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Stelter: Time Mag Tweet Shows Trump Doesn't Want to Talk to Press Outlets He's 'Not Friendly' With Anymore
By Josh FeldmanNov 25th, 2017, 2:32 pm
CNN's Brian Stelter said today President Trump's tweet about Time Magazine underscores a point about who the Commander-in-Chief chooses to speak to these days.
The President claimed he rejected an interview/photo shoot with Time Magazine because he was told he was only "probably" going to be named Person of the Year, but "probably is no good." Time Magazine subsequently said, "The President is incorrect about how we choose Person of the Year."
Stelter spoke this afternoon with anchor Fredricka Whitfield, who said, "This is ugly and kind of embarrassing, right?"
Of course the President would be on the shortlist, Stelter noted, but the honor is not necessarily a positive thing, given some past honorees. (Trump himself has tweeted a bunch about Time and the honor in the past.)
But then Stelter also made this point about the President's access to the press:
"I think the bigger picture point here, Fredricka, is that President Trump is very reluctant to give interviews to any outlet that he's not friendly with. He speaks to his friends at Fox News, he speaks to some local broadcasters that he believes are pro-Trump, but he actually doesn't give interviews anymore to the Time Magazines or the CNNs or the CBSs or the NBCs of the world. That all started about six months ago, when Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel."
Trump has done a lot of Fox News interviews this year, especially compared to the competition. Take this observation from October alone:
Hannity interview with @POTUS the 16th Fox News has gotten with him. Compared to other networks: ABC 1, CBN 2, CBS 1, CNN 0, NBC 3, TBN 1.
Watch above, via CNN.
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When you have some clothes that need mending the job is not a hard one and you can do it yourself. Some of the things you will need are a nice selection of needles, different coloured threads, scissors for sewing, pins, a pin cushion, and a tape measure. You should have other materials and accessories and if you need to replace something you can do so. Some of these things can include buttons and zippers.
1. Check out the garment you are looking to mend and see how to best match things such as the stitch pattern, thread, and buttons. Make sure you can match these things before starting by already having what you need to mend the garment.
2. You want to get good at threading the needle to do the job faster. An easy way to do this is to make the end of the thread stiffer by moistening the end of it after a clean cut. Then roll it back and forth using your thumb and your forefinger. What this will do is make it much easier to get that pesky thread end into the needle's eye.
3. You have to know the difference between buttons that you will sew through and ones that are shank buttons.
4. You will have to match the stitches to the design of the stitches on the other buttons. You want the garment to look as good as new and it will look a little off if the stitching on the buttons are not matched.
5. You should not sew the buttons on too tight, as you want to have the opportunity to overlap the layer of the garment that has the buttonholes. You also have to make sure that you wrap the thread around the shank in a tight manner. The shank has been made between the button and the fabric to not only keep it strong but tight as well making it look nice and sharp.
6. For every buttonhole stitch through them 3-8 times. The number of times that you stitch through the buttonholes will depend on how big the holes are, but the more you stitch through them to stronger the hold will be on the garment.
7. You should let the garment hang for about a day before you start to cut and hem it. This allows for the fabric to settle making it much easier to cut and hem.
• You want to make the straightest cuts possible and you can do this with some chalk. Draw on the garment with the chalk, which comes off easily with water, and by doing the hem job is much easier.
8. When you iron rather than sliding it back and forth on the ironing board lift it up and down on the garment, as this will not only keep the folds flat, but they will stay in place as well.
9. If there is any excess thread under the knots trim it away for a cleaner look.
A collage picture frame is a fun and unique idea to frame pictures or photos and making one can be fun for you and your kids. One of the nice things about this arts and crafts project is that it is very inexpensive to make and you can often complete the project with things you already have in your home. You can create a unique piece of art making the frame how you want, and as a project, it is a great one for kids. When doing the project with children make sure to have some cleaning products handy, especially since you will be using glue.
Now that you have got the materials you are ready to go! First cut the cardboard to the size you want the frame and then draw around the picture that you want to frame. Once you have the size, you will need a frame and to make the outline simply turn the cardboard over, cut some string making a loop then staple the string to the upper middle part of the cardboard in order to hang on the wall. Make sure the string is attached firmly to avoid it falling off the wall, and it can be a good idea to use stronger tape to reinforce the string.
Turn the cardboard back over and decorate the border and you can use many things such as beads, buttons, magazine clippings, small pebbles, and glitter. The possibilities are endless in decorating the outside of the frame. While glue works well for things such as beads, buttons, and pebbles while for things such as magazine clippings or other paper items, stick glue can be a better option. Before gluing anything on, you can also paint the border of the frame any colour you want. Now simply place the picture in the frame, and it is ready to go up on the wall.
Creating a collage picture frame is not only fun for adults, but a great arts and craft activity for kids as well. Fir younger children one very popular to decorate a frame is to use pasta. Even toddlers can do this, and it can be fun for them as well as the adults. You have to closely supervise the use of the glue while the kids are working, but allowing them to do this on their own helps to improve their motor skills with gluing the pasta on the frame in whatever decoration they want. For older children, the use of mosaic techniques can be a popular choice. No matter how old the child is making a collage picture frame, it is a great craft idea, and they can make great gifts as well as look nice in a kid's room. There are so many different options when making a collage picture frame, as the sky is the limit in what you want it to look like and the things you can use to decorate the frame.


As BUCS action for the calendar year hurtles towards a climatic close, the fixtures for our men and women in pink are continuing to come at pace. With only a few more weeks of action before the Christmas festivities begin, we have packed in a '12 Games of Christmas' special just for you.
Featuring a festive flurry of the best home games taking place in weeks 10 and 11 of matches, keep reading as we preview all of our sporting December-delights.
Winning three of their opening four games, it has been a wonderful start to the season for Men's Ultimate. They have already beat East Anglia, Leicester and Birmingham and they will be hoping to triumph over Coventry in this one. With both sides remaining neck and neck at the top end of the table, a win for either side would prove invaluable.
Having already amassed more points than they did in the whole of the 2017/2018 run, it has been a great season so far for Men's Rugby Union. They face Durham in a live streamed game under the lights at Lady Bay. Make sure you wrap up warm and get down to support NTU.
Week 10 (09/12); American Football Mixed 1 v University of Leicester 1 – 13:00 @ Clifton Campus Pitch 1 The Renegades have started the season superbly, winning all three of their opening matches, most notably a hard fought 28-26 victory over Coventry. They take on Leicester in one of the last BUCS games to take place before the Christmas break. If you love your NFL action this is the game to watch.
Five wins from their first five games have lifted Women's football to top of the table and they have a firm place in the last sixteen teams in the cup. The girls will be looking to go into the Christmas break with a wide gap between themselves and second place, and a win against Worcester will make sure they achieve that.


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This method returns the currently authenticated user (profile). The method fails when no user is authenticated.

## `onegini.user.getAuthenticatedUserProfile`

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onegini.user.getAuthenticatedUserProfile()
    .then((userProfile) => {
      console.log("Authenticated userProfile:", userProfile);
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The success callback contains an object with these properties:

| Property | Example | Description |
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| `profileId` | - | A profile ID associated with the user

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| `code` | 8005 | The error code
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from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
__metaclass__ = type

import yaml

from ansible.module_utils.six import text_type
from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_text

class AnsibleBaseYAMLObject(object):
    '''
    the base class used to sub-class python built-in objects
    so that we can add attributes to them during yaml parsing

    '''
    _data_source = None
    _line_number = 0
    _column_number = 0

    def _get_ansible_position(self):
        return (self._data_source, self._line_number, self._column_number)

    def _set_ansible_position(self, obj):
        try:
            (src, line, col) = obj
        except (TypeError, ValueError):
            raise AssertionError(
                'ansible_pos can only be set with a tuple/list '
                'of three values: source, line number, column number'
            )
        self._data_source = src
        self._line_number = line
        self._column_number = col

    ansible_pos = property(_get_ansible_position, _set_ansible_position)

class AnsibleMapping(AnsibleBaseYAMLObject, dict):
    ''' sub class for dictionaries '''
    pass

class AnsibleUnicode(AnsibleBaseYAMLObject, text_type):
    ''' sub class for unicode objects '''
    pass

class AnsibleSequence(AnsibleBaseYAMLObject, list):
    ''' sub class for lists '''
    pass

# Unicode like object that is not evaluated (decrypted) until it needs to be
# TODO: is there a reason these objects are subclasses for YAMLObject?
class AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode(yaml.YAMLObject, AnsibleBaseYAMLObject):
    __UNSAFE__ = True
    __ENCRYPTED__ = True
    yaml_tag = u'!vault'

    @classmethod
    def from_plaintext(cls, seq, vault, secret):
        if not vault:
            raise vault.AnsibleVaultError('Error creating AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode, invalid vault (%s) provided' % vault)

        ciphertext = vault.encrypt(seq, secret)
        avu = cls(ciphertext)
        avu.vault = vault
        return avu

    def __init__(self, ciphertext):
        '''A AnsibleUnicode with a Vault attribute that can decrypt it.

        ciphertext is a byte string (str on PY2, bytestring on PY3).

        The .data attribute is a property that returns the decrypted plaintext
        of the ciphertext as a PY2 unicode or PY3 string object.
        '''
        super(AnsibleVaultEncryptedUnicode, self).__init__()

        # after construction, calling code has to set the .vault attribute to a vaultlib object
        self.vault = None
        self._ciphertext = to_bytes(ciphertext)

    @property
    def data(self):
        if not self.vault:
            # FIXME: raise exception?
            return self._ciphertext
        return self.vault.decrypt(self._ciphertext).decode()

    @data.setter
    def data(self, value):
        self._ciphertext = value

    def __repr__(self):
        return repr(self.data)

    # Compare a regular str/text_type with the decrypted hypertext
    def __eq__(self, other):
        if self.vault:
            return other == self.data
        return False

    def __hash__(self):
        return id(self)

    def __ne__(self, other):
        if self.vault:
            return other != self.data
        return True

    def __str__(self):
        return str(self.data)

    def __unicode__(self):
        return to_text(self.data, errors='surrogate_or_strict')

    def encode(self, encoding=None, errors=None):
        return self.data.encode(encoding, errors)


Zsa Zsa Gabor was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite with two famous sisters, but she was perhaps best known for her whopping nine marriages over her lifetime. Sadly, Gabor passed away Dec. 18 after long-term health problems, but her memory as a fascinating and vibrant woman will live on (even though her relationships with her husbands usually didn't!).
Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is well known for her many marriages over the years. Check out the very fascinating--and very different--men she chose as husbands, starting with her first at age 15.
Gabor was only 15 when she married her first husband, a Turkish politician. They stayed together from 1937 to 1941.
In 1942, she married the founder of the Hilton hotel chain. The 5-year marriage produced Gabor's only daughter, Francesca.
Sanders, an actor, was married to Gabor from 1949 to 1954.
Her marriage to her fourth husband, an investment banker, lasted from 1962 to 1966.
Her marriage to the oilman in 1966 lasted less than a year.
She and designer Jack Ryan tied the knot in 1975, but they divorced a year later.
From 1976 to 1983, she was married to Michael O'Hara, who had once been her divorce lawyer (the two are shown above with his daughter, Milena).
In 1983, she married a Mexican actor and attorney named Felipe de Alba, but their marriage was annulled after one day.
In 1986, she married von Anhalt, who is 26 years her junior. As Gabor got older and was too sick to be seen in public, he continued hosting birthday parties in her honor. The two were still married at the time of her death in 2016.


There isn't a lot to see, and not a lot to hear. But, I do have some questions.
I can't say one way or the other if the police did the right thing or not, but if what is reported is true, I seriously doubt I'd have waited as long as the police did to taser the guy.
Fox News states that the officer repeatedly asked the guy for identification which the student refused to show. The guy, when asked to leave the library, refused to do that. It was 11PM for crying out loud. It was late at night and the police have a long standing policy of checking ID in the library late at night to insure student safety. In my book, if a person cannot be polite and show ID and leave when asked, then he's opening the door to this type of treatment… no matter what religion or nationality he is.
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I'd like to see you get up after being tasered at least two times. I'd like to see you become one of the many minorities that are constantly discriminated against within this country. Is it so SHOCKING to think that perhaps the person being tasered is of a higher intelligence, to know about JUSTICE and the PATRIOT ACT? Is that so incredibly unbelievable? The ability to SPEAK is not the same as the ability to STAND when you are being TASERED. Also, Mostafa is his name, and he decided to prostest with non-violent means. Yet they continue to tase him while he is already on the ground? Is that fair to you? Hmm.
It is a simple matter to identify oneself. Even if he did not have his ID on him he could have used words to ID himself. Especially in today's computerized world.
I don't know the exact stats but thousands of citizens a day are stopped by officers and are not tazed. It is only the uncooperative people, as this person was, that find force used against them.
Simple rule. When asked for ID don't get confrontational. Show your ID.
Wow, your comments are nothing short of scary.
The fact that you think a show of force (which has been proven lethal sometimes) is okay simply because a student SAT DOWN instead of moving? Just, wow.
So do you also think the fire hoses turned on the civil rights protestors was okay? Because they didn't move when they were told to?
You clearly don't know anything about this case. He agree to leave peaceably (AFTER he was racially profiled by being asked for ID when no one else was). But he wanted the officer's badge numbers… which they failed to give.
Even the LAPD has punished these officers, agreeing that they were way beyond the scope of the law.
If we follow your logic, we may as well be china.


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The Glen Miller run-of-river hydroelectric facility is located on the Trent River, in Trenton, Ontario, which has a drainage area of approximately 12,500 square kilometres and comprises Balsam, Sturgeon, Buckhorn, Stony, and Rice Lakes. Its nameplate capacity and average annual output are 8MW and 41,606 MWh respectively.
Construction began in January 2004, and the facility started commercial operation in December 2005. Glen Miller is located on a site that houses a paper mill, operated by Sonoco Canada Corporation until 2001.
The Glen Miller power plant, which is wholly owned by Innergex, has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Independent Electricity System Operator (expiry date: December 19, 2025), for the facility's total energy output. This PPA also includes electricity price adjustment clauses.


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Singapore Athletics Inter-Club: NUS execute convincing 4x400m win but Wings capture Men's team title to end three-year NUS streak
By Fang Yiyang|2019-07-01T08:59:34+08:00July 1st, 2019|track-and-field, Youth in Motion|0 Comments
Story by REDintern Fang Yiyang. Photos by Iman Hashim/Red Sports.
Justin Chan (#204) of NUS and Wayne Yap (#180) of NTU receive the baton almost simultaneously for the third leg of the Men's 4x400m Relay. NUS went on to win gold in 3:27.69. (Photo 1 © Iman Hashim/Red Sports)
Home of Athletics, Sunday, June 30, 2019 — Since 2016, the National University of Singapore (NUS) had swept the Men's, Women's and Overall trophies in the Singapore Athletics Inter-Club Track and Field Championships. This year, despite a well-executed 4x400m relay victory, NUS failed to accumulate enough points to defend their Men's championship title, conceding the trophy to Wings Athletic Club (WAC) by a mere three points.
The relay events — the 4x100m and 4x400m — weigh heavily on the team standings as the points scored in the race are doubled: the winning club would earn 18 instead of the usual nine points, for instance. With the 4x100m already concluded the previous day, stakes were high for the 4x400m — prior to the race, NUS was down 10 points against WAC.
Earlier in the day, WAC had achieved a series of victories — Tan Chong Qi was the clear victor in the Men's 3000m steeplechase race, clocking 9:55.20, the only sub-10 minute timing in the field. NUS failed to score any points in the race. In the Men's Discus, WAC's Benny Lam edged out NUS' Brian See by 0.31m to clinch the gold medal.
For the 4x400m, NUS thus planned their relay sequence strategically, settling on a line-up of Sing Hui on the first leg, followed by Russell Kam, Justin Chan and Koh Wei Shien.
"Sing Hui was our first runner as he's a fast starter, he really has that burst needed for the opening leg. We placed our most experienced runner in the second leg as we knew we had to hold down Darren Tien [of Nanyang Technological University] in the second leg," said Justin, who is also the NUS Track and Field team captain.
Darren had won the Men's individual 400m event the previous day with a timing of 51.69s.
Shooting out of the blocks, Sing Hui was hot on the heels of Flash Athletic Club (FAC)'s Ang Weisi, fighting for enough buffer against NTU's Darren in the second leg. Edging out Flash in the final stretch, Sing Hui was able to hand over to Russell in the lead.
"It was my first 4x400m race so I had a huge adrenaline rush coming into the final two hundred metres and hearing the crowd cheer," said Sing Hui.
As expected, however, Darren pulled NTU from outside the top three into the lead during the second leg, overtaking Russell mere moments before the handover to their third runner. NUS and NTU were now neck-and-neck entering the second half of the race.
A decisive surge down the backstretch by Justin, however, removed the threat from NTU once and for all.
"Wei Shien asked me to pass him the baton in the lead. I kept what he said in mind during the race," explained Justin.
"It was so tiring I was looking for the softest grass patch to lie down after my run," he added half-jokingly.
Receiving the baton with a three-second lead, Wei Shien did more than enough to anchor NUS first across the line with a timing of 3:27.69.
"After I received the baton I was just thinking of how to celebrate for the team," quipped Wei Shien.
Eventually, NTU dropped to fifth place while FAC and WAC clinched second and third respectively. Nonetheless, the 18 points scored by NUS proved insufficient to overtake Wings in the Men's team standings, falling four points short.
The remaining Men's event — the 10,000m — proved inconsequential as WAC and NUS scored eight and nine points respectively. With all events concluded, WAC's male athletes had accumulated 128 points, against NUS' 125 points.
WAC's triumph turns out to be the first title won by a non-academic institution in this meet since 2004, back when Swift Athletes Association clinched the Overall title. The Inter-Club championship was not contested between 2005 and 2014.
NUS, however, faced no difficulties in the Women's category, with its 152 points more than double of that of runners-up NTU's 75 points. This allowed NUS to safely retain its Overall title with 287 points, a feat the school has achieved for the fifth straight year since the Inter-Club meet was reinstated in 2015.
See the full results of the 51st Singapore Athletics Inter-Club Championships here.
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Col. Todd Ferry takes command at Cherry Point
Ken Buday, Havelock News
Jul 28, 2016 at 12:45 PM Jul 28, 2016 at 4:14 PM
Col. Chris Pappas III relinquishes command after three years
Col. Todd W. Ferry, Cherry Point's new commanding officer, had more than one reason to celebrate on Thursday.
"My oldest son turns 14 today," Ferry told those attending a change of command Thursday morning at Cherry Point. "We'll have a party for him tonight."
Ferry assumed command from Col. Chris Pappas III during the ceremony on a hot parade field in front of Cherry Point's headquarters building. Ferry was most recently based in Stuttgart, Germany, as J-5 director of state at the United States Africa Command.
"It is hot here," Ferry said. "It is not hot like this in Europe."
Ferry, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, is not unfamiliar with Eastern North Carolina. He came to New River to fly CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters in 1994, his first assignment after he and his wife Sondra were married in Pensacola, Florida.
"In many ways, this was home for us," he said of the area. "We learned to be Marines, spouses to each other, and father and mother to our kids."
He thanked those in the community as well as those on the air station that he had met and said he looked forward to meeting others.
"Thank you for allowing me to come into your community," he told the crowd.
He takes command of the Corps' only 24-hour air station that covers 29,000 acres, is responsible for 9,000 square miles of air space, hosts the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing and employs about 15,000 Marines, sailors and civilians that produce a $2 billion economic impact to the region annually.
Pappas will next serve as chief of staff for Marine Corps Combat Development Command and as the executive assistant to the deputy commandant for Combat Development and Integration in Quantico, Virginia. He had served as Cherry Point's commanding officer since August of 2013.
Brig. Gen. Thomas D. Weidley, commanding general of Marine Corps Installations East at Camp Lejeune, credited Pappas with making changes that increased the efficiency of the air station amid difficult budget times and with leading the base's environmental efforts aimed at reducing Cherry Point's consumption of energy.
"What didn't you do great?" Weidley said of Pappas during his remarks at the ceremony. "This is a commander and a command team that is synonymous with professionalism and synonymous with excellence."
Weidley presented Pappas with the Legion of Merit during the ceremony for his service as Cherry Point commanding officer.
Pappas thanked his wife and family for their support as well as all the station's Marines and civilian employees, calling it an "honor and privilege" to serve as the base's commanding officer.
"It's not the buildings, the facilities and the real estate that make this place special. That may make it unique, but not special," he said. "What makes this place special is the people."
He also thanked those in surrounding communities who support Cherry Point Marines and their mission.
"We just don't say we have the most military friendly people," he said. "We know we have the most military friendly people by their actions. … You do it like no other, and it has been my distinct privilege working with each and every one of you throughout the time here, and it's probably the thing I'm going miss the most is the support we get from the local community."


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UHI Finals Report 2022
UHI Cup Finals Day 2022
This is the second time the UHI Cup Event has been played (the last one was contested in 2019 due to COVID) and was set up as a result of a partnership which has been formed between the CA and the University of the Highlands and Islands Sports Department.
All current HNC sports students have been taken through their shinty foundation coaching course, delivered to them by their local CA Development Officer and to follow in from this and allow the students to gain more knowledge about the game of shinty and see the game in action students then attended UHI Cup events over two days.
12 teams of primary school aged players from across the North of Scotland have now come together twice, once for a provisional round robin which decided which squads would go on to compete for the UHI Cup on finals day and which would play for the UHI Salver. Most teams were allocated a newly qualified UHI coach, their role was to get to know the players, take the group for warm ups and cool downs and importantly work with and be mentored by the existing club/school coach or teacher.
All 12 teams came together last Thursday (28th April) at Bught Park, Inverness, for the finals day, and what a fantastic day of shinty it was. The sun was out from the get go and teams arrived in plenty time to warm up and get started on time. The teams were split into two groups of 6 and each played a round robin of games in their respective pool before the top two teams in each met for a final.
In the Cup competition Muirtown started strongly winning their first four games and only chalking up one loss, whereas Newtonmore dropped points against their Badenoch rivals in their first game but quickly put that defeat behind them and managed a consecutive wins against all others in the Cup Group matches setting an exciting final with Muirtown.
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Both finals were closely contested affairs with the players showing fantastic effort and resilience after already having played 5 games on a hot day to put in skillfull performances. In the Cup event, Newtonmore just had the edge on Muirtown with some well taken goals, running out 3-1 winners. In the Salver competition Ardnamurchan's day remained undefeated and they triumphed over Glengarry 2-0 showing great determination throughout the day.
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Rediff.com » News » The MP with an IIT and IIM degree
The MP with an IIT and IIM degree
By A Ganesh Nadar
Last updated on: September 23, 2009 17:45 IST
A Ganesh Nadar meets a most unusual politician.
Prem Das Rai is a member of the Lok Sabha with degrees from both the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Management. The articulate Sikkim Democratic Front MP has a degree in chemical engineering from IIT-Kanpur and an MBA from the prestigious IIM-Ahmedabad.
Soon after graduating, he worked for Bank of America in Kolkata before going back to Sikkim to join the government. He served as deputy chairman of the state planning commission and headed various organisations until he entered politics.
He spoke to rediff.com in a modest room at Sikkim House in New Delhi.
What kind of reactions do you evoke in other MPs because of your IIT, IIM badge?
They treat me with a lot of respect. Many of them have told me that I speak well. There are not many IIT, IIM graduates in politics because the moment they graduate, they are sought out by the corporate world. They want to do other things or start their own businesses.
In the IITs and IIMs, you are not attuned to politics. How you go through a particular channel tunes you for your future, right? Essentially it is just that. I am one of those lucky ones who sought out politics as an eventual career option.
Is there a place for the highly qualified professional in politics?
I think so and there is a greater need for that now. I can assure you that if there were five of us in Parliament today with similar views we could make a lot more difference.
Don't you think the Northeast's representation in the Union ministry is very small, if you consider its large geographical area?
We have a Cabinet minister from Assam and two ministers of state from the region. It is not less, but the distribution could have been better. Both the MPs from Meghalaya are ministers. That's lopsided.
Why is there so little knowledge about the Northeast in the rest of India?
The Northeast is known as an insurgency prone area. The Naga issue, Bodo issue, ULFA issue, only these get media coverage.
The Northeast is the biodiversity saviour of the country. I had mentioned that in Parliament. Thirty to 40 per cent of the biodiversity of the country is housed in the Northeast.
It is the battery of India. Not only oil and gas but it has a hydroelectricity capacity of 70,000 MW. It has so much colour and diversity within itself. Those nuances have never been brought to the fore.
Do you think the lack of infrastructure is a reason for this lack of knowledge?
The government has always viewed the Northeast as a security issue. Now they have realised that it mustn't be only about security and it must get the full embracement of development.
Another aspect is that all the borders are closed. More than 4,000 kilometres of border area with Myanmar, Bangladesh and China is closed. There is no form of trade there.
Do you think the Northeast has been discriminated by the rest of the country?
I wouldn't say discrimination. I studied in Mussoorie, Kanpur and Ahmedabad. I was never made to feel that I am an outsider. In Parliament also I feel at home.
I have had the most wonderful school experience and college education.
The Northeast is said to have enough hydroelectric power for the entire country. Why has this not been developed?
It is a difficult proposition. You need the resources. There are land issues. There is a lot of geology involved. It has to be harmonious with nature. There are a host of issues.
There are a lot of people who are against dams. Not only large dams, there are people who will object to anything that you do.
It is a very complex process. We in Sikkim are facing that. We are seeing the problems and working on how we can tackle it.
The Government of India had never seen the potential earlier. Only in the last 10 years have they looked at it seriously. There is going to be a shortage of power and shortage of water. The Northeast is going to be the place to be in.
How would you tackle militancy in the Northeast?
I am from Sikkim, it's the most peaceful state. I don't have an answer. There is no easy answer. It is very complex. You must find where it comes from. The Government of India has tried almost everything.
Take Manipur, for instance. It needs a different treatment because it has a political dimension to it. It's not just a law and order problem. It's about a host of issues emanating from politics.
Manipur has people in the valley and people in the hills. People in the hills are sitting on 80 per cent of the land and they make just 20 per cent of the population. Can you imagine the imbalance? That itself is the fault line.
How do you solve that in a democratic way? In a democratic process?
The Nagas are indulging in violence and the government is countering it. To achieve peace this is not the way. So these are very complex problems. There are other issues like the Bodo problem.
All these issues come out of the feeling of marginalisation.
The Assamese have a different flavour to it. They have to be dealt with differently. If I had to do it? If I was given the task to do it? I would use a lot of social and political tools.
Naxalism is different from militancy. Even in Naxalism, the issues in one part of the country are not the same as the ones in a different part. I have heard it in Parliament -- 'This has worked in Andhra Pradesh and so it should be implemented in other states too.'
Mr P Chidambaram is a very senior person and also understands development. Perhaps he will look at the social processes. He is sinking his teeth into it. The steps he takes will be much better than what we have seen so far.
What is the Chinese threat on the ground?
In Sikkim there is no perceptible threat. We are on the Chinese border. There are occasional incursions. They come here. Our people go there. There is some bit of tension. That's a border issue.
India and China need to sort out the border issue. Today it's not about any country invading another country. Today it is about insurgency and counter insurgency.
You fight proxy wars within your country because it is fermented from somewhere else. The movement of information and money, all that effect is there. There is no threat of taking over the territory of another country. That's my personal view.
What are your plans for your constituency?
Education, power and water.
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Crown Prince Haakon concludes his visit to South Korea
by Nadarajah Sethurupan	| @ | February 17, 2018 6:46 am
Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark participated in the Birkebeinerrennet in 2017. Photo: Gunn-Eva Høgseth, Det kongelige hoff / The Royal Court.
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon ended his three-day visit to the Olympic city of Pyeongchang yesterday. On his last day, the Crown Prince was a witness to a historic day for Norway. Norway has never had such a good day when it comes to victory in the Olympic Games as yesterday. Norway won six medals: three gold, two silver and one bronze.
The Crown Prince started his last day in South Korea by watching Aksel Svindal and Kjetil Jansrud win gold and silver in alpine skiing. Before the race, the Crown Prince was given a guided tour together with the Norwegian national team in alpine skiing and talked with the athletes and coaches.
After this event, His Royal Highness witnessed Ragnhild Mowinckel win silver in women's alpine skiing. This was Norway's first female alpine medal in the Olympic Games since 1936. The Crown Prince then continued his hectic programme when he saw Ragnhild Haga win gold and Marit Bjørgen win bronze in cross country skiing. The day concluded when Johannes Thingnes Bø won Norway's third gold, in the biathlon.
Crown Prince Haakon has had a jam-packed programme in the last three days. He has talked to most Norwegian athletes in all the sports Norway participated in and received a lot of information about the Norwegian athletes and their techniques.
After talking to gold medal winner Johannes Klæbo on the second day, they met the press together. Norwegian television NRK asked His Royal Highness if he had received any tips that he could use when he participates in the "Birkebeinerrennet".
Birkebeinerrennet is a ski race with royal history and was established in 1932 in memory of the trip that Torstein Skevla and Vald Skrukka had with King Haakon Håkonsson in 1206. The race takes place between the Norwegian mountain villages of Lillehammer and Rena and is 54 kilometres long.
The Crown Prince has participated in the competition in many consecutive years, and last year, Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark also participated. However, Crown Prince Haakon revealed that he would not take part this year. His Royal Highness would not go into detail why he will not attend but said he, unfortunately, did not have time this year.
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Red Pulse PHOENIX is an open research platform that aims to connect clients with experts in China's capital markets. Announced in July, PHOENIX's PHX token replaced RPX as the utility token for the platform while adding new features such as "Proof of Creation, Proof of Ownership, regulatory compliance, IP Protection and accountability built right into the new smart contract." The token swap from RPX to PHX tokens was conducted in August.
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Signing up as a writer can be achieved in one of two ways. Applicants can visit this link and fill out the application form or alternatively they can email brian.lee@redpulse.com with their CV and application.
Red Pulse also recapped the events it attended during November.
Red Pulse attended the Finners' third fintech conference that was held in Shanghai, China. It's claimed that the event attracted fintech companies from all around Asia and that the team was honored to be able to showcase its platform to an interested audience.
While also in Shanghai, Red Pulse co-founder Stanley Chao attended the China Wealth Management Forum 2018 where he was invited as a panel speaker. Alongside other presenters at the event, Chao spoke about the development of wealth management offerings in China.
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Picture of the Day: Cypress Tree Avenue – Point Reyes, California
Photograph by FRANK SCHULENBURG
Seen here is the stunning cypress tree lined road that leads to the historic KPH public coast radio station in Point Reyes, California. For most of the 20th century, it provided ship to shore communications including telegrams (using Morse code) and marine telex service (using radioteletype). The station discontinued commercial operation in 1998, but is operated occasionally as a historic service – its signal can be tuned in throughout a large portion of the western hemisphere. [source]
The receiving station and control point now occupy a classic white 1920s Art Deco building on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in the Point Reyes National Seashore whereas the transmitter site is about 20 miles south at 37°54′52.32″N 122°43′30.26″W, near the town of Bolinas. The reason for siting the transmitters so far away from the receivers is that their powerful outgoing signals would make it difficult to hear weak incoming signals from faraway ships on the same frequency (or channel). Operators at the receiving site remotely control and key the transmitters by means of landlines connecting the two sites. [source]
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25 Nights of Nineties Nostalgia: Gen 2 Megatron
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Today on Transforming Thursday we take a look at the commander of the Decepticons and emperor of destruction, Megatron! Yes, how could we forget him from his appearance in the original cartoon dressed in bright green and purple camo with that giant turret mounted on his… shoulder? Wait something is off here.
Tanks a lot!
(We got nothing)
Yup you got it, today we will actually be looking at the successor to that classic original design with Generation 2 Megatron. Hasbro decided to re-release/re-deco its line of Transformers for a new generation, un-ironically naming it Generation 2. They even came out with a new show, which was the old show with poorly rendered CG segments added to it. Clearly no every expense was spared to push this toy-line of mostly repaints. Even the G2 Optimus Prime was just the same guy from seven years earlier with a black trailer. So why did Megatron get the new figure then if they couldn't even be bothered to change Optimus Prime?
Kids play.
Perhaps it had something to do with the original Megatron turning into a realistic Walter P-38 firearm.
Things were no longer as relaxed as they once were concerning children's toys and guns. There are strict rules, even today, about replica firearms and Hasbro's main villain was not going to get a pass in his current get up. Parental groups would have had a field day protesting Hasbro for peddling guns to children.
So what is the next best thing to being a gun? A bigger gun with wheels and treads! Modeled after an M1A1 Abrams tank, Megatron was back on the scene larger than he had ever been before. His alt mode was a merciless tank equipped with a huge gun that you literally had to cock in order to fire actual missiles. Wasn't the goal here to be less reminiscent of a gun? It was a gimmick to good not to use, as well as the way his electronics shouted, "Megatron Attack!" – both features the world could not go on without.
Wow, and that color scheme screams 90'S garish attitude. Which, if the comics are to be believed, we have GI Joe's Cobra to thank for creating; because good lord we can't go two days without bringing those guys up. Wait… GI Joe, Marvel, Transformers, MASK, Street Fighter, and Professional Wrestling… My God, Cobra is trying to take over the world one toy-line at a time! You heard it here first! Illuminati confirmed! Cobra is real and after your toys!!
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Honoring the Irish poet and nationalist who died a British soldier on the Western Front
Tom Kettle: Irish War Poet and nationalist was remembered by the Irish in France on the eve of the anniversary of his death.
Patricia Killeen
@PatriciaKillee2
Tom Kettle, an Irish WWI poet. WikiCommons.
On Sunday, September 8 the Irish Embassy and the Irish in France Association invited Irish people living in France to the inauguration of the 'Irish Peace Garden.'
The garden, located in the grounds of the Château de Péronne, in the heart of the Somme Battlefields, pays homage to the WW1 Irish soldiers. The château also houses 'The Historical Museum of the Great War'. Our day out also included visiting the museum, the Church and village of Guillemont and the Ulster Tower in Thiepval.
A bus was organized to bring us from Paris to the museum where we were warmly greeted and brought on a one-hour guided tour. Rather than being a study of military strategy and weaponry, this museum takes a more cultural approach to war and focuses on how the Great War was such a catalyst not only for the soldiers but also for civilians.
The battle of the Somme, which was fought by the armies of the British Empire and the French Third Republic against the German Empire, lasted from July 1 to November 18, 1916. In a spirit of universalism and reconciliation the museum interweaves not only French and British perspectives but also covers the war from the viewpoint of German soldiers and civilians.
The seventy thousand original artifacts on exhibition, tell their story in compelling clarity. The uniforms and personal items laid out in exhibition cases, per nationality, underlines how each uniform was worn by young men of similar age and interests, albeit differentiated by country. All endured the horror of the trenches, many were maimed or shell shocked, and many died.
As we examined the uniforms, Émilie our lovely guide jokingly pointed out that the initial elegant French uniforms had that certain 'je ne sais pas quoi'. In the final room, an American army uniform is exposed beside the French, British and German uniforms. The practical long 'trench boots' the Americans wore when they entered the war in April 1917, would have eased or avoided 'trench foot' for the European soldiers who were issued short hobnailed boots and leg support bandages called puttees, neither which blocked the wet and mud. Many lost their short boots in the mud and marched 'blood-shod.'[1]
Original recruitment posters on the walls remind us of how, before conscription young men were seduced by the offer of signing up for a 'heroic adventure', for a 'few months'… Governments used synaesthesia in their campaigns to get as many men to the front as possible. WW1 army recruitment posters in Ireland honed into the Irish mentality, with slogans such as 'An Irish Hero - 1 Irish man, defeats 10 Germans', and used a lot of green and symbols including the St. Brigid's Cross, the harp, and the shamrock.
In posters directed at British men family life and masculinity were often evoked. In France, shiny soldier uniform ensigns were engraved with the words 'bon pour les filles'– implying a French soldier was a 'real man' and in uniform might have his pick of the girls.
In Germany where conscription was more the norm posters were often aimed at civilians to raise war funds. Émilie explained how many German soldiers, trapped in the French battlefields, died from starvation towards the end of the war when food parcels from their families didn't get through. She also pointed out how the war encompassed all aspects of life, on and off the front; the exposed children's' toys were a soldier and war-nurse dolls.
Ambassador Patricia O'Brien and other officials cut the ribbon of the garden named 'The Garden of Eutychia.' Image: Patricia Killeen.
We stepped out into the peace garden where Ambassador Patricia O'Brien and other officials cut the ribbon of the garden named 'The Garden of Eutychia,' after the Greek goddess of happiness. Paradoxically, the Irish Peace Garden (designed by Peter Donegan from Dublin and Ian Price from Northern Ireland) in the immediate aftermath of contemplating war, evoked a feeling of peace and joy, and we thawed out in its beauty. The garden continues the non-sectarian perspective and pays homage to all Irish men, from North and South, who died in WW1.
One of the most striking features of the garden is a semi-circular low wall like seat inspired by the 'Dún Ducathair' fort on Inis Mór. Cocooned within the 9ft deep moat of the Castle of Péronne, in the midst of the magnificently landscaped gardens, shaded by hawthorn trees we listened to speeches by French officials, Ambassador Patricia O'Brien and French politician Xavier Bertrand, (former Minister for Health and currently President of the Regional Council for the northernmost region of France).
As our Ambassador rendered homage to the Irish WW1 soldiers, complimented the new garden, and spoke of the strong link between Ireland and France, at that moment in time I felt happy to be Irish in France. After the speeches, Peter Donegan led us through the gardens and entertained us with stories of his challenge transforming a 14th-century dried-up moat, constructed to keep people out, into a welcoming garden that drew people in.
The village of Guillemont, a short drive away and the neighboring village Ginchy, are soaked in Irish blood. More than 1,200 men from the 16th (Irish) Division were killed in the liberation of these two villages on 3rd and 9th September 1916. The church is at the very centre of the small village, which has neither a shop nor a café. However, we did locate the 'Rue de la 16ème Division Irlandaise'!
One again French officials and Ambassador Patricia O'Brien spoke. I lost the battle of keeping tears in check in the beautifully decorated church, where the dead Irish soldiers are so honored. Plaques on the wall list the different battalions of the 16th Irish Division including the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in which Thomas Kettle and many Irish Volunteers had enlisted. Our Ambassador paid homage to Kettle (economist, journalist, barrister, writer, poet, and former Member of Parliament for John Redmond's constitutional nationalist party) who died at the Battle of Ginchy on 9th September 1916. She said she hoped that Kettle would be proud of the progress that had been made for peace in Europe and Ireland.
Kettle, an ardent Irish nationalist, donned the British uniform knowing many of his fellow countrymen wouldn't understand why. He enlisted after witnessing the horrors in Belgium after the German invasion and said "while a strong people has its own self for centre, it has the universe for circumference."
He went to war for European civilization and to fight for the freedom of another small country, fully aware that after Irish Independence eventually came he would be seen as one of the 'foolish dead,' in contrast with the 1916 Rising 'heroes'. In the final lines of his poem, 'To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God', Kettle explained his decision: "Know that we fools, … Died not for flag, nor King, nor Emperor, But for a dream, born in a herdsmen shed, And for the secret Scripture of the poor."
In the lead up to the centenary of the 1916 Rising, Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, acknowledged Kettle's place in Irish history and said, he was 'an Irish patriot, a British soldier and a true European and understood that be authentically Irish we must also embrace our European identity'[2]. Francis Ledwidge, the other Irish WW1 war poet who died at the Battle of Ypres on July 31, 1917, like Kettle is now also considered as an Irish patriot and a WW1 war hero.
More Irish men, many of them members of the Irish Volunteers, died defending France than died creating an Irish republic. Many of them died for European freedom and in the hope that a grateful Britain post-war would pass the shelved Home Rule bill. On the other hand, other brave Irish men from Ulster enlisted in WW1 in the hope that the British would throw out the same Home Rule Bill!
Irish WWI poet Tom Kettle. Image: Wikicommons.
Our final stop was at the Ulster Tower, Northern Ireland's national war memorial, constructed in 1921 opposite the Thiepval Wood from where the 36th (Ulster) Division made its historic charge on July 1, 1916. The Irish Ambassador, the Mayor of Péronne and the Sous-Préfet de Péronne once again laid wreaths, as they had done at the Celtic cross and French monument outside the Guillemont church. As I looked at the orange flowers in the green, white and gold Irish wreath, I remembered in 'Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme,' how Frank McGuinness's had described that Protestant soldiers exchanged their Orange sashes before going into battle.
Over the course of the day, I saw how revered our Irish WW1 soldiers were in France. The men, whose place in Irish history had been a long time enigma, had apparently always been honored in the French villages they defended. Tom Kettle and Francis Ledwidge were friends with many of the 16 men executed in the aftermath of the 1916 Rising. Francis Ledwidge's poem "The Lament for Thomas MacDonagh" is considered by many to be one of the most beautiful WW1 poems.
When young people are struck down in their prime we can't help but wonder about the outcome if they had lived. How would the combined talents of Tom Kettle, Tom Redmond and the 16 executed men have impacted the course of Irish history and the 1921 peace terms if they had been spared?
Kettle wrote from the Somme that if he were to live he would "spend the rest of his life working for perpetual peace." He had enlisted for 'Liberty' and after being wounded insisted on returning to the Somme out of 'Fraternity', for his Dublin Fusiliers. The WW1 soldiers were denied 'Equality' in a world where 'bumbling' deciders sacrificed young men as fodder. Kettle described the Great War as 'an outrage against simple men'.
In the Irish Peace Garden, Ambassador Patricia O'Brien expressed her hope in people's ability to assemble and discuss. I hope many will have the opportunity to visit the Peace Garden and museum in Péronne, the village of Guillemont and the Ulster Tower for the pleasure of a great day out, and 'lest we forget' peace can never be taken for granted…
[1] Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owens, 1917
[2] Collins Stephan, 'Higgins pays tribute to Irish parliamentarians in House of Commons', The Irish Times, April 2014
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The Killers, The Weeknd, Janet Jackson Lead Panorama Lineup
NEW YORK CITY (CelebrityAccess) — AEG's Goldenvoice announced the lineup for the 2018 edition of the Panorama music festival in New York City, with The Weeknd, The Killers and Janet Jackson leading the bill.
The three-day fest, which debuted last year and which has been likened to an 'East Coast Coachella', will take place at Randall's Island Park from July 27-29th.
The Weeknd will headline the fest on Friday, with Dua Lipa, Yaeji and Migos on the lineup as well.
Saturday will see Janet Jackson with the marquee slot, along with St. Vincent, SZA, and Cardi B also lined up for earlier performances on the day.
Sunday will close with a set by The Killers, and also see performances from The XX, David Byrne, and Helena Hauff.


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Delaunay
Of the Attraction of the Sun
May 25 – June 15, 2013
ICA Baltimore at Current Space
In this, his first solo show in the United States, Rodolphe Delaunay will allow his new work - made in Baltimore - to confront earlier works produced in France. The exhibition is titled after a 17th century poem by philosopher and scientist Margaret Cavendish. Like a prism decomposes light into the many colors of the visible spectrum, this poem uses language to reveal the phenomena ruling the universe as an explorable array. The show regards the perceptions we have of natural forces and constants - gravity, the speed of light, magnetism - both as collective thought experiments and as individual linguistic experiences.
Rodolphe Delaunay is a French artist, born in 1984, and temporarily based in Baltimore. He graduated from Paris's École des Beaux Arts in 2008. Since then he has participated in several group shows in Italy, Indonesia and France and has had solo shows in Paris at Galerie Frédéric Lacroix and The Window 41. Delaunay's work explores the relationship between science and popular traditions. His sculpture, installations and movies are grounded primarily in readings of scientific history. He notes "Paradoxically, my connection to science arises from my own incapacity to understand it properly, and from the distance that separates me and my subject. I try to reproduce that distance in my works, juxtaposing everyday objects and scientific concepts, in order to produce questions about how we perceive the world."
Review by Ben Andrew in What Weekly
Photo essay in BmoreArt
Video of gallery talk with artist


Large operating loans made by large agricultural banks led to a significant increase in farm lending in the third quarter of 2018. A sharp increase in the volume of loans exceeding $1 million was a primary contributor to the increase in non-real estate farm lending. In particular, a majority of the increase was supported by loans used to fund current operating expenses. The increase in the size of loans also sharply increased the share of agricultural lending at large banks while interest rates on farm loans continued to trend upward.
October 19, 2018 | Ag Finance Databook | Large operating loans made by large agricultural banks led to a significant increase in farm lending in the third quarter of 2018. A sharp increase in the volume of loans exceeding $1 million was a primary contributor to the increase in non-real estate farm lending. In particular, a majority of the increase was supported by loans used to fund current operating expenses. The increase in the size of loans also sharply increased the share of agricultural lending at large banks while interest rates on farm loans continued to trend upward.
Non-real estate lending increased significantly in the third quarter, according to the National Survey of Terms of Lending to Farmers. The total volume of non-real estate farm loans was more than 30 percent higher than a year ago (Chart 1). This sharp growth in farm lending followed steady increases earlier in 2018 and represents the largest annual percentage increase in the third quarter since 2002. The typical seasonal pattern of reduced loan volumes from the second quarter to the third quarter also was much less pronounced. The volume of non-real estate loans decreased less than 3 percent from the previous quarter, compared with an average decline over the last 10 years of 14 percent.
The increase in non-real estate farm lending again was driven primarily by operating loans. Similar to 2015, when there was a significant increase in farm lending, loans to fund current operating expenses accounted for the majority of the increase in the third quarter. In contrast to 2015, however, loan volumes increased in all non-real estate lending categories in the third quarter (Chart 2). Similar to the quarterly change in the total volume of non-real estate loans, operating loan volumes decreased less than 2 percent relative to the second quarter of 2018.
The large increase in the volume of operating loans was influenced heavily by larger-sized loans. Continuing a recent trend, the volume of very large loans rose sharply in the third quarter (Chart 3). From 2008 to 2012, the volume of individual loans larger than $1 million made by survey respondents totaled an average of about $350 million, or 25 percent of total non-real estate lending. Between 2013 and 2017, the average volume of loans larger than $1 million increased slightly, but remained unchanged as a share of total loan volumes. In the third quarter, the volume of loans larger than $1 million nearly doubled and accounted for almost 40 percent of total non-real estate lending during the reporting period.
With the increase in the size of loans, there also was a large increase in the share of lending at large agricultural banks. Following a long-term trend, banks with the largest agricultural loan portfolios continued to gain a greater share of non-real estate agricultural loans (Chart 4). Bolstered by larger individual loans and growing loan portfolios, the share of all non-real estate farm loans held by large banks reached a historical high of nearly 80 percent in the third quarter, compared with 72 percent a year ago.
Alongside the increases in farm lending and larger-sized loans, interest rates on farm loans in the third quarter continued to rise. While rates increased across all loan sizes, the pace of increase was slower on the largest loans. In fact, the spread between rates on the smallest and largest loans increased to more than 150 basis points (Chart 5, left panel). Rates on operating loans also were slower to increase and were lower than rates on other types of non-real estate farm loans (Chart 5, right panel).
Despite additional increases in lending and increases in interest rates, delinquency rates on farm loans at commercial banks remained low through the second quarter, according to Call Report data. Delinquency rates on farm real estate loans, however, continued to trend higher at a modest pace and were higher than the rate of delinquencies on all bank loans for the first time in nearly 20 years (Chart 6). The growth in the volume of delinquent farm real estate loans was driven primarily by an increased volume of nonaccruing loans.
Increases in farm real estate lending remained the primary driver of additional increases in total farm debt. Loans secured by farm real estate increased 5 percent in the second quarter, slightly faster than in the previous quarter (Chart 7). Non-real estate debt increased about 1 percent from a year ago following a brief surge in the first quarter. The timing of grain sales and repayment of operating loans likely contributed to the changing rates of growth in non-real estate debt in each of the first two quarters of 2018.
As farm debt continued to trend higher, the performance of agricultural banks across the country generally has remained solid. The historical trend of agricultural banks maintaining a higher return on average assets than other small banks continued in the second quarter (Chart 8, left panel). Despite the spread between the two narrowing slightly, the return on average assets at agricultural banks increased 5 basis points compared with the second quarter of 2017. As lending activity at agricultural banks continued to rise, the ratio of total capital to total assets continued to decline in the second quarter, but remained historically high (Chart 8, right panel).
Similar to Call Report data, Regional Federal Reserve surveys also showed that demand for farm loans continued to trend higher in the second quarter. Respondents in all reporting Districts, with the exception of Dallas, indicated continued growth in demand for farm loans (Chart 9). The St. Louis District reported a large increase in loan demand compared with the second quarter of 2017 while all other Districts reported only slight changes. While indicators of loan demand in the Kansas City and Minneapolis Districts were slightly lower compared with the previous year, the demand for farm loans remained high overall.
Alongside high loan demand, interest rates on farm loans also continued to rise across all Federal Reserve Districts. Variable rates increased at a slightly faster pace in the Dallas and Kansas City Districts, while fixed rates increased slightly more in the Minneapolis and St. Louis Districts (Chart 10, left panel). The Chicago District reported the largest increase for all types of interest rates on farm loans when compared with a year ago, with fixed rates increasing nearly 50 basis points (Chart 10, right panel). However, fixed interest rates still remained lowest in the Chicago District.
Despite additional increases in interest rates and emerging concerns about profitability in the farm sector, several Districts reported an increase in farmland values. In fact, nonirrigated farmland values increased in the majority of states in the Midwest and Plains regions, with the largest increase of 6 percent in North Dakota (Map). In comparison, values in Nebraska, Illinois and Kansas decreased slightly. In general, farmland values continued to remain relatively stable as demand for farm loans remained high and the volume of farm lending continued to increase.
In contrast to modest increases in farmland values, farm income continued to decline in all Districts that report on changes in income. Despite a slight improvement compared with 2017, farm income in the second quarter remained weak and respondents indicated they expect the trend to continue over the next three months (Chart 11). The continued weaknesses in farm income reported by agricultural banks was similar to recent farm income predictions released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has forecasted U.S. farm income in 2018 to decline 13 percent from a year ago.
As the size of large agricultural operating loans at relatively large agricultural banks continued to increase, the volume of non-real estate farm loans rose sharply in the third quarter. The recent trend of large loans made by large banks also contributed to a modest increase in the share of farm loans held by large banks. Federal Reserve Districts continued to report high levels of demand for farm loans, even as interest rates rose further. Alongside persistently low agricultural commodity prices, bankers throughout the country expected farm income to decline in the coming months. Despite the ongoing weaknesses in farm income and agricultural credit conditions, however, delinquency rates on farm loans remained low and the performance of agricultural banks remained sound.


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Prepare to be flexible about the time and distance of your runs, too. Remember that a 20-minute run is better than skipping your run altogether, so don't miss your run just because you won't have time to run what you had originally planned. Even doing a very short run on the treadmill will help you maintain your running habit through the holidays.
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Baseball Great Frank Robinson Dies at Age 83
By David A. Avila
Two-time Most Valuable Player, and one of the top hitters of any era, Frank Robinson passed away, announced Major League Baseball on Thursday.
"We have lost Frank Robinson at the age of 83," said MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred Jr.
Robinson entered Major League Baseball in 1956 with the Cincinnati Reds and was named NL Rookie of the Year. It was a mere nine years after Jackie Robinson (no relation) broke the MLB color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
He was born in Beaumont, Texas but at an early age his family moved to Oakland, Calif. and it was there that he began playing baseball.
While with Cincinnati Reds he won the National League award for Most Valuable Player in 1961 and led his team to the World Series against the powerful New York Yankees. The next year he was even more impressive offensively but his team did not win the N.L. pennant. After four more years Robinson continued to be one of the leading players in the National League but Cincinnati owner Bill DeWitt decided to trade him to Baltimore in 1966. When asked the reason DeWitt infamously said "Robinson was an old 30."
In 1966, Robinson led the Baltimore Orioles to the World Series while winning the Triple Crown and being voted Most Valuable Player in the American League. He is the only player in history to win MVP in both the AL and NL. After leading the Orioles to the World Series the team then swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in four games.
"He was that single ingredient needed to make us a great baseball team," stated former Baltimore teammate Paul Blair to newspapers. Blair passed away in 2013.
After stints with the Dodgers and Angels he was traded to Cleveland Indians and while there was installed as the first Black manager in MLB history in 1975. In his very first game on April 8 as player-manager Robinson hit a homer off NY Yankee Doc Medich.
Those who faced Robinson as a hitter remember his crouch and hugging the plate.
"He gave that appearance that you could pitch him inside but he would pull that leg out and hit the ball inside," said Jim Kaat a member of Baseball's Hall of Fame. "He played the game somewhat with a chip on his shoulder. He's right there with the all-time greats."
Robinson would hit a total of 586 homers when he retired and was the number four all-time leader. He led the Baltimore Orioles to four pennant winners in 1966, 1969, 1970, and 1971 including another World Series win in 1970. When he retired his final batting average was .294 and he finished with a total of 2,943 hits.
"Frank turned them into a dominant team. He turned that franchise from a good team to a great team," said Kaat about Robinson's influence with the Baltimore Orioles.
Fellow Oriole and another Hall of Fame inductee Jim Palmer said his own career benefitted from Robinson as a teammate.
"Without Frank Robinson on my team I don't get voted into the Hall of Fame," said Baltimore Orioles pitching great Jim Palmer.
Robinson managed the Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles and Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals and was voted Manager of the Year in 1989. But as a hitter he had few peers.
"He was one of the greatest hitters in the history of baseball," said Manfred.


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