sg777 today Ireland blamed Northern Ireland Office for ‘damaging leaks’, records showJimmy Carter had the longest post-presidency of anyone to hold the office, and one of the most active. Here is a look back at his life. 1924 — Jimmy Carter was born on Oct. 1 to Earl and Lillian Carter in the small town of Plains, Georgia. 1928 — Earl Carter bought a 350-acre farm 3 miles from Plains in the tiny community of Archery. The Carter family lived in a house on the farm without running water or electricity. 1941 — He graduated from Plains High School and enrolled at Georgia Southwestern College in Americus. 1942 — He transferred to Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. 1943 — Carter’s boyhood dream of being in the Navy becomes a reality as he is appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. 1946 — He received his naval commission and on July 7 married Rosalynn Smith of Plains. They moved to Norfolk, Virginia. 1946-1952 — Carter’s three sons are born, Jack in 1947, Chip in 1950 and Jeff in 1952. 1962-66 — Carter is elected to the Georgia State Senate and serves two terms. 1953 — Carter’s father died and he cut his naval career short to save the family farm. Due to a limited income, Jimmy, Rosalynn and their three sons moved into Public Housing Apartment 9A in Plains. 1966 — He ran for governor, but lost. 1967 — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s fourth child, Amy, is born. 1971 — He ran for governor again and won the election, becoming Georgia’s 76th governor on Jan. 12. 1974 — Carter announced his candidacy for president. 1976 — Carter was elected 39th president on Nov. 2, narrowly defeating incumbent Gerald Ford. 1978 — U.S. and the Peoples’ Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations. President Carter negotiates and mediates an accord between Egypt and Israel at Camp David. 1979 — The Department of Education is formed. Iranian radicals overrun the U.S. Embassy and seize American hostages. The Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty is signed. 1980 — On March 21, Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled in Moscow. A rescue attempt to get American hostages out of Iran is unsuccessful. Carter was defeated in his bid for a second term as president by Ronald Reagan in November. 1981 — President Carter continues to negotiate the release of the American hostages in Iran. Minutes before his term as president is over, the hostages are released. 1982 — Carter became a distinguished professor at Emory University in Atlanta, and founded The Carter Center. The nonpartisan and nonprofit center addresses national and international issues of public policy. 1984 — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter volunteer one week a year for Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that helps needy people in the United States and in other countries renovate and build homes, until 2020. He also taught Sunday school in the Maranatha Baptist Church of Plains from the mid-’80s until 2020. 2002 — Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 2015 — Carter announced in August he had been diagnosed with melanoma that spread to his brain. 2016 — He said in March that he no longer needed cancer treatment. 2024 — Carter dies at 100 years old. Sources: Cartercenter.org, Plains Historical Preservation Trust, The Associated Press; The Brookings Institution; U.S. Navy; WhiteHouse.gov, Gallup

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Iowa offense ready to excel against New HampshireA group of talented fans have made a native PC port of Star Fox 64 , which they are calling Starship . Even better? It’s technically legal. Harbour Masters, the team behind the project, used a tool that converts the original game ROM into PC executable code, so it doesn’t actually use any proprietary Nintendo code. This is the same method used to create the native PC port of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time , and that one’s still available for download . Members of this crew also ported Majora’s Mask and Super Mario 64 using the same conversion tool. There is one major caveat here. You’ll need your own legally-sourced Star Fox 64 game ROM to play. Star Fox 64: now on PC, thanks to an unofficial port. https://t.co/YZULlJdrqw pic.twitter.com/q684NpU49p — Andy Robinson (@Andy_VGC) December 23, 2024 Just like previous ports, Starship features all kinds of modern bells and whistles to set itself apart from the 1997 original. The frame rate is higher and the port includes frame smoothing technology for better visuals. There are custom-made textures and the ability to run on widescreen monitors, as seen above. ADVERTISEMENT Advertisement There’s also another major benefit. This port is moddable, so who knows what we’ll see in the future once people get their hands on it. The team’s Ocarina of Time port has received plenty of love from the modding community. Some mods allow for abilities sourced from newer Zelda games and one even throws functioning Pikmin into the mix because, well, why not? According to Redditors, the Star Fox 64 port is easy to get going on a Steam Deck , if that’s your bag. It requires Proton and some light hurdle-jumping, as the code isn’t Linux-based. It’s been a while since we’ve gotten a legitimate Star Fox game from Nintendo, and it was a weird one , so this could sate that neverending urge to do barrel rolls.Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Wemby

Morgan Smith, 21, was helming a rigid inflatable boat (RIB) in Poole Harbour when he collided with a channel marker in the early hours of May 2, 2022. Mr Haw, 24, who was also in the boat, was thrown overboard and his body was found 12 days later. Smith, from Northampton, had been giving Mr Haw a lift after the two had attended a prize-giving ceremony taking place as part of Poole Regatta. Smith had been drinking prior to the collision and had been travelling at three times the speed limit when it struck the large metal buoy. He had also been using his mobile phone to assist with the boat’s navigation. Senior coroner for Dorset Rachel Griffin highlighted in a prevention of future deaths report several concerns around the lack of laws. She said pleasure vessels such as a RIB are being “used in a manner, and in conditions, that would be very similar to commercial vessels without the same safety mitigation”. Mrs Griffin said she is concerned about how there is no law against the use of alcohol or drugs while in charge of a pleasure or private vessel, but there is for commercial ones. She said: “Helming a vessel under the influence of alcohol or drugs could lead to a future death given the impact alcohol and drugs have upon perception, control, judgement and decision making.” The coroner added: “I have concerns that there is a culture of using such support boats as a form of taxi particularly at the social events, albeit not for pecuniary gain. “This means they could come under the definition of a pleasure vessel and as those helming these vessels may be in drink, they may not take necessary precautions and safety measures given the lack of regulations. “Further the owner and operator of the vessel may not be aware, as was the case in David’s death, of the use of the vessel in this way, or of the identity of those on board which may result in the vessel falling under the commercial vessel definition for the purposes of those journeys with the appropriate regulations not being followed.” Mrs Griffin wrote to the Department for Transport and the Royal Yachting Association with her recommendations. She concluded Mr Haw's death as an unlawful killing. Smith, meanwhile, is serving three years in jail after pleading guilty to gross negligence manslaughter in November 2023.There was no guarantee that a long-awaited House Ethics Committee report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz would ever see the light of day, especially once the Florida GOP lawmaker abruptly quit his job last month in Congress. But the public on Monday did get to read and learn the details of allegations that played a role in disqualifying Gaetz from making it through the Senate confirmation process to serve as President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general. In releasing the report , the committee – which is equally divided between Republicans and Democrats – made Gaetz one of only a few former members whose Ethics Committee investigation was made public after they had resigned from office. The committee said it unearthed "substantial evidence" that Gaetz engaged in "prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use" and obstruction of Congress, including paying for sex with a 17-year-old, though he did not know or ask her age at the time. While Gaetz has been dogged by allegations of sexual misconduct in the past, the House Ethics Committee investigation into his conduct was thrown into the spotlight when Trump nominated him to be attorney general in the incoming administration. Senators demanded more information about the allegations against Gaetz as they prepared to consider his nomination, with some Republican senators demanding access to the report as some details leaked to the press. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he would "strongly request" the committee keep it private . The panel met to consider whether to release the report and deadlocked along party lines in November. Gaetz pulled out of consideration shortly afterward. In a second vote earlier this month, two Republicans quietly joined their Democratic colleagues in supporting its release. "The Committee has typically not released its findings after losing jurisdiction in a matter," the report read. "However, there are a few prior instances where the Committee has determined that it was in the public interest to release its findings even after a Member’s resignation from Congress. The Committee does not do so lightly." Here's what to know about the committee's decision to release the report. What has happened in the past? It is extremely rare that the House Ethics Committee would release a report on a former member of Congress – so much so that resigning from Congress has long been considered a way for members plagued by ethics questions to avoid public release of their alleged wrongdoing. "It's an inducement for members to exit that the reports are not released," said Norm Eisen, former co-counsel to the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee during then-President Trump's first impeachment. "So it encourages a natural sanction of the offender no longer being in a position of public service." In only a handful of cases, the committee has determined that the information is in the public interest despite the lawmaker no longer serving in Congress. For example, the committee released a report in 1987 a few months after former Rep. Bill Boner, D-Tenn., resigned from Congress to become the mayor of Nashville . The report indicated Boner had taken bribes and misused campaign funds. In another case, the committee continued to investigate sexual harassment allegations against former Rep. Eric Massa , D-N.Y., who resigned in 2020, to determine whether other members covered up his conduct. Why did the committee decide to release the report? Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., is a member of the committee who voted for the Gaetz report's release. He told USA TODAY it was important to release the document because "the public had the right to know this sort of thing." In cases where there was a "relatively minor incident" the committee will choose not to release the report, Ivey said, adding: "This was anything but that." It was also important to signal to other House members what is expected of them as a member of Congress, Ivey said. "Our job as the watchmen for the Congress is to let our colleagues know when there's conduct that crosses the line," he said. "So that it gives them guidance as to how they should conduct themselves going forward." Others argued the panel was dealing with another problem : Much of the information in the report had already leaked, leaving the public to speculate without the full picture. Gaetz and Trump "put these issues in the public eye" by putting him up for attorney general, Eisen said. "They open Pandora's Box, some of the details came out, so at that point it's hard to close Pandora's Box back up." What was the argument against releasing it? Ethics Committee Chair Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., penned an addendum to the report explaining why several committee members voted against releasing the document. Guest and his other like-minded GOP members "do not challenge the committee's findings," he wrote, but "we take great exception" to the decision to deviate from "well-established standards" and release a report on someone who no longer serves in the House. Doing so is "extremely rare," Guest argued, and may be perceived as an attempt to "weaponize" the committee's investigation process. Releasing the report, he added, was "a dangerous departure with potentially catastrophic consequences." What does Matt Gaetz say? Gaetz has maintained his innocence and attacked the credibility of the Ethics Committee. On Monday, he published a series of posts on X with snippets of witness testimony that he argued refute the committee's findings. “Giving funds to someone you are dating - that they didn’t ask for - and that isn’t ‘charged’ for sex is now prostitution?!?” he wrote . “There is a reason they did this to me in a Christmas Eve-Eve report and not in a courtroom of any kind where I could present evidence and challenge witnesses.” The former Florida GOP lawmaker made a last-minute attempt in federal court Monday to block the committee's release of the findings, claiming the committee was outside of its jurisdiction. But while Gaetz sought a temporary restraining order Monday morning to prevent the report being released, the judge in the case asked Gaetz an hour later to explain why the case was still relevant once the materials were public. Monday evening, Gaetz's attorneys submitted a filing acknowledging that he "has no suffered irreversible and irreparable harm" and agrees with the judge that immediate action is no longer relevant.