MML Investors Services LLC acquired a new stake in shares of AMC Networks Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMCX – Free Report ) during the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund acquired 10,464 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $91,000. A number of other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in AMCX. XTX Topco Ltd boosted its position in AMC Networks by 333.5% during the third quarter. XTX Topco Ltd now owns 48,093 shares of the company’s stock worth $418,000 after purchasing an additional 36,999 shares during the period. Quantinno Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in shares of AMC Networks in the third quarter worth $88,000. Quarry LP boosted its holdings in shares of AMC Networks by 325.2% during the 3rd quarter. Quarry LP now owns 18,262 shares of the company’s stock worth $159,000 after buying an additional 13,967 shares during the period. Readystate Asset Management LP acquired a new position in AMC Networks in the 3rd quarter valued at $711,000. Finally, Point72 DIFC Ltd bought a new position in AMC Networks in the 3rd quarter worth $235,000. 78.51% of the stock is owned by institutional investors. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of research firms have issued reports on AMCX. Morgan Stanley decreased their price target on shares of AMC Networks from $10.00 to $9.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, November 12th. Seaport Res Ptn raised AMC Networks from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 22nd. Finally, StockNews.com raised AMC Networks from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, November 11th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, one has issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, AMC Networks presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $8.50. AMC Networks Stock Performance NASDAQ AMCX opened at $9.42 on Friday. The company’s fifty day moving average is $9.01 and its two-hundred day moving average is $9.54. AMC Networks Inc. has a 52-week low of $7.08 and a 52-week high of $19.55. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.03, a current ratio of 2.32 and a quick ratio of 2.32. The firm has a market capitalization of $415.62 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.95 and a beta of 1.34. AMC Networks ( NASDAQ:AMCX – Get Free Report ) last released its earnings results on Friday, November 8th. The company reported $0.91 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.62 by $0.29. The business had revenue of $599.60 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $587.12 million. AMC Networks had a return on equity of 17.41% and a net margin of 1.45%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was down 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $1.85 earnings per share. Equities research analysts forecast that AMC Networks Inc. will post 4.09 EPS for the current year. AMC Networks Company Profile ( Free Report ) AMC Networks Inc, an entertainment company, owns and operates a suite of video entertainment products that are delivered to audiences, a platform to distributors, and advertisers in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company operates through Domestic Operations, and International and Other segments. Further Reading Want to see what other hedge funds are holding AMCX? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for AMC Networks Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMCX – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for AMC Networks Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for AMC Networks and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Holloway, No. 5 Alabama overwhelm South Dakota State with 19 3-pointers in 105-82 victoryCHICAGO (WLS) -- Sammy Sosa is set to return to the Chicago Cubs' winter fan convention. Sosa and the Cubs reconciled last week , ending their 17-year estrangement after the former slugger apologized for making "mistakes" during his playing career. Minutes after the apology was released, the Cubs invited Sosa to the Cubs Convention for the first time since he retired in 2007. The 2025 Cubs Convention will take place Jan. 17-19 at the Sheraton Grand in Chicago. The Cubs officially announced Saturday that Sosa will be in attendance. Sosa, who has been linked to performance-enhancing drugs for decades, stopped short of directly admitting to PED use in a statement released December 19. But the former National League MVP said that at times throughout his playing career he "did whatever I could to recover from injuries in an effort to keep my strength up to perform over 162 games" and added, "I never broke any laws, but in hindsight, I made mistakes and I apologize." Sosa, 56, hit 609 home runs -- the ninth most in Major League Baseball history -- during an 18-year career highlighted by his 13-year stint with the Cubs. He hit at least 60 homers in three seasons over a four-year stretch from 1998 to 2001, all of which came in the heart of baseball's steroid era. Sosa is one of a group of players, including Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, who haven't been elected to the Hall of Fame in part because of their ties to the steroid era, which occurred from about 1994 to 2004, when more stringent testing began. Sosa testified in front of Congress in 2005 and denied using PEDs, although the New York Times later reported he had tested positive in 2003. Sosa, Bonds and McGwire all fell well short of Hall of Fame election in 2022 on their 10th and final appearance on the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot. Sosa received a high of 18.5% support in his final year, less than a quarter of the 75% needed. His next chance for consideration would be if he were put on the ballot for the contemporary player committee, which meets next December. Cubs ownership hinted at the need for an apology from Sosa before welcoming him back to the organization or even inviting him to an offseason team function. "We appreciate Sammy releasing his statement and for reaching out," Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said in a statement Dec. 19. "No one played harder or wanted to win more. Nobody's perfect but we never doubted his passion for the game and the Cubs. It is an understatement to say that Sammy is a fan favorite. We plan on inviting him to the 2025 Cubs Convention and, while it is short notice, we hope that he can attend. We are all ready to move forward together." Sosa's 545 home runs in a Cubs uniform is the most in franchise history. "We can't change the past, but the future is bright," Sosa said in his statement. "In my heart, I've always been a Cub and I can't wait to see Cubs fans again." ESPN contributed to this report.

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Semler Scientific, Inc. ( NASDAQ:SMLR – Get Free Report )’s stock price traded down 3.1% on Thursday . The stock traded as low as $67.62 and last traded at $69.08. 60,779 shares changed hands during trading, a decline of 80% from the average session volume of 298,413 shares. The stock had previously closed at $71.28. Semler Scientific Trading Down 9.6 % The company has a market cap of $586.32 million, a P/E ratio of 30.86 and a beta of 1.17. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $51.29 and a 200-day moving average price of $37.15. Semler Scientific ( NASDAQ:SMLR – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Monday, November 4th. The company reported $0.72 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.37 by $0.35. Semler Scientific had a net margin of 27.00% and a return on equity of 20.31%. The firm had revenue of $13.51 million for the quarter. Hedge Funds Weigh In On Semler Scientific Semler Scientific Company Profile ( Get Free Report ) Semler Scientific, Inc provides technology solutions to enhance the clinical effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare providers in the United States. The company’s products include QuantaFlo, a four-minute in-office blood flow test that enables healthcare providers to use blood flow measurements as part of their examinations of a patient’s vascular condition. See Also Receive News & Ratings for Semler Scientific Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Semler Scientific and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .MML Investors Services LLC acquired a new stake in shares of AMC Networks Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMCX – Free Report ) during the third quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund acquired 10,464 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $91,000. A number of other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in AMCX. XTX Topco Ltd boosted its position in AMC Networks by 333.5% during the third quarter. XTX Topco Ltd now owns 48,093 shares of the company’s stock worth $418,000 after purchasing an additional 36,999 shares during the period. Quantinno Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in shares of AMC Networks in the third quarter worth $88,000. Quarry LP boosted its holdings in shares of AMC Networks by 325.2% during the 3rd quarter. Quarry LP now owns 18,262 shares of the company’s stock worth $159,000 after buying an additional 13,967 shares during the period. Readystate Asset Management LP acquired a new position in AMC Networks in the 3rd quarter valued at $711,000. Finally, Point72 DIFC Ltd bought a new position in AMC Networks in the 3rd quarter worth $235,000. 78.51% of the stock is owned by institutional investors. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of research firms have issued reports on AMCX. Morgan Stanley decreased their price target on shares of AMC Networks from $10.00 to $9.00 and set an “underweight” rating for the company in a report on Tuesday, November 12th. Seaport Res Ptn raised AMC Networks from a “hold” rating to a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Tuesday, October 22nd. Finally, StockNews.com raised AMC Networks from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, November 11th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, one has issued a buy rating and one has assigned a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, AMC Networks presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $8.50. AMC Networks Stock Performance NASDAQ AMCX opened at $9.42 on Friday. The company’s fifty day moving average is $9.01 and its two-hundred day moving average is $9.54. AMC Networks Inc. has a 52-week low of $7.08 and a 52-week high of $19.55. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.03, a current ratio of 2.32 and a quick ratio of 2.32. The firm has a market capitalization of $415.62 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 14.95 and a beta of 1.34. AMC Networks ( NASDAQ:AMCX – Get Free Report ) last released its earnings results on Friday, November 8th. The company reported $0.91 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.62 by $0.29. The business had revenue of $599.60 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $587.12 million. AMC Networks had a return on equity of 17.41% and a net margin of 1.45%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was down 5.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $1.85 earnings per share. Equities research analysts forecast that AMC Networks Inc. will post 4.09 EPS for the current year. AMC Networks Company Profile ( Free Report ) AMC Networks Inc, an entertainment company, owns and operates a suite of video entertainment products that are delivered to audiences, a platform to distributors, and advertisers in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company operates through Domestic Operations, and International and Other segments. Further Reading Want to see what other hedge funds are holding AMCX? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for AMC Networks Inc. ( NASDAQ:AMCX – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for AMC Networks Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for AMC Networks and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Nightmare for Guardiola continues as Juventus beats Man City 2-0; Bologna holds Benfica to a goalless draw

'Stakes are high': Pichai urges employees to prepare for 2025Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, once called a 'pretty good Canadian,' dies at 100Subscribe to our newsletter Privacy Policy Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please visit My Account to verify and manage your account. An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link. Support Independent Arts Journalism As an independent publication, we rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, consider becoming a member today . Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member . What do we celebrate on Hanukkah? After quickly mentioning the miraculous jar of temple oil that burned for eight days, many sources will tell you it’s about the unlikely triumph of the Maccabees, who fought for Jewish religious freedom in the face of persecution by the Assyrians (Syrian Greeks) who then ruled the land of Judah. At the center of the holiday is the menorah, an eight-branched candelabra we light each night, adding one candle per day, until on the eighth and final night it’s ablaze in its full glory. But if you take a look at a collection of old-fashioned Italian and German menorahs, you’ll find a different figure again and again who goes unmentioned in the standard story: a lone woman, triumphantly raising a knife. This is Judith, a much earlier heroine, and the OG Jewish badass lady who was once commonly celebrated at Hanukkah time alongside the Maccabees. Her spear once shone in the candlelight, reflecting these menorahs’ intricate metalwork and illuminating another chapter in Jewish history — lost in the overlapping shadows of modern-day misogyny, assimilation, and Zionism. Her story, told in hundreds of permutations through the centuries, goes something like this: Judith is a young wealthy widow in the town of Bethulia during the time of the Maccabees when she takes it upon herself to save her people from the Assyrian army. She sheds her traditionally ragged and drab mourning clothes, dresses up in her finest fabrics and jewels, and creeps into the enemy’s camp with a sack of salty cheese and wine. Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Daily Weekly Opportunities Once in the center of camp, she slips into the tent of their general, Holofernes. Seemingly praising his military might, she offers him her delicious snacks — and perhaps a little more. Holofernes quickly gobbles up the cheese, failing to realize that its saltiness is making him thirstier than usual, leading him to drink quite a bit of wine. When he falls into a drunken sleep, Judith grabs his sword and slices off his head. She and her maidservant stuff his head into their sack, and the next morning they raise it on a spike for all to see. The Assyrian army bursts into chaos and fear, and soon they retreat. The siege on Bethulia is lifted, and, effectively, her people are saved. The Book of Judith is not in the Hebrew Bible — like the Books of Maccabees, it was incorporated into the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian bibles and is included in the “Apocrypha” section of some Protestant bibles. Yet, sometime in the Middle Ages, Judith became a major Hanukkah heroine. Eventually, it wasn’t Judah the Maccabee but Judith who appeared in the center of menorahs , flanked by lions and mermaids, dressed in fine gowns, and always holding her signature dagger. And by the 16th century, some rabbis suggested snacking on cheese to honor her bravery, commemorating the salty tidbits that once felled Holofernes. Italianate Jews took to the task at hand with their usual culinary brilliance, combining the miracle of the oil with Judith’s tale by concocting delectable fried ricotta pancakes . Judith was especially popular in Italy — and not just among Jews. Depicted by dozens of Italian artists, she represented the triumph of an oppressed people over their oppressors. Some Italians saw parallels between the occupying Assyrian forces and the Medici oligarchy in Florence. So it’s little surprise that Artemisia Gentileschi, one of the few prominent women Baroque artists, drew inspiration from the story to depict herself murdering her rapist , painter Agostino Tassi. Perhaps the fascination that both Jewish and Gentile Jews had with Judith was another factor behind there being so many Italianate Menorahs featuring her form; often, non-Jewish craftspeople were actually creating ritual objects during that era, so they may have divulged in their shared love here in the form of these candelabras. Many sages compared Judith’s heroism with that of Esther, the legendary Persian Jewish queen who risked her life to save her people, and who is celebrated in the Book of Esther and on the holiday of Purim. Unlike the Maccabees, whose campaign against the Assyrians also included massacring scores of fellow Jews and other countrymen along the way, Judith achieved victory with no collateral damage. She went straight to the top — literally — and took care of business. So, why did we stop celebrating her? Especially when delicious fried ricotta pancakes were involved? Some have pointed to pure assimilation as the reason for her disappearance, as Jews began to change Hanukkah festivities to include gift giving in an attempt to emulate European and American Christmas. While that was certainly a factor, Hanukkah wasn’t a major holiday until the advent of late-19th century political Zionism. And under the leadership of figures like Max Nordau and Theodore Herzl, Zionist organizations were made up of Jews who had already attempted to assimilate in order to avoid antisemitic attacks for generations. This resulted in Nordau’s fantasy of “ Muscular Judaism :” a buff, manly “ new Jew ,” who took his fate into his own hands. Rather than fighting hatred through organized labor , this Jewish Übermensch would defy stereotypes of the “effeminate” and “weak” Ashkenazi Jew by breeding it out of himself. Especially after the Holocaust, former Haaretz writer Mira Shakin explained , “Zionism looked high and low for episodes from Jewish history that would be appropriate for the image of the ‘new Jew’ who takes his fate in his hands, in order to erase from the collective memory the ostensibly flaccid character of the Diaspora Jew with the shtetl aura, who ‘went like sheep to the slaughter.’” They found the perfect role models in the macho Maccabees. Today, soldiers in the Israeli military are commonly viewed as carrying on the Maccabees’ legacy. In enshrining the Maccabees as the sole heroes of Hanukkah, the largely secular early Zionists did not heed the warnings of the ancient sages who authored the Talmud. These rabbis refuted the violence of the Maccabees, from how they forced circumcisions on their neighbors to their ushering in the despotic Hasmonean dynasty. They saw that this violence led to nothing but more hardship. Or, as Rabbi Mike Rothbaum writes , “Born in violence, it became addicted to violence.” Instead of the Maccabees’ warfare, the rabbis recorded how when rededicating a desecrated temple, a tiny portion of oil that was only enough for one night miraculously lasted for eight. This is the reason for the menorah today. During the Shabbat service that falls during the holiday, we read from the Book of Zechariah, which says that God would bless the world, “Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit.” Perhaps the ancient rabbis could foresee the crimes wrought by the Israeli state’s army today, which tragically includes rampant misogyny and sexual violence — not only against Palestinians in countless horrifying events, but, to a remarkable degree , even against female soldiers themselves . They knew not only was this violence against God’s commandments, but that it would do nothing to make Jews safer. No wonder that a strong woman like Judith has been largely forgotten. Judith’s story shows that for those of us Jews who protest against Israel’s crimes, our spirit of revolution is already written into our tradition. It’s well past time that we remember Judith’s story, and start crafting new menorahs with her visage once again. We hope you enjoyed this article! Before you keep reading, please consider supporting Hyperallergic ’s journalism during a time when independent, critical reporting is increasingly scarce. Unlike many in the art world, we are not beholden to large corporations or billionaires. Our journalism is funded by readers like you , ensuring integrity and independence in our coverage. We strive to offer trustworthy perspectives on everything from art history to contemporary art. We spotlight artist-led social movements, uncover overlooked stories, and challenge established norms to make art more inclusive and accessible. With your support, we can continue to provide global coverage without the elitism often found in art journalism. 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