WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered peace between Israel and Egypt and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work, died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday, the Carter Center said. He was 100. “My father was a hero, not only to me but to everyone who believes in peace, human rights, and unselfish love,” said Chip Carter, the former president’s son. “My brothers, sister, and I shared him with the rest of the world through these common beliefs. The world is our family because of the way he brought people together, and we thank you for honoring his memory by continuing to live these shared beliefs.” A Democrat, he served as president from January 1977 to January 1981 after defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford in the 1976 election. Carter was swept from office four years later in an electoral landslide as voters embraced Republican challenger Ronald Reagan, the former actor and California governor. Carter lived longer after his term in office than any other U.S. president. Along the way, he earned a reputation as a better former president than he was a president — a status he readily acknowledged. His one-term presidency was marked by the highs of the 1978 Camp David accords between Israel and Egypt, bringing some stability to the Middle East. But it was dogged by an economy in recession, persistent unpopularity and the embarrassment of the Iran hostage crisis that consumed his final 444 days in office. In recent years, Carter had experienced several health issues including melanoma that spread to his liver and brain. Carter decided to receive hospice care in February 2023 instead of undergoing additional medical intervention. His wife, Rosalynn Carter, died on Nov. 19, 2023, at age 96. He looked frail when he attended her memorial service and funeral in a wheelchair. Carter left office profoundly unpopular but worked energetically for decades on humanitarian causes. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 in recognition of his "untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development." Carter had been a centrist as governor of Georgia with populist tendencies when he moved into the White House as the 39th president. He was a Washington outsider at a time when America was still reeling from the Watergate scandal that led Republican Richard Nixon to resign as president in 1974 and elevated Ford from vice president. "I'm Jimmy Carter and I'm running for president. I will never lie to you," Carter promised with an ear-to-ear smile. Asked to assess his presidency, Carter said in a 1991 documentary: "The biggest failure we had was a political failure. I never was able to convince the American people that I was a forceful and strong leader." Despite his difficulties in office, Carter had few rivals for accomplishments as a former president. He gained global acclaim as a tireless human rights advocate, a voice for the disenfranchised and a leader in the fight against hunger and poverty, winning the respect that eluded him in the White House. Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his efforts to promote human rights and resolve conflicts around the world, from Ethiopia and Eritrea to Bosnia and Haiti. His Carter Center in Atlanta sent international election-monitoring delegations to polls around the world. A Southern Baptist Sunday school teacher since his teens, Carter brought a strong sense of morality to the presidency, speaking openly about his religious faith. He also sought to take some pomp out of an increasingly imperial presidency - walking, rather than riding in a limousine, in his 1977 inauguration parade. The Middle East was the focus of Carter's foreign policy. The 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty, based on the 1978 Camp David accords, ended a state of war between the two neighbors. Carter brought Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin to the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland for talks. Later, as the accords seemed to be unraveling, Carter saved the day by flying to Cairo and Jerusalem for personal shuttle diplomacy. The treaty provided for Israeli withdrawal from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula and establishment of diplomatic relations. Begin and Sadat each won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. By the 1980 election, the overriding issues were double-digit inflation, interest rates that exceeded 20% and soaring gas prices, as well as the Iran hostage crisis that brought humiliation to America. These issues marred Carter's presidency and undermined his chances of winning a second term. On Nov. 4, 1979, revolutionaries devoted to Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seized the Americans present and demanded the return of the ousted shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was backed by the United States and was being treated in a U.S. hospital. The American public initially rallied behind Carter. But his support faded in April 1980 when a commando raid failed to rescue the hostages, with eight U.S. soldiers killed in an aircraft accident in the Iranian desert. Carter's final ignominy was that Iran held the 52 hostages until minutes after Reagan took his oath of office on Jan. 20, 1981, to replace Carter, then released the planes carrying them to freedom. In another crisis, Carter protested the former Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by boycotting the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He also asked the U.S. Senate to defer consideration of a major nuclear arms accord with Moscow. Unswayed, the Soviets remained in Afghanistan for a decade. Carter won narrow Senate approval in 1978 of a treaty to transfer the Panama Canal to the control of Panama despite critics who argued the waterway was vital to American security. He also completed negotiations on full U.S. ties with China. Carter created two new U.S. Cabinet departments — education and energy. Amid high gas prices, he said America's "energy crisis" was "the moral equivalent of war" and urged the country to embrace conservation. "Ours is the most wasteful nation on earth," he told Americans in 1977. In 1979, Carter delivered what became known as his "malaise" speech to the nation, although he never used that word. "After listening to the American people I have been reminded again that all the legislation in the world can't fix what's wrong with America," he said in his televised address. "The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America." As president, the strait-laced Carter was embarrassed by the behavior of his hard-drinking younger brother, Billy Carter, who had boasted: "I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer." 'There you go again' Jimmy Carter withstood a challenge from Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination but was politically diminished heading into his general election battle against a vigorous Republican adversary. Reagan, the conservative who projected an image of strength, kept Carter off balance during their debates before the November 1980 election. Reagan dismissively told Carter, "There you go again," when the Republican challenger felt the president had misrepresented Reagan's views during one debate. Carter lost the 1980 election to Reagan, who won 44 of the 50 states and amassed an Electoral College landslide. James Earl Carter Jr. was born on Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, one of four children of a farmer and shopkeeper. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1946, served in the nuclear submarine program and left to manage the family peanut farming business. He married his wife, Rosalynn, in 1946, a union he called "the most important thing in my life." They had three sons and a daughter. Carter became a millionaire, a Georgia state legislator and Georgia's governor from 1971 to 1975. He mounted an underdog bid for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, and out-hustled his rivals for the right to face Ford in the general election. With Walter Mondale as his vice presidential running mate, Carter was given a boost by a major Ford gaffe during one of their debates. Ford said that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration," despite decades of just such domination. Carter edged Ford in the election, even though Ford actually won more states — 27 to Carter's 23. Not all of Carter's post-presidential work was appreciated. Former President George W. Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, both Republicans, were said to have been displeased by Carter's freelance diplomacy in Iraq and elsewhere. In 2004, Carter called the Iraq war launched in 2003 by the younger Bush one of the most "gross and damaging mistakes our nation ever made." He called George W. Bush's administration "the worst in history" and said Vice President Dick Cheney was "a disaster for our country." In 2019, Carter questioned Republican Donald Trump's legitimacy as president, saying "he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf." Trump responded by calling Carter "a terrible president." Carter also made trips to communist North Korea. A 1994 visit defused a nuclear crisis, as President Kim Il Sung agreed to freeze his nuclear program in exchange for resumed dialog with the United States. That led to a deal in which North Korea, in return for aid, promised not to restart its nuclear reactor or reprocess the plant's spent fuel. But Carter irked Democratic President Bill Clinton's administration by announcing the deal with North Korea's leader without first checking with Washington. In 2010, Carter won the release of an American sentenced to eight years hard labor for illegally entering North Korea. Carter wrote more than two dozen books, ranging from a presidential memoir to a children's book and poetry, as well as works about religious faith and diplomacy. His book "Faith: A Journey for All," was published in 2018."Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 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Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?" 1914 translation by H. Rackham "But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?" Thanks for your interest in Kalkine Media's content! To continue reading, please log in to your account or create your free account with us.
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Bruce Thornton scored a career-high 33 points to lead Ohio State to a 103-83 nonconference win over Indiana State in Columbus on Sunday. Thornton shot 11 of 16 from the field overall, including 4 of 7 from 3-point range, and made seven of eight free throws. Ques Glover scored 15 points and Aaron Bradshaw and Devin Royal each scored 13 for Ohio State (9-4), which scored 100 or more points for the third time this season. The Buckeyes shot 55.7 percent from the field overall (34 of 61) and made 28 of 41 shots from the free-throw line to win for the fourth time in five games. Jaden Daughtry scored 25 points in defeat for Indiana State (8-5), which had a five-game winning streak snapped. The Sycamores outrebounded Ohio State 36-30 but committed 19 turnovers. Leading 53-49 in the second half, Ohio State took a 59-49 lead with 17:34 remaining following a layup and back-to-back dunks by Sean Stewart, the second coming off an alley-oop pass from Thornton. A pair of free throws by Colin White gave Ohio State a 74-59 lead with 13:40 left, and the Buckeyes kept their lead at double-digits from there. Indiana State got as close as 83-73 with 9:00 left, but Ohio State stretched its lead to 92-74 with 5:16 remaining. Ohio State held a 51-47 lead at the break after a half filled with offense. The Buckeyes shot 51.5 percent from the field (17 of 33) in the first half, while Indiana State shot 53.6 percent (15 of 28) and was 9 of 20 from 3-point range. Indiana State only made one 3-pointer in the second half. The Buckeyes held a 24-15 lead with 10:38 left in the first half, but Indiana State cut the deficit to 35-34 with 5:24 to go until halftime. --Field Level MediaIU Indianapolis 88, Alabama A&M 83
Pakistan's 2024: Troubled ties with neighbours, economic woes and the Imran Khan 'problem'Apple is under scrutiny after its AI service generated a false BBC news alert claiming that suspected assassin Luigi Mangione had shot himself, reported BBC news. The BBC has filed a complaint with Apple over the fake news alert that was shared on iPhones and falsely attributed to the broadcasting service. Also Read : Is Tim Cook ready to step down as Apple CEO? Here’s what the 64-year-old said about quitting Apple's new AI service, Apple Intelligence, which was launched in the UK this week, aggregates notifications from various news sources using artificial intelligence. One of these notifications incorrectly suggested that the BBC had published a story claiming Luigi Mangione, arrested in the US for the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week in New York, had died by suicide. Also Read: 'High risk' for Apple iPhone, iPad, Mac users, government warns BBC subscribers received a message this week stating, "Luigi Mangione shoots himself." However, the 26-year-old did not harm himself and is currently held in Pennsylvania, awaiting extradition to New York. “ BBC News is the most trusted news media in the world,” a BBC spokesperson stated. They added that they had raised concerns with Apple. Also Read : Apple rolls out ChatGPT integration in latest iOS update “It is essential to us that our audiences can trust any information or journalism published in our name and that includes notifications,” the spokesperson said. The BBC is not the only news outlet to have its headlines misrepresented by Apple's new AI technology. On November 21, Apple’s AI service grouped three unrelated articles from the New York Times into a single notification, one of which incorrectly read "Netanyahu arrested," referring to the Israeli prime minister. This was a mistake based on a report about the International Criminal Court issuing an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, rather than actual news of his arrest. The error was pointed out by a journalist from the US investigative journalism site ProPublica.
Shares of Targa Resources ( TRGP -0.30% ) were blistering hot in 2024. The midstream company was up more than 105% heading into the final trading days of the year. Add in its dividend, and the total return was even higher. That absolutely crushed the S&P 500 , which had a very strong year by delivering a total return of almost 30%. Here's a look at what fueled the energy stock's rally this year, and whether it has the power to continue producing market-crushing returns in 2025. A record-breaking year Targa Resources had a very strong year in 2024. The pipeline company delivered a record $1.1 billion of adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization ( EBITDA ) during the third quarter . The midstream company handled record volumes during the period across its Permian, natural gas liquids (NGL) transportation, and fractionation assets (fractionators separate NGLs into pure streams of ethane, propane, butane, and other products). One factor fueling its record earnings and volumes was the recent completion of several organic expansion projects. The company completed the Daytona NGL Pipeline expansion in the third quarter. It also started up the new 120,000-barrel-per-day Train 9 fractionator in Texas in the first quarter, and completed its new Wildcat II natural gas processing plant in the fourth quarter of 2023. The company's strong showing has it on track to deliver adjusted EBITDA above the top end of its $3.95 billion to $4.05 billion range in 2024. That suggests around 15% growth compared to 2023's record of $3.5 billion, which was 22% above 2022's level. It's much faster than the roughly 8% growth rate the company initially expected this year. Targa's growing earnings have allowed it to return more cash to shareholders this year. It boosted its dividend by 50% and repurchased $646.7 million of its shares through Q3. Meanwhile, the company's growing earnings have helped lower its leverage ratio , which is now in the lower half of its 3.0 to 4.0 times target range. As a result, the company received credit rating upgrades in August, pushing it another notch into investment-grade territory. That's reducing its borrowing costs while enabling it to get better terms from lenders. Hitting an inflection point in 2025 Targa Resources has been investing heavily in expanding its midstream network in response to strong demand from its producing customers. The company currently has several additional expansion projects on track to enter commercial service over the next two years. It has six more natural gas processing plants under construction that should enter commercial service through Q3 2026. It also has another NGL fractionator under construction (Q3 2026 in-service date) and an expansion of its Galena Park terminal (second half of 2025). On top of that, it invested in a joint venture building a new natural gas pipeline, which should enter service in the second half of 2026. However, while the company has several expansion projects underway, its capital spending should moderate in 2025. It expected growth capital spending of $2.7 billion in 2024, higher than its initial range ($2.3 billion to $2.5 billion) due to higher-than-anticipated volume growth on its Permian system. The company currently anticipates that capital spending will be around $1.7 billion next year. While that's an increase from its initial expectations of $1.4 billion, it represents a roughly $1 billion decline from 2024's level. That lower capital spending level will free up significant cash. Meanwhile, its expansion projects will further increase its cash flow. These catalysts will give the midstream company more money to return to investors. That gave Targa the confidence to boost its dividend by another 33% for 2025, which will raise its dividend yield to 2.2% from its current level of 1.7%. Meanwhile, the company has about $1.1 billion remaining on its current share repurchase authorization. The fuel to continue rallying Targa Resources has a lot of momentum heading into 2025. The midstream company should continue growing at a solid pace. Meanwhile, its free cash flow should surge, with capital spending on track to decline. That will give it even more money to return to investors. These factors could give the pipeline company the fuel to continue rallying in 2025, especially considering that its valuation is right in line with its peers in the midstream sector, even after its epic rally in 2025. While its shares probably won't see a repeat of 2024's surge, Targa could still produce strong returns in the coming year.
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