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JPMorgan Chase's Terrah Opferman steers middle market businesses through economic uncertainy - Crain's Detroit Business

JPMorgan Chase & Co.: As the new Michigan region manager for middle market banking for Michigan's largest lender, Terrah Opferman, 39, enters the role during a period of economic uncertainty as the coronavirus pandemic shows no signs of relenting.

While acknowledging that smaller businesses continue to suffer, most middle market businesses with which she works have adapted well and are becoming much more efficient in their operations, Opferman said.

In her new role, Opferman succeeds John Carter, a 40-year veteran of the bank, who will retire next year.

What's it been like taking over middle-market banking in Michigan during a time when companies increasingly depend on lending institutions to get by?

Yes, so definitely an interesting time, for sure. I've been incredibly impressed by how quickly our clients adapted to the changing environment. I think it's important to note that, you know, small businesses have been really challenged during this time. But in the middle market space, our clients have quickly pivoted to figure out how to operate successfully and safely in this current environment. I would say initially, the top concern was liquidity and making sure that they had enough liquidity in reserves to continue to operate. And then I think the other important factor that they've all been considering is, you know, how to continue to keep their employees safe, while also continuing to serve their own customers.

What are clients needing from their lender at this moment?

They're leaning on us heavily for our technology, and how to be able to send payments electronically. And so a lot of what we're having conversations about with our clients is how to operate efficiently without the use of paper, or a minimal use of paper. So, from a real world perspective, all of our clients are very focused on how to make their payments to their vendors, electronically and efficiently. We are doing a lot of work in kind of helping clients review their business processes, and how to make tweaks along the way to make them more efficient, and to be able to get their payments out quicker, and manage their liquidity as well.

The other side of the coin is how to accept those payments. So how are you going to virtually accept those payments from your customers, as more and more businesses are moving off of checks to ACH (Automated Clearing House)? How do they kind of electrify that whole process and again, a lot of companies are investing heavily in new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems, so how can we as their banking partner really help to optimize the use of those ERP systems?

Are banking clients you talk with paying attention to the fight in Washington, D.C., over another stimulus package? If so, are they feeling like it's needed, or are they figuring out how to get by?

You know, I think it truly depends on the industry, and how they've been impacted. What we're trying to do as much as we can, our team has been working tirelessly to help our clients get through this time period. Whether it be from a liquidity perspective, or, again, to optimize operations. I think all of our clients are very focused on the overall general economic landscape and sort of how the election will drive a lot of those changes. So a lot of it is trying to plan for the future with a certain degree of uncertainty of how all of this sort of progresses.

Would you say the political uncertainty is creating challenges for both Chase Bank and for clients?

I would say it's presenting ... businesses to take pause, and think through all of the various avenues to which they can, you know, optimize and be agile. And I think clients are very focused on the supplier dynamic.

You know, we did a mid-year business leaders outlook survey and there was a pretty good degree of optimism within their business locally and throughout the United States. I think as the clients were looking more outside of the U.S., globally, that level of certainty was quite a bit different than what the optimism was based on the kind of local dynamics.

And I think clients are also thinking through their (capital expenditure) needs, and when is the right time to make those investments, and sort of trying to really not necessarily completely reinvent themselves, but how to operate as efficiently as possible. And a lot of our clients, impressively, have really taken this time to kind of reconfigure a lot of their business and are very happy with a lot of the changes that they've had to make, and it's making them a lot more efficient than maybe they would have been in the past.

So basically you're saying that while March, April and May may have been chaos, businesses you're working with are now figuring out how to operate in this period?

I would say for our clients in the middle markets, yes. I think those impacted in the service industry are very challenged. And as I mentioned previously, in the small business space, but our middle market manufacturing clients have adjusted — and impeccably well — to the current climate.

As far as our team goes, I'm incredibly proud of how quickly the firm and our team have adjusted to this new kind of virtual environment. And we're meeting very regularly with our clients, albeit over Zoom, but still as effective, just very different than being ... face to face.

What made you want to get into the banking world, and eventually into this leadership position for a large bank in Michigan?

I went to undergrad at Albion College, and had the benefit of having a couple different internships to explore different opportunities. And, you know, as a kid, ironically, I was always very interested in entrepreneurship — whether it was like making crafts and selling lemonade on the side of the street — but I was always super interested in the business world.

I received an offer from Bank One, but when I started, we were now JP Morgan. So it was certainly an interesting time, but I had the awesome experience of working with incredibly talented people across metro Detroit, and spent quite a bit of time in our health care business, and was traveling all over the place and really enjoyed that business. But there was this opportunity to be more local, and work with local businesses that are in the community in which I live. And I was super excited because I'm very passionate about the community and really excited to work with business leaders that are, you know, right in our backyard.

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Riverside Middle School in New Castle goes to 100% online learning beginning Monday - Glenwood Springs Post Independent

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Riverside Middle School will transition to 100% online learning Monday in light of nearly half the students directly impacted by recent Covid-19 cases as well as a substitute teacher shortage. 

In a news release Saturday, Garfield Re-2 School District said the district does “not believe there is transmission within the school” but that about 41% of students and 25% of staff at Riverside were directly impacted. That means they are considered close contacts with individuals who recently tested positive for Covid-19.

“This weekend, Garfield Re-2 School District was informed by the Garfield County Department of Public Health of individuals that are confirmed to have COVID-19, or who have COVID-19 like symptoms or illness within the Riverside Viking family,” the release states. “These cases are not related.”

The lack of available instruction staff, a substitute teacher shortage and previously scheduled absences resulted in the need to transition all instruction at the school to online learning through Nov. 10. In-person instruction is slated to resume Nov. 11.

“We have looked at this situation in every way possible and have determined that we do not have the resources to continue in-person instruction until our staff is released from quarantine on Nov. 11,” Garfield Re-2 Superintendent Heather Grumley said in the news release. “The shortage of substitute teachers in Garfield Re-2 has a significant contribution to the decision to pivot Riverside Middle School to online learning.”

A critical shortage of bus drivers also means that the “Butterfly Bus Route” will be suspended until Nov. 11. The rabbit bus was also impacted but will continue service.

In total, the recent Covid-19 cases have resulted in 244 students, 15 staff members and five schools being directly impacted.

“The schools have been doing an incredible job working to keep all students and staff well and safe. Due to the swift actions of the staff and administration, we have not seen transmission in the school,” said Yvonne Long, Garfield County Public Health director, in the news release.

“It is important for our schools to remain open and students attend in person as much as possible. A situation such as this affects so many in our community, thank you all for keeping families and kids safe,” she added.

 As part of these public health investigations: 

 — The individuals diagnosed are being kept home from school until they are no longer infectious.

— The individual’s activities when they could have spread COVID-19 have been assessed.

— The people who were close contacts of the person with COVID-19 have been instructed to stay home from school for 14 days after the exposure. This means they should not go to school, playdates, sports, church or extracurricular events for the full 14-day period.

— Parents/caregivers of a child in quarantine are considered “contacts of a contact” and are not required to quarantine. However, parents need to continue to monitor their family’s symptoms.  

— Garfield Re-2 facilities and custodial crews will use the time to complete a deep-clean and disinfecting of Riverside Middle School, so it is ready for school on Nov. 11. 

 — Riverside Middle School will be offering a drive-through meal pick-up option. Riverside families can contact Riverside Middle School at 970-665-7800 by 9 a.m.daily if they would like to pick up meals. Drive-through meals will be available from 11 a.m. to noon.

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On the front line in Belgium, the epicenter of Europe's surging 2nd COVID crisis: Reporter's Notebook - ABC News

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Cases have skyrocketed in Liege, Belgium's third-largest city.

The city of about 200,000 residents nestled in eastern Belgium is at around a 41% infection rate, and the hospital is at full capacity. Intensive care unit numbers have tripled in three weeks. Belgium, which had 100 to 200 cases per day throughout June and early July, is now marking north of 10,000. On Oct. 25, it set a daily record with 17,709.

We stood outside one room -- which patients are now forced to share due to overcrowding -- to hear the groans of an elderly man who was just admitted. As doctors and nurses attended to him another ambulance swept up outside the window with another case.

It's an ethical dilemma, but not a choice this doctor could make. He now tests negative, but he said if he and others like him do not continue working, the health system here would go under. The toll on health workers, already exhausted from the first wave, about to be exacerbated by the second.

Why is it so bad? COVID fatigue, he says. Belgium relaxed the measures that had kept the country safe and now are going to pay a price. Lots of testing, yes. But not so much tracing.

But they have learned some important lessons from the first wave.

We came across Florent, a 75-year-old man in the ICU who said he wanted to speak to us. Back in March, he would have been ventilated. Now, he has a far less intrusive treatment, and got life saving steroids early on. He may not have survived in March.

Yes, treatment is improving, but the bottom line is that Florent still needed a bed. And at this rate, Belgium is going to run out of them.

"It's my birthday today," he said, standing up to show us he could.

"What do you wish for?" I asked.

"To go home," he said.

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Hall of Fame: Snellgrove one of MT's best on diamond - GoBlueRaiders.com

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — There have been a ton of really good middle infielders at Middle Tennessee over the past few decades, and one of the best among them is now a Blue Raiders Sports Hall of Fame member.
 
Clay Snellgrove was a starter at shortstop from the first day he arrived on campus in 1994 and turned in one of the best four-year careers the Middle Tennessee baseball team has ever seen. 

This year's class will be enshrined during a virtual induction that airs Thursday at 7 p.m. on the Middle Tennessee athletics Twitter, Facebook and YouTube outlets.
 
It all might never have happened without another former Blue Raider, Steve Zitney, who convinced Snellgrove to wait to turn pro and talk with MT head coach Steve Peterson about college ball.
 
"I had aspirations of playing professional baseball, but didn't have a lot of prospects to play college in the Midwest where I was in high school in Indiana," Snellgrove said. "Through a coach and now a friend of mine, Steve Zitney, an MTSU grad, I got referred to Coach Pete, and he ended up taking a chance on me."
 
The Blue Raiders needed a good young shortstop to help keep their streak of conference titles alive. Going into the 1994 season, they had won either an Ohio Valley Conference regular season or tournament title, or both, for four straight years. They weren't about to let that streak stop.
 
"When I got here, it was immediately clear we were at the top of that conference, and that was not in question," Snellgrove said. "There were just expectations of winning it. … We were always going to be the best team."
 
Snellgrove quickly fit in at Middle Tennessee both because he could hit and handle the glove.
 
In his four years, the Blue Raiders won four straight OVC regular season championships and the tournament title in 1995. They participated in play-in series to get to the NCAA tournament in 1994 and 1995, beating Jackson State in 1995 to qualify them for the NCAA West Regional in Fresno, California.
 
After his career in Murfreesboro finished, Snellgrove was drafted in 1997 in the 24th round by the San Diego Padres. He left Middle Tennessee as the program's leader in games played, hits, at-bats, singles, doubles and sacrifices while also being in the top five in RBIs and total bases.
 
Snellgrove played in the minors and independent leagues until retiring in 2002, then turned his career sights to other endeavors. He didn't really feel satisfied, though, until a friend mentioned he had been giving baseball lessons and Snellgrove should give it a try.
 
Now, more than 15 years later, Snellgrove gets to give back to the Murfreesboro community by teaching the game he loves at Bases Loaded, a baseball and softball school.
 
"Through professional baseball and summer baseball, I've lived in Alaska, California, Arizona, Georgia, Virginia, New York — I've lived everywhere. But, Murfreesboro has the best vibe," Snellgrove said. "I love MTSU and the vision here, and I wanted to come back to this area. Thankfully, a friend of mine had been doing some lessons and invited me to come try it."
 
Teaching baseball isn't Snellgrove's only career interests. He's also a published author and an EMT.
 
He and his wife, Erin, have a love for the Murfreesboro area, born out of the four incredible years Snellgrove spent in the Blue Raiders' middle infield. He'll forever reside in his alma mater's hall of fame, an honor he couldn't be more honored to receive.
 
"MTSU Athletics is a big family … and I know a lot of people who had amazing athletic careers at MTSU who've been inducted," he said. "To be included in that this year is a really special honor."
 

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Here's What JetBlue is Planning For Future of Middle Seats - TravelPulse

While some airlines have decided to reopen sales of their middle seats, and others continue to block them, JetBlue Airways has a partial plan in place.

The airline said it will limit capacity through the holidays, although the current 70 percent capacity number is flexible, and then will re-assess the situation after Jan. 1.

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“JetBlue is blocking the vast majority of middle seats on our larger aircraft and the majority of aisle seats on smaller aircraft,” JetBlue said in a statement provided to TravelPulse. “As we head into the fall and Thanksgiving travel, we know there will be more families and groups traveling together and so we will offer a small number of rows where people traveling together can sit together.”

JetBlue has gone back and forth on the issue. Earlier this week, JetBlue President Joanna Geraghty said blocking seats “is not something that’s sustainable,” and that as passenger numbers rise and studies show airplane cabins are safe, the airline will raise capacity on flights.

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Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are common in many different species of animals, including camels, cattle, cats, and bats.

But a day earlier, CEO Robin Hayes said that, although it is expensive, continuing to block middle seats on flights into 2021 is the right thing to do to ensure the public feels it’s safe to fly.

“Our view is that over the course of time the seat caps will go, but right now it’s a very important issue for customer perception,” said Hayes in an interview with Reuters, adding that blocking its middle seats will be “incredibly expensive” for the airline.

Hayes said the move will go through at least the first quarter of next year, but a spokesman said JetBlue will evaluate things after the holidays.

“As we still experience a higher than usual number of no-shows our crewmembers will proactively monitor and adjust seating assignments to spread out those onboard,” the spokesman said. “Through our ‘Safety from the Ground Up’ program, JetBlue continues to provide a layered approach to safety on the ground and in the air. We continue to rigorously clean and disinfect common surfaces in the airport and on board and utilize HEPA filters on our aircraft.”

Southwest, American and United have stopped blocking middle seats and resumed their sales.

Southwest cited reports from “trusted medical and aviation organizations” for reinstating the bookings, which could have been a reference to a Department of Defense study released the previous week. The study maintains that the risk of exposure to the coronavirus on flights is minimal.

Aviation officials have reported that flying overall is a low-risk proposition.

In extending the policy into 2021, JetBlue joins other carriers such as Alaska Airlines and Delta, both of whom have announced plans to extend their ban on booking middle seats to Jan. 6.

In an interview with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo earlier this month, Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the carrier would block middle seats "well into next year," although he did not provide a specific date.

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Clarksville Christian School wins TNCAA middle school volleyball championship - Clarksville Now

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – On Thursday evening, the Clarksville Christian School middle school volleyball team capped off a historic season by winning the 2020 TNCAA Conference Championship.

Playing before a home crowd, the Lady Centurions defeated Greenbrier Dayspring Academy 2-0 to claim their first-ever conference volleyball title.

The first set during the match was a close back-and-forth battle with neither team willing to yield. After trading points, CCS ended up pulling away at the end to claim the set 25-22.

Head Coach Madison Poen said of her team that “they are some of the most determined and hard working girls I have ever had the privilege to coach.”

That determination paid off in the second set as CCS cruised to a 25-19 win and leading by as much as 12 points during the game.

Following the match, CCS team members Zoe White and Sylas Bryant were both named to the All-Tournament Team, and Bryant also earned All-Tournament MVP honors.

According to Poen, “This was a record-breaking season and could not be any more well-deserved” by this team, adding that, “I am so proud of these girls and the insane amount of growth that took place this season.”

CCS Athletic Director Cole Harper believes this group of student-athletes is poised to be successful for many years to come.

“I have rarely seen a group grow so much, so quickly,” stated Harper. “Coach Poen and Coach (Lexi) Hendrix did a wonderful job developing this team, and this group will only get stronger as they continue gaining experience together.”

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Elite Democrats could destroy the middle class if Biden wins in 2020 - New York Post

It’s been a long time since the Democrats were considered “the party of the people” and the GOP the party of the fat cats. This year Joe Biden and even more so his running mate, Kamala Harris, are raising record sums from the corporate elite, notably the tech giants and their Wall Street allies. These wealthy donors dominate the party, own much of the media, and can manipulate the social-media platforms where a growing proportion of Americans get their news.

Meanwhile, the Republicans find themselves largely castigated in the press and overwhelmed by a torrent of oligarchic wealth at the Senate and local levels. This wealthy oligarchy is not just liberal; many members also support a thorough remaking of our country. Some, like former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, are so committed to progressivism that, as he said recently, those who don’t get with the program should “face a firing squad.” Currently led by CEO Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gone so far as to block The New York Post’s account after it reported on the unsavory foreign business dealings of Biden’s son Hunter.

If these Democrats win both houses of Congress as well as the White House, things could get far worse for the already beleaguered middle class, which has been rocked by the pandemic, with an estimated 100,000 small firms going out of business. Particularly hard-hit by the recent urban unrest are inner city and minority businesses.

A Biden win could prove particularly devastating to the energy, agriculture and manufacturing sectors.
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By contrast, the oligarchs have had a very good pandemic, with tech firms now accounting for nearly 40 percent of the value of the Standard and Poor index — a concentration that is unprecedented in modern history. From March to June 2020, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, which has endorsed Biden and skewed coverage in his direction, saw his wealth rise by an estimated $48 billion to an estimated $183 billion, making him easily the world’s richest man.

The other big winners have been the professional managerial class, including top levels of the federal bureaucracy, academia, and the mainstream media. These are, for the most part, people who can work from home, or, in some cases, the safety of their country houses. Meanwhile, they have achieved power at a level never before exercised outside of wartime and are as likely to surrender this control as the oligarchs are to give up their money.

If the Democrats win on Election Day, the future for the middle class could be bleak. As a lifelong Democrat, this is not easy to write, but most of the party’s initiatives — such as the Green New Deal — are directly harmful to those in the middle and working classes, who’d be forced to face increased housing and energy prices and fewer upwardly mobile jobs in industries like manufacturing.

A Democratic landslide could prove particularly devastating to owners of small businesses, particularly those in the energy, agriculture and manufacturing sectors, who were all critical to electing Donald Trump and seem likely to follow him again this year, despite the recession caused by the pandemic.

Biden and Harris are raising record funds from wealthy tech giants and their Wall Street allies.
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Meanwhile, a Biden White House would enable the oligarchy to reap enormous rewards, starting with the disarming of President Trump’s antitrust assault on Google and other tech monopolies while restoring a “hands off” Obama-style policy that caters to tech companies’ needs.

In short, this election could hasten an America that is less democratic and increasingly feudal, with a middle class that is close to nonexistent. Such an approach concerns traditional Democrats, but seems to be of little interest to the woke, ultra-rich members of the Democratic oligarchy.

Fortunately, this isn’t our last shot to restore the middle class and curb the power of the oligarchs. If the Democrats overreach, particularly if they gain control of both Houses, a new middle-class rebellion — within the GOP, among renegade Democrats or even from a new party — could still emerge, this time led by a more unifying and credible figure than Donald Trump.

Joel Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University and executive director of the Urban Reform Institute. His new book, “The Coming of Neo-Feudalism” (Encounter), is out now. Twitter: @joelkotkin

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Trump will introduce middle-class tax cut if re-elected, Kudlow says - New York Post

WASHINGTON — President Trump will introduce a middle-class tax cut and continue deregulation if he wins a second term, White House chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Friday, promising a return to prosperity.

Kudlow touted Trump’s economic record in an interview with Axios, saying the president had delivered an economic boom for the middle and working class before the coronavirus pandemic arrived on US shores earlier this year.

“His policies, the tax cuts and the deregulation especially, the people who benefited were those that needed it the most. Those are facts,” he said.

“It was the middle class and the lower rungs of the income ladder who had the biggest gains under President Trump. It was not just for rich people,” he went on.

US unemployment fell to 7.9 percent last month from a record high of 14.7 percent in April amid coronavirus lockdowns.

But that’s still a lot higher than the pre-pandemic 3.8 percent low.

Kudlow on Friday vowed that the nation was on the “road to long-term prosperity.”

“I think we can pick up on that once we get through this difficult period,” he told the outlet.

“We are now working on a middle-class tax cut. We are working on some additional business tax cuts,” he went on.

The United States GDP boomed 33 percent in the third quarter of 2020, exceeding expectations and creating a new record, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

Trump celebrated the figures in a Friday morning tweet, writing: “IF I AM ELECTED, NEXT YEAR WILL BE OUR BEST EVER!”

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Fights in Front of Fans Test Boxing’s Business in the Pandemic Era - The New York Times

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Gervonta Davis, a fighter nicknamed Tank, is honored to have a live audience.

Davis, an undefeated 25-year old boxer from Baltimore, will face Leo Santa Cruz with two world titles at stake on Saturday night. It will be the main event of the first major boxing card with live spectators since the coronavirus pandemic reshaped the dynamic of live sports.

Davis will fight even harder, he said, knowing that up to 10,000 people at the Alamodome in San Antonio will have spent money and ventured out during the outbreak to watch him.

The fight represents a two-pronged strategy for making money in boxing during a time when seemingly nothing is normal about live events or sports on television. Selling tickets and broadcasting the fight on pay-per-view are both business decisions — made by Davis’s backers at Mayweather Promotions — to generate revenue to finance the pay guarantees that star fighters command. The promoters argue that Davis is the sport’s next star (he is 23-0 with 22 knockouts), and that putting him on pay-per-view signals that he is an elite fighter worth the price of admission.

But with a glut of live programming driving viewership down across many individual sports, and an economy still hobbled by the pandemic, asking fans to pay $75 for a boxing broadcast is also a gamble.

“It’s always a bit of a leap of faith,” said Stephen Espinoza, the president of Showtime Sports. “There’s a sizable chunk of this country that’s under economic pressure. That’s obviously something that makes a pay-per-view harder.”

A rival promoter, Top Rank, took a different approach two weeks ago when Brooklyn’s TeĂłfimo LĂłpez won a 12-round decision over the Ukrainian star Vasyl Lomachenko in a lightweight title bout. Viewership on ESPN peaked at 3 million, but there were no extra costs for TV viewers outside of their ESPN subscriptions. But there also were no paying spectators at the fight in Las Vegas, where the card was staged essentially on a closed TV set inside a resort.

Inside the Alamodome on Saturday, organizers have said they will enforce measures meant to mitigate the risk of spreading the coronavirus. In a building that seats more than 64,000 people, attendance has been capped at 10,000. Spectators will be required to wear masks and undergo temperature checks, organizers said, and sit only with people in their party.

Inside the ring, promoters expect Davis, the World Boxing Association champion at 135 pounds, and Santa Cruz, the W.B.A.’s 130-pound champ, to stage the kind of high-stakes, high-action main event that, in normal times, could have sold out an arena.

Santa Cruz is a forward-moving volume puncher whose father and head trainer, José, survived Covid-19 while battling multiple myeloma. At one point, Leo Santa Cruz said, doctors were so sure José would die that they summoned Leo and his siblings to say goodbye. But José recovered and will attend the fight.

“My brother is the one holding the mitts, but it’s still my dad right there,” Santa Cruz said. “Family always wants the best for you.”

Still, Davis is the fight’s A-side: a fast, elusive power puncher with his own compelling back story. His coach, Calvin Ford, started coaching at a boxing gym in Baltimore after serving a 10-year prison sentence. Davis started training with Ford as a grade-schooler, but the boxer’s circle now includes celebrities like Drake and mentors like Floyd Mayweather.

Normally those story lines, and two aggressive fighters, might combine to support ticket and pay-per-view sales. And Davis’s promoters point to his string of sold-out fights in cities like Baltimore and Carson, Calif., as evidence that they needed to open Saturday’s event to paid spectators.

The difference now is that those fights took place before the pandemic disrupted live sports, and forced limited crowds in the rare instances when they were allowed. San Antonio is in Bexar County, which has averaged 201 new coronavirus cases per day over the past two weeks, about 10 cases per 100,000 residents, but the promoters got approval for thousands of fans anyway.

Davis last fought in December, earning a 12th round technical knockout against Yuriorkis Gamboa, a veteran fighter from Cuba.Since then, live events and industries that require physical gathering, like bars and movie theaters, have struggled amid government restrictions, and the economy has had difficulty rebounding.

And the boxing pay-per-view market was already under pressure. February’s heavyweight rematch between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder attracted a reported 850,000 pay-per-view buys, plus 300,000 more online sales. Those figures more than doubled the reported number of buys for their first fight, but still fell short of the 2 million buys the fight’s co-promoter, Bob Arum, had predicted.

Espinoza acknowledged the pandemic had altered the household budgets of boxing fans. And, he said, restrictions on public gatherings have meant that the usually thriving market for theaters and sports bars has “all but disappeared.” Even a lack of large social gatherings is expected to hurt sales.

“Pizza and beer and the cookout, that’s part of the fabric of the pay-per-view event,” he said. “There is, in this scenario, an unpredictable amount of risk.”

While Saturday’s featured fight may not turn its winner into a pay-per-view mainstay, it does feature two champions jockeying for position in one of boxing’s busiest weight ranges. Davis and Santa Cruz will compete for two W.B.A. belts. Next week, the World Boxing Council lightweight champion, Devin Haney, will fight Gamboa. And LĂłpez won three other belts by defeating Lomachenko.

But Davis said that he considers himself the real champion — and not just of the 135-pound division.

“This is going to set me to a whole new level,” Davis said of facing Santa Cruz. “To me, I’m the No. 1 boxer in the world already. I just gotta prove it.”

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Nike Celebrates the Inspiring Spirit of Middle Eastern Women in New Ad - Adweek

Nike’s “You Can’t Stop Us” series has wowed viewers with powerful stories of athletes overcoming the odds in the narrative way Nike has become known for, such as the incredible editing of its split-screen montage.

The latest installment, “Victory Swim,” dives into the water with Middle Eastern women athletes. The 90-second spot, by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam, highlights various women in a variety of aqua sports from swimming to surfing, rowing to scuba diving, all experiencing the freedom and power of being in the water.

It starts in the ocean shallows, with a woman teaching her young daughter to swim. Her words of encouragement become a metaphor to inspire other women to move into the water. The action then flows into other inspiring women of the region doing what they do best. 

There’s UAE national rower Maha Al Ameri slicing through a river in her rowing scull; amputee swimmer Zainab Al-Eqabi; triathlete Manal Rostom in training. These are women doing things many in the western world may have never seen, serving as positive role models for young girls everywhere looking to get into these sports.

“When I am in the water, I feel a sense of freedom and boundlessness,” says Al-Eqabi, who picked up swimming in 2011 after experiencing severe back pain from her prosthetic gait. “Swimming has taught me that if I want to achieve or learn something, nothing can stop me. Don’t let your mindset stand in the way of your goals and aspirations.”

All of the women sport versions of Nike’s Victory Swim Collection, including the full-coverage swimsuit, swim hijabs, tunics and leggings.

The film concludes with the encouraging words of the mother, “You’re doing it,” an homage to Nike’s signature tagline, “Just Do It.” Included is the inspiring campaign tag “You Can’t Stop Us,” which has featured in a LeBron James-narrated spot showing star athletes at their toughest moments, another that compiled still and video footage shot at the homes of athletes in quarantine, and a recent “You Can’t Stop LA” in honor of the Lakers’ recent NBA Finals victory.

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W+K Amsterdam

Managing Director: Blake Harrop

Executive Creative Director: Eric Quennoy, Mark Bernath

Creative Director: Evgeny Primachenko, Craig Williams

Art Director: Zeynep Orbay

Copywriter: Macie Soler-Sala, Jake Barnes, Kervins Chauvet

Head of Broadcast Production: Joe Togneri

Broadcast Producer: Stijn Wikkerink

Group Account Director: Kathryn Addo

Account Director: Franky Wardell

Account Manager: Abderrahim El Khouani, Fulvio Itagiba

Account Executive: Roberta Hilgert

Head of Planning: Martin Weigel

Planning Director: Reid Schilperoort

Head of Comms & Digital Strategy: Danielle Pak

Comms Strategist: Elsa Stahura

Art Producer: Eline de Roo

Studio Director: Lizzie Murray

Studio Print Producer: Loes Poot

Designer: Yaleesa Waëlauruw

Motion Designer: Alex Raybould

Studio Artist: Noa Redero

In-House Editor: Scotti Raz

Business Affairs: Michael Graves, Marie Hernandez

Film Production

Production Company: Rattling Stick

Director: Sara Dunlop

Producer: Tess Mitchell

Director of Photography: André Chemetoff, Mik Allen and Jason Hearn (surfer)

Editing Company: Trim Editing

Editor: Dominic Leung

Audio Post: Grand Central Recording Studios

Sound Designer/Mixer: Raja Sehgal

Music: KOM

Title: Amphitrite’s Theme 


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Kyle O’Brien is a freelance writer based in Jim Thorpe, Pa.

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Otwell Middle School hosts very first show hog, agriculture program continues to grow - Forsyth County News Online

Otwell Middle School welcomed its very first pigs this year in September. The school currently holds three market hogs, Barbie Q, Pluto and Tyrone, using them as contributing factors to the students’ learning. 

The livestock that is kept at the school helps students in projects for the Future Farmers of America club on campus. 

Alyssa Nistal, reporter for FFA and seventh-grade student at Otwell Middle School owns Barbie Q, the first pig brought to the school grounds. She and Barbie have been working hard this year, placing 10th in their first show together.

With the support of her teacher, Sierra Andrews, Nistal was able to work on her Supervised Agricultural Experience project with Barbie after school. The SAE is designed to help students explore all aspects of a career in agriculture, allowing them to consider multiple different careers, learn expected agriculture workplace behavior, and develop specific skills within an industry that they enjoy. 

“Anything that the kids are really interested in, they can focus on that and dive into it and really study it,” Andrews said. “My kids choose what they want to compete in, and then they have to study for it and prepare themselves.”

Barbie and Nistal did just that this year, focusing on creating a bond that would help them compete well together. 

“We have to handle the pig every day,” Nistal said, “by walking with her and getting comfortable handling her in large and small areas.” 

Nistal also detailed that they must practice keeping the pig’s head up while walking, preventing the animal from running away, and maintaining a slow and steady pace, saying this is crucial to performing well during a pig show.

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OPINION: LET’S MEET IN THE MIDDLE - Florida Keys Weekly

Things have gone horribly awry and gotten way out of control. 

What happened to the middle ground, the common ground, a happy medium, empathy and insight? Call them whatever you’d like; they’re gone.

I choose to believe most Americans are basically reasonable people who fall somewhere in the middle between left and right, blue and red.

But extremism at all levels of politics and government is killing this country and threatening our own communities.

Will someone, some actual leader, please step up and meet us in the middle? It’s where most of us are, but you, members of Congress, wouldn’t know that. You’re all too busy hurling insults, laying blame and instilling fear while locked in an unending limbo contest with the other side. How low can you go?

Apparently, there is no bottom.

Each side now exists only to crush the other side, to win at all costs and vilify the opposition. What are you doing for us, the people who hired you, the people who pay for your egregiously generous health insurance packages while many voters go without?

This polarization is pulling us apart. This extremism is killing this country. Well, extremism and online idiots, but that’s a rant for a different day.

Certainly there are vast differences among us, but never have they divided us so viciously.

We all want to feed and enjoy our families, raise our kids, stay healthy, work a job that keeps a roof over our heads and food in our pantry. And we’d like to meet friends and relatives for an occasional cocktail (or nine, here in Key West). 

So why can’t we meet in the middle and find some common ground?

Why can’t I support and appreciate the good cops who serve and protect AND want the bad ones fired and criminally convicted to rot in general population? 

Why can’t I desperately support fair pay for effective teachers AND oppose the protection — and continued paychecks — for poor, or “underperforming” teachers?

I’m sorry, but if my peers and supervisors deemed me an “underperforming editor,” I’m quite certain I’d be an unemployed editor.

Why has everything become so black-or-white, red-or-blue, all-or-nothing, nationally and locally? Where’s the empathy, the tolerance, the willingness to listen to all sides and acknowledge that someone else may bring something to the conversation?

I don’t know what will happen on Election Day, but I hope to God some of the names on the ballot will stop running campaigns and start running this country and this community with intelligence, leadership, insight and empathy.

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NEW QUARANTINE ADVISEMENT FOR COFFENBERRY MIDDLE SCHOOL - kqennewsradio.com

October 30, 2020 4:15 a.m.

There is a new quarantine advisement effecting Coffenberry Middle School in Myrtle Creek.

Superintendent Kate McLaughlin of the South Umpqua School District said following Wednesday’s report that a Coffenberry student had tested positive for COVID-19, the district was initially advised by the Douglas Public Health Network that no students or staff would need to quarantine. McLaughlin said after further investigation and contract tracing, DPHN determined that it is necessary to quarantine the cohort of students and staff who had direct contact with the student who tested positive.

County Public Health Officer Dr. Bob Dannenhoffer said that decision was made after more thorough investigation by the DPHN’s epidemiology team. Dannenhoffer said the health and safety of students and staff is the highest priority. He said due to the protocols in place, the risk of spread at the school is still considered very low.

McLaughlin said while she is disappointed to quarantine the cohort, she is grateful to DPHN “…for their thoroughness and precautions to protect the greater community”. She said all contacts were notified by school staff on Thursday and will receive a follow-up call from DPHN.

In addition, DPHN notified the district that a South Umpqua High School staff member has tested positive for COVID-19. The staff member did not have direct contact with students or teaching staff. DPHN said there is no quarantine required for students or teaching staff in regards to that case.

McLaughlin said the district will keep families and the school community updated with any new information that becomes available.

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Starting Dec. 1, JetBlue will phase out its policy of blocking all middle seats - USA TODAY

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ORLANDO, Fla. – JetBlue is the latest U.S. airline to announce it will stop blocking seats on flights.

The company says it will reduce the number of middle seats it leaves empty starting Dec. 1.

JetBlue officials say the move will help them accommodate families traveling together for the holidays.

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The company said it’s not yet known when flights will return to full capacity.

Airlines have been blocking seats due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Southwest announced last week it will start selling middle seats after Dec. 1.

Caps on seating will be lifted early next year on Delta and Alaska Airlines flights.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 56-year-old man is in critical condition after he was hit by a car on the Arlington Expressway near Seabrook Cove Road.

The crash happened just after 2 a.m. Friday. Crash investigators with Florida Highway Patrol said as a vehicle was traveling westbound and moving into the left lane, the man walked out in front of the car and was hit.

He was rushed to the hospital. The driver of the vehicle was not injured.

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A full decade after he and his film The Social Network were robbed of Oscars, David Fincher is back with another first-rate production that might well reach the heights of recognition his earlier film did not: Mank, a dramedy — shot in the style and performed in the tone of a 1940s movie — about the oft-debated origin story of the 1941 film that most cineastes consider the greatest ever made, Citizen Kane.

Mank, which stars Oscar winner Gary Oldman as title character Herman J. Mankiewicz, the noted screenwriter, wit and drunk who was credited with co-writing Kane, screened for pundits on Thursday night, will receive a limited theatrical release on Nov. 13 and will drop on Netflix on Dec. 4. In this most unusual award season, it could become the first Netflix-distributed film ever awarded the top Oscar.

The streamer, which also has Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 in the mix, is believed to have come very close to a best pic win two years ago for another black-and-white film, Roma, which, being subtitled and starless, was a much tougher sell than a movie about the movies. Indeed, showbiz people love to celebrate showbiz stories, as demonstrated over just the past decade by the Academy's recognition of The Artist, Argo and Birdman, and, to a lesser extent, My Week with Marilyn, Florence Foster Jenkins, La La LandBohemian Rhapsody, A Star Is BornJudy, Marriage Story and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

In the view of this film history obsessive, Mank — which even features a cameo of Oscar itself — is the most historically detailed and accurate movie ever made about old Hollywood. Indeed, it is faithful not only to major historical events like the heated 1934 California gubernatorial race that pitted Republican Frank Merriam against Socialist-turned-Democrat Upton Sinclair and divided Hollywood — and for which, connecting the past to the present, some studio titans created and disseminated "fake news" — but even to minutiae like the Marx brothers grilling hot dogs in Irving Thalberg's office fireplace; Lionel Barrymore defending Louis B. Mayer when the latter asked MGM employees to take a 50 percent salary cut; and the actress Marion Davies, through the good graces of her much older lover, the media magnate William Randolph Hearst, possessing what was essentially the first movie star trailer.

Credit for this apparently goes to Jack Fincher, David's father, who, after a long career as a magazine writer, wrote Mank's screenplay at the urging of and in consultation with his son, and then died in 2003.

He — and/or the director and/or producer Eric Roth, who reportedly polished the long-dormant script — also sprinkle in references that may resonate with those who are intimately familiar with Kane. For instance (minor spoiler alerts), Mankiewicz, a one-time friend of Hearst, starts out at Hearst's massive San Simeon dinner table seated right beside Hearst, but over time winds up further away from him, which is echoed in Kane's breakfast table montage conveying Charles Foster Kane growing apart from his first wife. Mankiewicz's secretary in the desert (played by Lily Collins) is named Mrs. Alexander, which may have inspired the name of Kane's second wife, Susan Alexander. And Welles throws a room-destroying tantrum that offers shades of one that Kane throws in Kane.

But, whether or not Mank is appreciated on that level, it will be for the fascinating performances of its cast — especially Oldman, who appears in virtually every scene of the film — who were tasked with acting as if they, like the people of the era portrayed in the film, had no familiarity with the Method style which was popularized in the Fifties by Marlon Brando and endures to this day.

Some may note that Mankiewicz was 43 at the time depicted in the film, whereas Oldman was 61 when it was shot. But if one knows anything about Mank, it is that he smoked and drank so much that he always looked much older than he was — see this pic of him out in Victorville, Cal., where he was sent by Orson Welles, a "boy wonder" who with Kane was making his film directing debut at just 25, and who initially convinced Mank to ghostwrite the script in the desert, away from booze and distraction (or so Welles thought).

After Oldman's, the next most substantial part belongs to Amanda Seyfried, who plays Davies. The 34-year-old, who has sometimes been dismissed as a pretty but lightweight actress, ironically does her most heavyweight work as Davies, who actually had a lot more depth than the pretty but lightweight actress inspired by her in Kane, Susan Alexander. (Indeed, one of the great mysteries of Kane has always been why Mank, who was close to Davies, a fellow boozer, would do her so dirty.) Seyfried has a real shot at landing the first nom of her career, in the supporting actress category.

As for the rest of the large ensemble, some look more like the people they are portraying (especially Charles Dance as Hearst and Toby Leonard Moore as David O. Selznick) than others (Tom Burke as Welles, Arliss Howard as Mayer and Ferdinand Kingsley as Irving Thalberg), but all are effective (Burke sounds just like Welles and Howard is hilarious defending mothers and crying on a dime as Mayer famously did), if also lacking enough screen time to attract individual recognition.

While the almost certain backing of the Academy's actors branch (its largest), directors branch and writers branch will be a big boon for Mank, the truth is the film is likely to resonate with voters across the board. Additional recognition is likely for rookie Erik Messerschmidt's beautiful black-and-white cinematography; Trish Summerville's lovely period costumes; Donald Graham Burt's production design; Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score; Ren Klyce's sound design, which captures the crackling sound of old movies; Kirk Baxter's stylized film editing; and the list goes on.

Will the film play as well with the general public as with Hollywood insiders? No. But remember, few recent best picture winners did. The Oscars ceremony should not be mistaken for the People's Choice Awards. It is Hollywood's party for itself — and, ironically, Mank will probably do better at it than Kane itself did.

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Area middle schools hope to hit the hardwood - Washington Daily News - thewashingtondailynews.com

The five Beaufort County middle schools should have been close finishing fall sports and preparing for winter tryouts, but nothing is as it should be with COVID-19.

There wasn’t a fall season and while school officials are cautiously optimistic, the girls and boys basketball season is still very much in a holding pattern. To complicate matters, there is no direction from the state athletic association for middle-school sports and not all area schools are in the same conference.

P.S. Jones of Washington competes in the Pitt County Athletic Association along with A.G. Cox (Winterville), E.B. Aycock, Hope and Wellcome of Greenville, and Greene County Middle School in Snow Hill.

Meanwhile, Bath Elementary, Chocowinity Middle, Northeast Elementary and S.W. Snowden School in Aurora compete in the Inner Banks Athletic Conference, along with Bear Grass Charter and St. Peter’s of Greenville.

Without oversight and guidance from an association, it’s up to the conference athletic directors and principals to figure out the best plan for the basketball season.

“I can’t imagine we would try to play sports until the kids physically return to school four or five days a week,” Bath Elementary principal Charles Clark said. “Unlike the high schools’ situation where some of the students drive, ours have to rely on their parents for transportation. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, for working parents to leave their job to drive their son or daughter to practice for two hours, then come back and pick them up.”

Currently all Beaufort County Schools students have the option of attending school in person two days a week, while some have opted to stay virtual for the rest of the semester. School officials are basing their plans for second semester on students being back in school full-time, or close to it.

“Our plan is in place, but we are monitoring how the high schools handle their return to sports in November and what the governor’s orders allow us to do,” P.S. Jones Athletic Director Tim Cashion said. “We would like to start tryouts in early January right after we get back from Christmas break and start the season at the end of the month.”

Cashion said there won’t be any wrestling this winter because of COVID-19, and the spring sports including baseball, soccer and softball would start the day after basketball season ends in early March. The PCAC is not having a spring track season because the condensed high school season keeps the tracks booked solid. Cashion said the basketball season will consist of 10 conference-only games instead of the usual 16.

“We know the kids are anxious, and we’ve had plenty of inquiries,” he said. “A shorter season is better than no season, and we are hoping it will work out. We really don’t know what’s going to happen at this point.”

The Inner Banks Conference plan is similar, but different. Chocowinity Middle School Athletic Director Alan Swain said member schools were ready to hold tryouts in mid-November with games starting in early December and ending in early February. That was based on students returning to school sooner rather than later, which looks unlikely now. The league was also trying to squeeze in a shortened volleyball season.

“We still have some flexibility because we planned to start earlier,” Swain said. “It’s a lot easier to condense a schedule than it is to expand. We are doing everything we can to play because the kids need an outlet. We are hopeful, but also in a holding pattern right now.”

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