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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In Amanda and Mark Searle's backyard, the chickens do a lot of the work.
The hens eat most of the insects that venture onto the property and along with the three goats, they keep the grass trimmed and thriving.
The animals also provide food for the couple. The chickens lay about eight eggs each day. The goats produce milk, which Amanda Searle also uses to make cheese.
The Searles are one of a number of families in the Springfield area of Jacksonville that have created their own urban oasis by running a small farm literally in their own backyard.
"More and more people are just concerned with rising food costs [and] what's in their food, " explained Amanda Searle. "The eggs and the milk that you get are way more nutritious than anything you get from an Agra-business or something from the grocery store. So, it has to do with health and nutrition too."
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ government oversight committee voted Thursday to issue a subpoena compelling a reluctant UC Berkeley structural engineering professor to explain how he vouched for the foundation of the now sinking Millennium Tower.
Moehle had served as a city peer review adviser on the Millennium project. He also served as a peer review adviser on another tower project that was ultimately abandoned, after experts warned it could sink dramatically.
Moehle has not returned calls seeking comment on the new developments, but earlier told NBC Bay Area that he was surprised there was no geotechnical review of the project.
Moehle’s colleague on the peer review process wrote a letter in 2006 in which he stressed that no one asked him or Moehle to account for the Transbay transit project slated to be built next door to the Millennium.
It is that project that Millennium blames for destabilizing its foundation. A foundation that is not tied to bedrock.
In an email Moehle sent to Peskin on Wednesday, the professor wrote that he was sorry he had not been able to attend earlier hearings on the Millennium project.
“Certain contractual matters have restrained me in that regard,” Moehle told Peskin, but he did not elaborate.
Moehle had been one of two structural engineers who reviewed the structural aspects of the foundation of the 58-story building, which is now sinking and tilting. No expert reviewed the findings of the geotechnical engineers for the project.
Peskin had strong support from two colleagues on the panel.
“I think the public deserves to know what the heck happened,” Supervisor Norman Yee said in support of the subpoena action.
That may be a challenge.
Moehle told Peskin that he will testify if commanded to do so, but he will be unavailable for nearly all of next month as he will be attending a seismic conference in Chile. That gathering is slated for Jan 9-13.
Baghdad: Iraq’s president has rushed to the northern city of Mosul and is holding meetings with security officials there over the sinking of a ferry in the Tigris River that killed 94 people.
President Barham Saleh’s visit came as search teams were trying to find more bodies after the ferry, overloaded with holidaymakers celebrating both Nowruz, the Persian New Year, and also Mother’s Day, capsized near the city with dozens on board, including families with children.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi ordered an investigation and briefly visited Mosul, where he declared three days of national mourning.
Ryan J. Foley, come on down! I have no idea what this, in your piece about Herman Cain’s star player status in the Americans for Prosperity network, is supposed to mean.
His links to the Koch brothers could undercut his outsider, non-political image among tea party fans who detest politics as usual and candidates connected with the party machine.
Let’s break down the problems with this.
1) “Tea Party fans” are also fans of Americans for Prosperity – and fans of the Kochs. I’ve been in the ballrooms as AFP activists cheered David Koch as he talked about his role in the movement and attacked the media for writing about him. AFP was a co-sponsor of the last Tea Party Express tour, too.
2) AFP is not “the party machine.” It’s found a role as an outside, organizing force that baptises Republican politicians with cred, gives them ideas, and organizes rallies for them to meet the people at. Later in the piece, Foley points out that Cain will eschew an Iowa GOP event to be with AFP in Washington, which is just more evidence that AFP maintains a useful distance from GOP politics.
We're in a golden age of television, and film techniques have reached incredible new heights in visual effects and grandeur. TV technology has followed suit, but even the best TVs are still lacking in color, which is why the DreamScreen was created. This kit makes your favorite shows and movies brighter, bigger, and easier on the eyes through a backlighting system and audio visualizers that sync with your sound system. The LED backlighting interacts with your TV's color pixels at a responsive rate of 60 frames per second, creating an immersive experience that softens the picture and enlarges the screen. Right now, you can pick up a complete DreamScreen kit for $154.99.
As surveillance over executive compensation escalates, Bloomberg reported that Six Flags Entertainment Corp (NYSE: SIX) and Tempur Sealy International Inc (NYSE: TPX) have "awarded millions of dollars in stock to top bosses and given the equity a unique value: zero."
In order to have access to that figure, these companies "set performance targets they said were unlikely to be met," Bloomberg added.
"It's very unusual for a compensation committee to grant a performance award that really has no hope of being earned," said John Roe, a managing director at a unit of proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., told Bloomberg.
"Even if the award likely won't be earned, 'that's not the same as it having a zero value at the date of grant,'" Bloomberg quoted Roe as saying.
According to U.S. accounting rules, the probability of equity to "vest" should determine performance-based equity, "not a single company in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index that's disclosed pay for 2015 awarded zero-value stock that year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg."
According to Bloomberg, Six Flags and Tempur Sealy were able to do this likely because of their largest investor, hedge fund H Partners Management.
The report said, "As H Partners amassed stakes in amusement park operator Six Flags and Tempur Sealy [...] and took seats on their boards, the companies adopted new pay-for-performance goals."
Bloomberg continued, "The shares set aside for Reid-Anderson and five other top managers would vest only if the company reached $330 million in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for 2011 — 12 percent above the 2010 result."
Six Flags, reaching $350 million of EBITDA in 2011, exceeded the target. This resulted in "the six executives received shares worth $49.6 million on the day they paid out, according to regulatory filings." Furthermore, Reid-Anderson received $34.5 million of the $49.6 million.
Meanwhile, the hedge fund began buying shares of Tempur Sealy in 2012; it now owns 11 percent of the company.
"Shortly after the board shake-up, at least five senior executives, including new CEO Scott Thompson, were granted stock tied to posting $650 million in adjusted EBITDA in 2017, a 43 percent increase from 2015. The shares were worth $81 million on the day they were granted but were listed without a value in the summary compensation table since the goal was considered 'not probable.'"
Bloomberg noted, "If Tempur Sealy had assigned a value to the grant and included it in its 2015 compensation table, Thompson's reported pay could have been as much as $68 million. That's almost triple the $23.3 million that was shown in the table."
Shares of Six Flags closed Tuesday's regular trading session at $56.42 and Tempur Sealy closed at $59.25.
Andrew Beckwith matched his career high with seven strikeouts, Zach Remillard doubled and tripled in runs, and Coastal Carolina upset No. 1 national seed Florida 2-1 in the program's first College World Series game.
OMAHA, Neb. - No. 1 seed Florida sent to the mound two first-round picks, a second-rounder, third-rounder and 10th-rounder against Coastal Carolina on Sunday night.
None was nearly as good as the never-drafted Andrew Beckwith.
Confounding the Gators with his submarine, sidearm and overhand deliveries and even a curveball he said he found in his “back pocket” in pregame warmups, Beckwith was the shiniest of all the stars at TD Ameritrade Park in the Chanticleers’ 2-1 victory — their program’s first College World Series game.
“Everything was working tonight,” Beckwith said.
The biggest victory in Coastal Carolina’s history came in the third stage of its incredible postseason run. The Chanticleers beat host North Carolina State in the regional final and swept No. 8 national seed LSU on the road in super regionals to advance to Omaha.
The Chanticleers (50-16) have won 39 of their last 47 games and show no signs of slowing down.
“We’re going to go out there and give it all we have and not worry about who is on the other side, whether they’re more talented than us or not,” said Zach Remillard, who doubled and tripled in the Chanticleers’ runs.
The Gators (52-15) came to Omaha favored to win their program’s first national title. Now they’re in survival mode. A No. 1 national seed hasn’t won the championship since Miami in 1999, the first year of the current tournament format.
Beckwith pitched the first complete game of his career, and needed only 98 pitches to do it.
“The Gators’ only run off Beckwith (13-1) came on Jeremy Vasquez’s pinch single in the fifth. Beckwith allowed two singles the rest of the way and retired the last 10 batters in the first complete game of his career.
He set down the Gators’ 3-4-5 batters in the bottom of the ninth. Peter Alonso popped out and JJ Schwarz grounded out. That prompted the Chanticleers’ fans to start chanting “C-C-U! C-C-U!” and “Let’s go Coastal!” before Mike Rivera grounded out, with shortstop Michael Paez double-pumping on his throw to first.
The Chanticleers got to Florida starter Logan Shore (12-1) for five hits — two triples and three doubles. The Oakland Athletics’ second-round draft pick left with none out in the sixth after Remillard’s RBI triple past Buddy Reed in left center put the Chanticleers up 2-1.
Coastal Carolina opened the scoring in the third inning after a video review overturned a foul-ball call. With runners on first and second, Remillard launched a fly down the right-field line. First-base umpire Jeff Doy ruled the ball foul, but video showed the ball landed on the line. After umpires conferred for just over 4 minutes, they directed Anthony Marks to score from second and Connor Owings to go from first to third and Remillard to go to second.
Beckwith’s previous long outing was 8 1/3 innings against Texas Southern on May 30, 2015. His 98 pitches were the fewest by any CWS pitcher to throw nine innings or more since 1981.
Coastal Carolina will play TCU in a Bracket 2 winners’ game Tuesday night. The Gators play an elimination game against Texas Tech that afternoon.
Jackson State offensive coordinator Hal Mumme resigned Wednesday.
A source close to Jackson State football told the Clarion-Ledger that offensive coordinator Hal Mummestepped down Wednesday.
"I would like to thank Hal Mumme for his contributions to the Jackson State football program," head coach Tony Hughes said in a press release. "We wish Hal nothing but success going forward."
Receivers coach Derrick McCall will serve as interim offensive coordinator. A former JSU quarterback, McCall has been on the JSU coaching staff for eight years and served as OC in the 2012-2013 season, when his spread offense averaged more than 400 yards a game.
"Derrick McCall is an experienced play-caller," Hughes said. "He has a great offensive mind and I'm excited to see our offense continue to grow under his guidance."
Before accepting the position at JSU last December, Mumme served as the head coach at Belhaven, where he led the team to 2-8 records in each of the last three seasons.
Hailed as an air raid specialist, Mumme's offense at Belhaven averaged 55.8 pass attempts per contest and rolled up 445.3 yards of total offense a game.
Under Mumme, Jackson State's (1- 2, 0-1 SWAC) offense has not scored 20 points in a game this season.
Hal Mumme could not be immediately reached for comment.
Updated at 11:02 a.m. Nov. 6: This story will be updated as new ads are released.
WASHINGTON — In a hard-fought, high-stakes race, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Beto O’Rourke need to reach as many Texans as possible. Ads on TV, radio and online are among the main tools.
Some of their ads are upbeat, optimistic and biographical. Others have a sharper edge. Some are entirely accurate. Others, not so much.
With the election winding down, both candidates released their final ads.
O'Rourke released his on Sunday, returning to his upbeat messaging. The 30 second ad has Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" playing as the congressman speaks and shows scenes from the campaign trail.
"We are meeting the divisiveness that dominates politics today with a courage, strength, a big heart that could only come from Texas," O'Rourke said.
Cruz has released a string of longer digital ads over the past week during his bus tour across Texas. His last TV ad was released at the end of October. The spot, "Listens," has a narrator discussing some of the important issues to Texans such as a secure border and Washington leaving them alone.
"Texas needs Sen. Cruz because Sen. Cruz knows who we are," the narrator says.
Cruz is not letting up on O'Rourke's vote for a $10 tax on every barrel of oil produced in Texas.
The one-minute digital ad, "Facts are Stubborn Things," is a clip from the second debate. Cruz brings up the vote, and O'Rourke flips the discussion to be about Cruz's honesty.
"Sen. Cruz is not going to be honest with you," O'Rourke said. "He's going to make up positions and votes I've ever or have ever taken."
The ad ends with text on the screen of the congressman's vote in 2016.
Amidst the barrage of attacks from Cruz, O'Rourke has worked to maintain a positive message during the campaign. But he was on offense Tuesday night during their second debate and kept up the messaging Wednesday with three new TV ads.
In all three, O'Rourke speaks directly into the camera and tells viewers where his opponent stands on immigration, health care and education. The Democrat says members of Congress are ready to work on the issue of immigration, except Cruz.
"He has vowed to deport every single Dreamer," O'Rourke says. "He is selling fear and paranoia instead of solutions."
The second ad focuses on health care, citing how Cruz has fought to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
"He shut down the government for 16 days because he thought too many many people had too much health care," O'Rourke says.
The third ad highlights Cruz's support of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos, a proponent of using tax dollars to fund private-school vouchers, and stresses how Texas teachers are underpaid.
Cruz’s Spanish-language digital ad focuses on his family’s story and what he has done for Texas. The senator allows his father, Rafael Cruz, to tell his story.
"Our family has lived the American Dream, and like our Senator, Ted Cruz will continue to defend him, as he has for the past six years," his father says in Spanish.
O’Rourke struggled in the primary with Hispanic voters but has a 61-37 lead among this demographic, according to the newest Quinnipiac University Poll.
However, Cruz has touted many times that Hispanics in Texas are more conservative than Hispanic voters in other states.
Cruz attacked O'Rourke during the first debate for calling police the “modern-day Jim Crow.” Now the senator is using that line again for his new TV ad.
The ad splices a clip from an O’Rourke town hall and relies on a Fox Interview with Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphree.
As your U.S. Senator, I've been proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the men and women of law enforcement.
The nearly four-minute spot is a biographical account from 12 sheriffs across the state telling voters what they admire about the senator.
The ad starts off with sheriffs from counties impacted by Hurricane Harvey saying how much they appreciate the senator's response and continuing to help where he can.
But most of the ad focuses on sheriffs talking about needing a secure border and stopping illegal immigration, a topic Cruz and super PACs have relied on before.
"An outstanding senator for Texas."
"A man of his word."
"The type of person you want to rely on."
It was a wild week in Washington with another hearing and votes regarding Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The wild week carried over into the second Senate debate that was scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 30 in Houston.
On Friday, the University of Houston announced the debate was off when it looked like Cruz would be in Washington for votes related to Kavanaugh. Once votes were delayed and Cruz could return to Texas, Cruz aides tried to bring the debate back. However, O'Rourke's team said the congressman was booked and couldn't make it.
Instead of debating on Sunday, O'Rourke took to Facebook Live to record a TV ad in real time to combat all the negative ads against him.
After Cruz attacked his opponent over immigration, the national anthem protest and being "too reckless" for Texas, the Republican has found a new problem with O'Rourke.
The narrator in the spot says O'Rourke supported a $10 tax on every barrel produced in Texas and voted against fracking and natural gas exports.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In Amanda and Mark Searle's backyard, the chickens do a lot of the work.

The hens eat most of the insects that venture onto the property and along with the three goats, they keep the grass trimmed and thriving.

The animals also provide food for the couple. The chickens lay about eight eggs each day. The goats produce milk, which Amanda Searle also uses to make cheese.

The Searles are one of a number of families in the Springfield area of Jacksonville that have created their own urban oasis by running a small farm literally in their own backyard.

"More and more people are just concerned with rising food costs [and] what's in their food, " explained Amanda Searle. "The eggs and the milk that you get are way more nutritious than anything you get from an Agra-business or something from the grocery store. So, it has to do with health and nutrition too."

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ government oversight committee voted Thursday to issue a subpoena compelling a reluctant UC Berkeley structural engineering professor to explain how he vouched for the foundation of the now sinking Millennium Tower.

Moehle had served as a city peer review adviser on the Millennium project. He also served as a peer review adviser on another tower project that was ultimately abandoned, after experts warned it could sink dramatically.

Moehle has not returned calls seeking comment on the new developments, but earlier told NBC Bay Area that he was surprised there was no geotechnical review of the project.

Moehle’s colleague on the peer review process wrote a letter in 2006 in which he stressed that no one asked him or Moehle to account for the Transbay transit project slated to be built next door to the Millennium.

It is that project that Millennium blames for destabilizing its foundation. A foundation that is not tied to bedrock.

In an email Moehle sent to Peskin on Wednesday, the professor wrote that he was sorry he had not been able to attend earlier hearings on the Millennium project.

“Certain contractual matters have restrained me in that regard,” Moehle told Peskin, but he did not elaborate.

Moehle had been one of two structural engineers who reviewed the structural aspects of the foundation of the 58-story building, which is now sinking and tilting. No expert reviewed the findings of the geotechnical engineers for the project.

Peskin had strong support from two colleagues on the panel.

“I think the public deserves to know what the heck happened,” Supervisor Norman Yee said in support of the subpoena action.

That may be a challenge.

Moehle told Peskin that he will testify if commanded to do so, but he will be unavailable for nearly all of next month as he will be attending a seismic conference in Chile. That gathering is slated for Jan 9-13.

Baghdad: Iraq’s president has rushed to the northern city of Mosul and is holding meetings with security officials there over the sinking of a ferry in the Tigris River that killed 94 people.

President Barham Saleh’s visit came as search teams were trying to find more bodies after the ferry, overloaded with holidaymakers celebrating both Nowruz, the Persian New Year, and also Mother’s Day, capsized near the city with dozens on board, including families with children.

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi ordered an investigation and briefly visited Mosul, where he declared three days of national mourning.

Ryan J. Foley, come on down! I have no idea what this, in your piece about Herman Cain’s star player status in the Americans for Prosperity network, is supposed to mean.

His links to the Koch brothers could undercut his outsider, non-political image among tea party fans who detest politics as usual and candidates connected with the party machine.

Let’s break down the problems with this.

1) “Tea Party fans” are also fans of Americans for Prosperity – and fans of the Kochs. I’ve been in the ballrooms as AFP activists cheered David Koch as he talked about his role in the movement and attacked the media for writing about him. AFP was a co-sponsor of the last Tea Party Express tour, too.

2) AFP is not “the party machine.” It’s found a role as an outside, organizing force that baptises Republican politicians with cred, gives them ideas, and organizes rallies for them to meet the people at. Later in the piece, Foley points out that Cain will eschew an Iowa GOP event to be with AFP in Washington, which is just more evidence that AFP maintains a useful distance from GOP politics.

We're in a golden age of television, and film techniques have reached incredible new heights in visual effects and grandeur. TV technology has followed suit, but even the best TVs are still lacking in color, which is why the DreamScreen was created. This kit makes your favorite shows and movies brighter, bigger, and easier on the eyes through a backlighting system and audio visualizers that sync with your sound system. The LED backlighting interacts with your TV's color pixels at a responsive rate of 60 frames per second, creating an immersive experience that softens the picture and enlarges the screen. Right now, you can pick up a complete DreamScreen kit for $154.99.

As surveillance over executive compensation escalates, Bloomberg reported that Six Flags Entertainment Corp (NYSE: SIX) and Tempur Sealy International Inc (NYSE: TPX) have "awarded millions of dollars in stock to top bosses and given the equity a unique value: zero."

In order to have access to that figure, these companies "set performance targets they said were unlikely to be met," Bloomberg added.

"It's very unusual for a compensation committee to grant a performance award that really has no hope of being earned," said John Roe, a managing director at a unit of proxy adviser Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., told Bloomberg.

"Even if the award likely won't be earned, 'that's not the same as it having a zero value at the date of grant,'" Bloomberg quoted Roe as saying.

According to U.S. accounting rules, the probability of equity to "vest" should determine performance-based equity, "not a single company in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index that's disclosed pay for 2015 awarded zero-value stock that year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg."

According to Bloomberg, Six Flags and Tempur Sealy were able to do this likely because of their largest investor, hedge fund H Partners Management.

The report said, "As H Partners amassed stakes in amusement park operator Six Flags and Tempur Sealy [...] and took seats on their boards, the companies adopted new pay-for-performance goals."

Bloomberg continued, "The shares set aside for Reid-Anderson and five other top managers would vest only if the company reached $330 million in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for 2011 — 12 percent above the 2010 result."

Six Flags, reaching $350 million of EBITDA in 2011, exceeded the target. This resulted in "the six executives received shares worth $49.6 million on the day they paid out, according to regulatory filings." Furthermore, Reid-Anderson received $34.5 million of the $49.6 million.

Meanwhile, the hedge fund began buying shares of Tempur Sealy in 2012; it now owns 11 percent of the company.

"Shortly after the board shake-up, at least five senior executives, including new CEO Scott Thompson, were granted stock tied to posting $650 million in adjusted EBITDA in 2017, a 43 percent increase from 2015. The shares were worth $81 million on the day they were granted but were listed without a value in the summary compensation table since the goal was considered 'not probable.'"

Bloomberg noted, "If Tempur Sealy had assigned a value to the grant and included it in its 2015 compensation table, Thompson's reported pay could have been as much as $68 million. That's almost triple the $23.3 million that was shown in the table."

Shares of Six Flags closed Tuesday's regular trading session at $56.42 and Tempur Sealy closed at $59.25.

Andrew Beckwith matched his career high with seven strikeouts, Zach Remillard doubled and tripled in runs, and Coastal Carolina upset No. 1 national seed Florida 2-1 in the program's first College World Series game.

OMAHA, Neb. - No. 1 seed Florida sent to the mound two first-round picks, a second-rounder, third-rounder and 10th-rounder against Coastal Carolina on Sunday night.

None was nearly as good as the never-drafted Andrew Beckwith.

Confounding the Gators with his submarine, sidearm and overhand deliveries and even a curveball he said he found in his “back pocket” in pregame warmups, Beckwith was the shiniest of all the stars at TD Ameritrade Park in the Chanticleers’ 2-1 victory — their program’s first College World Series game.

“Everything was working tonight,” Beckwith said.

The biggest victory in Coastal Carolina’s history came in the third stage of its incredible postseason run. The Chanticleers beat host North Carolina State in the regional final and swept No. 8 national seed LSU on the road in super regionals to advance to Omaha.

The Chanticleers (50-16) have won 39 of their last 47 games and show no signs of slowing down.

“We’re going to go out there and give it all we have and not worry about who is on the other side, whether they’re more talented than us or not,” said Zach Remillard, who doubled and tripled in the Chanticleers’ runs.

The Gators (52-15) came to Omaha favored to win their program’s first national title. Now they’re in survival mode. A No. 1 national seed hasn’t won the championship since Miami in 1999, the first year of the current tournament format.

Beckwith pitched the first complete game of his career, and needed only 98 pitches to do it.

“The Gators’ only run off Beckwith (13-1) came on Jeremy Vasquez’s pinch single in the fifth. Beckwith allowed two singles the rest of the way and retired the last 10 batters in the first complete game of his career.

He set down the Gators’ 3-4-5 batters in the bottom of the ninth. Peter Alonso popped out and JJ Schwarz grounded out. That prompted the Chanticleers’ fans to start chanting “C-C-U! C-C-U!” and “Let’s go Coastal!” before Mike Rivera grounded out, with shortstop Michael Paez double-pumping on his throw to first.

The Chanticleers got to Florida starter Logan Shore (12-1) for five hits — two triples and three doubles. The Oakland Athletics’ second-round draft pick left with none out in the sixth after Remillard’s RBI triple past Buddy Reed in left center put the Chanticleers up 2-1.

Coastal Carolina opened the scoring in the third inning after a video review overturned a foul-ball call. With runners on first and second, Remillard launched a fly down the right-field line. First-base umpire Jeff Doy ruled the ball foul, but video showed the ball landed on the line. After umpires conferred for just over 4 minutes, they directed Anthony Marks to score from second and Connor Owings to go from first to third and Remillard to go to second.

Beckwith’s previous long outing was 8 1/3 innings against Texas Southern on May 30, 2015. His 98 pitches were the fewest by any CWS pitcher to throw nine innings or more since 1981.

Coastal Carolina will play TCU in a Bracket 2 winners’ game Tuesday night. The Gators play an elimination game against Texas Tech that afternoon.

Jackson State offensive coordinator Hal Mumme resigned Wednesday.

A source close to Jackson State football told the Clarion-Ledger that offensive coordinator Hal Mummestepped down Wednesday.

"I would like to thank Hal Mumme for his contributions to the Jackson State football program," head coach Tony Hughes said in a press release. "We wish Hal nothing but success going forward."

Receivers coach Derrick McCall will serve as interim offensive coordinator. A former JSU quarterback, McCall has been on the JSU coaching staff for eight years and served as OC in the 2012-2013 season, when his spread offense averaged more than 400 yards a game.

"Derrick McCall is an experienced play-caller," Hughes said. "He has a great offensive mind and I'm excited to see our offense continue to grow under his guidance."

Before accepting the position at JSU last December, Mumme served as the head coach at Belhaven, where he led the team to 2-8 records in each of the last three seasons.

Hailed as an air raid specialist, Mumme's offense at Belhaven averaged 55.8 pass attempts per contest and rolled up 445.3 yards of total offense a game.

Under Mumme, Jackson State's (1- 2, 0-1 SWAC) offense has not scored 20 points in a game this season.

Hal Mumme could not be immediately reached for comment.

Updated at 11:02 a.m. Nov. 6: This story will be updated as new ads are released.

WASHINGTON — In a hard-fought, high-stakes race, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Beto O’Rourke need to reach as many Texans as possible. Ads on TV, radio and online are among the main tools.

Some of their ads are upbeat, optimistic and biographical. Others have a sharper edge. Some are entirely accurate. Others, not so much.

With the election winding down, both candidates released their final ads.

O'Rourke released his on Sunday, returning to his upbeat messaging. The 30 second ad has Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again" playing as the congressman speaks and shows scenes from the campaign trail.

"We are meeting the divisiveness that dominates politics today with a courage, strength, a big heart that could only come from Texas," O'Rourke said.

Cruz has released a string of longer digital ads over the past week during his bus tour across Texas. His last TV ad was released at the end of October. The spot, "Listens," has a narrator discussing some of the important issues to Texans such as a secure border and Washington leaving them alone.

"Texas needs Sen. Cruz because Sen. Cruz knows who we are," the narrator says.

Cruz is not letting up on O'Rourke's vote for a $10 tax on every barrel of oil produced in Texas.

The one-minute digital ad, "Facts are Stubborn Things," is a clip from the second debate. Cruz brings up the vote, and O'Rourke flips the discussion to be about Cruz's honesty.

"Sen. Cruz is not going to be honest with you," O'Rourke said. "He's going to make up positions and votes I've ever or have ever taken."

The ad ends with text on the screen of the congressman's vote in 2016.

Amidst the barrage of attacks from Cruz, O'Rourke has worked to maintain a positive message during the campaign. But he was on offense Tuesday night during their second debate and kept up the messaging Wednesday with three new TV ads.

In all three, O'Rourke speaks directly into the camera and tells viewers where his opponent stands on immigration, health care and education. The Democrat says members of Congress are ready to work on the issue of immigration, except Cruz.

"He has vowed to deport every single Dreamer," O'Rourke says. "He is selling fear and paranoia instead of solutions."

The second ad focuses on health care, citing how Cruz has fought to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

"He shut down the government for 16 days because he thought too many many people had too much health care," O'Rourke says.

The third ad highlights Cruz's support of U.S. Education Secretary Betsy Devos, a proponent of using tax dollars to fund private-school vouchers, and stresses how Texas teachers are underpaid.

Cruz’s Spanish-language digital ad focuses on his family’s story and what he has done for Texas. The senator allows his father, Rafael Cruz, to tell his story.

"Our family has lived the American Dream, and like our Senator, Ted Cruz will continue to defend him, as he has for the past six years," his father says in Spanish.

O’Rourke struggled in the primary with Hispanic voters but has a 61-37 lead among this demographic, according to the newest Quinnipiac University Poll.

However, Cruz has touted many times that Hispanics in Texas are more conservative than Hispanic voters in other states.

Cruz attacked O'Rourke during the first debate for calling police the “modern-day Jim Crow.” Now the senator is using that line again for his new TV ad.

The ad splices a clip from an O’Rourke town hall and relies on a Fox Interview with Denton County Sheriff Tracy Murphree.

As your U.S. Senator, I've been proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the men and women of law enforcement.

The nearly four-minute spot is a biographical account from 12 sheriffs across the state telling voters what they admire about the senator.

The ad starts off with sheriffs from counties impacted by Hurricane Harvey saying how much they appreciate the senator's response and continuing to help where he can.

But most of the ad focuses on sheriffs talking about needing a secure border and stopping illegal immigration, a topic Cruz and super PACs have relied on before.

"An outstanding senator for Texas."

"A man of his word."

"The type of person you want to rely on."

It was a wild week in Washington with another hearing and votes regarding Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The wild week carried over into the second Senate debate that was scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 30 in Houston.

On Friday, the University of Houston announced the debate was off when it looked like Cruz would be in Washington for votes related to Kavanaugh. Once votes were delayed and Cruz could return to Texas, Cruz aides tried to bring the debate back. However, O'Rourke's team said the congressman was booked and couldn't make it.

Instead of debating on Sunday, O'Rourke took to Facebook Live to record a TV ad in real time to combat all the negative ads against him.

After Cruz attacked his opponent over immigration, the national anthem protest and being "too reckless" for Texas, the Republican has found a new problem with O'Rourke.

The narrator in the spot says O'Rourke supported a $10 tax on every barrel produced in Texas and voted against fracking and natural gas exports.