Hope Walz, Gov. Tim Walz's daughter, says Joe Rogan fandom is "red flag" in her dating "litmus test"Refactory Academy graduates 89 in tech skillsOppenheimer & Co. Inc. bought a new position in SAP SE ( NYSE:SAP – Free Report ) in the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor bought 917 shares of the software maker’s stock, valued at approximately $210,000. Several other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Raymond James & Associates raised its position in shares of SAP by 3.7% in the 2nd quarter. Raymond James & Associates now owns 631,961 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $127,473,000 after acquiring an additional 22,438 shares in the last quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. raised its position in shares of SAP by 0.8% in the 3rd quarter. Principal Financial Group Inc. now owns 611,572 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $140,111,000 after acquiring an additional 4,775 shares in the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of SAP by 8.6% in the 2nd quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 197,976 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $39,934,000 after acquiring an additional 15,604 shares in the last quarter. International Assets Investment Management LLC bought a new position in shares of SAP in the 3rd quarter worth approximately $40,573,000. Finally, Sei Investments Co. raised its position in shares of SAP by 4.2% in the 2nd quarter. Sei Investments Co. now owns 168,264 shares of the software maker’s stock worth $33,941,000 after acquiring an additional 6,785 shares in the last quarter. Analyst Ratings Changes Several brokerages have recently issued reports on SAP. BMO Capital Markets increased their target price on SAP from $248.00 to $265.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 22nd. Argus raised SAP from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 31st. Barclays raised their price objective on SAP from $252.00 to $275.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 23rd. JMP Securities raised their price objective on SAP from $245.00 to $300.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 22nd. Finally, TD Cowen raised their price objective on SAP from $234.00 to $240.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research report on Tuesday, October 22nd. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $252.33. SAP Stock Up 0.1 % SAP stock opened at $236.25 on Friday. The firm has a market cap of $290.23 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 94.50, a PEG ratio of 4.53 and a beta of 1.25. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $230.65 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $212.23. SAP SE has a 12 month low of $148.38 and a 12 month high of $243.01. The company has a current ratio of 1.10, a quick ratio of 1.10 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.17. SAP ( NYSE:SAP – Get Free Report ) last posted its earnings results on Monday, October 21st. The software maker reported $1.23 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.31 by ($0.08). The business had revenue of $8.47 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $9.25 billion. SAP had a return on equity of 11.44% and a net margin of 8.15%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 9.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.20 EPS. Equities analysts predict that SAP SE will post 4.89 EPS for the current fiscal year. SAP Profile ( Free Report ) SAP SE, together with its subsidiaries, provides applications, technology, and services worldwide. It offers SAP S/4HANA that provides software capabilities for finance, risk and project management, procurement, manufacturing, supply chain and asset management, and research and development; SAP SuccessFactors solutions for human resources, including HR and payroll, talent and employee experience management, and people and workforce analytics; and spend management solutions that covers direct and indirect spend, travel and expense, and external workforce management. Further Reading Want to see what other hedge funds are holding SAP? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for SAP SE ( NYSE:SAP – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for SAP Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for SAP and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
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College Football Bowl Game betting: Odds, picks, and predictions for every gamePaul Connell first featured in this column a decade ago. “It feels like I’m on the BBC’s Seven Up ! where they come back to see people every seven years,” he says. From the outside things look much the same for the business, which he co-founded in 2002. However, in fact, its entire business model has changed. Connell, 57, studied business and qualified as an accountant. He started out in Iretex Packaging, which he helped float on the London Stock Exchange , before being appointed financial director for Ireland at Global Telesystems, then a US multinational supplying telecoms services in Europe. • Millions dropped off Irish telecom assets in sale In 2002 he and a colleague, Alan McGonnell, went out on their own, supplying fixed-line telecoms to business customers in Ireland.
LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Austin Seibert missed his second extra point of the game with 21 seconds left after Washington’s Jayden Daniels and Terry McLaurin connected on an 86-yard touchdown, Dallas’ Juanyeh Thomas returned the ensuing onside kick attempt for a touchdown, and the Cowboys pulled out a 34-26 victory Sunday that extended the Commanders’ skid to three games. Seibert, who missed the previous two games with a right hip injury, was wide left on the point-after attempt following a low snap. Thomas then took the kick back 43 yards as the Cowboys (4-7) ended their losing streak at five in improbable fashion. Part of that was the play of backup Cooper Rush, who threw for 247 yards and two TDs in his third start in place of starter Dak Prescott. Part was also the defense forcing two turnovers, as Chauncey Golston ripped the ball out of Brian Robinson Jr.’s hands for what was called an interception of Daniels in the second quarter, and Donovan Wilson stripped John Bates midway through the fourth. KaVonte Turpin provided the fireworks with a spinning, 99-yard kickoff return TD seconds after Daniels found Zach Ertz in the end zone and scored on a 2-point conversion to cut the deficit to three with 3:02 left. In the final three minutes alone, the Commanders (7-5) scored 10 points and allowed Thomas' TD. All that after the score was 10-9 through three quarters before madness ensued. Washington's playoff hopes that looked solid not long ago are now in serious jeopardy after losing to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Dallas. Before the scoring outburst late, much of this defeat had to do with Daniels and the offense not being able to find any kind of a rhythm. The Cowboys did, despite playing without their two best offensive linemen, top cornerback and starting tight end. Rush's 6-yard pass to Jalen Tolbert was Dallas' first third-quarter TD of the season, and his 22-yarder to Luke Schoonmaker came after Wilson's forced fumble. Daniels finished 25 of 38 for 274 yards, including his second interception of the game on a failed Hail Mary as the clock expired. Rico Dowdle ran 19 times for 86 yards to spring the upset for the Cowboys, who were 10 1/2-point underdogs on BetMGM Sportsbook. Cowboys: LG Tyler Smith was inactive with ankle and knee injuries. ... RG Zack Martin (ankle), CB Trevon Diggs (groin/knee) and TE Jake Ferguson (concussion) were ruled out prior to game day and did not travel for the game. Commanders: RB Austin Ekeler was injured on a kickoff return in the final seconds. ... Robinson left with an ankle injury in the first half, returned and then left again. ... RT Andrew Wylie was concussed in the third quarter and did not return. ... C Tyler Biadasz was evaluated for a concussion in the fourth. ... CB Marshon Lattimore (hamstring) missed a third consecutive game since being acquired at the trade deadline from New Orleans. Cowboys: Host the New York Giants on Thursday in the traditional Thanksgiving Day game in Dallas. Commanders: Host the Tennessee Titans next Sunday in Washington’s final game before its late bye week. AP NFL: https://apnews.com/hub/nfl
Journalist and Palanca awardee Lina Sagaral-Reyes diesIf you have a gamer on your gift list whose main platform is the PlayStation 5 , it's the perfect time to get them the latest games and accessories as well as consoles bundled with digital downloads of popular titles. Also: The best Black Friday deals live now While Black Friday and Cyber Monday are two of the biggest shopping days of the year, you can find great PS5 discounts at retailers like Amazon , Best Buy , and Walmart . You can even find steep discounts on digital downloads of full games, DLC, and in-game cosmetics and currency on the PlayStation Store . To help you check everything off your shopping list without breaking the bank, I've put together a list of the very best deals I could find on PS5 consoles, games, and accessories like controllers and headsets. 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Black Friday 2024 PlayStation 5 deals at Amazon Logitech G29 racing wheel and pedals : $200 (save $100): Hardcore racing sim enthusiasts and professional players will appreciate the lifelike driving experience the Logitech G29 provides with on-wheel shifter paddles, a leather steering wheel, and pressure-sensitive floor pedals. Gran Turismo 7 standard edition : $30 (save $40): The popular, realistic racing sim is back with an updated roster of cars to unlock and customize as well as new tracks and online challenges. Elden Ring standard edition : $20 (save $40): FromSoftware's latest action-RPG from the creator of Dark Souls and George R.R. Martin. System Shock standard edition : $30 (save $10): A remake of the classic survival horror game with streamlined controls for modern audiences. Persona 3 Reload standard edition : $25 (save $45): A complete remake of the PS2 classic from Atlus, featuring modern visuals and gameplay. 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WD Black D10 8TB external HDD : $170 (save $100): A rugged external hard drive with 8TB of storage, making it perfect for storing legacy digital collections, very large game downloads, and videos. A Plague Tale: Requiem : $31 (save $29): The follow-up to A Plague Tale, follow Amicia and Hugo as they travel south to new regions and cities to help control Hugo's powers and hide from powerful enemies. Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition : $88 (save $2): Make a name for yourself as a galactic outlaw, smuggling contraband, taking lucrative contracts, and navigating the criminal underworld. Seagate Game Drive 2TB SSD : $160 (save $100): Instantly add 2TB of storage to your PS5 for downloading large game files, transferring saves, and backing up your digital game library. The Nioh Collection for $20 (save $50): This collection brings together both Nioh and Nioh 2 in one package with remastered HD visuals and streamlined gameplay. Sony Pulse Explore wireless earbuds : $170 (save $30): Officially licensed wireless earbuds for the PS5 with dual device connectivity, 15 hours of battery, and integrated noise canceling microphones. Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut : $30 (save $40): This version includes the base game, Iki Island expansion, added minigames, new enemy types, an online co-op mode, digital art book, and director's commentary. Black Friday 2024 PlayStation 5 deals at Walmart The Last of Us Part I : $45 (save $25): A remaster of the hit PS4 title and inspiration for the TV show for the PS5. Tekken 8 standard edition : $32 (save $18): Tekken is back with a roster of 32 new and returning characters and 16 battle stages to challenge friends and online players. Dragon's Dogma II : $50 (save $20): The highly anticipated sequel to Dragon's Dogma has players team up with sophisticated AI teammates to infiltrate enemy camps, fight battles, and solve puzzles. Demon's Souls : $37 (save $33): A remake of the cult classic from the developers of Bloodborne, Dark Souls, and Elden Ring. Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition : $76 (save $34): Make a name for yourself as an outlaw in the Star Wars expanded universe by exploring distant star systems, taking on smuggling jobs, and working your way through the criminal underworld. Assassin's Creed Mirage : $20 (save $30): A return to form for the AC franchise, exploring the streets of medieval Baghdad to eliminate high-profile targets and search for answers about the Hidden Ones. Star Wars Jedi Survivor : $30 (save $40): The follow-up to the critically acclaimed Jedi: Fallen Order, Cal Kestis is now a full Jedi Knight, crossing the galaxy to gather allies in his fight against the Empire. Marvel's Spider-Man Miles Morales Ultimate Edition for $43 (save $25): The Gold Edition gives you the base game, available DLC, and a voucher for a digital download of Spider-Man Remastered. Black Friday 2024 PlayStation Store deals Tekken 8 Ultimate Edition : $66 (save $44, ends 11/23): The popular fighting game franchise is back. The ultimate edition includes the base game as well as a year 1 character pass, exclusive avatar skins, and exclusive in-game cosmetic items. Resident Evil 4 Gold Edition : $30 (save $20, ends 11/23): Remastered from the ground-up RE4 is back with streamlined gameplay and HD graphics. The Gold Edition includes the base game as well as the Separate Ways DLC and DLC pass. Dragon's Dogma 2 : $40 (save $30, ends 11/23): This single-player RPG gives you ultimate control over how you experience the game's story, from your party members and abilities to your appearance and personality. Persona 3 Reload : $35 (save $35, ends 11/23): A remaster of the popular Personal title with streamlined gameplay and HD graphics for modern players. Another Crab's Treasure : $24 (save $6, ends 11/23): A colorful Souls-like where you play as a very anxious hermit crab on a quest to get your home back and figure out what taxes are. Little Nightmares : $5 (save $15, ends 11/13): The critically and commercially acclaimed horror platformer gives you plenty of areas to explore and secrets to uncover as you unravel the mystery of your dollhouse. Far Cry 5 : $9 (save $51, ends 11/23): Explore Hope County, Montana as you gather allies and supplies to take down a violent and dangerous cult. FAQs Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the US. This year, it will fall on Nov. 29, 2024. And while day-of is when most of the best deals and discounts will go live, you can still find great sales at Amazon , Best Buy , and Walmart to get a jump on your holiday gift shopping. They can be! The holiday shopping season is usually when you'll see the most sales and biggest discounts on games, consoles, and accessories to take advantage of the large volume of shoppers. You may be able to even snag a console bundled with a free game, extra controller, or both if you keep a sharp eye out at your favorite retailers. We're all aware that scalpers and resellers can be a pain at any time during the year when you're trying to buy a new console or popular game. And it's doubly true during the holiday shopping season. I've done my best to vet each deal to ensure the products are sold and shipped by reputable retailers and authorized resellers. I've also kept tabs on retail and sale pricing in the weeks leading up to Black Friday 2024 in order to find actual deals and not false discounts where games and consoles are marked up and then "reduced" to their original retail price to fool consumers. Do I need a PlayStation Plus subscription to buy games from the PlayStation Store? Nope! The PS Store is free to access for anyone as long as you have a PlayStation console and online account. The PS Store has monthly rotating deals, a category for games under $20, fan favorite titles, and even a select back catalogue of classic PS1/2/3 games. But if you want access to even better discounts and exclusive free games every month along with online multiplayer, it's worth at least investing in the PlayStation Plus Essential membership, which is the basic package. The PlayStation Plus Extra tier gets you access to the entire PS4 catalogue, and the Premium membership gets you access to the entire Classics Catalogue as well as exclusive demos and discounts. Right now, you can save 30% on a PS Plus Premium membership when billed annually, bringing the yearly subscription price to just $112, then $160 per year after that. You can also save 25% on the PS Plus Extra tier (again, when billed yearly), which brings the price to $101, then $135 annually after that.None
Left-hander Max Fried agrees to $218 million, 8-year contract with Yankees, AP source saysDefaults under EPFO hit all-time high, rise 69.3%MISSOULA — The Montana women's basketball team ran into a buzzsaw Sunday in defensive-minded Big Ten foe Minnesota. The Golden Gophers held the Lady Griz to a season-low seven points in the first quarter in racing to a 22-point lead. From there Minnesota cruised to an 84-45 win at Williams Arena in Minneapolis. Montana had a two-game win streak snapped in falling to 3-3. Minnesota, who held UMass-Lowell and Oregon State in the 30s in wins earlier this season, improved to 7-0. The Gophers are coached by former South Dakota skipper Dawn Plitzuweit, whose emphasis on defense has been well-received. Minnesota finished 20-16 in her first season and is off to an impressive start this year. Not only did Montana lose the game, the team may have lost redshirt freshman guard Macy Donarski for a while. She left the game in the first quarter with what looked to be a significant left leg injury. Donarski did not play last season due to a knee injury. Montana was befuddled from the start by the Gophers' defense. Minnesota stresses team defense with active rotations and an emphasis on forcing turnovers. The Lady Griz had 16 turnovers in the game Montana hit just 3 of 12 shots in the first quarter in spotting the hosts a gaudy 29-7 lead. Minnesota was 9 for 19 with two triples. The Gophers stretched their lead to 52-22 by halftime. The Lady Griz were 7 for 23 from the floor. Mack Konig and Adria Lincoln were bright spots for Montana with nine points apiece in the first 20 minutes. Minnesota continued to add to its lead in the second half. The Gophers led by as many as 40 points in the fourth quarter before settling for a 39-point victory. Montana shot 25,5 percent from the floor, hitting 14 of 55 shots overall and 7 of 31 from 3-point range. Konig paced the Lady Griz with 12 points on 4-for-12 shooting and Lincoln added 10 points on 3-for-12 shooting. Minnesota finished with a 55-35 edge in rebounds. Tyler McCliment-Call collected a team-high eight for the Lady Griz. Five Gophers scored in double figures. Sophie Hart led the way with 16 points, followed by Amaya Battle and Grace Grrcholski with 14 apiece, Tori McKinney with 13 and Mallory Heyer with 10. Heyer had a game-high nine rebounds and Battle a game-high eight assists. Minnesota shot 40.5 percent from the floor (30 for 74). The Gophers hit 11 of 30 attempts from 3-point range. The Montana women will be back in action Tuesday night at Robin Selvig Court. They will face NAIA Evergreen State (0-2) of Olympia, Washington. Evergreen State played at Division I Seattle University in an exhibition on Saturday and lost, 88-43. Bill Speltz is Missoulian sports editor. Contact him at or on Twitter @billspeltz Get local news delivered to your inbox!
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“Compassion.” “Moral leadership. “Devoted.” Southern California’s lawmakers on both sides of the aisle r emembered former President Jimmy Carter’s public service — and his humanity — as news of his death reverberated throughout the political world Sunday afternoon, Dec. 29. Carter, the 39th president, was 100 years old. Rep. Lou Correa, D-Santa Ana, cast his first presidential ballot for Carter after he had turned 18, the congressman said on social media. “President Jimmy Carter was a veteran, a military academy graduate and a humble George peanut farmer,” said Correa. “He led this nation through difficult times. Thank you, President Carter.” “President Carter was a man of rare character — whose beliefs ran true and ran deep, whose moral compass never wavered,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “He saw the common humanity in all of us, building bridges between people of different faiths and factions abroad while working to meet the needs of those at home. Despite daunting challenges and trying times, his bright energy and spirit never faltered.” “President Carter’s candor and compassion, moral leadership and sense of duty set a standard we all should aspire to,” the Democratic governor added. “His enduring example reminds us that we can still find common ground despite our differences.” Rep. Young Kim, a Republican whose district spans Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties, said in a social media post that her “heart is with (Carter’s) loved ones.” “President Carter devoted his life to serving the American people, whether in public service or through his charity and humanitarian work,” Kim said. Carter was the longest-living American president. Other reactions Rep. Mike Garcia, R- Santa Clarita : “President Jimmy Carter’s passing is a loss for our nation. From his days as a midshipman at the Naval Academy to his service as our 39th president, he embodied leadership, honor, and compassion. Keeping the Carter family in my prayers tonight.” Sen. Adam Schiff : President Jimmy Carter leaves a legacy unlike any other. Ceaseless in his service, unbending in his dignity and revered for his commitment to our common humanity. He fought the good fight and kept the faith — and now he has finished his race. May his memory be an inspiration.” Rep. Norma Torres, D-Ontario : “Today, we mourn President Jimmy Carter, a leader of faith, compassion and service. His legacy of humanity and hope will endure. My thoughts are with the Carter family.” Former L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa : “Jimmy Carter was a man of character and integrity whose lifelong service to the greater good was most evident when he left office. His tireless advocacy on behalf of the unhoused was something I was fortunate enough to witness firsthand and a remarkable feature of a humanitarian who never stopped believing in the dignity of our neighbors. May we continue the legacy of President Carter through acts of selfless service to others to never stop uplifting our community.” This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.
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By BILL BARROW, Associated Press PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Newly married and sworn as a Naval officer, Jimmy Carter left his tiny hometown in 1946 hoping to climb the ranks and see the world. Less than a decade later, the death of his father and namesake, a merchant farmer and local politician who went by “Mr. Earl,” prompted the submariner and his wife, Rosalynn, to return to the rural life of Plains, Georgia, they thought they’d escaped. The lieutenant never would be an admiral. Instead, he became commander in chief. Years after his presidency ended in humbling defeat, he would add a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded not for his White House accomplishments but “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” The life of James Earl Carter Jr., the 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, ended Sunday at the age of 100 where it began: Plains, the town of 600 that fueled his political rise, welcomed him after his fall and sustained him during 40 years of service that redefined what it means to be a former president. With the stubborn confidence of an engineer and an optimism rooted in his Baptist faith, Carter described his motivations in politics and beyond in the same way: an almost missionary zeal to solve problems and improve lives. Carter was raised amid racism, abject poverty and hard rural living — realities that shaped both his deliberate politics and emphasis on human rights. “He always felt a responsibility to help people,” said Jill Stuckey, a longtime friend of Carter’s in Plains. “And when he couldn’t make change wherever he was, he decided he had to go higher.” Carter’s path, a mix of happenstance and calculation , pitted moral imperatives against political pragmatism; and it defied typical labels of American politics, especially caricatures of one-term presidents as failures. “We shouldn’t judge presidents by how popular they are in their day. That’s a very narrow way of assessing them,” Carter biographer Jonathan Alter told the Associated Press. “We should judge them by how they changed the country and the world for the better. On that score, Jimmy Carter is not in the first rank of American presidents, but he stands up quite well.” Later in life, Carter conceded that many Americans, even those too young to remember his tenure, judged him ineffective for failing to contain inflation or interest rates, end the energy crisis or quickly bring home American hostages in Iran. He gained admirers instead for his work at The Carter Center — advocating globally for public health, human rights and democracy since 1982 — and the decades he and Rosalynn wore hardhats and swung hammers with Habitat for Humanity. Yet the common view that he was better after the Oval Office than in it annoyed Carter, and his allies relished him living long enough to see historians reassess his presidency. “He doesn’t quite fit in today’s terms” of a left-right, red-blue scoreboard, said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who visited the former president multiple times during his own White House bid. At various points in his political career, Carter labeled himself “progressive” or “conservative” — sometimes both at once. His most ambitious health care bill failed — perhaps one of his biggest legislative disappointments — because it didn’t go far enough to suit liberals. Republicans, especially after his 1980 defeat, cast him as a left-wing cartoon. It would be easiest to classify Carter as a centrist, Buttigieg said, “but there’s also something radical about the depth of his commitment to looking after those who are left out of society and out of the economy.” Indeed, Carter’s legacy is stitched with complexities, contradictions and evolutions — personal and political. The self-styled peacemaker was a war-trained Naval Academy graduate who promised Democratic challenger Ted Kennedy that he’d “kick his ass.” But he campaigned with a call to treat everyone with “respect and compassion and with love.” Carter vowed to restore America’s virtue after the shame of Vietnam and Watergate, and his technocratic, good-government approach didn’t suit Republicans who tagged government itself as the problem. It also sometimes put Carter at odds with fellow Democrats. The result still was a notable legislative record, with wins on the environment, education, and mental health care. He dramatically expanded federally protected lands, began deregulating air travel, railroads and trucking, and he put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As a fiscal hawk, Carter added a relative pittance to the national debt, unlike successors from both parties. Carter nonetheless struggled to make his achievements resonate with the electorate he charmed in 1976. Quoting Bob Dylan and grinning enthusiastically, he had promised voters he would “never tell a lie.” Once in Washington, though, he led like a joyless engineer, insisting his ideas would become reality and he’d be rewarded politically if only he could convince enough people with facts and logic. This served him well at Camp David, where he brokered peace between Israel’s Menachem Begin and Epypt’s Anwar Sadat, an experience that later sparked the idea of The Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter’s tenacity helped the center grow to a global force that monitored elections across five continents, enabled his freelance diplomacy and sent public health experts across the developing world. The center’s wins were personal for Carter, who hoped to outlive the last Guinea worm parasite, and nearly did. As president, though, the approach fell short when he urged consumers beleaguered by energy costs to turn down their thermostats. Or when he tried to be the nation’s cheerleader, beseeching Americans to overcome a collective “crisis of confidence.” Republican Ronald Reagan exploited Carter’s lecturing tone with a belittling quip in their lone 1980 debate. “There you go again,” the former Hollywood actor said in response to a wonky answer from the sitting president. “The Great Communicator” outpaced Carter in all but six states. Carter later suggested he “tried to do too much, too soon” and mused that he was incompatible with Washington culture: media figures, lobbyists and Georgetown social elites who looked down on the Georgians and their inner circle as “country come to town.” Carter carefully navigated divides on race and class on his way to the Oval Office. Born Oct. 1, 1924 , Carter was raised in the mostly Black community of Archery, just outside Plains, by a progressive mother and white supremacist father. Their home had no running water or electricity but the future president still grew up with the relative advantages of a locally prominent, land-owning family in a system of Jim Crow segregation. He wrote of President Franklin Roosevelt’s towering presence and his family’s Democratic Party roots, but his father soured on FDR, and Jimmy Carter never campaigned or governed as a New Deal liberal. He offered himself as a small-town peanut farmer with an understated style, carrying his own luggage, bunking with supporters during his first presidential campaign and always using his nickname. And he began his political career in a whites-only Democratic Party. As private citizens, he and Rosalynn supported integration as early as the 1950s and believed it inevitable. Carter refused to join the White Citizens Council in Plains and spoke out in his Baptist church against denying Black people access to worship services. “This is not my house; this is not your house,” he said in a churchwide meeting, reminding fellow parishioners their sanctuary belonged to God. Yet as the appointed chairman of Sumter County schools he never pushed to desegregate, thinking it impractical after the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board decision. And while presidential candidate Carter would hail the 1965 Voting Rights Act, signed by fellow Democrat Lyndon Johnson when Carter was a state senator, there is no record of Carter publicly supporting it at the time. Carter overcame a ballot-stuffing opponent to win his legislative seat, then lost the 1966 governor’s race to an arch-segregationist. He won four years later by avoiding explicit mentions of race and campaigning to the right of his rival, who he mocked as “Cufflinks Carl” — the insult of an ascendant politician who never saw himself as part the establishment. Carter’s rural and small-town coalition in 1970 would match any victorious Republican electoral map in 2024. Once elected, though, Carter shocked his white conservative supporters — and landed on the cover of Time magazine — by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Before making the jump to Washington, Carter befriended the family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whom he’d never sought out as he eyed the governor’s office. Carter lamented his foot-dragging on school integration as a “mistake.” But he also met, conspicuously, with Alabama’s segregationist Gov. George Wallace to accept his primary rival’s endorsement ahead of the 1976 Democratic convention. “He very shrewdly took advantage of his own Southerness,” said Amber Roessner, a University of Tennessee professor and expert on Carter’s campaigns. A coalition of Black voters and white moderate Democrats ultimately made Carter the last Democratic presidential nominee to sweep the Deep South. Then, just as he did in Georgia, he used his power in office to appoint more non-whites than all his predecessors had, combined. He once acknowledged “the secret shame” of white Americans who didn’t fight segregation. But he also told Alter that doing more would have sacrificed his political viability – and thus everything he accomplished in office and after. King’s daughter, Bernice King, described Carter as wisely “strategic” in winning higher offices to enact change. “He was a leader of conscience,” she said in an interview. Rosalynn Carter, who died on Nov. 19 at the age of 96, was identified by both husband and wife as the “more political” of the pair; she sat in on Cabinet meetings and urged him to postpone certain priorities, like pressing the Senate to relinquish control of the Panama Canal. “Let that go until the second term,” she would sometimes say. The president, recalled her former aide Kathy Cade, retorted that he was “going to do what’s right” even if “it might cut short the time I have.” Rosalynn held firm, Cade said: “She’d remind him you have to win to govern.” Carter also was the first president to appoint multiple women as Cabinet officers. Yet by his own telling, his career sprouted from chauvinism in the Carters’ early marriage: He did not consult Rosalynn when deciding to move back to Plains in 1953 or before launching his state Senate bid a decade later. Many years later, he called it “inconceivable” that he didn’t confer with the woman he described as his “full partner,” at home, in government and at The Carter Center. “We developed a partnership when we were working in the farm supply business, and it continued when Jimmy got involved in politics,” Rosalynn Carter told AP in 2021. So deep was their trust that when Carter remained tethered to the White House in 1980 as 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran, it was Rosalynn who campaigned on her husband’s behalf. “I just loved it,” she said, despite the bitterness of defeat. Fair or not, the label of a disastrous presidency had leading Democrats keep their distance, at least publicly, for many years, but Carter managed to remain relevant, writing books and weighing in on societal challenges. He lamented widening wealth gaps and the influence of money in politics. He voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and later declared that America had devolved from fully functioning democracy to “oligarchy.” Yet looking ahead to 2020, with Sanders running again, Carter warned Democrats not to “move to a very liberal program,” lest they help re-elect President Donald Trump. Carter scolded the Republican for his serial lies and threats to democracy, and chided the U.S. establishment for misunderstanding Trump’s populist appeal. He delighted in yearly convocations with Emory University freshmen, often asking them to guess how much he’d raised in his two general election campaigns. “Zero,” he’d gesture with a smile, explaining the public financing system candidates now avoid so they can raise billions. Carter still remained quite practical in partnering with wealthy corporations and foundations to advance Carter Center programs. Carter recognized that economic woes and the Iran crisis doomed his presidency, but offered no apologies for appointing Paul Volcker as the Federal Reserve chairman whose interest rate hikes would not curb inflation until Reagan’s presidency. He was proud of getting all the hostages home without starting a shooting war, even though Tehran would not free them until Reagan’s Inauguration Day. “Carter didn’t look at it” as a failure, Alter emphasized. “He said, ‘They came home safely.’ And that’s what he wanted.” Well into their 90s, the Carters greeted visitors at Plains’ Maranatha Baptist Church, where he taught Sunday School and where he will have his last funeral before being buried on family property alongside Rosalynn . Carter, who made the congregation’s collection plates in his woodworking shop, still garnered headlines there, calling for women’s rights within religious institutions, many of which, he said, “subjugate” women in church and society. Carter was not one to dwell on regrets. “I am at peace with the accomplishments, regret the unrealized goals and utilize my former political position to enhance everything we do,” he wrote around his 90th birthday. The politician who had supposedly hated Washington politics also enjoyed hosting Democratic presidential contenders as public pilgrimages to Plains became advantageous again. Carter sat with Buttigieg for the final time March 1, 2020, hours before the Indiana mayor ended his campaign and endorsed eventual winner Joe Biden. “He asked me how I thought the campaign was going,” Buttigieg said, recalling that Carter flashed his signature grin and nodded along as the young candidate, born a year after Carter left office, “put the best face” on the walloping he endured the day before in South Carolina. Never breaking his smile, the 95-year-old host fired back, “I think you ought to drop out.” “So matter of fact,” Buttigieg said with a laugh. “It was somehow encouraging.” Carter had lived enough, won plenty and lost enough to take the long view. “He talked a lot about coming from nowhere,” Buttigieg said, not just to attain the presidency but to leverage “all of the instruments you have in life” and “make the world more peaceful.” In his farewell address as president, Carter said as much to the country that had embraced and rejected him. “The struggle for human rights overrides all differences of color, nation or language,” he declared. “Those who hunger for freedom, who thirst for human dignity and who suffer for the sake of justice — they are the patriots of this cause.” Carter pledged to remain engaged with and for them as he returned “home to the South where I was born and raised,” home to Plains, where that young lieutenant had indeed become “a fellow citizen of the world.” —- Bill Barrow, based in Atlanta, has covered national politics including multiple presidential campaigns for the AP since 2012.