Deepening professionalism in Nigeria's police forceSwiss National Bank cut its position in SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. ( NYSE:SITE – Free Report ) by 0.6% in the third quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The institutional investor owned 88,300 shares of the industrial products company’s stock after selling 500 shares during the period. Swiss National Bank’s holdings in SiteOne Landscape Supply were worth $13,325,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Several other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. MJP Associates Inc. ADV boosted its position in SiteOne Landscape Supply by 5.7% in the 2nd quarter. MJP Associates Inc. ADV now owns 1,707 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $207,000 after buying an additional 92 shares during the period. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC grew its stake in SiteOne Landscape Supply by 5.1% during the 2nd quarter. Wealth Enhancement Advisory Services LLC now owns 2,018 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $245,000 after purchasing an additional 98 shares in the last quarter. Equitable Trust Co. grew its stake in SiteOne Landscape Supply by 3.0% during the 2nd quarter. Equitable Trust Co. now owns 3,558 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $432,000 after purchasing an additional 103 shares in the last quarter. Arkadios Wealth Advisors increased its holdings in SiteOne Landscape Supply by 6.1% during the 3rd quarter. Arkadios Wealth Advisors now owns 1,842 shares of the industrial products company’s stock worth $278,000 after purchasing an additional 106 shares during the period. Finally, iA Global Asset Management Inc. raised its position in SiteOne Landscape Supply by 7.9% in the 1st quarter. iA Global Asset Management Inc. now owns 1,741 shares of the industrial products company’s stock valued at $304,000 after purchasing an additional 127 shares in the last quarter. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of brokerages have recently commented on SITE. Royal Bank of Canada cut their target price on shares of SiteOne Landscape Supply from $133.00 to $132.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, August 1st. The Goldman Sachs Group initiated coverage on shares of SiteOne Landscape Supply in a research report on Thursday, October 10th. They issued a “neutral” rating and a $158.00 price objective on the stock. Barclays lifted their price objective on shares of SiteOne Landscape Supply from $114.00 to $120.00 and gave the stock an “underweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, October 31st. Robert W. Baird increased their target price on SiteOne Landscape Supply from $168.00 to $183.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Wednesday, October 16th. Finally, StockNews.com raised SiteOne Landscape Supply from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a report on Thursday, November 7th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, six have issued a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $147.80. SiteOne Landscape Supply Stock Up 3.9 % SITE opened at $148.77 on Friday. SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. has a one year low of $114.60 and a one year high of $188.01. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.31, a quick ratio of 1.16 and a current ratio of 2.53. The stock has a market capitalization of $6.71 billion, a P/E ratio of 48.15 and a beta of 1.53. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $145.80 and its 200-day simple moving average is $140.61. SiteOne Landscape Supply ( NYSE:SITE – Get Free Report ) last released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, October 30th. The industrial products company reported $0.97 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.18 by ($0.21). The firm had revenue of $1.21 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.19 billion. SiteOne Landscape Supply had a return on equity of 9.21% and a net margin of 3.16%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 5.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.25 EPS. Analysts anticipate that SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. will post 3.41 EPS for the current year. Insider Activity at SiteOne Landscape Supply In other SiteOne Landscape Supply news, EVP Joseph Ketter sold 6,500 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, November 21st. The stock was sold at an average price of $142.20, for a total transaction of $924,300.00. Following the completion of the sale, the executive vice president now directly owns 12,942 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,840,352.40. This represents a 33.43 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website . 2.70% of the stock is owned by insiders. SiteOne Landscape Supply Profile ( Free Report ) SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the wholesale distribution of landscape supplies in the United States and Canada. The company provides irrigation products, including controllers, valves, sprinkler heads, irrigation pipes, micro irrigation, and drip products; fertilizer, grass seed, and ice melt products; control products, such as herbicides, fungicides, rodenticides, and other pesticides; landscape accessories that include mulches, soil amendments, drainage pipes, tools, and sods; nursery goods, which consist of deciduous and evergreen shrubs, ornamental, shade, evergreen trees, field grown and container-grown nursery stock, roses, perennials, annuals, bulbs, and plant species and cultivars; hardscapes, such as pavers, natural stones, blocks, and other durable materials; and outdoor lighting products that include lighting fixtures, LED lamps, wires, transformers, and accessories. Recommended Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding SITE? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for SiteOne Landscape Supply, Inc. ( NYSE:SITE – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for SiteOne Landscape Supply Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for SiteOne Landscape Supply and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .At the invitation of JD Vance, Daniel Penny will join the vice president-elect and Donald Trump at Saturday’s Army-Navy football game in Maryland. Penny, the 24-year-old Marine veteran who was found not guilty this week in the choking death of Jordan Neely, is seen by many as a hero for the courage he showed to protect a subway full of civilians from Neely, who apparently had serious mental problems and was threatening to kill someone. Vance said of Penny via Xwitter Friday: “Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone.” Vance is referring to District Attorney Alvin Bragg whose abuse of office is like nothing we’ve seen since the Democrat party instituted Jim Crow in the South. Vance added, “I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage.” In addition to Trump and Vance, according to various news reports, Penny will join Elon Musk, Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and U.S. Senator-elect David McCormick (R-PA) in Trump’s suite at the stadium. What Trump and Vance are doing here is not only an act of decency towards a man abused and persecuted by his own government, but as we have seen Trump do for over a decade now, he is once again showing a canny instinct for where the culture is and then leading the way. Trump did this with the border. He did this with law and order. He did this with the NFL kneeling nonsense. He did this with the trans nonsense. He did this by not hiding his wealth (the way Mitt Romney did). The corporate media always try to make common sense into a third-rail issue. Don’t embrace this, they say . Don’t criticize that. And Trump not only embraces this third rail, but he reverses the polarity and burns the media and Democrats because he understands the culture better and cannot be emotionally blackmailed or bullied into backing off. Pre-Trump, Daniel Penny, even after his acquittal, would still be made radioactive by the media smearing him as a racist. Trump and Vance simply refuse to go along with this nonsense. They see Penny as a selfless hero who risked his own safety for others. His payback? A villain named Alvin Bragg turned a hero into a political piñata. Few people understand what that’s like more than Trump, and with the corporate media influence dying and Trump now the biggest cultural influencer on the planet, he’s sticking his finger in the media’s eye, in Bragg’s eye, and the left’s eye with this righteous gesture. This is one more sign that the regime media’s ability to influence, bully, and intimidate the behavior of our politicians is over. Trump is showing the way and it is truly liberating. FREE-FREE-FREE for the holidays: an autographed bookplate if you purchase John Nolte’s first and last novel, BORROWED TIME, between now and December 20. After you’ve made the purchase, email your request to JJMNOLTE at HOTMAIL dot COM with an address and any personalization requests. For example, something like; “To Rachel Levine: The sexiest man alive.” Borrowed Time , is winning five-star raves from everyday readers. You can read an excerpt here and an in-depth review here . 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Connor Gaydos, a man connected to an apparent parody project to relaunch the energy company Enron and become its new CEO , was hit in the face with a pie this week as he was entering a building in New York City. The incident was caught on video and went viral on social media Thursday. The clip shows Gaydos exiting an SUV shortly before an older man slams the pie into his face as two bodyguards intervene. The bizarre incident mirrored one from more than two decades earlier, when a California woman tossed a pie into the face of Enron’s then-CEO Jeffrey Schilling . Earlier this month, a group announced the scandal-plagued Texas company was returning exactly 23 years after filing for bankruptcy amid massive fraud. “With a bold new vision, Enron will leverage cutting-edge technology, human ingenuity, and the spirit of adaptation to address the critical challenges of energy, sustainability, accessibility and affordability,” the company said in a press release that raised questions about its legitimacy. The announcement was reportedly joined by billboards in the Houston area, a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle and a video promoting the company’s comeback. An investigation conducted by Houston station KHOU turned up a disclaimer on the company’s website that read, “The information on the website is First Amendment-protected parody , represents performance art and is for entertainment purposes only.” Many have speculated the company’s reemergence is merely a publicity stunt promoting cryptocurrency .The former political figure who has been convicted of sexual abuse, heading into court with his lawyer Ian Brookie. Photo: RNZ By Anneke Smith of RNZ Warning: This story discusses details of sexual abuse. A former political figure who sexually abused two teenage boys nearly 30 years ago has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison. Victims welcome name suppression changes The man, who is not a sitting MP, sexually assaulted two young teenagers he mentored through a sports club in the mid- to late-1990s. He continues to deny any offending after being found guilty of eight charges of indecent assault after a week-long jury trial in the Auckland District Court in August. Judge David Sharp has now sentenced him to two-and-a-half years' imprisonment, taking into account discounts for good character and reparations of $1500 for each victim. The judge acknowledged the man maintained his innocence but said he still had to consider the emotional harm done, having listened to the survivors' stories of intense suffering. Judge Sharp said the offender had abused the teenage boys when they were asleep, drunk or unconscious and that it had been a substantial breach of trust, given his seniority to them in their sports club. The former political figure has had interim name suppression for 667 days now and is now asking the court for a permanent order, his sixth request for further secrecy. RNZ, Stuff and TVNZ have all opposed the the man's continued bids for name suppression, arguing there are no grounds for further name suppression. Victim impact statements The court heard moving victim impact statements from both of the survivors, the first read aloud by Detective Sergeant Richard Veacock who investigated a complaint he made in 1999 that did not lead to any charges. The survivor told the court the abuse had haunted him for decades and he had had horrible nightmares where he was raped and killed by the offender, waking up gasping for breath. He found wiping his newborn's bottom during a nappy change confronting and, when a friend asked why he was having trouble, blurted out that he had been sexually abused as a young person, he said. The survivor said the cost and effort of participating in the justice process and therapy had left him and his family poorer and exhausted, suggesting he had considered killing himself. He also addressed the offender's protracted legal battle for name suppression had been deeply distressing and made him feel like his life was less valuable than that of a convicted abuser. The second survivor stood two metres from the offender as he stood to share his victim impact statement in person on Friday morning. He said he had been "young and vulnerable" when he was abused and the trauma had cycled through him into his relationships with his friends, family and workmates. He struggled with alcoholism and his mental wellbeing and had since been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety and alcohol misuse disorder since, he said. The second survivor added he had had panic attacks and periods of dissociation during August's trial and would continue to fight to lift his own automatic name suppression so he could tell his story openly. This survivor earlier told RNZ he supported the government's proposed law change that would give victims, not judges, the power to decide if a convicted sex offender got permanent name suppression.
NOx Sensors for Engine Exhaust Gas Market Growth, Trends, Opportunities with Key CompaniesCHICAGO (AP) — Sam Darnold threw for 90 of his 330 yards in overtime to set up Parker Romo's game-ending 29-yard field goal , and the Minnesota Vikings outlasted the Chicago Bears 30-27 on Sunday after giving up 11 points in the final 22 seconds of regulation. Darnold threw two touchdown passes, Jordan Addison caught eight passes for a career-high 162 yards and a touchdown, and T.J. Hockenson had 114 yards receiving for the Vikings (9-2), who remained one game behind Detroit in the rugged NFC North. Caleb Williams threw for 340 yards and two touchdowns for the Bears (4-7), who lost their fifth straight and fell to 5-18 in one-possession games under coach Matt Eberflus, who is 14-31 in 2 1/2 seasons. Minnesota appeared to have the game in hand, leading 27-16 with 1:56 left after Romo kicked a 26-yard field goal. But the Bears weren’t finished. Deandre Carter made up for a muffed punt that led to a touchdown in the third quarter with a 55-yard kickoff return to the 40. Williams took it from there, capping an eight-play drive with a 1-yard touchdown pass to Keenan Allen. A 2-point conversion pass to DJ Moore made it 27-24 with 22 seconds remaining. The Bears recovered the onside kick and Williams hit Moore over the middle for a 27-yard gain to the 30 before spiking the ball. Cairo Santos made a 48-yard field goal as time expired. Chicago won the coin toss, but Williams was sacked for a 12-yard loss on second down, leading to a three-and-out. The Vikings took over at the 21, and Darnold led a 10-play drive, overcoming a sack and two penalties. Darnold connected with Hockenson for a 29-yard completion that put the ball on the 9. He took a knee and then Romo nailed the winner. Darnold surpassed his previous season high of 19 touchdown passes with a 2-yarder to Addison on the first play of the second quarter, and he made it 14-7 with a 5-yard score to Jalen Nailor late in the first half. He completed 22 of 34 passes. Aaron Jones ran for 106 yards and a score for the VIkings. Williams was 32 of 47 with a 103.1 passer rating in his second straight solid performance since Thomas Brown replaced the fired Shane Waldron as offensive coordinator. Moore caught seven passes for 106 yards and a touchdown, and Allen added 86 yards receiving and the late TD. Vikings: LB Ivan Pace Jr. (hamstring) and LT Cam Robinson (foot) left in the first quarter. ... Darnold missed two plays after he was hit by Gervon Dexter Sr. on a pass play with about 6 1/2 minutes. Vikings: Host Arizona next Sunday. Bears: Visit Detroit on Thanksgiving. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/NFLMiddle East latest: ICC issues warrant for Israel's Netanyahu as Gaza death toll soars past 44,000
Singaporean businessman Tan Kin Lian, former presidential candidate and former CEO of NTUC Income, shared an encounter with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) after a Facebook post that he said was meant to be in jest. Tan Kin Lian and CCP post On Oct. 20, 2024, Tan shared a picture of himself next to a sign that said "Party Member Activity Room" in both English and Chinese. The sign featured the hammer-and-sickle symbol of communism, which is also used as a symbol of the Chinese Communist Party, the ruling party of China. The post caption read, " I am now a member of the party in Guizhou." Guizhou is a province in Southwest China where Tan was presumably visiting while on holiday. MHA informs Tan On Dec. 13, Tan shared another post in relation to the Guizhou one. He said: I received this notice from the Ministry of Home Affairs. "Dear Mr Tan, 1. We refer to your public Facebook post dated 20 Oct 2024 with the caption “I am now a member of the party in Guizhou.” (the “Post”). Pursuant to section 108(1) of the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act 2021, you are required to provide further information and documents about your relations with foreign principals to the Registrar of Foreign and Political Disclosures." Tan added: I gave this reply. "Dear MHA The post was made in jest. I am not a member of the communist party of China. I visited the premises of the party as a tourist." MHA confirms communication In response to a query from Mothership, MHA said: "Under section 108 of the Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act 2021 (FICA), the Registrar of Foreign and Political Disclosures is empowered to request for information from any entity or individual, including to ascertain a Singapore Citizen’s membership in foreign legislatures/foreign political organisations. The Registrar was made aware of Mr Tan Kin Lian’s Facebook post on 21 Oct 2024, where Mr Tan had commented publicly about his membership in a party in Guizhou, and had requested for more information on this. The Registrar has received Mr Tan’s reply and will be responding to him separately." FICA The Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act of 2021 was introduced in Parliament in Oct. 2021 and passed after a debate that lasted for about 10 hours. Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam spoke at length in support of the bill, elaborating that subversion of local politics is a serious issue, with the matter made worse with technological advances. He said that FICA is more calibrated than existing laws (at the time) that afforded powers to the authorities and security services but goes further in its extra-territorial reach, which is necessary for threats in an Internet age that can be spread through global platforms. Section 108 of the Act relates to the Power to Obtain Information. 108(1) reads: A competent authority may by written notice require any person (whether in or outside Singapore) to provide, within a period or at intervals specified in the notice, and in such form and manner as may be specified in the notice, all documents or all information or material (or both), for the purposes in subsection (2), such as documents or information or material about all or any of the following: (a) the membership of the person by individuals who are not citizens of Singapore; (b) relations with foreign principals; (c) the provision of voluntary labour, or voluntary professional services, to or for the benefit of the person by individuals who are not citizens of Singapore; (d) recurrent and capital expenditure for the administration and management of activities undertaken by the person which are directed towards a political end in Singapore. Therefore, the authorities have the power to obtain such information, whether or not that individual is involved in politics. Top image from Tan Kin Lian Facebook.December 12, 2024. OpenAI has every reason to fake an outage. This would demonstrate they are ... [+] becoming a utility, like electricity or water. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images) Open AI Went Down Yesterday. It was highly inconvenient. ChatGPT has snuggled right into my workflow and now I’m dependent on the little bugger. The moment reminded me of AOL’s outage in 1996. The service was down for 24 hours and sent shockwaves throughout the world, demonstrating the Internet was a utility, like electricity and water. This sent AOL’s valuation on a rocket ride. The stock split over and over again for the next three years. TikTok is a precarious situation. Unless a court rules, they must shut down in the US next week. ... 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Since launching in 2023, Vapi has scaled to millions in revenue, providing customizable AI voice agents for industries like healthcare, finance, and customer service. Bessemer Venture Partners led the round, with participation from Y Combinator, Abstract Ventures, and others. It's been all week and I still can't get in. OpenAI Releases Sora, Outages Ensue Amid Surging Demand. OpenAI has officially launched Sora, its long-awaited text-to-video AI model, as part of its "12 Days of OpenAI" event. Billed as a breakthrough in AI-generated media, Sora allows users to create high-quality video content from simple text prompts. However, the release was met with overwhelming demand, causing widespread outages and access issues. Users reported slow response times and platform crashes, underscoring the intense interest in Sora's capabilities. Despite the hiccups, OpenAI's strategic rollout aims to solidify its lead in generative AI. As access stabilizes, Sora is expected to compete with models from Google and Runway. Personally, Sora still won’t let me in. Samsung 's Project Moohan blends design elements from Meta’s Quest and Apple’s Vision Pro. Road to VR’s Ben Lang Got Hands On With Samsung’s Project Moohan XR Headset. Samsung has revealed Project Moohan, its new mixed-reality (XR) headset powered by Android XR, blending design elements from Meta’s Quest and Apple’s Vision Pro. Slated for a 2025 release, the device features a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chip and supports hand, eye, and controller-based input. INDIA - 2024/12/12: In this photo illustration, the Gemini logo is seen displayed on a mobile phone ... [+] screen with google logo in the background. (Photo Illustration by Idrees/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Google's New Gemini 2.0 Can Open the Browser to Check Information Independently. Unveiled this week, Gemini 2.0 introduces autonomous AI capabilities that set it apart from its predecessors. The model’s most notable advancement is its ability to independently open a browser to verify information in real-time — a defining feature of Google's so-called "Agentic Era." The multimodal AI supports text, images, video, audio, and code, with applications spanning Google Search. Projects like Astra (AI assistant), Mariner (web task automation), and Jules (developer agent) demonstrate the model's practical potential. Google emphasized its focus on safety and continues to maintain the strictest guardrails in the industry. Illustration of the logo and website of GROK the generative artificial intelligence chatbot ... [+] developed by xAI. (Photo by RICCARDO MILANI/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images) X Makes AI Chatbot Grok Free for All Users, Shifts to Freemium Model X (formerly Twitter) has made its AI chatbot Grok available to all users, eliminating the need for a Premium subscription. Users now receive 10 free prompts and 10 image generations every two hours, though image analysis is limited to three daily before a subscription is required. This move aligns X’s AI strategy with competitors like ChatGPT and Claude. Unlike Google Gemini, X’s Grok is uncensored. China Launches Bold BCI Trials to Rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink. China is advancing brain-computer interface technology with plans for large-scale clinical trials of its Neural Electronic Opportunity (NEO) device in 2025. Developed by Neuracle Technology and Tsinghua University, NEO employs a semi-invasive approach, placing electrodes outside the brain cortex to avoid direct contact with brain tissue. In a recent procedure, a 38-year-old spinal cord injury patient regained control of a prosthetic hand, performing tasks like unscrewing a bottle cap. The operation took just 1 hour and 40 minutes, aided by a real-time brain localization system. "Dino Hab" Brings Prehistoric Adventure to MR and VR. Film director Doug Liman’s 30 Ninjas, Meta, and Dark Slope have teamed up to launch Dino Hab , a Mixed Reality experience that lets players raise dinosaurs and restore prehistoric habitats in immersive 3D worlds. The company is touting its AI companion, powered by Inworld AI, that guides players between MR and VR environments. This unique cross-platform approach adds depth to the experience, blending exploration, care, and adventure. This column, formerly called “This Week in XR,” is also a podcast hosted by the author of this column, Charlie Fink, Ted Schilowitz, former studio executive and co-founder of Red Camera, and Rony Abovitz, founder of Magic Leap. This week our guest is. We can be found on Spotify , iTunes , and YouTube . What We’re Reading How Gaming Built The Metaverse While Big Tech Wasn’t Looking (Catherine Henry/Forbes)
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LOS ANGELES — Doctors are stumped about what is plaguing Brandi Glanville. In a Tuesday interview with ET, the "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" alum said the face-altering condition she has been investigating for the past year feels like something "s–ing or having babies in my face." Glanville said the mystery ailment has left her with recurring facial swelling, speech problems, missing teeth and a reluctance to go out in public. "I've been on meds this whole year. I don't socialize. I don't go out," Glanville told ET, estimating that her total medical costs — including medications, doctor visits, MRIs, X-rays, and CT scans — have surpassed $70,000. She said that at one point, she was on IV antibiotics that helped her facial swelling but were too expensive to maintain. The "Brandi Glanville Unfiltered" host added that she's consulted "every doctor under the sun," from immunologists to rheumatologists to infectious disease doctors. While none have supplied a definitive explanation, some have suggested her issues could stem from a "new parasite." Glanville told ET she could have contracted the parasite while filming in Morocco for "The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip" in January 2023. On set, she said, "We had food sitting out for hours on end, and some of it was meat." Glanville's face swelling and speech struggles began six months later, she said, "and we're still here, trying to figure it out." Bravo did not reply immediately Thursday to The Times' request for comment. The "Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip" in question, which would have been the spinoff series' fourth, never aired. While Bravo did not confirm why they axed the season, People reported at the time of filming that cast members Glanville and Caroline Manzo left the set early after an alleged incident. Manzo later filed a lawsuit accusing Glanville of harassment during last year's filming, according to court documents reviewed by The Times. Glanville said that her medical issues, combined with the lawsuit from Manzo, have prevented her from taking on new work in recent years. "Generally, I'm the first call [for Bravo gigs]," she said. "But now I have, like, a scarlet letter and the medical stuff so even if I could go to work, my face would be doing gymnastics." Medical interventions have been noninvasive so far, Glanville said, but surgery could be next. The reality star joked that contrary to popular belief, she has not yet had plastic surgery on her face. "I can't afford it if I wanted it," she said. ©2024 Los Angeles Times. Visit latimes.com . Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
