Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at 100 , the Carter Center announced on Sunday. He entered hospice care in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, in February 2023. Carter celebrated his 100th birthday in October. Former first lady Rosalynn Carter died in November 2023 at age 96. “When she passed, it was really hard for him,” grandson Jason Carter said in spring 2024. “He had this opportunity to say goodbye, and after that, he was just totally at peace with it, and it was an incredible thing — after 77 years of marriage — to watch that type of closure. “He was ultimately really proud that he was with her until the end,” Jason Carter said. Carter was the 39th U.S. president , serving from 1977 to 1981, after defeating Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon’s vice president, who served after Nixon’s resignation. Carter’s vice president was Walter Mondale. They served one term. Prior to and during his presidency, Carter made a number of trips to Pennsylvania. He campaigned in New Cumberland and Harrisburg in 1976. Carter also visited in the aftermath of the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979. On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian demonstrators invaded the U.S. Embassy in Tehran , incited by their ayatollah to retaliate for the exiled former shah’s admission into the United States for medical treatment. Fifty-two Americans were held hostage for more than a year. Carter tried to negotiate, and when that didn’t work, he ordered a military rescue that failed in April 1980. Eight Americans were killed in the attempt. It was Carter’s bleakest hour. The hostage crisis shadowed and essentially crippled Carter’s re-election campaign. He lost to Republican Ronald Reagan. Carter carried six states to Reagan’s 44. Minutes after Reagan was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 1981, the hostages were freed after 444 days in captivity. During his presidency, Carter engineered the Israel-Egypt peace accord during negotiations at Camp David in 1978. He won the beginnings of an energy conservation policy. He gained ratification of the treaties that yielded U.S. control of the Panama Canal. He opened full diplomatic relations with China. The departments of energy and education were created. After his presidency, Carter was known for his charitable works, including famously volunteering with Habitat for Humanity. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter had three sons, John William (Jack), James Earl III (Chip) and Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff), and a daughter, Amy Lynn, who was a child when the Carters lived in the White House. Information from The Associated Press, the Carter Library and the White House.
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Franklin Resources Inc. Has $1.04 Million Holdings in First Busey Co. (NASDAQ:BUSE)The journey from sprint car driver to founding a family business, Grow Chico, that specializes in organic heirloom vegetable plants, microgreens and quail eggs took some unusual turns for Chico’s Johnny Gray. Gray, who started racing outlaw cars when he was 11 years old and then sprint cars in 2000, retired from racing in 2010 to go to work for his father, John Gray Jr., in the family business, Jessee Heating and Air Conditioning. After his father passed away in 2017 and extended family took over the business, Gray, a life-long hunter and fisher, moved on to work for Wilderness Unlimited, a private fishing, hunting and camping club. Things rolled along for Gray until 2020 when he broke his left ankle and leg. Following surgery for those breaks, Gray was in a walking cast for 12 weeks. A week after the cast came off, the left ankle broke again, and another surgery and casting followed. After the second cast was removed, Gray’s left leg broke again, and there was another surgery and casting. During this time Gray was “basically immobile” and, unbeknownst to him, became diabetic. “I kept getting weaker and weaker,” recalled Gray. “I was crawling around the house. I’d always been a healthy eater, but I wasn’t able to cook and was eating Door Dash-type food. My diet became horrible.” On Halloween 2022, Gray’s mom found him unresponsive in his home, and he was rushed to the hospital in “full liver failure.” His diabetes was diagnosed, and he was placed in an induced coma for three weeks before being released to go home. Less than a week later, his blood sugar soared, and he was back in the hospital. After a short stay, Gray was sent home with the recommendation he receive hospice care. He was 41 years old. “It was an intense time in my life,” Gray said. “I decided I didn’t want to die and I needed to figure something out so, I dove into nutrition.” His plunge into nutrition led him to start intermittent fasting and eating only organic and grass-feed beef and organic and naturally fermented foods, which are naturally high in probiotics that enrich the gut’s microbiota, crucial for a healthy microbial balance and immunity, said Gray. It wasn’t long after changing his diet that Gray began feeling better, getting stronger and was able to stop using insulin to manage his diabetes. “I learned a lot and it saved my life,” said Gray. “That’s when I decided to make a business that I could do with my kids and share my knowledge, experience and what I was eating with others. That’s when I started Grow Chico.” Gray set up three 25-foot green houses in the back yard of his Chico home and transformed his garage into a grow room for microgreens and heirloom vegetable plants. He also built an aviary for a small flock of coturnix quail, and began marketing their eggs along with his other products. “Quail eggs are delicious,” said Gray. “They are higher in riboflavin, iron, vitamins D6 and B than chicken eggs. They are so much more flavorful than chicken eggs.” Raising the birds took Gray back to his childhood when he kept turkeys, parakeet, doves and quail as a hobby. His family also had potbelly pigs, and Gray had a pet iguana and boa constrictor. “When I was 16, I hatched 1,257 Bob White quail in an incubator in my bedroom closet,” said Gray. “It wasn’t until they started hatching that my parents knew they were there. It came as surprise, but at that point, they were used to me and my circus animals. They were used to me chasing the escaped pot belly pigs through the neighborhood and the iguana and snake getting loose and getting up into the Christmas tree.” With his sons — Gage Gray and Beau Gray, now 17 and 14, respectively — at his side, Gray grew the new business supplying heirloom vegetable plant starts to Northern Star Mills, Wilbur’s Feed and Seed, and Greenfire hydroponics. Grow Chico quail eggs and microgreens are sold at New Earth Market, S& S Produces, Chico Natural Foods and My Orient Market. Several restaurants — including Raw Bar Chico, Cheers Chico and Tom Tom’s Island Style food truck– also purchase Grow Chico microgreens and quail eggs. “Gage is my right-hand man in the business,” said Gray. “And, Beau is my guy for everything computer- and technology-related. It’s great to see my sons have the same passion for this stuff as I do.” While Gage enjoys growing the microgreens and vegetables, it’s raising the quail that is his favorite part of the business. “I grew up with birds — ducks, chicken, pheasants and turkeys,” said Gage. “I like working with the quail. They are a lot of fun.” As he’s been working to establish and increase Grow Chico’s quail egg, microgreens and vegetable plant business, Gray has also been developing a line of small-batch, value-added naturally fermented products including salsa and hot sauces. These he prepares using some of the 25 different heirloom peppers he grows as well as his own organic vegetables or those from local farmers or S&S Produce. Because the salsa is naturally fermented it has a unique and pleasant tangy flavor layered over the heat of the peppers and natural sweetness of the tomatoes. To date, Gray has developed four richly flavorful hot sauces including Puma Pepper, Lemon Drop, Sweet Heat, Smoked Chili Verde and a brand new variety he calls the “kitchen sink,” because it’s made with all the peppers leftover from making the other varieties. Currently the salsa and hot sauces are only available to family and friends, as Gray is “battling” his way through the process of obtaining the state and county licensing necessary to sell them. Related Articles Cheers Chico caters to local tastes | It’s Your Business Variety mushrooms at Turkey Tail Farm | It’s Your Business HatchTracker cracking into ag industry | It’s Your Business Owners make provisions for Provisions | It’s Your Business Camaraderie of The Commons | It’s Your Business “My goal is to have the licenses by the end of 2025 so I can put them on the market,” said Gray. “In the meantime, I share them with people I know to get feedback which will help me continue to develop and improve the hot sauces and salsa.” For more information on Grow Chico, visit the company’s Facebook page . Reach Kyra Gottesman at kgottesman@chicoer.com
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, has died at 100SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to implement the “toughest” anti-U.S. policy, state media reported Sunday, less than a month before Donald Trump takes office as U.S. president. Trump’s return to the White House raises prospects for high-profile diplomacy with North Korea. During his first term, Trump met Kim three times for talks on the North's nuclear program. Many experts however say a quick resumption of Kim-Trump summitry is unlikely as Trump would first focus on conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. North Korea's support for Russia's war against Ukraine also poses a challenge to efforts to revive diplomacy, experts say. During a five-day plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party that ended Friday, Kim called the U.S. “the most reactionary state that regards anti-communism as its invariable state policy.” Kim said that the U.S.-South Korea-Japan security partnership is expanding into “a nuclear military bloc for aggression." “This reality clearly shows to which direction we should advance and what we should do and how,” Kim said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency. It said Kim's speech “clarified the strategy for the toughest anti-U.S. counteraction to be launched aggressively” by North Korea for its long-term national interests and security. KCNA didn't elaborate on the anti-U.S. strategy. But it said Kim set forth tasks to bolster military capability through defense technology advancements and stressed the need to improve the mental toughness of North Korean soldiers. The previous meetings between Trump and Kim had not only put an end to their exchanges of fiery rhetoric and threats of destruction, but they developed personal connections. Trump once famously said he and Kim “fell in love.” But their talks eventually collapsed in 2019, as they wrangled over U.S.-led sanctions on the North. North Korea has since sharply increased the pace of its weapons testing activities to build more reliable nuclear missiles targeting the U.S. and its allies. The U.S. and South Korea have responded by expanding their military bilateral drills and also trilateral ones involving Japan, drawing strong rebukes from the North, which views such U.S.-led exercises as invasion rehearsals. Further complicating efforts to convince North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons in return for economic and political benefits is its deepening military cooperation with Russia. According to U.S., Ukrainian and South Korean assessments, North Korea has sent more than 10,000 troops and conventional weapons systems to support Moscow's war against Ukraine. There are concerns that Russia could give North Korea advanced weapons technology in return, including help to build more powerful nuclear missiles. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said last week that 3,000 North Korean troops have been killed and wounded in the fighting in Russia's Kursk region. It was the first significant estimate by Ukraine of North Korean casualties since the North Korean troop deployment to Russia began in October. Russia and China, locked in separate disputes with the U.S., have repeatedly blocked U.S.-led pushes to levy more U.N. sanctions on North Korea despite its repeated missile tests in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions. Last month, Kim said that his past negotiations with the United States only confirmed Washington’s “unchangeable” hostility toward his country and described his nuclear buildup as the only way to counter external threats.Australia has ditched plans to fine social media companies if they fail to stem the spread of misinformation, the country's communications minister said Sunday. The proposed legislation outlined sweeping powers to fine tech companies up to five percent of their yearly turnover if they breached new online safety obligations. Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said she had dumped the bill after running into significant opposition in the country's senate. "Based on public statements and engagements with senators, it is clear that there is no pathway to legislate this proposal through the senate," she said in a statement. The proposed bill notably drew the ire of tech baron Elon Musk, who in September likened the Australian government to "fascists". Australia has been at the forefront of global efforts to regulate the tech giants. The government will soon roll out a nationwide social media ban for children under 16. Social media companies could be fined more than US$30 million if they fail to keep children off their platforms, under separate laws tabled before Australia's parliament on Thursday.
Former President Jimmy Carter earned a Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 which, at the time, seemed to cap his decades of dedication to international humanitarian work after leaving the White House. Instead, he continued to work for years after -- a legacy that is drawing renewed attention in the wake of his death at age 100. After serving one term as president and losing his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan, Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, founded an eponymous organization in Georgia dedicated to conflict resolution and advancing human rights, public health and democracy around the world. The Carter Center, the main vehicle for the Carters' work, was founded in 1982, the year after he left the White House. Jimmy Carter's advocacy for peaceful resolutions to global conflicts helped burnish his reputation as a global statesman, a commitment he underscored when receiving the Nobel on Dec. 10, 2002. MORE: Jimmy Carter to receive hospice care following hospitalizations: Carter Center "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children," he said then. The center's website declares that it is guided by the principles of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, including, "a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering" while "seek[ing] to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health." Since its founding, the center has established programs across the globe, focusing both on democracy promotion and public engagement with government as well as global health. Among other accomplishments, the center highlights work monitoring 113 elections across 39 countries. Specifically, the center recently observed elections in Myanmar, Bolivia, the Ivory Coast, Guyana, Tunisia and Nepal and currently runs projects to expand women's access to information in Liberia, Bangladesh and Guatemala. Elsewhere, the center is "supporting a human rights-based approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," working to implement a 2015 peace agreement in Mali and ameliorate the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the type of work that led to Jimmy Carter's Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. "What I derive from this is a commitment to peace, to the honoring of international law," Jimmy Carter said on Oct. 11, 2002 after he was announced as the prize's winner that year. Building off of Jimmy Carter's success in the White House in establishing a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, the center ultimately became a diplomatic broker outside of the government's official channels, with the former president himself meeting world leaders in places like North Korea, where in 1994 he helped establish a pact between Washington and Pyongyang on nuclear issues. Besides democracy promotion and conflict resolution, the center has also long been involved in several global health programs, including fighting Guinea worm, river blindness, trachoma, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis and malaria. MORE: Dec. 10, 2002: Jimmy Carter accepts Nobel Peace Prize "We believe access to health care is a human right, especially among poor people afflicted with disease who are forgotten, ignored, and often without hope," Jimmy Carter said in a quote featured on the center's website . "Just to know that someone cares about them not only can ease their physical pain but also remove an element of alienation and anger that can lead to hatred and violence." Those efforts helped lead to the unanimous decision by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2002 to award the peace prize to the former president. At the time, he lamented the growing global wealth disparity, linking it to many of the world's greatest challenges. "Among all the possible choices, I decided that the most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them," he said in 2002 . "The results of this disparity are root causes of most of the world's unresolved problems, including starvation, illiteracy, environmental degradation, violent conflict, and unnecessary illnesses that range from Guinea worm to HIV/AIDS." Besides working through his center, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter worked for decades with Habitat for Humanity, often volunteering themselves to help build homes for those in need. "Habitat provides a simple but powerful avenue for people of different backgrounds to come together to achieve those most meaningful things in life," Jimmy Carter once said. "A decent home, yes, but also a genuine bond with our fellow human beings. A bond that comes with the building up of walls and the breaking down of barriers."Targeted cash transfers can cut poverty by a third: CPD
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Montana Technologies (NASDAQ:AIRJ) Shares Up 3.7% – Should You Buy?Kentucky will aim to improve upon its best start in seven seasons when it hosts Western Kentucky on Tuesday night in Lexington, Ky., in the final game of the BBN Invitational. The Wildcats (5-0) are ranked No. 8 in the latest Associated Press poll and are setting impressive offensive milestones even for a program as tradition-rich as Kentucky, which includes eight national championships. The Wildcats have scored 97 or more points in their first four home games for the first time in program history and eclipsed the 100-point mark in three of those games. Their lone trip out of state was a solid 77-72 victory over Duke in a matchup of top-10 teams in Atlanta. Kentucky has also made at least 10 three-pointers in each of its first five games of a season for the first time ever. "I think Kentucky attracts good people," Kentucky coach Mark Pope said after the Wildcats' 108-59 win over Jackson State on Friday. "It's the one place in all college basketball where you represent just a fanbase in a different, unique way." Otega Oweh and Koby Brea have led the Wildcats' early scoring outburst. Oweh, who is averaging 16.2 points per game, had 21 points on 8-for-12 shooting against Jackson State. "He gets us off to unbelievable starts every night," Pope told reporters after that game. "He's probably been our most consistent guy in games." Brea, who scored 22 points against Jackson State and is averaging 16.0 points per game, is leading the nation in 3-point accuracy at 74.1 percent. As a team, the Wildcats are shooting 42.3 percent from beyond the arc. And the few times they miss, Amari Williams has been doing the dirty work on the glass, averaging 10.8 boards in addition to 9.6 points per game. Kentucky faces a different challenge than it's had to contend with so far in the Hilltoppers (3-2), who have won three in a row after losing their first two games to Wichita State and Grand Canyon. Their up-tempo play hasn't exactly resulted in great offensive output, but in the Hilltoppers' 79-62 win over Jackson State on Wednesday, they shot 45.2 percent from 3-point range (14 for 31). "I was happy to see a lot of different guys contribute tonight and, hopefully, get their feet under them a little bit and get some confidence," said Western Kentucky coach Hank Plona, who is in his first season as head coach. "Obviously, Tuesday will be quite a test and challenge for us and we'll need them to be at their absolute best." Western Kentucky has an experienced group, which returned mostly intact from last season. The team is led by Conference USA first-team selection Don McHenry, who is leading the team with 17.2 points and 2.2 steals per game. McHenry is one of four Hilltoppers with scoring averages in double figures. Julius Thedford (11.4 points per game) and Babacar Faye (15.0) are each shooting 40 percent or better from 3-point range. Western Kentucky also figures to challenge the Wildcats on the boards as it enters the game ranked in the top 25 in defensive rebounding (30.4 per game). Faye leads the Hilltoppers in that department, averaging 7.8 rebounds per game and figures to battle Williams inside. "We're not the biggest team in the world, but our depth and our quickness are our strengths," Plona said. --Field Level Media