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Bank license canceled: RBI canceled license of these 11 banks, see the full list hereORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — In a season that began with many questions and lowered expectations , it was apt watching Bills quarterback Josh Allen join coach Sean McDermott lay on the cold, wet sideline to make snow angels in celebrating Buffalo’s earliest clinching of a division title in team history. That Allen took part was no surprise. The newly engaged 28-year-old has maintained the happy-go-lucky approach he brought with him to Buffalo as a raw-talented athlete in 2018, while gradually blossoming into one of the NFL’s elite quarterbacks. For McDermott, it was a pleasant surprise to see the usually reserved eight-year coach finally let his hair down — figuratively, because the few jokes he does make are usually about being bald. With his latest do-it-all three-TD outing — one rushing, one receiving and, the coup de grace, being credited with receiving his own pass for a score off a lateral from Amari Cooper — in a 35-10 win over San Francisco on Sunday night , Allen continued making his strongest NFL MVP case. What’s also becoming apparent is how much McDermott deserves consideration for coach of the year honors. Without the two, the Bills (10-2) wouldn’t be in this position in becoming just the eighth NFL team — and first since Indianapolis in 2009 — to clinch a division title with at least five games remaining in their schedule. It’s reflective of how the two have grown together in what, on the outside, could be perceived as an odd couple relationship between an offensive-minded, swashbuckling quarterback and a defensive-minded coach, too often knocked for being too conservative. Perhaps, it’s Allen’s boyish nature that has brought out the risk-taker in McDermott, who has carried over the aggressive approach he takes to defense by placing trust in his quarterback. It’s become apparent in everything the Bills have accomplished so far in having at least 10 wins through 12 games for just the fifth time in team history, and first since 1991, when Buffalo was led by eventual Hall of Famers in coach Marv Levy and quarterback Jim Kelly. Buffalo has won seven straight since consecutive losses to Baltimore and Houston. And the Bills have scored 30 or more points in six straight outings, matching the team record set in 2004. Allen is doing more with less on an offense that was supposed to be hampered following the offseason departures of receivers Stefon Diggs and Gabe Davis and center Mitch Morse. The Bills are more balanced in leaning on their running attack, while Allen has also curtailed his turnover-prone ways. He's lost two fumbles and thrown just five interceptions after being picked off a career-worst 18 times last season. Meantime, McDermott has taken a different approach to fourth down situations. The Bills have converted 13 of 15 fourth down attempts after going 9 of 16 last season and 7 of 13 in 2022. The most fourth down attempts during McDermott’s tenure came in 2021, when Buffalo converted just 11 of 22. This is but an example of the bond the quarterback and coach have built in a shared objective of overcoming past playoff failures. Clinching a division title is but one step, with the Bills now focused on catching the Kansas City Chiefs (11-1), whom they’ve beaten already , for the AFC’s top seed. In calling it the team’s next goal, McDermott went off script from his usual game-at-a-time message by noting the importance of celebrating a division-clinching win, if only for one day. “Being 50 years old and 20-plus years in this league, I’ve learned to try and enjoy the moments,” McDermott said. “And this is a moment, right?” It certainly was. What’s working Turnover differential. Buffalo’s defense forced three fumbles, including one at its goal line, while the offense didn’t commit a giveaway. The Bills upped their league-leading turnover differential entering Monday to plus-17. What needs help Run defense. Though the conditions were snowy and slick, the Bills allowed 119 yards rushing in the first half before the 49ers were forced to start passing the ball once the score became lopsided. Buffalo particularly struggled in stopping Christian McCaffrey, who had 53 yards on seven carries before leaving the game with a potential season-ending knee injury . Stock up LB Matt Milano was in on five tackles while playing 37 of 48 defensive snaps in his first outing in nearly 14 months after being sidelined by a broken right leg and torn left biceps. Stock down CB Kaiir Elam, the 2022 first-round pick was a healthy inactive for a second straight outing, and still having difficulty finding a regular role. Injuries None reported. Key number 9-0 — The Bills' home record going back to last season, marking their second-longest run in team history. Next steps Hit the road for two outings, starting with a trip to face the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. ___ AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl John Wawrow, The Associated Press
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The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant has announced its 2024 grantees. The New York–based organization will distribute a total of $945,000 to thirty writers working across three categories—Articles, Books, and Short-Form Writing. Each will receive between $15,000 and $50,000. The grant program is aimed at sustaining critical writing about contemporary art and at ensuring that such writing remains a valued way of engaging with the visual arts. “The thirty writers receiving support this year are working on projects asking urgent questions about art’s place in the world today,” said Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant director Pradeep Dalal in a statement. “Exploring topics including art’s relationship to fossil fuel extraction, Native art and activism, migration and questions of visibility, internationalist solidarity networks, DIY publishing, and LGBTQ comic artist communities, and covering artists working in Chile, Columbia, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, and Venezuela, this year’s grantee projects actively expand our understanding of contemporary art. . . . Despite the severe contraction of available venues for publishing in the arts, these writers continue to enrich and expand the academic disciplinary frameworks of both art criticism and art history.” Among the grantees in the Articles category is longtime Artforum contributor Catherine Quan Damman, who was recognized for “Vivian Browne’s Black Internationalism,” situating the painter’s work within lineages of Afro-Asian solidarities and Black internationalist feminism. T. Lax, another veteran Artforum contributor, received funding for A Diary of Dependency: Artists Process Museums , an experimental book centering projects relying on crip theory, Black studies, and queer motherhood, while Marci Kwon received support for her volume Making San Francisco Chinatown , the first-ever book-length study of artists living and working in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the wake of the powerful 1906 earthquake that rocked that city. In the Short-Form category, Camila Palomino was awarded funding for a forthcoming series of texts focused on artists and architects whose subversive large-scale urban interventions, murals, and graffiti respond to and represent interconnected social struggles. A full list of 2024 grantees is below. Articles Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres , “Beyond Worlds: The Art and Life of Hong Xian” Anne Marie Butler , “Deviance, Penetration, and the Erotic in Aïcha Snoussi’s Drawing Installations” Catherine Quan Damman , “Vivian Browne’s Black Internationalism” Heather Davis , “Human Energy: Oil Erotics, Violence, and Queer Desire” Carina del Valle Schorske , “Monte Adentro” Ilegvak , “Water Protectors: Indigenous Art as Reimagination from the No Dakota Access Pipeline NoDAPL Movement” Elize Mazadiego , “‘Somos Libres?!’: Alternative Art Networks and Latin American Queer Diasporas in 1970s Amsterdam” Hande Sever , “Kuzgun Acar: Forms of Defiance” Isaiah Matthew Wooden , “Out of Water and Dirt: LaToya Ruby Frazier and Kiyan Williams’ Monumental Acts of Refiguration” Books Katie Brewer Ball , Unsettling Art Criticism: Alaska Native Art After 1960 Margaret Galvan , Comics in Movement Che Gossett , Marlon Riggs and the Black Queer Cinematic Anna Indych-López , Mexico City: Spatial Politics in Art at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Marci Kwon , Making San Francisco Chinatown T. Lax , A Diary of Dependency: Artists Process Museums Sean Nesselrode , Moncada Maruja Rolando: On-Site Nizan Shaked , Art Against the System Edward A. Vazquez , Finish Line: V.I.S.U.A.L. Among the Chilean Neo-Avant-Garde, 1975–1981 Short-Form Writing Rosa Boshier González Kerry Cardoza Tyler Coburn Alexandra Martinez Tris McCall Carolina Miranda Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi Camila Palomino Kristina Kay Robinson Caroline Tracey Jasmine Weber Christopher Whitfield
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