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AP Sports SummaryBrief at 9:24 p.m. ESTDarnold gives Vikings another gem with career-high 377 yards in 27-25 win over Packers MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Sam Darnold added another exploit to his career-altering season, passing for a personal-best 377 yards and three touchdowns as the Minnesota Vikings hung on to beat the Green Bay Packers 27-25 for their ninth consecutive victory. The Vikings are 14-2. They set up a final-week showdown in Detroit for both the division title and the No. 1 seed for the playoffs in the NFC. Jordan Love’s only touchdown pass for the Packers came with 2:18 left to pull the Packers within two points. Darnold responded with two completions for first downs to seal the game. Saquon Barkley tops 2,000 yards rushing and moves within 100 of Dickerson's record PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Saquon Barkley became the ninth running back in NFL history to top 2,000 yards rushing in a season, reaching the milestone with a 23-yard run in the fourth quarter against the Dallas Cowboys. That rush gave Barkley 2,005 yards with one game left and left him exactly 100 yards from Eric Dickerson’s record of 2,105, set in 1984 for the Los Angeles Rams. Barkley could potentially top the record in next week’s finale against the New York Giants. However, that game will be mostly meaningless for the Eagles, who could opt to rest Barkley to protect him from injury ahead of the playoffs. Moment of silence for former President Jimmy Carter held before the Falcons-Commanders game LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — A moment of silence was held for former President Jimmy Carter before the Atlanta Falcons' game at the Washington Commanders. The Georgia native served as the 39th president of the United States at the White House less than 10 miles away from 1977-81. Falcons owner Arthur Blank in a statement called Carter an inspirational global humanitarian. Carter died earlier Sunday at the age of 100 in Plains, Georgia. He also has a connection to the NFL as the first president to host the Super Bowl champions at the White House when he welcomed the Pittsburgh Steelers there in 1980. NFC's No. 1 seed comes down to Vikings-Lions showdown at Detroit in Week 18 The NFC’s No. 1 seed will come down to the final week when the Detroit Lions host the Minnesota Vikings. The winner takes the NFC North and gets a first-round playoff bye and home-field advantage until the Super Bowl. The loser gets the No. 5 seed and must play on the road in the wild-card round. The Vikings held on for a 27-25 victory over the Green Bay Packers to set up the high-stakes showdown in Week 18. The Lions visit the San Francisco 49ers on Monday night. Win, lose or tie, they have to beat the Vikings for a second time this season. Bills clinch the AFC's No. 2 seed with a 40-14 rout of the undisciplined Jets ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Josh Allen threw two touchdown passes and ran for another score and the Buffalo Bills clinched the AFC’s No. 2 seed with a 40-14 rout of the New York Jets. The Bills put the game away by capitalizing on two Jets turnovers and scoring three touchdowns over a 5:01 span in the closing minutes of the third quarter. Buffalo’s defense forced three takeaways overall and sacked Aaron Rodgers four times, including a 2-yard loss for a safety in the second quarter. The five-time defending AFC East champion Bills improved to 13-3 to match a franchise single-season record. Saquon Barkley tops 2,000 yards rushing as Eagles beat Cowboys 41-7 to clinch NFC East PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Saquon Barkley rushed for 167 yards to top 2,000 on the season, backup quarterback Kenny Pickett ran and threw for scores before departing with injured ribs, and the Philadelphia Eagles clinched the NFC East title by routing the Dallas Cowboys 41-7. Barkley has 2,005 yards and needs 101 in next week’s mostly meaningless regular-season finale to top Eric Dickerson and his 2,105 yards for the Los Angeles Rams in 1984. The Eagles led 24-7 in the third quarter when Pickett was drilled by defensive end Micah Parsons, ending his first start in place of the concussed Jalen Hurts. Penn State coach James Franklin says Nick Saban should be college football's commissioner SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Penn State coach James Franklin believes college football needs a commissioner and he even has a candidate in mind: former Alabama coach Nick Saban. Franklin made the suggestion Sunday at Penn State’s College Football Playoff quarterfinals media day ahead of the Fiesta Bowl. The sixth-seeded Nittany Lions are preparing for their game against No. 3 seed Boise State on Tuesday. The veteran coach was responding to a question about Penn State’s backup quarterback situation after Beau Pribula transferred to Missouri before the playoff. Pribula’s decision highlighted some of the frustrating aspects of a new college football world in the Name, Image and Likeness era and the transfer portal, forcing players to make tough decisions at inopportune times. LeBron James at 40: A milestone birthday arrives Monday for the NBA's all-time scoring leader When LeBron James broke another NBA record earlier this month, the one for most regular-season minutes played in a career, his Los Angeles Lakers teammates handled the moment in typical locker room fashion. They made fun of him. Dubbed The Kid from Akron, with a limitless future, James is now the 40-year-old from Los Angeles with wisps of gray in his beard, his milestone birthday coming Monday, one that will make him the first player in NBA history to play in his teens, 20s, 30s and 40s. He has stood and excelled in the spotlight his entire career. Rising Sun Devils: Arizona State looks to pull off another big surprise at the Peach Bowl ATLANTA (AP) — As they prepare for Arizona State’s biggest game in nearly three decades, the guys who made it happen aren’t the least bit surprised to be rated a nearly two-touchdown underdog in the College Football Playoff. That’s a familiar position for the Sun Devils. They've been an underdog most of the season. Of the eight teams still vying for a national championship, there’s no bigger surprise than 11-2 Arizona State. The Sun Devils went 3-9 a year ago and were picked to finish dead last in their first season in the Big 12 Conference. Now, they're getting ready to face Texas in the Peach Bowl quarterfinal game on New Year’s Day. Lakers send D'Angelo Russell to Nets in trade for Dorian Finney-Smith, Shake Milton LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers have traded guard D’Angelo Russell to the Brooklyn Nets for forward Dorian Finney-Smith and guard Shake Milton. The Lakers also sent forward Maxwell Lewis and three second-round draft picks to Brooklyn. Russell averaged a career-low 12.4 points per game for the Lakers this season in a diminished role under new coach JJ Redick. Finney-Smith is a steady 3-and-D wing who fills an obvious need for the Lakers. Russell is being traded by the Lakers to the Nets for the second time in his career. He also made the move in 2017.By Tom Westerholm Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers won the season series against the Celtics on Sunday, bouncing back from a blowout to deliver a 123-114 loss to a scuffling Celtics team. Here are the takeaways. 1. The Celtics couldn’t get stops. The Celtics spent much of Sunday’s game trying to rally back from a deficit, which is very difficult to do when you have to score seemingly every possession to make up for what happened on the other end. Over the last two weeks, the Celtics have the seventh-best defensive rating in the NBA according to Cleaning the Glass, which feels high given some of their struggles. On Sunday, the defense was particularly off-kilter. The Celtics gave up 98 points in the first three quarters, and when they rallied in the fourth quarter to make it a closer contest in the fourth quarter, they completely lost control of things and gave up a 13-0 run that put the game out of reach and quieted the TD Garden crowd. The Pacers paraded to the rim repeatedly, outsourcing the Celtics 66-48 in the paint and 18-4 in transition. Haliburton seemed to find the lane particularly clear, but a number of other Pacers were relatively unimpeded as they cruised around screens and found gaps in the defense. The Celtics missed Jrue Holiday , whose on-ball defense might have made a difference, and they really missed Kristaps Porzingis , whose long arms and towering height might have dissuaded some of the Pacers’ forays. But part of the challenge this season looks like it might be finding ways to get stops even when lineups aren’t exactly what the Celtics would prefer. Whether that’s energy and effort or whether its players like Sam Hauser finding ways to guard their yard, the Celtics will continue to struggle if they aren’t a lot better on the defensive end. “We’ve got to emphasize that,” Jaylen Brown said. “We’ve got to get back to emphasizing the defensive side of the ball. It’s kind of slipped over the last few games, our intensity. Teams are pressuring us and being physical with us. We’ve got to do the same stuff back to them. We did some good stuff in spots, but just not enough.” Brown added that the Celtics have had good defensive moments. However: “Defense is something that you’ve got to have effort,” he said. “We haven’t had as much intensity and effort that we need. That’s pretty much it.” 2. The Celtics also couldn’t make 3-pointers (at least when it mattered). The Celtics weren’t exactly lighting the parquet floor on fire with their 3-point shooting, but they were shooting 35.7 percent from deep entering the fourth quarter. But as the Pacers pulled away again, the Celtics tried to shoot themselves out of their hole, and they were entirely unsuccessful. They finished 1-for-12 in the final frame, including 1-for-10 before the bench unit came in to close things out in the final two minutes, which pulled their 3-point percentage below the waves and left it a bedraggled 29.6 percent (16-for-54). “I thought we dribble-drove and hit the paint,” Joe Mazzulla said. “I would say there was probably situationally in the fourth quarter when we cut it to five, there were probably two or three that I thought we could have got a better one on. But I thought we drove the ball, and the ball touched the paint.” Two stats seem relevant here. The first is the Celtics’ 3-point percentage in December, which dropped to a paltry 33.8 percent after Sunday’s game. Entering Sunday’s action, that percentage would place the Celtics 25th in the NBA over that span. The second is the Celtics win/loss splits: The Celtics are now shooting 37.9 percent from three in their wins and 32.6 percent in losses. Reducing a team’s success to its 3-point shooting seems, well, reductive, but the 741 shoe feels like it might fit so far this season. 3. Jaylen Brown was impressive again. The Celtics wasted another impressive outing by Jaylen Brown , who continued his recent run by scoring 31 points to go with four rebounds and six assists. Brown continues to be a somewhat unique – and thus perhaps especially necessary – player on Boston’s roster in that he builds his offensive game inside out and embraces opportunities to seek out contact. While Brown was just 3-for-5 at the free-throw line, he earned three and-one opportunities. The Celtics’ offense is at its best when the stars are cooking and the 3-pointers are falling. Tatum wasn’t bad (22 points, 8-for-17 shooting, nine rebounds, six assists) and Brown was excellent, but when 3-pointers aren’t falling around them, the wheels can come off quickly. “Get to the paint, get to the free throw line, drive the ball, be more physical,” Brown said when a reporter asked how the Celtics can score when they aren’t making 3-pointers. “I made an emphasis to do that tonight, and I thought it worked well for me. “I thought we also got a lot of great looks and made a lot of great reads. We had a lot of open shots that just didn’t go in for whatever reason. We’ll look at it, but ultimately yeah, we gotta be more physical.” 4. A tough stretch. The Celtics have now lost four of their last six games, and they are 5-5 in their last 10. They never lost four out of six last season — the last time they did so was in March of 2023 . Point to the injuries, call the poor 3-point shooting an outlier, or choose from a number of other options to explain away this stretch, but something simply doesn’t seem to be clicking right now for the Celtics. “I think this might be the toughest stretch that I’ve been on since I’ve been here on the Celtics,” Derrick White said, which was a reminder that he was not part of the 2021 and early 2022 teams that were known for underperforming. White added that there are “ups and downs” every season, but he is confident this team will pull it together. “Just trust the character in the locker room,” White said. “All the types of guys that are in that locker room, those are the type of guys I want to go to war with. So I’m confident in that.” Tatum said he doesn’t believe the Celtics are struggling because of overconfidence. “I think we’re just at a point in the season where we’re not happy where we’re at, and we all have to understand that we’ve played a part in where we’re at right now,” Tatum said. “We’ve just got to be better.” 5. Jordan Walsh got rotation minutes again. The second-year wing played 19 minutes again on Sunday after getting extended run against the Pacers on Friday. Walsh didn’t score, but he did record both a steal and a block, and he pulled down three rebounds. “His growth has been on pace of what we want to see,” Tatum said. “We feel like we’re going to really need him to have the success that we want to as a team. It’s about letting him know that he’s important and we need him and it’s his job to be ready and stay ready when his time is called.” So should we expect to see Walsh in the rotation now? “I mean, I like Jordan a lot,” Mazzulla said. “But we’re down two players. So I would say it’s our health that has presented that opportunity. He’s done a good job, but I would say the main reason is we’ve been down two guys.” 6. Tatum broke his double-double streak. Low on the list of priorities from Sunday’s game was the end of Tatum’s double-double streak, which ended at eight when he came up one rebound short. Still, Tatum is now averaging 9.6 rebounds per game – up from 8.1 last year. “A lot of the time, I’m guarding the big man down there, boxing out with the big guys,” Tatum said. “Just another way to assert myself into the game.” 7. The Celtics and Pacers might be a real rivalry. The Pacers seemed to really relish their win on Sunday. Haliburton mocked the TD Garden crowd at one point after a silencing run pushed the Pacers’ lead back to double digits. Pascal Siakam blew a couple of kisses after hitting a 3-pointer with the game well out of reach in the fourth. Thomas Bryant bellowed and flexed after a couple dunks in the first quarter. And Aaron Nesmith, the former Celtics first-round pick who seems to hold a specific animosity for the Celtics for having the audacity to trade him to a better situation for both sides, wasn’t even active as he continues to recover from an ankle sprain. No team gave the Celtics a tougher push in last year’s Eastern Conference playoffs than the Pacers, even though the Eastern Conference finals were a sweep. This year, the Pacers have won the regular-season series against the defending champions after Sunday’s win. The Celtics would still clearly be the favorites in a seven-game series, but the Pacers are a tough out, and they seem to be building the kind of personal grievance against the Celtics that can carry a team to higher levels in the postseason. “That was a playoff-like intensity,” Brown said. “Give credit to Indiana — they came out from the tip, you could see it, they were trying to pressure us, trying to get into me, trying to get into my body, trying to turn me over. As a team, you’ve just got to meet that challenge, every single night.” 6. A big road trip looms. The Celtics have one more game in 2024, facing the Raptors at 3 p.m. on Tuesday. They will then open 2025 with a tough road trip, starting with a back-to-back against the Timberwolves and Rockets on Thursday and Friday followed by games against the Thunder and Nuggets before they return to TD Garden. Boston.com Today Sign up to receive the latest headlines in your inbox each morning. Be civil. Be kind.
▶ Follow live updates as the world reacts to the death of Former President Jimmy Carter ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The longest-lived American president died on Sunday, more than a year after entering hospice care , at his home in the small town of Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died at 96 in November 2023 , spent most of their lives, The Carter Center said. “Our founder, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, passed away this afternoon in Plains, Georgia,” the center said in posting about his death on the social media platform X. It added in a statement that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family. Businessman, Navy officer, evangelist, politician, negotiator, author, woodworker, citizen of the world — Carter forged a path that still challenges political assumptions and stands out among the 45 men who reached the nation’s highest office. The 39th president leveraged his ambition with a keen intellect, deep religious faith and prodigious work ethic, conducting diplomatic missions into his 80s and building houses for the poor well into his 90s. “My faith demands — this is not optional — my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can, with whatever I have to try to make a difference,” Carter once said. A president from Plains A moderate Democrat, Carter entered the 1976 presidential race as a little-known Georgia governor with a broad smile, outspoken Baptist mores and technocratic plans reflecting his education as an engineer. His no-frills campaign depended on public financing, and his promise not to 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 repeated before narrowly beating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford, who had lost popularity pardoning Nixon. Carter governed amid Cold War pressures, turbulent oil markets and social upheaval over racism, women’s rights and America’s global role. His most acclaimed achievement in office was a Mideast peace deal that he brokered by keeping Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the bargaining table for 13 days in 1978. That Camp David experience inspired the post-presidential center where Carter would establish so much of his legacy. Yet Carter’s electoral coalition splintered under double-digit inflation, gasoline lines and the 444-day hostage crisis in Iran. His bleakest hour came when eight Americans died in a failed hostage rescue in April 1980, helping to ensure his landslide defeat to Republican Ronald Reagan. Carter acknowledged in his 2020 “White House Diary” that he could be “micromanaging” and “excessively autocratic,” complicating dealings with Congress and the federal bureaucracy. He also turned a cold shoulder to Washington’s news media and lobbyists, not fully appreciating their influence on his political fortunes. “It didn’t take us long to realize that the underestimation existed, but by that time we were not able to repair the mistake,” Carter told historians in 1982, suggesting that he had “an inherent incompatibility” with Washington insiders. Carter insisted his overall approach was sound and that he achieved his primary objectives — to “protect our nation’s security and interests peacefully” and “enhance human rights here and abroad” — even if he fell spectacularly short of a second term. And then, the world Ignominious defeat, though, allowed for renewal. The Carters founded The Carter Center in 1982 as a first-of-its-kind base of operations, asserting themselves as international peacemakers and champions of democracy, public health and human rights. “I was not interested in just building a museum or storing my White House records and memorabilia,” Carter wrote in a memoir published after his 90th birthday. “I wanted a place where we could work.” That work included easing nuclear tensions in North and South Korea, helping to avert a U.S. invasion of Haiti and negotiating cease-fires in Bosnia and Sudan. By 2022, The Carter Center had declared at least 113 elections in Latin America, Asia and Africa to be free or fraudulent. Recently, the center began monitoring U.S. elections as well. Carter’s stubborn self-assuredness and even self-righteousness proved effective once he was unencumbered by the Washington order, sometimes to the point of frustrating his successors . He went “where others are not treading,” he said, to places like Ethiopia, Liberia and North Korea, where he secured the release of an American who had wandered across the border in 2010. “I can say what I like. I can meet whom I want. I can take on projects that please me and reject the ones that don’t,” Carter said. He announced an arms-reduction-for-aid deal with North Korea without clearing the details with Bill Clinton’s White House. He openly criticized President George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also criticized America’s approach to Israel with his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” And he repeatedly countered U.S. administrations by insisting North Korea should be included in international affairs, a position that most aligned Carter with Republican President Donald Trump. Among the center’s many public health initiatives, Carter vowed to eradicate the guinea worm parasite during his lifetime, and nearly achieved it: Cases dropped from millions in the 1980s to nearly a handful. With hardhats and hammers, the Carters also built homes with Habitat for Humanity. The Nobel committee’s 2002 Peace Prize cites his “untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development.” Carter should have won it alongside Sadat and Begin in 1978, the chairman added. Carter accepted the recognition saying there was more work to be done. “The world is now, in many ways, a more dangerous place,” he said. “The greater ease of travel and communication has not been matched by equal understanding and mutual respect.” ‘An epic American life’ Carter’s globetrotting took him to remote villages where he met little “Jimmy Carters,” so named by admiring parents. But he spent most of his days in the same one-story Plains house — expanded and guarded by Secret Service agents — where they lived before he became governor. He regularly taught Sunday School lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church until his mobility declined and the coronavirus pandemic raged. Those sessions drew visitors from around the world to the small sanctuary where Carter will receive his final send-off after a state funeral at Washington’s National Cathedral. The common assessment that he was a better ex-president than president rankled Carter and his allies. His prolific post-presidency gave him a brand above politics, particularly for Americans too young to witness him in office. But Carter also lived long enough to see biographers and historians reassess his White House years more generously. His record includes the deregulation of key industries, reduction of U.S. dependence on foreign oil, cautious management of the national debt and notable legislation on the environment, education and mental health. He focused on human rights in foreign policy, pressuring dictators to release thousands of political prisoners . He acknowledged America’s historical imperialism, pardoned Vietnam War draft evaders and relinquished control of the Panama Canal. He normalized relations with China. “I am not nominating Jimmy Carter for a place on Mount Rushmore,” Stuart Eizenstat, Carter’s domestic policy director, wrote in a 2018 book. “He was not a great president” but also not the “hapless and weak” caricature voters rejected in 1980, Eizenstat said. Rather, Carter was “good and productive” and “delivered results, many of which were realized only after he left office.” Madeleine Albright, a national security staffer for Carter and Clinton’s secretary of state, wrote in Eizenstat’s forward that Carter was “consequential and successful” and expressed hope that “perceptions will continue to evolve” about his presidency. “Our country was lucky to have him as our leader,” said Albright, who died in 2022. Jonathan Alter, who penned a comprehensive Carter biography published in 2020, said in an interview that Carter should be remembered for “an epic American life” spanning from a humble start in a home with no electricity or indoor plumbing through decades on the world stage across two centuries. “He will likely go down as one of the most misunderstood and underestimated figures in American history,” Alter told The Associated Press. A small-town start James Earl Carter Jr. was born Oct. 1, 1924, in Plains and spent his early years in nearby Archery. His family was a minority in the mostly Black community, decades before the civil rights movement played out at the dawn of Carter’s political career. Carter, who campaigned as a moderate on race relations but governed more progressively, talked often of the influence of his Black caregivers and playmates but also noted his advantages: His land-owning father sat atop Archery’s tenant-farming system and owned a main street grocery. His mother, Lillian , would become a staple of his political campaigns. Seeking to broaden his world beyond Plains and its population of fewer than 1,000 — then and now — Carter won an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduating in 1946. That same year he married Rosalynn Smith, another Plains native, a decision he considered more important than any he made as head of state. She shared his desire to see the world, sacrificing college to support his Navy career. Carter climbed in rank to lieutenant, but then his father was diagnosed with cancer, so the submarine officer set aside his ambitions of admiralty and moved the family back to Plains. His decision angered Rosalynn, even as she dived into the peanut business alongside her husband. Carter again failed to talk with his wife before his first run for office — he later called it “inconceivable” not to have consulted her on such major life decisions — but this time, she was on board. “My wife is much more political,” Carter told the AP in 2021. He won a state Senate seat in 1962 but wasn’t long for the General Assembly and its back-slapping, deal-cutting ways. He ran for governor in 1966 — losing to arch-segregationist Lester Maddox — and then immediately focused on the next campaign. Carter had spoken out against church segregation as a Baptist deacon and opposed racist “Dixiecrats” as a state senator. Yet as a local school board leader in the 1950s he had not pushed to end school segregation even after the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, despite his private support for integration. And in 1970, Carter ran for governor again as the more conservative Democrat against Carl Sanders, a wealthy businessman Carter mocked as “Cufflinks Carl.” Sanders never forgave him for anonymous, race-baiting flyers, which Carter disavowed. Ultimately, Carter won his races by attracting both Black voters and culturally conservative whites. Once in office, he was more direct. “I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over,” he declared in his 1971 inaugural address, setting a new standard for Southern governors that landed him on the cover of Time magazine. ‘Jimmy Who?’ His statehouse initiatives included environmental protection, boosting rural education and overhauling antiquated executive branch structures. He proclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the slain civil rights leader’s home state. And he decided, as he received presidential candidates in 1972, that they were no more talented than he was. In 1974, he ran Democrats’ national campaign arm. Then he declared his own candidacy for 1976. An Atlanta newspaper responded with the headline: “Jimmy Who?” The Carters and a “Peanut Brigade” of family members and Georgia supporters camped out in Iowa and New Hampshire, establishing both states as presidential proving grounds. His first Senate endorsement: a young first-termer from Delaware named Joe Biden. Yet it was Carter’s ability to navigate America’s complex racial and rural politics that cemented the nomination. He swept the Deep South that November, the last Democrat to do so, as many white Southerners shifted to Republicans in response to civil rights initiatives. A self-declared “born-again Christian,” Carter drew snickers by referring to Scripture in a Playboy magazine interview, saying he “had looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.” The remarks gave Ford a new foothold and television comedians pounced — including NBC’s new “Saturday Night Live” show. But voters weary of cynicism in politics found it endearing. Carter chose Minnesota Sen. Walter “Fritz” Mondale as his running mate on a “Grits and Fritz” ticket. In office, he elevated the vice presidency and the first lady’s office. Mondale’s governing partnership was a model for influential successors Al Gore, Dick Cheney and Biden. Rosalynn Carter was one of the most involved presidential spouses in history, welcomed into Cabinet meetings and huddles with lawmakers and top aides. The Carters presided with uncommon informality: He used his nickname “Jimmy” even when taking the oath of office, carried his own luggage and tried to silence the Marine Band’s “Hail to the Chief.” They bought their clothes off the rack. Carter wore a cardigan for a White House address, urging Americans to conserve energy by turning down their thermostats. Amy, the youngest of four children, attended District of Columbia public school. Washington’s social and media elite scorned their style. But the larger concern was that “he hated politics,” according to Eizenstat, leaving him nowhere to turn politically once economic turmoil and foreign policy challenges took their toll. Accomplishments, and ‘malaise’ Carter partially deregulated the airline, railroad and trucking industries and established the departments of Education and Energy, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He designated millions of acres of Alaska as national parks or wildlife refuges. He appointed a then-record number of women and nonwhite people to federal posts. He never had a Supreme Court nomination, but he elevated civil rights attorney Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the nation’s second highest court, positioning her for a promotion in 1993. He appointed Paul Volker, the Federal Reserve chairman whose policies would help the economy boom in the 1980s — after Carter left office. He built on Nixon’s opening with China, and though he tolerated autocrats in Asia, pushed Latin America from dictatorships to democracy. But he couldn’t immediately tame inflation or the related energy crisis. And then came Iran. After he admitted the exiled Shah of Iran to the U.S. for medical treatment, the American Embassy in Tehran was overrun in 1979 by followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Negotiations to free the hostages broke down repeatedly ahead of the failed rescue attempt. The same year, Carter signed SALT II, the new strategic arms treaty with Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, only to pull it back, impose trade sanctions and order a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. Hoping to instill optimism, he delivered what the media dubbed his “malaise” speech, although he didn’t use that word. He declared the nation was suffering “a crisis of confidence.” By then, many Americans had lost confidence in the president, not themselves. Carter campaigned sparingly for reelection because of the hostage crisis, instead sending Rosalynn as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy challenged him for the Democratic nomination. Carter famously said he’d “kick his ass,” but was hobbled by Kennedy as Reagan rallied a broad coalition with “make America great again” appeals and asking voters whether they were “better off than you were four years ago.” Reagan further capitalized on Carter’s lecturing tone, eviscerating him in their lone fall debate with the quip: “There you go again.” Carter lost all but six states and Republicans rolled to a new Senate majority. Carter successfully negotiated the hostages’ freedom after the election, but in one final, bitter turn of events, Tehran waited until hours after Carter left office to let them walk free. ‘A wonderful life’ At 56, Carter returned to Georgia with “no idea what I would do with the rest of my life.” Four decades after launching The Carter Center, he still talked of unfinished business. “I thought when we got into politics we would have resolved everything,” Carter told the AP in 2021. “But it’s turned out to be much more long-lasting and insidious than I had thought it was. I think in general, the world itself is much more divided than in previous years.” Still, he affirmed what he said when he underwent treatment for a cancer diagnosis in his 10th decade of life. “I’m perfectly at ease with whatever comes,” he said in 2015 . “I’ve had a wonderful life. I’ve had thousands of friends, I’ve had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence.” ___ Former Associated Press journalist Alex Sanz contributed to this report.
SAINT PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Mariah Keopple and Alexandra Labelle scored their first goals of the season and the Montreal Victoire edged the Minnesota Frost 3-2 on Saturday. Marie-Philip Poulin's goal almost six minutes into the second period was the difference as she converted a 2-on-1 from Laura Stacey and Jennifer Gardiner and Montreal (2-2-0-1), which went 0 for 3 on the power play, won its third straight while handing Minnesota (3-1-1-1) its first regulation loss of the season. Despite having the better control of the action from the start Montreal fell behind 1-0 near the middle of the first period when Claire Thompson and Taylor Heise set up Britta Curl-Salemme for her third goal of the season. But in the last five minutes of the period Keopple scored on a pass from Claire Dalton, and Labelle banged in a rebound of her initial shot. Minnesota pulled into a tie at just 3:17 into the second period when Brooke McQuigge picked up her first goal during a scramble in front of the Montreal goal. Barely 2 1/2 minutes later the Victoire were back on top on Poulin's second goal of the season and Ann-Renee Desbiens, who made 22 saves, made that stand up. Maddie Rooney made 22 saves for Minnesota, which went 0-1 on the power play. Boston plays at Montreal on Monday. The Frost are home against Boston on Thursday. ___ AP women’s hockey: https://apnews.com/hub/womens-hockey The Associated PressReport: Eagles claim Charles Harris off waivers from Panthers - Bleeding Green Nation
Slate Office REIT ( TSE:SOT.UN – Get Free Report )’s stock price traded up 53.7% on Friday . The stock traded as high as C$0.65 and last traded at C$0.63. 754,588 shares traded hands during mid-day trading, an increase of 748% from the average session volume of 88,969 shares. The stock had previously closed at C$0.41. Slate Office REIT Price Performance The company has a current ratio of 0.47, a quick ratio of 0.14 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 329.26. The stock has a market capitalization of C$50.64 million, a PE ratio of -0.19 and a beta of 1.35. The business has a fifty day moving average price of C$0.51 and a 200-day moving average price of C$0.44. Slate Office REIT Company Profile ( Get Free Report ) Slate Office REIT is an open-ended real estate investment trust. The REIT's portfolio currently comprises 43 strategic and well-located real estate assets located primarily across Canada's major population centres including one downtown asset in Chicago, Illinois. The REIT is focused on maximizing value through internal organic rental and occupancy growth and strategic acquisitions. Featured Articles Receive News & Ratings for Slate Office REIT Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Slate Office REIT and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .
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In the '70s, North Dakotans and Minnesotans had plenty to say about Jimmy CarterHeat pumps are quickly becoming the most popular HVAC option for many Americans, with sales of the clean heating technology surpassing gas furnaces for the first time in 2022. The appeal of heat pumps comes from their ultra-efficient design, improved home comfort and generous government subsidies . As heat pumps become more popular generally so too do the DIY installation options, most notably from companies such as Mrcool that sell DIY installation kits. But are DIY heat pumps really a good idea? And what types of skills do you need to pull off your own installation? Here's how you can decide if a DIY heat pump is right for you. Can you install your own heat pump? Like most things, there's no one-size-fits-all answer here. "It's definitely more nuanced," said Simon Bernath , founder and CEO of FurnacePrices.ca , an online buying guide for heating and air conditioning systems. While you may not be playing with fire (as you would be with a furnace), heat pump installations are still pretty complex. "You still need to be fairly handy to do this," Bernath said. There are benefits and drawbacks to a DIY installation, just as there are with professional services. Installing a heat pump system on your own can work in a few different scenarios, Bernath said. First off: You need to have a baseline level of home improvement skills from other projects. "If you're just a regular person, I'd advise not to" do DIY, Bernath said. If you are experienced with other handiwork, Bernath said a ductless mini-split heat pump system is the easiest kind to install yourself. Ducted systems, where a heat pump unit connects to your home's existing ductwork, are more complicated and almost never suited to DIY installation, Bernath said. Doing a DIY installation is easiest if you buy one of the intended DIY kits from a company like MRCOOL, rather than buying a kit intended for professional contractors. Of course, there are also risks to a DIY approach. If you don't do everything right, your heat pump might not work, at least not work at peak efficiency. Overlooking small details could lead to damage to your home, from a leaking condensate pipe, for example. And if you do have issues, most HVAC contractors will be hesitant to work on (or guarantee a repair on) a system they didn't install, Bernath said. Plus, if you install equipment that was intended to be used by professional installers, it might void a manufacturer's warranty on the system. Pros: Cons: Calling in a professional HVAC installer is how most people get their heat pumps -- especially if it's a totally new system. Even if you decide to DIY parts of the installation, you could still opt for professional help for the electrical work, for example. The benefit of going with a professional installer, of course, is that they will make sure your system is set up properly and can help fix issues down the line if they come up. "It's not just about the initial installation," Bernath said. "That ongoing support is arguably just as important as the initial installation or even the brand you choose." Professional installation will of course be more expensive than a DIY approach, but it might be worth it in the long run to make sure your system is running at peak performance (which will then save you money on your utility bills). Pros: Cons: A mini-split heat pump is easier to DIY than one that uses air ducts, but both are complicated and a bad installation can lead to inefficiencies and problems. How much does it cost to install a heat pump? The price for the labor involved in installing a heat pump varies, but it can cost as much or more than the cost of the equipment itself. Depending on your home, the type of system you choose and where you live, the labor for installing a heat pump can cost as little as $500 or as much as thousands of dollars. Data from Angi suggest it generally costs $75 to $125 per hour per worker. You can get a better sense of the costs by contacting a heat pump installer and getting a free installation estimate. Don't forget the cost of permits, which could add a few hundred dollars no matter who does the installation. But if you're banking on a DIY installation saving time and hassle, add the burden of getting those permits yourself to the time and hassle column. When should you call a professional heat pump installer? Most homeowners are going to want to call a professional heat pump installer. If you're installing a heat pump for the first time to replace a different kind of heating system, you're almost always going to want professional help, especially if you don't have experience working with heating or electrical systems. If you're swapping in new equipment for an existing heat pump system, it might be easier to get away with a DIY installation. "It's best to err on the side of caution," Bernath said. "When in doubt, deal with a professional." How should you pick an HVAC installer? If you decide to call a professional, you'll want to spend some time finding the right one. Most HVAC contractors work with heat pumps now, so start by looking online, scanning reviews and seeking referrals from your friends and neighbors. You'll want to make sure an installer has the proper certifications and insurance for your area. And going with a company that's been around for a long time bodes well for reliability. When you're asking for referrals or reading reviews, pay special attention to how the contractor handles ongoing maintenance and support. 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