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Utah AG Sean Reyes 'Disappointed' After Supreme Court Rejects Texas Lawsuit
Dec 11, 2020, 6:48 PM | Updated: 6:49 pm
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. (KSL-TV)
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said he is disappointed but respects the Supreme Court's decision to reject a lawsuit filed by Texas' attorney general Ken Paxton, challenging the election results in four battleground states.
Reyes signed on to the lawsuit Wednesday, saying the Supreme Court should have made a ruling on the case so Americans could "have more clarity" about who sets the terms of elections.
The lawsuit demanded the 62 total Electoral College votes in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin be invalidated.
The lawsuit was rejected Friday. In a brief order, the court said Texas does not have the legal right to sue those states because it "has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections."
"All other pending motions are dismissed as moot," the court said Friday.
"While I am disappointed that the Supreme Court declined to hear the Texas v. Pennsylvania case, I respect its decision," Reyes said in a statement. "As I said when we joined Texas, this case is not about a single candidate or election. This case was always about who has authority over the election process, how that exercise of authority impacted the current election and how it will affect future elections.
"These important questions are not going away and will no doubt come up again. It's unfortunate we still lack clarity on critical and national constitutional questions that will remain unanswered."
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Reyes also said his office communicated directly with the governor's office before joining the lawsuit.
"Because Texas and Missouri drafted the brief language, Utah was not required to spend any time writing," Reyes said. "My Solicitor General and I reviewed the briefs before filing. Any notion that we expended a large amount of taxpayer dollars is inaccurate and highly misleading."
Governor Gary Herbert and Governor-elect Spencer Cox issued a joint statement Wednesday, which said Reyes did not consult with them before signing the brief. They called Reyes' actions "an unwise use of taxpayers' money."
@GovHerbert and Governor-elect @SpencerJCox issue joint statement on Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes' decision to join a Texas lawsuit against the election process in four battleground states won by President-elect Joe Biden.
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"We exercised the independent authority of my office to seek clarity and finality to critical constitutional questions. Utah and America deserved answers that would give more confidence in the process," Reyes said. "I look forward to working with the new administration on common causes and continuing to vigorously defend the interests and rights of the people of the state of Utah."
The Electoral College is scheduled to meet on Monday and formally elect Joe Biden as president.
Read the Supreme Court's full order here.


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On November 9th Constanze Stelzenmueller of the Brookings Institution will discuss our changing relationship with all of Europe and how the rise of far-right parties in Europe will affect our trans-Atlantic relations and could threaten a partnership that has lasted for generations.
Constanze Stelzenmueller is an expert on European, and transatlantic foreign and security policy and strategy, is the inaugural Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brooking Institutions. Prior to working at Brookings, she was a senior transatlantic fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), where she directed the influential Transatlantic Trends survey program. Her areas of expertise include: transatlantic relations; German foreign policy; NATO; the European Union's foreign, security, and defense policy; international law; and human rights.
Stelzenmüller is the former director of GMF's Berlin office. From 1994 to 2005, she was an editor for the political section of the German weekly DIE ZEIT, where she had also served as defense and international security editor and covered human rights issues and humanitarian crises. From 1988 to 1989, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School.


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DC Tech Office Employee Charged With Corruption
DOJ tipped White House about FBI raid
By Jim Iovino	• Published March 12, 2009 • Updated on March 13, 2009 at 1:52 pm
A District employee and a technology consultant were charged with corruption Thursday after a raid on the former office of a former city official who now works for President Barack Obama.
The White House got a heads up before FBI agents raided the former offices of Vivek Kundra, a new Obama administration technology official, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
The tech office's information systems security officer, Yusuf Acar, and Sushil Bansal the head of a technology firm that did contracting for the District, were taken into custody Thursday morning and appeared in court Thursday afternoon. They are accused of bribery and money laundering. Investigators found $70,000 cash at Acar's Washington house, authorities said.
The Department of Justice told the White House Thursday morning about its planned raid at the offices of the District of Columbia's chief technology officer, Gibbs said. Kundra recently left that post to take the job in the White House.
Katherine Schweit, spokeswoman for the FBI's Washington field office, said the search is part of an ongoing investigation. Sources in the mayor's office told NBC4's Tom Sherwood that Kundra is not involved in Thursday's investigation.
Gibbs declined to say if administration officials knew about the ongoing investigation of the D.C. technology office when they hired Kundra.
Some documents were seized and some employees were told to go home, Sherwood reported. Other employees were secluded in rooms in the office building for questioning.
Acar is being held without bond because he is considered a flight risk. Bansal, of Dunn Loring, Va., was released on high security. He was ordered not to conduct overseas financial transactions or leave the Washington metropolitan area. Bansal is due back in court on April 21, and prosecutors said they were hopeful that a plea agreement could be reached in his case.
Acar, a 40-year-old native of Turkey, had a $127,468-a-year position purchasing the city's computer equipment and lining up contract workers for numerous city agencies. He and Bansal, along with others, defrauded the government through a variety of schemes, including billing the city for items that were never delivered and "ghost" contract employees who did not work, authorities said. The scheme involved falsifying bills and splitting the money with vendors who submitted them, court documents alleged.
The FBI worked with another employee in the city's technology office, who recorded conversations with Acar as part of the investigation.
President Obama selected Kundra earlier this month to help oversee the ability of government computer systems to speak to each other and security for vast federal information databanks.

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The customer journey, otherwise referred to as 'the customer buying process', is the trail a customer undertakes prior to making a purchasing decision. It is imperative that salespeople understand the customer journey as it will help them enhance their lead generation and brand awareness, as well as their overall sales strategy.
Here, we reveal the five stages of the customer journey and how you can utilise each stage to grow your business.
Often viewed as the most imperative step in the customer journey, consumers will first recognise a need or a problem before deciding to purchase a product or service. This need or recognition of a problem can be triggered through internal means (e.g. hunger or thirst) or external stimuli (e.g. digital advertising or word of mouth).
Once a consumer has recognised a problem or a need, the next stage of the process is to find out information about the product or service. The consumer does this so that they can identify and consider the resources that are related to their purchase decision. Potential buyers might find this information in the form of online media, visual, print or through word of mouth.
People will want to analyse the various products and brands based on the ulterior attributes of the product. These are the products that can provide the customer with the same benefits regarding the product they are searching. The attitude of the consumer can greatly affect this part of the journey.
Another important factor is the involvement that impacts the consumer's process of evaluation. For example, a consumer with a positive buying attitude and greater level of involvement will consider several companies or brands. However, someone with a less positive attitude and lesser involvement will do the opposite.
This is the stage in which the buying takes place. The final decision to make a purchase can be impeded upon by numerous factors e.g. receiving negative reviews from other consumers or how much authority the seller holds in the industry. For instance, once the consumer has gone through the earlier three stages, the consumer decides they would like to purchase a new jacket. However, once looking at the webpage and finding negative reviews regarding the jacket, they opt against purchasing it.
The consumer will then compare the product with that of similar products they have bought in the past and then judge it accordingly. This is the stage that is most important for retaining customers. The outcome of this stage can also influence the buying journey for similar customer decisions in the future. If they like the product they received, they will be more likely to buy from your company in the future.
Creating Value: Through providing relevant, quality and valuable content to increase brand awareness, you will be able to attract and acquire a greater number of potential customers. A solid digital marketing strategy will help convert audiences to become organic customers and eventually, retained clients also.
Influencing the Consumer Decision Process: Through creating quality digital content you will have greater potential to influence the customer's journey and facilitate their desire to seek information. This will create the notion that your company is an authority in the industry and worthy to purchase from.
Build Customer Loyalty: Quality digital marketing can help put your business at the forefront of the industry and make you the first choice for customers when they are considering and researching their potential purchase. Your happy customers will then be able to assist with boosting your company's brand awareness, providing social proof to your target market that you are a reputable brand.
Now that you know the process in which consumers make purchases and how digital marketing can affect this process, why not find out more about your target demographic by reading our piece Discover the Type of Facebook User Your Target Audience Is. Additionally, take a look at our blog on 7 Snapchat Marketing Tools to Build Your Brand to further your knowledge on branding and influencing your target audience's purchase decision.


Emerging young Darley Victoria stallion Brazen Beau (I Am Invincible) also reached a new milestone with a second-crop yearling colt becoming his first $1 million lot after Hong Kong trainer Peter Ho went to $1.15 million for Lot 73 on behalf of Orbis Bloodstock.
Darley Stallions' head of sales Alastair Pulford said the seven-figure sum was a great endorsement for Brazen Beau and the colt's South Australian breeder David Peacock, who offered the yearling through the Mill Park Stud draft.
"I am just delighted for his vendor David Peacock, who has been a very loyal supporter of Darley since our inception, so he deserved a result like this," Pulford said.
"We looked at him, and we liked him, and I know that he was on Godolphin Australia managing director, Vin Cox's short list.
Brazen Beau's oldest progeny are two-year-olds, and he has already sired the talented Godolphin homebred Tassort and the Chris Waller-trained Accession, who won the Restricted Listed Inglis Nursery over 1000 metres in December at Randwick.
The colt is the second foal out of the Group 3 winner Just Discreet (Exceed And Excel), who is herself a half-sister to the Group 1-winning mare Maybe Discreet (Shamardal). Meanwhile, her third dam is Halo Again (Don't Say Halo), whose progeny include Group 3 winner Be Discreet (Euclase) and She's Discreet (Euclase).
She's Discreet has also proved to be a good broodmare, producing Listed winners Very Discreet (Exceed And Excel), Forever Discreet (Bernadini) and I'm Discreet (Elusive Quality), who is the dam of Group 2 Edward Manifold Stakes winner Serenely Discreet (Exceed And Excel).


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Mary's is a wonderful place to get flowers, whether you just want a bunch of roses or to send off an arrangement for a funeral. They have a wonderful assortment and even gift baskets, balloons, candy, teddy bears and extras.
Dr. Yut studied at Johns Hopkins and is very experienced. He referred me to a specialist when I had a problem last year. He is extremely friendly and very knowledgeable. His nurse practitioner, Stephanie Davis, is also wise and excellent.
They have lots of floorplans and a very nice pool area. The location is fairly nice. Prices are normal for Houston rents. I like the patios, ceiling fans and dishwasher amenities.
This dentist recently opened an office on Burrough Park Dr. near Sawdust, which is a very convenient place to get to. She is very thorough and caring. She allows a dental plan which is a great medical service to help you afford dentistry.
They have lovely flowers and plants. They have exotic flowers that are flown in from Hawaii. You can select various gifts, such as porcelain items, statues, pedestals, balloons and cards.
They do very good work cleaning and pressing clothes. Also, they do certain types of alterations with great skill. Their location is excellent and they do the work fast.
Located near the Greenspoint area, this complex has lots of lovely apartments. Closet space is large, fireplaces, ceiling fans, blinds, and all kinds of amenities.
This is a good place to get your hair cut or colored. They may not be big or fancy, but the technicians are learning and do very good jobs. They have a lady who oversees all the work so you don't have to be afraid.
This shop just opened in the Randall's Shopping Center off Grogan's Mill Road. The staff is very nice and the one who worked on my manicure did a very good job. Prices are very good right now, especially since they have opening specials.
This is a nice beauty salon in the Kroger shopping center (near the donut shop) and the technicians are experienced and do a good job. They actually listen to what you want and don't just cut your hair off. Prices are fair and they do quick work.


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Dr Jawahar Surisetti wants India to be the Global Capital of Peace
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Dr Jawahar Surisetti is featured as one of the top 24 people in the country to watch out for in 2018 by New Indian Express. A top-notch policy maker of international fame, Dr Jawahar has been known to be a thinker and implementer of the social education in the world for equal opportunity to quality education to all children and youth.
Dr Jawahar is one of the leading educationists in the world and has been hailed for his innovation Think Curriculum for which he has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Columbia University. He has been instrumental in increasing career awareness among thousands of youth every year in the backward areas of India in Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand with the help of Tata CSR, Rungta Group and Dainik Bhaskar called Career Yatra. He has also been the proponent of Think for India movement for increasing employability and entrepreneurship skills in school and college education. His TED talks on 'Thinking in education', 'Generation and change' and other topics have been well received across the world. He has been involved with the UN and The Times of India in organising Explora – an expedition through the minds of youth in US and India respectively.
Dr Jawahar has been advising governments internationally and in India as well as mentoring startups. He is instrumental in ideation and strategy and ideation in the corporate world and Smart Cities. In his wish for the future, he has mentioned that he would like to make India the capital of peace in the world by building the Indian Institute of Peace in India and inviting all gen-next peace leaders who could lead the globe into peaceful coexistence in future. He has authored bestselling books 'Mama and me' and 'Go to hell or come to me ' on teens and children and poetry in peace and girl child which have received accolades internationally and have featured in books published by UN affiliates. His platform Religion of youth is a mouthpiece of the youth if the world to voice their opinions, desires and issues and participate in nation building. His enterprise MyBeti works for the education and health of the girl child in India.
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Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals have major programs in a wide range of clinical specialties. Services are delivered at five primary locations — Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (our teaching hospital, which was established in 1877) and Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience, both in Center City Philadelphia; Jefferson Methodist Hospital and Jefferson at the Navy Yard, both in South Philadelphia; and Jefferson at Voorhees in South Jersey. There are also various radiation therapy satellite locations throughout the region.
Formerly a division of Thomas Jefferson University, the Hospital was separated from the University to become a founding member of the Jefferson Health System in 1995. The Hospital expanded its services to the community with the merger of Methodist Hospital as a division of Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals in 1996.
As an academic medical center, Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals believe in the importance of an excellent clinical setting for our patients and as a foundation for the learning experience of Jefferson students and residents. It is within our various clinical settings that scientists, residents and attending physicians, medical students, nursing and allied health students, and technologists learn their profession and learn to work together as a team and help define the future of clinical care.
Jefferson University Hospitals continue to take pride in the quality and variety of healthcare services provided to citizens of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. The Hospital is fully accredited by The Joint Commission and licensed by the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.


Hennie Niemann Jnr's latest collection of oil paintings once again confirms the overwhelming visual and emotional impact of his unique style.
The artist's current approach, as illustrated with this group of 21 paintings, is of a much more intimate nature in terms of subject matter and style than his early exuberant studies of Africa's people and wildlife. These oils reflect Hennie Jnr's fascination with the human form in studies of nudes and bathers, the intimacy of lovers, and the characters in his portrait studies.
Due to the tremendous demand for Hennie Jnr's paintings, our waiting list has grown to over 120 clients and auction results have continually increased since his 2008 exhibition. In an attempt to give all potential buyers an equal opportunity to acquire one of these works, we have decided to make this collection of 21 paintings available by means of an online auction. This will ensure that all interested buyers will be able to bid on the works they wish to purchase and that the artist will get the full benefit of the fantastic demand for his work.
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American athletes arriving to compete at the 2008 Olympics and wearing protective masks inside the Beijing airport they were acting like jerks.
Yeah, no kidding, the air in Beijing is worth complaining about.
These are athletes at the peak of their conditioning. But they can't endure the air inside a building? While they're walking, rather than running or breathing hard? And for the few minutes it would take to get past all the photographers and into the privacy of their buses or cars?
But complaints should come in the context of realizing that Chinese officials, companies, and citizens actually have done quite a lot to try to cope with the problem (details here) — and that it's sad in many ways, rather than contemptible, that the first view the world's TV audience will have of spiffed-up Beijing will be of the opaque gray-brown skies. Unless, of course, there's a big cleansing wind out of Mongolia right now.
Well, the above cartoon is not my finest work but I can keep my head up knowing I was able to draw something on the issue of smog and the coming Beijing Olympics without having to rely on using two very overused visuals, the gas mask, and the 2008 logo: (as has been the case with other cartoonists) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. No offence to my cartoon friends, but the logo parody has been done to death, hopefully restraint can been exercised in the weeks to come so we don't have to see another. Further apologies to other cartoonists whose similar work I neglected to link to.
This isn't to say logo parody cartoons shouldn't be done, but I think they should be drawn sparingly, and only if there's a great idea. The concept of showing the stylized figure depicted on the Beijing Olympic logo as a truncheon bearing police officer is a great visual, but I'm not sure even a week to go before the games begin many people are familliar with the actual logo.
Among many editorial cartoonists I talk to logo cartoons are often viewed as being easy in and outs enabling the cartoonist to take the rest of the day off. It doesn't take much to punch in the words 'Beijing', 'Olympic', and 'logo', into Google images to find a wealth of visuals of varying resolution, before manipulating one and handing it off to the editor for approval.
Cliches, metaphors, and proverbs are very important instruments cartoonists use to draw their commentary. While I and others groan at the overuse of some of the gags and scenarios seen in editorial cartoons editors tend to gobble them up, certain that the readers are going to easily understand what point is being made. Sometimes they become so overused it makes it easier for the lazier cartoonists to blatantly plagarize others.
Please feel free suggest new ones through the comment box to add your own to the list.
THE OLD…Puzzle with a missing piece(s) editorial cartoon.
THE OLD…Painting oneself in a corner cartoon.
THE OLD…Walking the plank cartoon.
THE OLD…Large fish eating the medium-sized fish eating the small fish gag.
THE OLD…Things proceeding as slow as a snail/turtle gag cartoon.
THE OLD…Image of a beaver representing Canada.
THE OLD…Image of Uncle Sam representing America.
THE OLD…Donkey and Elephant representing the political parties in the U.S.
THE OLD…Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil cartoon.
THE OLD…Combination of two unrelated current events.
THE OLD…Loon on a Canadian dollar drowning/choking/spashing during currency fluctuations cartoon.
THE OLD…Ostrich head buried in the sand gag.
THE OLD…Blind justice statue editorial cartoon.
THE OLD…Incorporating popular cartoon characters iE: Homer Simpson, Mr. McGoo, Peanut's characters, etc. in an editorial cartoon.
THE OLD…Dividing a continent/country up and pointing to different regions with satirical names gag.
THE OLD…naughty pupil writing lines on a chaulkboard cartoon.
THE OLD…"kick me" sign on the backside of a politician gag.
THE OLD…Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden image.
THE OLD…finger in the dike cartoon.
THE OLD…labyrinthe image to convey, timelines, bureaucracy, etc.
THE OLD…target plastered on a person image marking imminent firing, defeat, death, etc.
China has sharply criticized foreign reporters here over their coverage of the riots in Tibet, accusing them of biased reporting and preventing them from traveling to Tibet or neighboring provinces to report on the unrest.
The government has also increased its propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the Chinese public that the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader, instigated the violence in Tibet on March 14 and that China was a victim of separatist terrorist activity.
The campaign is the clearest sign of China's concerns that the Tibet unrest, as well as anti-government protests over Darfur, could disrupt the Olympic Games this summer.
In a sign of the tension with the media, three members of the Athens chapter of Reporters Without Borders, a media-rights group based in Paris, disrupted the Olympic flame-lighting ceremony in Greece on Monday. The incident occurred as Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Organizing Committee, was addressing thousands of spectators, dignitaries and Olympics officials.


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Sa capitale est Tiruchirappalli.

La superficie du district est de 4509 km². Au recensement de 2011, il comptait  habitants.

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Liste des districts du Tamil Nadu

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Biden hails 'very encouraging' report that Pfizer booster works on Omicron
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President Biden said Wednesday he was glad to see Pfizer's report that a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine works against the Omicron variant — dashing two weeks of speculation that the mutant might elude the protection of vaccines.
"The expectation is that the existing vaccines protect against Omicron, but if you get the booster, you're really in good shape," Biden said as he departed the White House for a trip to Kansas City, Mo. "And so that's very encouraging news."
"That's the lab report," the president added. "We have more studies going on. But that's very, very encouraging."
Pfizer says the COVID-19 variant first detected last month by South African scientists is unlikely to fuel a viral resurgence if people get a third dose of the vaccine.
President Biden talks with reporters at the White House on Dec. 8, 2021.
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"Although two doses of the vaccine may still offer protection against severe disease caused by the Omicron strain, it's clear from these preliminary data that protection is improved with a third dose of our vaccine," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said in a statement.
Pfizer's vaccine has been used in more than 55 percent of all US inoculations against COVID-19.
Biden didn't say Wednesday whether he would roll back international travel restrictions in light of the positive news. He has taken heat from African leaders for restricting travel to the US from eight southern African countries following the discovery of the Omicron variant, which scientists initially feared would be more contagious due to its high number of mutations.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki has fended off accusations from African journalists that the travel ban is unscientific, especially as Omicron spreads across the US, Europe and Asia.
Pfizer released the preliminary results of a study that found three doses of its COVID-19 vaccine protect against the Omicron variant.
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Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said preliminary results of a study show that "[n]eutralization against the Omicron variant after three doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was comparable to the neutralization against the wild-type strain observed in sera from individuals who received two doses of the companies' COVID-19 vaccine."
Pfizer didn't offer a percentage for vaccine efficacy against Omicron after each dose. Two doses of the company's vaccine were about 95 percent effective against transmission of the original COVID-19 strain, suggesting three doses of the vaccine would achieve the same approximate efficacy against Omicron.
White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described the Pfizer announcement as "encouraging news."
"The news today is an important reminder to get boosted," she told reporters on board Air Force One. "It increases your protection and offers you protection against Omicron. We need everyone to get vaccinated … That is the whole, the whole goal here, is to get out of this pandemic and make sure that we get ahead of what's to come."
The Delta variant of COVID-19, which spread over the summer, was roughly twice as contagious as the original variant of the coronavirus, driving up US infections and impeding the goal of reaching herd immunity through mass vaccination.
Pfizer's vaccine has been used in more than 50 percent of all US COVID-19 inoculations.
Pfizer previously said its vaccine was 88 percent effective against transmission of the Delta variant after two doses. Studies show the vaccine reduces the risk of serious illness and death in people who do become infected.
According to CDC data, 83.5 percent of US adults have had at least one COVID-19 shot, as have 75.7 percent of all Americans five and older. All adults became eligible for booster shots last month, but so far, just 25.9 percent of people 18 and up have gotten one.
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Legendary NFL coach and broadcaster John Madden died Tuesday morning at 85, the NFL announced. News of the football icon's passing hit Twitter on Tuesday evening, and athletes, coaches and broadcasters from across the sports world reacted.
Fellow broadcasting legend Dick Vitale, who is currently battling cancer, called Madden "the greatest analyst of all time of any sport" in his Twitter tribute.
OMG the greatest analyst of all time of any sport passed today – JOHN MADDEN – In the world of TV it doesn't get any better than Coach Madden – legend -icon & GOAT / Pls May Coach Madden RIP ! @TheMontagGroup @CBSSports
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) December 29, 2021
Former Yankees pitcher and notable Raiders fan CC Sabathia said "your legacy will live forever." Madden coached the then-Oakland Raiders from 1969-78, a couple of years before Sabathia, a Vallejo, California native, was born. Lakers star LeBron James had similar words about Madden's lasting legacy, adding an infinity emoji.
RIP to the legend John Madden. Your legacy will live forever 🙏🏾
— CC Sabathia (@CC_Sabathia) December 29, 2021
Rest in Paradise To the 🐐 John Madden!!!! Your legacy will continue to live on ♾!!!!!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) December 29, 2021
Former tennis star and social justice activist Billie Jean King recalled meeting Madden as a "privilege."
Hall of Fame #NFL coach, broadcaster, and one of the greatest ambassadors for football, John Madden, has passed away.
I had the privilege of meeting him, & my heart goes out to his family, friends, & all who loved him, particularly Raider Nation. https://t.co/qzdqiTQIZ8
— Billie Jean King (@BillieJeanKing) December 29, 2021
Radio voice of the Rangers Kenny Albert, a five-sport broadcaster who's been with FOX Sports since its inception in 1994, shared a photo circa 26 years ago to remember Madden.
ESPN's Bomani Jones took a bit of a shot at current color commentators, noting that Madden "set an unreachable standard."
big part of why everyone my age thinks every football color commentator is wack is because we grew up with john madden. man set an unreachable standard.
— bomani (@bomani_jones) December 29, 2021
Frank Caliendo, who's made a career out of impersonations, including one for Madden, said he was surprised how emotional he felt.
I honestly didn't know John Madden that well, but meeting him and his family years ago at the Super Bowl in Dallas… and making them laugh, will always be one of my favorite moments in life.
— Frank Caliendo (@FrankCaliendo) December 29, 2021
Several football players, and others, including Saints running back Mark Ingram II and former Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant, credited Madden with being part of the reason why they love football.
Rest in heaven John Madden!! True definition of legendary!! Thanks for all you did for the game I love with all my heart!! And you are a big reason for that!!
— Mark Ingram II (@markingramII) December 29, 2021
Rest In Peace John Madden… one of the main reasons why I love football so much… wow!
— Dez Bryant (@DezBryant) December 29, 2021
Rams wide receiver and NFL MVP contender Cooper Kupp quote the late coach in his tribute: "The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer." — John Madden, RIP.
— Cooper Kupp (@CooperKupp) December 29, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS — The Knicks got back another body in rookie point guard Miles McBride, who was cleared from protocols Tuesday and rejoined the team in Minnesota.
But there is no longer any hype for the rookie's return. Kemba Walker is back as the starting point guard and coming off winning Eastern Conference Player of the Week honors with four standout games, including his Christmas Day spectacular. The Knicks have gone 2-2 since Walker regained the starting job.
"It's great,'' coach Tom Thibodeau said. "He had a great week. He's playing great basketball. The team winning helps him get recognized and he was a big part of driving that winning. It's great for the team.''
McBride was also spectacular in his last outing before getting COVID-19, when he played the entire second half Dec. 16 in Houston and seemingly earned a spot in the rotation. In fact, McBride had strung together two decent outings before he was ruled out. But things have changed since his emergence and McBride is likely back to being a bit player.
Without a practice, McBride wasn't even expected to see time when the Knicks faced the Timberwolves to kick off a four-game road trip.
Miles McBride
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Of course, with Walker's arthritic knee, anything is possible. The Knicks play Detroit on Wednesday in a back-to-back, so it's uncertain whether Walker will complete both contests. In addition, Immanuel Quickley is out of COVID-19 protocols but Thibodeau wasn't sure he was ready for meaningful minutes.
That left Walker against the depleted Timberwolves, who were missing their three top players (Anthony Edwards, Karl-Anthony Towns, D'Angelo Russell), all because of COVID-19 .
When McBride got sidelined by the virus and Derrick Rose needed ankle surgery, Walker was resurrected by Thibodeau and it's been a stunning comeback story.
Though Thibodeau has clear reservations about Walker based on his nine-game banishment due to his defensive malaise as an undersized point guard, he admitted after the Christmas Day triple-double against Atlanta that Walker is playing "much more aggressive."
Walker's triple-double that featured 10 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds was a lot different than his prior outing, when he scored 44 points against Washington.
"I thought his passing was terrific,'' Thibodeau said before the Knicks resumed their schedule.
"Kemba had control of the game. The game tells you what to do. That's what I loved about the way he played. I don't think he forced anything. They puts size on him and were aggressive in their pick-and-roll coverage. He didn't fight it. He attacked pressure the way you like to attack pressure. You don't fight pressure with pressure. Don't try to split it. Get rid of it, go to the backside. Let the game tell you what to do.''
The Knicks coach is finally seeing all the elements of what Walker can do. Before his demotion, Walker was nothing more than a no-defense, 3-point shooter whose plus-minus was an abysmal minus-122.
Thibodeau was also concerned about his durability in sitting out two of the three back-to-back sets. The last load management game in Atlanta in late November triggered Thibodeau's decision.
But now it's only superlatives from Thibodeau in judging the last four games.
"Sometimes it's going to be his shooting, sometimes it's his penetration and getting in the paint to force a collapse and sometimes they're being aggressive with their traps get rid of the ball quickly,'' Thibodeau said. "The overall play, his rebounding. When your guards rebound, those are key to fast breaks. The more guard rebounding we get the better we can be. ''
The Knicks still have three players in protocols — centers Nerlens Noel and Jericho Sims and the newly infected Wayne Selden. Quickley and Kevin Knox were cleared on Christmas but were held out for conditioning.
No matter. The Knicks go as Kemba goes.
"He's much more aggressive,'' Thibodeau said. "That was the challenge. At the beginning of the year he and Evan were two new starters. Sometimes guys are trying to fit in. he's being very aggressive which is the way we want him to play. Not deferring at all. When he and Julius [Randle] are aggressive like that our team is different.''
When Zach Wilson stares across the MetLife Stadium field at the opposite sideline this Sunday, it won't be Trevor Lawrence he'll be looking at as his game-day counterpart.
Lawrence, drafted by Jacksonville one spot before the Jets selected Wilson at No. 2 overall last April, is a contemporary.
This Sunday at MetLife, the Jets rookie quarterback won't be staring at a contemporary on the other sideline. He'll be staring at the GOAT.
Tom Brady.
The bar raises dramatically for Wilson and the Jets, who are coming off of their feel-good, get-well win over the woeful Jaguars and Lawrence this past Sunday.
Brady and Buccaneers, who are 11-4, NFC South division champions and seeking to repeat as Super Bowl champions, play the Jets, who are 4-11 and seeking more signs of development from their rookie quarterback.
To say this is a step up in competition for Wilson and the Jets going from Lawrence and the Jags to Brady and the Bucs is as obvious as pointing out that Tampa Bay receiver Antonio Brown has had a few off-the-field incidents during his otherwise stellar NFL career.
There hasn't been a lot to keep the interest of the Jets fan this season — other than watching Wilson's development. That took an unfortunate pause for the four games Wilson missed with a knee injury, but he's been back for five games and has looked like a better quarterback, throwing only two interceptions in those games (none in the last three) since returning from his injury.
The problem, though, is that Wilson hasn't been producing enough touchdowns, throwing for three of them and rushing for four others in the past five games.
Zach Wilson and Tom Brady
N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg; AP
Baby steps, though.
Wilson was the better quarterback this past Sunday when matched up with Lawrence, who threw for more yards than Wilson did, but Wilson ran for 91 yards, including his electric 52-yard scoring jaunt, and made key throws when he needed them.
Wilson will not win Sunday's game against Brady and the Bucs throwing for the 102 yards he had against the Jaguars. He and the Jets will need more.
Consider this: Brady enters the game having thrown 37 TD passes and for 4,580 yards this season and averages a league-high 305.2 passing yards per game.
Then this: The Buccaneers average 29.5 points per game this season, second most in the NFL.
And this: Wilson doesn't have a single 300-yard passing game, averages 183 passing yards per game and has thrown seven TD passes in 11 games.
Seven TD passes is a pedestrian two-game total for Brady.
Wilson and the Jets are playing with house money anyway in what always has been a developmental season, so Sunday against Brady should, at its very least, be a great measuring-stick learning experience for Wilson, who's studied Brady on tape.
Wilson revealed this month that he watched film of Brady before the Jets played the Eagles on Dec. 5 in an effort to pick up tips on how Brady worked against the Eagles defense when he played them earlier in the season.
"I thought it was really cool to see kind of how he went through his whole process, how he navigated the pocket, different things like that," Wilson said at the time.
On Sunday, Wilson gets to see that process up close as Brady tries to dissect a Jets defense that has yielded 29.9 points per game this season, the most in the NFL.
That puts an added onus on Wilson to produce on the other side of the ball, because he knows Brady is going to get his. Wilson will likely need to produce four TDs — any way he can — for the Jets to simply remain competitive with the Super Bowl champs.
That's a lot to ask of a 22-year-old kid who's produced just 11 TDs in his 11 starts, up against Brady, who's thrown 618 TD passes and for 83,784 yards in his remarkable career.
It, too, is a lot to ask playing against an aggressive Tampa Bay defense that's ranked No. 9 in the NFL in points allowed (20.8 per game) and is led by former Jets head coach Todd Bowles, who'd surely like to send a holiday message to his former employer.
If you don't think Bowles will be blitzing the bejesus out of Wilson, then you probably think Antonio Brown is a living saint.
The good news for the Jets is that Wilson has shown incremental improvements, particularly when it comes to his decision-making and quicker releases on his throws.
"He's coming along, he's getting more comfortable, he's calmer back there,'' Jets coach Robert Saleh said Monday. "He's in a great headspace and it's going to be fun to watch him grow, continue to grow.''
A big part of that growth will take place this Sunday as he watches the GOAT operate from the opposite sideline at MetLife.
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Esta primeira é de com' el fez o céo e a térra e o mar e o sól e a lũa e as estrelas e toda-las outras cousas que son, e como fez o óme a sa semellança.
Synaeresis is commonly found in the verb seer.
This is a perhaps a rather odd case of elision, but it is the only resolution for the extra syllable in this line that leaves the words E u... at the start intact, which I believe is important as the same formula begins all stanzas after the first two. Although the form strela normally only occurs after a vowel (see CSM 1:37, 94:113, 100:2, 325:1), the -s of as and the s- of strelas will merge quite naturally here, resulting in [as·tre·las] which can be sung quite comfortably.
The word reis undergoes diaeresis in several other cantigas. See the note to CSM 1:36 for more on this word.
Compare CSM 139:43 where escrito is elided in the manuscripts.


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University > Research portal > Research publications > The eschatological turn in German philosophy
The eschatological turn in German philosophy
https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12460
Judith Wolfe
This article argues that modern European philosophy was significantly shaped by the transposition of eschatology from a theological into a philosophical register. By 'eschatology', I here mean thought about the 'last things' as they relate to present systems of life and action; and about those systems as determined, at least in part, by their end. I take as my starting point the claim that the scepticism regarding revelation that was such a central characteristic of the Enlightenment did not eradicate the importance of eschatology as a structuring frame of historical and moral thought, but merely changed it. Modern theologians and philosophers tended to shift the ground of eschatology from revelation to the inner logic of a system; eschatology was seen as legitimated by, and in turn legitimating, the shape of a given philosophical account of history. The questions and challenges arising from this shift were important drivers of early twentieth‐century European philosophy. This article works out this claim through indicative accounts of several large debates of early twentieth‐century philosophies of history and of politics as contestations about the meaning of eschatology: the crisis of historicism, the rise of existentialism, and the surge of political religions. It concludes with a discussion of Martin Heidegger's eschatological thought of the 1930s, illuminated by the recent publication of his Black Notebooks.
Modern Theology
The Theological Imagination
Wolfe, J., 2023, (In preparation)
Philosophical Myths of the End
Wolfe, J., 2022, (In preparation) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Oxford History of Modern German Theology. 3 vols.
Wolfe, J. (ed.), Lincicum, D. (ed.) & Zachhuber, J. (ed.), 2022, (In preparation) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Anthology
Philosophy, Theology, and Philosophical-Theological Biblical Exegesis
Wolfe, J. (Guest ed.) & Stump, E. (Guest ed.), 30 Dec 2021, In: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 13, 4
The renewal of perception in religious faith and biblical narrative
Wolfe, J., 29 Dec 2021, In: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 13, 4, p. 111-128
Modern Theology (Journal)
King-Ho Leung (Reviewer)
Feb 2021 → …
Transcendentality and the gift: on Gunton, Milbank, and trinitarian metaphysics
Leung, K-H., 22 Dec 2021, In: Modern Theology. 38, 1, p. 81-99
Feasts of memory: collective remembering, liturgical time travel and the actualisation of the past
Cockayne, J. L. & Salter, G., Apr 2021, In: Modern Theology. 37, 2, p. 275-295 20 p.
Purpose for and within creation: a theological appraisal of organismic teleology
Leidenhag, M., Apr 2021, In: Modern Theology. 37, 2, p. 396-409 12 p.
Themed Issue: Science-Engaged Theology
Leidenhag, J. (ed.) & Perry, J. (ed.), Apr 2021, In: Modern Theology. 37, 2, p. 243-563
What is science-engaged theology?
Perry, J. & Leidenhag, J., Apr 2021, In: Modern Theology. 37, 2, p. 245-253


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