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Trump promises, again, to release the last JFK files. Here’s what experts sayInvestment analysts at StockNews.com initiated coverage on shares of Broadway Financial ( NASDAQ:BYFC – Get Free Report ) in a research note issued on Saturday. The firm set a “sell” rating on the savings and loans company’s stock. Broadway Financial Stock Down 1.0 % Shares of NASDAQ:BYFC opened at $7.02 on Friday. Broadway Financial has a 12-month low of $4.41 and a 12-month high of $7.99. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $6.73 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $5.89. The company has a current ratio of 1.38, a quick ratio of 0.14 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.26. The stock has a market capitalization of $64.11 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of 24.21 and a beta of 0.71. Broadway Financial ( NASDAQ:BYFC – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 29th. The savings and loans company reported ($0.03) earnings per share for the quarter. Broadway Financial had a return on equity of 2.43% and a net margin of 5.01%. The business had revenue of $8.75 million during the quarter. Institutional Inflows and Outflows Broadway Financial Company Profile ( Get Free Report ) Broadway Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for City First Bank, National Association that provides various banking products and services in the United States. It accepts various deposit accounts, including savings accounts, checking accounts, interest checking accounts, money market accounts, and fixed-term certificates of deposit. See Also Receive News & Ratings for Broadway Financial Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Broadway Financial and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Quebec Premier François Legault says he’s looking at ways to end prayer in public places, including parks, as his government promises to table new legislation to strengthen secularism in schools. Legault made the comments during a press conference in Quebec City on Friday to mark the end of the fall legislative session. He said he wants to send a “very clear message to Islamists” that Quebec will fight against any disrespect of its fundamental values, including secularism. The premier said that recent reports of teachers allowing prayers in classrooms and preventing girls from playing sports, which have triggered an outcry in Quebec, are “totally unacceptable.” “There are teachers who are bringing Islamist religious concepts into Quebec schools,” he said. “I will definitely not tolerate that. We don’t want that in Quebec.” Legault then went a step further when asked by a reporter if he was also bothered by prayer in public places. “Seeing people on their knees in the streets, praying, I think we have to ask ourselves the question. I don’t think it’s something we should see,” he said, adding that his government is considering whether it can legislate on the issue. He went on to say he doesn’t want to see people praying “in public parks or public streets.” When questioned about the constitutionality of banning public prayer, he said the government is “looking at all possibilities, including the use of the notwithstanding clause,” which allows governments to override certain sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Images of Muslims praying in Montreal have sparked controversy in recent months, including when a group gathered in a city park to celebrate Eid al-Adha last June, prompting the borough mayor to muse about banning all religious events in public parks. In a statement, the Canadian Muslim Forum said Legault’s comments suggest that some politicians view Muslims as second-class citizens. “These remarks add to a pattern of political rhetoric that unfairly targets Quebecers, especially those of Muslim faith, based solely on their backgrounds,” the statement reads. Legault’s comments come as the province grapples with a series of reports about Muslim religious practices appearing in some of the province’s public schools. On Friday, Education Minister Bernard Drainville declared the government will introduce a new bill aimed at reinforcing secularism in Quebec schools. The announcement followed a Friday report in La Presse that documented students at a high school in Laval, north of Montreal, praying in classrooms and hallways and disrupting a play focused on sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy prevention. Drainville told reporters in Quebec City that the behaviour does not represent “our Quebec” and is “completely intolerable and unacceptable.” “These acts of a religious nature clearly contravene secularism obligations,” he said in a social media statement. “One can easily imagine the psychological impact that some of these behaviours may have had on students.” The news story is the latest in a growing number of incidents reported at Quebec schools involving Muslim teachers and students. The wave of allegations was sparked by a government investigation, made public in October, that found a toxic climate at a Montreal elementary school. The report found that a group of teachers at Bedford school, mostly of North African descent, yelled at and humiliated students. Some teachers didn’t believe in learning disabilities and attributed students’ difficulties to laziness. Subjects like science and sex education were either ignored or barely taught, and girls were prevented from playing soccer. Eleven teachers have since been suspended from the school. The government is now looking into 17 schools it believes may have breached the province’s secularism law. The report on those schools is expected in January, but Drainville says he can already confirm that the government is going to act. Quebec used the notwithstanding clause to shield the province’s controversial secularism law, Bill 21, from constitutional challenges. That law prevents certain public sector workers, including teachers and police officers, from wearing religious symbols on the job. The government also invoked the clause to protect its contentious language law, Bill 96. On Friday, Legault said the protection of Quebec’s identity has been one of his top priorities over the last year and repeated his claims that temporary immigration is threatening the French language in Montreal. He also reiterated that he’s “open” to the idea of a Quebec constitution, following a recent recommendation from a committee tasked with coming up with ways to boost Quebec’s autonomy. He said a constitution could enshrine Quebec’s values, including secularism and equality between men and women.Tea was due on day two of the Boxing Day Test and the contest was at an absorbing pass. Australia spent the first half of the day making hay while the sun shone from a cloudless sky. On a pitch that had quickened up to a nicety overnight, there was plenty to make. Pat Cummins of Australia celebrates the wicket of KL Rahul of India Credit: Getty Images Steve Smith wound back the years as he wound up his arms, scattering the ball to all parts. He does not so much hook sixes as cast them over fine leg like a fly fisherman. This was his fifth MCG hundred; he loves the place like he loves his mum and his bat in no particular order. Pat Cummins, playing a mix of conventional and Konstas cricket, had matched him blow for robust blow in a century stand that gave Australia the running in this match. Cummins in such a vein divides sentiment, between appreciation for what he can do and mystification about why hasn’t done it more often. But he doesn’t often get this batting conditions as blissful as this. He reaped. Click here to read the story. Australian star Steve Smith has admitted he reflected on critics questioning whether his eyes and reflexes were fading by stepping forward and moving closer to the bowler. He believed batting out of his crease takes the game to the bowler but also makes it harder for him to be trapped lbw. “You’ve got to have faith, I was hitting the ball really nicely and people were saying “Is he too old? Are his eyes going?” So I thought I would go out of my crease and make my impact point closer to the bowler, so it all comes a bit quicker,” Smith told Fox Sports this morning. “I think my eyes are still there which is nice. For me, it is about keeping the faith and knowing that I’m hitting the ball well. There is a difference between being out of form and out of runs - I was just out of runs and I’ve played long enough to know that things can turn around quickly.” There could be a hint of rain later today but, otherwise, looks to be a brilliant day for cricket. Ricky Ponting has had this to say on Seven about Virat Kohli turning back to address hecklers after his dismissal at the MCG on day two. Click here to read more about Kohli’s struggles. Virat Kohli came close to an angry confrontation with the crowd after he was involved in a calamitous run out in which veteran spinner Nathan Lyon later pinned him as the guilty party. Kohli was almost out of sight from the crowd in the players’ race after his dismissal before he returned to glare at hecklers. An ICC official then placed a consolatory arm around his shoulder and shepherded him down the race. It is not clear from the video of the incident that surfaced on social media on Friday night what sparked Kohli’s backturn, and though boos were clearly audible, no racial or personal abuse could be heard. Cricket Australia and the Melbourne Cricket Club had not received a complaint from the Board of Control for Cricket in India at the time of publication. The BCCI have been contacted for comment. Click here to read the story. G’day everyone. I’m Roy Ward and welcome to our Boxing Day Test live blog. We are at day three of this match and it really feels like both this match and this series are both on the line today as Australia tries to bowl out India and the tourists aim for a mid-innings recovery after falling to 5-164 at stumps yesterday. India trails by 310 runs and have the dangerous Rishbah Pant and Ravindra Jadeja at the crease, both are capable of posting big scores. Scott Boland, Pat Cummins and the rest of the Australian attack will aim to break this partnership up early and then power through the tail. Play begins at 10.30am AEDT. Enjoy the hours to come.

On October 27th of 2020, the China Society of Automotive Engineers laid out a roadmap for how the country was going to achieve 50% of all cars sold in 2035 being fully electric, plug-in hybrid, or hydrogen, with 95% of them of course being fully electric. Per projections from HSBC, UBS, Morningstar, and Wood Mackenzie, that’s actually going to happen in 2025, a full decade early, with of course hydrogen cars at perhaps 0.02%, approaching zero. Meanwhile, the nuclear capacity target for 2020 was 58 GW and the country is currently sitting at 56.9 GW per the World Nuclear Association . One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is not the same. As I gear up for my now annual comparison of the pace of renewables in China vs. the pace of nuclear, something I’ve been publishing on since 2014 and which was included in the best-selling business book How Big Things Get Done by authors Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Garder in 2023 because it was so resonant with their “What’s Your Lego?” chapter, news of the EV target being crushed caused me to do a check on its nuclear progress. This is par for the course for China’s real decarbonization efforts, as the country surpassed its 2020 renewable energy targets while not meeting its nuclear targets. The nation’s wind energy capacity reached 281 GW, far exceeding the target of 210 GW. Solar power saw even more dramatic growth, with installed capacity soaring to 253 GW, well above the 105 GW goal. Hydropower, a long-standing pillar of China’s renewable energy strategy, also surpassed expectations, achieving approximately 370 GW compared to the target of 350 GW. China’s 2025 targets include generating 33% of its electricity from renewables, ensuring renewables accounted for over half of its total installed power capacity, and achieving 3.3 trillion kWh of annual power generation from renewable sources. China is ahead of schedule here as well, with renewable energy installations already surpassing the 2025 target, comprising 53.8% of the nation’s total installed capacity as of mid-2024. Renewable electricity generation is also on track to meet the 33% target. As of November 2024, China has had wind power installations totaling 490 GW, marking a 19.2% increase year on year. Solar capacity surged to 820 GW, reflecting a 46.7% rise over the previous year. And hydropower remains a significant component of the energy mix at 426 GW. Meanwhile, China’s 2025 target of 70 GW of nuclear capacity is clearly not going to be achieved. As I wrote earlier this year, in “ China Still Hasn’t Learned Nuclear Scaling Lesson With New Approvals ,” the plan, which I don’t believe is credible, aims to add 5.1 GW of capacity in 2025, so the nuclear program will only be five years behind, not further. But that only brings the total over 60 GW, not to 70 GW. As I engage with people globally, China’s nuclear program frequently comes up, as it did in Michael Liebreich’s redux conversation with Amory Lovin, just republished in his Cleaning Up podcast and worth listening to. People keep pointing to it as the reason why nuclear is the answer to climate change, yet the reality is that even China can’t build it to targets or schedule. This is the country which has built around 500 cities, 177,000 kilometers of highways, 46,000 kilometers of high-speed electrified passenger and freight rail, 426 GW of hydroelectric capacity, 65 GW of pumped hydro, and dozens of the biggest ports in the world, all since 1980. This is a country which knows how big things get done, and even it can’t get nuclear done. This is a country which has consistently been underpromising and overdelivering in area after area. This is a country which now has more materials scientists, power engineers, nuclear engineers, and civil engineers than the rest of the world combined, which has strong governmental and industry support for BIM and structural analysis and design software adoption and use, which has built more nuclear reactors in the last 25 years than the rest of the world combined, and it still can’t get its nuclear program to deliver against targets. China didn’t adjust its 2025 nuclear target downward after falling far short of its 2020 targets. It’s not like the industry and program haven’t known what the 2025 target was for more than a decade. It’s not like the nuclear industry was uniquely hit by COVID-19. It’s not like the nuclear program hasn’t been a national strategic priority supported at the highest levels for decades. The nuclear program and industry simply can’t deliver, even in China with far more of the conditions of success than any other country in the world. As a reminder, the conditions for success are pretty well known from observation of what’s worked in the past. Where nuclear programs have achieved reasonable success, like the USA, France, and the UK in the second half of the 20th century, they were national strategic programs aligned with a need for nuclear weapons, under national control — not provincial, state, and or utility — with a national human resources program to build the nuclear engineering competency and maintain it for decades. They deployed one or two usually closely related designs of big reactors, GW scale. They built dozens of them to enable the lessons learned from each to inform the others. They did it quickly, in 20 to 30 years, not spread over sixty years, to enable the human resources with experience to be leveraged before retirement, something that’s going to be impacting China’s nuclear program now of course. And no local innovation is permitted. Improving stuff, which engineers love to do, is the kiss of death for nuclear economics. This keeps being proven, and the west keeps forgetting it. China too, as it’s building a lot of designs of a lot of nuclear technologies because its export strategy has trumped its electrical generation strategy. That’s the one condition of success it failed to create. Even China couldn’t create all the conditions for success, and that’s proven by them consistently failing to meet remarkably small targets. Remember, the target for EVs was 50% of all sales, while the target for nuclear was about 2% of electrical generation capacity. The target for renewables was 50% of all capacity, while the target for nuclear was 2% of capacity. China is currently at 3,230 GW of generating capacity. Its current nuclear capacity is about 1.76% of that. And yes, for the nuclear diehards in the crowd, nuclear’s capacity factor is higher, especially China’s, as the plants are much newer than the world average. But it really doesn’t matter when the total capacity is 1.76% of total capacity, it’s building nuclear so slowly, and it’s adding 300 GW of renewables capacity every year. At the end of 2025, nuclear is going to have an even lower percentage of capacity and also likely a lower percentage of electrical generation as China’s electrical demand continues to soar, following a trajectory much steeper than the west’s. China’s nuclear energy is a rounding error. While China is smashing other targets, in the case of EVs by a decade and in the case of renewables by years, it still hasn’t met 2020 targets for nuclear. China’s target for nuclear for 2030 is 120 to 150 GW. However, China’s current reactors in construction and in planning through 2030 only bring the total up to about 88 GW. They aren’t capable of scaling nuclear construction to anywhere near what the target was, and as I noted, I don’t believe the nuclear construction plan for the next five years is remotely credible. The people and organizations promoting nuclear as even a tiny part of the solution to climate change really need to accept the reality that if China can’t get it right, the odds of any other country or bloc getting it right in the 21st century approaches zero. Certainly the small modular nuclear reactor crowd have shown that they didn’t even understand the conditions for success, as they are intentionally violating virtually all of them. This is why I say that a lot of conservative politicians love promising nuclear energy as a solution to climate change. It means that they don’t have to do anything in reality, they please the nuclear fanbois in their constituencies, and they appear to be taking climate change seriously. What it really means is delaying real climate action, which many of them think is exactly the right thing to do, as their fossil fuel donors and lobbyists are making sure it’s in their personal best interest to keep burning the stuff. China’s emissions are going to plummet in coming years, in part because they are reaching the end of their massive infrastructure buildout and will be turning off the coal-powered cement and steel plants that provided the necessary construction material for it, in part because they have built and are building more renewables at an extraordinary pace, and in part because they have aggressively electrified every segment of their economy, which will persist. It’s a simple recipe for an economy, and yet the west is making cupcakes instead. 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Carson Beck completed 20 of 31 passes for 297 yards and four touchdowns as No. 10 Georgia pummeled UMass 59-21 on Saturday in Athens, Ga. Nate Frazier ran for career highs of 136 yards and three touchdowns, while Arian Smith caught three passes for 110 yards and a score as the Bulldogs (9-2) won their second straight game and 30th straight at home, dating back to 2019. AJ Hairston completed 7 of 16 passes for 121 yards and a score for the Minutemen (2-9), who dropped their third straight. Jalen John ran for 107 yards and a score and Jakobie Keeney-James caught three passes for 101 yards and a touchdown. Peyton Woodring kicked a 53-yard field goal to extend Georgia's lead to 31-14 on the first drive of the third quarter. But UMass wasted little time responding, as Hairston hit Keeney-James for a 75-yard touchdown to get the deficit down to 10. Georgia then finished its sixth straight drive with a score, as Frazier's 9-yard run up the middle gave the Bulldogs a 38-21 lead at the 8:44 mark of the third quarter. After UMass punted, Georgia played add-on in its next possession, with Frazier scoring from 15 yards out with 1:39 left in the third to lead 45-21. Frazier stamped his career day with his third touchdown run, a 2-yarder with 6:33 left, before Georgia capped the scoring with Chris Cole's 28-yard fumble return with 3:28 remaining. UMass took the game's opening drive 75 yards down the field -- aided by Ahmad Haston's 38-yard run -- and scored on CJ Hester's 1-yard run with 9:15 left. Georgia answered on its ensuing drive, as Beck's 17-yard passing touchdown to Oscar Delp tied the game at the 5:05 mark of the first quarter. Following a short punt by UMass, Beck connected with Smith for 49 yards, and a roughing-the-passer penalty put the ball at Minutemen's 14-yard line. Facing a fourth-and-4 from the 8-yard line, Beck found Cash Jones for a touchdown to take a 14-7 lead with 10:30 left in the second quarter. On UMass' next play from scrimmage, Raylen Wilson recovered John's fumble on the Minutemen's 28-yard line. Three plays later, Beck connected with Dominic Lovett for a 15-yard touchdown with 8:56 remaining. UMass then scored after a 14-play, 75-yard drive, finished off with John's 3-yard rushing score with 1:55 left in the first half. Georgia answered quickly, as Beck's 20-yard pass to Cole Speer set up a 34-yard touchdown pass to Smith with 43 seconds remaining, giving the Bulldogs a 28-14 halftime lead. --Field Level MediaThese fast food brands don’t use ‘real eggs’ in their breakfasts, report says

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