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ATLANTA — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died. He was 100 years old. The Carter Center said the 39th president died Sunday afternoon, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died in November 2023 after 77 years of marriage, lived most of their lives. The center said he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. As reaction poured in from around the world, President Joe Biden mourned Carter’s death, saying the world lost an “extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian” and he lost a dear friend. Biden cited Carter’s compassion and moral clarity, his work to eradicate disease, forge peace, advance civil and human rights, promote free and fair elections, house the homeless and advocacy for the disadvantaged as an example for others. “To all of the young people in this nation and for anyone in search of what it means to live a life of purpose and meaning — the good life — study Jimmy Carter, a man of principle, faith, and humility,” Biden said in a statement. “He showed that we are a great nation because we are a good people — decent and honorable, courageous and compassionate, humble and strong.” Biden said he is ordering a state funeral for Carter in Washington. A moderate Democrat, Carter ran for president in 1976 as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad grin, effusive Baptist faith and technocratic plans for efficient government. His promise to never deceive the American people resonated after Richard Nixon’s disgrace and U.S. defeat in southeast Asia. “If I ever lie to you, if I ever make a misleading statement, don’t vote for me. I would not deserve to be your president,” Carter said. Carter’s victory over Republican Gerald Ford, whose fortunes fell after pardoning Nixon, came amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over race, women’s rights and America’s role in the world. His achievements included brokering Mideast peace by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at Camp David for 13 days in 1978. But his coalition splintered under double-digit inflation and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His negotiations ultimately brought all the hostages home alive, but in a final insult, Iran didn’t release them until the inauguration of Ronald Reagan, who had trounced him in the 1980 election. Humbled and back home in Georgia, Carter said his faith demanded that he keep doing whatever he could, for as long as he could, to try to make a difference. He and Rosalynn co-founded The Carter Center in 1982 and spent the next 40 years traveling the world as peacemakers, human rights advocates and champions of democracy and public health. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, Carter helped ease nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiate cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, the center had monitored at least 113 elections around the world. Carter was determined to eradicate guinea worm infections as one of many health initiatives. Swinging hammers into their 90s, the Carters built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The common observation that he was better as an ex-president rankled Carter. His allies were pleased that he lived long enough to see biographers and historians revisit his presidency and declare it more impactful than many understood at the time. Propelled in 1976 by voters in Iowa and then across the South, Carter ran a no-frills campaign. Americans were captivated by the earnest engineer, and while an election-year Playboy interview drew snickers when he said he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times,” voters tired of political cynicism found it endearing. The first family set an informal tone in the White House, carrying their own luggage, trying to silence the Marine Band’s traditional “Hail to the Chief" and enrolling daughter Amy in public schools. Carter was lampooned for wearing a cardigan and urging Americans to turn down their thermostats. But Carter set the stage for an economic revival and sharply reduced America's dependence on foreign oil by deregulating the energy industry along with airlines, trains and trucking. He established the departments of Energy and Education, appointed record numbers of women and nonwhites to federal posts, preserved millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness and pardoned most Vietnam draft evaders. Emphasizing human rights, he ended most support for military dictators and took on bribery by multinational corporations by signing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He persuaded the Senate to ratify the Panama Canal treaties and normalized relations with China, an outgrowth of Nixon’s outreach to Beijing. But crippling turns in foreign affairs took their toll. When OPEC hiked crude prices, making drivers line up for gasoline as inflation spiked to 11%, Carter tried to encourage Americans to overcome “a crisis of confidence.” Many voters lost confidence in Carter instead after the infamous address that media dubbed his “malaise" speech, even though he never used that word. After Carter reluctantly agreed to admit the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979. Negotiations to quickly free the hostages broke down, and then eight Americans died when a top-secret military rescue attempt failed. Carter also had to reverse course on the SALT II nuclear arms treaty after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Though historians would later credit Carter's diplomatic efforts for hastening the end of the Cold War, Republicans labeled his soft power weak. Reagan’s “make America great again” appeals resonated, and he beat Carter in all but six states. Born Oct. 1, 1924, James Earl Carter Jr. married fellow Plains native Rosalynn Smith in 1946, the year he graduated from the Naval Academy. He brought his young family back to Plains after his father died, abandoning his Navy career, and they soon turned their ambitions to politics. Carter reached the state Senate in 1962. After rural white and Black voters elected him governor in 1970, he drew national attention by declaring that “the time for racial discrimination is over.” Carter published more than 30 books and remained influential as his center turned its democracy advocacy onto U.S. politics, monitoring an audit of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. After a 2015 cancer diagnosis, Carter said he felt “perfectly at ease with whatever comes.” “I’ve had a wonderful life,” he said. “I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.”Oak Valley Bancorp Stock Hits All-Time High at $30.81
The Tigers have shown interest in infielder Ha-Seong Kim , as related by the Detroit Free Press’ Evan Petzold in a recent appearance on the Days Of Roar podcast . The Blue Jays, Giants , and Kim’s former team the Padres have all been publicly connected to Kim this offseason, though it is fair to guess that San Francisco may be out of the running after signing Willy Adames . As recently noted by Anthony Franco in a piece for MLBTR Front Office subscribers, Kim is one of the trickiest players to evaluate within the 2024-25 free agent class, owing to the shoulder surgery that Kim underwent in late September. Kim will miss some time at the start of the 2025 season, though the exact timeline is up in the air — agent Scott Boras said a late-April return is possible, while Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller in October said Kim might not be ready until “ May, June, July .” It should be noted that Preller was speaking broadly on the topic rather than giving any sort of definitive timeline, yet even raising the possibility of a three-month range adds to the uncertainty over Kim’s health. Some teams have still floated the idea of signing Kim to a multi-year contract, though the exact nature of such offers aren’t clear. It would be risky to offer Kim something like four or five guaranteed years, but a two-year contract (likely with a player opt-out after 2025) seems entirely plausible. Kim and agent Scott Boras might also seek out a flat one-year deal with the same idea of Kim getting to quickly re-enter the market next winter, ostensibly on the heels of a healthier and productive platform year. MLBTR’s projection of a one-year, $12MM contract for Kim supports this strategy, though Boras is no stranger to creative deals that provide his clients with plenty of flexibility. A shorter-term contract might have more appeal to the Tigers, who are reportedly seeking out such deals in regards to starting pitchers. Now that Detroit is coming off a wild card berth and an ALDS appearance, the expectation has been that ownership and president of baseball operations Scott Harris will be somewhat more aggressive in upgrading on seems like a winning core, though the Tigers’ offseason has been pretty quiet to date, albeit with some rumors of interest in Jack Flaherty or Alex Bregman . From a pure baseball perspective, a healthy Kim would be an ideal fit for the Tigers in many ways. As Petzold notes, Kim’s speed and high-contact/low-strikeout approach greatly helps a Tigers team that finished near the bottom of the league in OBP and stolen bases, plus Kim’s right-handed bat adds balance to Detroit’s lefty-heavy lineup. Kim is also a strong defensive player at multiple infield positions, so he could address the team’s needs at either third base or shortstop. Javier Baez is still technically the incumbent starting shortstop, but his stock is at an all-time low after three increasingly poor seasons in Detroit and a hip surgery that ended his 2024 campaign in August. Baez is still owed $73MM through the 2027 season, and since the Tigers would just be eating the money anyway in releasing him, the team might as well give Baez another chance at the start of the season to see if his surgery has perhaps corrected any of the health issues that led to his dropoff in production. Trey Sweeney stepped into the shortstop role after Baez’s season ended prematurely, and Sweeney played well enough to put himself into the conversation for more regular playing time as well. If the Tigers signed Kim, Detroit could just stick with Baez and Sweeney at shortstop until Kim is ready to play, and then evaluate whether Kim could just take over at shortstop, or perhaps play third base if Baez or Sweeney are having productive seasons. This article first appeared on MLB Trade Rumors and was syndicated with permission.4 AI Data-Center Stocks to Buy for the Big Trend. Demand Is ‘Robust.’ - Barron's
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India’s path to net zero: IGBC leads sustainable building revolutionHubbard scores 14 of his 25 points late as Mississippi State pulls away from Prairie View A&M, 91-84On Thursday 32 Bills passed in the Senate in an abrogation of the chamber’s role of scrutiny – and in an attack on democratic process. Rex Patrick provides a former insider’s perspective on what happened and who has democracy’s blood and follower betrayal on their hands. Parliament is nothing without procedure. It might be mainly of interest to political junkies, but it’s a critical part of our democracy. Parliament makes laws and the processes of the Parliament are intended to ensure the democratic, orderly and transparent consideration of those laws. Let’s start with proper process for the passage of a Bill through the Senate. Step 1: When a Bill is first introduced, along with an explanatory memorandum , it’s “ read a first time” . At this point the Bill can be referred to a Senate Committee for detailed examination; stakeholders and members of the public can have their say via submissions and senators can ask all sorts of questions of officials and subject matter experts. Step 2: The next stage is the second reading debate. During this stage, senators can choose to make a 15-minute speech to express their opinions about the Bill. The speech might persuade some senators to change their own views, especially independents. It’s also useful for putting a particular position on the record for later consideration by voters. The second reading is an important democratic step. At the conclusion of the debate, a vote is taken on the question “ that this bill be read a second time “. The Bill can be killed at this stage if the Government doesn’t have support for it. Step 3: The third reading, or ‘committee stage’, is a Q and A session around the Senate chamber. Senators ask questions of the minister on how the Government intends the Bill will work, and answers can even be used by Courts to later resolve any ambiguity in the law. The committee stage is also where amendments are moved and senators point out the purpose and benefits of them. Once the Bill leaves the ‘committee stage’, a vote is taken on the question, “ that this bill be read a third time ” If agreed to, the bill has passed all stages and assuming the House of Representative is willing to accept any Senate amendments, will go on to become law. A physical guillotine is an apparatus designed for cutting off a person’s head. A parliamentary guillotine is a procedure designed to cut off debate on a Bill. The guillotine can be used legitimately for an urgent Bill, or if senators are filibustering in debate. It’s not supposed to serve as a way to abrogate scrutiny and prevent advocacy for amendments. A guillotine can occur with majority approval of the Senate. That’s important, because Labor doesn’t have a majority in the Senate; Labor’s guillotine on 32 Bills on Thursday needed support from either the Liberals or the Greens. With Prime Minister Albanese desperate to get movement on legislation, a guillotine this week was as predictable as taxes. MMW did exactly this on Tuesday. On Wednesday evening, around 7:30 PM, the Government circulated a guillotine motion. At 8:30 PM independent senator Jacqui Lambie posted on BlueSky, alerting political die-hards that the Government had signalled ‘game on’, saying: Senators’ advisors, who were struggling through the end of a long sitting fortnight went on alert. A furious Lambie was to stand up in the Senate the following morning to rightfully hit out at the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Wong. “Last night Minister Wong said all people in this place deserve a safe workplace, and, just an hour later, they sent a guillotine through like that. How is it safe for the employees in my office to go through 41 bills in a matter of about 12 hours? How is that safe? How bloody hypocritical. What about the right to disconnect?” Thursday morning would have seen deals being close to settled. At 9:03 AM, after morning prayers, Lambie stood in the Chamber and sought permission of senators to move a motion to scold the Government for their persistent guillotining of Bills – Labor had already dropped the guillotine blade on no less than 160 Bill thus far in this Parliament and was about to add to that tally. Permission was denied (any single senator can deny permission). Lambie then sought to ’suspend standing orders’ to ask the entire Senate if she could move her motion. Debate occurred. The interesting thing was – the Greens sat silently – and when it came to the vote that would allow Lambie to admonish Labor for their excessive guillotines, the Greens voted with the Government to stop her in her tracks. The Greens have long expressed strident opposition to the use of the guillotine. They understand it chops up democracy. This was expressed strongly through Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi on 28 October, a month prior. “ The Senate is a place where a huge diversity of political views are heard and it is important that the Senate is facilitated by people who can also represent that plurality. But what we see again and again is a stitch-up between the two major parties, the Liberals and the Labor Party, and we see it again today. This is not the first time it has happened. We talk about democracy here—this is the chamber of review—but again and again democracy is shut down. How many times have we seen, just in the last couple of years, debate being shut down by guillotine motions? ...” So, back to last Thursday, one might have been surprised at what happened next. At 9:46 AM Labor’s Senator Gallagher rose to set up a guillotine. And the Greens supported it! The Government lost the vote 33 (yes) and 34 (no). The business of the Senate would, at least for a short while, take its ordinary course. If at First You Don’t Succeed At 12:20 PM Wong rose to her feet in the Senate to again seek to set up a guillotine. After 30 minutes of proposals and counterproposals across the chamber, a 30 Bill guillotine was put in place. The vote was won 34 (yes) to 32 (no). The Greens again supported the guillotine. But before putting the guillotine motion to the vote Wong foreshadowed adding two more Bills to the guillotine, one of which was the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 – a Bill that the Greens purportedly bitterly opposed. Wong then acted to include the further two Bills. The Greens knew that the Government, with Coalition support, had the numbers to pass the Social Media Minimum Age Bill, but supported it being included in the guillotine. That was despite the earlier words of Senator Sarah Hanson-Young on the Social Media Minimum Age Bill. Firstly, let me say what a disgrace it is that this bill, only tabled in the House of Representatives last Thursday, has been railroaded and rushed through the process here across the parliament. It was tabled in the House Thursday, sent to a Senate inquiry that sat for only three hours on Monday. Submissions from stakeholders and interested parties were open for less than 24 hours on Friday—talk about putting out the bins, taking out the rubbish! That’s exactly how this whole bill has been treated by the major parties. The reason that this bill is being rushed without scrutiny and without appropriate review is both the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Dutton, and the Prime Minister are worried that if people really knew about what the consequences of this piece of legislation meant, they wouldn’t support it. The Government’s deal with the Greens must have been a good one to flush away Hanson-Young’s concerns. And that includes the concern she had express about young and vulnerable children. They’ll be pushed into the darkest parts of the web and they won’t want to tell their parents what’s going on because they’ll be worried their phone will be taken away, so they will spiral further and further into isolation from their friends, their family, medical experts who may be able to help them, school counsellors and teachers. They’ll become even more isolated and vulnerable. Too bad, so sad kids! Hypocrisy and betrayal was thick in the air. Those watching the Chamber though would have seen the Greens opposing the Social Media Minimum Age Bill at the third reading stage – looking like they were fighting the good fight. But the reality was, they passed the Bill the moment they voted for the guillotine. What happened visually after that was just a swindle. For the Greens, as with Labor and the Coalition, commitment to democratic process all too often falls by the wayside as partisan interests prevail.