30 jili cc login Brooks Barnhizer stuffed the stat sheet with 22 points, 10 rebounds, seven assists and five steals to propel slow-starting Northwestern to an 85-60 victory over visiting Northeastern on Sunday in Evanston, Ill. Ty Berry hit five 3-pointers and scored a season-high 23 points, while Nick Martinelli added 16 points as Northwestern (10-3) rallied from an early 13-point deficit to capture its fourth straight win. Playing after a seven-day layoff, Northwestern used its pressure defense to turn the game around. The Wildcats forced 22 turnovers while committing just six of their own, fueling a 34-5 edge in points off the mistakes. In the final nonconference game for both teams, Northeastern (8-5) was led by LA Pratt, who had 18 points and seven rebounds. Masai Troutman made 4 of 5 from 3-point range, adding 17 points for the Huskies. The score was tied two minutes into the second half before Northwestern took control with a 21-4 run, triggered by a 3-pointer by Berry. Matthew Nicholson, who scored all seven of his points in the second half, had a pair of putbacks in the run. Barnhizer added a three-point play and Jalen Leach drained a triple as the Wildcats expanded their lead to 56-39. From there, Northeastern never got the deficit into single digits. In the opening minutes, Northwestern had difficulty figuring out Northeastern's trapping, three-quarter court press. While the Wildcats missed their first eight 3-point attempts, the Huskies drilled five of their first seven from deep. A pair of 3-pointers each by Troutman and Pratt propelled Northeastern to a 17-4 lead before the game was seven minutes old. Midway through the half, the Wildcats responded with pressure defense of their own, which fueled a nine-point run capped by a 3-pointer by Leach which reduced the deficit to 22-18. Later in the half, Leach made another trey it gave Northwestern its first lead at 28-27. Then, a 3 by Berry with 30 seconds left gave the Wildcats a 35-33 lead at the break. The double-double was the sixth straight for Barnhizer. During their four-game streak, which includes three wins over power conference schools, the Wildcats have forced 67 turnovers while committing just 24. --Field Level MediaFormer U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old. He passed away Dec. 29 at his home in Plains, Georgia, his charity the Carter Center announced on X , formerly Twitter. Carter, the oldest living U.S. president of all time, died less than three months after his 100th birthday and more than a year after the Carter Center said he had opted to receive hospice care at home with his family after "a series of short hospital stays." The Democratic leader is survived by his four children: John William "Jack" Carter , James E. "Chip" Carter III , Donnel Jeffrey "Jeff" Carter and Amy Carter . Carter was preceded in death by his wife of more than 75 years, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter , who died in November 2023 at age 96. Carter, the 39th president, was born in Georgia in 1924. He went on to attend Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, before receiving a degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946, according to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum . The same year, he married Rosalynn, and together they operated Carter's Warehouse, a seed and farm store in Georgia. Carter's political career took off in 1962, when he was elected to the Georgia Senate, later becoming governor of the Peach State in 1971. Five years later, he was elected president of the United States, during which he oversaw several international diplomacy efforts, including the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords and the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union. "We have learned that 'more' is not necessarily 'better,' that even our great nation has its recognized limits, and that we can neither answer all questions nor solve all problems," he said in his inauguration speech. "We cannot afford to do everything, nor can we afford to lack boldness as we meet the future. So, together, in a spirit of individual sacrifice for the common good, we must simply do our best." Following his time in the White House, he turned his attention to education. Carter became a professor at Emory University in Atlanta in the 1980s, founding The Carter Center and authoring more than 30 books throughout his life. The politician has been recognized for his compassion in his career and beyond. After leaving the presidency, he and his wife sought to create a better life for people not just in the U.S., but across the globe, through the Carter Center. This work was recognized in 2002, when the former peanut farmer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Moreover, Carter is often remembered for his contributions to the start of the clean energy movement. During his presidency, Carter created the Department of Energy and introduced tax incentives for energy-friendly home insulation and for installing solar panels. As Carter put it in his inauguration speech, "The passion for freedom is on the rise. Tapping this new spirit, there can be no nobler nor more ambitious task for America to undertake on this day of a new beginning than to help shape a just and peaceful world that is truly humane." Look back at Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter's love story... Young Love A photo from Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter 's earliest days together as a young naval officer and his bride stands out at the Plains High School Jimmy Carter National Historical Park in their Georgia hometown. The Carters could share a private moment anywhere, even in front of thousands of people at the Democratic National Convention in 1976. Along with his mother, Jimmy and Rosalynn were joined at the DNC here by daughter Amy Lynn Carter , their eldest son, John William "Jack" Carter , and third son Donnel Jeffrey "Jeff" Carter with his wife Annette Davis . The couple, watching the returns with family in Atlanta, embraced on Election Night in 1976 upon finding out that Carter was going to be the 39th president of the United States. The president and first lady put their best feet forward at a series of inaugural balls following Jimmy's swearing-in on Jan. 20, 1977. Rosalynn raised some eyebrows by recycling the same Mary Matise for Jimmae gown she wore to her husband's 1971 gubernatorial inauguration balls, but she had her husband's full support, Jimmy writing in A Full Life that he was "very proud of her beauty and grace." Daughter Amy Lynn Carter was 9 when she and her Siamese cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang and dog Grits moved into the White House in January 1977. Jimmy was the first sitting president since Theodore Roosevelt (and no president has done it since) to send his child to public school, enrolling Amy at Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in Washington, D.C. But if there had been an Internet, this would have been a meme: During his one debate with Republican challenger Ronald Reagan in October 1980, President Carter invoked his then-13-year-old when he said, "I had a discussion the other day with my daughter Amy before I came here to ask me what the important issue was. She said she thought nuclear weaponry and the control of nuclear arms." Let's just say, the other side had a little fun with that, with Reagan supporters in Milwaukee chanting "Amy! Amy!" two days later when the candidate delivered a speech. "I remember when Patti and Ron were tiny kids," the future 36th president quipped. "We used to talk about nuclear power." "Ask Amy" bumper stickers became a quick moneymaker for Republican groups, and she even made The Tonight Show , host Johnny Carson joking, "This will be a significant monologue because I asked Amy Carter what she thought were the most important issues to make jokes about." The Carters may have had a young daughter but they also had three daughters-in-law by the time Jimmy became president, and most of the family moved to Washington. Jack and wife Juliette "Judy" Langford stayed in Georgia, where they had welcomed son Jason James Carter on Aug. 7, 1975, and where daughter Sarah Rosemary would be born Dec. 19, 1978. (After their divorce, Jack married mother of two Elizabeth Brasfield on May 15, 1992.) The Carters' second son, James Earl "Chip" Carter III , worked for the Democratic National Committee in Washington while his dad was in office and moved into the White House with wife Caron Griffin , who was eight months pregnant on Inauguration Day. Still, she strolled along the parade route with the rest of the family for a few blocks when the president and first lady made the unprecedented move to walk the whole mile and a half from the Capitol to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. "People along the parade route, when they saw that we were walking, began to cheer and weep," Jimmy later wrote , "and it was an emotional experience for us as well." Chip and Caron's son, James Earl Carter IV , was born Feb. 25, 1977. That August it was announced that Chip was returning to Plains but his wife and child would be staying with the first family, and he and Caron confirmed their separation in 1978. Chip later married Ginger Hodges , with whom he welcomed daughter Margaret Alicia Carter on Sept. 23, 1987. Chip's been married to third wife Becky Payne since 2001. The Carters' third son, Jeff, married his college sweetheart Annette Davis on April 6, 1975, and they moved into the White House, too, while he was attending George Washington University. Jeff and Annette eventually had three sons, Joshua Jeffrey (b. 1984), Jeremy Davis (1987-2015) and James Carlton (b. 1991), and were together until her death on Sept. 19, 2021. Rosalynn was her husband's number-one confidante when he was president—and forever after. "It's a full partnership," Carter told the AP in 2021 of his then-75-year marriage. Jimmy and Rosalyn remain in sync at the White House in January 1979. Amy, here with her dad in 1995, is mom to son Hugo , born in 1999, with first husband James Gregory Wentzel , and son Errol Carter Kelly with her spouse since 2007, John Joseph "Jay" Kelly . The house Jimmy and Rosalynn built in 1961 and have lived in ever since remained the gathering spot for the whole family. The Carters are also great-grandparents to Jason's sons, Henry and Thomas , with his wife Kate ; Sarah's daughter, Josephine , with husband Brendan Keith Murphy ; Margaret's daughter, Alicia , with husband Harold Edward Carter ; Joshua's sons, Charles and Jonathan , with wife Sarah ; and James' daughter, Rayna Rose , with wife Anna . It's no wonder they earned the nickname "first lovebirds." Jimmy knew a thing or two about keeping the peace. "Every day there needs to be reconciliation and communication between the two spouses," the winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize told the AP. "We don't go to sleep with some remaining differences between us." "Jimmy and I are always looking for things to do together," Rosalynn said, but "each [spouse] should have some space. That's really important." "One of the things Jesus taught was: If you have any talents, try to utilize them for the benefit of others," Jimmy told People in 2019, discussing the nearly four decades he and his wife had spent volunteering and advocating for Habitat for Humanity. "That's what Rosa and I have both tried to do." Though their physical involvement in construction grew more limited with time, the Carters became synonymous with the organization, which builds affordable housing and offers no-interest mortgages to buyers who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford a home. "I think both mine and Rosa's minds are almost as good as they used to be, we just have limited capability on stamina and strength," Jimmy said. "But we still try to stay busy and do a good job at what we do." They got so adept at wielding tools over the years, they knocked down their own bedroom wall during a later-in-life home renovation in Plains. "By that time," Rosalynn told the Washington Post in 2018, "we had worked with Habitat so much that it was just second-nature." "It's hard to live until you're 95 years old," Jimmy told People in 2019. "I think the best explanation for that is to marry the best spouse: someone who will take care of you and engage and do things to challenge you and keep you alive and interested in life."AP Trending SummaryBrief at 3:45 p.m. EST

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Top ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen has left the World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships after refusing to change out of the jeans he wore to the competition, the International Chess Federation said. The federation said in a Friday statement that its regulations include a dress code that bars participants from wearing jeans at the event. “The Chief Arbiter informed Mr Carlsen of the breach, issued a $US200 ($A322) fine, and requested that he change his attire,” the federation said in the statement posted to its website. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today “Unfortunately, Mr Carlsen declined, and as a result, he was not paired for round nine. This decision was made impartially and applies equally to all players.” The 34-year-old Norwegian chess grandmaster said in a video from his Take Take Take chess app that he posted on the social platform X that he accepted the fine. But he refused to change his pants before quitting the competition in New York. “I said, ‘I’ll change tomorrow if that’s OK,” Carlsen said in the video. “But they said, ‘Well, you have to change now.’ At that point it became a bit of a matter of principle for me.” The federation said in its statement that the dress code is “designed to ensure professionalism and fairness for all participants.” It said fellow participant Ian Nepomniachtchi was also fined earlier Friday for breaching the dress code by wearing sports shoes. “However, Mr Nepomniachtchi complied, changed into approved attire, and continued to play in the tournament,” the statement said. “These rules have been in place for years and are well-known to all participants and are communicated to them ahead of each event.”None

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Total cost of ownership for a used 2021 Tesla Model Y over 10 years compared with Toyota RAV4 and BMW shows Tesla’s outstanding value! I’ve written before on total cost of ownership ( most recently about 2 years ago ), but this article will be more personal. This won’t work for everyone, but this is just my personal plan. Even though I think Tesla will solve Full Self Driving (FSD) in the next 10 years, and that changes things dramatically, for the sake of this article, I will assume they don’t solve it. This will cover insurance, maintenance, repairs, taxes, financing, depreciation, & fuel. I will also assume no inflation or incentive changes for the next 10 years. Not realistic, but it’s too hard to predict these things. I’m going to assume we start with a 2021 Tesla Model Y Long Range with 40,000 miles and plan to put on 10,000 miles a year for 10 years. Insurance varies widely based on your state, mileage, and coverage desired. I do have some experience with Tesla Insurance, and it is priced aggressively in Colorado. It is especially a good deal if you are a young driver who is willing to drive carefully to save money. I’m just going to assume $1,200 a year for this article. Tesla vehicles are a little more expensive to insure than a typical Toyota or Honda due to the number of sensors they have and some other factors I discussed in this article about a minor accident I was in and the different estimates I received to fix the car . I’ve owned electric cars for 12 years, and there really is very little scheduled maintenance on a Tesla. Here is Tesla’s official page for maintenance on the Model Y. Basically, it is wiper blades, washer fluid, and cabin air filters every other year. $200 every other year should cover that, even having someone else replacing the cabin air filter (which I have done twice, but it is a little tricky and needs a couple special tools). Plus, rotating tires every 6,250 miles is about $50 a year. I monitor the brake fluid to ensure there is no water in it, either using strips I purchased on Amazon or using an electronic tester . I’ll assume I have to replace the brake fluid every 4 years at $200. Now, they do recommend replacing the A/C desiccant bag every 4 years. Searching around for a pricing estimate, it looks like that is about $350 from Tesla. I don’t live where they salt the roads, but if I did, that would be an extra $100 a year for the Tesla (or any other car I assume). I don’t have the HEPA filter, but if I did, that would be more money to replace every 3 years. For unscheduled maintenance, there’s the 12V battery replacement, wheel alignments, and the big one is tire replacement. A 12V battery should be about $200 every 4 years, an alignment every 4 years is about $100, and I plan to get 4 tires from SimpleTire.com for about $800. Radar Dimax tires have excellent ratings and reviews and cost less than half the money of tired from popular brands like Bridgestone and Michelin. I’m planning on buying a 10-year, 100,000-mile zero deductible plan from Xcelerate Auto . They have been an advertiser on CleanTechnica , but I’m not getting any special deal at $4,819. If I sell the car, I have the choice of transferring the contract to the new buyer (likely if it is a private sale) or getting a prorated refund for the amount paid (less any claims paid). I’ll also add $200 a year for items not covered by the warranty. Since I already own the car, the taxes will be incredibly low ($46 a year) instead of the thousands in sales tax I would owe if I was purchasing the car, but I’ll pretend I’m buying the car because that makes it a better article for others to use. The price to buy the car is $29,602 according to Edmunds.com. If my income was lower, I’d make sure I could find one under $25,000 so I could get the $4,000 used EV tax credit. Edmunds shows $2,178 for fees in the first year and $46 for every year after that. That sounds about right, so I’m going with that. Edmunds.com has a 5-year financing cost of $5,763, and that looks reasonable for a 5-year loan. But since I’m proposing to buy a 10-year extended warranty, I need to do my own figures. I used bankrate.com to figure the costs of a 5-year, 7% loan. I found it cost $6,583 for a 5-year loan and them I put zero for the other 5 years. I’m going to use Edmunds figures for the first 5 years, but then use $1,000 a year after that, since I don’t think a Tesla Model Y in perfect working condition (no reason to leave any issues unresolved with a zero deductible warranty) will go any lower than $7,570, even with 140,000 miles and being 12 years old. Having owned several cars that were 1o to 20 years old, that is one of the advantages — they depreciate very little once they get to a price of about $5,000 if they are in great condition. I would expect an electric vehicle with very low running costs to bottom out a little higher than $5,000, but we will see. Since I’m getting solar this month (that will be another article) and don’t take a lot of long trips, I’m going to figure 9,000 miles/3 is 3000 kWh at 5 cents a kWh is $150 plus 1,000 miles from Superchargers would be 333 kWh at 45 cents a kWh or ~$150. So, a total of $300 a year for fuel. The total estimated cost of ownership for 10 years/100,000 miles is only $59,276, or about 60 cents a mile! If you would like to play around with your own figures, here is the link to my workbook — you can view it, or if you sign into your google account, you can make a copy and change any figures you want to change. The Tesla’s second 5 years came out to only 38% of the cost of the first 5 years! The prepaid warranty distorts that a bit. If I distribute the cost of the warranty across the years (reducing the first 5-year costs and inflating the second 5-year cost), the second 5 years comes out to 46% of the first 5 years. This isn’t an apples to apples comparison, since buying a RAV4 for 5 years and then buying another for 5 years incurs some extra costs. Edmunds is also figuring 15,000 miles a year instead of 10,000 miles a year. Having said that, here are the screenshots: First, you would buy a 2021 RAV4 and have a TCO of $47,690 for 5 years. Then, you would have another $41,927 in costs to own it another 5 years. That is a total of $89,617. Let’s subtract the $4,618 in financing, since you already paid off the first car. Let’s also reduce the fuel costs by $6,400 since this is for 150,000 miles instead of 100,000 for the Tesla. Let’s take off $1,500 for sales tax too. So, $89,617 less $4,618 and $6,400 and $1,500 is $77,099. The second 5 years came out to about 61% of the first 5 years. If I wanted to do the opposite and increase the miles on the Tesla to 150,000, I’d have to estimate the repair costs. Xcelerate doesn’t offer that long of a warranty on Tesla vehicles at this time. So, the Toyota RAV4 costs 30% more to own even though it takes almost twice the time to go from 0 to 60 mph and isn’t close to the performance, technology, or luxury of a Tesla. Let’s look at a BMW to see how much that would cost to own. Let’s estimate that the second 5 years is the same 61% of the first 5 years as Toyota’s was, or $58,512. So, the total for 10 years would be $154,434, or nearly 3 times to cost of the Tesla with comparable room and performance and with technology far more advanced. I’ve always tried to keep my cars as long as possible. I’ve had to sell cars in the past because of accidents or expensive repairs. It appears that electric vehicles might last longer than gas and diesel vehicles. I’m nervous about owning one out of warranty since, although I have found my Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model 3 and Y to be very reliable, I have also heard of expensive repairs. That is why the Xcare warranty at about $500 a year makes me much more comfortable owning my Tesla for many more years. You can see from my figures that the used 2021 Tesla Model Y is an outstanding value, and with the availability of a quality extended warranty created by ex-Tesla employees that is designed to work with Tesla Service, it is a safe choice for people to buy. I’ve spoken with the sales advisors and they really understand how Tesla Service works, what items are paid for by the warranty, and what items would be paid for my your auto insurance (if the repair is caused by an accident or vandalism). The ability to own a high-performance luxury crossover for substantially less money than a regular gas Toyota means that Tesla should be able to take a lot of market share from the legacy gas vehicles as more people realize the outstanding value electric vehicles provide. I have recently been contacted by several Republican friends who suddenly think it is okay to buy a Tesla now that Musk has helped their cause. I realize Elon Musk has also offended a great number of people on the left. Of course, most of the people in the middle don’t care about politics, they just want the best car for their hard earned money. If you want to take advantage of my Tesla referral link to get Reward Credits, here’s the link: https://ts.la/paul92237 — but as I have said before, if another owner helped you more, please use their link instead of mine. If you want to learn more about Tesla’s new referral program (August 2024), Chris Boylan has written an excellent article on it . 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By Christopher Quinn, Ernie Suggs The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Former President Jimmy Carter, a man who redefined what a post-presidency could be, died Sunday. He was 100. Carter, who lived longer than any other U.S. president, entered home hospice care in Plains, Georgia in February 2023 after a series of short hospital stays. The only Georgian ever elected to the White House, Carter left office after a single term that was highlighted by forging peace between Israel and Egypt, but was overshadowed by the Iran hostage crisis. In the decades after, his reputation grew through his and wife Rosalynn Carter’s work at the Carter Center in Atlanta and his philanthropic causes such as Habitat for Humanity. “People will be celebrating Jimmy Carter for hundreds of years. His reputation is only going to grow,” Rice University history professor Douglas Brinkley wrote in his book “The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter.” James Earl Carter Jr. was born in Plains on Oct. 1, 1924, the first of four children of Earl Carter, a farmer and businessman, and Lillian Gordy Carter, a registered nurse. He gained an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, graduated and joined the Navy submarine branch where in seven years he worked his way into “Rickover’s boys,” the elite nascent unit of America’s nuclear submarine fleet championed by the iconic Admiral Hyman Rickover. Carter was on his way up until a death at home changed his destiny. His father Earl, a farmer, businessman and cornerstone personality in the Plains community, died from cancer. Carter left the Navy and its far-from-Plains postings such as Hawaii, and he, Rosalynn and their growing family returned to Georgia in 1953 to take over the family farming business. It was there he first ran for school board, then state senator. He was elected governor in 1970. Carter served one successful term before launching an improbable bid to become president, winning the Democratic nomination and then defeating Republican President Gerald Ford in November 1976. On his inauguration day, rather than driving past the crowds in an armored limousine, Jimmy and Rosalynn emerged from the car with daughter Amy at their side and walked down Pennsylvania Avenue, holding hands and waving. Carter’s successes included promoting human rights, adding to the national park and preserve system, reestablishing governmental credibility after the Watergate Crisis, and the Camp David Accords, which forged a peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. They were overshadowed by trouble at home and abroad. At home, Carter and his advisers, most of them Washington outsiders, met resistance from his own party. Then, in November 1979, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took hostages. He tried negotiation, then launched a bold rescue mission that never reached its target because of helicopter failure. He could not resolve the situation until the last day of his administration. At home, a foundering economy exacerbated by oil embargoes from Mideast countries and the rise of the Republican Party under Ronald Reagan helped lead to his defeat in November 1980. Carter returned to tiny Plains and used the power of an ex-president’s bully pulpit as the springboard to his last, and, some say, his best act. Carter began volunteering for Habitat for Humanity, a fairly new Americus-based organization, building houses for the poor. Then, together with Rosalynn, he founded the Atlanta-based Carter Center, which focused on making peace and spreading health and democracy around the world. It will carry the couple’s humanitarian and democratic work forward. From his work as president and as the leader of the Carter Center, he won the Nobel Prize, the United National Human Rights Prize and many other notable awards from countries, organizations and world leaders. The Carters both were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton. ”Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter,” Clinton said, “have done more good things for more people in more places than any other couple on the face of the Earth.” Rosalynn Carter, Jimmy Carter’s wife of 77 years, died in November 2023. They are survived by their children Amy, Chip, Jack and Jeff; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren. 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