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Emily Deschanel on final ‘Bones’ show

It was around 5 a.m. on a day back in December when Emily Deschanel closed the door on a 12-year chapter in her life and finally hung up her lab coat as Dr. Temperance Brennan on Fox’s “Bones.”

The previous night was a lot more than a typical day in the lab, however.

The cast and crew of “Bones” were on location filming the climax of their series finale episode — an intense scene where Brennan and Booth (David Boreanaz) take on vengeful killer Mark Kovac (Gerard Celasco).

Boreanaz was at the helm, serving as director on the action-filled night, full of shoot outs, running, falling, and, eventually, a lot of tears.

Deschanel had planned to come back the next night for a few more scenes, but a half hour before they were set to depart set, Boreanaz told her that he could get everything he needed that evening.

“It was a little bit of a shock,” Deschanel said. “It was emotional. I burst into tears and choked up and said goodbye to people. It was really strange — and then it took two hours to drive home.”

How to say goodbye

It was a bit of a long goodbye for “Bones.”

Fox announced in February 2016 that the show was renewed for what would be a 12th and final season — “a good run,” Deschanel calls it.

The show’s final episode aired Tuesday.

Showrunners had time to plan one final arc and a proper farewell for loyal fans, who’d followed the show to 23 different time slots over the years.

Executive producer Jonathan Collier, who’s been with the show for six seasons, wanted to bring character stories full circle with something impactful. So he and fellow showrunner Michael Peterson looked to the past to find the show’s future.

In a Season 1 episode written by longtime executive producer Stephen Nathan they found their answer — a storyline that recalled Booth’s time as a sniper and a particular instance where he killed a boy’s warlord father during his son’s birthday party.

“We thought this would be a great way to show an emotional journey for Booth for the show,” Collier told CNN. “He finds healing and redemption.”

Kovac was killed in the series finale.

“[Booth] reached a place with Brennan where he’s no longer in pain,” Collier said of the finale. “Or he at least has the tools to deal with his pain.”

Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz in the series finale episode of "Bones."

Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz in the series finale episode of “Bones.”

For Brennan, the episode contained another twist. Following a lab explosion in the penultimate episode, she lost the scientific, crime-solving abilities for which she’s become famous. Doing this allowed the writers to show how much she’s grown, Collier said.

Though the character identified herself purely by her abilities in the early seasons, the last 12 years have proven to Brennan that she’s so much more than that.

“She defines herself by her abilities, by this enormous ability she has and this brilliance and this capability, and what happens when you strip that away?” he said. “Maybe something even more important remains….We wanted to have that emotional wholeness at the end.”

Deschanel was fascinated by the concept and encouraged the writers to explore the idea to its deepest depths.

The finale has an especially emotional scene where Booth and Brennan share a sweet conversation in the office about how much Brennan — with her abilities or not — means to Booth.

“I thought they did a great job coming up with a story that really kind of wraps up a lot of storylines and characters,” she said. “It’s dramatic but also satisfying in many ways. I thought they did an amazing job.”

Is this REALLY the end?

The finale also set up all of the show’s favorites for the future.

Camille (Tamara Taylor) and Arastoo (Pej Vahdat) adopted three children. She took a six month leave to help her children settle in.

In her absence, Hodgins (T. J. Thyne) was appointed temporary director — or “king of the lab,” one of the show’s running jokes.

Aubrey (John Boyd) got a promotion that would keep him in D.C. instead of moving across the country. And Angela (Michaela Conlin) wrote a children’s book.

The writers solved a long-time mystery, as well — the meaning of “447,” a number that has popped up repeatedly on the series and has been the subject of fan speculation.

In the closing scene of the final episode, a scene between Brennan and Booth reveals the number is essentially a metaphor for perseverance.

“Oh, that was [decided] up until the end,” Collier said, laughing. “We were trying to figure it out. We all had different ideas for what it should be. All of us weighed in and it was going on for a long time.”

The goal was to leave viewers with a sense of peace and hopefulness, Collier said.

“The characters are okay; they’re well and good,” he said. “The big thing, too, is I really hope it’s a positive message that adversity can be overcome. Everyone has problems in their lives. These people have a problem every week, and a huge problem at the end. But they’re together and they overcome it.”

But is this really the end for “Bones?”

The cast and producers have been open about the fact that the decision to end the show was prompted by the network — but there’s no hard feelings. And no reason to close the door on a possible return of some kind in the future, said Deschanel.

“I would not rule it out,” she said.

Transgender child’s mom: love your kids, period

I recognized the dress immediately. It had been his older sister’s — cast away, no doubt, in a donation bag that was never donated.

I didn’t race outside, tear the dress off and proffer admonishments. I watched, instead, as his makeshift wand of willow danced through the air — a little princess going from flower bed to flower bed casting enchantments over the marigolds.

I let our child continue playing undisturbed, but before I returned to my soup, I did what we all do when we see something adorable: I grabbed my phone and snapped a photo.

Later that night, my husband and I went to dinner with another couple we didn’t know well. As a fellow mom will do, the wife asked to see photos of our children, so I took out my phone and began swiping through recent family shots.

“Aren’t their children adorable?” she exclaimed, grabbing the phone out of my hands and showing photos to her husband.

Before I could get my phone back, they had discovered the photo from that afternoon.

I saw them exchange puzzled looks, then the wife said: “This is your son?”

‘Indulgence and permission are two different things’

Sensing their disapproval, I smiled and responded as calmly as I could, “Yes, he likes to play princess sometimes.”

“You really shouldn’t encourage that behavior,” the wife said with the grave compassion usually reserved for a potentially terminal illness. “When our son was little, he liked to play dress-up, too, but we didn’t indulge it. Not one bit. I even hired a male nanny! And now our son is completely normal! A strapping teenage boy — very popular with the girls — nothing odd about him at all!”

“You can’t indulge it,” the husband concurred. “That’s the key. It’s no different than enforcing bedtime. Children are very malleable. You can shape them, but not if you indulge their every whim.”

I politely thanked them for their (unsolicited) advice and my husband deftly changed the topic, but as I lay in bed later that night I couldn’t stop thinking about the the word “indulgent.”

My child at play.

Was it really indulgence to allow our child the freedom to express himself? It’s not as if he was shooting a BB gun at the neighbor’s pet cat, or throwing sand in another kid’s face.

Since that incident, I’ve had the word “indulgent” leveled at me many times by various detractors who disagree with the unconditional love and support my husband and I have offered our now-eight-year-old transgender daughter, as if that choice was the same as offering her an extra slice of chocolate cake even though we knew she already had seconds.

And here’s what I would say to those people: when it comes to parenting, indulgence and permission are two different things.

When we indulge a child, we let them get away with something — usually a behavior considered reprehensible by others. When we offer a child permission, we give them the reassurance that what they are doing is okay.

I like to think that the permission we gave Samuel to play as he saw fit in his early years paved the path for later emotional security.

On the eve of his sixth birthday, after a four-year battle with self-hatred and depression, he felt safe enough to transition from living as a boy to living as a girl. It was like witnessing a second birth.

And now we have a daughter who greets each day with excitement. Her name is Sadie, and she’s just as precious to us as her male counterpart was, only much, much happier.

What if we had punished Samuel instead of embracing Sadie?

I sometimes ask myself what would have happened if we had taken our dinner companion’s advice. What if we had shamed our son, or punished him? What if we had refused to let him out of his room unless he agreed to behave like a traditional boy?

In those early years of our child’s life, when my husband and I searched the Internet for information about children who claim to be the opposite gender than their anatomy indicates, we found these two statistics: Forty percent of transgender people attempt suicide each year, whereas a child who is accepted by his or her family is eight times less likely to attempt suicide later in life.

Better to be labeled as over-indulgent parents for letting our son play princess, we told ourselves, than to have a dead child.

If you worry that you, or someone you know, is indulging a young child by allowing him or her to cross-dress or do otherwise non-stereotypical activities, think again. Child development experts claim that children understand their gender identity as young as age 2.

But most children lack the vocabulary to articulate how they feel when they are so young. Their only recourse at gaining understanding may be to don a tutu as a boy, or to wear a Superman costume as a girl.

If your young child or student is a boy who likes traditional girl things, or a girl who likes traditional boy things, it doesn’t mean that he or she is transgender. It might mean nothing at all, or it might indicate that the child is what experts call “gender fluid.” It could be a phase, or it could be something more permanent.

No matter the reason, a child’s gender exploration isn’t something to punish.

Of course the nonconforming child’s behavior may be something you fear, and possibly for good reasons. You might live in a community that lacks understanding and compassion. You might be part of a religious group that doesn’t accept transgender identity as a possibility.

It doesn’t matter. Support that child anyway.

‘We’re living our lives, just like you’

Some may decry this decision, as if you are aiding and abetting a criminal. Nothing could be further from the truth. You are aiding and abetting the crucial work we all do in trying to figuring out who we are and why we’re here.

Like me, like my husband, like hundreds of other parents who have faced their young children’s gender dysphoria, you must push past fear and replace it with curiosity. And then you need to start learning, and connecting with other families who are going through similar experiences.

And if you don’t know any gender nonconforming children, or if you think the parents who support nonconforming children are mentally ill, child-abusing monsters — all things we have been called — I would wager a bet that if you came over to visit some afternoon, you might be surprised at how similar we are to you.

You might notice my teenage daughter’s school books and SAT prep manual scattered around. You might hear the sound of my younger daughter’s squeals as our dogs chase her around the house. You might notice we have the same favorite show playing on our TV, and if you look closely enough, you might see the imprint in the sofa where my husband naps as he pretends to watch.

What you wouldn’t notice is that one of my two daughters is transgender. You wouldn’t notice because there is nothing to notice.

We’re living our lives, just like you: struggling to keep things balanced, trying to look on the bright side, trying to get enough sleep, to drink enough water, to remember to brush our hair before we leave the house, to floss before bed, to say please and thank you, to apologize when wrong.

Those of us who are raising transgender children know it is time for us to be brave; to step forward; to introduce ourselves to you and welcome you into our lives; to prove that we haven’t indulged our children but merely chosen to love them.

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Trump puts China in charge of the future

Saying that it would “start a new era of production and job creation,” Trump signed a sweeping executive order Tuesday scrapping much of Barack Obama’s climate legacy.

Some analysts have expressed concern this could enable Beijing — the world’s leading emitter of greenhouse gases — to water down its own commitments, but others say it is more likely China will step into a leading role in the vacuum left by Washington.

“China now finds itself in the unenviable position of being world leader on climate change, thanks to Trump’s willfully blind irresponsibility,” Mark Lynas, a fellow at the Alliance for Science at Cornell University, wrote for CNN Opinion.

Speaking Wednesday, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lu Kang said the country will “continue to work with relevant parties for enhanced dialog and cooperation, hand-in-hand to manage climate change, to promote efforts to put the global economy on a green and low carbon path, in order to pass on a better future to the generations to come.”

New order

While Trump’s actions may force Beijing into a leadership role, it will not be one for which it is unprepared.

“There has been an embracing of environmental issues generally in China over the last few years,” said Matthew Evans, dean of science at the University of Hong Kong (HKU).

“China is increasingly taking its position on the world stage (as) an economic superpower in its own right.”

Speaking in New York last week, China’s ambassador to the UN Liu Jeyi said “whatever the vicissitudes of the international situation… China remains steadfast in its ambition to reinforce actions in responding to climate change.”

Liu said China is committed to “reducing carbon intensity by 40-45% in 2020 compared with 2005 and reaching the peak of carbon emissions by 2030 or even earlier.”

Carbon intensity levels are measured by a country’s emissions relative to economic output. According to the US Environmental Protection Bureau, China and the US were the biggest emitters of carbon dioxide in 2011, the most recent year for which statistics are available.

“(China and the US) are moving in opposite directions on this issue,” said Alex Lo, an expert on climate politics at the University of Hong Kong.

“The Chinese government has made a lot of commitment officially … those policies and initiatives are not going to stop.”

Push and pull

The events of the past few days mark a dramatic turnaround from 2014, when, under rare blue skies in Beijing, Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping announced plans for a cut in greenhouse emissions by close to a third over the next two decades.

It was a dramatic statement of intent by the world’s largest carbon polluters, and a major win for the Obama administration in bringing China on board as an equal partner in the fight against climate change.

In September 2016, the pair underlined that partnership, ratifying the Paris climate agreement alongside each other in Hangzhou.

Following the election of Donald Trump however, Beijing looks to be standing alone.

Solutions

China is already a world leader is renewable energy.

The country’s National Energy Administration said in January that China will spend more than $360 billion through 2020 on renewable technologies such as solar and wind.

China invested more than $88 billion in clean energy in 2016, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, down from an all time high of almost $120 billion in 2015, but still significantly more than the $58.8 billion invested by the US last year.

Lo also predicted that China will take major action to introduce an emissions trading scheme this year, a means of controlling pollution via economic incentives.

“China might be able to take leadership in terms of motivating other partners, particularly those countries in the Asia Pacific region to follow suit,” he said.

China is highly vulnerable to climate change, with 145 million people living in areas at risk of flooding due to rising sea levels, and rampant desertification already occurring in much of the country’s northwest.

Risks

China will not stand alone in terms of tackling climate change. The EU is another major player, albeit one hampered by political divisions over issues such as Brexit and the refugee crisis.

A report by the NGO Carbon Market Watch this week claimed that only three EU countries were currently pursuing their goals under the Paris agreement: Sweden, Germany and France.

US states such as California are also taking action, with Governor Jerry Brown vowing to forge ahead on climate policies regardless of Washington.

“If China and the EU choose to act together then I think between them they can manage a lot of this,” said HKU’s Evans.

“But if the US tears up as many of their climate policies as it’s suggesting they’re going to, that will be a loss.”

“The atmosphere is a global good. You can’t constrain greenhouse gases released in the US to stay in the US, we’re all going to suffer from them,” he added.

Another major risk posed by the Trump administration’s action, according to Evans, is that it may encourage countries to move forward on their own on matters such as geoengineering.

Efforts to hack the planet in order to slow or reverse climate change have been put forward, but critics warn they could have unforeseen runaway effects that leave the world in a worse position than before.

“At the moment there’s a moratorium on any country doing that unilaterally,” Evans said.

But for nations most at risk from climate change, “you have to wonder how much of their country they’re willing to see go underwater before they take action unilaterally to modify the climate.”

Statue doesn’t do Cristiano Ronaldo justice

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Rory Marsden Featured ColumnistMarch 29, 2017

A bust of Real Madrid and Portugal superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has been slammed as “questionable” and “horrifying” after it was unveiled atÂ the Aeroporto da Madeira.

Per TheÂ Telegraph‘s Sean Gibson, the airport has been renamed theÂ Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport to honour the island’s most famous citizen, but the new statue unveiled to mark the occasion bears little resemblance to the four-time Ballon d’Or winner:

Reaction to the bust has been mixed. The Football Ramble echoed the thoughts of many:

Meanwhile, BBC Sport’s Dan Walker felt there may have been some confusion over the subject of the sculpture:

Agence France-Presse’s Tom Williams was reminded of another suspect statue of the former Manchester United star, which stands outside his personal museum:

Betting company Coral eschewed the opportunity to joke at Ronaldo’s expense and simply stated the obvious:

Bleacher Report UK got in on the fun:

Simon Peach of the Press Association thought the bust looked quite familiar:

The comparisons didn’t end there, per Dan O’Connell of Radio X:

Per football writer Richard Gibson, though, the star himself seemed to take it in good spirit:

Ronaldo will likely return to action with Real against Alaves in La Liga on Sunday after scoring against both Sweden and Hungary for Portugal during the international break. Â

Will Congress finally vote on ISIS war?

ButÂ aÂ voteÂ on the warÂ threatens to expose the divisions over the US military campaign between hawks and doves that have lingered since the Obama administration began fightingÂ ISISÂ in 2014.

On the one hand, congressional approval forÂ the ISIS war couldÂ be a public affirmation ofÂ President DonaldÂ Trump’s plansÂ to accelerate the military campaignÂ andÂ potentially give the commander in chief a freer hand to ramp up troop deployments across the Middle East.

On the other, anti-war lawmakers could press for restrictions on troop numbersÂ and theirÂ theaterÂ of battle,Â imposing limits that don’t exist under the currentÂ post-9/11 authorization for fighting al QaedaÂ that successive administrations have until now relied onÂ to fight ISIS as well.

The bipartisan group of lawmakers that for years has tried to force Congress to authorize the war against ISIS, arguing Congress is giving up its constitutional authority to declare war, says Trump’s desire to accelerate the ISIS campaign stresses the need for a formal vote on the war.Â

“I haven’t thought that this war against ISIS is constitutionally authorized from the beginning,” saidÂ DemocraticÂ Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy. “Now that we’re talking about a potential massive increase in troop presence, we need to put some boundaries around it congressionally.”Â

The White House has yet to weigh in directly on the issue,Â but likeÂ the Obama administration, the Trump administration says it has the legal authority to conduct its ISIS campaignÂ even without congressional approval.

But one top administration official signaled the administration also sees a benefit to a new ISIS war authorizationÂ — albeitÂ for different reasonsÂ than many Democratic advocates.

Defense Secretary James Mattis toldÂ a Senate panelÂ last week that he wants them to authorize the war againstÂ ISIS because,Â “I think it would be a statement of the American people’s resolve if you did so.”

“I thought the same thing for the last several years, I might add, and have not understood why the Congress has not come forward with this, at least the debate,”Â he added.

Congress has been reluctant to debate — let alone vote on — a war authorization, due to an inability to find consensus as well as political concerns that a vote could be used against them later on, as Hillary Clinton’s vote in favor of the Iraq War was.

“I think Congress should weigh in and say what the support should look like, but the devil is in the details” of any authorization for use of military force, Washington Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, told CNN. “I don’t want the AUMF to be a blank check to theÂ President to do anything he wants, anywhere, anytime, for any reason.”

Mattis delivered a plan to Trump to accelerate that campaign, and additional US troops in recent days have deployed to Iraq and Syria, including an air assault as part of aÂ major offensiveÂ led by US-backed fighters to retake a dam near Raqqa, Syria. Soldiers from the 82ndÂ Airborne DivisionÂ were deploying to Iraq in the “low hundreds” this week, according to a US defense official.

The Trump administration is also looking atÂ stepping upÂ the US military’s involvement in Yemen’s civil war, and has loosened the rules for counter-terrorism missions in parts of the country.

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia and Republican Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona tried to team up to pass a war authorization during the Obama administration, and they told CNN they’re now reworking a bill that can get support from both parties.

“We had a bill in for a couple of years nobody was interested in — we tried to wordsmith differences between Democrats and Republicans — so we’re actually exploring some different ways of coming at it,” Kaine said. “It’s the beginning of an administration, a new plan on the table might be time to look at it, and I think Gen. Mattis helps us move in that direction.”

Other Democrats predicted Trump could force Congress’ hand to pass a war authorization ifÂ he were to diveÂ too far into military adventurism.

“I’ll tell you what will make it happen, is if theÂ President takes some kind of aggressive military action that’s unexpected and that is not envisioned as just a continuation of the Global War on Terror,” Missouri Democrat Claire McCaskill told CNN.

But for Republicans, a “robust” war authorization is what’s needed so the commander in chief’s hands are not tied.

“The draft that the Obama administration put out … it was very, very limiting, extremely limiting,” said Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan. “It might have a better chance now that we have a White House that probably will have a different outlook.”

Mattis said at last week’s hearing that he does not support limitations on time or geography in a war authorization.Â

“Due to the nature of this enemy’s threat, that would only work to help the enemy,” Mattis said in response to a question from Sen. Lindsey Graham,Â a South Carolina Republican,Â about geographic restrictions.

Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, whose committee would handle legislation to vote on the war, said he wanted the administration to articulate its ISIS strategy first, and then Congress could consider passing an AUMF.

“We’ve said from day one, even back under the Obama days, we’d like for the administration to lay out a strategy. That never really happened,”Â the Tennessee RepublicanÂ said. “I do think these guys are formulating one and we’ll see where it goes.”

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Min to open: $5,000

AloStar Bank of Commerce

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: 1.04%
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 1.04%
Min to open: $50

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 1.00%
Min to open: $10

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 1.00%
Min to open: $25,000

ableBanking, a division of Northeast Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 1.00%
Min to open: $250

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.95%
Min to open: $500

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.95%
Min to open: $1

Colorado Federal Savings Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.85%
Min to open: $2,500

My Savings Direct

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.85%
Min to open: $1

EH National Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.81%
Min to open: $1,000

First Internet Bank of Indiana

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.80%
Min to open: $100

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.80%
Min to open: $2,500

EH National Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.79%
Min to open: $1,000

Mutual of Omaha Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.77%
Min to open: $1,000

Capital One 360

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.75%
Min to open: $0

California First National Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.75%
Min to open: $5,000

First Internet Bank of Indiana

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.60%
Min to open: $100

AloStar Bank of Commerce

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.50%
Min to open: $1,000

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.45%
Min to open: $1,000

State Farm Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: 0.30%
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.30%
Min to open: $1,000

Goldwater Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.26%
Min to open: $1,000

Intro rate: 0.25%
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.25%
Min to open: $100

Luana Savings Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.25%
Min to open: $2,500

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.20%
Min to open: $100

Third Federal Savings and Loan

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.15%
Min to open: $25,000

State Farm Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.10%
Min to open: $100

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.10%
Min to open: $1,000

Intro rate: 0.10%
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.10%
Min to open: $100

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.10%
Min to open: $100

NewDominion Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.10%
Min to open: $500

Citizens Trust Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.05%
Min to open: $1,000

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.05%
Min to open: $500

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.05%
Min to open: $25

Citizens Trust Bank

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.05%
Min to open: $1,000

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.05%
Min to open: $2,500

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.05%
Min to open: $10,000

M.Y. Safra Bank, FSB

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.05%
Min to open: $100

Intro rate: 0.05%
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.05%
Min to open: $25

M.Y. Safra Bank, FSB

Wed Mar 29

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.05%
Min to open: $100

Intro rate: N/A
Intro months: N/A
Rate post intro: 0.02%
Min to open: $500

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