LeBlanc and Joly offer little details about visit with Trump's team in FloridaD espite just one four-year and somewhat unorthodox term in office, Jimmy Carter brought much hope to the White House during a tenure that was marred by several major crisises. As America’s 39th president, he emphasized human rights in his foreign policy, championed environmentalism at a time when it was not yet popular, and appointed record numbers of women and people of color during his administration, which lasted from 1977 to 1981. Several major events transpired during Carter’s presidency, notably the US energy crisis, the Iran hostage ordeal, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Camp David Peace Accords and the Soviet-Afghan war. Many viewed Carter, who grew up selling peanuts as a teenager on his family’s land in Plains, Georgia, as an unlikely candidate for Commander-in-Chief, and some critics later dismissed his tenure as a “failure.” However, Carter had a long history of local and state politics before even arriving in Washington, D.C., and eventually claiming the Oval Office. By 1969, he had served on the Sumter County school board, in the Georgia state senate and made an unsuccessful bid for Georgia governor. To win the gubernatorial election in 1970, Carter adopted more conservative positions. But rather than invoking traditional Southern values, Carter surprised his Georgia constituents by calling for an end to racial discrimination in his 1971 inaugural address. “This is a time for truth and frankness. The next four years will not be easy ones. The problems we face will not solve themselves. They demand from us the utmost in dedication and unselfishness from each of us. But this is also a time for greatness,” he said. “At the end of a long campaign, I believe I know our people as well as anyone. Based on this knowledge of Georgians North and South, Rural and Urban, liberal and conservative, I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.” His support of civil rights would later be a hallmark of his presidential campaign. Barred by state law from seeking a second consecutive term as governor, Carter made another quantum leap and ran for president as the country was reeling from its disastrous Vietnam War, Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon. As a relative unknown, even among his own party, Carter was considered the most improbable of long shots. During his campaign he would reportedly often start with the phrase “Hello, my name is Jimmy Carter, and I’m running for President.” However, his tireless campaigning and his promise that “I’ll never lie to you” appealed to voters. After a grueling series of state primaries in early 1976, he won the Democratic nomination over a field of better-known candidates. In the autumn of 1976, Carter narrowly defeated Republican incumbent Gerald Ford. In a respectful address on November 3, 1976, he congratulated Ford, describing him as “the toughest and most formidable opponent that anyone could hope for,” and promised to unite the nation. “It’s not going to be easy for any of us, I don’t claim to know all the answers but I have said many times during my campaign round all 50 states, that I am not afraid to take on the respnsibilities of president of the United States , because my strength and my courage and my advice and my counsel and my criticism comes from you,” he said. “And if I can tap the greatness that’s in you and the American people then we can make our nation’s government and a source of pride once again...It’s time for us to get together to correct our mistakes, to answer difficult questions and to make our nation great.” Carter took office on January 20, 1977, and emphasised his populist message by walking, with his wife and four children, nearly two miles from the steps of the Capitol to the White House. His presidency was mired, however, by several major turns. As his first order of business, Carter granted official pardons to hundreds of young Americans who had evaded military conscription during the Vietnam War. The measure was designed to heal some of the wounds that divided the country. One of his biggest downfalls was that Carter was not a compelling speaker. Combined with economic stagnation, rising inflation and a high unemployment rate he faced throughout his presidency, he failed to adopt widespread public support. He was also uncompromising as an executive, putting him into conflict with members of Congress, even in his own party. Carter failed to win passage of many measures he endorsed, including attempts to revise the tax system, reform welfare programs, control the cost of health care and provide for national health insurance. Notably, in a struggle that lasted almost as long as his presidency, Carter fought over an energy program that was structured to make fuel expensive enough that consumers would be encouraged to conserve it. By the time he appeared in a cardigan for a nationally telecast speech to encourage energy conservation before that first winter was over, Carter was the butt of jokes. Carter delivered this speech, often referred to as his “Malaise Speech,” on July 15, 1979, while the country was in the midst of a full-blown energy crisis. In it, he said that everyday Americans were suffering from a “crisis of confidence.” “It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will,” he said. “We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation. “The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America.” The battle with the energy program preoccupied and debilitated Carter’s domestic staff. There were few other imaginative programs on the home front, leading one Carter aide to lament, halfway through the administration, that the White House was suffering from “terminal narcolepsy.” Where Carter found more success was in foreign policy, which he grew more enthusiastic about as his presidency progressed. He built upon the work of Nixon by formalizing relations with China, ushered agreements that give Panama sovereignty over most of the Canal Zone, met with the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev to sign the nuclear arms control agreement known as Salt II and delivered the Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel in 1979. His unyielding policies preserved the climate that isolated the Soviets and contributed to the end of the Cold War a decade later. However, ultimately, what became cemented in Carter’s legacy were the failures of the Iran hostage crisis, when mobs ransacked the US embassy in Tehran capturing 52 people and holding them hostage for the duration of his presidency. In a bold attempt to save the hostages, Carter organized a rescue operation that resulted in disaster when an American military helicopter crashed into a plane waiting to ferry the hostages to freedom. “It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. It was my decision to cancel it when problems developed in the placement of our rescue team for a future rescue operation. The responsibility is fully my own,” he said in an address to the nation. “As President, I know that our entire Nation feels the deep gratitude I feel for the brave men who were prepared to rescue their fellow Americans from captivity. “And as President, I also know that the Nation shares not only my disappointment that the rescue effort could not be mounted, because of mechanical difficulties, but also my determination to persevere and to bring all of our hostages home to freedom.” The tragedy left an enduring impression on Carter that ultimately contributed to his failed re-election later that autumn - he was trounced by Ronald Reagan in the 1980 race. “I’ve not achieved all I set out to do; perhaps no one ever does. But we have faced the tough issues. We’ve stood for and we’ve fought for and we have achieved some very important goals for our country,’ Carter said after losing. “These efforts will not end with this administration. The effort must go on. Nor will the progress that we have made be lost when we leave office. The great principles that have guided this Nation since its very founding will continue to guide America through the challenges of the future.” However, Carter described the day he yielded office to Ronald Reagan in 1981 as “one of his happiest” because the hostages were freed. His first duty as a former president was to fly immediately to Frankfurt to welcome them back. Though Carter remained active in the Democratic Party, he never again sought elective office and preferred to live, out of the limelight, at his home in Georgia. Carter died on Sunday, December 29, at his home in Plains, Georgia, aged 100.
Brock Purdy will miss Sunday's game for the 49ers with a shoulder injurySYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Kyle McCord threw for a career-high 470 yards with two touchdowns to lead Syracuse to a 31-24 win over UConn on Saturday. The win gives the Orange (8-3) their first eight-win regular season since 2018, and third since 2000. “We knew they would play all the way through the fourth quarter, and we thought it’d be a fourth-quarter game,” Syracuse coach Fran Brown said. “So, it’s just what we talked about the entire week and we didn’t take it lightly.” McCord completed 37-of-47 passes for his first 400-yard game this season. He opened the game with a 77-yard touchdown drive, spanning two plays in 50 seconds. The touchdown came on a 22-yard pass to Oronde Gadsden. McCord broke Syracuse’s all-time record for single-season passing yards with 4:12 remaining in the first half. He needed 273 yards to pass Nassib, and finished the game against the Huskies with 3,946 passing yards. The former quarterback set his record in 2012, recording 3,749 passing yards during his senior year. McCord also tied Nassib’s record for single-season touchdown passes with 26, with his second touchdown pass on the same play as the yardage record. “I got a standard of what the quarterback needs to look like being here,” Brown said. "Not necessarily statistically and all those things, because that’s hard, but just in reference to how you prepare.” The Orange missed two field goals and had two touchdowns called back that allowed the Huskies offense a chance to tie the game in the fourth quarter. After a 2-yard passing touchdown by quarterback Joe Fagnano left UConn trailing back one score, Syracuse recovered the Huskies’ onside kick attempt to end the game. UConn (7-4) will finish its season without a Power Four win after staying within two touchdowns of the Orange for all 60 minutes. The Huskies have ended each of their four Power Four games within one score of their opponent. “They’re disappointed as hell, and they should be,” UConn coach Jim Mora said. “But we have to get over that, and we have to figure out what we can do better and apply those lessons going forward and prepare to get a win next week.” Cam Edwards led UConn on the ground with 87 rushing yards, including a 71-yard touchdown dash in the first quarter. Fagnano finished the game with 228 passing yards and two touchdowns. UConn: Linebacker Jayden McDonald recorded a second-best 12 tackles, including a sack and tackle-for-loss. McDonald was the one of three Huskies to reach McCord for a sack. Syracuse: Eight receivers caught passes, with three recording over 100 yards each. Wide receivers Darrell Gill Jr. (177 yards) and Jackson Meeks (110) and tight end Oronde Gadsden (103 and a touchdown) combined for 390 receiving yards. Syracuse had 540 total yards to UConn’s 352. UConn’s offense was 5-of-15 on third down conversions against the Orange defense. The Huskies didn’t get their first third down conversion until the second quarter, after the Orange had already taken a 14-7 lead. McCord faces off against Miami’s Cameron Ward for Syracuse’s final game of the regular season. They are the two leading passers in FBS and sit atop the ACC in total offense. UConn: Visits Massachusetts on Saturday Syracuse: Hosts No. 11 Miami on Saturday — Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football
BEDFORD, NH – Three more companies have become members of New Hampshire Life Sciences , and five have joined as associate members, as the statewide association that is working to drive growth and awareness of the state’s multi-billion-dollar life sciences industry closes out its first year. In its inaugural year, 23 companies joined the association. The group’s mission is to connect life sciences industry companies, get them together, “and really facilitate the advancement of the life sciences industry across the state,” Andrea Hechavarria, NHLS president and CEO, told Ink Link earlier this year. NHLS members announced this month are: Resonetics , a Nashua firm that specializes in medical device advanced engineering, prototyping, product development and micro-manufacturing; BA Sciences , a Salem full-service analytical testing laboratory; Ovik Health , of Portsmouth, a healthcare technology company with products ranging from wound and burn dressings, compression solutions, to tapes and bandages. NHLS also welcomed its first tranche of associate member companies. Associate members play a critical role in supporting the life sciences industry and its ecosystem, NHLS said in a news release. Associate members are: Decco , of Nashua, which provides specialized construction, maintenance, critical equipment handling, and fabrication services to leading biopharmaceutical, technology, and industrial clients throughout New England; Ethikos Tech , a regional IT professional services firm; Middlesex Gases , a regional third-generation company manufacturing and analyzing specialty gases for biotechnology and life science companies; Piquette and Howard Electrical , of Plaistow, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business and regional electrical contractor that has an extensive portfolio of life sciences companies; SkyTerra , a Nashua provider of customized IT support for life sciences and biotech companies. “NHLS was formed to connect and convene the industry to facilitate its broader advancement across the state and we are pleased to welcome these innovative and leading NH companies to NHLS,” Hechavarria said in the release. “As a newly formed association, our members have the unique ability to help guide the direction of New Hampshire’s life sciences growth. We leverage our partners and network to provide our members with opportunities to collectively engage with business and government leaders, academic institutions, and other stakeholders to build a vibrant life sciences ecosystem and community.” The heads of the new organizations said they are thrilled and excited to be part of the trade organization that is working to promote the industry and bring new businesses, to the state. “We look forward to our collaborations launching New Hampshire as the leading hub for life science companies,” said Resonetics President and CEO Kevin Kelly. James E. Mich, president of BA Sciences, said, “As a New Hampshire-based organization, we are excited to help promote awareness and be a part of the ongoing expansion of the life science industry in the Granite State.” DECCO is excited about becoming “part of a dynamic community dedicated to innovation and growth within New Hampshire’s life sciences sector,” said Caryn Morse, DECCO director of media and marketing. “We are committed to supporting this vital industry and further strengthening the state’s position as a hub for scientific innovation. We look forward to collaborating with fellow members and contributing to the ongoing development of life sciences in New Hampshire,.” Partnerships and new opportunities are key factors in joining the association, the businesses said. “Our team feels privileged to work daily with exceptionally talented professionals and scientists in the life sciences field across Massachusetts and Connecticut. We look forward to building the same long-lasting relationships with our neighbors to the north in the Granite State,” said Ron Perry, director of sales and marketing for Middlesex Gases. “The launch of New Hampshire Life Science has opened up many new opportunities for the industry to advance. In the coming years, we are excited to foster successful partnerships and contribute to the groundbreaking discoveries that NHLS members are pursuing, which will shape the future,” David Howard, CEO of P&H Electric noted that NHLS “has grown quickly to become an influential conduit to connecting and facilitating the advancement of the life science industry in New Hampshire.” “All of us in the construction industry will benefit tremendously through these efforts for years to come,” he said. “We look forward to adding value wherever and whenever needed.” The partnership with the association “aligns perfectly with our mission to drive innovation and empower the NH Life Sciences community,” said Dan Bergeron, partner at SkyTerra. “We look forward to collaborating with industry leaders to advance cutting-edge solutions that improve health outcomes and enhance the quality of life for communities worldwide.” NHLS has several tiers of membership: Life Science Industry Members are for-profit companies in the broader life sciences industry; Associate Industry Members are businesses that provide consulting, business services and products to the life sciences industry; there’s also a tier for nonprofit, academic and government members. Hechavarria told Ink Link earlier this year that the group plans to be a partner with the state in recruiting life sciences businesses to locate in New Hampshire. NHLS works closely with the state Department of Business and Economic Advancement, and as businesses look for more information on locating in New Hampshire, or expanding here, the association will work with the state in helping them understand the industry. NHLS also plans to achieve its mission of connecting and advancing the industry through member programs and events, networking, offering industry intelligence, peer collaboration and services, and more, she said. We don’t spam! You're on the list! Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.NoneNeal Maupay: Whenever I’m having a bad day I check Everton score and smile
