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STATE OF THE UNION WITH CANDY CROWLEY
Interview with Sen. Murray; Interview With Sen. Paul; Interview with former Secretary of State Rice
Aired November 20, 2011 - 09:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN ANCHOR: If Congress doesn't come up with a way to reduce the U.S. debt, it will trigger cuts in programs for the poor and elderly, dig deep into Pentagon spending, shake world markets, undermine confidence in the U.S. economy, or -- none of the above.
Today, the price and the politics of failure with the Democratic co-chair of the super committee, Senator Patty Murray, and Tea Party Republican Senator Rand Paul.
Then, the world according to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Looking forward and looking back at the ten-year war in Afghanistan.
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RICE: It's not surprising that people are trying to find an end in sight.
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CROWLEY: And as he bubbles to the top of the 2012 pool, what makes Newt tick? With Gingrich campaign adviser Bob Walker and former Gingrich staffer, political analyst Rich Galen.
I'm Candy Crowley, and this is State of the Union.
For more than two months, debt committee members have struggled with the complications of public policy and the reality of party politics. By way of good news, they're still talking to each other.
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REP. JEB HENSARLING, (R) TEXAS: We have 12 good people who have worked hard since this committee has been created to try to find sufficient common ground.
SEN. PATTY MURRAY (D), WASHINGTON: I think all 12 members of this committee have really committed to doing that. We're working hard.
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CROWLEY: Still, it's hard to figure how they can in the hours left agree on a deal that has eluded them for months.
Joining me now for her first Sunday interview as the Democratic co-chair of the super committee, Senator Patty Murray of Washington.
Thanks for being here in a tough time. There are multiple stories out there that it is over.
MURRAY: Look, I took on this task of co-chair with a real sense of the urgency of this country, the challenge that was in front of us, and so many people saying to me, please, find a solution, find a way out of this. I'm worried about my country.
You know all Americans, all sides, no matter who they are, share some real common ground. They care about our country. They're worried about our future. They want us to find a shared sacrifice way of solving this. But there are some real divides, too. And I came into this really trying to find that common ground and that bridge that could bring us together. And in some ways, we found some of that ground.
You know, I have put things on the table and learned a lot about what we can and need to do in ways I never thought before.
CROWLEY: And are you going to come up with a deal?
MURRAY: I'm sure my Republican counterparts did the same, but there is one sticking divide, and that is the issue of what I call shared sacrifice, where everybody contributes in a very challenging time for our country.
CROWLEY: Tax increases.
MURRAY: And that's the Bush tax cuts and making sure that any kind of package includes everybody coming to the table. And the wealthiest of Americans, those who earn over $1 million every year, have to share, too. And that line in the sand, we haven't seen any Republicans willing to cross yet.
CROWLEY: And so that says to me that, yes, the debt committee is not going to be able to come to an agreement to put to an up or down vote.
MURRAY: Well, look. I'm going to be waiting all day. I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide. I'm ready. I'm waiting.
Today I'll be at the table, all night long. We have a few hours left.
CROWLEY: Is any talking going on?
MURRAY: And if anybody's willing to be there--
CROWLEY: Doesn't sound like anything is scheduled? Just kind of a "call me if you have got an idea"?
MURRAY: Well, I know people talk about whether we're all in a room. Well, look, a lot of discussions go on. We've had many, many discussions. A few people, the whole group, all of us, all trying to find that common ground. I mean, that's how I approach a problem. What is the best way to bring different kinds of people together to find that.
But the truth is at this point today, Democrats have made some really tough decisions and come to some pretty tough choices that we're willing to put on the line on entitlements, on spending cuts, but only if the Republicans are willing to cross the line on the Bush tax cuts and be willing to say revenues have to be a part of this solution. CROWLEY: So how does this end? Does it end at midnight? Do you put out a press release? Do you vote on the separate plans? Do you have a final meeting and go, we can't do it? How are you going to end this?
MURRAY: If there is a Republican who gets up today and says I can't let the country see a failure out of this committee and comes to us and says, I'm willing to say that there is revenue on the table, I will work all night long to get that put together and we can have a committee vote on it.
CROWLEY: Now they will tell you that they have put revenue on the table. So I don't want -- and I know--
MURRAY: Well, let's talk about that. I think that's important to talk about.
CROWLEY: Well let me -- I want to play -- we had your fellow co- chair Jeb Hensarling, a Republican, on last week. And I want to play you a little bit of what he said and ask you about it.
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HENSARLING: We will fail unless we fundamentally do structural reform to what President Obama himself has called the main drivers of our debt -- Medicare, Medicaid, and health care.
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CROWLEY: So the Republicans say, as you know, for the problem here isn't about making people pay more, it's about tax reform, Medicare reform, Social Security reform, that you all are totally unwilling to do that.
MURRAY: Well that, everybody knows -- everybody in the country knows there's three main things we need to put on the table -- revenue, entitlements and spending cuts. Part of this deal that everybody's forgotten about is we enacted a little over $1 trillion in spending cuts already as part of this deal. The committee has to look at spending cuts, if we do more, entitlements, and revenue. Democrats have come to the table to meet dollar for dollar what the Republicans are asking for in terms of spending cuts and entitlements. Not policy for policy but dollar for dollar.
CROWLEY: So not the structural reform they are talking about.
CROWLEY: Change the way these--
MURRAY: We have said we are willing to put on the table changes to the entitlement programs that reduce the deficit in the long run. But what we will not put on the table is the end to the guarantee to those entitlements.
I don't want to say to my granddaughter, you're not going to be able to have health care when you retire. I want that guarantee there. And you can do that, but it is long term, and we've been willing to do that. And it is a big sacrifice to put that on the table.
But we can't do it alone. We can't say this whole problem is going to be solved by taking something away from people in terms of Social Security and entitlements. We have to have on the table the revenue, and again, that is the sticking point today as we sit here.
CROWLEY: You don't think you're going to get that call from a Republican, do you?
MURRAY: Well, you know--
CROWLEY: I know hope springs eternal. And you don't want to drive a stake into this, but--
MURRAY: Well, let's be clear. This is a challenge that is still going to be on the table at the end of the day, and the question will be not if we are going to solve this, but how we are going to solve it. Is it going to be fair? Is it going to be shared sacrifice or just working men and women going to carry the ball on this? I just can't support that.
CROWLEY: Let me -- I want to play you -- for you something that you said on the 1st of November about these triggers. In other words, if you all don't come to a deal -- looks very much like you're not going to -- $1.2 trillion in cuts in discretionary spending and at the Pentagon will take place in 2013.
I want to play something you said.
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MURRAY: The consequences of failure are unacceptable. The triggers that have been put in place would be devastating for our national defense and for middle-class families and the most vulnerable Americans that depend on this country for things like education and housing and even nutrition assistance for women and infants. (END VIDEO CLIP)
CROWLEY: And among other things, Leon Panetta, the Defense secretary, said you do these cuts in the Pentagon, it will cripple the military. So it is impossible for me to believe that 12 people looking at what you just said will happen are going to allow this -- allow the debt committee to fail.
MURRAY: And I have told you, I'm at the table. I am ready to work with anybody who can say that last divide is that they're willing to cross that. Democrats have said shared sacrifice. The country understands shared sacrifice. The people I talk to say, you know, I know I'm going to have to bear some of this burden. I know that this is -- that our country's in trouble.
But look, any family understands this. If a family's in trouble and somebody is seriously injured or sick and the family has to come around the table and say how are we going to deal with this? Everybody says what can I do. They don't say, well, we're going to let our older brother off who's done really well. He's not going to contribute. The rest of us who are working really hard and have had a tougher time, we're going to contribute?
Our country gets that philosophy. That big brother has to be at the table, too. That's what's missing today. That's what America wants.
CROWLEY: But we are still at the place where all of these cuts may happen if the committee fails, where people are talking about shaking the world markets if you fail, they're talking about perhaps again undercutting U.S. creditworthiness because people have no faith in Congress.
Why not take what the Republicans have offered and said, look, there's some spending cuts we can agree to, $640 billion -- I think $640 billion or something that was put on the table by Republicans recently.
MURRAY: You are talking about a couple days ago.
MURRAY: That was cuts that fell right on the working class families.
CROWLEY: But the cuts themselves were not mutually agreed to?
MURRAY: No, they were not mutually agreed to. No.
CROWLEY: So where does the country go from here? Because what you're going to see at the end of the year -- extension of unemployment benefits may expire, so people who are -- have been unemployed for 99 weeks or more will lose their benefits That payroll tax cut that people are getting out of paying about 2 percent of their Social Security taxes, some relief they got, that's going to go off the table. What happens now?
MURRAY: Well, look, I believe strongly that we still have the capability to come together to solve this problem. If the supercommittee can't do it, then I hope that Congress will. In fact, I'm committed to solving this. You can't just ignore this crisis. It's been building for years. And Congress hasn't stepped up to the plate and faced it, and the country's demanding that, and we have to keep working on it, and I'm going to keep working on it.
But I'll tell you one of the problems has been a pledge that too many Republicans took to a Republican wealthy lobbyist by the name of Grover Norquist, whose name has come up in meetings time and time again, and as long as we have some Republican lawmakers who feel more enthralled with a pledge they took to a Republican lobbyist than they do to a pledge to the country to solve the problems, this is going to be hard to do.
CROWLEY: I need kind of a one-word answer because I'm told I'm running over here. And that is, when do you decide we're done? At midnight?
MURRAY: Well, we have until the day before Thanksgiving. We have to file a bill by tomorrow. And so again, I'm at the table. I want to solve this. I care about my country. I know Americans want us to solve this. We have an opportunity. I remain hopeful that someone on the other side will say, this is too important to fail.
CROWLEY: Pretty optimistic, Senator Patty Murray, thanks for joining us today.
MURRAY: You bet.
CROWLEY: Coming up, Republican Senator Rand Paul's solution for reducing the debt.
CROWLEY: Joining me now, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul, who launched the Senate's Tea Party Caucus earlier this fall. Senator Paul, thanks for being here.
Let's talk right now. I don't see -- I don't think many people see any chance that a Republican -- I think you heard Senator Murray, a Democrat say -- is going to come forward and say we're going to put as much in tax revenue on the table as spending cuts. Therefore, this whole thing implodes. Is that your impression?
SEN. RAND PAUL (R), KENTUCKY: Yes, but I think you need to listen between the lines here. We are offering to close loopholes. We're offering to close loopholes on those who are the wealthiest taxpayers. This is what the president has been saying he wants. We are willing to close those loopholes, but we want it to be part of tax reform, which lowers tax rates. The only thing that's ever helped unemployment in this country was when Kennedy lowered tax rates and when Reagan lowered tax rates, and unemployment was cut in half each time. CROWLEY: The problem is that between now and tomorrow when the supercommittee has to come up with something, you can't have tax reform. I mean, people have been trying to reform the tax structure for I don't know how long. And to then say -- which it seems to the world the Congress is saying -- you know what? Yes, it is going to shake the world markets; sure, it might undermine the U.S. economy; yes, there are going to be painful cuts across the board, but we just can't agree on how to go forward in an adult way. Is that the picture of Congress that people are going to get?
PAUL: Well, you know, sequestration is automatic cuts. And it's kind of like when your kids are misbehaving -- yes, sequestration are automatic cuts. And the thing is that you -- I would have automatic cuts. It's sort of like telling your children that, you know, if you don't clean up your mess, or else, really maybe we need the or else because Congress isn't behaving the way they should be behaving. Maybe sequestration is our only way we will get any kind of cuts.
CROWLEY: OK. So you are willing to have cuts in the Pentagon budget that the defense secretary has said will be devastating.
PAUL: I think we need to be honest about it. The interesting thing is, there will be no cuts in military spending. This may surprise some people, but there will be no cuts in military spending, because we're only cutting proposed increases. If we do nothing, military spending goes up 23 percent over 10 years. If we sequester the money, it will still go up 16 percent. So spending is still rising under any of these plans.
CROWLEY: So you don't--
PAUL: In fact, if you look at both alternatives, spending is still going up. We're only cutting proposed increases in spending.
CROWLEY: So you don't believe the defense secretary, who says this is really going to be harmful to the military and the Pentagon?
PAUL: That's an interpretation. But what I can tell you are the facts is that defense spending will go up $100 billion over 10 years even if we sequester $600 billion. Because the curve of spending in our country is going up at about 7.5 percent a year. All spending goes up. That's why if you were to freeze spending for 10 years, no cuts, but just simply freeze spending for 10 years, they would call that a $9 trillion cut, because they are planning on spending going up $9 trillion.
CROWLEY: Listen, you have put out -- had a go-big alternative that you put out that you said would save about $6 trillion over that same 10-year period. It included things like reductions in the Department of Education, in K through 12 spending, slowing down foreign aid, reducing defense spending, capping welfare programs at 2007 levels. I know that you know, when you put this together, that the Democrats will not go for this, and I know that the Democrats put together programs that they know Republicans won't go for. Why shouldn't the public look at this and say, this is one giant re- election bid by both sides? PAUL: Well, what I would say is there's one program in that $6 trillion. If you take Medicaid, block-grant it and send it back to the states, that gives you $1.7 trillion in cuts. It exceeds the targets that the committee was designated to do. So you could cut just one program and do a pretty good job.
Now on their side, they say we're unreasonable. They want to raise taxes $1 trillion in the middle of a recession. Most of us think we're taxed enough already. Spending has gone up 25 percent. Taxes and rates have been stable since 2003. Revenue has fallen because we're in a recession. We need to grow the economy, get out of a recession. It's the only way we're going to balance our budget. CROWLEY: In fact, the polling shows that most Americans do think that what we call the Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy should be allowed to expire, and that's one of the things you all won't give up, saying, no, we want a total tax reform.
My point here is that I know that you have said the president clearly didn't want to deal because it is a better campaign issue for him if there's no deal.
CROWLEY: Why shouldn't people look at Republicans for putting stuff on the table they know full well will not pass and why isn't that the Republican agenda?
PAUL: Well, we have to start with the facts on who does -- are the rich paying their fair share? Because we hear that over and over again, the rich are not paying their fair share, the top 1 percent, the millionaires in our country, pay on average 29 percent of their income. That's what they pay on average. If the average carpenter who makes $50,000 to $75,000 a year pays between 15 percent and 18 percent.
The top 50 percent of wage earners pay 96 percent of the income tax. The rich and the middle class are paying their fair share.
CROWLEY: If they pay.
PAUL: Yeah, the vast majority are, though.
CROWLEY: But there are--
PAUL: There are anomalies, there are aberrations.
CROWLEY: Sure. Go ahead.
PAUL: The people -- the people who are not paying, we're all for making them pay. If you are a millionaire or you are a corporation that's not paying, we're all for eliminating those loopholes and deductions. But on average, the vast majority of millionaires and billionaires are paying all of the taxes. That's who pays the income tax.
CROWLEY: A couple things I want to ask you about quickly. If by the end of the year Congress doesn't act, long-term unemployment benefits will expire, that is benefits for people who have been unemployed 99 weeks or longer. Are you willing to vote for an extension of long-term unemployment benefits?
PAUL: If you want to extend unemployment benefits, they have to be paid for. We have an unemployment program. We have a tax for it. And it's paid for, for 26 weeks. So the question is, do we want to borrow money from China to pay people not to work?
I think we need to figure out how to get people back to work. So I don't want to concentrate on extending how long people can be paid not to work. I want to get millions of people back to work. And the only thing historically that has ever worked in our country is to lower tax rates on the upper-income folks. We don't want to raise their taxes. You need to lower their taxes if you want to put people back to work.
CROWLEY: OK. So, I'm going to take that as a no, that you are opposed to it because of finding ways to pay for it.
Let me ask you about the payroll tax, that is Social Security taxes, which were cut by about 2 percent for most people, and that will also expire, so their Social Security, their payroll tax will go up.
Are you willing to extend that?
PAUL: The hard part here is that Social Security is $6 trillion short because we have less workers and more retired people and we're living longer. So if you're $6 trillion short, should you cut the revenue stream into Social Security?
I want lower taxes for everybody. I don't care--
CROWLEY: Right. And that's a tax cut.
PAUL: -- where you come from on the economic ladder. I know, but yes, I have a difficult time with saying it's a good thing for Social Security to lower the amount of money coming into it right now, because it is a system that's $6 trillion short. So I don't know, we'll have to cross that bridge when we get there, but I have a tough time with figuring out how that helps Social Security.
CROWLEY: All right. You are almost at that bridge. December 31st will be here, sooner or later. That's for sure.
Thanks so much, Senator Rand Paul. We appreciate it.
Up next, the tense situation in Syria. Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gives her perspective.
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CONDOLEEZZA RICE, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: Syria is no friend of the United States. So Syria is the handmaiden of the Iranians.
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CROWLEY: Joining me here in Washington, Condoleezza Rice, secretary of State under President Gorge W. Bush and author of "No Higher Honor: a Memoir of My Years in Washington."
Secretary, nice to see you.
RICE: Nice to see you.
CROWLEY: On your 12-hour fly by Washington.
RICE: My fly by Washington, right. CROWLEY: I want to start with some news of the day, because it seems to me in watching what's come out of Penn State, you are a huge sports fan.
RICE: I am, yes.
CROWLEY: I know you know Joe Paterno, at least who he is. You may even know him personally. And you were also served as provost at Stanford so you look at this from so many sides.
And I just wonder your reaction to what you've seen going on.
RICE: Well, my reaction is that this is first of all a very sad affair for the victims, that this could happen -- or allegedly happen to children at this age is just a tremendous tragedy.
And Penn State has got to get to the bottom of it. And any university that finds itself in this circumstance has got to get to the bottom of it, find out why the reporting wasn't as it should be, and it's a crime if indeed it is proven.
It's not a sport story. It is a crime.
CROWLEY: Absolutely. And yet I wonder if in some ways it is a sports story in this way. Do you think football on college campuses has become too much of a kingdom unto itself to the extent that the kingdom is just warped in how they view things?
RICE: Well, that's always a danger, particularly given the high profile of football programs. But I'll have to tell you that when I was provost at Stanford we tried very hard never to let any sport become a kingdom unto itself. It goes to keeping it all in perspective, remembering that these are first and foremost student athletes that they are there to get an education, that yes, they play in glory on Saturdays, but they are part of the student body and that the athletic department is but a department of the university and has to be treated like any other department of the university.
So clearly something went wrong here. I don't know enough about the circumstances to blame insularity or not. But feel for the people at Penn State who were not a part of this tragedy who are implicated because it is a great university.
CROWLEY: I'm going to do a wild 180 here and take you to Myanmar, formerly Burma. We are now learning the secretary of state is going to make a trip there.
RICE: Yes, I saw that this morning. CROWLEY: So do you see this as premature? There is still a lot wrong with how Myanmar's running the place. They have let some dissidents go in recent weeks and months and years. Do you think it is premature or is this right time, right place? RICE: Well, I can't judge, because when you're inside, you know what may have been said to the members of the junta about the conditions for this trip, what will be said.
I know Secretary Clinton.
RICE: And I'm sure that she will make a very strong case for human rights there.
But it is a very repressive regime and it has not made I think a strategic decision to change. And until you have that strategic decision, the United States has to keep advocating.
I have no quarrel, though, with taking the trip in order to advocate for exactly those positions and to use the platform to make sure that the Burmese are put on notice.
CROWLEY: Other country in the news a lot is Syria. The Arab Spring did not arrive yet in Syria, at least insofar as the end of it. You have Syrian President Bashar al Assad who has been told by the Arab League, who has been suspended from the Arab League and told, look, you've got to stop this repression, you've got to let some of these prisoners go. And yet I can't find anybody at the State Department that thinks that's actually going to happen.
What moves al Assad out?
RICE: Well, he is driving his country to the brink of civil war. That's very clear. And it is a very dangerous circumstance. And Syria's no friend of the United States. Syria is the handmaiden of the Iranians throughout the region and so the fall of Bashar al Assad would be a great thing not just for the Syrian people, that's first and foremost, but also for the policies of the United States and those who want a more peaceful middle east.
And so the toughest possible isolation and sanctions that we, the Europeans and others can manage, if the Russians and the Chinese won't go along, then we have to do it on our own.
It is the -- the good thing is that you have Turkey and other states in the Middle East calling Assad to account. I would hope that there would be efforts to help the opposition in ways that are appropriate.
Again, when you're not inside, it is a little difficult to judge exactly what you can do for the opposition, but it's time for Bashar al Assad to go.
CROWLEY: I want to ask you about Afghanistan and Hamid Karzai. And he said something in an October 23rd interview to a TV network that I wanted to kind of get your reaction to. He said, "god forbid if any war took place between Pakistan and the United States, we will stand by Pakistan. If Pakistan is attacked and if the people of Pakistan need Afghanistan's help, Afghanistan will be there with you."
Now, I don't think the U.S. is going to go to war with Pakistan. And I don't think Pakistan's going to ask Afghanistan for help. But nonetheless, we have poured money and blood and ten years of U.S. soul in Afghanistan and this is what we get for it?
RICE: Well, President Karzai said what he very often said when these statements -- that he was taken out of context. A little hard to take that out of context, I have to admit. But we have to -- we have no option, but to work with him as the elected president of Afghanistan. We have no option but to try and work with the elected government of Pakistan.
But the thing that really is the problem here is the extremism in Pakistan. And I think a rather head in the sand approach by the Pakistani government to what's going on around them.
CROWLEY: I want to just finally end this substance style talk about this movie you to China. Because the president was in Australia, revealed that he is going to put about 200 troops, maybe over time rotate 2,500 troops in and out of northern Australia, which happens to be fairly near waters that China would like to dominate. And we looked up defense spending in 2011 and saw that China is up about 12.7 percent defense spending. The U.S. is up about 3.4 percent.
Just to give you an idea where the two countries are going and we may take another hit with the Defense Department depending on what happens on Capitol Hill.
But the question is, what do we fear about China?
RICE: Well, I don't think that we should be at a posture of fear. But we should be in a posture of carefully watching this military build-up that is taking place in China, which does, frankly, seem a little bit outsized for even regional ambitions. But we have to make sure that it wields influence not through the old 19th Century way of throwing military weight around.
And really our best strategy is not to try to -- the Chinese I think will not catch up with us militarily unless we ourselves don't take care of our own military forces, exploiting our significant technological advantage, and these alliances that we have.
CROWLEY: Madam Secretary, I want to ask you to stick with me a minute. We're going to take a quick break. But coming up, politics and policy with Secretary Rice. We'll be right back.
CROWLEY: We are back with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Madam Secretary, let me talk to you a little bit about -- as you may know there is a presidential race coming up. And there is a lot of Republicans running for it. RICE: Yes, I am aware of it. CROWLEY: We are coming up to a foreign policy debate. And I wanted to -- there have been a lot of gaffes along the way whether it comes to foreign policy on the part of most of these candidates. I just want to play just a quick bite of a couple of them.
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MICHELE BACHMANN, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Now with the president, he put us in Libya. He is now putting us in Africa. We already were stretched too thin and he put our special operations forces in Africa.
HERMAN CAIN, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: OK. Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?
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CROWLEY: Herman Cain even said at some point I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. I watched you a lot. We traveled around with George W. Bush who knew a lot about perhaps Mexican and border issues being the governor of Texas, but not a lot about the world.
My question is, when Condoleezza Rice goes to the voting booth and votes, what do you look for in just in terms of foreign policy? What does a potential president have to know as far as you are concerned?
RICE: Well, first of all, potential president has to know the role of the United States of America and that it's an exceptional role that we have in fact been willing to bear a lot of burdens over the last 60-plus years in order to promote a balance of power that favors freedom.
I would say that the candidates, yes, you don't have to know the ins and outs of foreign policy, because nobody would expect that kind of exposure. But the basics of foreign policy, you can master those during the campaign and it is important for the American people to know that you care enough about these issues to do that.
CROWLEY: Let me -- I want to play you another clip of our presidential candidates when they were asked specifically about when should the U.S. get out of Afghanistan.
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JON HUNTSMAN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I take a different approach on Afghanistan. I say it's time to come home.
MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The timetable by the end of 2014 is the right timetable for us to be completely withdrawn from Afghanistan other than a small footprint of support forces.
REP. RON PAUL (R), TEXAS: We need to have a significant change in foreign policy, which means that all the troops come home, and turn that country back over to the Afghans. (END VIDEO CLIP)
CROWLEY: Now you have others who say, look, it should be up to conditions on the ground, et cetera. But we have the leading Republican talking about a timetable which used to be like, you can't have a timetable, it just signals the enemy, et cetera. And then you have other candidates going now, now, come home now.
John McCain took a look at this and said he is a little worried about an isolationist trend in the Republican Party. Do you worry about that?
RICE: Well, of course, you always have to worry when there are difficult times at home that people will say, we really don't have the time and energy for what we must do abroad. That's always a danger. I don't think that debating though how long we're going to be in Afghanistan really is a signal toward isolationism.
We've been in Afghanistan a long time. People want to know...
CROWLEY: (INAUDIBLE) thought we'd be there?
RICE: Yes, well, I knew it would be hard, because, you know, it is the fifth-poorest country in the world. It is next to Pakistan. I think we didn't -- I didn't see the effect that the bad decisions in Pakistan in 2006 to create -- to make a deal really with the tribal leaders. That led to a kind of safe haven in Pakistan.
So we've been there a long time. It's not surprising that people are trying to find an end in sight. But I don't listen al that closely on the campaign trail to "I will do this" and "I will do that," because the day you arrive in the Oval Office...
CROWLEY: It looks different.
RICE: ... it looks different and you find that you can't really turn this aircraft carrier of American foreign policy around on a dime anyway.
CROWLEY: So a lot like domestic policy, can't turn that around on a dime either. And lastly, if a Republican should be elected next year, and say, I'd like you to come into my administration in whatever capacity, because frankly, presidents always go back to the last administration that's of their party. Is that something you would consider?
RICE: I am a happy university professor. I'm going to remain one. I will be very happy to give somebody my email and my phone number and California is not that far away for a phone call.
CROWLEY: But you'd rather stay in...
RICE: I really want to stay. That's where I'm staying.
CROWLEY: Private life Condoleezza Rice. RICE: Private life is wonderful and there's no better private life than opening up worlds to young people that they might otherwise not have seen.
CROWLEY: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, thank you so much for your time.
RICE: Thank you. Pleasure to be with you.
CROWLEY: You'll see more of my interview with Secretary Rice next week, but up next, call him the phoenix. The rise of Newt Gingrich.
CROWLEY: He has been many things: congressman, speaker, author, lecturer, consultant, presidential candidate, and now this election season, phoenix, rising from the ashes of his campaign.
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NEWT GINGRICH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm Newt Gingrich and I'm announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.
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CROWLEY: Less than a month after Newt Gingrich opened his presidential run in May, his underfunded, overspending campaign imploded. More than a dozen key aides and state operatives quit in a dispute over strategy and concern that Gingrich wasn't serious about his bid.
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GINGRICH: The two hardest months of my career were June and July.
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CROWLEY: With a skeleton staff and without much movement in the summer and early fall polls, Gingrich journeyed on and now, after a series of fiery debate performances, and the rise and fall of Bachmann, Perry, and Cain, Gingrich is up, way up. Polling at 8 percent a month ago, he now runs second behind Mitt Romney in the latest CNN/ORC poll.
But with success comes scrutiny. In addition to previously aired baggage, Gingrich faces new questions about lucrative consulting jobs with the federal home loan mortgage company Freddie Mac, and his ties to health care companies.
Up next, two men who know him well assess Newt Gingrich's chances.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CROWLEY: Here to talk about the recent rise of Newt Gingrich, Bob Walker, who served in the House of Representatives with Gingrich and is now advising his campaign; and Rich Galen, a Republican strategist who was communications director for Gingrich while he was house speaker. Thank you both so much for joining us. This is an endlessly fascinating candidate. Not the least of which his rise from single digits to double digits. I was talking about -- with Paul Begala the other day who said on the record, so I'm not telling anything out of school, that everybody knows how this will end, that Gingrich will push the self-destruct button and that will be it.
Is there a new Newt Gingrich we ought to know about?
BOB WALKER, FORMER U.S. REPRESENTATIVE: Well, I think there is. I mean, I think that he is somebody who came through four years of experience of governing. He has now been in the private sector, been a successful private sector businessman, has learned what it takes to make a payroll and do all of those kinds of things.
And he has also gone through a religious conversion, accepted Catholicism, and I think that was a moment of great importance in his life. He has a very happy marriage with Callista these days.
I mean, I think is he a vastly more mature, much calmer individual at this point, that he really is of a temperament these days to become president of the United States.
CROWLEY: Rich, I guess the question then is, and I want to while I'm asking this question, show our audience something on Gingrich's Web site now, which is a lengthy discussion of many of the attacks that have come out against him. Some of them dealing with very personal things such as, "did you leave your first wife while she was dying, telling her you wanted a divorce?" Et cetera, et cetera.
RICH GALEN, FORMER SPOKESMAN FOR HOUSE SPEAKER GINGRICH: But she's still alive, so that didn't happen.
CROWLEY: Right, exactly.
So, you know, the fact of the matter is, is there too much baggage already?
GALEN: Well, here's the thing that's -- this may be inside baseball, inside-the-Beltway baseball, but the interesting thing is that one of the reasons I think that Bachmann, sort of, ran into the buzzsaw, then Perry, then Cain is because this was all new information to the Washington-based press corps.
I was Dan Quayle's press secretary when he was congressman and senator. And when he ran for vice president, all this new stuff came out. Well, Hoosiers knew it. It's just the Washington press corps didn't. In Gingrich's case, it's quite the opposite. They've been covering Newt for 30 years. They know all this stuff. You know, the Freddie Mac -- you know, that's -- it's a $20,000, whatever it is, $20,000 a month contract, which does not make you stop in your tracks on K street in Washington, D.C., I can tell you. It's good money, but it's not -- it's not breathtakingly out of line. So I think that one of the advantages that Newt has is that the Washington-based press corps, from whence all, you know, political wisdom flows, already knows all this about Newt. And I think they're willing to see what -- you know, how he handles it, how he handles himself on the -- on the stump. And I'm not sure they're ever going to give him the benefit of the doubt. But he gets an even shot here.
CROWLEY: I think I should be insulted by all that. But, nonetheless...
... let me...
... let me move on and say that Gingrich was asked the other day, "Are there any skeletons in your closet that we don't know about," and he said, "Who knows," which, you know, isn't exactly a "Hey, I'm an open book here."
He did, and CNN has confirmed that Gingrich's group, at least, got over $1 million from Freddie Mac. Well, Freddie Mac is, you know, the federally backed home loan corporation that is seen as one of the culprits in this horrible economy that we're still experiencing.
WALKER: But it was -- but it was -- that money came in over a nine-year period.
CROWLEY: A million bucks.
WALKER: OK, absolutely. But, I mean -- but it is the group. It is a group that employed 30 people and so on. I mean, it's the kind of thing where you are in fact running a business and you have to pay salaries and you have to do a number of things. He was creating jobs during that period of time.
But the fact is what he was doing was giving Freddie Mac contrarian advice. I mean, some consultants are not brought in because they support what the agency or what the company is doing...
CROWLEY: How do we know that? I mean, how do we -- I mean...
WALKER: Well, because...
CROWLEY: Clearly they hired him because he's got contacts on the Hill. Now, he may not have been lobbying, but they hired him for his knowledge of how to get to Capitol Hill. WALKER: Well -- well, I think -- I think they hired him for his knowledge of how the process works, in part, but they also hired him because he had a long history of dealing in the issue of homeownership.
He had done this with Jack Kemp going back years ago. And they wanted some advice about how conservatives would approach that particular issue. Now they decided not to take some of his advice along the way. But consultants don't always get their advice taken. GALEN: You're paid to give advice, not make them take it.
CROWLEY: Rich, let me ask you about -- this is a guy who goes into December -- now we are talking about caucuses in early January -- who does not have an infrastructure -- even he says that -- in Iowa to deliver a caucus victory, who says, well, you know, in the near future we're going to open up five to seven offices.
Well, it's December. Does he have the infrastructure to make this stick in a way the other candidates have not been able to stay near the top?
GALEN: No. Clearly, he doesn't at this -- at this exact moment. But let's go back four years ago and the polling exactly this week. Nationally, on the Republican side, Giuliani had a 15 percentage point lead over Fred Thompson, who I was working for. You see how well I did there.
... and John McCain and -- and Mitt Romney.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton was plus-21 over Edwards and -- Edwards and -- who came in -- oh, Barack Obama. How soon we forget.
But -- but the important thing is that this is exactly the time, from this point forward, to your question, is when the -- the polls begin to solidify. This is when Mike Huckabee began making his move. This is when Barack Obama began making his move. So I think we're going to be able to answer that question over the next two, two and a half weeks, Candy. We'll see whether or not this begins to solidify in Iowa.
WALKER: And I -- and I don't think that you should ignore the fact that a virtual network has been created. I mean, virtual campaigning at this point is a big part of whether or not you're going to be successful. CROWLEY: OK. So we'll -- we'll wait like we did and watch it unfold. Thank you so...
GALEN: And be -- and be freezing on Grand Avenue on New Year's Eve.
CROWLEY: That's right. Rich Galen, Bob Walker, thank you so much.
GALEN: Sure, nice to be with you.
CROWLEY: Up next, top stories, and then, on "Fareed Zakaria: GPS," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak on the threat of war with Iran.
CROWLEY: Time for a check of today's top stories. Clashes have broken out in Egypt's Tahrir Square for a second straight day ahead of the country's elections later this month. The protesters are calling for a faster transition from a military to a civilian government.
President Obama's back at the White House after a nine-day trip to the Asia-Pacific region. The president visited Hawaii, Australia and Indonesia. During his trip, he promoted trade agreements that he says will increase U.S. exports and save thousands of jobs.
The president's former White House chief of staff, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, calls the Republican presidential field "a bunch of turkeys." Emanuel spoke about the GOP candidates last night at a Democratic gathering in Des Moines, Iowa. He was hardest on Mitt Romney for what he called Romney's inconsistencies in his record.
Thank you so much for watching "State of the Union." I'm Candy Crowley in Washington. And for analysis, newsmaker interviews and more, you can go to our website, CNN.com/sotu. And you can see our "Getting to Know" interview with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.


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In your experience with online dating, school teachers have been the pickiest in how intrusive they get with their questioning and overall disposition.
Whether it be in conversation on a dating site or on dates.
You have heard enough to give you pause.
Why ask you about your past relationships so soon into conversation?
Why does she keep inquiring about your work history?
Why does she need to know your mother’s maiden name this soon on a first date?
Teachers have to be detail-oriented in their occupation. This entails knowing where each student is deficient in the class and how they are coming along.
She is accountable for their success.
For many teachers, their career longevity is predicated on the success of their students.
Turning this button off in her personal life is hard.
Her friends and family aren’t exempt from her inquisitive and intrusive nature either.
Some complain about how she treats them like they are one of her students when she inquires about their lives.
It’s like she is grading them.
At a later date, she listens for whether they implemented some unsolicited advice she gave them in their last conversation, and upon hearing the family member or friend’s feedback, she gives them a grade.
Where the family member or friend followed the unsolicited advice and had results, the teacher gives said family member or friend a passing grade in the form of praise and encouragement.
Where the family member or friend implemented the advice with poor results or didn’t implement the advice at all, the teacher gives them a failing grade by chastising or critiquing them.
Surely, you didn’t join a dating site to be a teacher’s student.
You are looking for a romantic partner.
This being said, do some introspection of your own.
Why is it, with the robust variety of romantic potentials a dating site provides, you have chosen to talk to and go out on dates with a significant number of teachers?
Is there something about you that is drawn to teachers?
Is it too far-fetched to assume that teachers attract you like a magnet for core reasons that matter to you?
Maybe you want someone who has the intelligence and preparedness of a teacher, without the pickiness and intrusiveness.
No need to give up on teachers then, as there is a solution.
Not every teacher that is this corrosive in her questioning and romantic approach is beyond redemption.
There are some who snap out of it when they meet someone who is appropriately assertive.
Say, you meet a teacher on a dating site and strike up a conversation with her.
It’s great for a short while, and then she oversteps your boundaries by inquiring on a subject that you believe is too intrusive and personal.
This is where you immediately make her aware of it by stating that her question is an inappropriate one to ask this early.
The quicker you do this, the better.
Don’t let the conversation go on without addressing it.
This immediate check on her behavior is sometimes enough to force her to correct her behavior and exercise restraint when she is compelled to prematurely ask or say what she shouldn’t.
Remember, it’s hard for many teachers to turn off that “teacher mode” outside of their classroom.
Immediately educating her on how she has overstepped, forces her to reassess her behavior and acknowledge that you aren’t one of her students.

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No. But after what happened Thursday, it appears it could happen soon.
The Doomsday Clock was created two years after the catastrophe in which the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on Japan during WWII. The wikipedia article on The Doomsday Clock begins, “The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face that represents a countdown to possible global catastrophe (e.g., nuclear war or climate change). It has been maintained since 1947 by the members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . . . including 18 Nobel Laureates. The closer they set the Clock to midnight, the closer the scientists believe the world is to global disaster.”
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia needs to modernize its nuclear weapons. But the next day he indicated that Russia already has been involved in a program of modernizing its nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons arsenals can deteriorate. U.S. President Barak Obama has had a plan to upgrade the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal during the next decade at the huge cost of $1 trillion.
Hours after this first Putin revelation, U.S. President-elect Donal Trump tweeted, “the United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” Much speculation followed about what Trump meant. That’s because he often speaks in generalities, leaving listeners guessing about specifics. Trump’s unusual habit of making constant announcements on his Twitter account is a contributing factor to such guessing about what he means since it allows him to avoid answering media questions. So, there was debate as to whether or not he advocated a nuclear arms race. The next day, Trump seemed to clarify himself by saying in a telephone interview, “Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.” Another nuclear arms race would not be good.
Putin then responded. He said he would not be drawn into an arms race with the U.S. He also said Russia had improved its nuclear capabilities so that it can overcome any missile defense system the U.S. now has and has given to its allies. If that is true, why does Russia object so strongly about the U.S., as a member of NATO, placing missile defense systems in Eastern Europe, which it claims is for the purpose of being prepared against Iran if its has nuclear weapons.
This admission by Putin seemed to be new information that the U.S. has not addressed. Putin added that Russia has made such improvements to its nuclear readiness without violating New Start. This treaty with the U.S. involves nuclear disarmament.
In March this year, during Donald Trump’s campaign for U.S. president, he mentioned the rogue state North Korea with its nuclear weapons testing. Japan and South Korea are U.S. allies that have treaties with the U.S. to guarantee their protection against an enemy attack, such as from the belligerent North Korea. (Japan has no military due to an enforced restriction after WWII.) Trump said, “Japan and North Korea need to get their own nuclear weapons.” He said this because of his penchant that the U.S. should no longer provide such costly protection for its allies. For example, ever since the Korean War, the U.S. has kept nearly 40,000 troops in South Korea near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which divides the two Koreas. And Trump has said that the U.S. should no longer fund NATO as it does, providing about one third of its budget.
With this latest nuclear rhetoric by Trump and Putin, it appears they may scrap New Start. This possible new direction toward a nuclear arms race could lead to a FALSE START, in which both sides could be more susceptible to a mistaken nuclear exchange.
If the U.S. and Russia renew the nuclear arms race that the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in vigorously during the Cold War, which lasted a generation, it could spark arms races between other nations, such as Japan and South Korea with North Korea, Saudi Arabia with Iran, and Pakistan with India, both of whom have nuclear weapons. Also worrisome would be further nuclear proliferation to non-nuclear weapons nations.
It seems to me that because of this rhetoric by the world’s two leading heads of state next month, the Doomsday Clock will soon be moved closer to midnight. That reminds me of my several posts about Bible prophecies of wars being fought in the latter days with primitive weapons. This requires that before that happens, the world will rid itself of not only all nuclear weapons and other Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), but all conventional weapons as well. I speculate that in order for this to happen, the world may not do as Trump said Thursday, “until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes,” until the world experiences them again, perhaps far greater than it did in 1945. To read more about this horrendous possibility, see my following posts about future world disarmament: North Korea’s Growing Nuclear Capability Is Worrisome; The Doctrine of Imminence Prevents Abolishing Guns, Nuclear Disarmament Goes to World Court, Someday No More Guns.


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In medium bowl, stir together all marinade
ingredients; pour over ribs in heavy, resealable
plastic bag. Seal bag and refrigerate for 4-6 hours.
Turn the ribs two or three times while marinating.
Prepare an indirect medium fire in grill, with a drip
pan in the center. For a gas grill heat grill to medium
and turn off any burners directly below where the
food will go. With the lid closed, the indirect heat
method serves as an oven, circulating heat evenly
Remove ribs from marinade (discarding marinade),
place in rib rack and place on grill over drip pan,
away from the heat. Cover grill and grill for 1 1/2
hours, until rib meat is very tender. Transfer the ribs
to a cutting board, cut into serving portions.
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Bahrain state media has just confirmed earlier rumours on social media that 3 foreign journalists have been deported. In a statement, the Information Affairs Authority claimed that the journalists had violated Bahraini “laws and regulations”. The IAA claims that the journalists had been warned “more than once” about breaking media regulations (h/t @marcowenjones).
The 3 journalists are from ITN a (specifically, ITV News) and were deported “after being questioned at a local police station”.
Update: 16:14BST – Bahraini journalist Nazeeha Saeed, who is a correspondent for France 24 and Monte Carlo, was working with the ITN crew. She has tweeted the following (I have removed hashtags for clarity):
Bahrain deported ITN team in their second day in the country, they get arrested while shooting AlSadiq mosque in Qfoul
My press card was withdrawn (Information Security) after that I was asked to leave the police station with the driver after the detention of ITN team
Police pulled my security media card and asked me to leave the police station with the driver after arresting ITN team
We asked [Ministry of Interior] & [Information Affairs Authority] why the ITN team been deported, no answer was given.
Update: 16:45 – A report in The Independent carries further details, including a statement from ITV News (note: ITN produces ITV News):
The group, who had the necessary visas permitting them to work there, were then again questioned and taken to a police station today, before being told they must leave the country or face going to prison.
An ITV News spokeswoman said: “Our news team were on assignment with visas approved by the Bahraini authorities.
“Having filed a report last night, they were stopped while filming this morning and taken to a local police station for discussions with officers.
“They have since been asked to leave the country, which they are in the process of doing.”
Update: 16:53BST – ITV News reveals that one of the deported journalists was ITV News special correspondent Rageh Omaar. He filed this report yesterday.
The Guardian has also covered the story.
Yesterday, Nazeeha and the ITN crew were stopped by police at a checkpoint and briefly detained at Budaiya police station.
This echoes a similar incident at last year’s Formula One when a team working for Channel 4 News (which is produced by ITN) were arrested, detained and deported.
This post will be updated as more information comes in.

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Confusion reigned at the crowning of the Miss Universe 2015 contest in Las Vegas, as the host named the wrong woman as the winner.
Miss Colombia had already been crowned and was standing centre-stage to cheers when host Steve Harvey, returned to announce he had made a mistake.
“OK, folks, um, I have to apologize,” he said, coming back on stage while Miss Colombia waved to fans holding the winner’s bouquet and wearing the winner’s sash.
“The first runner-up is Colombia,” he said.”Miss Universe 2015 is Philippines.”
The stunned Miss Philippines, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach was then seen walking to the front of the stage and the two women stood side by side, before of a million-strong TV audience in embarrassed silence.
Harvey then stammered that he had read the card naming the winner and runner-up in the wrong order.
“It is my mistake, but it’s still a great night. Please don’t hold it against the ladies, please don’t. I feel so badly but it’s still a great night.”
As he fumbled on what to do next, a former Miss Universe winner came to his rescue: she removed the crown from Miss Colombia and placed it on Miss Philippines’s head.
The social media called the error the “fail of the decade”.
Miss Wurtzbach was then heard to tell reporters that she wished Miss Arevalo well.
“I’m very sorry, I did not take the crown from her and I wish her well in whatever she wants to pursue after this pageant,” she said.
This was not the first time such a mistake had been made: the wrong woman has been named the winner of a high-profile beauty pageant. In 2010 Australian host Sarah Murdoch read out the wrong name of the winner in the finale of ‘Australia’s Next Top Model’.
That would have been small recompense to the slighted Miss Columbia, Ariadna Gutierrez, but she took it with as much grace as she could.
On NBC’s “Today” show Monday morning, Matt Lauer asked Trump what his solution would have been.
“I’ll tell you what I think I’d do. I think I’d make ’em a co-winner. It’d be very cool,” Trump said.
Trump also suggested on Twitter that the Harvey’s screw-up wouldn’t have happened if he was still involved.
“Very sad what happened last night at the Miss Universe Pageant”, he wrote. “I sold it 6 months ago for a record price”, he gloated.

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Ancient Arts Fellowship, Inc. is a medieval re-enactment group based in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. They focus on the ‘Dark Ages’, or early medieval period, especially the 8th century through to the Norman invasion of England in 1066 (images about this event from the Bayeux tapestry are featured on their website). Geographically the focus is on northern Europe and Britain, featuring such peoples as Anglo-Saxons, Normans, and Vikings. Members participate in combat, arts and crafts, and food, with their website claiming that you can ‘feast on food that William the Conqueror [c. 1028-1087] would have eaten’. The group run educational classes for school groups and do public performances.
For their website see http://www.aaf.org.au/

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AMD reveals Samsung's next flagship Exynos mobile chip will feature its RDNA 2 architecture, bringing ray tracing and variable rate shading features to smartphone devices.
Announced at Computex Taipei (via The Verge), Samsung and AMD have partnered up to develop the next Exynos mobile system on a chip (SoC), which is expected to give Samsung Galaxy smartphones (and possible future Galaxy laptops) a significant upgrade in graphics.
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AMD CEO Lisa Su states the semiconductor company will bring "custom graphics IP to Samsung’s next flagship mobile SoC with ray tracing and variable rate shading capabilities." This suggests Samsung's Galaxy S22 will be a mobile gaming powerhouse.
The announcement didn't specify when the next-generation Exynos chip will be launched, but Su states Samsung will provide "more details later this year.”
AMD plans to bring its RDNA 2 to the high-performance mobile phone market, with Samsung devices being the first to feature the highly-regarded ray tracing and variable rate shading tech.
Currently, Samsung uses both its own Exynos and Qualcomm's Snapdragon chips in its flagship Galaxy S21 smartphones. However, with the new graphics power coming to the Exynos SoC, the Korean tech giant could get rid of Qualcomm altogether.
Samsung's Exynos chip for laptops
Previous reports claim Samsung is also set to release a flagship Exynos chip for an upcoming Galaxy laptop, pointing out that the tech company has partnered with AMD to develop the laptop. With AMD's recent Computex announcement, this could be the same Exynos chip that will be used in smartphones.
According to sources speaking to Korea Economic Daily, the upcoming laptop processor from Samsung will use 5-nanometer processing technology, offering everything from improved functionality, battery efficiency, and “extraordinary computing power.”
If the report is anything to go by, Samsung is looking to follow in Apple’s footsteps by launching its own version of the ARM-based M1 chip. Since the rumored Exynos SoC is expected to work with smartphones and laptops alike, it could compete with Apple’s recently announced iPad Pro 2021.
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Bungalows St. Nicola is located in Ahtopol. Free WiFi is available.
At the guest house, rooms include a wardrobe and a TV. Rooms are complete with a private bathroom fitted with a shower, while selected rooms also feature a seating area. All rooms will provide guests with a fridge.
Bungalows St. Nicola offers a children\'s playground.
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2017 Toyota Tacoma Redesign, TRD Pro, The 2017 Toyota Tacoma will be launched on the next automobile show in Detroit this year. The 2017 version of the Tacoma will not veer much from the 2016 model, with some changes to the appearance and some significant change in the powertrains. Toyota also ensures that the 2017 Tacoma keeps up with the latest innovations as far as technology is concerned. Reliability in design and performance has always been the hallmark of Toyota in the truck, SUV and off-road vehicle markets. The new 2017 Tacoma cements those beliefs easily and actually improves Toyota’s reputation.Based on the 2016 model, the 2017 Toyota Tacoma has a style that has been transformed from the Toyota 4Runner. On the outside the 2017 version features great looking trapezoidal radiator grille, which gives it a rugged look. Modern front headlights and rear lights come with superb LED lighting. The rear fender is finished in the same color as the body. Buyers can choose between 3 different versions of the 2017 Tacoma namely, a double cab, a Cab Long Bed and the standard Access cab.The interior of the 2017 Tacoma has also been improved with new choices of interior colors available to suit any buyer. Appealing round air vents and metallic finishes compliment the looks of the cabin that will also be fitted with new seats. Leather upholstery is also available. Standard in all models is the Go Pro camera that is fitted on the windscreen. A touch screen display provides access to an entertainment system as well as an information system. There are improvements to the navigation system and a brand new sound system is standard. Another feature is a driver assist management system.As far as the engine is concerned, the 2017 Toyota Tacoma comes with a choice of between a 2.7 litre V4 petrol engine and a powerful 3.5litre V6 petrol engine designed with the Atkinson principle, and uses D-4S technology. A 6 speed manual transmission provides smooth driving. New to the Tacoma is a 5.0litre Cummins diesel engine that will be available in the 2017 model. These diesel engines are renowned for their better performance and acceleration.
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This week’s Song of the Week comes from an exciting pop newcomer: CYN!
What is a CYN you ask? Well for starters, CYN is the latest artist to join Katy Perry‘s label, UnSub Records. Born into a humble middle-class home in Michigan, outside of Detroit, CYN (née Cynthia Nabozny) moved from Chicago to Los Angeles last year where she has spent much of 2017 working hard, writing and recording new material.
After making waves with her buoyant summer release “Together,” the rising songstress returns this month with the Felix Snow (Kiiara, Terror Jr) produced “Only With You” – another impressive offering that deserves your full, undivided attention.
“Only With You” is a sleek, sexy electro-pop gem coated in breathy vocals and dark ‘n stormy stabs of synthesizers and flashing disco lights – which is to say that it’s quite literally perfection. “I don’t want anything to do with anyone but you/ Only with you/ Anything to do with anyone but you, you…,” she declares throughout.
If this song doesn’t make you want to hear more from CYN, then there’s something wrong with you, period.
“I knew who Felix was and loved the songs he worked on previously, so I was geeked to work with him,” CYN said in a statement. “We wrote and recorded the song in North Hollywood. At the time, Felix was still working out of his living room. The song began on acoustic guitar and evolved to be some kind of hybrid, electronic funk pop vibe. We recorded vocals in a closet-turned vocal booth with no light. The vocals on the final track are the vocals from day one, which is something really special, I think. Overall, we wrote this song in probably 3 hours!”

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"All we are we have found in song" is the first line of this stunningly beautiful poem by Euan Tait, set to music by Norwegian composer Kim Andre Arnesen. This romantic notion is woven throughout
"Sing to me! Something of sunlight and bloom..." An uplifting text by Ella Wheeler Wilcox is set to charming music in this wonderful piece with melodic interest in all parts and conservative ranges.
This contemporary concert/festival piece is truly inspired, in music and text. "Away, where the sunlight is beaming through a deep, cloudless blue, and the treetops are gleaming with a fresh morning dew..."
This is simply too good not to consider for your choir. Omnia sol temperat, "the sun warms everything," comes from a verse of Latin found in "Carmina Burana." The composer's English text speaks to
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Set to the Latin "Pulchra es amica mea" text from "Song of Solomon," this a cappella work is inspired by the beauty of the aurora borealis as seen by the composer in his native Norway.
This haunting song by U2, as recorded on The King's Singers' Good Vibrations album, is a fitting tribute to Martin Luther King for a cappella choirs. It continues to be popular for concerts and festivals
Craig Hella Johnson's a cappella setting of Dolly Parton's Light of a Clear Blue Morning is infused with light and hopefulness as it opens with a solo soprano and gradually builds to a joyful
"I dream a world where man no other man will scorn, where love will bless the earth and peace its paths adorn..." The introspective and contemplative lyrics of the great African-American poet Langston
This stunning piece is based on a simple poem by Robert Richardson, inscribed on the headstone of the daughter of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), who died in her youth. Appropriate for any memorial
A meditation on the mystery and wonder of music, this Estonian tone poem is a little gem for a cappella choirs. With gorgeous harmonies that intensify the text, this will resonate deeply with your singers.
Although this is an original work, the words, which simulate a tribal language, give it a world-music feeling. In fact, the chant-like character of the piece almost makes you feel as though you are taking
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Three additional Glasgow locations have been confirmed for Batgirl filming - including a gay bar and a former court building.
Production for the HBO Max flick recently moved to Partick for scenes at the Glasgow University Archive Department building on Thurso Street, which saw it transformed by set dressers into a Gotham City fire station.
Meanwhile film crews are set to return to the city centre - after a lengthy stint in the Trongate area - to shoot scenes on Glassford Street, St Andrews Street/Turnbull Street and Hanover Street/George Square over the next few weeks.
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Now Glasgow Live can reveal that the cameras will be rolling in iconic Glasgow gay bar Delmonicas on Virginia Street next month.
The same day will also see filming take place at the NCP car park on Mitchell Street.
February will also see production for the movie will move to the former Glasgow District Court at the corner of Turnbull Street and St Andrew's Street.
The B-listed building, which was also the former home of the Central Police office, closed back in 2008.
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This season the American mezzo-soprano reprised her highly praised portrayal of Mozart’s Marcellina (Dutch National Opera) and Wagner’s Fricka (The Minnesota Opera), and portrays Ma Joad/Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis). She won critical acclaim last season in two world premieres, singing Jacqueline Onassis/ David T. Little’s JFK (Fort Worth Opera) and Peggy Ophuls/Jack Perla’s Shalimar the Clown (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis). Other recent engagements include Goeldner’s first Amneris (Salt Lake City), Hippolyta/A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Honolulu), and an especially praised performance as Thirza/ Dame Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers (U.S. stage premiere, Bard SummerScape Festival). The mezzo’s diverse operatic repertoire also encompasses Jane Seymour/Anna Bolena (Met, Welsh National Opera), Fricka/Das Rheingold and Waltraute/Götterdämmerung (Toulouse), Gertrude/Hamlet (Minnesota Opera), Countess Geschwitz/Lulu (Graz, Toulouse), Carmen (New York City Opera, Madison, Finland’s Savonlinna Festival), Orlofsky (Met and with Seiji Ozawa in Japan), Nicklausse (Met, Bilbao, DVD), Octavian (Toulouse, Seville, Lyon), the Composer (Oviedo, Madrid, Salzburg, Toulouse, Lyon, Paris), and Brangäne (Salzburg). Goeldner, who has sung Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Royal Ballet (Covent Garden, Lincoln Center), has been heard in concert with the National Symphony Orchestra and the radio orchestras of Vienna, Paris, Munich, Prague, and Berlin.
Previously at Lyric: Five roles since 2008|09, most recently Mme. Larina/Eugene Onegin (2016|17); Marcellina/The Marriage of Figaro (2015|16); Pitti-Sing/The Mikado, title role/Carmen (both 2010|11).
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Two goals from Ebube Duru, one in either half, gave Rivers United a hard-fought 2-0 over Wikki Tourist win at the Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium.
His brace took the defender’s tally to three goals from three Adokiye Amiesimaka Stadium appearances this season, and all three games have ended in victory.
The first was a free kick specialist’s effort after he struck from a free-kick 30 yards out, the second came from the penalty spot after the visitors defender was penalized for ball handling inside the penalty box.
It was enough to give the Pride of Rivers all three points. It’s five unbeaten now, and some momentum is starting to build.
Rivers United kept their 100 per cent home record in tact to maintain top spot in Group B of the Nigeria Premier Football League with 13 points, one point ahead of early followers Lobi Stars (12 points).
Rivers United will be guest to Doma United FC this weekend, and the Boss is expected to make wholesale changes for the 1,090.8 km trip to Gombe to take on Doma United.

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The Best Dog Ugly Christmas Sweater Of 2018 (Buyer’s Guide)
We have been researching the market for many days to provide you with the list of the best dog ugly christmas sweater. Now, our team is happy to present you this TOP list of the best dog ugly christmas sweater — use it to choose the right dog ugly christmas sweater for you!
These Are The Top 3 Dog Ugly Christmas Sweater of 2018
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Ease of use 5/5
|1. Blueberry Pet Holiday Festive Christmas Collections
Made of soft and comfortable 100% acrylic material.
Ease of use 5/5
|2. Scheppend Festive Pet Pullover Ugly Christmas Holiday Jumpers Clown Sweater (Best Performance for the Price)
Made of a soft acrylic knit which is stretchable.
Ease of use 4/5
|3. Mikayoo Pet Sweater (Most Stylish)
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Clown holiday sweater keeps furry baby toasty warm and feeling sucure on the freezing weather. Pullover sweater design, no buttons or zippers, looks stylish; the front leg holes are perfect, there are no “sleeves” to hang down as a trip hazard; leave enough space at the bottom for him/her to use the washroom without dirtying self. Made of a soft acrylic knit which is stretchable. A cute ugly sweater to help your pet fit in with the themed “ugly sweater” parties, also a great addition to your christmas celebration. L (back length: 41cm/16.14″, chest girth: 48cm/18.89″, neck girth: 34cm/13.38″).
“yeehaw~”, what a little cute and adorable sweater. Whether you walk your small dogs/cats, or take them to the party, this is best clothing for you, especially in such a season. There, size xs: (neck 7.5″, chest 10″, back length: 10.5″); size s: (neck 8.5″, chest 11″, back length: 12″); size m: (neck 9.5″, chest 13″, back length: 15″); size l: (neck 12″, chest 18″, back length: 19″); size xl: (neck 13″, chest 20.5″, back length: 24.5″). Please read the following description. The dog sweaters in the second main picture are sold separately. Make your pets warm and beautiful, you will be willing to take many many photo with you pets, and post on your page.
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Just before the start of the biggest race of his life, NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick spoke with his team owner, Tony Stewart: Don’t give up, Smoke told him, until you see the checkered flag.
Harvick thought about that advice throughout Sunday’s four-man shootout for the Sprint Cup championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway; as he navigated lap after tension-filled lap, as his knuckles turned white, as the sun dropped and disappeared into the South Florida swamp, as the end of the race neared and his hope for glory faded.
All year long he had dominated races only to lose them. It looked like it was happening again. His car slowed a tick and late-race cautions and pit strategy dropped him to 12th place with 15 laps to go. Two of the other four drivers in the championship hunt were in front of him, including race leader Denny Hamlin. Under normal circumstances, a driver could not make up that many positions in so few laps.
These were not normal circumstances. And Harvick is not a normal driver.
Not when a win, never mind a championship, is on the line. He tore through the field until he emerged from the chaotic sheet metal morass with clean track ahead of him. On the final restart, he lined up on the front row alongside Ryan Newman – also a finalist for the Sprint Cup championship. In all of NASCAR’s storied history, never had a championship come down to three laps, two drivers, one title. Harvick’s strategy was as old school as they come, as he said later on ESPN: “I was just going to hold the pedal down and hope for the best.”
He held it down.
He got the best.
And after three weeks of thrilling and controversial racing, so did NASCAR.
Harvick grew up in Bakersfield, California, where he raced on short tracks with his father. Sometimes his dad would mess with the car – change the shocks or springs or tires. The point was to teach his son how to diagnose differences in a car’s handling characteristics. It would be up to Harvick to identify the problem so a solution could be found to make the car faster.
He faced a similar test last season when he drove for a team owned by Richard Childress Racing. After 13 years there, Harvick knew he didn’t have the speed he needed to win a championship. And he didn’t believe the team could find that speed, no matter how expertly he diagnosed the problem.
So he gambled. He left RCR and moved to Stewart-Haas Racing. While drivers change teams all the time, it’s rare for one to find success immediately. But Harvick was fast the second he grabbed the wheel of his No. 4 Chevy.
He led laps in a remarkable eight of the first 10 races (and 27 of 36 overall, including 12 of the final 13). But a funny thing happened when he was going fast: He kept finding ways to lose races. He led 119 at Kansas in May and finished second. Two weeks later, he led 100 at Charlotte and finished second again. Time and again he dominated but had little to show for it – he led at least 60 laps without winning a total of eight times.
Andrew Maness, a leading expert in NASCAR stats, calculated the correlation between laps led and wins. By his formula, Harvick’s 2,137 laps led on the season should have meant 7.67 wins, but he had “only” five. That was unusual for anybody but especially for Harvick. He’s called “The Closer” because in previous seasons he often figured out ways to win races that he didn’t deserve to. Now the opposite kept happening.
When the 10-week playoff started, Harvick wore that nickname like a skin-tight firesuit. He won at Charlotte to advance to the third round of the playoffs, and again at Phoenix a week ago to set up his appearance in Sunday’s finale. When he pulled away from Newman over the final three laps to win the race and his first championship, he capped one of the most remarkable stretches of racing and controversy in NASCAR’s 65-year history.
A word about the state of NASCAR, because this championship is as much about NASCAR as it is about Harvick: The sport is endlessly obsessed with its place in the nation’s sports consciousness. Chairman Brian France threw out NASCAR’s old points system and instituted a new one before this season in a desperate search for buzz and ratings. He wanted to create “Game 7” moments to bring in new fans, and he bet the future of the sport that his new plan would do that. Critics (including me) savaged the new points system because it is needlessly complicated and aimed to impress people who don’t like the sport in the first place. To say nothing of the fact that racing doesn’t even have games, let alone seven of them.
NASCAR needed this Chase to be exciting to justify the change. The 10-race Chase opened with an I can’t believe he just did that pass by Brad Keselowski for a win at Chicago and ended with the four championship drivers running nose to tail, third through sixth, late in Sunday’s race. In between there was a fight at Charlotte and a brawl at Texas and, in the penultimate race of the season, Ryan Newman intentionally wrecked rookie Kyle Larson on the last lap just to qualify for Sunday’s finale.
Ratings grew by double digits late in the postseason and the sport crackled with energy, and if those are the only standards by which the new Chase is to be measured then it was a success. Harvick called it the best thing to happen to the sport in a decade.
And here he is this morning, reaping the benefits of France’s all-in gamble. He sits alone atop the American motorsports world, about to be introduced to the masses, his dimples gracing the front of every sports page in the country. He has a wife who sobbed when he won and an adorable son and a cocky streak a mile wide. He will win the morning news gabfests and the late-night comedy shows because he’s a brash, smirking, wink-and-a-smile troublemaker.
The Closer is just getting started.


KAMLOOPS — One of the many, many reasons there was good cause to fear the election of Donald Trump was that Trump would simply use the office of president to enrich himself and his family.
Trump is nothing if not obsessed with money and showing he has money, and giving him the reins of power would only give him another platform for self-promotion.
Sure enough, a Washington Post story not long ago described just one example: how Trump's hotel in Washington has become an extension of the meeting space at the White House.
In Canada, we've elected another wealthy person who seems to be intent on using the government for self-enrichment.
Or at least, Bill Morneau isn't too worried about it looking that way.
Morneau is a rookie MP who was quickly made Minister of Finance by newly-elected Prime Minister Trudeau in 2015.
He had made a fortune in the family business, with his stock holdings alone estimated to be worth about $40 million.
Normally in Canada, someone entering public life will place assets into a blind trust to prevent conflict of interest - especially someone like the Finance Minister who has considerable powers, including power that could theoretically be used to build his bank account.
The ethics commissioner told Morneau it was okay, though, because his assets are held through a numbered company.
That's a very technical interpretation of "conflict of interest," one that could be way too easy to circumvent.
It was later revealed that at least three other cabinet ministers have similar arrangements.
Two things need to happen here.
First, Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson needs to interpret her position with an eye toward what gives Canadians the most confidence, not toward what gives government officials the most cover.
Second, Morneau needs to step down.
His choice to stubbornly cling to control over his wealth does not tell Canadians that he is in this for them, and it doesn't tell Canadians that this government will aspire to the highest ethical standards, as the Liberals had said.
After years of scandal in the Senate, Canadians don't need anymore worries about their representatives taking advantage of the system for their own personal gain.


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Flights from Madinah to Cairo onFare Calendar
- Egyptair Express 676
02:25 MED→03:25 CAI
- 02h 00m Non Stop
- SAR 474
- Saudi Arabian Air 317
06:10 MED→07:05 CAI
- 00h 55m Non Stop
- SAR 778
FAQ about Madinah to Cairo Flights
Is it true that Egypt Air takes less time on a direct Madinah to Cairo flight than other airlines?
Yes. Egypt Air provide the fastest flights on this route
Do airlines provide extra space for sleeping?
Many of the Business class airlines provide extra space for sleeping.
Can I carry my own food?
Yes you can carry your own food. However, it should be properly packed.
Will I be served alcohol on a Madinah to Cairo flight?
No airline serves alcohol on a domestic flight. You will get alcohol in only international flights
What is the average range of Economy class tariffs on Madinah to Cairo flight route?
The Economy class airfare ranges from SAR 474 to SAR 2418. Egyptair Express and Saudi Arabian Air provide tickets in this range.
Is there web check-in option available with Madinah to Cairo flight?
Yes, passenger do get a web check-in option with their Madinah to Cairo flight via online web check-in or airport check-in.
Can I book budget hotels near Cairo Airport through the Internet?
Yes, one can book budget hotels near the airport via Cleartrip hotels option
Does Madinah Airport have nappy changing facility for babies?
Yes, the newly developed Madinah Airport has such facilities for babies and infants.
Cairo, meaning “The Victorious” in Arabic, is the capital city of Egypt. It is one of the biggest cities in Africa and is identified as Mother of the World by the Egyptians. In order to reach this city, Cleartrip provides you with all the necessary information and booking facilities in a convenient layout.
if you’re flying from Medina to Cairo, you may select Egyptair Express and Saudi Arabian Air as per your suitability. Every week, around 191 flights take this route. Egyptair Express and Saudi Arabian Air flights flying the prescribed route.
The first flight to depart from Medina is 676 at 02:25 AM, and it is operated by Egyptair Express. On the other hand, the last to depart, at 06:10 AM, is 317 operated by Saudi Arabian Air. It takes approximately 2 hours to reach from Medina to Cairo by a nonstop flight. Medina is in the GMT+3 hour time zone while Cairo falls under the time zone of GMT+2, running an hour behind Medina.
Flights leave from Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Medina. The airport has six terminals equipped with free Wi-Fi, restaurants, health centers, banks, and souvenir shops. These terminals are located close to the Haj terminal, thus, facilitating faster arrivals and departures. The airport’s IATA code is MED.
Flights in Cairo land at the Cairo International Airport. It has three terminals. These terminal buildings are facilitated with services, including lounges, parking facilities, and banking services, which assure convenience to passengers at all times. The IATA code for this airport is CAI.
Cairo has a variety of locations to explore. For instance, you could climb to the top the Bab Zuweila for a rooftop view of Cairo. You could also visit its Coptic Museum and Mosque of Al-Hakim.
Cleartrip has a user-friendly website and mobile app. Irrespective of whether you are browsing for flights or making a booking, you will find everything you need with a few clicks and swipes. You will get details regarding the status of your booking and flight by simply entering the PNR number into the search box provided. Skip the long queues at the airport via our Web check-in facility. Affordable travel coupled with convenience is Cleartrip for you.
The price of a Madinah to Cairo flight ticket varies between a minimum SAR 474 or up to SAR 2418.
Information of Madinah Cairo Flight
|Aerial distance||1033 KM|
|Total flights from Madinah to Cairo in a week||191 flights|
|First Flight||Egyptair Express 676 , departs at 02:25 AM|
|Last Flight||Saudi Arabian Air 317 , departs at 06:10 AM|
|Popular Airlines from Madinah to Cairo||Egyptair Express and Saudi Arabian Air|
|Shortest Time of flights from Madinah to Cairo||00h 55m|
|Airport codes flights from Madinah to Cairo||Madinah-MED,Cairo-CAI|
|Time of Madinah to Cairo flights||02h 00m|
Madinah Cairo Cheap Flights
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|Cheapest Fare within 30 days||SAR474*||Egypt Air||25/09/2019||02:06 AM-03:06 AM||Book Now|
|Cheapest Fare within 90 Days||SAR474*||Egypt Air||16/11/2019||05:06 AM-06:06 AM||Book Now|
|Lowest Fare to Travel||SAR474*||Egypt Air||16/11/2019||05:06 AM-06:06 AM||Book Now|
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In market Marktbergel, at the foot of the Petersberg see since November 2016 four modern apartments in a rural and quiet location.
With up to 60 square meters per apartment you have enough space to feel right at home - each of the apartments has a terrace and is comfortably furnished.
With kitchenette and two bedrooms the family holiday on the Frankenhöhe is now nothing in the way! Of course, in Marktbergel the view is almost always backed up into the green -
the Frankenhöhe is ideal for hiking and cycling, the cities of Ansbach, Rothenburg o. D. T. and Bad Windsheim offer Attractions and Entertainment.
Mention is only the medieval cityscape of the Tauber city or the two highlights of Franconia in Bad Windsheim: the Franconian Open Air Museum and the Franken-Therme.