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super q pancit bihon VANCOUVER — British Columbia business owner Joe Chaput will spend $5,500 a month on security guards during the holiday season and plans on upgrading his store's video camera system for around $5,000 more. He's not selling luxury brands or expensive jewels. Chaput sells cheese, and at Christmas, cheese is a hot commodity. He is the co-owner of specialty cheese store les amis du Fromage, with two locations in Vancouver. While cheeselifting is rare in their Kitsilano store, the outlet in East Vancouver is hit in waves, with nothing happening for a month, then three of four people trying to steal their inventory within a week. "Sometimes, you miss it. Sometimes, you catch it. The way shoplifters behave ... they tend to gravitate toward expensive things," said Chaput. Expensive cheese is on shoplifters' Christmas list, he said. "They tend to do the classic examples of staying away from customer service and trying to go to a different part of the store so they can be left alone to steal." Chaput isn't alone. Police say food-related crimes on are the rise in Canada and as prices climb for items such as cheese and butter, they become lucrative on the black market for organized crime groups, not to mention theft for local resale. Sylvain Charlebois, the director of Dalhousie University's Agri-food Analytics Lab, said a black market tends to emerge as soon as food prices surge. "Organized crime will steal anything (if) they know they can sell it and so, they probably would have known who their clients are before even stealing anything at all, and that's how a black market is organized," said Charlebois. He said he believes there are two categories of people shoplifting — those who do so out of desperation because they can't afford the food, or organized criminals, profiting from sales on the black market. Mounties in North Vancouver made cheesy headlines when they ran into a man with a cart of stolen cheese in the middle of the night in September. The cheese, valued at $12,800, was from a nearby Whole Foods Store. While the cheese was recovered, it had to be disposed of because it hadn't been refrigerated. Const. Mansoor Sahak, with the North Vancouver RCMP, said officers believe cheese is targeted because it's "profitable to resell." "If they are drug addicts, they will commit further crimes with that or feed their drug habits. It’s a vicious cycle,” said Sahak. Sahak said meat is also a top target for grocery thieves, with store losses sometimes in the thousands. "So, we're not surprised that this happened,” said Sahak. Police in Ontario have been chasing down slippery shoplifters going after butter. Scott Tracey, a spokesman with Guelph Police Service, said there have been eight or nine butter thefts over the last year, including one theft last December worth $1,000. In October, two men walked into a local grocer and filled their carts with cases of butter valued at $936, and four days later a Guelph grocer lost four cases valued at $958. Tracey said he has looked at online marketplaces and found listings by people selling 20 or 30 pounds of butter at a time. “Clearly, somebody didn't accidentally buy 30 extra pounds of butter. So, they must have come from somewhere,” said Tracey, “I think at this point it appears to be the black market is where it's headed.” He said the thefts seem to be organized, with two or three people working together in each case. Police in Brantford, Ont., are also investigating the theft of about $1,200 worth of butter from a store on Nov. 4. Charlebois said retailers could invest in prevention technologies like electronic tags, but putting them on butter or cheese is rare. He said up until recently grocery store theft has been a "taboo subject for many years." Stores didn't wanted to talk about thefts because they didn't want to alarm people but now they feel they need to build awareness about what is "becoming a huge problem," said Charlebois. Chaput, the cheese store owner, said he had been running the East Vancouver store for 15 years while managing the store in Kitsilano for 30 years, and he loves his customers. "It's really one of the best parts of our businesses, seeing familiar faces and making new customers. It's why we come to work, really. Partly it's the cheese, and partly it's the people," said Chaput. He said his strategy to combat would-be thieves is to give them extra customer service to make it harder for them to steal. He admits, however, that the shoplifting causes him stress. "It's challenging. You're busy trying to run your business day to day and take care of customers and take care of employees. Having to deal with criminals, just kind of scratches away. It can be a bit exhausting," said Chaput. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 15, 2024. Nono Shen, The Canadian Press

Chargers will be without top RB Dobbins and could lean on QB Herbert against FalconsA backlog of over 1,000 unsolved cold cases sits in the Fort Worth Police Department's Cold Case Unit. Now, a proposed bipartisan bill could help provide the funding needed to solve these cases and bring closure to families of lost and missing loved ones. The Carla Walker Act, introduced by Sen. John Cornyn (R- Texas) and Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vermont), is named after Fort Worth murder victim Carla Walker. Walker was 17 years old when she was abducted, held captive, sexually assaulted and eventually murdered in 1974. In 2020, 46 years after her death, a suspect was identified using advanced forensic analysis. Glen McCurley, the suspect, would plead guilty to her murder less than a year later. The bill would provide funding to police agencies for the same advanced testing used in Walker's case. Several cases across North Texas have been solved using these methods that allow scientists to examine DNA samples more closely and search for family members that may share that DNA. This allows for investigators to build family trees that can lead to suspects. "We know all of our law enforcement agencies are under-staffed and under-funded and they don't necessarily have access to the latest technology," Cornyn said in an interview with NBC 5. "This would provide additional federal funds so that police departments around the country, forensic labs, could access this innovative, new technology to allow them to crack these cold cases and to bring the perpetrators to justice." Last month, NBC 5 Investigates looked into the backlog of cold cases in Fort Worth . Families said they felt forgotten because the Fort Worth Cold Case Unit is understaffed. The department confirmed that only one full-time detective and two part-time reserve officers were assigned to the unit, which has 1,000 cold cases to solve. Retiring Police Chief Neil Noakes said his department is actively working on cold cases where new leads exist. In September, NBC 5 Investigates reported that the Fort Worth Police Department's crime lab has been so short-staffed that it failed to meet state deadlines for processing evidence in sexual assault cases more than 1,200 times . On Nov. 21, Cornyn announced that the federal government was sending $2.1 million to clear the backlog in Fort Worth. The Dallas Police Department also has a backlog of more than 3,000 cold case homicides. On Friday, the Dallas County District Attorney's Office secured over $3.8 million in federal grants for cold cases. The funding would create two units: the SAKI Unit (Sexual Assault Kit Initiative) and the Cold Case Homicide Unit. “This grant money will allow us to apply more resources to solve more violent crimes and solve them faster than ever before,” said District Attorney John Creuzot. “This is an incredibly profound time for the people of Dallas County to finally get justice for some of the worst crimes committed against our citizens.” Cornyn confirmed to NBC 5 that he believes that funding from the Carla Walker Act would help with backlogs like Dallas and Fort Worth's. The Carla Walker Act was previously introduced in the U.S. House in 2022 by former Representative Kelly Armstrong (R-North Dakota). It was referred to a House Judiciary Committee but never made it to the floor.

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Police officers stand near a body covered by a tarp outside of Feather River Adventist School after a shooting Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Oroville, Calif. (Michael Weber/The Chico Enterprise-Record via AP) Police officers stand near a body covered by a tarp outside of Feather River Adventist School after a shooting Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Oroville, Calif. (Michael Weber/The Chico Enterprise-Record via AP) Emergency personnel state outside the Feather River Adventist School after a shooting Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Oroville, Calif. (Michael Weber/The Chico Enterprise-Record via AP) Police tape blocks a road outside the Feather River Adventist School after a shooting Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Oroville, Calif. (Michael Weber/The Chico Enterprise-Record via AP) Police officers stand near a body covered by a tarp outside of Feather River Adventist School after a shooting Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in Oroville, Calif. (Michael Weber/The Chico Enterprise-Record via AP) PALERMO, Calif. (AP) — Two children were wounded in a shooting Wednesday at a small religious K-8 school in Northern California and the shooter died from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot, sheriff’s officials said. The children’s conditions were not immediately known. The shooting occurred Wednesday afternoon at the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists, a private, K-8 school in Palermo, a community of 5,500 people about 65 miles (104 km) north of Sacramento. Butte County Sheriff Kory L. Honea said the 911 calls reported “an individual on campus who had fired shots at students,” and said that the shooter did not appear to have a connection to the school. The motive was not immediately known, he continued. One student was flown to a nearby hospital, Honea said. Authorities rushed students to the Oroville Church of the Nazarene to be reunited with their families, the sheriff’s office said. The school has been open since 1965 and caters to fewer than three dozen children, according to its website.CM Maryam’s China visit yields promising investment deals

BlackBerry Ltd. stock rises Thursday, still underperforms marketSenator Ted Cruz facing deadline to pass bill protecting victims of deepfake pornographyUkraine’s allies have shifted their focus from seeking a victory to trying to put President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the best position to counter Russian advances or negotiate a possible ceasefire, people familiar with the matter said. For now, that means NATO is redoubling efforts to rush more weapons to the war-torn country as Kyiv forces are slowly losing ground, raising the specter the eventual truce may freeze the conflict with swathes of Ukraine under occupation by Vladimir Putin’s troops. Putin has shown no willingness to discuss a ceasefire, but the return of Donald Trump to the White House has focused NATO allies on how to shore up the political will to sustain the nearly three-year war as morale starts to fade. As foreign ministers gathered in Brussels this week have focused on how to supply more weapons, governments have begun considering various negotiated scenarios to end the war, the people said. The discussion includes the kind of security guarantees that would protect Ukraine, while not provoking Putin, the people said. All of them spoke on the condition of anonymity given the political and security sensitivity of the planning, which is private and still incomplete. One possible option for a ceasefire includes creating a demilitarized zone. In case of a ceasefire, European troops would probably secure and patrol it, according to one senior NATO diplomat. Those discussions come amid recognition that the situation in Ukraine is unsustainable and negotiations should begin soon, according to another senior western diplomat. For European allies, the scenarios also offer an opportunity to show Trump they can stay relevant if ceasefire talks eventually crystallize.

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( MENAFN - EIN Presswire) CANADA, December 29 - The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement on the passing of Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States of America: “Today, the world lost a great leader and statesman, and Canada a dear friend, with the passing of former President of the United States of America, Jimmy Carter. On behalf of all Canadians, I offer our deepest condolences to his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and his extended family and friends. “I remember my father speaking highly of President Carter as a man of deep faith, strong morals, and firm principles. I had the honour of meeting him a few times over the past decades, and he was always kind and thoughtful, and generous with his advice to me about public service. “His life embodied the American Dream, rising as he did from humble roots in Plains, Georgia, to become leader of the United States of America. As President, he took a strong stand to support peace and human rights around the globe, most notably by helping negotiate peace between Egypt and Israel. At home, his actions and reforms laid the groundwork for the economic boom of the 1980s. “President Carter also redefined post-presidency life. He remained heavily involved in conflict resolution, democracy promotion, and disease prevention worldwide through the Carter Center, which he founded in 1982, and as a member of The Elders, a group of independent global leaders. For 39 years, he also held an annual town hall with first-year students at Emory University, encouraging and inspiring young people to engage in politics and public service. “For more than 35 years, he and his late wife Rosalynn also gave generously of their time to Habitat for Humanity, leading projects to build, renovate, and repair thousands of homes in countries around the world. In 2017, the Carters led their 34th Carter Work Project right here in Canada, building 150 homes in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Confederation – a lasting gift to families across our country. “In recognition of his significant accomplishments in office and afterward, President Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. “On this sombre day, we join our American neighbours and friends to mourn a former President and a lifelong humanitarian, whose selfless service will continue to inspire others to make the world a better place.” Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above. MENAFN29122024003118003196ID1109040145 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.

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Shares of Marvell Technology ( MRVL 23.19% ) surged 23.2% on Wednesday following the data infrastructure semiconductor specialist's release on the prior afternoon of its report for the third quarter of its fiscal year 2025 (ended Nov. 2, 2024). Investors' positive reaction can be attributed to the quarter's revenue and earnings beating Wall Street's consensus estimates, and fourth-quarter guidance for both the top and bottom lines speeding by analysts' expectations. Powerful demand for artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities was the driver of Marvell's quarterly growth and better-than-expected guidance. Marvell Technology's key numbers Metric Fiscal Q3 2024 Fiscal Q3 2025 Change YOY Revenue $1.42 billion $1.52 billion 7% GAAP operating income ($146.3 million) ($702.8 million) Loss widened 380% GAAP net income ($164.3 million) ($676.3 million) Loss widened 312% Adjusted net income $354.1 million $ 373 .0 million 5% GAAP earnings per share (EPS) ($0.19) ($0.78) Loss widened 311% Adjusted EPS $0.41 $0.43 5% Data source: Marvell Technology. YOY = year over year. GAAP = generally accepted accounting principles. Fiscal Q3 2025 ended Nov. 2, 2024. Investors should focus mainly on the adjusted numbers, which exclude one-time items. Adjusted net income excludes $715.1 million in restructuring charges, $264.9 in amortization of acquired intangible assets, $158.4 million in stock-based compensation, and a few other smaller positive and negative items. Wall Street was looking for adjusted EPS of $0.40 on revenue of $1.45 billion, so Marvell surpassed both expectations. In the quarter, Marvell generated cash of $536.3 million running its operations, up 7% from the year-ago period. The company ended the quarter with cash and equivalents of $868.1 million, up 7% from the prior quarter, and long-term debt of $3.97 billion on its balance sheet. Performance by end market End Market Fiscal Q3 2025 Revenue Change YOY Data center $1.10 billion 98% Enterprise networking $150.9 million (44%) Carrier infrastructure $84.7 million (73%) Consumer $96.5 million (43%) Automotive/industrial $82.9 million (22%) Total $1.52 billion 7% Data source: Marvell Technology. YOY = year over year. The data center end market's phenomenal growth of 98% year over year was driven by strong demand for the company's AI -related products. These mainly include its custom AI chips -- which are application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) -- and interconnect products for AI-enabled data centers. In fiscal Q3, the data center end market accounted for a whopping 72% of Marvell's total revenue. This is up from just 39% in the year-ago quarter, clearly showing how the company's business profile has changed considerably in just one year. The other four end markets continued to struggle on a year-over-year basis, dragging down the company's overall results. This is a semiconductor industrywide phenomenon, not specific to Marvell. What the CEO had to say In the earnings release, CEO Matt Murphy commented on the quarter's results and the outlook for Q4: Moreover, in addition to expecting a "strong finish to this fiscal year," Murphy said management projects the "substantial momentum to continue in fiscal 2026." Guidance For the fiscal Q4 (which ends in late January/early February 2025), management expects: Revenue of $1.80 billion, which equates to growth of 26% year over year. Adjusted EPS of between $0.54 and $0.64, which equates to growth of 17% to 39% (28% at the midpoint). Going into the release, Wall Street had been expecting fiscal Q4 adjusted EPS of $0.52 on revenue of $1.65 billion, so Marvell's outlook sprinted by both expectations. Management sees accelerating growth on the horizon Marvell's overall fiscal Q3 results were just so-so with year-over-year revenue and adjusted EPS only increasing a modest 7% and 5%, respectively. But its fiscal Q4 guidance looks great, with expected revenue growth of 26% year over year and adjusted EPS growth of 17% to 39%. This robust outlook reflects management's confidence that strength in its AI-powered data center end market will continue and that demand in some of its other markets will improve.

New York, Nov 30 (AP) Retailers used giveaways and big discounts to reward US shoppers who ventured out for Black Friday even as earlier offers, the prospect of better bargains in the days ahead and the ease of e-commerce drained much of the excitement from the holiday shopping season's much-hyped kickoff. Frequent deals throughout the month and more awaiting on Cyber Monday gave consumers less of a reason to squabble over store shelves while trying to get their hands on TVs or toys. But shopping malls and merchants big and small used the day after Thanksgiving to entice customers into physical stores at a time when many prefer to browse and buy online. Some Target shoppers lined up as early as 11.30 pm on Thanksgiving Day to get their hands on an exclusive book devoted to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour and a bonus edition of her “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology” album. Although both will be available purchase online starting Saturday, many locations sold out their supply of the products, the discount retailer said. At a Target in Southfield, Michigan, a few miles north of Detroit, Marge Evans, 32, used her cellphone to take and send photos of shirts, sweaters and other apparel with Black Friday markdowns. Her shopping cart was full, but she was shopping for an upcoming cruise with her fiance, not Christmas. “I'll see what things are looking like the first week in January,”the 32-year-old massage therapist said. “Really, after the holidays are over is when the real deals come through. They get rid of everything.” Industry analysts observed Black Friday shoppers displaying the same choosy, deal-driven behavior many U.S. consumers exhibited all year while adjusting prices after the period of inflation that started toward the end of the coronavirus pandemic. At many stores, the huge crowds of Black Fridays past never returned after the pandemic. A Walmart in Germantown, Maryland, had only half of the parking spots filled on Friday morning. Some shoppers were returning items or buying groceries. Bharatharaj Moruejsan, a 35-year-old software engineer, decided to check out Walmart's offers because he was jet-lagged after returning from a month-long family vacation to India. He scored an iPad for his 1-year-old daughter for $250, 32 per cent off its original USD 370 price tag. “That's a good deal,” Moruejsan said. After visiting stores and shopping centers on Long Island, Marshal Cohen, chief retail adviser at market research firm Circana, said that apart from people lining up for Target's Taylor Swift merchandise, the number of shoppers appeared typical. “The spreading out of the holidays has created the lack of need and lack of urgency,” said Cohen, who had a 20-person team monitoring crowds nationwide. “This is going to be a long, slow tedious process” of getting shoppers to buy, he said. Retailers that offered at least 40 per cent off drove shoppers' attention, according to Brown. For example, Forever 21 had 50 per cent to 70 per cent discounts and had lines to the stores, while H&M, which offered 30 per cent discounts, was relatively quiet. Enough consumers still enjoy holiday shopping in person that Black Friday nonetheless was expected to retain its crown remains the biggest day of the year for retail foot traffic in the US, according to retail technology company Sensormatic Solutions. At Macy's Herald Square in Manhattan, the setting for the 1947 Christmas movie “Miracle on 34th Street,” a steady stream of shoppers early Friday found some shoes and handbags priced half-off, special occasion dresses marked down by 30 per cent, and 60 per cent off the store's luxury bedding brand. Keressa Clark, 50, and her daughter Morghan, 27, who were visiting New York from Wilmington, North Carolina, arrived at 6.15 am. "I am actually shocked to see so many Black Friday deals because so many things are online,” Morghan Clark said. Karessa Clark, who works as a nurse practitioner, said President-elect Donald Trump's pending return to the White House made her feel better about the economy. She plans to spend USD 2,000 this holiday season, about USD 500 more than a year ago. Online sales figures from Thanksgiving Day gave retailers a reason to remain hopeful for a lucrative end to the year. Vivek Pandya, the lead analyst at Adobe Digital Insights, said consumers spent a record USD 6.1 billion online Thursday, 8.8 per cent more than on Thanksgiving last year. Bigger-than-expected discounts helped spur spending on electronics, apparel and other categories, Pandya said. Across the board, Black Friday weekend discounts should peak at 30 per cent on Cyber Monday and then retreat to around 15 per cent, according to Adobe's research. Analysts forecast a solid holiday shopping season overall in the US, though perhaps not as robust as last year. Retailers were even more under the gun to get shoppers in to buy early and in bulk since there are five fewer days between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. Shoppers at Lakeside Shopping Center in Metairie, Louisiana, were treated to a glass of champagne and a USD 50 gift receipt. “This is a nice touch. I was just talking to my best friend and rehashing over Thanksgiving so this was a nice little treat after that conversation. Everyone needs a little drink,” said Faren Kennedy, a Houston resident who was in town visiting family and wanted to stop at the mall for the nostalgia of Black Friday shopping. At Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, some 13,000 people showed up the first hour of its 7 am opening, roughly 1,000 more than a year ago, according to Jill Renslow, the mall's chief business development and marketing officer. Black Friday no longer is an American-only sales event. Retailers in Australia, Canada, France, Germany and the UK also appealed to holiday shoppers looking to save money. In India, about 200 Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers, rallied Friday in New Delhi, some wearing masks of Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, to demand better wages and working conditions. Similar protests were planned in other countries. (AP) GRS GRS (This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)

ON Semiconductor: A Hidden Gem Amidst Market Trends? ON Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:ON) is currently making waves in investment circles due to its unusual market indicators. With a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 16x, it stands significantly lower than almost half of U.S.-based companies that enjoy P/E values above 20x, and some even exceed 35x. At first glance, this might seem like a bullish signal , suggesting a potential opportunity for savvy investors. However, there’s more beneath the surface that demands a closer look. Recent performance highlights ON Semiconductor’s struggle as its earnings have not kept pace with the broader corporate growth patterns. This underperformance might explain the restrained P/E ratio, as investors appear cautious about the company’s future prospects. While the company has seen a disappointing 20% dip in earnings per share (EPS) in the past year, the overall three-year trajectory shows an impressive 158% increase. Looking ahead, analysts predict a promising annual EPS growth of 16% for the upcoming three years, outstripping the broader market projection of 11%. This potential has not yet been fully embraced by investors, suggesting a disparity in perception versus reality. By closely analyzing ON Semiconductor’s financial health and growth forecasts, investors can better navigate these apparent contradictions. For those willing to delve deeper, evaluation of ON Semiconductor’s balance sheet and risk factors could reveal hidden opportunities within the tech sector. As always, thorough due diligence is key before making any investment decisions. Is ON Semiconductor the Next Big Bet in Tech Stocks? Exploring ON Semiconductor’s Market Position and Future Potential ON Semiconductor Corporation, a notable player in the tech industry, has recently garnered attention due to its atypical market performance and unique financial metrics. With a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 16, significantly lower than many of its peers with ratios often surpassing 20 or even 35, ON Semiconductor presents a perplexing scenario for investors. This piece seeks to uncover fresh insights into its market standing and future growth potential. Financial Health and Performance Analysis ON Semiconductor has been a subject of interest due to its intriguing financial trajectory. Despite a recent 20% decline in earnings per share (EPS) over the past year, the company has experienced a substantial 158% increase over a three-year period. This discrepancy underscores the volatile nature of its recent performance while highlighting its capacity for long-term growth. Analysts are optimistic about ON Semiconductor’s prospects, forecasting an impressive 16% annual EPS growth over the next three years. This anticipated growth rate surpasses the broader market’s predicted annual growth of 11%, presenting a compelling case for the company’s potential future valuation improvements. Market Analysis and Investor Perception The existing gap between the company’s market metrics and its expected growth suggests a potential undervaluation. This perception presents an opportunity for investors to reconsider their stance on ON Semiconductor, especially when aligned with an in-depth analysis of its financial resilience and risk factors. Innovations and Technological Advancements ON Semiconductor’s commitment to innovation is another aspect worth exploring. The company’s focus on advancing its technology stack places it in a strong position to capitalize on the growing demand for semiconductors across various industries. Market trends continue to indicate an increasing reliance on tech-driven solutions, suggesting that ON Semiconductor’s strategic focus on innovation could yield substantial results. Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility In addition to its financial and growth metrics, ON Semiconductor has been making strides in adopting sustainable practices. By prioritizing energy-efficient technologies and reducing environmental impact, the company aligns itself with the increasing global emphasis on sustainability—a factor that can play a crucial role in its long-term success and market attractiveness. Conclusion and Due Diligence Considering ON Semiconductor’s current pricing and growth prospects, a deeper evaluation of the company’s strategic direction and risks could potentially unveil undervalued opportunities in the tech sector. As always, conducting thorough due diligence is imperative before making any investments. For more information on ON Semiconductor and its market activities, visit their official site [ON Semiconductor](https://onsemi.com).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.” Defying expectations 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.” ‘Country come to town’ 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.” A ‘leader of conscience’ on race and class 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 was Carter’s closest advisor 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. Reevaluating his legacy 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. Pilgrimages to Plains 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.