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It struck me as I, like he, was doing a job in a room full of people who were grieving. They were there to mark an occasion, as we were there to provide a service. I’ll forever remember it as a moment I could understand what Salmond had spent his life doing. A job. His job. Playing his role in the grand scheme of Scotland’s history, trying to improve the country and lives of those who lived in it. No matter his politics, everyone in that room knew he had played his role well. The majority of the more than 500 people who sat in St Giles' Cathedral had met Salmond while he was playing his role and few understood the man who was a loved one, and a friend. READ MORE: RECAP: Alex Salmond's memorial service takes place in Edinburgh To hear his niece tell tales of him in his youth and jokes he told in his familial life was a rare and fascinating glimpse behind the public image. To see who attended and how they held themselves spoke volumes to the respect and care they felt for him and his family. To feel the emotion of the room ebb and flow as singers, poets, and politicians took to the podium illustrated just how vast, complex, and intricate Salmond’s legacy was. When the organist began to play, I and the rest of the press pool joined attendees to stand and sing. Beforehand, we were the first group who entered the cathedral, to get settled, briefed, and be there to witness everyone arriving. While we waited, several journalists reflected and shared their last interviews or phone calls with Salmond. As people arrived, some known to the public and others not, the cameras captured hugs and handshakes between friends, colleagues and political rivals. Others and I noted the sheer volume of tartan on show, and I then noticed several wearing white roses, including Fergus Ewing. The white rose of Scotland or the burnet rose is, next to the thistle, Scotland's most emblematic flower and may have been the source of the Jacobite white cockade. These elements paired with Dougie MacLean singing Caledonia, the Proclaimers singing Cap n Hand, Sheena Wellington signing A Man’s a Man for a’ That, all while Saltires hung on the pillars, you could truly not have had a more nationalist send off. I’m sure it would have given Salmond a chuckle that the likes of Gordon Brown and Lord George Foulkes had front row seats for it. Christina Hendry, Salmond’s niece was the first speech from the pulpit and albeit, with some neck craning around the pillars of the cathedral, I saw Hendry standing tall and speaking sure. “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” someone later told me. I would be surprised if she doesn’t one day take a seat in Holyrood . Kenny MacAskill was up next, and he referenced Salmond’s last social media post – “Scotland is a country, not a county” – and he said: “Lambasting those demeaning our land and chastising those supinely allowing it to happen”. First Minister John Swinney, who the post was written about, was sat in the front row. He had already been called a “traitor”, and would later be booed outside by Yes activists. A cold reception to say the least. And one that did not fit with what Reverend Dr George J Whyte had urged in his opening prayer: “We will recall together, the vulnerable service given by those who choose to live in the public eye, setting out their ideas, making decisions on our behalf, seeking our vote. “May we be encouraged to appreciate that which is done for us in the governing of our nation.” When MacAskill finished, he was met with a rupture of applause. Later, those outside would congratulate him on how well spoken he had been. READ MORE: Dougie MacLean pays tribute to Alex Salmond with Caledonia performance When Duncan Hamilton took to the pulpit, he suggested the only thing Salmond would have changed in his pollical career was his resignation following the 2014 referendum. You could hear mumbles of agreement radiate throughout the crowd, as Hamilton added: “And I wonder how different Scotland would be today”. During the performance of Cap n Hand, one activist – “Annie fae Dundee”, she introduced herself as – took a Saltire out of her bag and waved it as she sang. She was quickly told to put it away. (Image: Jane Barlow/PA Wire) When we left the cathedral, attendees were smiling through tears at the crowd which greeted them outside. Supporters flew Saltires while MacAskill, Hendry, Joanna Cherry, and Alba figures came over to hand their memorial programs to members of the public. As Swinney and his wife Elizabeth Quigley got into the car, he was booed. This was possibly the saddest part of the day. Witnessing the hurt people feel, the division that continues to fracture the movement, and the barrier to keeping Salmond’s dream alive.
Narita International Airport now has a zero tolerance policy for abusive passengers. Other businesses are also reporting a rise in threats to employees. Is famously polite Japan becoming less tolerant? Tired of the angry outbursts, shouted threats and even incidents of violence, the operator of Narita International Airport has become the first in Japan to implement a zero-tolerance policy against harassment of its staff. The airport is not alone in acting to protect its employees, with the Tokyo Metropolitan Government passing a local ordinance on October 4 designed to protect people working in the service sector from abuse, threats and unreasonable demands as such cases become more commonplace. The management of Narita Airport, which serves Tokyo, said it had been obliged to act due to an increase in confrontations between passengers and staff. The new policy defines harassment as any act that "harms the working environment of airport staff physically or psychologically" and includes insulting employees, yelling, verbal abuse, discrimination and defamation. Staff shocked at incidents A new ground handler at another major Japanese airport was taken aback by how often travellers lose their temper. "It happened to me again last week," said the woman, who declined to be identified as she did not have the permission of her employer to speak publicly. "A passenger's suitcase was over the weight limit and he became enraged that we would not allow him to check it in." "He was shouting, banging on the desk with his fist and kicking the case," she told DW. "This went on for about 15 minutes but we did not back down, so in the end he had to pay the excess baggage fee. It was not all that much and I do not understand why he became so aggressive." She noted that some ground staff give in to threats, which may encourage others to do the same. In June, the 1.8 million-strong UA Zensen Union published the results of a survey that indicated that 46.8% of workers in Japan's service industry had been the target of customers in the previous two years. Some had been so traumatized by the experience, the report said, that they had required counselling. "Japan has such high standards of polite service, but with that comes similarly expected norms for customers," said Roy Larke, senior lecturer in marketing at the University of Waikoto, New Zealand, and an expert on retailing and consumer behavior in Japan. "When these expectations break down, even if only in a few well reported cases, it will be quite shocking for many," he told DW. Cafe in Japan aims to include people with dementia To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Educating the customer "In the same way that e-commerce firms are now attempting to educate the customer to accept slower deliveries and how some supermarkets companies are introducing chairs for cashiers for the first time," said Larke, adding that there may be a need for "lower expectations from customers when shopping." "I would hypothesise that the combination of increased pressure is the main factor behind increased customer frustration," Larke said. Regardless of the cause, more companies are taking precautions. The nation's two largest air carriers, All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines, in July unveiled new guidelines on passengers' behaviour, identifying abusive and aggressive language as unacceptable, along with threats, physical assaults of staff, unreasonable demands and sexual harassment. Technology developer Softbank Corp has developed a voice-altering phone technology that employs artificial intelligence and makes a furious caller sound calm to the company employee listing to a complaint. Supermarket chain Ito-Yokado Co has created a manual for dealing with difficult customers and introduced training on reporting violent behavior to the police and maneuvering threatening individuals into positions where they are recorded on CCTV. Manga, myths & homeopathy — Arts Unveiled To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Training of store staff Similarly, 24-hour convenience stores are training staff on how to respond to abusive customers and many outlets have introduced signs warning that misbehavior will not be tolerated and that the premises are monitored by security cameras. Morinosuke Kawaguchi, a technology analyst and consultant who was previously a lecturer at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, says Japanese society has become something of a minefield of potential harassment pitfalls as more people grasp what constitutes harassment and are willing to report incidents. "Japan is an extremely polite nation and society, but all the cases we hear about make it appear that we are becoming impolite," he told DW. "I think a big part of the problem is that everything is now being recorded on mobile phones so we are just seeing more cases." "This sort of behavior used to be the sort of thing young street thugs did, but virtually no one saw it happening," he added. "Now we have social media, it has become a big issue. I do not believe that Japan, as a society, really has become more impolite or aggressive." 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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Dallion Johnson scored 25 points as FGCU beat Florida Tech 79-62 on Sunday. Johnson shot 9 for 16, including 6 for 12 from beyond the arc for the Eagles (4-8). Keeshawn Kellman added 14 points while shooting 6 of 8 from the field while he also had nine rebounds. Rahmir Barno shot 5 of 6 from the field and 2 for 3 from the line to finish with 12 points, while adding seven assists and six steals. The Panthers were led in scoring by Donovan Brown, who finished with 26 points, six rebounds and six assists. Can Kaan Turgut added 13 points and six rebounds for Florida Tech. Logan Allen also had nine points. FGCU visits Richmond in its next matchup on Saturday. ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by and data from . The Associated PressRhythm Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:RYTM) Receives Buy Rating from Canaccord Genuity GroupThe Verdict [Fake] Continues below advertisement window.addEventListener("load", function() { let ad_unit_fire_time = 1000; if(ad_delay_time_abp > 0){ ad_unit_fire_time = parseInt(ad_delay_time_abp) + 500; } setTimeout(function () { googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-9167143-2"); }); },ad_unit_fire_time) }); Deepfake videos of Sudha and Narayana Murthy falsely claim they launched a project enabling users to earn Rs 1 lakh a day through AI-powered software. What is the claim? A viral Facebook video featuring Indian social worker and philanthropist Sudha Murthy claims she has launched a project enabling people to earn Rs 100,000 ($ 1,183) a day. 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An archived version of the video is available here . A screenshot of the social media post. (Source: Facebook/Modified by Logically Facts) However, our investigation found the claim to be false. The video was manipulated using deepfake technology to promote a fake money-making scam. Murthy has not announced any such project. Video of Sudha Murthy has been altered Our investigation included reverse image searches on keyframes of the video, revealing similar (archive here ) short clips published by a YouTube channel called 'Mohammed Ahsan's Library.' In these videos, Murthy can be seen wearing the same saree and sitting in the same setting. However, in these original videos, Murthy discusses topics like raising children (archived here ), romance, and her relationship (archived here ) with her husband, Indian billionaire businessman Narayana Murthy. None of these videos, however, mention a money-making project. Comparison between the fake video and the original video. (Source: Facebook/YouTube/Modified by Logically Facts) Further analysis of the audio reveals noticeable discrepancies. The voice in the viral video sounds robotic, with an accent unlike Murthy's. Additionally, her lip movements seem altered to match the fabricated voice, suggesting the use of deepfake technology. The Misinformation Combat Alliance's Deepfakes Analysis Unit (DAU), which Logically Facts is a part of, analyzed the audio using deepfake detection tools Hive Audio Detector, Hiya AI Voice Detection, and TrueMedia. TrueMedia identified substantial manipulation, detecting facial alterations with 97 percent confidence and AI-generated audio with 100 percent certainty, likely created using cloning software (99 percent confidence). It also flagged facial feature discrepancies with 65 percent confidence. Image shows the deepfake detection results by TrueMedia. (Source: TrueMedia/Modified by Logically Facts) Hiya AI Voice Detection confirmed that the audio is fake, with only a 1 percent match to live human markers. Hive AI's detector identified only five segments of the audio as "Not AI-generated," while the visual analysis confirmed the video as a deepfake with minimal doubt. Image shows deepfake detection analysis by Hive AI. (Source: Hive AI/screenshot) What else did we find? The Facebook page sharing the video is not based in India. According to the page’s transparency details, its primary locations are Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ukraine, and the United States. The page name is written in Thai and reads “Ranong Provincial Police Station,” based in Thailand. The image shows the primary location of the managers of the Facebook page. (Source: Facebook/Screenshot) Altered video of Narayana Murthy We discovered that the video links to a website called 'inirliff.com,' which masquerades as a news article from The Times of India. The page mimics the design of the national daily's website, including its masthead and navigation options. The article claims that Indian citizens can earn Rs 2 million by investing Rs 21,000, with registration closing on November 22. However, The Times of India has not published any such article. The website is fake and designed to deceive users. It lacks contact information or external links, and interacting with the masthead or sections redirects users to the bottom of the page. A screenshot of the fake website, which looks like the Times of India news website. (Source: Inirliff.com/Screenshot) The fake website includes a deepfake video of Narayana Murthy, repeating the same claims as the altered Sudha Murthy video. The 4:41-minute clip was created by modifying lip movements and generating a fake voice using AI. A reverse image search traced the original video (archive here ) to a 25:35-minute CNBC-TV18 interview featuring both Murthys. Narayana Murthy does not discuss any such project in the original. The deepfake was constructed by splicing segments from the interview, with the first 19 seconds taken from the 22:29 to 22:48 mark. TrueMedia confirmed the audio was AI-generated with 100 percent confidence and flagged unusual facial patterns with 48 percent confidence. Hive AI detected manipulation across multiple video frames, classifying all but 20 seconds of audio as AI-generated. Hiya AI Voice Detection also confirmed the audio was AI-created. Similar deepfake scams involving former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and businessman Gautam Adani featured nearly identical audio scripts, differing only in names and earnings claims. What does the fake website do? The website claims that a software called Quantum AI can help individuals earn Rs 2 million per month by investing just Rs 21,000. It features fabricated testimonials from people allegedly earning millions with minimal investment. Users are asked to fill out a form with their contact information, likely to collect personal data and potentially defraud them. A screenshot of the fake website shows the contact form. (Source: Inirliff.com/Screenshot) The website also claims to have partnerships with major Indian companies like Tata Group, HDFC Bank, Infosys, Reliance, and the State Bank of India. However, there is no evidence that any of these companies are involved with Quantum AI. What is Quantum AI? We've previously fact-checked similar deepfake videos featuring figures like Elon Musk and Narayana Murthy promoting fraudulent schemes involving software like Quantum AI. These claims are false. Quantum AI does not exist as legitimate software to help people earn money; scammers use such terms to make their schemes seem more credible. The verdict Deepfake videos of Sudha Murthy and Narayana Murthy have been used to falsely promote a project that supposedly allows people to earn Rs 100,000 a day. The videos and associated claims are part of a deceptive scam. This report first appeared on logicallyfacts.com , and has been republished on ABP Live as part of a special arrangement. Apart from the headline, no changes have been made in the report by ABP Live.
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2 excellent ASX dividend stocks to buy in JanuaryCEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Jacob Hutson's 20 points helped Northern Iowa defeat Southern Illinois 78-67 on Sunday. Hutson shot 7 of 10 from the field and 5 for 7 from the line for the Panthers (8-5, 2-0 Missouri Valley Conference). Tytan Anderson added 15 points while shooting 6 of 7 from the field and 3 for 3 from the line while he also had 10 rebounds. Max Weisbrod went 4 of 7 from the field (2 for 5 from 3-point range) to finish with 10 points. Jarrett Hensley finished with 20 points and six rebounds for the Salukis (5-8, 0-2). Ali Abdou Dibba added 10 points for Southern Illinois. Drew Steffe had eight points. Northern Iowa took the lead with 1:02 remaining in the first half and never looked back. Hutson led his team in scoring with 10 points in the first half to help put them ahead 38-34 at the break. Northern Iowa turned a 13-point second-half lead into a 27-point advantage with a 14-0 run to make it a 73-46 lead with 8:38 left in the half. Hutson scored 10 second-half points in the matchup. Both teams next play Wednesday. Northern Iowa hosts Belmont and Southern Illinois takes on Evansville at home. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Angel Yin was making putts from across the green and threatening to build a big lead until Jeeno Thitikul finished eagle-birdie for a 9-under 63 to share the lead Saturday going into the final round of the CME Group Tour Championship with $4 million on the line. Yin had a 69 after another day of big putts and one chip-in from some 60 feet for eagle on the par-5 sixth hole that put her comfortably ahead at Tiburon Golf Club. She holed a 30-footer on the eighth hole, another birdie from about 25 feet on the ninth hole and another one from the 30-foot range on the 12th. Thitikul seemed to be an afterthought until she lit it up on the back nine for a 30. The Thai started the back nine with three straight bogeys, but she made up quick ground at the end with her eagle on the reachable par-5 17th and a birdie on the closing hole. The birdie briefly gave her the lead until Yin made birdie on the 17th to join her. They were tied at 15-under 201, three shots head of Ruoning Yin, who birdied her last two for a 66. Charley Hull had seven birdies in her round of 66 and was at 11-under 205, along with Narin An of South Korea. Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., was tied for 16th at 7 under after a round of 69. Nelly Korda, who got back into the mix on Friday after a sluggish start, lost ground with a 69 on a pleasant day that left her six shots back going into the final round. Korda has won four of her seven LPGA titles this year coming from behind. This could be a tall order. At stake is the richest payoff in women's golf, $4 million to the winner, nearly as much as Korda has made all year in her seven-victory season. Thitikul already picked up a $1 million bonus this week through the Aon Risk-Reward Challenge, a competition based on how players score on a designated hole each week. Now she could leave Florida with a total of $5 million. “Actually, $1 million is really good enough for me,” Thitikul said. “If I can get more, it’s definitely going to be a nice, because as my team know I spend a lot of money. That’s why I have to keep playing good golf, like spending on shopping day.” Angel Yin heard plenty of cheers for her long birdie putts, and the chip-in for eagle. She also was helped by a couple of pars after bad drives. She went well to the left at No. 10, did well to blast out on a blind shot just short of the green and then got up-and-down with a pitch to 4 feet. And then on the 13th, another tee shot went well to the left. She tried to get it back in play from just in front of some bushes, and from 50 yards hit wedge to about 15 feet. She holed that putt, too, that kept her in front. “I'm scoring still,” Yin said. “Making some mistakes, but saving a bunch, so a lot of positives.” ___ AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf The Associated PressIn Garfield Park, Camarria Williams often enjoyed walks with her mom. There, the 11-year-old girl also discovered a new cancer-fighting molecule in an unexpected source: goose poop. Williams and her twin sister Camerria, who attend the William H. Brown STEM Magnet School, spent the fall of 2022 participating in a science program at a West Side Boys & Girls Club where they worked with researchers to identify potential antibiotics that occur in nature. The twins from North Lawndale were part of the third cohort of middle school students who participated in the “Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab,” a partnership between the Boys & Girls Club and a UIC lab run by pharmaceutical sciences professor Brian Murphy. During a field trip to Garfield Park to collect samples rich in bacteria, Williams knew exactly where to look. She thought back to memories feeding the park’s geese with her mother, she said. “The reason I got the poop was because the goose eat everything,” Williams said. Now 13, Williams is officially a published scientific researcher. She is listed as a co-author in a study about the new cancer-fighting compound discovered by isolating bacteria from her goose poop sample, which appeared in a peer-reviewed scientific journal this October. “It was an amazing experience with the Boys & Girls Club, that they can venture and learn more and go in different atmospheres,” said Antwainetta Hunter, Williams’ mother. “It is our future, children are our future. And so the goals that they’re making, I think that it is wonderful and amazing what they’re experiencing now.” During the 14-week afterschool program, young members of the James R. Jordan Club on the Near West Side learned how to collect environmental samples, program robots and test bacteria for disease-fighting properties. The middle schoolers not only gained a scientist’s skillset but also actively participated in the work of Murphy’s lab at UIC, which aims to identify potential antibiotics that occur in nature. West Side middle schooler Camarria Williams, right, their mother mother Antwainetta Hunter, center, and her twin Camerria pose for a portrait James R. Jordan Boys and Girls Club on Dec. 20, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune) “We decided we want to involve students directly in really interesting biomedical research and try and connect each step of that research with a different career in the sciences, just to try and try and get that spark, to get them interested at an age where they should start to think about, ‘oh wow, I could actually potentially make a career out of this,’” Murphy said. Murphy, who launched the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab in the spring of 2022, said that he believes that universities have an obligation to use their resources to serve their community. Murphy’s goal with the program was to help establish a stronger pipeline to careers in STEM in Chicago neighborhoods that have faced “decades” of “engineered inequity,” he said. The program ran three cohorts of middle schoolers in 2022 at the James R. Jordan Club. After Williams made her discovery, the program ran one more time in early 2023 at the Bartlett J. McCartin Boys & Girls Club in Bridgeport, with high school students participating. Although the initial funding has run out, Murphy said that he and Boys & Girls Club leadership have applied for new grants with the hopes of offering the program again in 2025. Williams was one of the James R. Jordan Club’s “core club kids,” stopping by every day after school and participating in different programs, said Boys & Girls Clubs of Chicago technology program manager Jonathon Rodriguez. Williams said she initially joined the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab because it seemed like “a lot of opportunities.” After the program, both of the Williams twins said they became interested in pursuing science in the future. Both also said their favorite part of the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab was visiting UIC’s campus and getting a tour of a real-life science lab. “We walked around and they had these chemicals, and they were working on something,” Williams said. “It was just fun.” Williams said that she preferred the Boys & Girls Club program to her science classes at school as it had more hands-on experience, adding “I just want to go out and find stuff and see what it can do.” When she grows up, she said, she wants to be either a climatologist, a pediatrician, scientist or a professional volleyball player. For the West Side club, the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Program was a “real world kind of experience and exposure that our kids in our community normally don’t get the opportunity to do,” Rodriguez said. “For Camarria specifically, to be able to say ‘Hey, you participated in this program, you gave it a shot and then it led to something that you know is going to be utilized by the scientific community,’” Rodriguez said. “It’s just a testament to mentorship and programs that really focus on providing unique opportunities and experiences to our kids... their hard work and their dedication can lead to something.” The program was structured in order to “bring (students) along in the process of antibiotic discovery,” said Jin Yi “Jeanie” Tan, a fourth-year PhD student in Murphy’s lab who helped coordinate the program and run key experiments. Each cohort was quite small, Tan said, with Williams’ group consisting of seven middle schoolers. First, the students went out into their neighborhood – which for Williams was Garfield Park – to collect samples from nature, Tan said. They then worked with graduate student or postdoc mentors from UIC to isolate different types of bacteria from the samples and conduct tests to screen them for potential antibiotic properties, according to Tan. For safety reasons, Murphy said, children usually are not allowed to work with bacteria during science experiments, which previously was a barrier to him engaging youth from the community in his lab’s work. However, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Murphy’s lab was able to partner with UIC’s Institute for Tuberculosis Research to purchase a “colony-picking robot,” which could pick up bacteria colonies and transfer them onto new plates where they would be tested against a pathogen. This robot could be “programmed from a safe place” with the young participants still “making all of the decisions,” Murphy said. Boys & Girls Club members were brought to the UIC lab to program the approximately $200,000 robot and watch it at work, Murphy said, which for some was their “first time ever going to a college.” At the end of the program, the students were taught “how to analyze bioinformatics data” so that they could each choose which of their bacteria colonies “look promising” and should theoretically be prioritized for future research, Tan said. “For Camarria, she prioritized the bacteria with antibiotic properties,” Tan said. “So I followed up on the strains that she prioritized, which is where in the lab I would grow it up and purify the compounds and then do some further testing. And that’s where we found this new compound that had some cytotoxic activity against cancer cell lines.” The bacterium that Williams isolated and selected from her initial goose poop sample contained a cancer-fighting molecule that had never been documented before, according to Murphy. The lab’s partnership with the Boys & Girls Club had yielded “high-end biomedical research that was actually publishable,” he said. After over a year of research conducted by Tan and other UIC scientists to determine the structure and properties of the new compound, the scientists wrote a paper on their findings that was published on Oct. 24 in ACS Omega, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society. Williams is now listed by name as a co-author of the study “Discovery of New Cyclic Lipodepsipeptide Orfamide N via Partnership with Middle School Students from the Boys and Girls Club.” When she found out about the significance of her own discovery, Williams said she was happy that “I did something that did work.” She now has a paper copy of the journal with her name inside. Listing Williams as an author “wasn’t charity,” Murphy said, but rather followed his lab’s own policies. Murphy’s students need to fulfill two of three criteria in order to be listed as a co-author on a study: physical lab work, intellectual input or participation in writing the manuscript. Williams had checked the box for the first two of these requirements. “It was Camarria’s intellectual input that chose the goose poop,” Murphy said. “None of us would have thought to do that, and she did it.”
B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Holding AG purchased a new stake in shares of Corning Incorporated ( NYSE:GLW – Free Report ) in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor purchased 33,932 shares of the electronics maker’s stock, valued at approximately $1,532,000. A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of the company. City Holding Co. grew its position in Corning by 545.5% in the third quarter. City Holding Co. now owns 710 shares of the electronics maker’s stock worth $32,000 after acquiring an additional 600 shares in the last quarter. Accordant Advisory Group Inc purchased a new stake in shares of Corning in the second quarter valued at $39,000. Cassady Schiller Wealth Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Corning in the 3rd quarter worth about $39,000. Global Trust Asset Management LLC raised its position in Corning by 2,250.0% in the 3rd quarter. Global Trust Asset Management LLC now owns 940 shares of the electronics maker’s stock worth $42,000 after purchasing an additional 900 shares during the period. Finally, Future Financial Wealth Managment LLC bought a new stake in Corning in the third quarter worth about $45,000. 69.80% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors. Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades A number of brokerages recently issued reports on GLW. Oppenheimer reissued an “outperform” rating and set a $58.00 price target (up from $51.00) on shares of Corning in a research note on Wednesday, October 30th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price target on shares of Corning from $55.00 to $60.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 30th. Bank of America lifted their price target on shares of Corning from $46.00 to $51.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, September 20th. Mizuho upgraded Corning from a “neutral” rating to an “outperform” rating and upped their target price for the stock from $44.00 to $47.00 in a report on Wednesday, August 21st. Finally, StockNews.com upgraded Corning from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, October 31st. Five analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and ten have issued a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $50.08. Corning Stock Performance Shares of GLW opened at $48.50 on Friday. The company has a current ratio of 1.66, a quick ratio of 1.05 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.62. The firm has a market cap of $41.52 billion, a PE ratio of 285.26, a P/E/G ratio of 1.51 and a beta of 1.03. Corning Incorporated has a 12 month low of $27.57 and a 12 month high of $51.03. The stock has a fifty day moving average price of $46.33 and a 200-day moving average price of $41.96. Corning ( NYSE:GLW – Get Free Report ) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 29th. The electronics maker reported $0.54 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.53 by $0.01. Corning had a return on equity of 13.45% and a net margin of 1.24%. The business had revenue of $3.39 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $3.72 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company earned $0.45 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 6.9% on a year-over-year basis. Equities research analysts predict that Corning Incorporated will post 1.95 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. Corning Dividend Announcement The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, December 13th. Investors of record on Friday, November 15th will be paid a $0.28 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Friday, November 15th. This represents a $1.12 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.31%. Corning’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 658.82%. Insiders Place Their Bets In other news, SVP John P. Bayne, Jr. sold 5,000 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction on Friday, November 22nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $48.39, for a total value of $241,950.00. Following the sale, the senior vice president now directly owns 6,700 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $324,213. This represents a 42.74 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is accessible through the SEC website . 0.40% of the stock is currently owned by insiders. About Corning ( Free Report ) Corning Incorporated engages in the display technologies, optical communications, environmental technologies, specialty materials, and life sciences businesses in the United States and internationally. The company's Display Technologies segment offers glass substrates for flat panel displays, including liquid crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes that are used in televisions, notebook computers, desktop monitors, tablets, and handheld devices. Featured Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding GLW? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Corning Incorporated ( NYSE:GLW – Free Report ). 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TSM Share Price in Taiwan: A Gamer’s Investment Opportunity?The Rotary Club of St Helens came up with the idea of linking care homes with local primary schools to ensure residents feel loved during the festive season. They then designed the cards for the children to complete. This year, 340 cards, featuring Christmas pictures and a personal message, were sent to residents at Stocks Hall Nursing Home, Eccleston, St Helens Hall, Greenfields, and Victoria care homes. Each card had the name of a resident for the children to address. Merton Bank children with their Christmas cards (Image: Supplied) Rotary St Helens' vocational team leader, Gaynor Winstanley, said: "Rotary St Helens are always looking at ways of supporting our local community. "We wanted to bring together the young and elderly during Advent so by delivering this ‘Christmas Card project’, has brought much joy within our community at this special time of year. "For many of the residents, it will be the only Christmas card they will receive. "So, receiving a card from a child is magical. "This year’s Rotary’s theme across the world is ‘The Magic of Rotary’ which seems very appropriate." Residents of Victoria Care Home, Pat and Elaine, said: "It was a fabulous surprise to get cards from local children. "They have brightened our day. "Thank you very much." A resident with her Christmas card (Image: Supplied) Richard Holtby, home manager at Stocks Hall Care Home, added: "Our residents were really pleased to receive the Christmas cards from the children. "We would like to thank them for the time they have taken to make the cards. "To receive a card from a child is extra special and it really brightened up our resident’s day during this season of goodwill." The children who took part attend Holy Cross, Parish Church, Merton Bank, Rivington, and Bleak Hill primary schools.
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SHE plays picture-perfect Good Witch Glinda in the big-screen adaptation of West End hit Wicked. But despite having a dream role in a hit Hollywood film, Ariana Grande has lifted the veil on her own path to stardom — revealing that she first saw a therapist at the tender age of eight. The Thank U, Next singer told how she struggled to “process things” after mum Joan Grande and dad Edward Butera ended their marriage in 2001. She said: “I first saw a therapist when I was eight after my parents’ divorce — but I don’t think I was really mature enough to process things. “But as I have gotten older, my therapist has been everything to me.” Ariana previously credited therapy with helping her process the aftermath of the terror bomb attack on the Manchester Arena which tragically killed 22 at her concert in May 2017. Read more on Ariana Grande The pop star suffered further heartbreak when her rapper ex Mac Miller died from an accidental drug overdose in 2018. She added: “Therapy has saved my life. That is why I am so passionate about making therapy and mental health services available for all. "It shouldn’t just be for those that can afford it.” Meanwhile, the US singer also opened up about her close relationship with Wicked co-star and British actress Cynthia Erivo , who plays Elphaba in the film, which hit cinemas on Friday. Most read in Bizarre She said: “We have become such criers — especially in the last few weeks. "As we have been able to see the final product of what we have done, as we have been able to see people’s reactions to the movie — it’s just been so emotional. “ Cynthia and myself just randomly burst out crying — but don’t worry, they are good tears! “Honestly, she has become my sister. "The first time we met we had what we thought would be a short conversation about what we wanted to achieve creatively — and it ended up with us talking for hours, bonding over so many things. “Creatively we wanted to do all we could — but we also decided early on that we would be there during shooting for each other — no matter what. “I am so proud of what everybody on Wicked has achieved — but the greatest thing for me is that I have gained a sister for life.” Sabrina lives the American gleam POP superstar Sabrina Carpenter is in the pink as she wraps the North American leg of her Short n’ Sweet Tour. The Espresso hitmaker glittered in a fuchsia bodysuit and matching suspenders as she posed backstage earlier this week. She said: “I have always dreamt of bringing this tour to life but it was even better than I could have imagined because of every crowd that showed up and gave 100 per cent of their energy and time.” Sabrina added: “Cry because it’s over for now, but we can’t wait to see you in the new year in Europe .” She kicks off in the UK on March 6 at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena. I cannot wait. LOTTIE MOSS plans to ditch her OnlyFans career to bag brand deals. It sounds like she is following the lead of her model half-sister Kate, who previously had deals with Diet Coke and been the face of Calvin Klein. Speaking to Biz on Sunday at Boohoo’s party at Kachette in Shoreditch, East London, Lottie, said: “I want to do brand deals to make the money that I’ll lose from OnlyFans.” So ma, so good, Adele FAMILY matters were on Adele's mind when her mum joined her on stage as her long-running Las Vegas residency drew to a close. Penny Adkins appeared alongside her daughter on Friday night at the singer’s penultimate show at Caesars Palace. Adele, who shares 12-year-old Angelo with ex-husband Simon Konecki, said: “My own motherhood has helped me see my mother as a person rather than as a mum. “My [social media] feed used to be about pets and nail results and the motivational meme was: ‘Go easy on your mother – it’s her first time living too.’ “And that really, really changed my perspective on everything to do with myself as a mum, her as a mum or all parents . “Because life is hard. Life sucks. It doesn’t matter what situation you’re in. The problems never, never disappear – they just come in different forms.” Adele , who completed her 100th show on Saturday night, said the residency has been the perfect “bookend” to her album 30, which she released in 2021. She said: “All I wanted to do was do some shows – I didn’t mean to do this many. “I wanted to do some songs from 30 and just fall in love with performing again. Adele revealed: “My last tour in stadiums f * g freaked me out”, adding that she performed before “so many people, it took me a long time to kind of wrap my head around it. “This [residency] felt perfect and was the bookend to this story and this album.” Las Vegas won’t be the same without her. HE famously sang about wooing a woman every day of the week, but Craig David is ready to settle down. The 7 Days hitmaker said: “I would have said I was commitment-phobic. I was all about the music. Now my heart is saying, ‘Open up’.” Craig, left, will kick off his aptly named Commitment tour in Leeds next year, with special guest Lemar joining him for 11 UK dates. Ed to Ed for film ED SHEERAN has been spotted getting into the Christmas spirit. The Thinking Out Loud hitmaker was filming in Southwold, Suffolk , with Bridgerton star Claudia Jessie also starring in a video for his new festive track Under The Tree, earlier this month. The song is set to feature in a new Netflix animation film, That Christ-mas, directed by Love Actually and Notting Hill writer Richard Curtis. A fan filmed the pair sitting in a beach hut with their arms around each other as Richard gave them instructions. Claudia – best known as Eloise Bridgerton – could also be seen making cups of tea as pals stopped by to chat. Earlier this year, Ed said of Richard: “He came to me two years ago to play me the rough [version] of That Christmas. “It was just sketches and voices, but it blew me away. So emotional, yet so heartwarmingly funny.” The film is set in the fictional town of Wellington-on-Sea and tells the story of the worst snowstorm in history , which causes havoc for everyone – including Santa. Let’s hope Storm Bert doesn’t do the same... JAMES BOND actor Daniel Craig reckons 007 movie bosses gambled on him. He said: “They took a big risk and I am eternally grateful.” But the Brit star of five Bond films had to take the job. He said of franchise producer Barbara Brocolli: “If you ever tried to tell Barbara ‘no’, you may understand. SIMONE ASHLEY has swapped Bridgerton for Bastille in her latest project. The Netflix star, who rose to fame as Kate Sharma, in the hit regency series, is the star of the band’s short film for their track Eve and Paradise Lost. It sees Simone crying as she takes on the role of Eve with the lyrics delving into love, loss and betrayal. READ MORE SUN STORIES Lead singer Dan Smith, who worked with British director Dominic Savage, said: “I was totally blown away by Simone’s performance on the day which surpasses anything I could have imagined.” Simon added: “When I first heard this song, I immediately felt a connection to it. I loved working with Dan and Dominic and feel so proud of what we have created."None