Christmas Day , which falls on Thursday, Dec. 25 , is coming up so most restaurants will remain closed in honor of the holiday. Employees will be able to rest and spend time with their families and friends. However, some limited restaurants and fast food places will be open, selling prepared, holiday meals to eat-in or to-go. Patrons should check with specific restaurants for information and specific operating hours. Related: Is Dollar Tree open on Christmas? Dollar store hours for Dec. 25 & everything to know before you go What restaurants are open on Christmas Day? Here are some restaurants where you will be able to enjoy Christmas breakfast, lunch, brunch or dinner this year, according to Reader’s Digest and the chains themselves : Applebee’s (Hours vary by location, only select Applebee’s will be open) Benihana Boston Market Burger King Chart House Chili’s Denny’s Domino’s Pizza Dunkin’ Fogo de Chao Hooters IHOP Jimmy John’s Morton’s Steakhouse McDonald’s (Hours vary by location) Perkins Restaurant & Bakery Popeyes Ruth’s Chris Steak House Starbucks Wendy’s Read More – Christmas 2024 store hours: What stores are open and closed on Wednesday? McDonald’s, CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Starbucks, 7-Eleven, more Christmas 2024 Store Hours & More Christmas 2024: What’s open, what’s closed on Wednesday, Dec. 25? Banks, UPS, FedEx, mail delivery, restaurants, stores, stock markets Is Costco open on Christmas 2024? Store hours for Dec. 25 Is Marshalls open early ahead of Christmas 2024? What to know before you go to the store Christmas 2024 store hours: What stores are open and closed on Wednesday? McDonald’s, CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Starbucks, 7-Eleven, more Our journalism needs your support. Please subscribe today to NJ.com . Katherine Rodriguez can be reached at krodriguez@njadvancemedia.com . Have a tip? Tell us at nj.com/tips .As tensions flare between Elon Musk and Trump’s MAGA allies, President-elect Donald Trump posted what appeared to be a personal message to Musk on Truth Social , claiming that fellow billionaire Bill Gates asked to come to Mar-a-Lago . In an early morning post on Friday, Trump suggested the Microsoft co-founder had asked to come to Mar-a-Lago. The 78-year-old Republican encouraged him to visit. “Where are you? When are you coming to the ‘Center of the Universe,’ Mar-a-Lago. Bill Gates asked to come, tonight. We miss you and x! New Year’s Eve is going to be AMAZING!!!” Trump wrote. He signed it “DJT.” It’s not immediately clear whether Gates would visit Trump at his Florida estate. The Independent has reached out to a representative for Gates for comment. Gates, whose net worth Forbes estimated to be more than $104 billion, reportedly first met with Trump in December 2016 after he clinched his first presidential election. He congratulated Trump after he won again in November. Trump has met with a handful of billionaires in recent weeks at Mar-a-Lago, including Amazon founderJeff Bezos and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE MY FRIEND!!!” Trump boasted on Truth Social after dining with Bezos. The “X” mentioned in the post appears to be a reference to the Space X founder’s son, X Æ A-Xii , whom Musk calls X for short, CNN reported. The strange public note comes as Musk, Trump’s “best buddy”, has been clashing online with other close Trump allies over the H-1B visa program, which allows U.S. employers to hire highly skilled foreign workers. Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who together will head the newly created Department of Government Efficiency office, have defended the tech industry’s need to bring in foreign workers while Laura Loomer and others have criticized it. On Thursday, the feud escalated to a new level when Loomer accused Musk of removing her blue checkmark on X, the social media platform he owns, “because I dared to question his support for H1B visas, the replacement of American tech workers by Indian immigrants, and I questioned his relationship with China,” she wrote in a post . She continued: “Donald Trump promised to remove the H1B visa program and I support his policy. Now, as one of Trump’s biggest supporters, I’m having my free speech silenced by a tech billionaire for simply questioning the tech oligarchy.”
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Heisman Trophy finalist and two-way Colorado star Travis Hunter was named The Associated Press Big 12 defensive player of the year while also being a first-team selection at wide receiver on Thursday. Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders is the league's top offensive player. Kenny Dillingham, the 34-year-old in his second season at Arizona State, was the unanimous choice as Big 12 coach of the year after leading his alma mater to a championship and a spot in the 12-team College Football Playoff. The Sun Devils (11-2) went into their league debut as the preseason pick to finish last among the 16 teams. At cornerback, Hunter had 31 tackles, tied for the Big 12 lead with 11 pass breakups and was tied for second with four interceptions. On offense, he leads the Big 12 with 92 receptions and 14 receiving touchdowns, and is second with 1,152 yards receiving. His 21 catches of at least 20 yards are the most nationally. He is also the AP's player of the year. People are also reading... Sanders is the Big 12 passing leader, completing 337 of 454 passes (74.2%) for 3,926 yards and a school-record 35 touchdowns with eight interceptions for the Buffaloes (10-2) Arizona State freshman quarterback Sam Leavitt, who is 11-1 as a starter, is the league’s top newcomer. The Michigan State transfer has 2,663 yards passing with 24 touchdowns and only five picks in 304 attempts. Mullen picked as UNLV coach LAS VEGAS — UNLV is reaching into the Southeastern Conference to keep momentum going for its 24th-ranked football team, hiring former Florida and Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen on Thursday. He will be introduced in a news conference Friday morning. UNLV athletic director Erick Harper, in a news release, called Mullen "an innovator and nationally respected leader.” “The momentum of UNLV football continues to skyrocket with Coach Mullen coming aboard and is even more proof that our university is serious about success," Harper said. "Rebel Nation came alive while watching this program reach new heights the last two seasons and we are excited to keep it moving forward under the leadership of someone the caliber of Dan Mullen.” The 52-year-old Mullen replaces Barry Odom, who left for Purdue on Sunday after going 19-8 and helping the Rebels receive back-to-back bowl invitations for the first time in program history. UNLV will play California in the LA Bowl on Wednesday. Mullen, most recently an ESPN college football analyst, went 103-61 at Florida and Mississippi State. Rich Rodriguez back at West Virginia Rich Rodriguez is returning to West Virginia for a second stint as head coach at his alma mater. Athletic director Wren Baker announced the hiring on Thursday, 17 years after Rodriguez made a hasty exit for what became a disastrous three-year experiment at Michigan. “We are thrilled to welcome Coach Rich Rodriguez and his family back home,” Baker said in a statement. “Coach Rodriguez understands what it takes to win at West Virginia, and I believe he will pour his heart, soul and every ounce of his energy into our program. I am convinced Coach Rodriguez wants what is best for West Virginia, WVU and West Virginia football, and I am excited about the future of our program.” Rodriguez, who is the current coach at Jacksonville State, an architect of the spread offense and a polarizing figure in his home state, replaces Neal Brown, who was fired on Dec. 1 after going 37-35 in six seasons, including 6-6 this year. Arizona WR McMillan declares for draft TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona star receiver Tetairoa McMillan declared for the NFL draft following three stellar seasons. McMillan announced his decision Thursday on Instagram. “Now, it’s time to take the next step. ... I’m officially declaring for the 2025 NFL Draft,” McMillan posted. “This is only the beginning.” McMillian is Arizona's all-time leader in receiving yards, finishing with 3,423 in three seasons, and is projected to be a first-round NFL draft pick. BRIEFLY FCS: The NCAA is taking its Football Championship Subdivision title game back to Tennessee. The FCS championship games at the end of the 2025 and 2026 seasons will be played in Nashville on the Vanderbilt campus. This season’s game will be played Jan. 6 at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, which will host the game for a record 15th season in a row and was set for at least two more. OC: UCLA announced Tino Sunseri’s hiring as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Sunseri replaces Eric Bieniemy, who was fired on Dec. 5 after fielding one of the nation’s worst offenses this season. Sunseri spent one season as Indiana’s co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach after following Hoosiers coach Curt Cignetti from James Madison. Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox!Heisman Trophy finalist and two-way Colorado star Travis Hunter was named The Associated Press Big 12 defensive player of the year while also being a first-team selection at wide receiver on Thursday. Buffaloes quarterback Shedeur Sanders is the league's top offensive player. Kenny Dillingham, the 34-year-old in his second season at Arizona State, was the unanimous choice as Big 12 coach of the year after leading his alma mater to a championship and a spot in the 12-team College Football Playoff. The Sun Devils (11-2) went into their league debut as the preseason pick to finish last among the 16 teams. At cornerback, Hunter had 31 tackles, tied for the Big 12 lead with 11 pass breakups and was tied for second with four interceptions. On offense, he leads the Big 12 with 92 receptions and 14 receiving touchdowns, and is second with 1,152 yards receiving. His 21 catches of at least 20 yards are the most nationally. He is also the AP's player of the year. Sanders is the Big 12 passing leader, completing 337 of 454 passes (74.2%) for 3,926 yards and a school-record 35 touchdowns with eight interceptions for the Buffaloes (10-2) Arizona State freshman quarterback Sam Leavitt, who is 11-1 as a starter, is the league’s top newcomer. The Michigan State transfer has 2,663 yards passing with 24 touchdowns and only five picks in 304 attempts. LAS VEGAS — Former Florida and Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen has agreed to lead UNLV's 24th-ranked football program, two people with knowledge of the hire said Wednesday. The people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no announcement has been made. The 52-year-old Mullen replaces Barry Odom, who left for Purdue on Sunday after going 19-8 and helping the Rebels receive back-to-back bowl invitations for the first time in program history. UNLV will play California in the LA Bowl on Wednesday. UNLV athletic director Erick Harper wasted little time in finding Odom's replacement. Mullen, most recently an ESPN college football analyst, went 103-61 at Florida and Mississippi State. Rich Rodriguez is returning to West Virginia for a second stint as head coach at his alma mater. Athletic director Wren Baker announced the hiring on Thursday, 17 years after Rodriguez made a hasty exit for what became a disastrous three-year experiment at Michigan. “We are thrilled to welcome Coach Rich Rodriguez and his family back home,” Baker said in a statement. “Coach Rodriguez understands what it takes to win at West Virginia, and I believe he will pour his heart, soul and every ounce of his energy into our program. I am convinced Coach Rodriguez wants what is best for West Virginia, WVU and West Virginia football, and I am excited about the future of our program.” Rodriguez, who is the current coach at Jacksonville State, an architect of the spread offense and a polarizing figure in his home state, replaces Neal Brown, who was fired on Dec. 1 after going 37-35 in six seasons, including 6-6 this year. TUCSON, Ariz. — Arizona star receiver Tetairoa McMillan declared for the NFL draft following three stellar seasons. McMillan announced his decision Thursday on Instagram. “Now, it’s time to take the next step. ... I’m officially declaring for the 2025 NFL Draft,” McMillan posted. “This is only the beginning.” McMillian is Arizona's all-time leader in receiving yards, finishing with 3,423 in three seasons, and is projected to be a first-round NFL draft pick. BRIEFLY FCS: The NCAA is taking its Football Championship Subdivision title game back to Tennessee. The FCS championship games at the end of the 2025 and 2026 seasons will be played in Nashville on the Vanderbilt campus. This season’s game will be played Jan. 6 at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, which will host the game for a record 15th season in a row and was set for at least two more. OC: UCLA announced Tino Sunseri’s hiring as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Sunseri replaces Eric Bieniemy, who was fired on Dec. 5 after fielding one of the nation’s worst offenses this season. Sunseri spent one season as Indiana’s co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach after following Hoosiers coach Curt Cignetti from James Madison. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Brittany Mahomes made sure to support her husband Patrick as the Kansas City Chiefs played against the Las Vegas Raiders on November 29. She was joined by her two kids, daughter Sterling Skye, 3, and son Patrick "Bronze," who turned 2 on Thanksgiving. As she shared a number of moments from the match on social media, Brittany looked over the moon as the Chiefs won 19—17 at the Arrowhead Stadium. The mom-of-two wore Chiefs colors of red, white and black, with a particularly striking pair of patent leather red boots with a stiletto heel. Her kids kept close to her amid the busy environment, no doubt excited to see their father play, although they looked overstimulated as they stood by the pitch. Sterling could be seen putting her hands over her ears in one photo, although her mom held her close to reassure her that everything was okay. Like their mom, Sterling and Bronze wore Chiefs colors to support their dad, with black hooded jackets and red accents; the eldest opted for a bright red bow in her long blonde curly hair. Fans took to the comments to comment on the pitchside photos, with one person commenting that they were "The most adorable Mommy and babes!" Another fan added: "Look how Bronze keeps watching the field!! Love it!!" One person observed: "Beautiful pics of Brittany, as always. I sure worry about the kids' ears. Sterling is covering them and looks a bit miserable in so many pics." Their sentiment was echoed by others who suggested the family invest in some headphones for the kids. But one person set the discussion to rest: "WOW! So many negative comments!" "Pictures capture a moment, not the whole story," they continued. "Judging someone based on a single snapshot is like reading one sentence of a book and thinking you understand the entire plot. Don’t be judgmental if you don’t know the whole story." One person reshared the photos of Brittany and pointed out she was wrangling two toddlers while pregnant and wearing heels, and "looking STUNNING while doing it." Patrick and Brittany announced that they were expecting their third child in a joint Instagram Reel on July 12. The couple revealed the sex of their unborn child on July 20, sharing a video on social media. Patrick, Brittany, and their two kids all gathered to play "tic tac tell", revealing the baby would be a girl.
Earlier this month, Sam Leigh of Blinking Birch Games dropped two long-awaited releases: Death of the Author and The World We Left Behind . Designer of the genre-pushing, Ennie-nominated solo RPG Anamnesis — a tarot-based journaling game about memory and identity — Leigh’s work is often a contemplative meditation on a given theme, with these newest releases delving into isolation, history, agency, and hubris. The World We Left Behind is a GMless game that asks players to take on the role of cosmic researchers finding a post-society planet. Throughout multiple trips to a single alien planet, these astronauts walk among the overgrown ruins of a once great culture, uncovering it’s past while studying the plants and animals that still inhabit the ecosystem. Played using a single deck of cards, the game leaves behind game artifacts as players take notes and draw symbols on the cards, which compound with each subsequent session. The game’s surrealist pastel artwork was made by Helena Santana, with the game’s layout by Sinta Posadas. Commissioned by the New York City-based Ballet Collective for their 2023 season, The World We Left Behind has been in development for multiple years. The initial game was made in collaboration with composer Phong Tran and choreographer Troy Schumacher . Tran and Schumacher playtested early versions of The World We Left Behind and created a ballet of the same name inspired by their sessions, which premiered last fall in New York City’s Trinity Commons and was revived for a second performance earlier this year. A limited edition box set is available on The World We Left Behind Bandcamp page , alongside Tran’s original compositions. Leigh’s second release, Death of The Author follows in the tarot-based tradition of Anamnesis . Building on similar themes to Dillin Apelyan’s Metalepsis , Leigh uses the card’s archetypes to depict a conflict between a fictional character and the author who wrote them. Death of the Author takes place throughout five chapters of play, as the character rejects the story their author has written for them. As the narrative changes under their pen, the author may retaliate, forcing this fictional reality to bend to their whims, leading to an ultimate confrontation between the creator and their creation. Death of The Author ’s greyscale, horror-inspired tarot artwork was done by Victor Winter, with layout by James Hanna and editing by Marx Shepherd. I have had the opportunity to play the solo iteration of both of the games, though Death of the Author has options for two-person play, while The World We Left Behind can accommodate up to five players. Much like Leigh’s previous games, these two games offer emotionally moving experiences, which is unsurprising from the designer behind the solo TTRPG that launched a thousand solo TTRPGs. Death of the Author ’s tarot-prompts focusing more on the relationship to individual agency and creation, which will especially appeal to creatives and writers. The World We Left Behind ’s slow unravelling of the solitude of adventure, alongside the mystery that is this alien planet’s history, is a contemplation about the state of our world and what it might be like once we too are left behind. Both games are currently available for purchase on the Blinking Birch Games itch.io page — and they’re both RPGs at their best. The World We Left Behind 1-5 player game of interstellar exploration Death of The Author A 1-2 player tarot TTRPG about a character fighting for agency within their own story. Gaming News Tabletop GamesHigh School Founders of Phase 1 Research Redefine Global Education
Qatar tribune Agencies India will face Pakistan in Dubai on 23 February as the International Cricket Council released the Champions Trophy fixtures on Tuesday. The eight-team tournament will be held in host country Pakistan and neutral venue Dubai from 19 February to 9 March. Defending champions Pakistan and India were drawn alongside New Zealand and Bangladesh in Group A while England will face Australia, South Africa and Afghanistan in Group B. The tournament opener will see Pakistan face New Zealand in Karachi on 19 February while India take on Bangladesh in Dubai the following day. The Pakistan Cricket Board picked Dubai as a neutral venue after India refused to travel to Pakistan because of the ongoing political tensions between the countries. As a result, India’s three group fixtures and the first semi-final on 4 March will be played in the United Arab Emirates. The final, scheduled to be held in Lahore on 9 March, will also move to Dubai if India qualify for the title decider. Meanwhile, England will begin their Champions Trophy campaign against Australia in Lahore on 22 February before facing Afghanistan on 26 February and South Africa on 1 March. The 50-over Champions Trophy will be the first time Pakistan has hosted a global event since 1996. Pakistan will also host the women’s T20 World Cup in 2028, when neutral venue arrangements will apply. Pakistan will also play at a neutral venue in any event hosted by India until 2027, as per the agreement between the Board of Control for Cricket, PCB and ICC. India and Pakistan have not met outside of men’s major tournaments since 2013 and India have not played in Pakistan since 2008. Teams Group A: Pakistan, India, New Zealand, Bangladesh Group B: South Africa, Australia, Afghanistan, England Fixtures February 19 Pakistan v New Zealand, Karachi 20 Bangladesh v India, Dubai 21 Afghanistan v South Africa, Karachi 22 Australia v England, Lahore, Pakistan 23 Pakistan v India, Dubai 24 Bangladesh v New Zealand, Rawalpindi 25 Australia v South Africa, Rawalpindi 26 Afghanistan v England, Lahore 27 Pakistan v Bangladesh, Rawalpindi 28 Afghanistan v Australia, Lahore March 1 South Africa v England, Karachi 2 New Zealand v India, Dubai 4 Semi-final 1, Dubai 5 Semi-final 2, Lahore 9 Final, Lahore (unless India qualify, then it will be played in Dubai) Both semi-finals and final have reserve days. Copy 25/12/2024 10
Podeli : Prime Minister Milos Vucevic said on Tuesday that his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) will not agree to a transitional government as some opposition officials have called for. “No withdrawal from bullies,” he wrote in an X post, adding that “there will be no transitional government”. “We will never give them the mandate to form a government without elections. The citizens will choose at elections,” he wrote. According to Vucevic, the SNS needs to show the greatest responsibility when times are hard and not allow life to stop. “Serbia won’t stop,” he added.Judith Graham | (TNS) KFF Health News Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern. “What’s going on with your breathing?” asked Peter Gliatto, director of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program. “I don’t know,” she answered, so softly it was hard to hear. “Going from here to the bathroom or the door, I get really winded. I don’t know when it’s going to be my last breath.” Dickens, a lung cancer survivor, lives in central Harlem, barely getting by. She has serious lung disease and high blood pressure and suffers regular fainting spells. In the past year, she’s fallen several times and dropped to 85 pounds, a dangerously low weight. And she lives alone, without any help — a highly perilous situation. This is almost surely an undercount, since the data is from more than a dozen years ago. It’s a population whose numbers far exceed those living in nursing homes — about 1.2 million — and yet it receives much less attention from policymakers, legislators, and academics who study aging. Consider some eye-opening statistics about completely homebound seniors from a study published in 2020 in JAMA Internal Medicine : Nearly 40% have five or more chronic medical conditions, such as heart or lung disease. Almost 30% are believed to have “probable dementia.” Seventy-seven percent have difficulty with at least one daily task such as bathing or dressing. Almost 40% live by themselves. That “on my own” status magnifies these individuals’ already considerable vulnerability, something that became acutely obvious during the covid-19 outbreak, when the number of sick and disabled seniors confined to their homes doubled. “People who are homebound, like other individuals who are seriously ill, rely on other people for so much,” said Katherine Ornstein, director of the Center for Equity in Aging at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. “If they don’t have someone there with them, they’re at risk of not having food, not having access to health care, not living in a safe environment.” Related Articles Weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy are all the rage. Are they safe for kids? Rural governments often fail to communicate with residents who aren’t proficient in English Some breast cancer patients can avoid certain surgeries, studies suggest Herb Chambers makes massive, $100M gift to Mass General Hospital to fund cancer care Who gets obesity drugs covered by insurance? In North Carolina, it helps if you’re on Medicaid Research has shown that older homebound adults are less likely to receive regular primary care than other seniors. They’re also more likely to end up in the hospital with medical crises that might have been prevented if someone had been checking on them. To better understand the experiences of these seniors, I accompanied Gliatto on some home visits in New York City. Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program, established in 1995, is one of the oldest in the nation. Only 12% of older U.S. adults who rarely or never leave home have access to this kind of home-based primary care. Gliatto and his staff — seven part-time doctors, three nurse practitioners, two nurses, two social workers, and three administrative staffers — serve about 1,000 patients in Manhattan each year. These patients have complicated needs and require high levels of assistance. In recent years, Gliatto has had to cut staff as Mount Sinai has reduced its financial contribution to the program. It doesn’t turn a profit, because reimbursement for services is low and expenses are high. First, Gliatto stopped in to see Sandra Pettway, 79, who never married or had children and has lived by herself in a two-bedroom Harlem apartment for 30 years. Pettway has severe spinal problems and back pain, as well as Type 2 diabetes and depression. She has difficulty moving around and rarely leaves her apartment. “Since the pandemic, it’s been awfully lonely,” she told me. When I asked who checks in on her, Pettway mentioned her next-door neighbor. There’s no one else she sees regularly. Pettway told the doctor she was increasingly apprehensive about an upcoming spinal surgery. He reassured her that Medicare would cover in-home nursing care, aides, and physical therapy services. “Someone will be with you, at least for six weeks,” he said. Left unsaid: Afterward, she would be on her own. (The surgery in April went well, Gliatto reported later.) The doctor listened carefully as Pettway talked about her memory lapses. “I can remember when I was a year old, but I can’t remember 10 minutes ago,” she said. He told her that he thought she was managing well but that he would arrange testing if there was further evidence of cognitive decline. For now, he said, he’s not particularly worried about her ability to manage on her own. Several blocks away, Gliatto visited Dickens, who has lived in her one-bedroom Harlem apartment for 31 years. Dickens told me she hasn’t seen other people regularly since her sister, who used to help her out, had a stroke. Most of the neighbors she knew well have died. Her only other close relative is a niece in the Bronx whom she sees about once a month. Dickens worked with special-education students for decades in New York City’s public schools. Now she lives on a small pension and Social Security — too much to qualify for Medicaid. (Medicaid, the program for low-income people, will pay for aides in the home. Medicare, which covers people over age 65, does not.) Like Pettway, she has only a small fixed income, so she can’t afford in-home help. Every Friday, God’s Love We Deliver, an organization that prepares medically tailored meals for sick people, delivers a week’s worth of frozen breakfasts and dinners that Dickens reheats in the microwave. She almost never goes out. When she has energy, she tries to do a bit of cleaning. Without the ongoing attention from Gliatto, Dickens doesn’t know what she’d do. “Having to get up and go out, you know, putting on your clothes, it’s a task,” she said. “And I have the fear of falling.” The next day, Gliatto visited Marianne Gluck Morrison, 73, a former survey researcher for New York City’s personnel department, in her cluttered Greenwich Village apartment. Morrison, who doesn’t have any siblings or children, was widowed in 2010 and has lived alone since. Morrison said she’d been feeling dizzy over the past few weeks, and Gliatto gave her a basic neurological exam, asking her to follow his fingers with her eyes and touch her fingers to her nose. “I think your problem is with your ear, not your brain,” he told her, describing symptoms of vertigo. Because she had severe wounds on her feet related to Type 2 diabetes, Morrison had been getting home health care for several weeks through Medicare. But those services — help from aides, nurses, and physical therapists — were due to expire in two weeks. “I don’t know what I’ll do then, probably just spend a lot of time in bed,” Morrison told me. Among her other medical conditions: congestive heart failure, osteoarthritis, an irregular heartbeat, chronic kidney disease, and depression. Morrison hasn’t left her apartment since November 2023, when she returned home after a hospitalization and several months at a rehabilitation center. Climbing the three steps that lead up into her apartment building is simply too hard. “It’s hard to be by myself so much of the time. It’s lonely,” she told me. “I would love to have people see me in the house. But at this point, because of the clutter, I can’t do it.” When I asked Morrison who she feels she can count on, she listed Gliatto and a mental health therapist from Henry Street Settlement, a social services organization. She has one close friend she speaks with on the phone most nights. “The problem is I’ve lost eight to nine friends in the last 15 years,” she said, sighing heavily. “They’ve died or moved away.” Bruce Leff, director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is a leading advocate of home-based medical care. “It’s kind of amazing how people find ways to get by,” he said when I asked him about homebound older adults who live alone. “There’s a significant degree of frailty and vulnerability, but there is also substantial resilience.” With the rapid expansion of the aging population in the years ahead, Leff is convinced that more kinds of care will move into the home, everything from rehab services to palliative care to hospital-level services. “It will simply be impossible to build enough hospitals and health facilities to meet the demand from an aging population,” he said. But that will be challenging for homebound older adults who are on their own. Without on-site family caregivers, there may be no one around to help manage this home-based care. ©2024 KFF Health News. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.New York state will adopt new regulations for the middlemen negotiating prescription drug prices between wholesalers and pharmacies. Gov. Kathy Hochul's office says the new rules for pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, will protect access to prescription drugs, prohibit practices that increase costs and help independent pharmacies compete with larger ones, which sometimes operate their own PBMs. Some of the regulations are aimed at increasing transparency of available prescriptions and easier access. "New Yorkers deserve access to affordable and fair-priced prescription drugs, and today's regulations ensure that consumers and small pharmacies are protected from unfair business practices,” Hochul said in a statement. “We are leveling the playing field for independent pharmacies, while promoting competition and empowering consumers. These new measures will improve access to essential medications, eliminate anti-competitive practices, and make certain that the health care system works for everyone, not just the big players." The new regulations can be found here.
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Akal Takht jathedar Giani Raghbir Singh and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) president Harjinder Singh Dhami on Thursday expressed concern over the deteriorating health of Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Sidhupur) president Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on a fast-unto-death at Khanauri border for farmers’ demands. In a statement, Giani Raghbir Singh said, “Though fast-unto-death or hunger strike has no place in the Sikh tradition, it is shameful for a democratic government to leave food producers with no choice but to give up food to get their rights fulfilled. It’s been four years since Government of India promised to give farmers their rights, but the promises are not being delivered.” Asking Dallewal to opt for any other means of agitation, the Akal Takht jathedar also asked Punjab’s political parties to join the farmers’ struggle. SGPC president Harjinder Singh Dhami said that the Centre and state governments should give up their stubborn attitude and accept the legitimate demands of farmers. “On one hand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses farmers as annadata (food givers), on the other hand farmers are forced to come out on streets for their demands,” he said. He said that a law to guarantee minimum support price (MSP) for all crops is a rightful and legitimate demand of farmers and the Centre must pass a law guaranteeing MSP without any delay. Dhami said the Centre as well as the governments of Punjab and Haryana will be responsible if anything happens to Dallewal.It is one of the grandest shopping events, especially for people enthusiastic about electronics who try to manage their respective purchases with some good deals. So, be it working on a sleek laptop, gaming on that, buying a new phone boasting cutting-edge features, or maybe just buying a good, high-quality headset to enjoy an awesome audio experience, all can be availed of during Black Friday at discounted rates. Black Friday deals for 2024 are no exception this year since they are set to provide the biggest savings on technology products. Take a look at some of the best deals and some tips that can help you find the most value-packed offers this year. These laptops are undeniably important for work, study, and entertainment purposes. During Black Friday, most of these big brands provide significant discounts for high-performance models from brands like Apple , Dell, HP, and Lenovo. There is an accessible laptop with solid performance for general use. These laptops have respectable processors in most cases, good battery life, and full HD displays and are ideal for standard use such as browsing, text document editing, and just plain video streaming. Finally, midrange models fall right in the middle for power and price between an upgraded processor, more than usual RAM, and up-to-date storage capacity sizes. Gaming laptops with high refresh rate screens and advanced graphics cards also experience steep discounts. These gadgets are built to seriously handle heavy processes, from video games to rendering high-quality videos. Black Friday is the best season to get a gaming laptop since discounts may run as high as 30% or even more, depending on the model and retailer. Smartphone sales are nearly always evolving, and Black Friday provides the perfect opportunity to get the latest models at unbeatable prices. The most popular brands, including Apple, Samsung, Google, and OnePlus, typically have great deals, so now is a good time to get a more powerful phone. The Apple iPhone series features models with the best build quality and camera performance. Such brands would probably do well in Black Friday sales. Some of the new iPhone 15 series are coming to the market. Models like the iPhone 14 and 13 will now be available at good value. Samsung also offers some options in its Galaxy line during the Black Friday sale. The Galaxy A series is more affordable, while the Galaxy S series is high-end, so it caters to everyone's budget. Other sellers also include accessories like wireless earbuds or chargers with the phone, which enhances the offer's value. These very beautiful Google Pixel smartphones, carrying terrific cameras and smooth experiences using the best version of Android, now come with deep discounts on Black Friday. Tech enthusiasts who want a photography-centric Android smartphone combined with clean software can avail of the Pixel 9 or the latest Pixel 10 at the best possible price. Headsets have become a necessity for communication, entertainment, and gaming. Black Friday is the perfect time to upgrade to a more comfortable or feature-packed option because it often brings deep discounts on top-rated headsets. One of the majorly sought gaming products on Black Friday is a gaming headset, as brands like SteelSeries, Razer, and Logitech are offering these with the best headsets, combining sound quality with comfort—the need for long-term gaming sessions. Features present in these headsets, among others, include noise-canceling, customizable microphones, and cushioning in the ear cups, thus providing gamers with yet another cheaper opportunity to amplify their gaming. Some top models are from Bose, Sony, and Sennheiser for those who use headsets to work or travel. Those products are famous for their noise-canceling technology, so they are perfect for calls, music, or podcasts. Most of the premium headsets that can be bought during Black Friday are cheap, so consumers will be able to enjoy high-quality audio at a much lower cost. While Black Friday brings many discounts, having the best bargain is not easy unless one is prepared for it—research what models and specifications one needs. Compare prices offered by retailers since discounts vary, and check other offers such as free shipping and extended warranties. Sign up for newsletters and notifications from retailers to get deals once they go live. A few retailers give loyal customers the first crack at early sales, so getting a step ahead can make the transaction successful. Some of these deals are only in low quantities, so rapid movement may be necessary. Black Friday 2024 will be another excellent opportunity for all tech enthusiasts to enjoy great deals on laptops, mobile phones, and headsets. This will be a good time to upgrade your gadgets, find the right gift for your loved ones, and invest in technology. Information and preparation are, therefore, the key to a better shopping experience while optimizing the use of limited-time offers and bringing home top quality at an affordable price.Hyderabad: Rape cases in Telangana have surged by 28.94 per cent in 2024 with 99.2 per cent of the accused being known to the victims. Only 23 cases involved an unknown perpetrator, according to the Telangana state annual police report released on Sunday, December 29. This year, a total of 2,945 cases were reported with the majority of victims falling within the 15-18 age group. The 18 plus age group followed closely with 888 cases while 87 victims were children under 15 years old. However, 940 accused were arrested within eight hours of reporting the incident compared to 812 in 2023. This marks a 15 per cent increase in prompt arrests. Additionally, in rape and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act cases, compensation amounting to Rs 5.42 crores has been paid in 428 cases. Telangana’s SHE Teams have responded to 10,862 harassment complaints from women in public places, resulting in 830 FIRs, 3,329 petty cases, and 15,664 instances of counselling. In addition, 27 Bharosa Centers across the state have supported a total of 2,964 cases including 1,954 POCSO cases, 574 rape cases, and 436 others. The SAHAS initiative has made progress receiving 115 petitions in 2024 compared to 52 in 2023 with all petitions resolved in a timely manner. In 2024, 13 training sessions were conducted for government and private organizations with 5,557 employees participating. Additionally, six awareness programs were held to promote safety and support for women in both sectors. Overall crimes against women have risen by 4.78 per cent over the last five years, according to the Telangana state annual police. Dowry-related crimes in Telangana have shown a decrease in recent years, with dowry murders dropping by 33.33 per cent from 42 cases in 2020 to 22 in 2024. Dowry deaths also saw a decline of 4.55 per cent from 132 cases in 2023 to 126 in 2024. However, other crimes have seen a sharp increase which includes the abetment of suicide increasing by 4.41 per cent in the past five years. The murder of women saw a significant rise of 13.15 per cent climbing from 213 cases in 2023 to 241 in 2024. Kidnapping and abduction cases also jumped by 26.92 per cent in the last five years as 682 cases were recorded in 2020 to 1,122 incidents in 2024. Further, cases under the Dowry Prohibition Act rose by 50 per cent in the past five years. The number of cases of outraging the modesty of women increased by 8.71 per cent from 4,876 in 2020 to 5,940 in 2024. On the other hand, bigamy cases declined by 5.62 per cent from 115 in 2020 to 168 in 2024.Dan Quinn has the Commanders in contention for the NFC East title
NexOptic Technology (CVE:NXO) Shares Down 20% – Here’s WhyJudith Graham | (TNS) KFF Health News Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern. “What’s going on with your breathing?” asked Peter Gliatto, director of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program. “I don’t know,” she answered, so softly it was hard to hear. “Going from here to the bathroom or the door, I get really winded. I don’t know when it’s going to be my last breath.” Dickens, a lung cancer survivor, lives in central Harlem, barely getting by. She has serious lung disease and high blood pressure and suffers regular fainting spells. In the past year, she’s fallen several times and dropped to 85 pounds, a dangerously low weight. And she lives alone, without any help — a highly perilous situation. This is almost surely an undercount, since the data is from more than a dozen years ago. It’s a population whose numbers far exceed those living in nursing homes — about 1.2 million — and yet it receives much less attention from policymakers, legislators, and academics who study aging. Consider some eye-opening statistics about completely homebound seniors from a study published in 2020 in JAMA Internal Medicine : Nearly 40% have five or more chronic medical conditions, such as heart or lung disease. Almost 30% are believed to have “probable dementia.” Seventy-seven percent have difficulty with at least one daily task such as bathing or dressing. Almost 40% live by themselves. That “on my own” status magnifies these individuals’ already considerable vulnerability, something that became acutely obvious during the covid-19 outbreak, when the number of sick and disabled seniors confined to their homes doubled. “People who are homebound, like other individuals who are seriously ill, rely on other people for so much,” said Katherine Ornstein, director of the Center for Equity in Aging at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. “If they don’t have someone there with them, they’re at risk of not having food, not having access to health care, not living in a safe environment.” Related Articles Health | Weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy are all the rage. Are they safe for kids? Health | Rural governments often fail to communicate with residents who aren’t proficient in English Health | Some breast cancer patients can avoid certain surgeries, studies suggest Health | Who gets obesity drugs covered by insurance? In North Carolina, it helps if you’re on Medicaid Health | How the FDA allows companies to add secret ingredients to our food Research has shown that older homebound adults are less likely to receive regular primary care than other seniors. They’re also more likely to end up in the hospital with medical crises that might have been prevented if someone had been checking on them. To better understand the experiences of these seniors, I accompanied Gliatto on some home visits in New York City. Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program, established in 1995, is one of the oldest in the nation. Only 12% of older U.S. adults who rarely or never leave home have access to this kind of home-based primary care. Gliatto and his staff — seven part-time doctors, three nurse practitioners, two nurses, two social workers, and three administrative staffers — serve about 1,000 patients in Manhattan each year. These patients have complicated needs and require high levels of assistance. In recent years, Gliatto has had to cut staff as Mount Sinai has reduced its financial contribution to the program. It doesn’t turn a profit, because reimbursement for services is low and expenses are high. First, Gliatto stopped in to see Sandra Pettway, 79, who never married or had children and has lived by herself in a two-bedroom Harlem apartment for 30 years. Pettway has severe spinal problems and back pain, as well as Type 2 diabetes and depression. She has difficulty moving around and rarely leaves her apartment. “Since the pandemic, it’s been awfully lonely,” she told me. When I asked who checks in on her, Pettway mentioned her next-door neighbor. There’s no one else she sees regularly. Pettway told the doctor she was increasingly apprehensive about an upcoming spinal surgery. He reassured her that Medicare would cover in-home nursing care, aides, and physical therapy services. “Someone will be with you, at least for six weeks,” he said. Left unsaid: Afterward, she would be on her own. (The surgery in April went well, Gliatto reported later.) The doctor listened carefully as Pettway talked about her memory lapses. “I can remember when I was a year old, but I can’t remember 10 minutes ago,” she said. He told her that he thought she was managing well but that he would arrange testing if there was further evidence of cognitive decline. For now, he said, he’s not particularly worried about her ability to manage on her own. Several blocks away, Gliatto visited Dickens, who has lived in her one-bedroom Harlem apartment for 31 years. Dickens told me she hasn’t seen other people regularly since her sister, who used to help her out, had a stroke. Most of the neighbors she knew well have died. Her only other close relative is a niece in the Bronx whom she sees about once a month. Dickens worked with special-education students for decades in New York City’s public schools. Now she lives on a small pension and Social Security — too much to qualify for Medicaid. (Medicaid, the program for low-income people, will pay for aides in the home. Medicare, which covers people over age 65, does not.) Like Pettway, she has only a small fixed income, so she can’t afford in-home help. Every Friday, God’s Love We Deliver, an organization that prepares medically tailored meals for sick people, delivers a week’s worth of frozen breakfasts and dinners that Dickens reheats in the microwave. She almost never goes out. When she has energy, she tries to do a bit of cleaning. Without the ongoing attention from Gliatto, Dickens doesn’t know what she’d do. “Having to get up and go out, you know, putting on your clothes, it’s a task,” she said. “And I have the fear of falling.” The next day, Gliatto visited Marianne Gluck Morrison, 73, a former survey researcher for New York City’s personnel department, in her cluttered Greenwich Village apartment. Morrison, who doesn’t have any siblings or children, was widowed in 2010 and has lived alone since. Morrison said she’d been feeling dizzy over the past few weeks, and Gliatto gave her a basic neurological exam, asking her to follow his fingers with her eyes and touch her fingers to her nose. “I think your problem is with your ear, not your brain,” he told her, describing symptoms of vertigo. Because she had severe wounds on her feet related to Type 2 diabetes, Morrison had been getting home health care for several weeks through Medicare. But those services — help from aides, nurses, and physical therapists — were due to expire in two weeks. “I don’t know what I’ll do then, probably just spend a lot of time in bed,” Morrison told me. Among her other medical conditions: congestive heart failure, osteoarthritis, an irregular heartbeat, chronic kidney disease, and depression. Morrison hasn’t left her apartment since November 2023, when she returned home after a hospitalization and several months at a rehabilitation center. Climbing the three steps that lead up into her apartment building is simply too hard. “It’s hard to be by myself so much of the time. It’s lonely,” she told me. “I would love to have people see me in the house. But at this point, because of the clutter, I can’t do it.” When I asked Morrison who she feels she can count on, she listed Gliatto and a mental health therapist from Henry Street Settlement, a social services organization. She has one close friend she speaks with on the phone most nights. “The problem is I’ve lost eight to nine friends in the last 15 years,” she said, sighing heavily. “They’ve died or moved away.” Bruce Leff, director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is a leading advocate of home-based medical care. “It’s kind of amazing how people find ways to get by,” he said when I asked him about homebound older adults who live alone. “There’s a significant degree of frailty and vulnerability, but there is also substantial resilience.” With the rapid expansion of the aging population in the years ahead, Leff is convinced that more kinds of care will move into the home, everything from rehab services to palliative care to hospital-level services. “It will simply be impossible to build enough hospitals and health facilities to meet the demand from an aging population,” he said. But that will be challenging for homebound older adults who are on their own. Without on-site family caregivers, there may be no one around to help manage this home-based care. ©2024 KFF Health News. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. increased its position in Hancock Whitney Co. ( NASDAQ:HWC – Free Report ) by 4.2% during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 1,154,835 shares of the company’s stock after purchasing an additional 46,622 shares during the quarter. Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. owned approximately 1.34% of Hancock Whitney worth $59,093,000 as of its most recent SEC filing. Several other hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of HWC. Victory Capital Management Inc. boosted its stake in Hancock Whitney by 707.2% in the 2nd quarter. Victory Capital Management Inc. now owns 576,264 shares of the company’s stock valued at $27,563,000 after purchasing an additional 504,873 shares during the period. AQR Capital Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Hancock Whitney by 213.7% in the second quarter. AQR Capital Management LLC now owns 735,790 shares of the company’s stock valued at $34,663,000 after acquiring an additional 501,259 shares in the last quarter. Hancock Whitney Corp increased its position in Hancock Whitney by 30.9% during the second quarter. Hancock Whitney Corp now owns 1,069,223 shares of the company’s stock worth $51,141,000 after acquiring an additional 252,473 shares during the period. American Century Companies Inc. raised its stake in Hancock Whitney by 20.4% in the 2nd quarter. American Century Companies Inc. now owns 1,401,113 shares of the company’s stock worth $67,015,000 after purchasing an additional 237,526 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP boosted its holdings in Hancock Whitney by 3.5% in the 2nd quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP now owns 4,980,204 shares of the company’s stock valued at $238,197,000 after purchasing an additional 167,304 shares during the period. 81.22% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds. Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth HWC has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. DA Davidson lifted their price target on shares of Hancock Whitney from $62.00 to $65.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, October 16th. Truist Financial dropped their price objective on Hancock Whitney from $57.00 to $56.00 and set a “hold” rating for the company in a report on Friday, September 20th. Four analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have given a buy rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $56.89. Hancock Whitney Stock Performance NASDAQ:HWC opened at $59.38 on Friday. Hancock Whitney Co. has a twelve month low of $40.79 and a twelve month high of $62.40. The company has a quick ratio of 0.81, a current ratio of 0.82 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06. The stock’s 50-day simple moving average is $54.31 and its 200 day simple moving average is $50.91. The firm has a market capitalization of $5.11 billion, a PE ratio of 13.31 and a beta of 1.25. Hancock Whitney ( NASDAQ:HWC – Get Free Report ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 15th. The company reported $1.33 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.31 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $525.37 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $363.54 million. Hancock Whitney had a net margin of 19.30% and a return on equity of 11.47%. During the same period last year, the company posted $1.12 EPS. On average, analysts anticipate that Hancock Whitney Co. will post 5.19 EPS for the current fiscal year. Hancock Whitney Dividend Announcement The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 16th. Shareholders of record on Thursday, December 5th will be paid a dividend of $0.40 per share. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 5th. This represents a $1.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.69%. Hancock Whitney’s payout ratio is presently 35.87%. Insider Transactions at Hancock Whitney In other news, CFO Michael M. Achary sold 8,431 shares of the company’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, October 18th. The stock was sold at an average price of $52.55, for a total value of $443,049.05. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief financial officer now owns 54,380 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $2,857,669. This represents a 13.42 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink . Also, Director Carleton Richard Wilkins sold 800 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, October 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $50.95, for a total transaction of $40,760.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the director now owns 15,900 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $810,105. This trade represents a 4.79 % decrease in their position. The disclosure for this sale can be found here . Over the last ninety days, insiders sold 27,994 shares of company stock worth $1,593,710. Corporate insiders own 1.10% of the company’s stock. About Hancock Whitney ( Free Report ) Hancock Whitney Corporation operates as the financial holding company for Hancock Whitney Bank that provides traditional and online banking services to commercial, small business, and retail customers. It offers various transaction and savings deposit products consisting of brokered deposits, time deposits, and money market accounts; treasury management services, secured and unsecured loan products including revolving credit facilities, and letters of credit and similar financial guarantees; and trust and investment management services to retirement plans, corporations, and individuals, and investment advisory and brokerage products. Read More Want to see what other hedge funds are holding HWC? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Hancock Whitney Co. ( NASDAQ:HWC – Free Report ). Receive News & Ratings for Hancock Whitney Daily - Enter your email address below to receive a concise daily summary of the latest news and analysts' ratings for Hancock Whitney and related companies with MarketBeat.com's FREE daily email newsletter .Jimmy Carter , who followed a principled yet tumultuous single term in the White House with a post-presidency dedicated to human rights and peace advocacy, has died. At 100, Carter — who was born on Oct. 1, 1924 — lived longer than any other U.S. president and had the longest post-presidency. His grandson, Jason Carter, spoke at the Democratic National Convention and said that the former president was looking forward to voting for Kamala Harris. In 1974, not even five months after Richard Nixon resigned the presidency, Carter entered the race for the Democratic nomination as a virtual unknown. At the time, Gallup polled a list of 31 possible Democratic contenders, and Carter’s name didn’t even make the list, according to The New York Times. Then in his first and only term as governor of Georgia, Carter had even appeared on the game show What’s My Line?, to a maskless panel that had trouble identifying who he was. Carter used his political anonymity to his advantage, running as an outsider who could bring to Washington just the type of integrity and personal morality needed in the aftermath of the Watergate era. His decision to campaign heavily in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses proved fortuitous, as he used the media attention from his unexpected showing as springboard for the rest of the nomination contests. In Hollywood, the relatively young Carter became a celebrity in his own right, forging ties with Lew Wasserman that gave him an entree into fundraising and celebrity circuit. That proved to be a lifeline at key moments in the campaign: At one point, according to The Washington Post , Carter’s campaign was so broke that Wasserman quickly organized a fundraiser that got the campaign a badly needed $200,000. After securing the nomination, Carter was initially way ahead of his rival, President Gerald R. Ford, who was hurt by his decision to pardon Nixon as well as an intra party battle with its conservative wing. The gap narrowed in the final weeks of the campaign, though, after Carter, a born-again Baptist, gave an interview to Playboy in which he said, “I’ve looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times.” Carter still won the election, but by a rather narrow 297-240 electoral votes. His victory was greeted as a new era of good government in Washington — the Carter smile a contrast to the scowl of Nixon. The fact that he was from Georgia was touted as a sign of a new South, built on the rather superficial idea that the racial divisions of the 1960s were in the past. Pop culture seized on the moment with light-hearted movies like Smokey and the Bandit and TV series like The Dukes of Hazzard that generally presented the region as one of rednecks and good ole’ boys. ABC even scheduled a rural sitcom, Carter Country, that ran for two seasons. In the first line of his inauguration speech, Carter thanked Ford “for all he has done to heal our land,” but the new president signaled a shift to a center-left approach to government. In the White House, Carter shunned the pomp in favor of a more populist image: He did away with the playing of Hail to the Chief at ceremonies, and resurrected Franklin Roosevelt’s fireside chats, as he instructed Americans on conservation during the ongoing energy crisis. Even with large majorities of Democrats in the House and Senate, however, Carter’s early days in D.C. drew friction. A scandal forced a close aide, Bert Lance, from office, while the administration’s clashes with Democrats in Congress, on such things as pork barrel spending, hurt his agenda. His leadership style drew criticism for a lack of delegation. One widely shared story was that he even oversaw the schedule for play on the White House tennis court, although Stuart Eizenstat, said that Carter only wanted to ensure that he or First Lady Rosalynn Carter weren’t using it at the same time. “The notion that he micromanaged the schedule is just incorrect, but it fit in with this notion of excessive attention to detail. It was actually an act of huge generosity to his staff,” Eizenstat said at the National Book Festival in 2018. Carter’s energy policy was later seen as prescient, decades before climate change became a national priority with a solution to conserve and wean the public off of fossil fuels. The energy crisis of 1979 saw Americans again facing long lines at gas stations. Carter gave a nationally televised speech that summer, when he said that the problem was a “crisis of confidence.” “The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.” Although he never used the word, it became to be known as the “malaise” speech, contributing to the impression that Carter’s administration was flailing. The pinnacle of his presidency came on Sept. 17, 1978, when, following 12 days at Camp David, he announced a peace deal between Israel and Egypt, with a treaty signed the following year. Broadcasters interrupted their regular primetime programming — which that night included the Emmy Awards — to cover the deal. His foreign policy successes, though, were overshadowed by the Iranian hostage crisis. In November, 1979, following the revolution that ousted the U.S. supported Shah, a group of students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 52 diplomats and citizens hostage. The resulting attempts to free the hostages consumed Carter’s presidency. A rescue attempt on April 24, 1980 failed after helicopter crashes forced the mission to be aborted. Each night, Americans were reminded of the crisis on TV, as ABC created nightly reports called America Held Hostage with Ted Koppel, the forerunner to Nightline. Despite the ongoing crisis Carter was still viewed as having an incumbency advantage going into the 1980 presidential race, but his political fortunes turned as he faced a serious primary challenge from Edward Kennedy. Although he beat him for the presidential nomination, the intra-party battle left Democrats divided. More bruising to Carter’s political fortunes, though, was stagflation, or rising inflation combined with slowing economic growth and high unemployment. A recession in early 1980 coincided with the start of Carter’s reelection campaign. On the right, Ronald Reagan secured the Republican nomination with a mix of personal charisma and an ability to connect with working class voters, who came to be known as Reagan Democrats, disaffected with the state of the economy. Although Carter and his team tried to characterize Reagan as too extreme and untrustworthy, the former actor turned in a superior debate performance, in part with just one line in response to the incumbent president’s criticisms: “There you go again.” Reagan’s landslide was a bruising defeat for Carter, who was relatively young, 56, when he left office. He sold off his peanut business, then in deep debt , to Archer Daniels Midland, and earned a generous advance for his memoirs, Keeping Faith , the first of dozens of more books. But far from retiring, Carter pursued some of the human rights policy focus of his White House tenure. He built houses for Habitat for Humanity. He tried to solve the problem of Guinea worm disease in African countries and other regions, and, with his initiative, it has been nearly eradicated. He supervised elections. At times he acted as a peace broker, as he did during the Camp David accords. More than 20 years after leaving office, in 2002, Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. “War may sometimes be a necessary evil,” Carter said in his acceptance speech. “But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” After his presidency, he and Rosalynn returned to Plains, GA, where they continued to be active members of the community. The former president’s regular Sunday school lessons at Maranatha Baptist Church became a stopping point for politicians and tourists until he was well into his 90s. In a profile in 2018, The Washington Post reported that Carter was “the only president of the modern era to return full-time to the house he lived in before he entered politics.” The Carters’ two-bedroom ranch home was assessed at $167,000, less than the cost of the Secret Service vehicles parked outside, the Post noted. James Earl Carter Jr. was born on October 1, 1924. He was raised in Plains and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy. He left his naval career in the 1950s to focus on the family business, peanut farming. At the time, Georgia was defiant in its resistance to segregation, but Carter spoke out in favor of school integration. He entered state politics in 1962 and was elected to the state senate, in an unlikely campaign that foreshadowed his work as an international election observer. He lost the Democratic primary, but proved widespread vote fraud orchestrated by a local political boss. Among other things, 117 voters had allegedly lined up in alphabetical order to cast their ballots, a fact that Carter recounted in his 2015 book, A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety. He eventually got on the general election ballot and won. Carter ran for governor of Georgia in 1966, but lost the primary to segregationist Lester Maddox. Carter ran against in 1970 and won. Carter is survived by three sons, John William (Jack), James Earl III (Chip) and Donnel Jeffrey (Jeff) and a daughter, Amy Lynn. His wife, Rosalynn, died in November 2023. They had been married for 77 years, longer than any presidential couple.
SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Investigates Claims On Behalf of Investors of Micron Technology, Inc. - MUJUMEIRAH, Abu Dhabi—There is “no doubt” that the Philippines will not only embrace smoke-free technology as an alternative to cigarette-smoking because of Filipinos’ close-knit family culture, structure, and dynamics, PMI President for Smoke-Free Inhalable Products Category and Chief Consumer Officer Stefano Volpetti said. JUMEIRAH, Abu Dhabi—There is “no doubt” that the Philippines will not only embrace smoke-free technology as an alternative to cigarette-smoking because of Filipinos’ close-knit family culture, structure, and dynamics, PMI President for Smoke-Free Inhalable Products Category and Chief Consumer Officer Stefano Volpetti said. PMI President for Smoke-Free Inhalable Products Category and Chief Consumer Officer Stefano Volpetti (Raymund Antonio/MANILA BULLETIN) In an interview with Philippine media after the “Technovation: Smoke-free by PMI Abu Dhabi Edition” event held on Wednesday, Dec. 11, the official expressed confidence that the Philippines will achieve progress toward a smoke-free future. “There is no doubt that we will achieve that in the Philippines. We started in the capital. We started with both either tobacco and oral nicotine,” he said. “And we will make our way through. Now, the more society, stakeholders, regulators support the effort, the faster the progress is going to be,” the official added, stressing that “There is no reason in the Philippines why progress will not happen.” Volpetti cited, in particular, three reasons—the United States’ “big image” in the Philippines, the woman being the household’s budget manager, and the Filipinos close-knit family ties—why he believes Filipino consumers are open to the idea of using heated tobacco products instead of the traditional cigarettes. “The fact that the US has a big image in your country is an important plus,” he said, adding that PMI’s oral nicotine Zyn is now the number one product in the US. “This is important for the Filipino consumers. Because there is a notion that there is something important happening in the US. And I would like to see it here as well. So this is a plus,” he stated. But also another reason he’s confident Filipinos will embrace smoke-free technology is the fact that PMI will deliver the “best technology” to Filipino consumers, who would have to be answerable to the “chief financial officer of the family,” who happens to be the woman in the household. “What does it mean if you are trying a new product? First we need to make sure that that product will really work. So we need to give to the Filipino consumer the best technology. Because if that product doesn't work, they will not be forgiven,” Volpetti explained. IQOS store in Dubai (Raymund Antonio/MANILA BULLETIN) “Because when they go home, they need to report that they've spent money on something that didn't work. That is not an option. So then this aspect of value is related to quality of the technology.” The Filipinos’ love for spending time with family is also another “important aspect” because smokers are “really not welcome” in the family. However, the official said that “if you use a smoke-free alternative, this is much more discreet” and those using oral nicotine, or heated tobacco, or a vape would then not disturb the family. “So this notion of spending time together, being part of the family, also plays an important role,” Volpetti added. In the Philippines, PMI is ready to deploy three smoke-free tobacco products and two oral nicotine products. Today, PMI’s HEETS (consumable sticks for IQOS), IQOS devices, and device accessories are available in select stores and online, while its Bonds and Blends can also be found in small retail stores in the National Capital Region since 2022. The IQOS Iluma and TEREA were also launched in October 2023, while PMI’s oral nicotine product Zyn was launched in November 2023 and is locally available online and in IQOS stores, vape stores, some select 7-11 outlets, and tobacconists. “We need to make sure we create awareness of the category. And that's what we are doing. We make sure that we pace ourselves when it comes to which channels we are available,” Volpetti said.
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