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Medical Properties: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:14:51 GMT

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Medical Properties Trust Inc. (MPW) on Thursday reported a key measure of profitability in its first quarter. The results met Wall Street expectations.The Birmingham, Alabama-based real estate investment trust said it had funds from operations of $222.2 million, or 37 cents per share, in the period.The average estimate of eight analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for funds from operations of 37 cents per share.Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. It takes net income and adds back items such as depreciation and amortization.The company said it had net income of $32.8 million, or 5 cents per share.The health care real estate investment trust, based in Birmingham, Alabama, posted revenue of $350.2 million in the period, which missed Street forecasts. Six analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $352 million.Medical Properties expects full-year funds from operations in the range of $1.50 to $1....

Review: ‘The Eight Mountains’ is a luminous, gentle stunner

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:14:51 GMT

Seasons and years blow through the high Alpine peaks of the decades-spanning “The Eight Mountains.” But a warm, abiding glow persists throughout this tender, even restorative epic of male friendship. The film, by Belgian filmmakers Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen, is a stunning, often profound and frequently jaw-droppingly gorgeous tale of two friends from childhood through adulthood set against the Italian Alps. Vast and intimate at once, their luminously languid adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s bestseller reaches sublime heights. “The Eight Mountains,” which last year won the jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, isn’t hurried. The ebbs of its two-and-a-half hours are sometimes a little too placid. But the passage of time — what changes, what endures — is much the subject of the movie. Just as the film’s near-sole setting — a remote mountain cabin beneath the peaks of northwestern Italy — beckons Pietro (Luca Marinelli) and Bruno (Alessandr...

Mobileye: Q1 Earnings Snapshot

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:14:51 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — JERUSALEM (AP) — Mobileye Global Inc. (MBLY) on Thursday reported a loss of $79 million in its first quarter.The Jerusalem-based company said it had a loss of 10 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for amortization costs and stock option expense, were 14 cents per share.The results surpassed Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of five analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research was for earnings of 13 cents per share.The maker of driver-assistance systems and autonomous driving technologies posted revenue of $458 million in the period, also exceeding Street forecasts. Four analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $457.5 million.Mobileye expects full-year revenue in the range of $2.07 billion to $2.11 billion._____This story was generated by Automated Insights (http://automatedinsights.com/ap) using data from Zacks Investment Research. Access a Zacks stock report on MBLY at https://www.zacks.com/ap/MBLYSource

John Stamos tried to get Olsen twins fired from ‘Full House’

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:14:51 GMT

(CNN) — John Stamos and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are like family now, but that wasn’t always the case.During a recent episode of the “Good Guys” podcast, Stamos talked to Josh Peck and Ben Soffer about his early efforts to get the twin sisters recast on “Full House.”The Olsens shared the role of Michelle Tanner, the youngest member of the “Full House” family, and Stamos starred as Uncle Jesse Katsopolis.He said that while filming the show’s pilot, he and costar Dave Coulier, who played Joey Gladstone, were doing a scene with one of the twins in which they were changing her diaper.“We’re carrying the baby downstairs and I think I was holding her on the armpits and Dave was holding her little feet,” Stamos recalled. “We take her in the kitchen and we hose her down and we put a fan on her we wrapped her up in paper towels. She was screaming. Both of them. They wanted to be anywhere else but there and so did...

Finnish far right in talks to join coalition government

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:14:51 GMT

Finland’s prime minister-elect and leader of the center-right National Coalition Party (NCP), Petteri Orpo, said Thursday he would start talks to form a coalition government — including the anti-immigration Finns Party.“The official government negotiations … will begin on May 2 … between the National Coalition Party, the Finns Party, the Swedish People’s Party and the Christian Democrats,” Orpo told reporters in Helsinki, according to French newswire AFP.The conservative leader expressed hope that a government would be formed by June, according to Finnish public broadcaster Yle.Orpo’s NCP defeated the party in power, Sanna Marin’s Social Democrats, in elections earlier this month, prompting the now-ex PM to resign her position as party leader.The NCP is now the biggest political force in Finland’s 200-seat parliament, with 48 seats, while the far-right Finns Party has 46 and the Social Democrats have 43.Adding the Swedish People&...

France backs Spain’s plea for EU crisis funds as drought hits farmers

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:14:51 GMT

France will support Spain’s request for EU emergency funds to help farmers hit by extreme drought, Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau said Thursday. Paris will show “solidarity in the European institutions so that Spain can access elements of budgetary response to the crisis it is experiencing,” Fesneau told a joint press conference after meeting with his Spanish counterpart, Luis Planas, in Paris.More than a quarter of Europe is currently in drought, with many countries bracing for a repeat — or worse — of last year’s bone-dry summer. Spain is particularly hard hit, with farmers’ association COAG forecasting that cereal crops will fail entirely in four regions this year.Planas on Monday sent a letter to Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski requesting aid for farm workers in Spain’s agricultural heartlands, including from the crisis reserve of the bloc’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and unused rural development funds.Across Eu...

Brian Walshe to appear back in court, accused of murdering his wife Ana Walshe. But the whereabouts of her body remain a mystery

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:14:51 GMT

(CNN) — A Massachusetts father accused of killing and dismembering his wife is expected to appear in court Thursday, almost five months after the disappearance of Ana Walshe.Brian Walshe, 48, of Cohasset was indicted by a grand jury last month on charges of murder, misleading a police investigation/obstruction of justice, and improper conveyance of a human body, Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey said.“Brian Walshe entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of murder at his Quincy District Court arraignment in January,” Morrissey said in March. “This indictment moves the case to the Norfolk Superior Court, where it will be arraigned.”Prosecutors have not said whether Ana Walshe’s body or remains have been found.The suspect’s defense attorney, Tracy Miner, has suggested the prosecutors’ case was not strong and accused them of leaking evidence to the media before making it available to her.“In my exp...

Sources: 1 injured after pipe bomb explosion in Weare, NH

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:14:51 GMT

One person is injured following a pipe bomb explosion in Weare, New Hampshire Thursday morning, according to 7NEWS sources.Fire, police, and EMS responded to the area of Sugar Hill Road around 7 a.m. Concord Stage Road was shut down immediately and reopened around 7:30 a.m. Sugar Hill Road north leading into Hopkinton remains closed as of 9 a.m. The condition of the person who was injured is unknown at this time. The incident remains under investigation and no additional information has been released.

Dave Hyde: A doubleheader of 8th-seed delight as Heat stun Bucks, Panthers shock Bruins

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:14:51 GMT

All right, you can pinch yourself now.It was real.Wednesday night was one big playoff surprise from the Florida Panthers stacked on an even bigger one from the Miami Heat.Two unbelievable Game 5s. Two overtime delights. Six double-decked hours of hoops and hockey hysteria that are unmatched in South Florida history with parallel endings that you never saw coming and rocked their respective sports.The eighth-seeded Panthers really went into top-seeded Boston and won in overtime, 4-3, to keep their season alive for a Game 6 on Friday in Sunrise.The eighth-seeded Heat really went into top-seeded Milwaukee and won in overtime, 128-126, to close out that shocking series and advance to play the rival New York Knicks.Do you know how many times two teams from the same market had ever won playoff games on the road, in overtime, on the same night?Of course you don’t know. No one has ever had the need to research such a stat in a sports world where every stat is researched. But you can g...

Knicks vs. Heat: ‘Psychotic’ Jimmy Butler is the next worthy Garden enemy

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:14:51 GMT

CLEVELAND — There’s a new and “psychotic” villain coming to Madison Square Garden.Jimmy Butler, among the league’s most fierce competitors, strapped the Miami Heat on his back and completed a stunning upset over the top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks late Wednesday, setting up a second-round series against the Knicks that will be chock full of nostalgia and intensity.Butler, it’s safe to assume, won’t be overwhelmed by the moment or the MSG environment like the Cavaliers, who folded like fugazis against the Knicks.“A lot of guys play the game of basketball in this league. He competes to win. That’s a different language,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said after his team polished off the Bucks with an overtime victory and gentleman’s sweep. “He’s desperate and urgent and maniacal and sometimes psychotic about the will to try to win.“He’ll make everybody in the building feel it. And that’s why he is us...