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France's regulated savings: A growing cost of tradition
The increasing burden of France's regulated savings comes just when banks are less able to afford them.
Despite the wild proposals being thrown around by the motley group of presidential contenders, one thing is certain; France's next leader will not touch the country's regulated savings system. This holds some €400 billion, including 62 million overnight Livret A accounts. The first such were set up 200 years ago to help repay debts from the Napoleonic wars. President François Hollande has increased the Livret A limit by about 50% to €22,950 and money continues to pour in.
The French have long been introduced to banking with Livret A, much like German schoolchildren are handed Sparkasse savings books. However, like the impact of municipally owned banks in Germany, regulated savings are now making it harder for French banks to maintain adequate capital at a time of low rates and heavy regulation. Witness, for example, the €491 million goodwill write-off from LCL in the 2016 results of the listed arm of France's biggest retail bank, Crédit Agricole.
France's banking sector is more consolidated than its German equivalent. French banks such as BPCE and Crédit Agricole use their greater cohesion to better market products like life insurance and asset management and to operate internationally in wholesale banking. But partly as a result of regulated savings, French domestic net interest margins are low, even by European standards. The system also makes French banks more reliant on market funding, as the majority of the regulated deposits goes to the state-owned Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, much of it to fund social housing.
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The deposits are attractive as they are tax-free, guaranteed by the state and because politicians determine the rate. The government follows a formula calculated by the Bank of France on the basis of Euribor and inflation. Last summer, it cut the rate below 1% for the first time, to 0.75%. However, strictly interpreted, the formula would have demanded a cut to 0.5%, according to Fitch and others.
This is particularly worrisome for the banks when so many households in France are successfully renegotiating their mortgage rates downward. Crédit Agricole cited the low-rate environment and widespread renegotiation of home loans to justify its LCL write-off. About 40% of French domestic lending is for housing, according to Fitch, and the Livret A rate is used as a benchmark for other savings and deposits products.
Even more irritatingly for the banks, the system will further weigh on capital ratios under the ECB's new risk-blind leverage rule, by factoring in money the banks say they are obliged to park with Caisse des Dépôts. The banks have got together to sue the ECB on the Caisse des Dépôts assets at the European Court of Justice, making it a very public contest by a national lobby against the single regulator and its push for common rules.
Whatever the legal merits of the case, French politicians are unlikely to tackle such a cherished tradition, so the onus is on the ECB – or the banks.
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The notorious Hand, foot, and mouth disease previously closed down kindergartens and made small children cranky is now hitting the American college campuses. The US health department is now testing several samples on an urgent basis to identify the virus causing that particular type of infection to the college students.
University spokesperson stated to media that the college students across the east of the United States are now suffering from unsightly blisters which are the primary character of that particular type of infection on face, foot, and hands.
The US health officials also stated that the infection outbreak is particularly marked by a typical set of symptoms which includes not on the usual blisters in mouth and feet but also on the genital region. Several states' health officials throughout the United States are now testing samples to determine the particular type of virus that is solely responsible for the infection.
Authorities also stated that several types of viruses including enterovirus EV-A71 and coxsackie viruses can cause these types of symptoms. 129 students so far have been diagnosed with that typical infection at the north Baltimore campus. The medical director of the wellness center at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Roanna Kessler, stated: "I have never seen this before," and added, "In previous years we have usually seen it in only a handful of people."
Florida State University previously battled an infection outbreak in 2016. And now, Princeton, Wesleyan University, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth, Lehigh University, West Virginia University, and Mars Hill University all have reported that typical infection outbreak so far this year. Besides young students, three MLB pitchers, Brad Peacock, Noah Syndergaard, and J.A. Happ also lost their playing time due to this infectious virus.
Dr. Kessler also expressed "We are wondering if it is a strain that people were not exposed to when they were younger." She also said "It is very upsetting for them, especially if they develop lesions around the face," and added, "They usually self-isolate in that situation because they don't want to be seen out and about." She also expressed her worries while saying "It's bad enough when little toddlers get it."
A spokesperson at Johns Hopkins said "Facilities has been doing extra cleaning in affected areas," and added, "We are giving out disinfectant wipes at the health center to any student with symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth, so they can wipe down areas that they may have touched."
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India bans Modi film until after mega-election
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India banned Wednesday the release of a biopic about Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the country's marathon elections after complaints that the flattering portrayal would give the ruling party an unfair advantage.
Modi's right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is seeking a second term, defending a landslide win over the opposition Congress party in 2014. The result is predicted to be close however.
In a win for the opposition, India's Election Commission barred the cinematic release of the film until voting concludes on May 19.
Under Indian election rules, the publication of any content deemed as campaign material -- including advertisements, films and even social media -- requires the election commission's prior approval.
The commission -- which organises the world's biggest democratic poll with 900 million eligible voters choosing 543 MPs -- said the film 'has the potential to disturb the level playing field during the elections'.
Congress insisted it was propaganda and resisted the timing of its release, even taking its fight to the country's highest court.
The movie tells the story of the Hindu nationalist leader's ascent to power from his days selling tea at a train station.
The film had been granted a censors' certificate and was planned to release Thursday as the first wave of voters went to the ballot box.
The producers of two TV series were also given warning notices by the Election Commission for promoting Modi's pet schemes through their shows, The Press Trust of India reported.
The ruling came as security was placed on high alert across India and tens of thousands of troops were deployed to a hotspot where a political convoy was attacked on the eve of the election.
Seats in 20 states will be decided on Thursday -- the first of seven days of voting spread over six weeks.
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Security was bolstered in troubled Chhattisgarh state, which goes to the polls Thursday after a deadly ambush on an election convoy left five people dead.
Some 80,000 troops, police and paramilitaries will be deployed to the central state where Maoist rebel groups detonated a bomb and fired on the convoy, state police chief D.M Awasthi said.
The election commission insisted the attack that left a state lawmaker campaigning for Modi and his bodyguards dead would not change its schedule.
Maoist rebels are behind many of the long-simmering insurgencies in at least nine Indian states.
Chhattisgarh is among sensitive states where polling is staggered over several weeks so security and administrative staff can be moved around.
The killing of a local leader of a Hindu nationalist group in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday reinforced fears of trouble during voting. Parts of Kashmir will also vote on Thursday.
Gunmen burst into a Jammu hospital and shot dead the regional leader of the right wing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, which is closely linked to Modi's party.
Tensions also simmered in the eastern state of Odisha where two landmines were recovered by patrols, and in nearby Bihar where two roadside bombs were detonated.
On Wednesday an improvised explosive device went off in the western state of Maharashtra, leaving one soldier in a critical condition, officials said.
Kashmir hit the headlines ahead of the election after 40 paramilitaries were killed in a suicide attack in February.
India blamed the attack on a Pakistan-based group and launched a cross-border air raid, which sparked a retaliatory strike by Pakistan that briefly brought the rivals close to a new war.
Modi has used India's action against Pakistan to bolster his strongman image and divert attention from criticism over a lack of jobs across the country and a farmers' debt crisis.
At a rally on Tuesday, Modi urged first-time voters to dedicate their ballot to the military who staged the air strike inside Pakistan.
Congress said the speech breached an Election Commission order that political parties should not use the armed forces for propaganda.
Rahul Gandhi, the Congress leader challenging Modi, filed his nomination papers Wednesday following a roadshow in his home constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh state.
Various opinion polls have indicated an alliance led by Modi's BJP will win up to 273 of the 543 parliament seats at stake, just one more than required for a majority.
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The "JIMOTO Made Series" is one that Starbucks launched to connect strongly and deeply with regional artisan roots. The pay homage to the developed craftsmanship traditions throughout Japan, built to showcase the traditional crafts that are active in the local area and products incorporating the craftsman's technology. They are only sold in limited stores based on the regional interests they depict. The first of the JIMOTO Made Series was an iced coffee glass by Edo Kiriko; the second was a coffee aroma mug reminiscent of Tottori sand dune, the wood mug set is the third installment of the series: The Black and White Wooden Lacquer Mugs featuring Fukuoka with traditional craft lacquer of Gifu and Takayama Koishihara grilled coffee aroma mug in the Chikuzen area.
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WOW! Women On Writing Blog: Is It Too Serious for Middle-Grade?
There was a Mark Twain nominee a while back (6 years ago? Ten years ago?). It was one of two nominated books that year that had the word "black" in the title (if I'm remembering correctly). This one was about a kid whose dad had died in Vietnam and her mom was a nurse there, came back, and emotionally suffered. The kid had to contend with her mom literally shooting up the house... and not just one isolated incident. I thought it was a bit too dark for that age group.
I haven't read that one but I might do some research to find out. It does sound dark. It is a fine line and I think the big thing is as a parent and teacher to read the material first, so you can discuss with your child or know if your own children are ready for something like that. Thanks for sharing!
My 8 yr old and I are reading Jerry Spinelli's "Maniac Magee." Talk about serious and silly at the same time! HIs parents are killed, he runs away from home and ends up in a town divided by race and faces threats from both sides. It's intense, but very timely right now. Also very silly.
Clements' "Frindle" is also a good one.
Enjoy Spinelli. He has quite a way with words.
Love Maniac McGee too. I also like Wringer by Spinelli. In fact, it is one of my favorite middle-grade books.
This is a great topic, Margo. I had to read several books with my daughter (fifth grade) this year for school that I thought had some pretty serious topics and content. One was "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson. The topic was slavery during the Revolutionary War and it had what I thought was a LOT of violence for that age group. The main character is actually branded in the face with an "I" for "Insolence" and that shocked me. The book was very good, but very depressing. We also read "Fever 1793" by the same author and it also had a lot of graphic content dealing with that time period and the effects of the illness. I joke that if a book is "award-winning" it usually is pretty graphic or has foul language. Another MG book I picked up at a conference was Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz. Based on a real-life story, it follows the life of one boy as he makes his way through 10 different Nazi concentration camps. It was heartbreaking and pretty much left no detail to the imagination. I thought it might be little tough for the age group, but my daughter asked to read it and I let her. It was very eye-opening to her and a good introduction to the Holocaust, as she will do an in-depth study of it in 6th grade next year.
Hi Renee: I've read both of those Laurie Halse Anderson books, and I think the reason they are able to be more "graphic" perhaps is because of their historical setting. But I think you are right about a lot of award-winning books. Drama sells. :) And wins awards. It is tough as a parent, and I think sometimes as parents we are more sensitive to what our own children are reading than we could be if we thought of 5th graders in general. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
A little late with my comment, but I'm currently dealing with this issue while revising my manuscript. I wrote it as YA, but my editor says it will work better as MG. (And I agree.) But it deals with really tough issues (Mississippi, pre-Civil Rights era). So I'm having to turn off my internal overprotective-mom-editor and listen to my real-life professional editor and just tell the story--the good, the bad, and the ugly.


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SUNDERLAND TILL HE DIES in conversation with football consultant & former Sunderland A.F.C footballer Martin Smith (part 1/2).
August 23, 2021 August 23, 2021 / Gary Alikivi
The blog has featured over 500 interviews with North East musicians, actors, writers and much more, but now for the first time, stories from professional football.
In the first part of this interview, Sunderland born Martin Smith talks about his influences, playing for his hometown and the impact Peter Reid had on his career.
I always wanted to be a footballer. My earliest memories in the '70s were kicking a ball about, and from my mam and dad's bedroom I could see the Roker Park floodlights.
Even though I'm a massive Sunderland fan, a player that stood out for me was Spurs player Glenn Hoddle. When you watch him on the '70s and '80s TV football shows there's never a mark on him.
Everything looked effortless too him and back then he looked like an athlete, just a different player from everyone else, if he played now he'd be worth £200million.
His passing range was something I tried to do, and his first touch. When I was younger my dad used to say 'your first touch is the most important touch'. It buys yourself time, and like Hoddle, who always had the ball glued to his feet.
When I was a 17 year old Sunderland apprentice he was managing Swindon and I was in charge of the tea. I knocked on the dressing room door, he opened it, I was staring open mouthed at him, he took the tea and shut the door. I was still there staring at the door.
For great players it was the goal scorers at Sunderland like Marco Gabbiadini, then following football on telly you'd see players like Maradona just going past people, doing something different.
Martin Smith then with Northampton, with Cristiano Ronaldo in an FA Cup game.
When I was at Northampton we pulled Manchester United in the FA Cup. Cristiano Ronaldo was in the team I think he was only 17. He was so quick, absolutely phenomenal. I've never played against anybody as good as him.
I watch him now on TV doing his tricks and think back when we played why didn't I just kick him – but really by the time I brought my leg back he was gone.
You sit back and look at all his attributes, speed, skill, heading ability and yeah you think he's got to be the number one player, you've got to have a level of arrogance to say 'I'm the man'.
Paul Gascoigne was probably the best player in the world around 1990-91, what a player, he was unbelievable. But that tackle in the FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest done his knee and he wasn't quite the same after that.
But he was strong as an ox and he did like a tackle did Gazza, he had that streak in him, yeah he could mix it. Plus I'd take him all day long over a Phil Foden or Jack Grealish.
Gazza liked a tackle, pictured in his Newcastle days by Evening Chronicle.
I was actually at Newcastle from the age of 10 to 14 at Benwell training ground. They used to bring Gazza in to train with us because they wanted to know where he was, and keep an eye on him. So he played on a Saturday then trained with us under 12's on a Monday night. They probably had him in on a Tuesday with some other team (laughs).
It was a great education, but I got my senses and signed schoolboy terms with Sunderland. My first professional contract was also with Sunderland, towards my 17th birthday.
As an apprentice you were in from 8.30am to 5pm working hard and cleaning boots. But signing professional terms you didn't have to do as many jobs, it was more about focusing 100% on football.
To get the first contract was great. But I tell the lads I'm working with now at Quantum Sports that the first one is probably the easiest to get, and now you're in with seasoned pro's are you going to improve ?
The second or third contract is where people are looking different at you, and starting to ask questions. Are your standards improving ? Can you positively effect games ? I was doing well at Sunderland, I'd been in England youth teams so didn't worry too much, but now if you stand still the bloke behind you is going take your shirt.
I was at Sunderland from around 1990 and left in '99. I was a winger, I did play the odd games up front, some managers took me on as a centre forward but thought I'd get as many goals with assists. Then later in my career I played deeper, by the time I was at Northampton I was centre midfield.
Peter Reid at Roker Park.
In the 94-95 season in Division 1 Sunderland were in a relegation battle when Peter Reid was brought in as manager. Near the end of the season we were playing Swindon who were also in trouble, a real six pointer. But I scored to keep us up and we won 1-0 at Roker Park to make us safe. I wonder if Reidy would have stayed if we went down ? I think he probably would of gone.
Pre-season was so hard you just wanted it out of the way and the league to start. But you had a belief, you'd look around the dressing room thinking we can do something this year. We got promoted to the Premiership with practically the same team, he only brought in a couple of players, Reidy really moved the club forward.
The progression of Sunderland from Roker Park to the Stadium of Light was something we couldn't get our head around, from 14,000 to filling that 40,000 plus stadium. It took the club to a new level and the expectation changed massively.
I grew up with a comfy Roker Park, then suddenly you've got these big stands bearing down on you. That's where Reidy done well, he brought in experienced players who could handle it.
The Stadium of Light.
By the time I'd left Sunderland after an away match Reidy had even stopped the beers on the coach home, so he was seeing things had to change.
All coaches and managers made big impacts on my career. With Peter Reid some fans thought I might not like him as I was getting a few runs in the team, but not as much as I had before he came. The truth is Reidy opened my eyes.
Back in the '70s footballers wouldn't think twice about sinking three or four pints after the game, then go into town with the fans and have another three or four. We were brought into that culture and under previous managers football was different, it wasn't as athletic as it became.
My first two years went so well I probably took my eyes off the ball in terms of fitness, but gradually that all changed and Reidy got me to knuckle down. He could see talent and got the best out of me.
He got us pressing the ball, a high tempo game. People talk about high press now, we were doing it back in the '90s, it's just different terminology.
Truth was, at first I struggled with that so Reidy put me with a fitness coach from the North East called Steve Black, he had a great reputation, and had worked with the Lyons rugby team. I was with him a month and he changed my total outlook on fitness, it was hard work but worth it.
Maybe other managers would have let me drift whereas Reidy got more out of me. There was a big change in my mentality towards that side of the game. I was probably fitter nearer the end of my career than when I was younger.
When he first came to the club Reidy would join in training. In one of the sessions Martin Scott, Reidy's first choice left back, gave him a shoulder nudge and he went flying into a puddle. Scotty started laughing, the gaffer said nothing. Next time Scotty got the ball it was a two footer down the shins from the gaffer.
Vinny Jones at Wimbledon said our captain Kevin Ball was the hardest player he played against – but every day I had to train with Bally and he was an animal. He had a very strong will to win and he epitomised everything Reidy instilled in us at the club.
The squad at the time was excellent, a tight camaraderie fostered by Reidy and Bobby Saxton. Now and then he would get the lads together and have a bit of a blow out, maybe take us away for weekends. A great bunch of lads with big Niall Quinn in there, yeah great times.
From the lows of battling through injuries to the highs of scoring, how today's footballers cope with pressure, plus what Martin is doing in football now. Read part two on the next post.
Interview by Gary Alikivi August 2021
CRISTIANO RONALDO, SUNDERLAND FOOTBALL CLUB
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I-TAWEH is a modern-day manifestation of Rastafari music that evolved from Count Ossie's music encampment in Rockfort, Jamaica. It was here that the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari (MRR) was born. I-TAWEH performed for many years as vocalist and musician for the MRR before establishing his solo career. His upcoming album entitled "RELOAD" is a solid work reflecting the spiritual and deep musical convictions of Rastafari music. It is slated for release on I-taweh's Tap Nat Muzik label in June, and will be distributed globally by Zojak Worldwide and France based Dibyz Music.
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Simpler model gets to the point with proteins
– June 6, 2018Posted in: News Releases
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Rice University scientists introduce technique to study dynamic processes with greater accuracy
HOUSTON – (June 6, 2018) – Computational models have come a long way in their ability to simulate the most basic biological processes, such as how proteins fold. A new technique created by Rice University researchers should enable scientists to model larger molecules with greater accuracy than ever.
The Rice lab of computational chemist Cecilia Clementi has developed a molecular modeling framework that can more accurately reproduce experimental results with simple coarse-grained models used to simulate protein dynamics.
Cecilia Clementi (Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
The framework, Observable-driven Design of Effective Molecular Models (ODEM), incorporates available experimental data in the definition of a coarse-grained simulation model. For a given coarse-grained model, repeating the simulation with incremental changes in the model parameters improves the algorithm's ability to predict, for instance, how a protein will find its functional form.
The work led by Clementi and Rice graduate student and lead author Justin Chen appears in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation.
"Understanding proteins, especially their dynamics, is essential to understanding life," Clementi said. "There are two complementary ways to do this: either through simulation or experimentation. In an experiment, you measure something that's real, but you're very limited in the quantities you can measure directly. It's like putting together a puzzle with only a very few pieces."
She said simulations allow researchers to look at every aspect of protein dynamics, but models that incorporate the properties of every atom can take supercomputers months or years to compute, even if the proteins themselves fold in seconds in vivo. For faster results, scientists often use coarse-grained models, simplified simulations in which a few effective "beads" represent groups of atoms in a protein.
Förster resonance energy transfer can measure the distance between two probes during the dynamic movement of a protein. The Observable-driven Design of Effective Molecular Models method developed by scientists at Rice University can adjust a protein model to improve the agreement between experimental data and simulated results. (Credit: Illustration by Clementi Research Group/Rice University)
"In very simple models you have to make strong approximations, and as a consequence, the results may differ from reality," Clementi said. "We combine these two approaches and use the power of simulation in a way that reproduces the experiments. That way, we get the best of both worlds."
Acquiring initial data is not an issue, Chen said. "There is a wealth of experimental data about proteins already, so it's not hard to find," he said. "It's just a matter of finding a way to model that data in a simulation."
Clementi said the data can come from any one or a combination of sources like Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), mutagenesis or nuclear magnetic resonance. The computational framework takes advantage of Markov models to combine multiple short protein simulations to obtain the equilibrium distribution of protein configurations that is used in ODEM. "Markov models let us combine and explore different parts of the configurational space of a protein," she said. "It's a clever way to divide and conquer."
The key, according to the researchers, is to include only as much physical detail as necessary to model the process accurately.
"There are models that are very accurate, but they are computationally too expensive," Clementi said. "There's too much information in those models, so you don't know what are the most important physical ingredients.
"In our simplified models, we include only the physical factors we think are important," she said. "If by using ODEM the simulations improve their agreement with experiments, it means that the hypothesis was correct. If they do not, then we know there are ingredients missing."
Rice Professor Cecilia Clementi and graduate student Justin Chen. (Credit: Rice University)
The researchers found their technique can reveal unanticipated molecular properties. In the process of testing their algorithm, the researchers discovered a new detail about the folding mechanism of FiP35, a common WW domain protein that is a piece of larger signaling and structural proteins. FiP35, with only 35 amino acids, is well-understood and often used in folding studies.
The ODEM model of FiP35, based on experimental data from simulated FRET results, revealed several regions where localized frustration forced changes in the folding process. Their analysis showed the interactions are important to the process and likely evolutionarily conserved, but they said the data leading to that conclusion would never have appeared if the simulated FRET data were not used in the coarse-grained model.
"Now we're scaling it up to larger systems, like 400-residue proteins, about 10 times larger than our test protein," Chen said. "You cannot do full-atom simulations of these large motions and long time scales, but if you do 10 or 11 iterations of a coarse-grained model with ODEM, they take only a few hours. That's a huge reduction of the time it would take a person to see reasonable results."
Co-authors of the paper are former Rice undergraduate Jiming Chen (now at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign pursuing a Ph.D. in chemical engineering) and Giovanni Pinamonti, a postdoctoral researcher at the Free University of Berlin. Clementi is a professor of chemistry and of chemical and biomolecular engineering, Rice's Wiess Career Development Chair in the Department of Chemistry, a senior scientist at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice, the Einstein Visiting Fellow at the Free University in Berlin and co-director of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported Molecular Sciences Software Institute.
The NSF, the Welch Foundation and the Einstein Foundation Berlin supported the research. Computational resources were supplied by Rice's NSF-supported DAVinCI supercomputer administered by Rice's Center for Research Computing and procured in partnership with Rice's Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology, and by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Free University.
Read the abstract at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00187.
The computational framework is freely available at https://github.com/ClementiGroup/pyODEM.
This news release can be found online at news.rice.edu.
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The last of humanity are fleeing across space, pursued by the implacable inhuman adversary that destroyed their civilisation. They're outnumbered and outgunned. Supplies are running low. The actions of a brave few could be all that stands between humanity and extinction.
Welcome to the Last Fleet.
Last Fleet is a PBTA roleplaying game where you play brave pilots, officers, engineers, politicians and journalists struggling to hold the human race — and themselves — together under unbelievable pressure. The game focuses on action, intrigue and drama in this high-stakes situation. You'll fight space battles, search for enemy infiltrators, tackle supply shortages and navigate faction politics. You'll strive against your own self-doubt and sometimes crack under the stress.
The game provides support to create your own evocative setting, or you can play out of the box as the survivors of the Interplanetary Commonwealth. This fractious alliance of planets was wiped out by the Corax — an extradimensional fungus network that dwells in the tenebrium, the same medium that FTL ships travel through. The Corax attack through spatial rifts, launching spore ships to harry the fleet. Victims are paralysed and have their genetic and neural patterns harvested: everything you know, the Corax now know. And worse, your former friends may see you again, reincarnated as a Corax avatar.
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First Look at….King Kong, The Vaults
First pictures of the world premiere production of Daniel Clarkson's new version of King Kong have been released as the show opens for previews…
(c) Geraint Lewis.
Follow our intrepid cast as they journey to uncharted waters in search of the fabled beast – a gorilla so enormous he instils fear in all who set eyes on him. As hunter becomes the hunted, our story takes us to the iconic skyline of New York City and one burning question must be answered: just how many bananas should we order in?
Since the original 1933 film, King Kong has fascinated and challenged film makers alike, now from Daniel Clarkson (co-creator of worldwide hit Potted Potter) comes a new comic theatrical staging of the story, offering a different interpretation of the classic story.
(c)Geraint Lewis.
Featuring a cast of five and no visual effects, this new theatrical version of the story allows audiences to get up close and personal with Kong.
The cast for the production includes: Benjamin Chamberlain (It's a Wonderful Life, UK tour), Rob Crouch (nominated for the 'Best Solo Performance' WhatsOnStage Award for Oliver Reed: Wild Thing, St James Theatre), Sam Donnelly (nominated Most Promising Newcomer for his lead role in the film The Return, which was also nominated Best British Feature at Raindance Film Festival), Alix Dunmore (Pamela/Annabella/Margaret, The 39 Steps, West End, 2014/15; The Fitzrovia Radio Hour's Christmas Carol), Brendan Murphy(Sir Toby Belch, Twelfth Night, Orange Tree; Potted Potter, Toronto & Chicago).
Meanwhile, the creative team for the production includes: direction by Owen Lewis, set design by Simon Scullion, costume and prop design by Sophia Simensky, lighting design by Tim Mascall and sound design by Sam Clarkson.
King Kong is now playing at The Vaults. For more information and to book tickets visit: https://www.thevaults.london/king-kong.
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Why did my grandfather buy a farm? He had an urgent valid reason to buy immediately. When the Great War (World War 1) started in Europe in August, 1914, my father was almost 16. My grandfather was worried that the United States would get involved and institute the draft. My grandfather decided to buy a farm. Farms in Brooklyn were expensive because developers were purchasing farms to use the land for apartment buildings. My grandfather decided to look elsewhere.
He anticipated the exemptions of farmers and oldest sons. The Selective Service Act of May 1917 established local draft boards. They were responsible for, among other things, registering men while taking into consideration their needs in the areas of agriculture as well as special family situations.
Every man between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one was required to register. The second draft was in June 1918. This included everyone who attained the age of twenty-one after June 1917. My grandfather purchased a farm in rural Sullivan County in an old town that was newly populated by Russian Jewish immigrants. He closed on a property in August of 1918. The draft registration was held in September of 1918, and included all men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five (my father was one of the group who registered his occupation as farmer). Nov 11, 1918 was the end of the war. My father never served in the army.
My grandmother was ecstatic to have a farm of her own. She had lived in Brooklyn for eight years and had always wanted to go back to the land, since she had grown up on a farm in Europe. She would now have six cows and a horse, and 110 acres of farmland, half of which was cleared for planting, for grazing and for hayfields.
My grandfather was very happy with the acquisition because he had been an independent itinerant carpenter in Europe. When he had arrived in the United States he worked as a carpenter for someone and although he was very good at his profession and was made a foreman, he was still working for someone else. This move gave him an opportunity to be independent and to make his own decisions.
The one who was the big loser in this move was my aunt Mary. She was fourteen and had lived in Brooklyn for eight years, went to a large school, had many friends, and had an urban outlook. Here on the farm she was very much isolated. She was now living in a place that had no telephone, where they had to generate their own electricity, and were more than two miles from town, with no means of transportation other than horse and buggy. The closest high school was in Woodridge, more than four miles away.
In the long run, one of the biggest losers may have been my grandfather. He was a gregarious individual who loved to be with other people. In the summer, when the hotel had guests, he spent almost all his time schmoozing with the guests. In the fall and winter he was very much isolated, except when he went to town. His only source of news was the Jewish newspaper, which came by mail. His only reading material in the house was that newspaper. He would spend as much time as he could in town. Once in town he would go from store to store bantering with the merchants. My grandfather told me an interesting story about his neighbors Sam and Julia. Julia was an extrovert who loved to go to town and speak with the women there at a time before they owned a car. One day Sam and Julia had gone to town together. He wanted to go home in their horse and buggy, and she wanted to continue talking with a woman friend of hers. Finally Sam threatened that if she didn't stop within five minutes, he would take his pants off right in the middle of town. She ignored him and continued to talk and at the end of five minutes he stood up in the buggy, unbuttoned his pants right there in the middle of town, and let his pants down. Everybody stopped to look and saw that when he pulled his pants down, he was wearing another pair of pants underneath.
During the summer months when there were guests, I very seldom spoke Yiddish. During the fall and winter when I was with my grandparents I spoke English with my grandfather, Yiddish with my grandmother, and Yiddish when they were both together. I was not aware that my knowing how to communicate in Yiddish would come in handy in life. For example, after I was married I had a summer job delivering sodas for a local bottler. I delivered to small hotels, bungalow colonies, and summer camps. On one occasion I was delivering sodas to a Yeshiva summer camp. I was speaking in Yiddish to the rabbi who ran the camp, and a little boy with a shaved head and long payas was watching us and listening to our conversation. When the rabbi left and I was going out to the truck, the little boy looked at me, and with an inquisitive look asked "Du bist a yid?" (Are you Jewish?) I answered, "Yes."
Many guests came to the country for fresh air, fresh food, and cooler temperatures than were to be had in the city. If you've ever eaten fresh food on a farm, you would understand what that meant to them. For example, eggs that had been picked that very morning and eaten at breakfast tasted much different from eggs that people could buy in the stores of New York City, which had been picked as much as a week or two earlier. Milk that was fresh from a cow tasted different from milk that had been pasteurized. Before 1938, when the State banned non-pasteurized milk from being served in hotels, there was a group of guests that showed up every day at milking time to drink warm milk fresh from the cow. In Greek mythology, nectar was the drink of the gods. To these guests nectar was warm milk fresh from the cow.
When I was about ten or eleven years old, I used to take the other children who were my age up to the berry fields to pick blueberries for the guests' dinner. One morning when we were going to pick berries we walked past the cornfield, and the corn was beautiful. All of the kernels were even and the corn was ripe for picking. And as everybody knows, corn picked in the morning and eaten the same day is better than any corn you can get in the supermarket. So I decided that the other boys and I would pick the corn and the guests could have it for dinner. We went back to the barn and brought a couple of bushels up to the field, and picked seventy-five ears of corn. I was so proud of myself when we walked into the kitchen; I showed my mother what we had done. That was when she told me that I had gone to the wrong cornfield. The ears we had picked were used for chicken feed. There was a different cornfield for corn that was grown for people.
My grandfather had several areas for cultivation on the sides of the hayfields. He grew corn and potatoes in those fields. Every several years he would plant alfalfa on each of the fields.
Everyone asked if you had a farm, did you ever have trouble with wild animals. And the answer is yes. We never had to bring any animal to the veterinarian except once. The two dogs decided to chase a porcupine. They ended up getting quills in their noses. My father drove them to the veterinarian and had the quills taken out. They never again chased any more porcupines. I guess they got the point.
Our dishwasher was also our handyman. He would come up in May and stay until we would close the hotel in October. One September he had a stand-off with a skunk. The result was, the skunk won. My grandmother wouldn't let him in the house for a month. My grandfather had the handyman wash himself with tomato juice numerous times during that month, until the smell was gone.
There was a raccoon that was a problem for a while. We didn't allow the chickens to roam, but we did have the door open so they could walk around within a fenced area. There was a raccoon who once in a while would crawl under the fence, grab a chicken, pull it out, kill it and eat it. The chicken house was about seventy-five yards from our house. My grandfather had bought me a twenty-two caliber rifle for my birthday, and I tried to shoot the raccoon but no matter how many times I shot, I never hit him. We finally had to dig a trench, lower the fence to about six inches under the ground, and slant the buried part of the fence outward. That way, when the raccoon would dig, he would just run right into fence, and wouldn't be able to get under.
By now, you may be asking, "What did we do with all that milk and all those eggs when there weren't any guests?" My grandfather was a member of a farm co-operative. Milk was collected every day and eggs once or twice week. We had 1,000 leghorn chickens, each laying about 250 eggs a year. That's a quarter of a million eggs and everyone had to be candled to weed out the ones that had blood spots. The candler was a metal container with a light bulb inside.	There was a hole on the side of the container to allow one beam of light to escape. Each egg had to be held up to the light. The eggshell is similar to an opaque piece of glass so a person could see a clear yolk or a spot. The room had to be totally dark. After the egg was checked it was placed in an egg crate that held thirty dozen eggs. It was mindless work so I did it on the night that I listened to three radio shows, Fibber Magee and Molly, Jack Benny, and Fred Allen. I did the work once or twice a week. From the age of 12, that was my responsibility.
The hotel helped support the farm, and the farm helped support the hotel. For one thing, the farm saved the hotel the cost of buying food. For example, on our farm we had two kinds of chickens. One kind was leghorns, that laid eggs, and the other kind was Plymouth Rock, which were for eating. We never needed to buy chickens or eggs from a store.


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Сражение у бухты Кёге — морское сражение, произошедшее 1—2 июля 1677 года во время датско-шведской войны 1675—1679 годов. Его итогом стала победа датчан, которая считается одним из наиболее значительных военно-морских успехов датского флота.

Прелюдия к сражению
После поражения в Эландском сражении, и у острова Мён, а также потери контроля над Балтийским морем, Швеция решила вернуть себе утраченные позиции.

9 июня 1677 года шведский флот под командованием адмирала Хенрика Горна вышел из Даларё, расположенного около Стокгольма. 13 июня у острова Эланд к нему присоединился Kalmar и остатки эскадры Шёблада, Andromeda и Gustavus. Датский флот под командованием адмирала Нильса Юэля покинул Копенгаген 24 июня 1677 года. ожидая подхода союзной голландской эскадры адмирала Корнелиуса Тромпа, с которой они так и не соединились до конца сражения. Штиль вынудил датчан бросить якорь у мыса Стевнс. На рассвете 30 июня флоты противников обнаружили друг друга.

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Около 8 часов утра 30 июня Горн поднял якоря и при зюйд-зюйд-весте отплыл в направлении датского флота, предварительно выслав вперед два судна в надежде выманить датчан на открытую воду, Юэль в свою очередь отдал приказ двум своим судам атаковать их. Оба флота на протяжении дня следовали параллельными курсами, чуть впереди двигался выстроенный в линию шведский флот, а за ним линия датчан. С наступлением темноты Юэль безуспешно пытался занять наиболее выгодную позицию в отношении ветра.

На рассвете 1 июля, когда изменившийся ветер поставил датские корабли на ветер, несмотря на то что несколько из его судов отстали, Юэль начал сближение со шведским флотом имея разделение на три отряда: авангард, центр и арьергард. Двигаясь наперерез флоту шведов, Юэль заставлял шведского адмирала или повернуть ближе к береговым мелям или принять бой в виде свалки. Адмирал Горн решил все же отвернуть, но неудачно и около 5 часов утра датский флот атаковал его. Горн пытался поджечь флот противника, выслав вперед брандеры, однако последние не смогли достигнуть цели и были отбуксированы датчанами. По мере того как противники приближались к мысу Стевнс, Юэль отвернул немного мористее, в надежде на то, что шведы останутся с наветренной стороны и тем самым выскочат на мель. Шведы отреагировали именно так, как предполагал Юэль, в результате линейный корабль шведов Drake налетел на мель. Оставив несколько кораблей в помощь Drake, Горн повернул от берега и пройдя за кормой датчан, попытался вывести основные силы флота из под огня в открытое море. Юэль отдал приказ четырём своим кораблям атаковать севший на мель корабль и оставленный ему в помощь отряд, в чём в результате датчане преуспели захватив четыре корабля из семи. Сменившийся на северо-западный ветер позволил Юэлю занять наветренную сторону, что он использовал для того чтобы попытаться отрезать арьергард от основных сил шведского флота и сконцентрировать весь огонь на нём. В результате артиллерийской дуэли, длившейся до полудня, датчане сумели захватить Enighed. Вскоре бой превратился в серию дуэлей между отдельными группами кораблей, в ходе которого, Юэль, вынужден был перенести флаг с «Христианус квинтус» на «Фредерикус терциус», а после его повреждения на «Шарлотту-Амалию». После подхода авангарда датчан под командованием адмирала Марвара Родстена, перевес сил перешел к датчанам, шведы потеряли 7 линейных кораблей и их строй рассыпался, хотя основным силам шведов удалось прорваться мористее в направлении Борнхольма. Ночью и на следующий день были захвачены или уничтожены ещё несколько шведских кораблей, частично при помощи подошедшей союзной голландской эскадры.

В результате сражения шведы потеряли восемь крупных кораблей и несколько кораблей меньших размеров, а также более 3000 человек убитыми, ранеными и попавшими в плен. Датский флот не имел потерь в корабельном составе, хотя несколько кораблей были сильно повреждены (за время дневной фазы сражения Юэль два раза переносил свой флаг на другой корабль из-за больших повреждений своего флагмана). Потери в экипажах кораблей составили примерно 100 человек убитыми и около 300 ранеными.

Участвовавшие корабли

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 Naval Wars in the Baltic 1553—1850 (1910) — R. C. Anderson

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Сражения Голландской войны
Морские сражения XVII века
Июль 1677 года
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Charles Edward Maust
August 1, 1931 ~ November 23, 2022 (age 91) 91 Years Old
Read more about the life story of Charles and share your memory.
Charles E. Maust, 91, of Berlin began life on Aug. 1, 1931 in Brothersvalley Twp. and ended it here in his earthly body on November 23, 2022. They say this life is the dash between the beginning and end. Charles' (Charlie or Bud) life started as the 10th and last child born to Charles L and Rose M. Maust. He grew up on the family farm, located on Beulah Road, Berlin. He, like most of his older brothers, was drafted into the military where he served in the Army during the Korean War. After the war, he met his wife, Colleen (Rhodes) Maust during a 1954 Somerset bowling league season. They married May 4, 1956, and resided on Salco Rd., Berlin where they started their family of 5 children. Shortly afterwards, Charles took over the dairy farm from his parents, moved his family to Beulah Rd. and named his farm Sugar Bottom Farm. Upon retiring from dairy farming, Bud became a rural postal carrier at the Berlin Post Office. Charles was a member of the Berlin Men's Octet; played the fife in the Berlin Fife and Drum Corp and was Chaplain for the Berlin Veterans Home where he officiated at over 200 military funerals. He was a member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, a past member of the Berlin I.O.O.F. Lodge and an Honorary State FFA Member. His favorite pastime was sitting on his front porch at the farm, waving at every person who passed by. Later, when he and Colleen moved to town, he continued that tradition of waving at everyone who passed by. On warm sunny days, you could often find him sitting in his open garage with Colleen, reading his magazines, or doing his word search or crossword puzzles. He enjoyed hunting and going to farm auctions with his brothers and sons. Charles bragged about never missing his opportunity to vote. He loved the family reunions, Christmas gatherings at his sister Eleanor's home; talking on the phone with his sister Emily, the old time shows on TV and keeping up with the weather, and the news. Some of his greatest friendships were with his "brothers" from the Legion and VFW. He never wanted to miss a meeting of the board and often would ride along with his friend Ed Zorn. October 15, 2022, was a difficult time for Charlie as Colleen, his wife, preceded him in death. He often would comment he didn't plan for it to be this way. He is preceded in death by parents, his wife of 66 years, and 8 brothers and sisters. He is survived by children: Neil A. (Dorothy) Maust, Lorrie A. (Scott) Shaw, Lynn A. Maust, Charles F. (Jackie) Maust and John T. Maust; 7 grandchildren: Adam (Heather) and Matt Maust, Jason (Ginger), Carrie (Craig) and Courtney Custer, and Paula and Amanda Maust; and 4 great grandchildren; one remaining sibling, Emily Fritz, 102, of Berlin; sisters-in-law, Sara Maust, Greta (John) Bocsy; brother-in-law Charles E. Rhodes; friend Marcia Maust; and special friend Angie Coddington. Family will receive friends from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, at Deaner Funeral Home, Berlin. Funeral service to be held at 11 a.m. Monday, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Berlin, with visitation starting at 10 a.m. Rev. Robert Keplinger officiating. Military services by the Berlin Veterans Home will be at the church immediately following the funeral. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to American Legion Post 445, 419 Meadow St, Berlin, PA 15530 or Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 525 Main St, Berlin, PA, 15530. DeanerFuneralsAndCremations.com
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This beautiful Pisces necklace has been lovingly handcrafted in Bombay, India. The shades of the beads have been picked after studying the favorable colors of each Zodiac sign.
Tiny seeds beads are woven into the wire to attach the glass crystals and Swarovski pearls to the pendant.
Size: The length of the necklace is 6 inches (12 inch circumference) with an additional 4.25 inches of chain to adjust the length. The pendant is 3.1 inches wide and 1.9 inches in height.


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OHS is celebrating its first Cultural Week Today – Friday, March 29th. We will be celebrating different cultures every day during lunchtime in the Quad with activities and treats. They are: Today, Black American Culture with double-dutch jump roping and music, Tuesday, Middle Eastern with egg painting for Persian New Year, on Wednesday we will be celebrating Filipino and Asian Cultures with snacks, music and more, Thursday will be Latino Cultures with folklorico dancing, mariachi performing and more and Friday a live-performance with Indigenous dancers.
Do you like the outdoors? Making things? Getting your hands dirty? Eating healthy food? If so, the Garden Club is for you! Join us TODAY after school in k138 for a fruit and vegetable making journey and create your own food from one tiny stem.


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Q: AngularJS Template URL Loads Before Authorization Resolves I am trying to determine if there is a way to prevent the load of a $routeProvider templateUrl before the promises of functions defined in resolve are resolved. (Note: pages are not displaying, but they are loading).
Here's an example of a route definition:
$routeProvider.when(path: "/myRoute",
    templateUrl: "myUrl.tmpl.html",
    resolve: {
        authorize: function(AuthorizationService) {
            return AuthorizationService.authorizeRoute();
        }
    }
);

If I look in the dev tools, the application LOADS the templateURL, but doesn't display it. I would prefer that a user not be able to view the template in Developer tools, but the template load seems to be decoupled from the function call in resolve.
I would like to do one of two things:

*

*Prevent the load of the template until the authorization function resolves.

*Define a fake URL ('blank.html') in templateUrl, then dynamically load the "real" url if authorization is successful.

Can anyone help?
Edit: This is NOT a duplicate of my previous question. I am trying prevent the background load (not display) of the templateUrl before resolution, which seems to happen regardless of the results of authorization call. If this is not possible, I want to load a fake page on authorization fail.

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Diese Mandolinenschule in 3 Bänden wurde Anfangs des 20. Jahrhunderts in den USA von William C. Stahl veröffentlicht.
When I returned to England I found some old Mandolin Method books in a charity shop. I have looked at all your web pages and also the excellent timeline but cannot find the books that I have described below.
The title: Wm C. Stahl's NEW Mandolin Method - 3 parts. They say on the cover Revised edition and Latest Revised edition but the dates inside are copyrighted MCMIII (1903) and MCMXII (1912) respectively and part 3 is MCMVI (1906).
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A righteous decision. She's certainly not turned out to be the leader everyone hoped she would.
I try to think of excuses for her. She sacrificed so much for so long and cultivated the image of the moral leader for her country. I don't believe that was a sham. Equally we know that her power within the country is limited with the Army wielding the real power.
But to stand by silently knowing full well about the slaughter, the rapes, the throwing of little children into fires, the destruction of hundreds of villages and the forcing of not many less than 1 million souls into desperate refugee camps in another country is more than a disgrace. It is the equivalent of her actually approving and taking part. I believe that is close to being a war criminal. It saddens me so much to say that. In my book she has descended into a gutter of immorality.
Oh I think we're all aware she's not in any way "in control". Pretty sure the authorities there would love to have simply shot her many years ago but they know the international condemnation that would bring and the sanctions that would come with it. She is probably the one person in the country who could speak out against these atrocities and live to tell the tale.
Captain Kirk wrote: She is probably the one person in the country who could speak out against these atrocities and live to tell the tale.
Surely the problem is that she has not said even one word in the year that this genocide has taken place. I realise she must face many restrictions but she was perfectly happy to speak out against the generals when under house arrest. I used to hold her in high esteem. Now I think she is near to a disgrace. Tough words I know. But it's clear she is only prepared to look after the Buddhist Burmese. The Rohingya mean nothing to her.
Have I been misconstrued? That's what I was saying.
Not quite, with respect. You suggested she is the one person who could speak out. My point is that she has not spoken out - not one word, whereas she was perfectly prepared to do so during her earlier long periods of house arrest. Also the words I used in my post to describe here were pretty damning.
But we are both on the same page.
fountainhall wrote: But we are both on the same page.
Unfortunately it seems like most of the rest of the world isn't. Has the world learned nothing from The Holocaust? Is the world going to let it happen again?
I don't know what makes anyone think revocation of honors or protests condemning Myanmar will change anything. Why doesn't the UN send in a coalition to put a stop to it and rescue these people? I don't even see Islamic countries lodging protests.
If the world doesn't stop this from happening, these people are doomed. Then we can all wonder who the next ethnic group to be persecuted will be.
"I don't want to forget. I don't want anyone to forget ever. Otherwise in another country, to other people, it might happen again."
I totally agree. And I condemn in the strongest possible terms what has happened to the Rohingya.
But what can the UN or the world do to stop it? After all, they did nothing to stop the evacuation of the Palestinians from their lands. They have done nothing to stop the exodus of 6 million plus refugees from Syria. They have done little to stop the massive emigration crisis from Africa to Europe. And they are now doing nothing to stop the mass emigration of a million or so Venezuelans to other neighbouring countries.
Germany showed immense moral leadership by taking in about 1 million Syrian refugees and permitting them to settle there. But at what political cost to Chancellor Merkel and her party whose term in power may well not last the next election? Nationalism is on the rise in several European countries, especially Hungary where it is largely on the back of the refugee issue - to the point where Hungary is in danger of being thrown out of the EU. Italy has finally stopped taking in boatloads of African refugees. The USA has all but closed the door and its moral leadership in this regard is disgraceful.
Meanwhile, nearly 1 million Rohingya live in utter squalor in camps in the the relatively poor country of Bangladesh. Jordan is not much more economically advanced but it has accepted 1.4 million Syrian refugees of which around 650,000 live in camps. Venezuelans and those from central Africa are desperate to get into any country that will take them.
Elsewhere the Wahabi religious dictatorship in Saudia Arabia fights its proxy war with Shi'a led Iran in Yemen, a country slowly being destroyed. And the world talks, mutters but just sits by and watches while gladly selling arms to whomever will buy them.
It's right that we should ask questions. It's right we should be outraged. It's wrong that we consider it someone else's problem. But as to what we can do about it, no-one seems to have any solution that will be effective short of nuclear war somewhere on the planet.


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RUSH: Ray in Livermore, California. Glad you waited. You're up next. Hello.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. Fundamentally erasing the last president's fingerprints dittos to you. Rush, the president has assembled a fantastic team, much like your crew there at EIB, including Mike Pompeo. I watched the full three hours yesterday through a Fox feed on the internet, and, Rush, it was fantastic. This guy, he's like Norm from Cheers.
He not only looks like Norm, he speaks in this calm, cool, collected kind of everyday man voice, and just one by one slapped down these neosocialists, whatever they are, Democrat socialists who are trying to box him in. They were trying to outsmart him and they were trying to have a game of wits with somebody and they forgot to bring their own.
RUSH: Yeah. They weren't even on the same playing field. And of course, Pompeo is from Kansas. They think already that makes them smarter than he is. They're from New Jersey, they're from New York, this is Bob Menendez, who barely didn't go away to jail cavorting around with the donors, babes in foreign countries and so forth.
And he's sitting there with his air of superiority, they all had it, they think Pompeo is like an Archie Bunker type. Like you say, he's an overweight guy walking in there, doesn't speak particularly like you think he should. He just mowed 'em down. We've got the audio coming up. You're right. He mowed them down. They set themselves up to be mowed down!
CALLER: Trump couldn't have picked a better lead blocker than Mike Pompeo. I would put Mike Pompeo in every single secretary's seat in Trump's office, in his cabinet. The guy is just fantastic and it was a pleasure watching it. I would say to the Rush listeners, go to YouTube — well, I guess unfortunately that's the only place you can go — and pull up the Fox feed and watch the full three hours if you can. It's better than anything on network TV, I'll tell you that.
RUSH: Well, since you have recommended it so highly, we have a significant number of sound bites, examples from that which you devoted three hours to yesterday watching. And it is choice. And Pompeo, for example, he told these people that the United States is not gonna recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea. And they're all thinking they're gonna entrap Pompeo.
I'm not kidding. He's the secretary of state. They thought they were gonna entrap him into somehow admitting that Trump and Putin had colluded. I mean, this is how arrogant they are. And I don't know whether it's dumb, stupid, genuinely stupid, but after all this time to still act like that there is some secret smoking gun bit of evidence that Trump and Putin did collude to steal the election of Hillary, they still literally believe this, and that somebody knows it, and in this case it was Pompeo, and they were somehow gonna trick him into admitting it.
And instead he comes up and basically says Putin can go to hell. We are not gonna recognize Putin's annexation of Crimea. They didn't know what to do! They really think that this guy and Trump are in bed with Putin! Now, first off we have a montage. When you listen to this, I want you to imagine what it would be like if every elected Republican and every member of the Trump administration defended the president the way Pompeo does here.
POMPEO: This is President Trump's administration. Make no mistake who's fully in charge of this and who is directing each of these activities. There's a narrative that has developed that somehow President Trump is weak on Russia. I'm sorry, the president has a prerogative to choose who's in meetings or not. What matters is what President Trump has directed us to do. I don't need secondhand understandings of what President Trump is instructing his administration to do. You somehow disconnect the administration's activities from the president's actions. Every sanction that was put in place was signed off by the President of the United States. The president's been unambiguously clear. The president called the ball over 200 times to sanction Russian entities. That's pretty strong. Oh fear not, Senator. Fear not. This president runs this government.
RUSH: You see in this montage what we're able to illustrate here is that these people — these are senators — some cases Democrats or Republicans, too, like Bob Corker, they really think that Trump is such an idiot that he's not doing anything. That he goes out and he tweets, and he does the rallies and he has the public things at the White House, but it's really the people behind the scenes, really the smart people, like Kelly, the chief of staff, and like Pompeo here and Wilbur Ross, they're really running this country. It's not Trump, he doesn't know enough, Trump doesn't care enough, Trump isn't smart enough. In fact, Trump, if we let him get too close to the levers of power it could actually be dangerous 'cause he's so stupid, he doesn't know who our enemies are. Trump thinks that Americans are the bad guys and our enemies are the good guys.
And this is what they think, and this is the position they took in their questioning yesterday of Pompeo. And he just swatted back at this stuff. He was aghast hearing this stuff. (imitating Pompeo) "I assure you President Trump is running this administration. The president called the ball over 200 times, sanction Russian enemies, 200 different sanctions. The president did it. Not me, not the chief of staff, he did it."
So now let's go to questioning from Bob Menendez, disgraced Democrat senator from New Jersey. His questioning here is about the president's meeting with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. And Pompeo's being asked what really happened in there? So far only the translators know. But we know Trump is an idiot, so who was really in there protecting the United States? What really happened in there? You tell us, Pompeo. What did these world leaders do? How did they take us to the cleaners 'cause Trump doesn't know what he's doing. That was the umbrella under which the questioning took place. So here is Menendez asking Pompeo about Trump's private meeting with Putin.
MENENDEZ: I'd like to ask you some questions. Has the president told you what he and President Putin discussed in their two-hour closed-door meeting in Helsinki?
POMPEO: Presidents have a prerogative to choose who's in meetings or not. I'm confident you've had private, one-on-one meetings in your life as well.
MENENDEZ: Did he tell you what — whether or not what happened in those two hours?
POMPEO: Yeah, Senator. I had a number of conversations with President Trump about what transpired in the meeting.
MENENDEZ: Did he tell the — Putin that I'll release or ultimately relax sanctions?
POMPEO: Senator, what you need to conduct your role, your appropriate role, I will provide you today — that is United States policy with respect to the issues you request. You asked me about U.S. policy with respect to sanctions. And I can confirm to you that no commitment has been made to change those policies in any way.
RUSH: Okay, so here's this stupid question. So these guys think Trump is giving away the store. They are the ones that give away the store! So Menendez says, "Did he tell Putin that that he'll release or relax sanctions?" They are hell-bent. They believe that Putin runs Trump as a secret agent. They have got themselves believing that Trump is an embedded spy doing the work of Russia as president of the United States.
So Menendez (imitating Menendez), "You can tell us, you can tell us. Did he tell Putin that he was gonna relax these sanctions? Is that what he told you?" And you can hear Pompeo (imitating Pompeo), "Senator, what you need to conduct your role, your appropriate role, I'll provide you today. But I'm not gonna get into this kind of thing. You have no right to know this. This is not what you need to do your role here. I know what was said in there and you've got nothing to worry about, senator, but I'm not gonna deal with you this way."
Imagine if it all happened this way. Here is Pompeo and Menendez continuing. Menendez then says (imitating Menendez), "When he had a chance, when the president had a chance, did he confront Putin and say we do not recognize your annexation of Crimea, we do not recognize your continuing hostilities with eastern Ukraine and there's consequences for that. Did he tell Putin that or is he really a spy?"
He didn't say those words, but this is what this all means. Did he tell Putin what-for? Or was he just in there making fine, fun times with Putin? That's the insulting premise behind the question. Here is Pompeo.
POMPEO: Senator, the president was very clear with Vladimir Putin about U.S. positions there — the U.S. positions that are the Trump administration's positions — and he spoke about them very firmly and clearly when he met with Vladimir Putin.
MENENDEZ: (stammer) A-a-and he told you that?
POMPEO: Senator! I'm telling you what he had a conversation with Vladimir Putin about, and I'm telling you what U.S. policy is today. I understand — Senator, I understand the game that you're playing.
MENENDEZ: No. No. No.
POMPEO: I get it.
MENENDEZ: You know, Mr. Secretary —
POMPEO: I do. I get it. Yeah.
MENENDEZ: With all due respect, I don't appreciate you characterizing my questions. My questions is to get to the truth.
POMPEO: Senator, presidents are permitted to have conversations with their cabinet members that aren't repeated in public.
RUSH: Yeah, see, he called him out on this, and here's Menendez acting all outraged. (impression) "I resent that! I do not appreciate you characterize my questions." Well, he nailed his purpose because Menendez was indeed playing all kinds of games here. (summarized) "Senator, I understand the game you're playing. I know what you're trying to do here. You're trying to make it look like Trump doesn't know what he's doing, that he's a blithering idiot, that we're all at risk and he's acting as a secret agent for Putin — and I'm telling you, I was in the meeting. I know what happened. I answered your question. But the conversations he and I have are none of your business! Don't you call your donor and head back down to the Caribbean or wherever you were, and if you want to get serious, then come back."
RUSH: Up next is Ed Markey. Ed Markey, former member of Congress from Massachusetts. Now he is a senator — and this, remember, is the Senate Foreign Intelligence Committee. Here's Senator Markey asking Pompeo about Trump's private meeting with Putin.
MARKEY: So I am afraid that at this point the United States, the Trump administration is being taken for a ride.
POMPEO: Uh, fear not, Senator. Fear not.
MARKEY: (stumbles) There's no evidence to the contrary.
POMPEO: Fear not. Fear not, Senator.
MARKEY: There's no evidence.
POMPEO: Senator, fear not. May I? May I?
MARKEY: Yeah, please.
POMPEO: I guess you didn't ask a question, so I'll —
MARKEY: No, that's all right. Please.
POMPEO: Yeah. Fear not. This administration has taken enormously constructive actions that have put us in a place that is far better than either of the previous two administrations, one Republican, one Democrat.
RUSH: Pshew! But again the question (impression), "I'm afraid! I'm really afraid. I'm really scared. I'm really worried. I'm really concerned at this point about the United States, Trump administration being taken for a ride by Putin! (stammering) By — by — by — by Kim Jong-un because — because, uh, Mr. Secretary Trump's an idiot, doesn't know what he's doing, doesn't know what he's talking about, can't talk. He's just embarrassing us."
Pompeo says, "Fear not, Senator. Fear not. Fear not." The disconnect here — and then lowering the boom on them. "This administration has taken enormously constructive actions that have put us in a place far better than either of the two previous administrations," and that's happening all over. That's happening economically. That's happening in foreign trade. That's happening here in foreign policy. It's gonna happen on immigration. In the meantime, Scott in Austin. I'm glad you waited. You're next. You want to weigh in here on Pompeo.
CALLER: Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh. It's an honor to speak with you, sir.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: The Pompeo hearing was an absolute step forward for the people and our American policy. If you actually watched that and were able to decipher between the questions on the Democratic side and then the actual normal question from the other side, you actually kind of were deciphering between the actualize and the sketchiness and the jealousy of their party right now, actually just self-imploding. It looks like them self-imploding. Jealousy is a stinky cologne, and if they're not a part of it, I feel that they're just falling apart. It was amazing to see this hearing on all major news networks and the fact that the American people see all that and decide for themselves.
RUSH: Well —
CALLER: It's and sad that… I'm a Millennial and unfortunately the Millennials probably won't see that 'cause they're getting their news from Facebook. It's very sad that other individuals are not being able to pay attention to that.
RUSH: Well, you know, more than you think will see it. But your point is still well taken. Look, you made another good point. The networks televised this because they thought that Pompeo was gonna get buried. They televised this because they thought the Democrats were gonna expose Trump as a know-nothing danger, through Pompeo. See, Pompeo's one of them. He used to be in the House of Representatives. So he's from that class. He's from the political class, and even though he's a Republican — and he's a conservative Republican — you can tell his…
In fact, Scott's observation of the questions that the Democrats asked versus what he said were "the normal questions" the Republicans asked… (chuckles) This is really my point. The Democrat side, the questions were the result, were the product of believing every mindless cliche that you see on CNN or MSNBC. Pick your cliche, that Trump is an idiot, never expected to win, doesn't really know what he's doing, and everybody around him knows how dangerous his ignorance is, and so he's not really running things.
They trot him out there. He looks like it. It's other people are actually doing this, and you can tell us, Mr. Pompeo, you can assure us that that's the case here. And these question, "We're really, really worried that Kim Jong-un and Putin are really running rings around the president. We're really worried he's being taken for a ride." Again, that line of questioning betrays the contempt and the arrogance. This is why they lost the election, and it is why they are nowhere near understanding why they lost, which means they are nowhere near fixing why they lost.
As I say, I've been following this stuff for a whole lot of years, longer than I've been doing this show. And the arrogance of people in the left and the Democrat Party, the contempt that they willingly show — which really masks and hides their own prejudice, bigotry, and, at the same time, real ignorance. These people truly are ignorant. It has always amazed me how and why they have gotten so much support.
It always boils down to they're seen as Santa Claus more than anything else when it comes to social issues. But this is embarrassing to me, the side-by-side nature of the questioning from Republicans and Democrats. How unprepared they are, how unserious and how everything is still to this day oriented around and devoted to exposing the hidden truth that Trump and Putin are a team and are working together to undermine United States. The fact that they believe this — and I know they do.
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