An early act of independence: self fast food selection!
Look, we love it when little kids act like adults, wether it's them trying to get Alexa to play "Baby Shark" or just being generally deeply annoying little monsters (remember that little kid who just kept saying "Listen, Linda?" What a weirdo.) This kid however is NOT a little weirdo! He's a little cutie, if I dare say so! Watch in awe as this little kid orders, to the best of her adorable abilities, from a local Burger King drive thru — an act of pure independence for a kid younger about as old as the wait between Super Smash Bros games. And an adorable one for us to watch.
In the video above, the parent can barely contain their excitement. Watching a little kid who never really knows what they're doing, but moves forward with untold brimming confidence, is always a beautiful thing to witness. When the kid finally gets her Burger King meal, it is pure victory! Although, should a kid really be eating Burger King? Get the kid a bunch of vegetables! I know, I know, kids love their hamburgers. And I don't know if a kid would have discovered this penchant for incredible burger ordering independence if the prize at the end of it all was some soggy vegetables, but come on!
Oh, never mind. It's a cute video, right?
Anyway, do you want to see some more videos of adorable kids? Check out this video of two kids dressed up like Slinky Dog while on a trip to Disneyland! Or how about cute kids singing the now forever controversial song, "Baby It's Cold Outside"? Look, W.C. Fields said never work with kids or dogs, but he never, to the best of my knowledge, never said anything about content sites posting about them!


I chose this song because over the years, this has proven to be a fan favorite time and time again. It's a jaded love song - but from the standpoint of a married couple - and it has a redemptive ending. Actually, like many of my songs, it is a real story from my life, and my marriage. The first 5 years of marriage were horrendous for me and my wife. We fought a lot, went to counseling a lot, and just tried to stay married and work through our past. One particular season was extremely rough. I wasn't sure if we were going to end up married or divorced. So I started writing this song in the midst of awkward silence, empty promises, and discouragement about marriage, relationships and life in general. What happened in the end was kind of amazing. I had written about 3/4 of the song, and I was trying to come up with the ending. My wife was sitting close to me on our bed, and I strummed my guitar to silence the silence between us. She slid a piece of paper over to me with lyrics on it. It fit the song perfectly. I grabbed the paper and wrote the next line, and back and forth we went scribbling lyrics down, but really we were telling each other it wasn't over. And so the redemptive ending is because my wife and I finished it together. And yes we're still married.
After five years of cranking out original music with his Indiana boys and a band named bleedingkeys, Jeremy Johnson packed up and returned to his hometown of Bend, Oregon. During his tenure in the Midwest, his 5-piece band landed the attention of Klipsch Music Company's CEO which would afford the band their most noteworthy accomplishment: opening for North Mississippi Allstars at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas in 2013. A year later, the band signed onto Klipschs' Emerging Artist program, which led to the professional video recording of one of Jeremy's most emotion-filled songs, Empires Rise. Although the band felt the call of the road and pursuing full-time music at their fingertips— it was not to be, and in June 2017 Jeremy Johnson and his 5-piece family moved from the heart of the midwest back to Jeremy's Central Oregon roots. If you ask Jeremy about his personal highlight as the lead singer-songwriter for one of Indianapolis' most well-loved original bands he'll tell you it was the time he and the guys recorded his most passion-filled album Ghost Again and sold out one of Indy's finest original music venues, RadioRadio in 2014. As much as Jeremy loves sharing his soul through his lyrics to a crowd of listening ears, he loves the faithfulness of die-hard fans even more. Not just anyone gets a crowded bar on their feet singing the lyrics to their favorite jam, or packs the house at a last-minute farewell show with 400+ in attendance just to see the band perform one last time. Jeremy's music is special and only those who have honestly struggled through difficulties of life can relate. From the shock of losing a loved one, to the depression comes after watching the evening news, to becoming outraged at the amount of greed in the world, to the battles that ensue in marriage and relationships—his music contains all of this and more. Listen carefully, and you'll find yourself in his lyrics, just like hundreds of his fans already have. And when you listen to it, know that he is as original and genuine as the music he writes.


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DeSoto City Council Overview
The City Council is the governing and law making body of the City of DeSoto and consists of a Mayor and six Councilmembers. All are elected at large, by qualified voters of the entire city, and members must reside in the district they represent. The Mayor represents the city as a whole and is not required to live in a particular district.
Meetings are open to the public and are held on the first and third Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers in City Hall at Town Center (211 East Pleasant Run Road, at the corner of Pleasant Run and Hampton Roads). The City Council Work Session begins at 6 p.m. in the City Council Conference Room located behind the Council Chambers.
DeSoto City Council meetings are broadcast live in their entirety on this website and on the Government Access Channel 16 on Time Warner and Channel 99 on AT&T Uverse on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. A taped broadcast is aired each day on Channel 16 at 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 7 p.m., and 11 p.m. following the live broadcast. Questions regarding the broadcast schedules should be directed to Kathy Jones, Community Relations Manager, at 972.230.9648. These taped broadcasts are also available to view on the City's website at your convenience. Questions regarding the Internet viewing of these meetings should be directed to the Office of the City Secretary at 972.230.9646.
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Holy Hail
Cat's a rapper from the dirty south who's sister sings in a "praise and worship" band, Kevin's got a one in a million cat's eye and has never been on the Internet, Michally's a preacher's daughter and Matt's a Puerto Rican Jew. Together, with Michally's driving basslines, Matt's crisp backbeats and the rapid fire co-ed vocal duo of Cat and Kevin, Holy Hail draws on the honky tonk and the old school, Southern gothic and Westward expansion. They bring politically charged lyrics to the party, leading unsuspecting audiences to dance to the unlikely pairing of quirky dance-rock and observations on both the promise of America and its sprawling dark side. Holy Hail reflects a wide range of influences: The Fall, New Order, X, Tom Tom Club, The Gossip, The Band, and Fleetwood Mac. In 2006, the band toured with the Rapture, Reverend and the Makers and the Presets. They also went into the Rare Book Room sutdio with Nicolas Verhnes (Fischerspooner, Fiery Furnaces, Les Savy Fav) and recorded a 10-song demo, Pointed Rifles to the Sky. The session spawned the European-DJ favorite "County Fair (Part Two)," released as a single in the UK on Playlouder/ Beggars in October 2006. For 2007, we've got the single Big Guns coming out on vinyl and digital release. Stay tuned for more.
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The EPD SWAT Challenge is a fun, challenging 5K run with obstacles like walls, tires and climbing up a parking structure with a sandbag.
This event takes place on Saturday May 4, 2019, in Downtown Evansville.
There are 17 waves starting at 8am to the last wave at 12 noon, to spread out the participants over the 15 or more obstacles.
2018 was a big success with over 500 participants registered, ranging from 6 years old to seniors!
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So I've been asked to explain why I'm a Liberal Youth, and I'm voting for the Liberal Democrats this election. I'm usually bad at this, but I'll try my best.
We may as well start with the obvious… Despite recent attacks from the NUS in a liar liar campaign, I believe that the Liberal Democrats have a lot to offer for people our age, and in the country as a whole. Whilst the Liberal Democrat's achievements in government are tainted with the infamous broken pledge on tuition fees, I believe that the party did fulfil the second part of the student pledge. They alleviated the burden on students so that no money will be taken out of a graduates earnings until they earn over £21,000. Looking towards the future, the Lib Dem manifesto supports a review on the higher education finances system, hoping to support student living costs and the maintenance loan, which currently account for the majority of university drop outs.
The Liberal Democrats are a Pro-EU Party, protecting our trade links abroad, strengthening our power in solidarity with Europe. Our liberal democrat voice in the EU brought the south west investment in green industries, and was fundamental in allowing Bristol to achieve our recent 'Green Capital' Status. The Liberal Democrats are the greenest party to set foot in government to date. Delivering on creating a 'Green Investment Bank' to encourage the development of green industries in the UK, We will support investment in tidal power, carbon capture and storage, energy storage and ultra-low emission vehicles.
I'm voting for the the Liberal Democrats because of their consistent support for the LGBTQ community. In the future they strive towards permitting humanist weddings, ending spousal veto annulling trans marriages, allowing 'X' gender marks on passport, cracking down on homo/bi/trans~phobic hate crime (especially in schools).
I'm voting for the the Liberal Democrats because of their consistent support for the LGBTQ community.
To me, the Lib Dems offer a return to rational politics. As goes the Lib Dem motto: 'stronger economy, fairer society'. They are the only party which can not only strengthen the British economy in a way that doesn't harm the workers who put their trust in it. I trust the liberal democrats both with the economy, and to protect the vulnerable and exploited in society ~ we needn't settle for the either/or offered by other parties.
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OpEdNews Op Eds 4/11/2007 at 10:42 AM EDT
Revealing Quotes from "Loyal Bushie" Land
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By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers Sometimes the reality behind the spin just pops out at you when politicians open their mouths. Here are four such quotes on the topics of democracy, the U.S. Attorneys scandal, global warming, and Iraq. 1. DEMOCRACY & HARD-RIGHTISTS Take John Bolton (please!), the arch neoconservative who Bush foisted on the United Nations in a recess appointment when the Senate wouldn't approve the nomination of Bolton as ambassador. He was on "The Daily Show" recently, arguing with host Jon Stewart about whether Bush should pay attention to the American public's overwhelming opposition to the Iraq War and to the Administration's mishandling of the occupation. Bolton said Stewart and similar critics didn't understand how democracies are supposed to work. Bush's responsibility, said Bolton, is not to the amorphous thing called the "American people" but to be "true to the people who voted for him. Otherwise, what's the point of having elections?" ( click here ) In this, Bolton was restating the philosophy of governance that Cheney and Rove have utilized for the past six years. Using the logic of Machiavelli and Leo Strauss, Cheney and Rove believe that the Administration should move ruthlessly and aggressively on their agenda as long as they have one more vote than the other guys, with no concessions made to those who didn't support them. (I won't even go into the likelihood here that the Bush campaign stole the 2004 election.) Contrast this with John F. Kennedy's statement when asked why he was not looking after the interests of those who elected him; he replied: "I was elected President of all the people." The Bush Administration believed all attention should be focused on their rightwing, activist, largely fundamentalist base that put them in power. They had little need to acknowledge the opposition and instead should try to marginalize and destroy them in every way they can, in order to create the conditions for permanent, one-party rule. In short, the HardRightists do not believe in democracy, compromise, minority rights, civility, etc. That's "old school" politics -- "quaint," to use Alberto Gonzales' dismissive term. Bush&Co. engage in smash-mouth politics, grab it while you can take it politics, you're with us or you're against us politics, join us or get out of our way politics. It's an authoritarian, good vs. evil way of viewing the world, and it has stood them in good stead until recently -- aided greatly by post-9/11 fear and by a compliant, stenographic mass-media. THE REVERSE-MIDAS TOUCH So how to explain the grand change? Partly, of course, the shift came because the constant iteration of this extreme ideological perspective on the world gets old and boring and, most importantly, doesn't match reality. Also, there is Bush&Co.'s constant reverse-Midas effect: whatever they touch turns not to gold but to excrement. It's difficult to even think of a positive development that has emerged from the Bush Administration in the past six years. Rather, their list of accomplishments reveals little more than disaster, disappointment, and death. The public eventually has come to discount the Administration's propaganda efforts, fed by Rove and his minions in the rightwing media machine, aided by the docile corporate newspapers and TV networks. What the Bushistas are peddling simply isn't credible anymore, at least to two thirds of the citizenry. The HardRightists still depend on the remaining one-third: the fundamentalist die-hards, more comfortable with authoritarian leadership. But, at long last, the traditional non-fundamentalist conservatives, especially in the military, appalled by the extremists in charge of their party, ##have abandoned the HardRight Bush Administration. ( http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/07/371 ) And why this drastic falloff of Bushist support? Though overly simplistic, one can offer these explanatory tags: Iraq, Katrina, Corruption, Incompetence, Valerie Plame, Iraq, Walter Reed, Domestic Spying, Pat Tillman, U.S. Attorneys, Iraq, and Iraq. Did I mention Iraq? Simply put -- as verified by the November 2006 election results sweeping the GOP out of Congressional power, and in all the recent public opinion polls -- the country has taken a national no-confidence vote on the Bush Administration. They just want them to leave before more reckless damage is done. And, as recent polls demonstrate, 50% of Americans are in favor of impeachment hearings -- even in the face of the agit-prop doled out by the corporate media. Finally, the Democrats, in limited areas, are beginning to come alive, which is another key ingredient for change. 2. THE U.S. ATTORNEYS REPLACEMENTS So what's the money-quote regarding the U.S. Attorneys scandal? My vote goes to this one by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who told the senators at his confirmation hearing that he would "never, ever" ask U.S. Attorneys to step down for political reasons. ( http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1174035822692 ) This was a bald-faced lie, and perhaps grounds for a perjury or contempt-of-Congress charge, as it has been clearly revealed that the reason for firing the eight U.S. Attorneys was that they weren't regarded as "loyal Bushies" -- an actual term used in an email to Karl Rove. The attorneys were, in fact, fired because, among other reasons, they were not willing to blindly follow the party line by investigating and indicting Democrats while giving a pass to felonious Republicans. Once again, an administration in the White House gets itself into legal hot water not so much for the initial "crime," but because of the lies and deceits in the coverup. Reportedly, Gonzo has been spending days and days preparing his story for his appearances next week before the relevant Congressional committees. Why would he have to strategize with GOP minders if he has nothing to hide? If he has done nothing wrong, all he has to do is to tell the truth. Aye, there's the rub. THE "LOYAL-BUSHIE" U.S. ATTORNEYS And what of the "loyal-Bushie" U.S. Attorneys, now in charge in their districts? Here are just three: * A judge ruled that an epic plea-agreement blunder by recently appointed U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor for the Washington, D.C. District -- in the largest tax prosecution ever -- means that the treasury can't recoup at least $100 million in restitution. The judge, in a notable understatement, said "This is a very poorly drafted agreement." ( http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/215 ) * U.S. Attorney J. Timothy Griffin (Eastern District of Arkansas) -- a protege of Karl Rove -- made claims about his experience as an Army lawyer that have been put in doubt by military records. ( http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/040307b.html ) The 38-year-old Griffin claims on his official Web site that he prosecuted 40 criminal cases while at Ft. Campbell, where he was stationed from September 2005 to May 2006. But Army authorities say Ft. Campbell's records show Griffin only serving as assistant counsel on three cases, none of which went to trial. * Four top staffers under Rachel Paulose (District of Minneapolis) voluntarily demoted themselves to send a message to Washington, D.C., that 33-year-old Paulose, who, after just four months on the job, is way over her head. ( http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013470.php ) She has earned a reputation for quoting Bible verses and dictatorially dressing down underlings. Before being appointed to the plum U.S. Attorney post, Paulose, a graduate of Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School was a special assistant to Alberto Gonzales. DOJ has had to dispatch a high-ranking minder to Paulose's office to help her out. And what about those U.S. Attorneys, presumably certifiable "Bushie loyal," that the Administration permitted to stay on in their jobs? How are they working out? Here's one notorious example: Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo website, ( http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013489.php ) which has been all over the U.S. Attorneys scandal from the very beginning, reports that in Milwaukee, an appeals threw out the corruption conviction aimed at a state official close to the Democratic governor because the evidence supplied by U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic was, to quote the judges (both Republican-appointed), "beyond thin." Bogus, in other words. Clearly, in this whole U.S. Attorneys story, we probably are viewing only the tip of the iceberg these days. What's to come from below the surface is bound to reveal a much wider, even worse scandal, not surprising given the history of this Administration. 3. GLOBAL WARMING: BUSH'S STATE OF DENIAL And the tell-tale quote that says it all about Bush and world climate change: Asked by an interviewer what he hoped his "legacy" in history would be, Bush expressed the ultimate solipsism: "I'll be dead." ( click here ) In other words, the future we help create for our children and grandchildren is of no importance, since either the Apocalypse will come shortly or I'll be dead, so why should I bother my head worrying about what happens to others after I leave the scene? That self-involved atittude of denial and ethical narcissism has resulted in non-action when it comes to global warming/climate change. The leading industrial country in the world -- responsible for a good share of the pollution that is speeding up global warming -- could have led the fight to cut back on CO2 and other pollutants, but instead did essentially nothing. More than six years of deadly neglect. Now the world's scientists are telling us -- and we can see with our own eyes -- that the changes wrought by global warming are happening much faster than we once thought were possible, and catastrophe looms for millions around the globe due to rising sea levels, floods, droughts, shortage of potable water, extraordinary storm systems, starvation, wipeout of entire species, etc. etc. But, what the hell? I've got mine, Jack. The rest of you will have to fend for yourselves. That's Bushism in a very few words. 4. THE UNFOLDING IRAQ CATASTROPHE I guess this week's money quote on Iraq comes from Sen. John McCain, at one time a truth-telling maverick, but so desperate to occupy the White House that he drank the Bush Kool-Aid and became a raving supporter of all thinks hawkish in Iraq. Bush's escalation of the war (the so-called "surge") is working so well, McCain told reporters, that "There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today." ( http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Audio_John_McCain_interviewed_by_Bill_0326.html ) Since so many reporters and military officers guffawed loudly when he uttered that whopper, he thought he'd do a demonstration walk to show how safe it was out there on the mean streets of inner Baghdad. What was McCain thinking? He did indeed take a stroll in a local marketplace, which he asserted was "proof" that one could walk freely in Baghdad. McCain, as photos revealed, was dressed in body armor and surrounded by 100 U.S. troops, with American snipers on the rooftops, and at least two Apache helicopters overhead. That's "walking freely." The following day, probably as a response to that bit of photo-op grandstanding, the insurgents turned that marketplace into a bloody charnel house, bombs and bullets killing 14 Iraqi civilians. The Iraqi rebels had a point of their own to make. (McCain then tried to back away from his overstated optimism about the situation in Baghdad.) THE CONSTANT 6-MONTHS-MORE REFRAIN The pro-escalation spin is: Just give General Petraeus six months more. Haven't we seen this movie before in Vietnam and elsewhere? Six months from now, the White House and its lackeys will claim that "we're just about to turn the corner" and ask for six more months, and then six months more and then -- well, lookee here, there's a new Administration in the White House and it's now their problem. Goodbye. In the meantime, more U.S. troops will be "surged" into Iraq: incompletely-trained Army and Marine brigades sent back for yet another tour of duty, more Reserves, more National Guard units (13,000 are being activated right now for service in Iraq), etc. etc. Bush, in effect, is painting targets on their backs and sending them into a civil-war shooting gallery. The ostensible "Opposition Party," the Democrats, can't quite decide how far and how fast to push for withdrawal from Iraq, and whether now is the time to initiate impeachment hearings of Bush and Cheney. So we'll be forced to watch thousands of young American men and women and Iraqi civilians get slaughtered and maimed until a new President reverses course and finally brings the troops safely home. That's America 2007 under CheneyBush and far-too-timid Democrats. Disgraceful! Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations, has taught at universities in California and Washington, worked as a writer/editor with the San Francisco Chronicle for nearly two decades, and currently co-edits The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org). To comment: crisispapers@comcast.net . First published by The Crisis Papers and Democratic Underground 4/10/07. >> http://www.crisispapers.org/essays7w/bushie.htm
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Sudan Repeals Flogging Law Against Women
Sudan recently repealed a law that allowed women to be flogged, stoned or executed for wearing pants, dancing and street vending.
The country's current prime minister Abdalla Hamdok tweeted his support of the repeal and said the law was notorious for being used as a tool for exploitation, humiliation and was a violation of rights. He continued, "Many have used this law for financial gain psychological exploitation. Along the way a lot of women and youth endured confiscation of their belongings and unforgettable harm."
Women's rights activist Yosra Faud told the Guardian the laws were intended to oppress women and "abolishing them means a step forward for the revolution in which the masses of women have participated."
Faud is referring to the revolution Sudan had this last spring, in which women were integral in bringing down the 30 year reign of dictator Omar al-Bashir was ousted. The laws were created under his regime.
It's going to take time for this country's transitional government to undo 30 plus years of oppressive laws and conditions for Sudanese women and the Sudanese people. While this law may not address all issues regarding women, poverty, violence and plenty other misogynistic laws and cultural behaviors, this is a start.
Sudanese women deserve liberty, not archaic and barbaric forms of violence for basically existing. The last time I saw the word flogging, I was reading the Bible. I didn't know that still happened. I'm happy to learn that this government won't be practicing this form of violence against women any longer.
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Butterscotch and vanilla. Notes of toffee apple, smoke and cinnamon.
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Thanks to Tom of Toms Whisky Reviews for the sample, he had a good feeling about this whisky and knew I would appreciate it too!
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Littwin: Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump's New Hampshire revolution
The winners in the New Hampshire primaries were, as you might have heard, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. In related news, the world has turned upside down.
Yes, it's just as big as that.
Neither result was a surprise – for once the polls were dead on – but both results are still hugely shocking. The only question at this stage of the race is which party establishment is more panicked by which brand of populist (the Bernie kind or the billionaire kind).
As I write this, Sanders sits at around 60 percent of the vote and didn't just win 85 percent – yes, 85 percent – of the 18 to 29 vote, he won men, he won women, he won dogs, he won cats, he beat the Clintons, he beat the hell-bent women-shamers, he beat establishment politics, he beat the odds. No, Bernie clobbered the odds. He might have even won the African-American vote if, in fact, New Hampshire had any African-Americans to speak of.
Worse, for those in the Democratic establishment anyway, the Sanders campaign has successfully tagged Hillary Clinton as a well-paid friend to Wall Street — a tag she will spend the rest of the campaign trying to figure out how to live down. Imagine how bad it would be if Sanders had actually gone negative. Instead, it was the Big Dog who went negative against Bernie, and you saw where that got the Clintons.
Yes, the smart money says that Clinton is still the heavy favorite, that she has a lock on the minority vote (Latinos in Nevada; blacks in South Carolina) and that, at some point, voters will figure out that Sanders can't win in a general election. But who's to say minority voters, given the chance, might not feel the Bern? Besides, once you lose New Hampshire by 20 points, as Clinton has, inevitability becomes a much harder sell.
Still, for those of us who dismissed Sanders as a summer fling – that might have been me — it's now the dead of winter, Clinton may be shaking up her campaign, and by March 15, there will have been something like 30 more states in play. I don't know that Sanders can keep up. I don't know how he'll sell in the South. I don't know how he'll sell in states where he's still a relatively unknown quantity. But this kind of win guarantees at least a few things — that the race is going to last for a while and that Sanders's message, which is attracting many millions of small donors and many millions of dollars, will get heard. In fact, he'll be on Colbert tonight.
Which brings us to that other TV star — the Donald. After absorbing an embarrassing loss in Iowa, in which he apparently had either forgotten to put together a ground game or didn't know what a ground game was, Trump came to New Hampshire as an official loser, which was supposed to put the whole Trump magic to rest. Sure, he still had the xenophobic, sexist, bigoted, wall-building, vulgarity-cheering vote to count on, but, he had to be wondering, would that be enough? Well, it turns out Trump didn't just win. He doubled up on runner-up John Kasich and left all the would-be front-runners struggling for words (Jeb!: my campaign is "not dead") and for air (Marco Rubio with his "it's not on you, it's on me").
Trump, meanwhile, reverted to form, telling his supporters, in what amounts to the Trumpian ethos, "We are going to make our country so strong. We are going to start winning again. . . . We don't win with anything. We are going to start winning again, and we are going to win so much, you are going to be so happy."
OK, not everyone is happy. Imagine Trump as the GOP nominee. If you can't, maybe you haven't been paying enough attention. Something is going on, and no one knows quite what to do about it. New Hampshire was where the Republican elites hoped to find their establishment-lane candidate to rally around. Now, the same pundits who wrote endlessly about GOP lanes are deriding the whole concept. Kasich, who finished second, has little money and little appeal in the next group of states. As I write this, Jeb! is in fourth place, just ahead of Rubio, who was the anointed one before his disastrous debate performance, which he couldn't quite, uh, dispel.
The hope for Republican elites is that Trump tops out at 35 percent, that he's the beneficiary of a big field and that eventually the field will narrow. But the problem is that the one best placed to stop Trump is probably Ted Cruz. Let's consider that again — if it's not Trump, it could be Cruz. And yeah I'd give Republicans the edge in the panic face-off.
On the Democratic side, we know it's routine for them to fall in love, at least briefly, with the true-believer lefty in the race. It's unprecedented, though, when it's a 74-year-old, don't-stop-believin', self-described socialist. Now Sanders's call for political revolution has won him one state and nearly won him another and he gets a chance to prove that mostly white Iowa and New Hampshire are more than demographic flukes.
Meanwhile, it's getting late and Clinton is still looking for a message that inspires voters. What she has always counted on is that as the longstanding enemy of Republicans, she'll be embraced by most Democrats in the end.
So, can Clinton lose? Can Trump win?
History would say no in both cases. But at least for one night, it's not clear that history has anything much left to say.
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New Hampshire Democratic votes in 2008: 284,000.
New Hampshire Democratic votes in 2016: 255,000 (approximately – count is on-going).
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It's not unusual for Mr. Littwin's column to be published twice in three days but these two are unprecedented (historic?) because in each Mr. Littwin admits to making a mistake.
No, really!
Monday, Mr. Littwin admitted that he was "very wrong" when suggesting that John Elway would not be as successful as general manager of the Broncos as he had been as the Broncos Hall of Fame quarterback. At the time, Mr Littwin said, "(John Elway) wants the second act that F. Scott Fitzergald(sic) famously wrote that you don't get in America. "
On Wednesday, Mr. Littwin admitted he was wrong in dismissing Senator Sanders as a "(benign) summer fling".
Both admissions show a level of journalistic integrity Mr. Littwin has never before displayed and for that he should be applauded. Here's hoping it continues.
It does, however, bring into question some of his other political observations. For example, "What (Mrs. Clinton) has always counted on is that as the longstanding enemy of Republicans, she'll be embraced by most Democrats in the end."
He's walked that back a bit from last April when he seemed far more certain of how Democrats would respond , "The expected attacks on Clinton will bring the base back to her. They always do."
And when Mr. Littwin says, "Yes, the smart money says that Clinton is still the heavy favorite, that she has a lock on the minority vote…" it sounds more like a prayer than a certainty.
Well, today that "lock" seems far less certain. This from The Nation (self-described as "the flagship of the left") in an article written by Michelle Alexander and titled "Why Hillary Clinton Doesn't Deserve the Black Vote":
"Bill Clinton presided over the largest increase in federal and state prison inmates of any president in American history. Clinton did not declare the War on Crime or the War on Drugs—those wars were declared before Reagan was elected and long before crack hit the streets—but he escalated it beyond what many conservatives had imagined possible. He supported the 100-to-1 sentencing disparity for crack versus powder cocaine, which produced staggering racial injustice in sentencing and boosted funding for drug-law enforcement.
Some might argue that it's unfair to judge Hillary Clinton for the policies her husband championed years ago. But Hillary wasn't picking out china while she was first lady. She bravely broke the mold and redefined that job in ways no woman ever had before. She not only campaigned for Bill; she also wielded power and significant influence once he was elected, lobbying for legislation and other measures. That record, and her statements from that era, should be scrutinized. In her support for the 1994 crime bill, for example, she used racially coded rhetoric to cast black children as animals. "They are not just gangs of kids anymore," she said. "They are often the kinds of kids that are called 'super-predators.' No conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel." "
This from the Weekly Standard:
"The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates said in an interview with Democracy Now! that he would vote for Bernie Sanders in this year's Democratic primary. Coates is a favorite writer of President Barack Obama."
This from NBC News:
"Harry Belafonte has endorsed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, NBC News has learned."
Keep in mind, too, that the Big (Attack) Dog campaigned extensively for his wife in New Hampshire apparently to no avail.
But he did wear a really cool plaid lumberjack shirt.
"Oh, he's a lumberjack and he's okay.
He sleeps all night and works all day"
"So. Nevada. Clinton's firewall? That's what they say. It's supposed to be the state where Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook will work his magic, as Mother Jones reported Wednesday. Mook ran Clinton's effort there in 2008. She won then. But times are clearly different now. I don't think for a minute that Nevada is a Clinton cakewalk, especially not after the shellacking she took Tuesday." = Michael Tomasky Daily Beast
"Hillary Clinton has an honesty problem.
That point is driven home hard in the exit poll following Clinton's 22-point drubbing at the hands of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. More than one in three (34 percent) of all New Hampshire Democratic primary voters said that honesty was the most important trait in their decision on which candidate to support. Of that bloc, Sanders won 92 percent of their votes as compared to just 6 percent for Clinton.
Ninety-two to six. That is absolutely unbelievable — even given the size of Sanders's overall victory in the state. And it should be deeply concerning to a Clinton campaign that has been resistant to acknowledging the idea that the ongoing controversy over Clinton's private email server while at the State Department is a problem for her." – Washington Post
"Yes, the hard truth is that Hillary Clinton is a terrible campaigner who is living in a different era." – Bill Maher
"And with her opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, outdrawing her in support among young women, Mrs. Clinton's candidacy has turned into a generational clash, one that erupted this weekend when two feminist icons, Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem, called on young women who supported Mr. Sanders to essentially grow up and get with the program." – New York Times
" There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other!" – Madeleine Albright
"Ms. (Gloria) Steinem, 81, one of the most famous spokeswomen of the feminist movement, took the sentiment a step further on Friday in an interview with the talk show host Bill Maher.
Explaining that women tend to become more active in politics as they become older, she suggested that younger women were backing Mr. Sanders just so they could meet young men.
"When you're young, you're thinking: 'Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie,' " Ms. Steinem said." – New York Times
"Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has erased Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's wide lead for the Democratic presidential nomination since the start of year, putting the two in a dead heat nationally, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Clinton leads Sanders 48 percent to 45 percent among Democratic voters, according to the poll of 512 Americans, conducted Feb. 2-5 following the Iowa caucus. The poll has a credibility interval of 5 percentage points." – Reuters
"In the Democratic race nationwide, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has 44 percent, with Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont at 42 percent, and 11 percent undecided. This compares to a 61 – 30 percent Clinton lead in a December 22 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll." – Quinnipiac University
"'Cause I don't have no use
For what you loosely call the truth" – Tina Turner
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Provided that you have in place "Adequate Procedures" then you will have a defence to the criminal offence of failing to prevent bribery under the new UK Bribery Act.
Whether or not your procedures are adequate will of course be a question of fact.
Consultation on the guidance for the adequate procedures has just been published and widely publicised. Much has been and will be written about it. We will be adding our thoughts on the guidance in the next few days.
But just assume you have Adequate Procedures.
They work. You uncover bribery.
No doubt this will be the question at the emergency Board Meeting convened to discuss the matter.
It would be tempting to think that with the defence there is nothing to worry about and the whole matter could be forgotten about. But life isn't that simple.
We are very surprised that in the vast quantity written about the impact of the new UK Bribery Act its cousin, the UK money laundering legislation, has taken a back seat.
However, ignoring the UK money laundering law would be a big mistake. Its penalties are harsh. Prison sentences longer than possible under the Bribery Act can be handed out.
Worse still. Contracts and assets (wherever they are in the world) acquired directly or indirectly as a result of a bribe will likely equate to Criminal Property under the legislation and be at risk of confiscation.
The effect?
A fresh stand alone money laundering offence (s. 327 – 329 of the UK Proceeds of Crime Act 2002) is committed if someone either:
acquires, uses, possesses, conceals, disguises, converts, transfers or moves from the UK, criminal property; or
enters into or becomes concerned in an arrangement which they know or suspect facilitates (by whatever means) the acquisition, retention, use or control of criminal property by or on behalf of another.
Broadly there is a defence to money laundering; that is disclosing the facts to the prosecution authorities. Failing which, a brand new money laundering offence will be committed.
The Bribery Act will force organisations to root around in the closet. If they find something, even if they have a defence under the Bribery Act, they will be forced to consider the broader ramifications under the UK money laundering legislation. They may conclude that the choice of whether or not to self report or disclose is rather like the choice Henry Ford once offered to his customers.
Or as the Director of the UK's SFO, Richard Alderman, put it earlier this year:
"Someone said to me though that there seems to be little downside in not coming to the SFO and in hoping that we do not find out what has happened.
I could give you a number of reasons why I think that that would be wrong. Let me though just give you one. Which of you would like to go and visit your CEO and CFO in a police station where they are being held following arrest on money laundering charges. Those charges will be based upon decisions by the CEO and CFO on your advice that disclosure will not be made to the SFO and that the benefit of the corruption will therefore be retained within the corporate. I can imagine some difficult discussions."
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Active managers seem to be shaping up performance-wise this year, but it's done little to help them against ETFs, which broke past US$4 trillion in global assets in April.
Data from global research firm ETFGI shows that there are now almost 7,000 exchange-traded products managed by 313 providers with a total of US$4.002 trillion, reported the Financial Times.
As ETFs press their advantage, the asset-management industry continues to suffer outflows, particularly those segments most vulnerable to ETF competition. One example is US-listed investment groups, which have fallen behind the broader market since the end of the financial crisis despite gains in their assets under management enabled by rising markets.
April brought a record US$37.94 billion worth of net inflows to ETFs, making it the 39th consecutive month of flows into the space. Year-to-date inflows amounted to US$232 billion, nearly three times as large as last year's record of US$81 billion.
BlackRock's iShares was the biggest draw for ETF investors, attracting US$23.49 billion in net inflows. Vanguard took second place with US$10.29 billion, followed by Schwab's US$2.53 billion.
Few analysts expect any deceleration. One recent call from Sanford Bernstein, a research house owned by New York-based global asset manager AllianceBernstein, predicted that more than half of the equity assets under management in the US will be passively managed.
Active asset managers still have some fight left. With the global economy showing signs of recovery and new stock-market highs enabled by the new US administration, a more fertile environment is developing for human stock-pickers.
Numbers from Bank of America Merrill Lynch suggest an active comeback story. In April, 63% of large-cap fund managers that invest in blue-chip US-based members of the S&P 500 index outdid their benchmarks — the best beat rate since February of 2015 and the 25th best month of performance in the past 26 years.
Still, investors are not stopping their migration to passive investment. The stampede into ETFs has been most pronounced in the US. The Investment Company Institute, a US association of investment firms, reported end-of-March ETF assets of almost US$2.8 trillion, compared to the US$16.9 trillion for the mutual-fund industry in the country. One year earlier, the numbers were at US$2.1 trillion and US$15.7 trillion, respectively.
The investment industry is still benefitting from healthy profit margins, but some are predicting a wave of belt-tightening and consolidation due to various forces — including investor appetite for lower fees.


FC Johansen midfielder Kwame Quee has joined Iceland top tier side Víkingur Ólafsvík, on a two-year loan move for an undisclosed fee, the Ólafsvík-based club have confirmed.
The 21-year-old, who travelled to Iceland last month has won over 12 international caps for Sierra Leone and was recently part of the Leone Stars African Nations Cup 2017 qualification campaign.
"We welcome Kwame to the club," the Ólafsvík-based club said in a statement.
The 2016 national FA winner has been one of the outstanding and consistent players since winning his first International cap with Sierra Leone.
Quee in February was also part of the FC Johansen side eliminated by Moroccan side FUS Rabat in this season's CAF Champions League 4-1 on aggregate in the preliminary round.
The Icelandic football club Víkingur are still without points after their first two opening Iceland Pepsi-League games.
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There are many misunderstandings about rotation. One common myth is that the Taubman Approach is only about rotation. Another is that the large rotation associated with early retraining is the final, integrated technique.
Many students may need large rotation in the initial learning stages, particularly those who have a background of very "fingery" technique and subsequent forearm tension. In these cases, the rotation can be larger than eventually needed in order for the student to feel the fingers, hand and arm working together as a synchronized unit, often for the first time.
When appropriate, a trained Taubman teacher will help the student begin minimising the rotation, while retaining the integrity of the other movements. For many students, large rotation is addictive, and there can be reluctance to transition to the small size appropriate for playing. This may be partly due to the student's relief in finding comfort through correct alignment and large, free movements, particularly in comparison to their previous experience of pain and discomfort. A common concern is that this new freedom will be lost if anything changes. Others worry that if they can't see the large movements, the rotation has disappeared altogether and their old technique will return. A common trap after minimising is to practice slowly with large rotation, or to add more rotation if a passage isn't working.
For some students, it is more effective to work with smaller movements from the beginning, particularly those who have a history of initiating movement from the upper arm. If a student is not injured, and has many healthy elements working instinctively in their technique, beginning with smaller movements may make much more sense to that person.
I will never forget introducing the B major scale with large rotation to a gifted young student. His high spirits immediately fell. There was a long pause before he asked in a crestfallen voice, "Does it have to be that big?" He intuitively grasped that the size with which I had demonstrated was not appropriate for speed and the challenging repertoire he was playing, and couldn't relate the exaggerated motions with the facility he already had. After explaining that many grownups needed that large size to see, feel and understand what was going on, we went straight to a smaller sized rotation. His smile and enthusiasm returned, along with excitement that his hands felt even better.
A recent lesson for me was with an extremely gifted and equally injured student. Like many, taking Taubman lessons was the last resort, and while being diligent with retraining, at that stage she still preferred just playing and reacting emotionally to the music rather than analysing the physical choreography. We had been through a rigorous retraining, and generally everything was working well. She was learning repertoire at her level and preparing for performances. Lessons were focused on tiny tweaks to improve facility and realising the musical intention, rather than a complete technical overhaul.
What didn't make sense was the she could practice for two hours without pain, but problems began thereafter. When asked about how she spent her practice time, she revealed that for the first two one-hour sessions, she carefully worked in what we had discussed in the lesson. In the next practice session, she just played. The issue was that she was practising in tempo with large rotation. When she began "playing musically", the large rotation hampered both the tempi and her musical intentions. When that didn't work, she abandoned what we had worked on and just played, inevitably resulting in old habits and discomfort emerging.
Both of these students experienced that playing with large rotation is a temporary stage. Rotation has to be tailored for size, and in some cases will be bigger than others, such as a legato leap over a large distance, but large retraining movements are inappropriate for speed. One of Taubman's huge contributions was her decoding of the world of movement underneath which that which can be seen; one these movements are worked in to the playing, they need to become virtually invisible.
As Taubman teachers, we have to be flexible to a student's needs. We need to be wary of turning off students by insisting on complete retraining from the beginning, particularly if the student is not injured. In my experience, once a smart and talented student has had enough experience of seemingly unsolvable questions answered, and begins to sense the depth of learning and development available in the Taubman Approach, they will ask to go back to the beginning anyway.
The short answer is: rotation needs to be the appropriate size for the situation, taking into consideration the requirements of the passage, and the student's needs, capabilities, and stage of retraining. It's as simple and complex as that. This is one reason why it is difficult to teach yourself by watching the ten Taubman DVDs, and why it is beneficial to work regularly with a trained Taubman teacher to fully understand and integrate rotation.


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Summary: Royal Navy, Army training camps, and Vickers' munitions and shipbuilding works in Britain, autumn 1915.
Description: (Reel 1) Training the New Army - "cheery non-slackers" undergo PT, drill and bayonet practice, mounting and sabre drill for cavalry. (Reel 2) Manufacture of a 15-inch naval gun and firing trials. (Reel 3) King George V visits Vickers ordnance plant at Aldershot, August 1915. Troops stage mock battles in a system of demonstration trenches. (Reel 4) Cavalry training and care of their mounts. 18-pounder field artillery on the road. Evolutions by mounted machine gun section and cavalry. Royal Flying Corps - aircraft take off, mock aerial combat and bombing. Photo-reconnaissance aircraft returns to base. (Reel 5) Field telegraph and heliograph demonstrated. Wire laying and preparation of signals station. Staff officers plan an "attack". Exercise by motorcycle machine gun battalion. (Reel 6) Operation of field bakery and kitchen. The King reviews 36th (Ulster) Division. Cavalry unit entrained. (Reel 7) Shipbuilding - construction and launch of HMS Revenge, Vickers, May 1915. Manufacture of 15-inch shells and gunnery trials. Minesweeping - Flower Class sloops and paddle minesweepers at work. (Reel 8) Manufacture of munitions and royal visit to Vickers (cf Reel 3). (Reel 9) The Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow and in the North Sea. (Reel 10) Scenes onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth. (Reel 11) Launching of an E-Class submarine, a staged sequence of a submarine attack, and taking on torpedoes at base. Destroyers in the North Sea, including the firing of a torpedo for training purposes. (Reel 12) Further scenes onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth, this time showing firing and other "action" material, with an "All's well" dusk return. HMS Engadine launching and recovering a seaplane (from IWM 130/03+04).


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Thu, 30 Jan, 2020 - 12:19
Sandra Murphy: FF can ease CUH overcrowding
05/01/2011 Patients on trolleys trollies at CUH Cork University Hospital.
A CORK North Central Fianna Fáil general election candidate has said her party has a credible, fully-costed plan to ease the current crisis in the Emergency Department at Cork University Hospital.
Sandra Murphy has said the CUH's ED is working far beyond its capacity.
"The facility opened in 2005 to cater for approx 40,000 patients largely an ambulatory patient population and not the level of children or frail elderly that are now presenting. In 2019, the CUH ED saw 68,000 patients – this cannot continue," Ms Murphy said.
"Fianna Fáil will increase bed capacity and has committed to rolling out an additional 2,600 beds as recommended under the Capacity Review. We will also aim for a four-hour target wait for EDs as well as ensuring that an Emergency Medicine consultant is on duty in EDs on a 24/7 basis," she added.
Fianna Fáil candidate Sandra Murphy.
It is the Cork North Central candidate's first time running for election, and she said she's frustrated by the "inertia of the Fine Gael government."
"Over the past couple of weeks of the campaign I have encountered a huge level of despair, frustration, and anger on the doorsteps. Our country has suffered as a consequence of the empty promises Fine Gael has made over the past four years," Ms Murphy said.
She said she and her party colleagues are committed to real and meaningful change: "We want to see better public services and a fairer Ireland — one which will see more investment in our communities and a health service that serves everyone."
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British Land makes £401mln West End property sale
By December 23, 2020 52 views
British Land PLC (LON:BLND) said it has sold a 75% stake in three buildings in London's West End to German insurer Allianz for £401mln.
The three buildings comprise 134,000 square foot of multi-let office space on Portman Square.
The FTSE 100 group will retain a 25% stake in the properties, which were valued at £508mln at end September, 2020, and carried an annual rent then of £21.1mln.
Underlying earnings per share will decline by around 1.4p following the sales and before any reinvestment while the group's LTV (loans to value) ratio will drop by 2.7%.
"The transaction represents a blended net initial yield of 4.32%, a premium to September book value and is expected to complete in January," British Land said in a statement.
The group added had now made disposals totalling £1.1bn this financial year to March 2021 as it re-jigs its portfolio to cope with the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Recent results for the half-year to end September showed British Land's losses widening to £730mln (2019: £404mln) reflecting a £625mln property value write-down.
"This transaction demonstrates our commitment to recycle capital out of assets not aligned to our core focus on mixed-use London campuses," it added.
Simon Carter, the real estate firm's chief executive, added: "This transaction demonstrates that like us, investors remain confident in the long- term prospects for high-quality assets in prime London locations."
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Stefania Woytowicz (* 8. Oktober 1922 in Orynyn; † 1. September 2005 in Warschau) war eine polnische Sängerin (Sopran).

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Woytowicz wuchs in Brest-Litowsk auf und lebte ab 1943 in Warschau. 1945 begann sie ein Studium der Romanistik und Musikwissenschaft an der Universität Krakau und nahm zugleich Gesangsunterricht bei Stanisława Zawadzka. 1949 debütierte sie als Sängerin, 1950 gewann sie einen Gesangswettbewerb in Posen, 1951 den Bach-Wettbewerb in Leipzig und 1954 den Gesangswettbewerb beim Prager Frühling.

Nach einer Konzerttournee durch Österreich, Russland und China 1955 hatte sie international Auftritte in London und Paris, Stockholm und Moskau, beim Musikfestival in Edinburgh, in den Niederlanden und Deutschland. 1960 unternahm sie eine Konzertreise durch die USA, bei den Salzburger Festspielen sang sie 1965 eine Solopartie in einer Sinfonie Gustav Mahlers und 1970 die Sopranpartie in Krzysztof Pendereckis Lukas-Passion. Bedeutenden Raum in ihrem Repertoire nahmen Werke zeitgenössischer Komponisten ein, darunter Alban Bergs Lieder nach Ansichtspostkartentexten oder auch die Sinfonie der Klagelieder von Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, die 1977 mit dem Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks Baden-Baden unter der Leitung von Ernest Bour uraufgeführt und auf Schallplatte veröffentlicht wurde. Obwohl sie niemals auf der Opernbühne stand, wirkte sie dennoch an mehreren Opernproduktionen für das Fernsehen mit und sang auf mehreren Plattenaufnahmen Opernmusik.

Im Jahr 1961 erfolgte eine Gesamtaufnahme von Puccinis Oper "Tosca", in der Stefania Woytowicz die Titelrolle in deutscher Sprache sang. An ihrer Seite waren Sänger wie der Ungar Sándor Kónya als Cavaradossi und der Finne Kim Borg, der den Scarpia sang. Die Produktion fand im Mai 1961, also kurz vor dem Mauerbau, in der Jesus-Christus-Kirche in Berlin-Dahlem statt. Horst Stein dirigierte den Chor der Staatsoper Berlin und die Berliner Staatskapelle, die beide im Ostsektor der Stadt beheimatet waren.

Die Aufnahme wurde ursprünglich im Westen von der DGG veröffentlicht, in der DDR von Eterna (VEB Deutsche Schallplatten). Später folgte auch eine Veröffentlichung auf CD.

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Sopran
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Walking around Stratford Upon Avon you could quite easily think that it only exists because of one man, Mr Shakespeare.
Originally an Anglo-Saxon village where the river could be crossed. It was granted a charter to hold a weekly market in 1196.
As a result the village expanded into a town and became a centre for trade and commerce. With the emergence of the canals, Stratford became a gateway from the Severn and Avon up into Birmingham.
In April 1564, John (a glove maker) and Mary (daughter of an affluent farmer) had a son whom they named William and Stratford's future was sealed. William became an actor, poet and playwright.
By 1592 Will's plays were being performed in London by a troop of actors called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later to be known as The King's Men. Will married, had children wrote many plays and sonnets, by the time he reached the age of 49 he retired and returned to Stratford where he died three years later.
In 1769 actor David Garrick staged a major Shakespeare Jubilee which took place over three days in Stratford and this possibly kick started Stratford as a tourist destination. The councils and planners have managed to keep many of the old properties associated with Will. His birth place, his school, his house where he died, his daughters home, his wife's family home, his fathers family farm, his mothers family home (although this turned out to actually being 30yrds further down the road!).
During our visit we have done very little, if anything to do with Will. Yes we've been to the theatre, but not to actually see any of his plays and we've resisted buying any of the tat that is everywhere. However, if it wasn't for that chap who wrote some plays all those years ago (the most performed British playwright) much of what we have done and seen wouldn't exist, certainly the 2.5/3 million tourists wouldn't flock here each year. I wonder what Stratford would be like if he'd never been born, or had just followed in his fathers footsteps as a glove maker. Will Scarborough in centuries to come have fridge magnets and clotted cream fudge with pictures of Alan Ayckbourn (the most performed living British playwright), and in Hull will you be able to buy a John Godber (the second most performed living British playwright) bow tie and Coal not Dole badges?
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Q: Solve the system of modular equations I have the system $$2^a \equiv 7 \mod 27 \\2^{18} \equiv 1 \mod 27$$ How can I solve this system?
I was thinking of using Chinese remainder theorem but 27 and 27 are not coprime.

A: We are given that $2^{18} \equiv 1 \pmod{27}$, and it is easy to see that $2^k \not\equiv 1 \pmod{27}$ for $1 \le k \le 17$ since none of $2^1 = 2$, $2^2 = 4$, $2^3 = 8$, $2^6 = 64$, $2^9 = 512$ are congruent to $1 \pmod{27}$.
Therefore, $2^k \equiv 1 \pmod{27}$ iff $k$ is a multiple of $18$.
Starting from $2^a \equiv 7 \pmod{27}$, we can multiply both sides by $2$ until the right side becomes $1$:
$2^a \equiv 7 \pmod{27} \leadsto 2^{a+1} \equiv 14 \pmod{27} \leadsto 2^{a+2} \equiv 28 \equiv 1 \pmod{27}$
Therefore, $2^a \equiv 7 \pmod{27}$ iff $18 \mid a+2$, i.e. $a \equiv 16 \pmod{18}$.

A: The group of units of $\mathbf Z/p^n\mathbf Z$ has ordre $\varphi(p^n)=p^{n-1}(p-1)$. Here, $\mathbf Z/27\mathbf Z$ has order $\varphi(27)=18$. By Lagrange's theorem,  2 has order 1, 3, 9 or 18. As it's not of order 1 nor 3, it has order 9 or 18. So all possible values for $2^a$ are obtained for $0 \le a \le 17$.
Actually we can start computing at $a=5$ since previous values in $\mathbf Z$ are less than $27$. We find successively $2^5 \equiv 5$,  $2^6 \equiv 10 $,  $2^7 \equiv -7 $,  $2^8 \equiv -14$,  $ 2^9 \equiv -1 $ (so $2$ is of order $18$, and it's a generator of the cyclic group $\mathbf Z/27\mathbf Z$).
From these data, we deduce at once that $2^{7+9}\equiv 7$, so that $a=16$.

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