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TORONTO — . (TSX: SMT | OTCQX: SMTSF | BVL: SMT) (“Sierra Metals” or the “Company”) announces that it will hold a special meeting of shareholders (the “Special Meeting”) on January 31, 2025. The Company has set a record date for the Special Meeting of December 30, 2024. The purpose of the Special Meeting is to seek authorization from the Company’s shareholders to enable the Board of Directors (the “Board”) to consider a consolidation of all of the Company’s issued and outstanding common shares (“Common Shares”) at a ratio of one post‐consolidation share for up to every twenty pre‐consolidation shares (the “Consolidation”). Shareholders will be requested at the Special Meeting or any adjournment thereof, to consider and, if thought fit, pass, with or without amendment, a special resolution approving the Consolidation. Following the Special Meeting, the Board expects to exercise its discretion to implement the Consolidation on such a date and time as the Board may determine. Additional details in respect of the proposed Consolidation will be included in a management information circular which is being mailed to shareholders in compliance with applicable laws and will be available under the Company’s profile on SEDAR+ ( ). The Board believes it is in the best interests of the Company to be in a position to complete the Consolidation to provide the Company with greater flexibility for future corporate activities, enhance the marketability of the Common Shares as an investment and lead to increased interest by a broader spectrum of potential investors, thereby increasing the Company’s ability to secure additional financing for operational and growth initiatives. Over the past 24 months, Sierra Metals has successfully stabilized, optimized and improved its operations, resulting in a lower cost structure, increased efficiencies and profitability across the Company. During this period, the Company, among its many achievements, has safely delivered the following: Ernesto Balarezo, CEO of Sierra Metals, comments, “ The implementation of any Consolidation is subject to Sierra Metals receiving all required approvals, including support from shareholders at the upcoming Special Meeting, and the approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange. If the approvals required for the Consolidation are obtained and the Board decides to implement the Consolidation, the Consolidation will occur at a time determined by the Board and additional information in respect of the Consolidation will be announced by the Company. Sierra Metals is a Canadian mining company focused on copper production with additional base and precious metals by-product credits at its Yauricocha Mine in Peru and Bolivar Mine in Mexico. The Company is intent on safely increasing production volume and growing mineral resources. Sierra Metals has recently had several new key discoveries and still has many more exciting brownfield exploration opportunities in Peru and Mexico that are within close proximity to the existing mines. Additionally, the Company has large land packages at each of its mines with several prospective regional targets providing longer-term exploration upside and mineral resource growth potential. For further information regarding Sierra Metals, please visit . This press release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation. Forward-looking information relates to future events or the anticipated performance of Sierra and reflect management’s expectations or beliefs regarding such future events and anticipated performance based on an assumed set of economic conditions and courses of action. 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Forward-looking information is subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward-looking information, including, without limitation, the risks described under the heading “Risk Factors” in the Company’s annual information form dated March 15, 2024 for its fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 and other risks identified in the Company’s filings with Canadian securities regulators, which are available at . The risk factors referred to above are not an exhaustive list of the factors that may affect any of the Company’s forward-looking information. Forward-looking information includes statements about the future and is inherently uncertain, and the Company’s actual achievements or other future events or conditions may differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking information due to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors. 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TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — A U.S. senator has called for mysterious drones spotted flying at night over sensitive areas in New Jersey and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region to be “shot down, if necessary,” even as it remains unclear who owns the unmanned aircraft. “We should be doing some very urgent intelligence analysis and take them out of the skies, especially if they’re flying over airports or military bases,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said Thursday, as concerns about the drones spread across Capitol Hill. People in the New York region are also concerned that the drones may be sharing airspace with commercial airlines, he said, demanding more transparency from the Biden administration. The White House said Thursday that a review of the reported sightings shows that many of them are actually manned aircraft being flown lawfully. White House National Security spokesman John Kirby said there were no reported sightings in any restricted airspace. He said the U.S. Coast Guard has not uncovered any foreign involvement from coastal vessels. “We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat, or have a foreign nexus,” Kirby said, echoing statements from the Pentagon and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy. Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh has said they are not U.S. military drones. In a joint statement issued Thursday afternoon, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security said they and their federal partners, in close coordination with the New Jersey State Police, “continue to deploy personnel and technology to investigate this situation and confirm whether the reported drone flights are actually drones or are instead manned aircraft or otherwise inaccurate sightings.” The agencies said they have not corroborated any of the reported sightings with electronic detection, and that reviews of available images appear to show many of the reported drones are actually manned aircraft. “There are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted air space,” according to the statement. The drones appear to avoid detection by traditional methods such as helicopter and radio, according to a state lawmaker briefed Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security. The number of sightings has increased in recent days, though officials say many of the objects seen may have been planes rather than drones. It’s also possible that a single drone has been reported more than once. The worry stems partly from the flying objects initially being spotted near the Picatinny Arsenal, a U.S. military research and manufacturing facility, and over President-elect Donald Trump’s golf course in Bedminster. In a post on the social media platform X, Assemblywoman Dawn Fantasia described the drones as up to 6 feet (1.8 meters) in diameter and sometimes traveling with their lights switched off. Drones are legal in New Jersey for recreational and commercial use but are subject to local and Federal Aviation Administration regulations and flight restrictions. Operators must be FAA certified. Most, but not all, of the drones spotted in New Jersey appeared to be larger than those typically used by hobbyists. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey said he was frustrated by the lack of transparency, saying it could help spread fear and misinformation. “We should know what’s going on over our skies,” he said Thursday. John Duesler, president of the Pennsylvania Drone Association, said witnesses may be confused about what they are seeing, especially in the dark, and noted it’s hard to know the size of the drones or how close they might be. “There are certainly big drones, such as agricultural drones, but typically they are not the type you see flying around in urban or suburban spaces,” Duesler said Thursday. Duesler said the drones — and those flying them — likely cannot evade detection. “They will leave a radio frequency footprint, they all leave a signature," he said. "We will find out what kind of drones they were, who was flying them and where they were flying them.” Fantasia, a Morris County Republican, was among several lawmakers who met with state police and Homeland Security officials to discuss the sightings from the New York City area across New Jersey and westward into parts of Pennsylvania, including over Philadelphia. It is unknown at this time whether the sightings are related. Duesler said the public wants to know what's going on. “I hope (the government agencies) will come out with more information about this to ease our fears. But this could just be the acts of rogue drone operators, it’s not an ‘invasion’ as some reports have called it,” Duesler said. “I am concerned about this it but not alarmed by it.” Associated Press reporters Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and reporter Darlene Superville and videojournalists Serkan Gurbuz and Nathan Ellgren in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.At the mention of his record-setting streak of passes without an interception, Justin Herbert gently knocked on a wooden lectern and smirked. A run like this can always use some superstitious help. Herbert has thrown 335 consecutive passes without an interception, a Chargers record. Still working toward Aaron Rodgers ’ NFL record of 402 consecutive passes, Herbert downplayed his streak, saying it is “probably more luck than anything.” Coach Jim Harbaugh scoffed at the suggestion. “Way more skill than luck,” Harbaugh said. Herbert hasn’t thrown an interception since Week 2 against the Carolina Panthers. His streak of 11 consecutive games without an interception while attempting at least 15 passes is tied with Tom Brady’s from 2010 for the longest in a season. Herbert, who returned to practice Thursday while nursing a left ankle injury, can pass Brady (358) for the fourth-longest streak of passes without an interception Sunday against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at 1:25 p.m. at SoFi Stadium. According to Pro Football Focus, Herbert has had four turnover-worthy plays — which include passes with a high-percentage chance of being intercepted and plays with poor ball security that could result in a fumble — in the last eight games. Among quarterbacks who have played at least 20% of their teams’ dropbacks during that span, Herbert’s 1.3% rate of turnover-worthy plays is tied for fourth best, while his 22 big-time throws are tied for the most. “It’s just one of those things where you go play quarterback and you’re not worried about it,” said Herbert, who has fumbled six times and lost two this season. “If I throw an interception, it is what it is. “I’m gonna do everything I can to protect the ball and make sure that I’m not putting the team in harm’s way. But at the end of the day, you’ve got to be aggressive. You’ve got to take your shots and if they’re down there and there’s a tipped ball, or someone makes a great play, that’s the way the game goes.” To Harbaugh, a 15-year NFL quarterback, the “gold standard” is two interceptions for every 100 throws. Herbert has a career interception rate of 1.54%. After 10 years in professional football and seven NFL teams, Chargers backup quarterback Taylor Heinicke said Herbert is the best he’s been around when it comes to limiting interceptions. Not only does Herbert have the arm strength to push the ball to all corners of the field, Heinicke said, but also he combines it with accuracy and smart decisions. Herbert avoids fluke plays such as tipped passes that result in unpredictable interceptions by understanding each play call’s intent against every defensive look and knowing when to take a shot downfield or adjust if that option doesn’t materialize. “He’s unbelievable at it,” Heinicke said. “It’s really fun to watch.” Herbert insisted it’s not just him. The quarterback credited his receivers for helping keep the streak alive by tipping balls away from defenders if the pass wasn’t in perfect position. He has lauded receiver Ladd McConkey as a player whose natural route-running ability limits the opportunity for interceptions because McConkey shields defenders with his body. With Herbert leading the way, the Chargers have turned the ball over a league-low six times. Their plus-11 turnover margin ranks third. The Buccaneers (7-6) are minus-two in turnover margin as quarterback Baker Mayfield has had 13 passes intercepted, the most for the former Heisman Trophy winner since 2021 when he was with the Cleveland Browns. Mayfield, whose 28 touchdown passes are tied for third in the NFL, had four passes intercepted and lost a fumble in the last two weeks. Chargers offensive coordinator Greg Roman said he thanked Herbert for not putting the team in the position of trying to overcome many interceptions. “His ultimate concern is winning, not pumping up stats or whatever,” Roman said. “I think that’s where it all starts. It’s been remarkable.”AP News Summary at 1:28 p.m. ESTBy Conor Ryan The Red Sox have signaled all offseason that they’re willing to spend heavily. Beyond team president Sam Kennedy confirming Boston’s interest in Juan Soto and the team’s readiness to exceed MLB’s competitive balance tax (CBT) to bring in top talent, multiple reports have tied the Red Sox to some of the top names in both free agency and on the trade market. But if Boston wants to win the high-stakes sweepstakes for stars like Soto, Corbin Burnes, and Max Fried, the Red Sox might have to significantly outbid some other deep-pocketed teams like the Yankees. Why? According to longtime ESPN baseball writer Buster Olney, the Red Sox’ status as a top destination for players has waned in recent years — especially after the team dealt Mookie Betts to the Dodgers in February 2020. “One market factor that shifts cyclically is how some teams become a preferred destination for players, while other teams lose ground in the perception game,” Olney posted on X. “Boston is aggressive with dollars now, but the Red Sox will have to pay extra to overcome a negative player perception that really started growing when the team wouldn’t pay Mookie Betts.” One market factor that shifts cyclically is how some teams become a preferred destination for players, while other teams lose ground in the perception game. Boston is aggressive with dollars now, but the Red Sox will have to pay extra to overcome a negative player perception that... The Red Sox’ decision to move on from Betts has been nothing short of a disaster for Boston. Connor Wong the only remaining player still on Boston’s roster from that deal with the Dodgers. Meanwhile, Betts has gone on to win two World Series titles, four Silver Sluggers, and two Gold Gloves over the last five seasons in Los Angeles. Beyond Betts’ exit, the Red Sox have let other homegrown stars like Xander Bogaerts walk in free agency — with Boston prioritizing internal development over active offseasons. The result has granted Boston one of the top farm systems in baseball, but little to show for it at the big-league level so far. Boston has only punched its ticket to the postseason once over the last six seasons. Add in the Red Sox’ quiet offseason in 2023 after promises of a “full throttle” approach , and Boston might have some work to do when it comes to re-establishing itself as a major player in free agency. The Red Sox have already lost out on two potential pitching targets in Blake Snell and Yusei Kikuchi — who signed with the Dodgers and Angels, respectively, this week. Conor Ryan Conor Ryan is a staff writer covering the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Red Sox for Boston.com, a role he has held since 2023. Sign up for Red Sox updates⚾ Get breaking news and analysis delivered to your inbox during baseball season. Be civil. Be kind.
DALLAS — With Juan Soto gone, the New York Yankees could trade for a top-tier rental for the second straight offseason. “We’re open to anything,” Brian Cashman said Wednesday morning as rumors involving Houston’s Kyle Tucker swirled around the Winter Meetings. The meetings began with Soto spurning the Yankees for a record-setting, 15-year, $765 million deal with the Mets. Astros general manager Dana Brown then made it known that he would “listen on anybody” when asked if he’d consider trading Tucker and starting pitcher Framber Valdez. Like Soto, Tucker is a power-hitting right fielder who gets on base and bats from the left side. While not as gifted a hitter as Soto, Tucker is still a force who also offers more speed and better defense. Could he replace Soto ahead of his own walk year? “I would expect us to have conversations with all teams about what availability of players on their roster are, as well as all agents of players in free agency that we like, too,” Cashman said when asked if he’d be in contact with Brown. “We’ll check every box and ascertain price tags and that will be true of anything in the marketplace.” According to multiple reports, the Astros like Yankees’ right-hander Luis Gil, the American League Rookie of the Year, in a potential deal for Tucker. Meanwhile, the Cubs are also seen as suitors, among others, as Seiya Suzuki and Isaac Paredes are chips for Chicago. Last year, the Yankees traded five players — Jhony Brito, Kyle Higashioka, Michael King, Drew Thorpe and Randy Vásquez — to San Diego for Soto and Trent Grisham. It was a high price to pay for what amounted to just one year of Soto. The Yankees also paid the superstar a record-setting $31 million for 2024 to avoid arbitration. Tucker, scheduled to become a free agent for the first time next winter, is projected to make $15.8 million in arbitration this offseason. Were the Yankees to acquire the 27-year-old, they could try to engage him in extension talks like they did with Soto. However, it may be hard for Tucker to pass on a shot at the open market after seeing what Soto got. While Tucker won’t pull in as many dollars as Soto did, his age and talent should put him in line for a gigantic deal of his own. Limited to 78 games last season thanks to a shin fracture, Tucker hit .289/.408/.585 with 23 home runs, 49 RBI, 11 stolen bases and a 180 wRC+. The seven-year pro is a .274/.353/.516 hitter with 125 homers, 417 RBI, 94 stolen bases and a 139 wRC+ for his career. A three-time All-Star, Tucker also won the World Series with Houston in 2022. With R ō ki Sasaki’s free agency underway, Cashman said the Yankees already have a presentation prepared for the Japanese ace as they await a meeting date. Sasaki grew up a big fan of Masahiro Tanaka, but Cashman declined to say if the former Yankee factored into the team’s pitch. “We’ve had some great [Japanese] players that have played here and enjoyed playing here,” Cashman said, highlighting Tanaka, Hideki Matsui, Ichiro Suzuki and Hiroki Kuroda. “But that doesn’t guarantee any individual’s decision piggybacking on those types. But I know those players are great resources to speak to the experiences that they had here.” Cashman saw Sasaki pitch for the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2023. He came away impressed, calling the right-hander a “big arm with a big desire to be great.” “His intent is to be one of the game’s greatest pitchers on the planet,” Cashman said. “We certainly would love to participate in allowing that to happen.” With the Yankees and Mets both interested in Sasaki — the 23-year-old’s age limits him to international signing bonus pool money — agent Joel Wolfe said that Sasaki could handle the bright lights of New York on Tuesday. However, Wolfe also suggested that Sasaki could benefit from a smaller market after negative experiences with Japanese media took a mental toll on the pitcher. Pinstripers’ payroll According to Cot’s Contracts, the Yankees’ 2025 projected payroll is $258.1 million for competitive balance tax purposes after agreeing to an eight-year, $218 million contract with former Braves starter Max Fried on Tuesday. That puts them over the first tax threshold of $241 million. The second threshold is $261 million, followed by $281 million and $301 million. Last month, Hal Steinbrenner said he had yet to think about a target number for next year’s payroll. On Wednesday, Cashman was asked if a number had been communicated to him. He responded by simply saying that Steinbrenner said that all possibilities should be brought to his attention. “He’s fully invested and involved every step of the way,” Cashman said. “So he’s aware of all the price tags on the trade acquisitions, as well the free agents.” Spencer Jones and other prospects In spring training, Steinbrenner said that he didn’t want to trade top prospects Will Warren, Spencer Jones and Chase Hampton. Each went on to endure disappointing seasons in various ways, though, as Warren, who made his MLB debut, and Jones saw their numbers dip while the now-healthy Hampton suffered a flexor strain. On Wednesday, Cashman said he’s “open minded to everything” when asked about possibly trading members of the trio. “Certain guys, you’re more willing to discuss, and other guys, you’ve got a lot more trepidation in discussing,” he continued. “It’s just the nature of the beast.” With regards to Jones, Cashman said the outfielder is capable of more than he showed during a strikeout-heavy 2024 campaign. The GM called the Yankees’ sixth-best prospect, per Baseball America, a “physical beast,” but he noted bigger players sometimes take more time to develop. Cashman cited Dellin Betances and Aaron Judge as examples while talking about Jones, who is 6-6. “All those tools are real, so the excitement is all there,” Cashman said of Jones, who has displayed power and speed. “You also have to be patient.”By Ja'han Jones Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs name-checked Donald Trump in his latest attempt to secure bail amid his ongoing sex trafficking case. And federal prosecutors aren’t feeling it. On Monday, Combs’ attorneys filed a letter affirming their belief that his request for bail should be granted. This was required by Judge Arun Subramanian after prosecutors claimed that Combs should be denied bail because he was allegedly trying to to manipulate witnesses from jail and influence potential jurors . The letter says Combs is “not required to sit idly by” amid a “nonstop drumbeat of negative publicity [that] has destroyed his reputation and will make it virtually impossible for him to receive a fair trial.” The letter continues: He has a right to a fair trial and a constitutional right to speak out on his own behalf. The government’s arguments that asking his children to post birthday wishes on Instagram and that he is not entitled to publicly express his opinion that this prosecution is racially motivated are, quite simply, an unconstitutional effort to silence him. So Combs is seeking the Trump treatment and asking the judge to apply the broad First Amendment protections that the president-elect was afforded in his federal election interference case in Washington. “In United States v. Trump , the D.C. Circuit ‘assume[d] without deciding that the most demanding scrutiny applies to’ pre-trial speech restrictions on criminal defendants, ‘and that only a significant and imminent threat to the administration of criminal justice will support restricting [a defendant’s] speech,’” Combs’ lawyers wrote. Trump, of course, went nuts on social media under his partial gag order in D.C. The lawyers also contend that the judge should apply the Jan. 6 case’s “heightened standard when considering Mr. Combs’ speech here.” Trump, of course, went nuts on social media under his partial gag order in D.C. But prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are raising a seemingly obvious difference between Combs and Trump. In Trump’s case, the court “faced the unique task of balancing the right of a current candidate for the presidency to speak publicly about his charges against the public’s right in a fair trial,” the prosecutors wrote in response Monday. The prosecutors argued that “[t]hose same First Amendment interests are not at stake here,” adding: Further, the defendant’s comments go well beyond attempts to claim that he is innocent of the charges against him and make clear that he intends to use the press to deliberately manipulate “outside influences to be biased in his favor.” The judge is expected to rule on Combs’ latest bail attempt — his third, after two failed tries — sometime this week. As someone who has written about the disturbing similarities between Combs and Trump , it comes as no surprise that the former is now adopting the latter’s legal strategy. Ja'han Jones is The ReidOut Blog writer. He's a futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics. 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David NabarroThe finance negotiations at COP29: Climate negotiations become harder as the stakes get higher. The focus of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan was on climate finance. The intention was to increase the target for finance to go to developing countries to help them protect their people and economies against climate disasters and invest into clean energy. This would come in the form of a new goal for global climate finance. Negotiating a finance goal was never going to be straightforward. It is challenging for nations to agree an amount that is fair for everyone and, at the same time, politically feasible for those that are asked to provide the cash. The last hours of COP29 in Baku were difficult and many participants felt dissatisfied when they left. Solid floor on which to build: But the outcome – a new global goal of $1.3 trillion annually by 2035, from public, private and innovative sources, with developed nations committing $300 billion per year - is a real increase on the previous target of $100bn a year. It is a solid floor on which to build. Is the amount big enough? Will it be made available to those who need it soon enough? I cannot say at this stage. Securing a sustainable future for all requires continued goodwill, engagement and collaboration. This is only possible if all concerned ensure the transparent provision, effective delivery and efficient use of promised funds. This will pave the way for greater confidence among donors and further increases in available resources. Growing momentum on the agri-food-nutrition-climate + intersection: I sensed a greater recognition that those who produce food are affected first, and worst, by climate change, and that the numbers of people at risk of food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition are on the rise with the...
Caprock Group LLC bought a new stake in shares of Universal Health Services, Inc. ( NYSE:UHS – Free Report ) during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The fund bought 1,412 shares of the health services provider’s stock, valued at approximately $323,000. Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the business. Quest Partners LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Universal Health Services by 348,133.3% during the 3rd quarter. Quest Partners LLC now owns 10,447 shares of the health services provider’s stock valued at $2,392,000 after acquiring an additional 10,444 shares in the last quarter. Mizuho Securities USA LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Universal Health Services by 2,101.2% during the 3rd quarter. Mizuho Securities USA LLC now owns 101,188 shares of the health services provider’s stock valued at $23,173,000 after acquiring an additional 96,591 shares in the last quarter. Empowered Funds LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Universal Health Services by 541.1% during the 3rd quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 24,469 shares of the health services provider’s stock valued at $5,604,000 after acquiring an additional 20,652 shares in the last quarter. Empirical Finance LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Universal Health Services by 1.1% during the 3rd quarter. Empirical Finance LLC now owns 5,704 shares of the health services provider’s stock valued at $1,306,000 after acquiring an additional 64 shares in the last quarter. Finally, CIBC Asset Management Inc lifted its holdings in shares of Universal Health Services by 8.1% during the 3rd quarter. CIBC Asset Management Inc now owns 8,674 shares of the health services provider’s stock valued at $1,986,000 after acquiring an additional 650 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 86.05% of the company’s stock. Universal Health Services Price Performance Shares of NYSE:UHS opened at $197.94 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.28, a current ratio of 1.39 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.69. Universal Health Services, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $133.70 and a fifty-two week high of $243.25. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $218.02 and a 200 day simple moving average of $206.35. The company has a market cap of $13.06 billion, a PE ratio of 13.16, a P/E/G ratio of 0.63 and a beta of 1.29. Universal Health Services Announces Dividend The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, December 17th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, December 3rd will be paid a dividend of $0.20 per share. This represents a $0.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 0.40%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, December 3rd. Universal Health Services’s payout ratio is 5.32%. Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades Several equities research analysts recently issued reports on the stock. Bank of America assumed coverage on shares of Universal Health Services in a research note on Wednesday, November 6th. They set a “neutral” rating and a $223.00 price target on the stock. Wells Fargo & Company lifted their price target on shares of Universal Health Services from $275.00 to $285.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, November 6th. KeyCorp assumed coverage on shares of Universal Health Services in a research note on Friday, October 11th. They set a “sector weight” rating on the stock. The Goldman Sachs Group lifted their price target on shares of Universal Health Services from $200.00 to $229.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Tuesday, July 30th. Finally, Robert W. Baird lifted their price target on shares of Universal Health Services from $236.00 to $274.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Wednesday, September 4th. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, ten have issued a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Universal Health Services has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $231.14. View Our Latest Stock Report on UHS Universal Health Services Profile ( Free Report ) Universal Health Services, Inc, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates acute care hospitals, and outpatient and behavioral health care facilities. It operates through Acute Care Hospital Services and Behavioral Health Care Services segments. The company's hospitals offer general and specialty surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, emergency room care, radiology, oncology, diagnostic and coronary care, pediatric services, pharmacy services, and/or behavioral health services. See Also Want to see what other hedge funds are holding UHS? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Universal Health Services, Inc. ( NYSE:UHS – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Universal Health Services Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Universal Health Services and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .A UC Berkeley professor explores how Native arts have contributed to the land reclamation efforts of the past 50 years. An organizer and life coach offers tips on tidying up your life. And a comic book author shares little-known facts about plants with a young audience. These are a sampling of the new books written by local authors that are set here or otherwise connected to Berkeley in some way. Nonfiction Berkeley author L. John Harris describes his sixth book as a whodunnit with three whos: the artist, the subject and “the idiot who threw out the painting.” “The painting” is an unfinished portrait of a girl wearing a bright red head covering that Harris found on the streets of Paris in 2015. “The Girl in Red,” as he calls it, is unsigned and bears only a date: Jan. 12, 1935. Harris, a food writer and illustrator, began posting about his search for the portrait’s provenance on Facebook, expanding his posts into a book-length manuscript in 2017. His search lasted two years and spanned two continents, with stops in London, Paris, Stinson Beach, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Berkeley. The book’s publication comes 50 years after Harris’ first book, , in 1974. To solve the whodunnit, Harris puts up posters on the streets of Paris seeking any information on the portrait, contacts art advisors and experts and a stolen or missing art register. He heads to the Louvre, where he compares the portrait to the Mona Lisa, a task, he admits, better suited to professional critics and art historians, but which he approaches as an art history student or travel magazine stringer. He contemplates finishing the portrait himself and winds up having a companion portrait of himself in the style of “The Girl in Red” painted by the Berkeley artist Max Thill at the suggestion of Marcia Masse of Masse’s Pastries in North Berkeley. That encounter provides an opportunity for Harris to gush about her husband’s buttery almond croissants, his favorite “this side of Paris.” Such diversions are one of many Harris intersperses throughout, along with musings on fine art, found objects and the aesthetics of a perfect croque monsieur — what had led him to Paris in the first place. The publisher especially recommends this book for readers who loved Edmund de Wall’s or Michael Finkel’s The aftereffects of a war and global pandemic. Hyperinflation and economic crisis. The rise of an authoritarian leader and the so-called “crisis of historicism,” in which intellectuals felt disillusioned with the course of history and skeptical whether the historical process held any meaning or coherence at all. These are some of the crises faced by Germany’s Weimar Republic between the wars that have prompted analogies to the U.S. in the age of Trump, said Nicholas Baer, an assistant professor of German at UC Berkeley who also lives in Berkeley. “Commentators have been drawing parallels between interwar Germany and the contemporary U.S.,” Baer said. “There’s definitely a resonance between then and now. We are similarly in a moment of historical pessimism.” Baer’s first book, , examines that crisis of historicism during the Weimar era by putting its films in conversation with the philosophical critiques of historicism from that time. He then draws links with the U.S. “as we face our own political, economic, and environmental crises,” Baer said. Baer analyzes five legendary works of German silent cinema: and . In the epilogue, Baer draws links between Fritz Lang’s and Bong Joon-ho’s and by the Oakland filmmaker Boots Riley. Like , is also an allegory of capitalism, Baer said. Both contemporary films also try to visualize class stratification. “I try to extend the legacies of Weimar cinema by thinking about contemporary global cinema as well,” Baer said. Shira Gill’s latest book is different from her first two, from 2021 and from 2023. Those books illustrate how to live stylishly and simply, with Gill often using her own 1,200-square-foot Craftsman bungalow in Berkeley, which she shares with her husband, two daughters and an Australian shepherd as an example. Gill’s latest effort falls into the personal development category, in which she also has expertise. In addition to being a professional organizer, Gill happens to be a certified life coach and applies her less-is-more approach to one’s health, wellness and career and relationships, as well as one’s home and environment. Like her previous books, this one includes images from her own white-washed, minimalist residence and four others in the Bay Area. The book’s biggest message, she said, is the “power of less” and setting boundaries so you’ll have time to focus on the things that matter most to you, which Gill helps you determine. “We’ve reached this tipping point where we keep adding more, but without subtracting we’re doomed to being completely overwhelmed,” she said. Simone O. Elias said that she did not write her first book, with college applications in mind. Now 15, a freshman at Eldorado High School in Placerville began pursuing her passion for classic films two years earlier when she created with a friend the podcast “ .” “I was thinking about my own personal creative fulfillment,” said Elias, who is also “a writer of everything you can possibly think of,” as she puts it in the preface, from songs to movies, TV pilots and essays. Elias is the daughter of Jessica Carew Kraft, a forager and author of . Like her mother, Elias divides her time between the Berkeley Hills and Placerville. Elias will be discussing her book at and at The book is a Gen Zer’s take on the golden age of films, which she defines as the beginning of the 1930s to the end of the 1960s. She argues that members of her generation would learn a lot about American history and popular culture by watching old movies and demonstrates how they foreshadowed, influenced and continue to shape pop culture. Watching a full-length film, she writes, also provides an antidote to her generation’s limited attention span. Though her first exposure to film began with the 1957 musical , Elias began working her way back and found herself falling in love with films of the 1930s. In particular, she finds the wise-cracking, fast-talking women played by the likes of Clara Bow, Ginger Rogers and Barbara Stanwyck to be, well, dope. “They played strong female characters who were ahead of their time. I found so much joy watching them. I don’t see women acting this way even today,” she said. “Back then they were very strong.” In the spring of 2021, the Native artist Nicholas Galanin created an installation in the desert near Palm Springs with the words “Native Land” in 45-foot high white letters, recalling the iconic Hollywood sign overlooking Los Angeles. The Hollywood sign had served as a real-estate advertisement for the new, whites-only communities in Los Angeles, writes Shari M. Huhndorf, a professor of Native American studies at UC Berkeley. Such land was “a commodity for purchase while promoting racial segregation” and “an act of erasure, obscuring the long histories of the Gabrielino Tongva people.” Huhndorf begins her latest book with the story of the “Native Lands” sign because it best represents its subject matter: the ties between Indigenous arts and Native land reclamation movements that have taken place over the past 50 years. “Native artists, filmmakers and writers have used their work to represent Indigenous histories and meanings of land in ways that support Indigenous territorial claims,” she writes. Such “radical political imagery” challenges the authority of the U.S. and Canada, “refutes extractive colonialism on Native lands and envisions a future that draws together territorial reclamation with social justice, including gender justice, for Native people.” Huhndorf’s previous books on Native culture include and Kids Growing up in the 1950s and ’60s on a hill near Claremont’s Star Grocery, the children’s book author Elizabeth Partridge saw the Golden Gate Bridge on a daily basis. Nevertheless, the bridge still represented a magical place to her because it also formed the basis of a family myth. The myth was that her godmother, Dorothea Lange, the Depression-era photographer, had selected the color of the bridge, a half-truth spread by Lange’s first husband, the artist Maynard Dixon. “It turned out that when bridge officials met with local artists, chose the color of the bridge,” Partridge said. “So, yes, my godmother helped choose the color of the bridge, but didn’t choose it all by herself.” With illustrations by Ellen Heck, (for ages 5 to 8) is dubbed “a love story to the bridge and its creation.” It chronicles the planning and construction of the bridge from the point of view of the nearby lighthouse keeper’s children. The children watch as trucks and crews arrive and the steel towers are primed in the color called International Orange and rise above the tempestuous water of the Golden Gate, where the ocean meets the bay. When the bridge opened on May 27, 1937, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. Partridge now lives in North Berkeley, where she no longer has bridge views, but glimpses them each night when she walks her two dogs in the hills. “Every day I say, ‘Hello bridge, how are you doing?’” she said. “I love watching the fog roll in and out of the bay.” Andy Warner pays attention — close attention. An observer of the overlooked, the nonfiction comic book author turned his curiosity to everyday objects and the result was his 2016 book, a New York Times bestseller Because the book was a hit with kids and librarians, when Little Brown approached him to do a series for ages 6 and up, he jumped at the chance. The result: Andy Warner’s Oddball Histories series. The first book in the series, (2021), is about the animals — domesticated or not — that are successful because of humans. The second book in the series, came out Nov. 5. It explores the ways people use the plants around us and follows domesticated plants, trends and technologies to find the connective stories between places and cultures. “Did you know that a pepper blockade led to the Age of Exploration? How about that huge wheat barges once kept Rome running with free bread? Or that whole wars were fought over Tea?” These are a few of the many questions Warner answers in a way that “makes learning fun,” according to the publisher. Though he continues to create work for an adult audience, Warner has personal experience with the younger audience. His 7-year-old twins go to Malcolm X Elementary School, where he recently did a presentation for their class about being a cartoonist. “Making work they’re interested in is definitely a fun part of the job,” he said. Anne Nesbet is an associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and film and media at UC Berkeley whose side hustle is writing children’s books. Lots of them. Her eighth, , is a wilderness adventure for readers ages 8 to 12. The plot involves three cousins who get cut off from their parents after getting permission to camp for one night at a lake . A major earthquake makes it impossible to return the way they came, so they must chart a different path. Along the way, they encounter a wide range of obstacles, from wild animals to raging rivers and treacherous mountain passes. Their hardest challenges, however, are the psychological ones they carry along with their backpacks. Vivian’s afraid of starting middle school and of “changes she can’t control,” while Own still suffers from the emotional scars of a car accident and Amy wishes to live another life rather than her own boring one. seeks to explain to 7 to 11 year olds the importance of voting and the ongoing fight for voting rights. Berkeley children’s book author Laura Atkins shares the byline with two veteran civil rights activists: Edward A. Hailes, a former civil rights attorney and Baptist minister, and Jennifer Lai-Peterson, a civil rights attorney and former union organizer. Srimalie Bassani illustrated the book. “We’ve written a book to help kids understand why it’s important to vote, how people have fought for this right and the tools to know their rights,” says Atkins. Passionate about social justice, Atkins co-wrote with Stan Yogi and with Arisa White, both part of the Fighting for Justice Series. She is also the author of the picture book an editor and coach. " " indicates required fields Send a private note to the editors. See an error that needs correcting? Have a tip, question or suggestion? Drop us a line. Embed URL To remove this article -
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