen Carr scored 12 points, Jaxon Kohler had a double-double and Michigan State led most of the way in a 90-72 victory over Minnesota on Wednesday night in a Big Ten Conference opener. Carr shot 5 of 8 from the floor and Kohler scored 11 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. Xavier Booker made three 3s and finished with 11 points for Michigan State, which shot 53% (29 of 55) and made 11 of 22 from long range. Jeremy Fears Jr. added 10 points to go with five assists. Dawson Garcia had 18 points and 11 rebounds to lead Minnesota (6-4, 0-1). Mike Mitchell Jr. scored 17 points and Lu’Cye Patterson added 12. The Spartans shot 50% from the floor to build a 42-30 lead at the break. Akins scored nine points in the first half and Garcia paced Minnesota with nine. The Golden Gophers pulled within 11 points with about 10 minutes left but didn't get closer. Minnesota had its last lead, 14-12, with 12:22 to play in the first half. Michigan State (7-2, 1-0), which was coming off a third-place finish in the Maui Invitational with its 94-91 overtime win over then-No. 12 North Carolina, has won five of its last six games. The Spartans also ended a two-game skid in conference openers and moved to 18-12 in Big Ten openers under coach Tom Izzo. Michigan State forward Xavier Booker (34) celebrates after making a 3-point shot during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Minnesota, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Minneapolis. Credit: AP/Abbie Parr __ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball
Readers Write: Abortion debate, Gaetz report, Dean Phillips, headlines, media literacySampath Bank has been honoured as the Second Runner-Up in the Best Corporate Citizen Sustainability Award 2024, hosted by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. Widely regarded as Sri Lanka’s pinnacle of recognition for corporate sustainability, the awards ceremony took place recently at Cinnamon Grand, Colombo. This accolade emphasises Sampath Bank’s unwavering commitment to sustainability, a philosophy deeply rooted in its purpose to “Empower Dreams and Enrich Life.” Over the years, the Bank has championed impactful initiatives that safeguard the environment, strengthen employee and customer relations, uplift communities, and uphold robust governance practices. The Bank also received several key accolades during the ceremony, including the Category Award Winner for Environment Beyond the Business, the Sector Award Winner – Finance Sector, and recognition as one of the Top Ten Corporate Citizens. ESG Chairman, Ajantha De Vas Gunasekara of Sampath Bank, remarked, “This recognition stands as a testament to our unwavering commitment to driving positive change across all facets of our operations. Sustainability is not merely a part of what we do; it is the essence of who we are as an organisation.” “At the heart of our journey lies a steadfast dedication to the pillars of ESG – Economic, Environmental, Social, and Governance ensuring that every initiative we undertake creates enduring value for our stakeholders.” Sampath Bank’s award-winning efforts stem from a series of impactful sustainability initiatives. The flagship ‘Wewata Jeewayak’ programme, launched over two decades ago, focuses on restoring Sri Lanka’s traditional irrigation network, enabling dry zone farmers to cultivate paddy across the Yala and Maha seasons. By 2023-24, 21 tanks have been restored under this initiative, with investments increasing to strengthen agricultural resilience amid economic challenges. Complementing this, the ‘Gasai Mamai Pubudu Pothai’ tree-planting and vegetable gardening programmes were launched to foster environmental awareness and sustainability among students in these regions. In addition, the ‘A Breath to the Ocean’ marine protection programme addresses coral replanting and mangrove restoration, including a long-term project at the Anavilundawa Wetland Sanctuary in collaboration with Biodiversity Sri Lanka and the Department of Wildlife. Furthering its commitment to conservation, the Bank is also working to protect endangered turtles by establishing hatcheries in Rakawa village, a critical breeding zone for five globally endangered turtle species.
A new report suggests that Apple may be lining up its plans for the launch of its more budget-friendly Vision headset. As spotted by Wccftech , the report comes from analyst firm TrendForce , which indicates a move away from the high-end micro-OLED panels used in the Vision Pro . The new options include glass-based OLED displays, as well as a different form of OLED known as LTPO backplane technology , which was first used on the Apple Watch Series 4 back in 2018. Since then, it’s become a familiar display technology that’s been applied broadly across the industry in smartphones and watches. This would mean moving away from Sony, which supplied the micro-OLED screens for the Vision Pro. The production of micro-OLED is still costly and inefficient, and according to consulting firm YoleGroup , “requires heavy investments in equipment and dedicated production lines to handle increased volumes.” The report from Trendforce reconfirms that the Vision Pro 2 will continue to use micro-OLED and will even have resolution beyond 3,000 pixels per inch. But even there, Apple will be looking beyond Sony to get costs down. Based on the name alone, the implication was always that Apple would release a more affordable version of the Vision Pro. But now we’re starting to see one element of Apple may approach reducing the price. After all, Apple could only reduce the quality by so much before the headset would lose what made it so special. The Vision Pro’s price was always its Achilles’ heel. Even Apple knew that. No one knows, but rumors say that both the lower-priced Apple Vision and next-gen Vision Pro 2 are expected to launch in 2025. The base Vision may come in under $2,000, while some reports indicate that Apple will reduce the price of the original Vision Pro and continue to sell it alongside the others. But will that be low enough to make a break into the mainstream for these headsets? With the Quest 3 and even more affordable Quest 3S holding down the sub-$1,000 category, Apple would need to make quite a strong case that its base model offers a significant step up from the $500 Quest 3 . Meanwhile, the rest of the industry is beginning to ramp the production of mixed-reality headsets back up again, with Samsung and Sony leading the charge. Even Microsoft has hinted at getting back in the game. Both Meta and Google are expanding the ecosystem of mixed-reality headsets too, opening up both the new Android XR and HorizonOS to brands like Lenovo and Asus.
Viral "Social Lives" Key to Developing Treatments for Bacterial Infections NEW YORK , Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Viruses that infect and kill bacteria, called phages, hold promise as new treatment types for dangerous infections, including strains that have become resistant to antibiotics. Yet, virologists know little about how phages persist in the populations of bacterial cells they infect, hampering the development of phage therapies. Published online December 12 in the journal Science , a new study offers the first evidence that a single bacterial species—the host of the phage—can maintain a diverse community of competing phage species. Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Oxford , and Yale University , the study showed that several phage species coexist stably on a population of a genetically uniform strain of E. coli , a bacterial species that colonizes the human gut and includes disease-causing variants. The researchers found that, despite competition between the viruses, different phage species preferred slower or faster growing cells that randomly appeared in the population. In this way, each phage species was able to find a separate niche on the same host, leading to stable coexistence. Lack of local access to nutrients (starvation), for instance, may slow the growth of some cells to preserve scarce resources. In the current study, two species of phage, labeled N and S, co-existed because N was more fit to survive in fast-growing bacterial cells, while phage S was better in slow-growing cells. The designers of phage therapies hope to avert the problem in treatment with antibiotics, where a certain drug kills bacteria but leaves alive the fraction that by chance are the most resistant to that drug's mechanism of action. These survivors are a major concern because they have become resistant to available treatments. "Knowing how more than one kind of phage can survive over time on a single bacterium could help in designing next-generation phage cocktails," said first study author Nora Pyenson , PhD, a post-doctoral scholar in the lab of co-author Jonas Schluter , PhD , of the Institute of Systems Genetics at NYU Langone Health. "For example, each phage species might attack the bacterium in a different part of its lifecycle and enabling the whole population to be killed before resistance to the treatment evolves." "No phage therapies have yet become standard treatments for bacterial infections, either because in past attempts a single phage did not kill all the targeted bacteria or because the bacteria evolved to be resistant, similar to the evolution of antibiotic resistance," adds Dr. Pyenson. Labs are already testing phage treatments as an alternative to antibiotics. A co-author of the current paper, Paul Turner , PhD , at Yale University , for instance, leads a clinical trial that uses phages against the species Pseudomonas aeruginosa , which can contribute to severe inflammation in the lungs of patients with cystic fibrosis. Dr. Schluter's lab is studying the role of phages in the gut ecosystem of humans and mice that could shape future therapies for infections like Salmonella . A main goal is to anticipate the impact of phage administration and design phage therapies that, unlike current versions that must be tailored to a single patient, work universally across many patients. Importance of Phage Ecology Understanding species diversity is a fundamental question in ecology and evolutionary biology. A major factor enabling diversity, from birds to plants to bacteria, is that species find ways to coexist while still competing for resources. However, viruses were not traditionally thought of in this "social" context. The current research team experimentally tested the long-held assumption that the genetic diversity of bacteria limits the diversity of viral species. This led to an expectation that one phage type would outcompete all others to be the lone survivor. However, just as multicellular organisms host a wide array of bacterial species within their microbiome, the new results show that a single bacterial strain can, itself, host a diverse community of phage species. "Our study contributes to the burgeoning field of studying the social lives of viruses ," adds Dr. Pyenson. "We often think of viruses purely in terms of their impact on the host, but they also exist in the context of other viral species. These phage communities show how diversity emerges even among the simplest bits of biology." Interestingly, the presence of a diverse population of bacteria in the human gut is a sign of health, as the diverse set of species (microbiome) is better able to resist attempts at dominance by any invading, disease-causing species. By the same token, the population of viruses occupying the bacteria that live in the gut is also emerging as an important regulator of health, with abnormal phage mixes thought to contribute to conditions like sepsis. "This work represents a shift in our understanding of phage ecology," said Dr. Schluter, also a professor in the Department of Microbiology at NYU Langone. "Thanks to Nora's work, which she carried through a pandemic and across four labs, we can now begin to understand the evolution of phages when they are in community with diverse viral species and how this shapes their role in health and disease." Along with Drs. Pyenson and Schluter at NYU Langone, and Dr. Turner at Yale , study authors were Asher Leeks and Odera Nweke in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University ; Joshua Goldford in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena; Kevin Foster in the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford ; and Alvaro Sanchez of the Institute of Functional Biology & Genomics, CSIC & University of Salamanca in Spain . Drs. Foster and Sanchez were corresponding authors alongside Dr. Pyenson. Funding for parts of the work was through the Life Science Research Foundation and the Simons Foundation provided to Dr. Pyenson, and through a New Innovator Award to Dr. Schluter (DP2AI164318) from the National Institute of Autoimmune and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. Contact: Gregory Williams , gregory.williams@nyulangone.org View original content to download multimedia: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/diverse-virus-populations-coexist-on-single-strains-of-gut-bacteria-302330342.html SOURCE NYU Langone Health System
BRANDI Glanville has sparked concern amongst fans after looking unrecongizable with a swollen face. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star took to social media to post the concerning selfie amid her health battle. 2 Brandi Glanville has sparked concern amongst fans as she showed off her swollen face to fans Credit: Getty 2 The reality star looks unrecongizable as she battles stress-induced angioedema Credit: X Brandi, 52, last year reveal she was diagnosed with stress-induced angioedema , which she claimed stemmed from filming Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip. Taking to X, formerly Twitter, Brandi didn't mention her health condition, but captioned her photo 'sick it!'. Fans immediately flooded her with support, with one saying: "You are still beautiful queen. Your true fans are here for you, you are not alone. I love you." A second wrote: "Awwww brandi....im sooooo sorry....you’ve had nothing but hardships... sending all prayers for you...you’ll come back girl and smash it just watch." "Oh no Brandi, sending prayers that you get better," said a third. While a fourth commented: "Brandi, this just breaks my heart for you 💔 I'll definitely be keeping you in my prayers.. Love ya." Brandi recently broke down in tears as she claimed Bravo and Andy Cohen ruined her life and left her "broke and sick." She said that despite an already rocky relationship with Bravo, her life truly went crashing downhill after Caroline Manzo accused her of sexual harassment during the taping of Ultimate Girls Trip in Morocco in 2023 Most read in Entertainment DIFFERENT LEAGUE Rangers boss Clement told 'don't make excuses' after surprising admission STRICKEN STAR Michail Antonio undergoes surgery on broken leg after horror car crash CITY CENTRE DRAMA Police lock down busy street in major Scots city after person hit by bus ACE 'ATTACKED' Hearts star 'HEADBUTTED in shock pub attack' as man accused of assault She said that after the allegations were made against her and Bravo did not step up to defend her, her career was destroyed, and other work she had lined up vanished. Brandi Glanville claims Andy Cohen treated her like ‘his little sex worker’ and pushed her to hook up with Bravo star In her exclusive interview with The U.S. Sun, Brandi vehemently denied wrongdoing in the Caroline incident. She pointed to a filing in the Real Housewives of New Jersey's lawsuit against Bravo and NBC Universal. Brandi said: "With the Caroline Manzo situation, I didn't do anything wrong. That's why she's not suing me, because I didn't do anything wrong. And I think she's suing Bravo, because she wants money. And what would she get from me? My rental? I don't have any money to give her. "I think that Bravo hung me out to dry for a storyline, for a show, knowing that all of that press would cause me to lose other jobs, and it did, and they didn't care. They don't care about me." BRANDI'S BRAVO HISTORY Brandi's had a tough go with Bravo. The model-turned-reality star was brought on RHOBH as a "friend" for season 2 in 2011 after her divorce from actor Eddie Cibrian. Brandi previously penned an exclusive article for The U.S. Sun about her painful split from the actor. She was brought on as a full-time cast member from season 3 through 5, but was let go in 2015 after she made comments about Real Housewives of Miami star Joanna Krupa on Watch What Happens Live. She was subsequently sued for defamation. The reality stars settled the suit in 2017, and Brandi was ordered to pay up and publicly apologize to Joanna. Brandi said the suit cost her $500,000 in total. Brandi returned to the show as a guest in the 6th, 9th and 10th seasons. In 2022, Brandi, along with several other Housewives, appeared on The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip. In 2023, it was announced that Brandi would be returning for the 5th season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, which was set to premiere in 2024. Brandi was removed from filming after an allegation of sexual abuse was made by Caroline Manzo, which Brandi denied. That season of Ultimate Girls Trip has yet to hit the air. Caroline sued Bravo, as well as Warner Brothers, and NBC Universal, who own the Bravo brand, over the alleged abuse, but did not pursue legal action against Brandi. In a filing from the suit, obtained by The U.S. Sun, Bravo producer, Lisa Shannon claimed that Caroline told them she did not feel "sexually violated," during the incident. "At that point, Manzo revealed to us, for the first time, that she had suffered sexual trauma as a child and that Glanville’s actions that evening had triggered memories of that childhood trauma. "She told us that she did not feel sexually violated, she felt 'disrespected' by Glanville." the producer said in the filing.7 life hacks to make your flight as comfortable as possibleTransAlta Renewables Inc. ( OTCMKTS:TRSWF – Get Free Report ) traded up 2.8% during trading on Friday . The stock traded as high as $9.21 and last traded at $9.15. 28,900 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 225% from the average session volume of 8,885 shares. The stock had previously closed at $8.90. TransAlta Renewables Price Performance The company’s 50-day moving average price is $9.15 and its 200 day moving average price is $9.15. About TransAlta Renewables ( Get Free Report ) TransAlta Renewables Inc owns, develops, and operates renewable and natural gas power generation facilities and other infrastructure assets in Canada, the United States, and Australia. The company operates through Canadian Wind, Canadian Hydro, Canadian Gas, US Wind and Solar, US Gas, and Australian Gas segments. 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Chelsea defender Marc Cucurella changed his cleats just 12 minutes into the game after his slips contributed to both of Tottenham's early goals in the teams' London derby in the Premier League on Sunday. The Spain international ceded possession by slipping on the turf at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the fifth and 11th minutes — and from the ensuing attacks, Spurs scored through Dominic Solanke and Dejan Kulusevski. Immediately after Kulusevski's shot hit the net to make it 2-0, Cucurella sprinted to the sideline while shrugging his shoulders and pointed to his cleats. He took them off and threw them away in disgust before putting on new ones. It seemed to work. Within six minutes, he provided the pass that led to Jadon Sancho scoring for Chelsea to make it 2-1. Chelsea went on to win 4-3 — and Cucurella posted a photo on social media after the match, showing the first cleats he wore nestled in a bin. “It almost slipped away,” Cucurella wrote on Instagram Stories, “but proud of the amazing team effort to turn things around.” AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer