In what can only be interpreted as a step toward a military dictatorship, the caretaker government in Bangladesh announced on April 5 that national and local elections would be postponed for at least 18 months until the end of 2008. The decision, which obviously breaches the country's constitution, puts an unelected regime and its military backers in charge for an indefinite period. President Iajuddin Ahmed installed the caretaker government on January 11 to defuse a deep political crisis provoked by weeks of mass protests by the opposition Awami League (AL) and its allies against the alleged rigging of elections due on January 22. The president stood aside as head of the previous caretaker government, installed former Central Bank chief Fakhruddin Ahmed in his place and imposed a state of emergency.
It was a short message from a leader who at one time was almost at the door of the nuclear club, much to the discomfort of big powers. His country was perhaps in line for 'liberation' by US forces so that the harried masses could sniff democracy--a la Iraq. 'We have been short changed for we have not been given all that we deserved for making a sacrifice', said the Libyan leader, Col Muammar Gaddafi, in so many words while celebrating the 30th anniversary of his system of governance called Jamahiriyya, or state of the masses. He makes a distinction in his style of governance, which is, of course, very different from the more common appellation of Jamuhriyyat (republic) favoured in the Arab world. The sacrifice in question was his decision to abrogate his nuclear programme, announced in December 2003.
The state government and the tribal hohos are almost heading for collision course as the latter was sticking to their gun that the state implement the present Delimitation Act in toto in the state. The Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the tribal hohos formed in the wake of the state government's refusal to implement the Delimitation Act on the basis of the 2001 census met the state chief minister Neiphiu Rio and his ministerial colleagues here at his official residence on Monday and they had presented their clear position to him.
Sri Lankan students enrolling in specific education programmes of Australia's Swinburne University of Technology will have the advantage of dual Australian & US qualification. In a agreement signed in 2006, Swinburne University of Technology based in Melbourne, Australia and Northeastern University based in Boston, USA now offer combined education programmes. The agreement brings together universities from two continents that share an entrepreneurial spirit and a focus on empowering graduates to think creatively, be original and take the lead.
Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse and his entourage left for Italy yesterday on a three-day official visit. He is expected to meet Pope Benedict XVI and brief him on the situation in Sri Lanka. President Rajapaksa also hopes to convey the best wishes of the Sri Lankan people on His Holiness' 80th birthday and the second anniversary of his election as Pope Benedict XVI. Earlier on 08 April, on the Easter Sunday, Pope made reference to Sri Lanka and appealed in his Easter message to the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to resume peace talks immediately to end the bloody conflict that causes immense suffering to several thousand civilians in the country.
The legitimacy of a much-ballyhooed Security Council meeting on climate change was challenged by developing nations who argued that the threat to the global environment is not a subject within the purview of the U.N.'s most powerful political body. Speaking on behalf of China and the 130-member Group of 77 (G77) developing countries, Farukh Amil of Pakistan told delegates Tuesday that the G77 has consistently maintained that the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) "is the appropriate forum" to consider risks associated with that phenomenon.
A new national poll by Harvard University's Institute of Politics (IOP), located at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, finds former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani Republican and U.S. Senator Barack Obama (Democrat) as 18-24 year-olds' first choices for President in 2008 among likely young voters of both parties. Regarding the mood of the country, less than one-third (31%) of Americans say they approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as President, and nearly six in ten young people (59%) believe the country is "off on the wrong track" while only thirteen percent (13%) believe the country is headed in the "right direction."


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Holiday lets 'are strangling rural communities' in Cornwall
The 'Campaign to Protect Rural England' says holiday lets have made things worse for local residents
Olivier VergnaultSenior Reporter
Towns like Padstow have seen an explosion in holiday lets over the years (Image: Western Morning News)
The explosion in holiday lets is strangling rural communities, a countryside charity has claimed.
According to the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), there has been a whopping 1,000% increase in the number of homes listed as for short term lets in the UK between 2015 and 2021.
That's 148,000 homes which could otherwise house local families that were available on Airbnb-style lets in September 2021 instead.
Read more: Holiday homes in the open Cornish countryside are approved
The organisation believes the exponential rise in the number of holiday lets has made things worse for local residents especially in rural areas like Cornwall, at a time when 176,000 rural families are on social housing waiting lists.
In Cornwall, which saw short term listings grow by 661% in the five years to September 2021, there are about 15,000 families on social housing waiting lists with the same number of properties being marketed as holiday lets.
CPRE said the surge in the number of homes marketed for Airbnb-style short term lets has been crippling the residential rentals market, leaving many families being evicted by greedy landlords keen to make a quick summer buck.
The charity said the problem is most acute in staycation hotspots, where hundreds of homes previously available to rent to local people have been switched to short-stay holiday rentals and the worsening housing crisis has seen thousands of families added to social housing waiting lists unnecessarily, with a decline at national level in the number of new social housing projects completed since 2013 compounding the problem.
Villages like Mevagissey have seen a huge rise in holiday lets (Image: Western Morning News)
Crispin Truman, chief executive of CPRE, said: "Across our most traditional rural communities, from the beaches of Cornwall to the lakes of Cumbria, homes that used to be rented to local families sit empty for much of the year. More people are pushed onto social housing waiting lists, which have been stretched to breaking point by years of under investment. Hard working people are suffering and they will not easily forgive a government that promised to level them up if it leaves them falling through the cracks of a broken system.
"It's clear the government needs to act fast to avert a growing housing crisis. With the cost of living set to hammer people's finances in the coming year, this is a problem that's quickly getting out of hand.
"There simply has to be a government response to the fact that our rural housing supply is disappearing into an unregulated short-term rentals market that simply didn't exist six years ago. Ministers must introduce tighter controls on second homeownership, including higher council tax on second homes and the requirement for short term lets to have planning permission."
Cornwall Council planning clampdown on ex-council houses being used as holiday lets
Cornwall Council is planning to set up a dedicated investigation and enforcement unit to help clamp down on the number of ex-council houses being used as holiday homes.
Former council houses which have been sold under the Government's Right to Buy scheme usually have a covenant on them to restrict them from being used as holiday lets or as houses of multiple occupation so that they are protected for use by local people.
However it is believed that there are dozens of homes bought under Right to Buy which are being advertised on Airbnb and used as holiday homes.
In a report on the housing crisis in Cornwall which is due to go to the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Leadership Board this week Cornwall Council is proposing a dedicated unit to clamp down on the practice.
The report says that as well as evidence of Right to Buy homes being used as holiday lets they are also being rented out as accommodation for students.
Under the plans the dedicated investigation and enforcement unit would identify breaches of any covenants and then work to ensure that Right to Buy properties are used as a main residence.
The issue of Right to Buy homes not being used as primary residences is one which has united councillors across the political spectrum in Cornwall.
Labour councillor Jayne Kirkham highlighted the issue earlier this year after hearing that there could be dozens of properties affected in Falmouth alone.
Her comments echoed those of former Cabinet member for housing Andrew Mitchell and were also supported by Conservative councillors and current Cabinet members David Harris and Olly Monk.
The clampdown on the misuse of former council houses is just one measure of several which have been drawn up by the Conservative administration to help ease the current housing crisis.
It is also looking to continue work by the council to bring empty homes back into use. While that work has reduced the number from 3,000 in 2020 to 2,200 long-term empty homes are seen as "a hugely wasted resource".
It is also recognised that empty homes are not just wasted to be used as a home but can sometimes be a local nuisance and blight to neighbours.
The council is planning an empty homes campaign and a taskforce which will offer grants and loans to help bring homes back into use while also using the council's compulsory purchase and enforcement powers where necessary.
To help with the project the council will also work with town and parish councils to identify homes which can be brought back into use.
Separate analysis by CPRE found the demand for social housing was growing nearly six times faster than the rate of supply in rural areas. At current rates, the backlog of low-income families needing accommodation would take 121 years to clear.
Figures show 8,898 households were added to social housing waiting lists in 88 rural local authority areas between 2019-20, the last year for which figures are available, with just 1,453 social homes delivered. In total 176,058 rural families were waiting for accommodation in 2020, up from 167,160 in 2019.
The CPRE is now calling for tighter controls on second homeownership, including higher council tax on second homes and the requirement for short term lets to have planning permission.
It also said that the definition of 'affordable' must be changed in national planning policy, with rents being tied to local incomes rather than market prices.
Cornwall CPRE Chairman Richard Stubbs added: "These figures show the increasing muddle that current housing policy is creating.
"What is clear is that indiscriminately building thousands more houses in Cornwall will solve nothing. It is not bringing down prices and the number of houses to rent is falling. We need policies that stop the exploitation of Cornwall for commercial purposes where care for the countryside should be the top priority.
"We need to make the long-term rental market more sustainable and attractive. We cannot rely on building ever more homes if they are not going to be lived in by local residents."
However he said it was important to note that not all second homeowners are absentee landlords or investors, leaving their houses empty for most of the year.
He added: "Such owners should be rightly subjected to heavy tax penalties to slow down their exploitation of our unique countryside. Some second homers, however, have a deep love of Cornwall, keep their houses well occupied and make a contribution to the community. This shows that although proper management of housing policy and the tourist industry are both desperately required, it needs to be properly worked through and sensitive both to the local population and also to the natural environment."
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HelstonThe full council meeting has been pushedback to February
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Membrane bios
In this occasional series, we meet key MBR people across the industry and put the 'bio' into 'membrane bioreactor'. First, here's a brief introduction to Simon Judd, our interviewer-at-large.
Simon Judd, Professor of Membrane Technology at Cranfield University, UK
In our new series, Membrane bios, we'll be getting to know a range of interesting people across the industry. But first, here's a brief introduction to Simon Judd, our interviewer-at-large.
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Anja Drews, Professor at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin
Professor Anja Drews, from the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin, talks to Simon Judd about how her career took her from Dublin to Berlin (with a short stint in Oxford), and about her current work in renewables. Anja gives her opinions on the future opportunities for membranes, and discusses membrane fouling. Recorded at Euromembrane 2018 in Valencia.
TorOve Leiknes, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, KAUST
Professor TorOve Leiknes, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, talks to Simon Judd about his work in the field of MBRs. Recorded at Euromembrane 2018 in Valencia.
Dennis Livingston, Director, MBR Systems at Ovivo Water
During our trip to Austin, Texas to attend the opening of the Ovivo MBR Knowledge Centre, Simon Judd took the opportunity to chew the MBR fat with Dennis Livingston, Director, MBR Systems at Ovivo Water.
Bruce Jefferson, Professor of Water Engineering, Cranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University, UK
Professor Bruce Jefferson of Cranfield Water Science Institute, Cranfield University talks to Simon Judd about his extensive experience researching MBRs.


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Premier League clubs to receive millions of pounds in advanced payments
Posted by Don Ogomo on April 10, 2020
The 2019-20 Premier League season has been postponed indefinitely
Premier League clubs will receive millions of pounds in advanced payments related to league positioning and television fees in an effort to ease their cash-flow problems.
The 20 clubs agreed to the funding to cope with the lack of income because of the coronavirus crisis, with payments expected to be in the region of £20m.
The partial release of "merit payments" is the prize money that clubs would have received, while "facility fees" relate to how many matches each club had shown on live TV matches.
Clubs will also receive part of their funding for next season in the summer months.
The arrangement for this season's advanced payments, which was first reported by The Times, was decided by the clubs at last week's shareholder meeting.
Premier League football has been postponed indefinitely because of the spread of the coronavirus.
There will need to be adjustments made to these payments at the end of the season based on what the final table looks like.
BBC Sport has been told the amount of money being released has been carefully decided, based on balancing the cash-flow problems clubs are experiencing with the worst-case scenario of broadcasters demanding money back if the remaining fixtures are not played.
Sports streaming provider DAZN has told the Premier League it will be deferring its most recent payments for overseas rights until it receives clarity on when or if the season will resume.
DAZN has the rights to show Premier League action in Japan, Canada, Spain, and Brazil.
The Premier League is understood to be facing potential financial losses of £762m in broadcast revenue if the season cannot resume.
Insiders have stressed that the release of merit payments should not be seen as an indication of an idea to end the season where it is now and that the decision has been made to help clubs through this crisis.
Typically clubs receive some funding at the beginning of a new season.
It is understood the intention is still to pay clubs part of this funding for next season during the summer months, to again help tide clubs over during this period when they have no other money coming in.
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Collection: National Parks
President Kennedy designated this area a National Recreation Area in 1963 as a demonstration site to explore how an area with limited value for agricultural or timber harvesting and no major industrial activity could be transformed into an economically productive recreation area.
The park sits at the eastern edge of the Paunsaugant Plateau, and the ridgeline offers stunning views across southern Utah.
San Francisco Peaks Volcano Field
Northern Arizona is best known for the Grand Canyon. Less widely known are the hundreds of geologically young volcanoes scattered across the southern portion of the Colorado Plateau at the eastern foothills of the San Francisco Peaks.
The landscape was formed as wind, water, and earthquakes carved away a 23-million-year-old volcano.
Over 300 glaciers, about one-third of the glaciers in the Lower 48 states, lie within the park boundaries.
At 86 meters (282 feet) below sea level, Death Valley, California, is one of the hottest, driest places on the planet.
Canyon de Chelly National Monument was created in 1931 to protect the cultural heritage of the canyon lands of Arizona.
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Although nearly a century has passed since its last eruption, signs of volcanic activity are still visible in this false-color image.
The landscape is a recently formed set of basaltic lava flows that creates a foreboding landscape of sharp obsidian, cinder and spatter cones, twisted rivers of solidified rock, pit craters, and a network of caves from lava tubes.
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park is a small park that encompasses the steep-walled canyons of the Gunnison River, which drains snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains in western Colorado.
Mt. Rainier, Washington
A clear summer day over Washington state provided the International Space Station crew the chance to observe Mt. Rainier—a volcano that overlooks the Seattle metropolitan area and the 2.5 million people who live there. In addition to its presence on the Seattle skyline, Mt. Rainier also looms large among volcanoes in the United States.
Effigy Mounds National Monument
The park was created in October 1949 to protect a small area along the banks of the Mississippi River where Native Americans built earthen mounds for millennia.
The most striking feature is Roosevelt Lake, an artificial lake created by the construction of Roosevelt Dam across the Salt River. The National Monument is surrounded by the Tonto National Forest, which includes low plains, desert scrubland, and alpine pine forests.
The park encompasses about 37,000 hectares of the Sonora Desert.
Situated in Utah, the park is home to 2,000 arches and windows in rock, as well as rock spires and pinnacles.
Archaeological evidence indicates that American Indians living in the area began exploring the cave system in the late Archaic period, between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago. European settlers first found the caves in 1798.
The paleontologist Eric Douglass made the first discoveries here in 1909, and President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it a national monument in 1915.
It one of the oldest parks in the United States, created in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Delaware Water Gap
The park runs roughly 40 miles along the Delaware River and the Appalachian Mountains, which are immediately adjacent to the river.
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
The first recorded charting of the area was done in 1794 by George Vancouver, in which he showed the bay being a small indentation in the Icy Strait with a gigantic glacier stretching off to the horizon.
The park stretches through the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.


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DENVER, July 24, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QEP Resources, Inc. (NYSE:QEP) ("QEP" or the "Company") announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, QEP Energy Company, has entered into two definitive agreements to sell natural gas assets in southwest Wyoming for combined proceeds of $777.5 million, subject to customary purchase price adjustments (the "Divestitures").
The first agreement provides for the sale of all of QEP's assets in the Pinedale Anticline field in Sublette County, Wyoming, for a purchase price of $740.0 million ("Pinedale Divestiture") to Pinedale Energy Partners, LLC, an affiliate of Oak Ridge Natural Resources, LLC. The Pinedale Divestiture includes an estimated 964 Bcfe of proved reserves as of December 31, 2016, and net production in the first quarter of 2017 was 234 MMcfed, of which approximately 12% was liquids. As part of the Pinedale Divestiture, QEP has agreed to reimburse the buyer for certain deficiency charges it incurs related to gas processing and NGL transportation and fractionation contracts, if any, between the effective date of the sale and December 31, 2019, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $45.0 million. The transaction is subject to closing conditions, including regulatory approval, and is expected to close by September 30, 2017.
BMO Capital Markets served as financial advisor and Vinson & Elkins LLP provided legal counsel to QEP. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC served as financial advisor and Baker Botts L.L.P. provided legal counsel to Pinedale Energy Partners, LLC.
In a separate transaction, the Company closed the sale of certain non-core natural gas assets in southern Wyoming to an undisclosed buyer on June 30, 2017. The purchase price was $37.5 million. The divestiture includes an estimated 15.2 Bcfe of proved reserves as of December 31, 2016, and net production in the first quarter of 2017 was approximately 4 MMcfed, of which approximately 2% was liquids.
This release includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Forward-looking statements can be identified by words such as "anticipates," "believes," "forecasts," "plans," "estimates," "expects," "should," "will" or other similar expressions. Such statements are based on management's current expectations, estimates and projections, which are subject to a wide range of uncertainties and business risks. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: the benefits of the Divestitures, including the ability of the Divestitures to strengthen QEP's balance sheet and fund future development projects and acquisition opportunities; the estimated reserves to be divested; the estimated percentages of liquids and production associated with the assets included in the Divestitures; and the timing of the closing of the Pinedale Divestiture. Actual results may differ materially from those included in the forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including, but not limited to: disruptions of QEP's ongoing business, distraction of management and employees, increased expenses and adversely affected results of operations from organizational modifications due to the Divestitures; the inability of the parties to satisfy the conditions to the consummation of the Divestitures, including regulatory approval of the Pinedale Divestiture; changes in natural gas, NGL and oil prices; liquidity constraints, including those resulting from the cost or unavailability of financing due to debt and equity capital and credit market conditions, changes in our credit rating, our compliance with loan covenants, the increasing credit pressure on our industry or demands for cash collateral by counterparties to derivative and other contracts; global geopolitical and macroeconomic factors; the activities of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC); the impact of Brexit; general economic conditions, including interest rates; changes in local, regional, national and global demand for natural gas, oil and NGL; changes in, adoption of and compliance with laws and regulations, including decisions and policies concerning the environment, climate change, greenhouse gas or other emissions, natural resources, and fish and wildlife, hydraulic fracturing, water use and drilling and completion techniques, as well as the risk of legal proceedings arising from such matters, whether involving public or private claimants or regulatory investigative or enforcement measures; strength of the U.S. dollar; elimination of federal income tax deductions for oil and gas exploration and development; drilling results; shortages of oilfield equipment, services and personnel; the availability of storage and refining capacity; operating risks such as unexpected drilling conditions; transportation constraints; weather conditions; changes in maintenance, service and construction costs; permitting delays; outcome of contingencies such as legal proceedings; inadequate supplies of water and/or lack of water disposal sources; and the other risks discussed in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Risk Factors section of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016, and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2017. QEP undertakes no obligation to publicly correct or update the forward-looking statements in this news release, in other documents, or on the website to reflect future events or circumstances. All such statements are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement.


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Barbie's Negative Affects
Barbie was founded in 1959 by a woman named Ruth Handler. She first created the doll for her daughter because she wanted something that they could pretend to be teenagers with, instead of many of the dolls that were out at the time that they played a motherly role to (Barbie Collector). The purpose of this paper is to show that Barbie has a negative affect on young girls self esteem. Barbie has a negative influence on young girls because she has a unrealistic body image, she gives young girls the idea that they need to look perfect, and she teaches girls to be materialistic. One reason that Barbie has a negative affect on young girls is because she gives them the idea that their bodies should look just like hers. The barbie doll has a slim waist, large breasts and a flat stomach. On average American girls will own at least seven Barbies in their lifetime (Barbie Media). Many girls grow up thinking that if they do not have the same figure as barbie, something is wrong with them. If Barbie were life size, she would be five feet and nine inches tall, weigh 100 pounds, and have a size three shoe. In 1965 the creator of Barbie came out with "Slumber Party Barbie." This Barbie came complete with a scale permanently set at 100 pounds. The Doll also came with a book titled "How to Lose Weight" and inside the book read "Don't eat" (Huffington Post). Barbies appearances can lead many girls down a path of anorexia and bulimia in their effort to maintain high standards of perfection, like Barbie. It is estimated that eight million people in the U.S. have eating disorders and 85-90% of those people are female (ANAD Eating Disorders). Women are proven to be more likely to develop an eating disorder, and playing with a unrealistic doll for multiple hours as a child does not help. Many of these people with eating disorders have admitted to worrying about their weight as early as age six, also the same age that many girls get their first Barbie. I remember playing with Barbies when I was younger. I would dress her in her tiny belly shirts that would barely fit over her large breasts and would fit snug against her flat stomach. As I grew older I became obsessed with the attaining the perfect body. Although I would not picture the exact image of Barbie in my head, I would picture many of the features that she has. Some nights I can spend hours in the gym running on the treadmill trying to get a perfectly flat stomach like hers, and at dinner I'll skip dessert in hopes to have her perfectly slim bikini body. I think that the Barbie Doll has definitely had negative affect on me. Although in my mind I am not always picturing the Barbie doll when I think of what I want to look like, I picture the features of her body that I would want to achieve. Girls should learn at a young age to love themselves no matter how they look, rather than compare themselves to a piece of plastic. Another reason that Barbie has a negative affect on young girls is because she gives the wrong idea of the perfect look. Barbie gives girls the idea that they need to spend tons of money and look unnatural to achieve the perfect look. The doll teaches girls that they should always look put together and fancy, with her perfect hair, perfect makeup and symmetrical facial dimensions. The Barbie leads girls to spend hours piling makeup onto their faces, destroying their hair with dyes, straighteners, and curling irons, and hating their noses, eyes, and mouthes. Girls will look forward to finally turning eighteen just so that they can get a nose job, or lip injections. Some older, richer women spend thousands of dollars trying to achieve the "perfect" look. They will go to any measure including plastic surgeries, face lifts, and hiring professional stylists. A woman from the UK named Sarah Burge spent over one million dollars to achieve the Barbie look. She lasers a layer off her skin five times a year for a more youthful look, has had five…
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HomeInvestingWhy Invest in Stocks When Bond Yields Are Higher?
Why Invest in Stocks When Bond Yields Are Higher?
In the fall of 1981 the yield on 30 year U.S. Treasury bonds hit 15%.
Fifteen percent! For 30 years!
One million dollars invested at that time would have been paying out $150,000 a year in interest for 3 decades.1 Can you imagine how much demand there would be for bonds yielding 15% for that long today?
The funny thing is when bond yields hit these levels in 1981 no one wanted to buy them.
Here are some quotes from the New York Times when this happened:
Long-term Treasury bond yields rose briefly to 15 percent yesterday, but even that record yield for a 30-year bond backed by the United States Government was not enough to attract much investor buying.
"It's a vicious circle," one trader said, "since the lack of investor demand deepens the gloom among the dealers, while dealers' forecasts of higher rates in the future encourage investors to stay out of the market."
That was the bond buying opportunity of a lifetime. Those are the kinds of yields where you can go to the beach and live off the interest…and no one wanted them.
The problem with playing Monday morning quarterback with something like this is the investments that look like generational buying opportunities with the benefit of hindsight often seem like the riskiest bets in the moment.
There were many reasons to shun bonds in the early-1980s. Inflation was so high that real returns weren't nearly as juicy as those abnormally high nominal yields.
No one knew at the time that rates and inflation were peaking and about to fall for four decades. Investors were dealing with nearly two decades of rapidly rising rates and prices.
Plus, bonds were a dreadful investment for some time by that point.
From 1946-1980, long-term government bonds lost an astonishing 60% of their value after accounting for inflation.2
It's no wonder investors were treating bonds like they were nuclear waste.
Investors assumed inflation would stick around forever.3
One would assume investors would all want to own bonds and shun riskier investments when yields are so high but that's not always the case.
The 1987 Black Monday crash is a perfect example.
The reasons for that crash are still a little murky to this day but one of the reasons for the stock sell-off was a swift rise in interest rates:
There was a lot more to it than that but interest rates going from 7% to start the year to more than 10% right before the crash certainly had a bearing on the risk appetite of investors.
The question is: Why didn't all investors simply move their portfolio to government bonds that were yielding 10%?
You could have locked up your capital for 10 years in high-quality, default-free bonds yielding double-digits instead of watching your money crash more than 20% in a single day in the stock market.
It's probably because the S&P 500 was up more than 40% in 1987 before that fateful day in October. Not to mention the fact that the S&P 500 was up more than 17% per year in the 8 years leading up to 1987 before that 40%+ gain occurred.
In that context, even 10% per year guaranteed from the U.S. government doesn't sound all that appealing.
Which brings us to today.
The bond yields of 2023 are minuscule compared to the 10-15% you could earn in the 1980s at times. But the nearly 5% you can now earn in Treasury bills that mature in less than a year's time looks pretty darn good compared to the yields of the past 10-15 years.
Many market prognosticators are beginning to wonder if going from a world of 0% rates to a world with 5% yields will cause a massive shift in investor allocations from stocks to bonds.
It would surprise me if there weren't a ton of investors who took advantage of this situation, especially retirees and those with short-to-intermediate-term saving needs.
For years the low interest rate environment was pushing people further and further out on the risk curve to earn anything approaching a respectable yield. For the first time in a long time, you can earn that respectable yield on relatively safe, short-term government bonds.
This is a good thing for savers.
But I'm not so sure investors en masse are going to all of the sudden put their entire portfolio into T-bills.
We as a species like risk. We like to gamble and take chances.
That's why we go to casinos and bet on sports and play the lottery and invest in options, crypto, start-ups, individual stocks and a whole bunch of other stuff that comes with the risk of loss.
The stock market was up 5% in the first two weeks of 2023. Most investors won't be patient enough to wait to earn 5% over the course of an entire year.
Michael and I discussed how interest rates could change the allocation preferences of investors and much more on this week's Animal Spirits video:
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Now here's what I've been reading lately:
1Right now you can get roughly $36,000 a year in interest for a $1 million investment in long-dated U.S. government bonds.
2The nominal returns were actually okay in this environment at around 2% per year. It's just that inflation was running at nearly 4.5% during this time so real returns were underwater.
3The 30 year return for the S&P 500 from 1981-2010 was 10.6% per year. So owning that long-term bond in 1981 outperformed the stock market by a wide margin. I'm cherry-picking here but it's still pretty wild.


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Today (Saturday, June 28, 2014), Calumet County Historical Society partnered with Wisconsin Steam Antique Engine Club for their "1st Ever Steam Engine Show". I learned a lot about the value of the steam engine to early 19th Century Wisconsinites and got to see some very cool steam engines in operation.
In addition to the steam engine show, I had the opportunity to tour the historical society museum; lots of cool things to see! Check out the museum here.
The Calumet County Historical Society is located on Irish Road, just north of its intersection with Wisconsin Highway 32 / 57, in Chilton, Wisconsin 54014.
you've got yourself a very nice system for turning logs into boards.
This same system would be used with a thrasher.
Boards cut from logs using steam engine system.
Unfortunately, I don't know more about this cool steam engine . . .
Not steam powered -- but still a lovely tractor!
The green engines are from 1912, and the red engine from 1929. The engines are from the collection of Linda & Douglas Knuth of New London. Doug restores the engines, then displays them at antique tractor shows throughout Wisconsin. These engines are equivalent to modern-day generators. The engines were fitted with a belt attached on one end to the engine and on the other end to another piece of equipment that needed power, like a washing machine.
The inner-workings of the steam engine . . .
set up a steam-engine powered ice-cream making system.
The ice cream is made with 12% milk fat and freshly-picked Wisconsin strawberries.
It sold for $4.00 a serving. Yum, Yum, Yum!!!
Linda's collection of antique ice-cream scoops . . .
It was a beautiful day for the 1st Ever Steam Engine Show!


The increased focus of world economies to invest in clean power is expected to increase investments and drive the global EVA market in the field of solar energy. Technological advancements (such as solar cells encapsulation) is one major opportunity in the ethylene vinyl acetate market as technological innovations are expected to increase the market penetration of EVA and make it suitable for a large number of applications. While EVA has been used in solar encapsulation for the past twenty years, the market has begun to experience extraordinarily high growth rates due to the increasing interest in using renewable energy.
Economic progress in the Asia-Pacific region is one of the major global EVA market drivers, as new ethylene vinyl acetate capacity has been announced as a result of high demand growth seen in the Asia-Pacific, due to which producers have expressed interest in producing EVA with higher vinyl acetate (VA) contents.
Ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) is formed by the copolymerization of vinyl acetate and ethylene and has brilliant toughness properties. When forged into a porous material, EVA acts similar to rubber due to its elasticity. Compared with low-density polyethylene (LDPE) EVA is three times more flexible. This material has various properties, such as ultraviolet radiation resistance, good barrier properties, stress-crack resistance, low-temperature toughness and hot-melt adhesive waterproof properties.
Ethylene vinyl acetate finds its applications in many areas such as hot melt adhesives, hot glue sticks, and top of the line soccer cleats (usually with additives like wax and resin). EVA is also used in biomedical engineering applications as a drug delivery device. The polymer is dissolved in an organic solvent (dichloromethane), powdered drug and filler (typically an inert sugar) are added to the liquid solution and rapidly mixed to obtain a homogeneous mixture. EVA is commonly known as expanded rubber or foam rubber. It is typically used as a shock absorber in sports shoes. Ethylene vinyl acetate foam is used as padding in equipment for different kinds of sports such as ski boots, bicycle saddles, hockey, pads, boxing and mixed martial arts gloves and helmets, wake board boots, fishing rods and fishing reel handles.
Based on the type, the global ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) market can be categorized into high density ethylene vinyl acetate (HEVA), low density ethylene vinyl acetate (LEVA), very low density ethylene vinyl acetate (VLEVA) and medium density ethylene vinyl acetate (MEVA). On the basis of applications, the global EVA market can be divided into the extrusion, non-extrusion, film, coating, injection molding and wire and cable. Amongst the bases of various product types, the "low density ethylene vinyl acetate" and the "high density ethylene vinyl acetate" are the fastest growing types of EVA. On the other hand, low-density polyethylene (LDPE) as a substitute for EVA is one of the major EVA market challenges.
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, DuPont, ENI, ExxonMobil Corporation are some of the major competitors in the EVA market. Other competitors in the ethylene vinyl acetate market include Arkema S.A., Celanese Corporation, CEREPLAST INC, Bridgestone India Private Ltd., Asia Polymer Corporation, Braskem, China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co. Ltd., Formosa Plastics Corporation U.S.A., Hanwa Group., Jiangsu Shenghong Group Co., Ltd., KraussMaffei Group, LANXESS, Honam Petrochemical Corp., Salient Management Comapny, TIBCO Software Inc., Spotfire Tableau Software among others.


Before there were Calm Sleep Stories there was Bob Ross. Now, at last, Calm brings you both at once.
We've stripped away the visuals of Bob Ross' famous old show, The Joy of Painting, and reinvented the audio as a Sleep Story to help you settle into slumber. It launches in the Calm app on June 4th and is called Painting with Bob Ross.
Bob Ross, the 1980s art instructor and TV host of The Joy of Painting on PBS, was best known in his day for his mellow manner, giant perm and quirky sayings about art and life.
The playful wisdom of his maxims, typically dispensed as throwaway remarks about the craft of painting, prompted fans to dub Ross "the guru with the paintbrush".
They've also helped earn him, since his death in 1995, a remarkable second life as an Internet celebrity and pop culture icon.
His chill vibe and baritone voice that barely rose above a whisper has lulled many a restless soul to sleep. The soothing swish-swash sound of his paintbrush against the canvas only heightened the calming effect.
Bob Ross, in other words, managed to be both a walking natural insomnia cure and a kind of barefoot philosopher, known for his off-the-cuff insights and adages.
Indeed, scientists have lately identified "the Bob Ross effect" and claimed that Ross was an unwitting pioneer of the brain-tingling sensation known as "ASMR" (or Auto Sensory Meridian Response") that induces a sense of euphoric relaxation.
In celebration of the release of Calm's Bob Ross Sleep Story, we gathered together 10 of our favorite Bob Ross quotes.
So often, Bob Ross seemed to be talking about painting but was in fact also talking about life. That was part of his magic: every art lesson turned out also to be a life lesson.
We see Bob Ross as an early and perhaps unwitting pioneer of mindfulness, before the term was widely used. His sayings were playful, wise and very mindful. He was ahead of his time, in so many ways. Thanks for your wisdom, Bob Ross.


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Melkevia Morris became a Take Stock in Children Scholar in the 5th grade. She was the youngest of 6 children, and the only one to attend and graduate from college out of those six siblings. This accomplishment demonstrates the immense influence TSIC has had on her life. The requirements and support from the TSIC program, her dedicated mentor and family, and her faith in God have collectively afforded Melkevia the opportunity to partake in, and excel at, an array of challenging experiences. These experiences have helped her to develop a unique skill set and build a level of perseverance that has allowed her to surmount every obstacle that has presented itself. It also allowed her to surpass the negative stigma sometimes found in her community, thus allowing her to avoid the common mistake of being a product of her environment.
Melkevia graduated from Jean Ribault High School in 2005 with Honors, all while juggling her responsibilities as the senior class president. She then continued to further her education at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, where she obtained her Bachelors of Science Degree in Accounting, Summa Cum Laude. Her hunger for education did not cease there. She received a Master of Taxation Degree from the University of Central Florida in 2010. At the age of 25, Melkevia is now a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Florida and is currently employed at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP as a Tax Associate. Not only has Melkevia successfully represented the foundation of TSIC, she is also giving back to her community by serving as a mentor to a student at Paxon School for Advanced Studies. In the words of Melkevia, "I am forever grateful for such a prestigious organization that stood behind me 110% during the critical times when it matter the most."
Jake's Story
Before, I was just a boy with a dream. Now, I'm a man with a plan.
My dream in life was to build a snowboarding shop in Alaska, just to let all of my friends snowboard for free.
Now I am a well-educated UF graduate pursuing a career in biomedical engineering. It was my mentor, Sheldon Friedman, who helped make my way of thinking – my way of living – more realistic. Our 11-year adventure through life together has been a unique journey for both of us. I have matured well beyond my years because of his guidance and wisdom, and still – for some reason – he claims to have gained just as much from me. My parents divorced when I was six and I stayed with my mother, a wonderful and loving woman. She always made sure that the bills were paid and that my two younger brothers and I were well fed. At the age of 11, I was enrolled in Take Stock in Children and assigned Sheldon as my mentor. When Sheldon's wife read the letter saying that her husband would be mentoring Jake Rosenzweig, her heart dropped a few feet – her maiden name was also Rosenzweig! We were off to a good start.
I met Sheldon once a week at school, where he brought me lunch. Oh, how I savored those Subway subs and chocolate milk! It was during these meetings that he would ask about my life. What I liked most about our meetings is that he never tried to make me into something I didn't want to be. He knew I wanted to be a scientist. As he always says, "youth mustn't be molded, but unfolded."
Sheldon gave me the momentum I needed to achieve my academic goals. I dual-enrolled at FSCJ while attending my senior year of high school, and earned my associate degree soon thereafter. I transferred to UF and graduated cum laude with my B.S. in chemistry and minors in education and
classical studies.
A few months after I graduated, my mother became very sick with brain cancer. She passed away earlier this year – in the slowest and most deteriorating way imaginable. Sheldon and his wife visited me and my mother in hospice during the roughest of times, and made all the difference. My mentor gave me the confidence I needed to tie up all unfinished legal business: guardianship of my brother who has cerebral palsy, refinancing the mortgage, managing hospital bills, child support, SSI, utility bills, etc.
Through all the changes in my life, Sheldon helped me cope. He made me realize that not just anyone has the strength or optimism to carry on. But, I made him realize that it was he who instilled those qualities in me. As he always says, "If not you, then who? If not now, then when?"
Alex's Story
In sixth grade, I was assigned a mentor through the Take Stock in Children program to help children in low-income families push towards the unthinkable scenario of being able to attend college. Around this age, I also became fascinated with meteorology. From then on, I knew what I wanted to do when I reached college, now that college had become a possibility. I continued to meet with this same mentor, Russell Hamrick, weekly through three years of middle school, four years of high school, and two years of community college, right up to the time I transferred to Florida State University in the fall of 2012 to begin my meteorology major, and we still keep in touch.
While I grew up, the people surrounding me had given up any hope of going to college. If it were not for Russell who instilled within me the drive and motivation I now carry, I also would have given up hope on furthering my education. During high school, I had to contribute to the family income. I got my first job at age 16 at a fast-food restaurant and worked roughly 20 hrs/week during the school year and as much as possible during summer. As I worked to help my family, I saw others letting life pass them by. I did not want that to happen to me. Education was my window of opportunity to escape the walls of poverty.
Beginning college was another huge transition for me and my family, since I am the first of anyone in my entire family to go to college. Life in college is also difficult because I have to work 25-30 hrs/week to support myself and pay my college expenses. With the encouragement and help of my mentor, I have been able to keep my focus and determination.
My goals now have been pushed to higher and achievable levels, which I never thought possible six years ago. Along with finishing up my Bachelor's of Science in meteorology from Florida State, I received honors and gained experience that would've been unthinkable without the Take Stock program.
I am now currently working on a Master's degree in atmospheric science at the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology. Take Stock gave me the opportunity to do something that would've been otherwise impossible and I am forever grateful.
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Meet The Salt Lake Tribune, 501(c)(3): The IRS has granted nonprofit status to a daily newspaper for the first time
It's a big step for Salt Lake City — but also a major opening for other newspapers who might find nonprofit status a more appealing alternative than selling or closing down.
By Christine Schmidt @newsbyschmidt Nov. 4, 2019, 1:52 p.m.
It was a "happy surprise," Fraser Nelson said, when The Salt Lake Tribune received a letter from the IRS on Friday giving the 148-year-old news outlet nonprofit 501(c)(3) status — no questions asked.
A final verdict on whether the Tribune could become the first legacy newspaper in the U.S. to go fully nonprofit wasn't expected until early 2020, Nelson (vice president of business innovation) and Jennifer Napier-Pearce (editor-in chief) told me. It had received approval for the parallel Utah Journalism Foundation a few months ago — also with no questions, but that was a more straightforward request. This approval opens the doors for many more commercial legacy newspapers to seek tax-deductible status and philanthropic funding — a potential lifeline for local news outlets whose owners agree to give up control.
"We argued that our business will not change and we will continue to support the community that we serve and left it open to interpretation," Napier-Pearce said. "We figured if they do go ahead with it, our circumstance is not going to match the circumstance of local newspapers around the country. We wanted maximum flexibility so other people could tinker with this recipe for their particular needs. Our argument is we're already doing the work of a nonprofit. We should qualify for that tax status."
"Without a lot of feedback from the IRS, we're grateful that we have a pretty blank slate," Nelson said. "We want to make sure we're making decisions that make sense for us as an institution, make sure they are in the context of the larger national [landscape] and what this means for other papers and for journalism generally."
(They asked me to share the donate link, which will probably become very familiar to Tribune readers once the paper figures out some infrastructure questions. The Tribune also received funding from the Google News Initiative to work on these items last month.)
Here's The Salt Lake Tribune's plan for securing 501(c)(3) status
The Tribune announced the news this morning, just five months after it submitted its application to the IRS. (I reached out to the IRS for comment and, update as of November 14, got the full application of the Tribune and response from the IRS.) In June, we unpacked the various hoops the application would have to jump through with Nelson and media law expert Jeff Hermes, such as:
"Are you using commercial revenue streams such as advertising or subscription fees without attempting fundraising?"
The Tribune had offered up advertising as unrelated business taxable income to the IRS, meaning that it would be outside the purview of their tax deductibility, but the IRS didn't issue any instruction on how to treat it. Subscriptions may become tax-deductible, but Fraser said they'll have to figure out if that status would vary between digital and print subscriptions (since a print edition involves more business operations, like printing and distribution). So for now, TBD.
Nonprofit news outlets aren't relying as heavily on foundations — but journalism philanthropy continues to grow
But the nonprofit newspaper will be able to attract a new mix of revenue streams, reliant on philanthropic giving, smaller donations from readers and supporters, and the endowment of the separate Utah Journalism Foundation. (Nelson said earlier this year that they were aiming to raise $60 million for that. Today she said she couldn't share anything about the amount raised thus far. UJF grants will also go to other Utah news organizations besides the Tribune.)
Reminder: "Nonprofit" doesn't mean "no business plan." Nonprofit journalism in general has seen an remarkable boom over the past ten years, but the outlets still need to invest in their business and fundraising operations to sustain the editorial operations.
"We'll be forthcoming about where that is but one thing that's really important is to stress again that the purpose of this foundation is to help sustain The Salt Lake Tribune in perpetuity but also to make sure that we're doing as good a job as we can with promoting and supporting independent journalism in the state," Nelson said.
The Tribune also needs to detangle itself from its business relationship with the other Salt Lake newspaper, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints-owned Deseret News. They're currently part of a joint-operating agreement that strongly favors the Deseret News and will expire next year. "We'll need to figure out what our relationship looks like, if any, going forward. But these are all really good things to deal with and to noodle over," Napier-Pearce said.
With this change, Salt Lake City will be home to what must be the least commercially oriented local news scene in the country — two daily newspapers, one owned by a church, the other run as a nonprofit.
"Are you engaged in political activity?"
As part of this shift, the Tribune editorial board will officially step back from endorsing candidates, which publisher and owner Paul Huntsman had seemed thrilled to give up earlier this summer. (Yes, he is of the Utah Huntsmans.) The editorial cartoonist Pat Bagley will remain, as will the Tribune's sports analysis and regular newsroom operations. "The integrity of our reporting and our values as a news organization won't change, but we will engage with the community in new ways and ask for their support," Napier-Pearce said in the announcement Monday.
She added to me: "We are very much a community newspaper, so our focus will always be on Utah. We've really changed the way we look at and define news just because of limited resources…It's really going to depend on the generosity of our donors and the community coming together and see what we can do. My ultimate hope is to expand the newsroom, replace the reporters that we are sad we had to let go, and start to rebuild." (The Tribune laid off more than a third of its newsroom last year.)
Over the summer, the Tribune held focus groups and is planning a listening tour to talk with its audience more directly, Nelson said.
But "political activity" — a no-no for 501(c)(3)s — can mean more than just election-time endorsement slates, Hermes had warned in June; this is the kind of item that can be very curiously interpreted. He emailed me his take Monday morning:
It remains possible, for example, that the subjects of a newspaper's coverage — particularly political figures who are displeased by stories perceived as negative — could complain to the IRS that the paper's reporting runs afoul of the candidate endorsements rule even though the paper does not make formal endorsements. It is worth noting that the "endorsements" rule is not limited to formal endorsements; rather, the rule in question prohibits "participat[ing] or interven[ing], directly or indirectly, in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office." Treas.Reg. (26 C.F.R.) 1.501(c)(3)-1(c)(3)(iii). We are in untested waters with respect to how these rules apply to a nonprofit newspaper with robust political reporting. Perhaps a court would consider this "indirect intervention," or perhaps not; it would at any rate involve a highly fact-specific inquiry based on the nature of the coverage.
(That said, while no nonprofit newspaper has engaged in "robust political reporting," plenty of other nonprofit news outlets — The Texas Tribune, ProPublica, the Center for Public Integrity, and so on — have done plenty of work that has impacted the fates of candidates and campaigns. We'll see.)
"Is your ownership ready for this?"
Huntsman, publisher and owner since 2016, seemed very ready in his note to readers Monday morning, referring to the market failure of local journalism: "I will not be held hostage to a broken system."
Huntsman — part of a powerful local family, deeply embedded in the community, wealthy outside his newspaper holdings — is the most obvious sort of owner to be interested in nonprofit status. Local newspapers are currently fighting to build a profitable and commercial future, of course. But one could imagine, if their newspapers' financials get substantially worse, that owners like John Henry in Boston, Glen Taylor in Minneapolis, Warren Buffett in Omaha, the Blethens in Seattle, or maybe even the Decherds in Dallas could see this as a path forward. It could be even more of a boon to smaller newspapers, dailies and weeklies, which are more likely to still be locally owned.
That said, don't expect much interest from the nation's big newspaper chains, which own an ever-growing share of the newspaper landscape.
Control of the Tribune will now go to the board of the nonprofit (separate from the board of the Utah Journalism Foundation, which will focus on fundraising) and supported by several advisory committees. There's a placeholder board for now, Napier-Pearce said, since the approval just came through; but they hope to develop a board "that reflects who we are as Utahns. We also want experts from the industry to step forward. I don't know exactly what the makeup is going to look like, but it will be very different six months from now," she said.
There's a lot to be determined. Will the new revenue enabled by nonprofit status be a game-changer or a trickle? If the mission is more squarely about journalism and community service now, does that speed up an end to print? (It's a huge cost item in newspaper budgets, but it's also still a huge driver of revenue.) How will the IRS respond to any challenges to the new status? Will there set off be a flood of outlets rushing to get tax-deductible funding?
The news took Media Twitter by happy surprise as well:
Congratulations to the @sltrib, which did what I honestly thought it couldn't: convince the IRS to let it convert from a for-profit to a nonprofit business https://t.co/SsuVGt2COD
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) November 4, 2019
The Salt Lake Tribune, a daily newspaper there, becomes a non-profit 501(c)3. That's a big deal. Not a commercial business owned by a foundation or school, like some newspapers are, but its own non-profit. https://t.co/aFOFkM4Zwt
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) November 4, 2019
Huge news in local news: @sltrib's non-profit status has been approved by the IRS https://t.co/4JhLG9rxg8
— Lenfest Institute (@lenfestinst) November 4, 2019
Back in 2012 it wasn't clear the IRS would allow nonprofit journalism to exist, and today it has endorsed a major metro daily newspaper converting to nonprofit status. That is a huge endorsement of the value of and need for nonprofit news as a core part of American democracy. /2
— Josh Stearns (@jcstearns) November 4, 2019
Salt Lake City's daily Tribune newspaper becomes a nonprofit — an important move into the future of local news for two reasons. 1) Ownership was enlightened. 2) IRS, notably stingy about giving nonprofit status to journalism, said OK. https://t.co/dWjK8krskR h/t @jayrosen_nyu
— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) November 4, 2019
Note how the @sltrib's owner Paul Huntsman uses the term 'community institution' to describe the paper. I think that idea will be put to the test here in an interesting way. https://t.co/HLQwmJDHX4
— Jesse Holcomb (@JesseHolcomb) November 4, 2019
STOP THE PRESSES. LITERALLY, @WarrenBuffett. They did it. Congrats, Salt Lake!https://t.co/X4KbVk9Wnc
— @ErinGraceOWH (@ErinGraceOWH) November 4, 2019
I know I already tweeted this story. But I'm still so happy about it. It was fun to walk into the newsroom and see the reaction this morning.
In historic shift, The Salt Lake Tribune gets IRS approval to become a nonprofit, via @sltrib https://t.co/qqEPtauuUm
— Becky Jacobs (@ruthyjacobs) November 4, 2019
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You will never be short of stunning sights and unforgettable days out in the North East.
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Backbends, handstands, and human jump rope? The most flexible man in Nigeria will be pulling out all the stops during his America's Got Talent audition. Known by his stage name, Dflex, this master contortionist is ready to share his limb-bending talents with America. As a top ten finalist on Nigeria's Got Talent, Dflex is no stranger to the big stage. How will far he get this time around?
Who is Dflex?
Born Oyindamola Kolawole Emmanuel, the Nigerian performer has began to turn a lot of heads (not as far as he can turn is own, I'm sure). He took the name Dflex as his stage persona to embody his skills of contortion. Aside from his unique talent, Dflex is also a certified yoga instructor. Seems like the perfect day job, if you ask me.
Dflex discovered his flexibility as a child on the playground. The first trick he can recall is being able to jump rope around his own interlocked hands. From then on, he found out he could do a whole lot more. His practically inhuman body transformations is captivating audiences, but also can be quite horrifying.
"Reactions at first were weird as it was a new kind of action but they are getting used to it now. They still get amazed when I do some things. My mum can't stand watching me perform," he said in a statement.
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From Nigeria to the 'AGT' Stage
Dflex has participated in a number of performances originating in Nigeria and beyond. He was a notable finalist on Nigeria's Got Talent and has also appeared in Circus Zyair in the U.K., Lagos State Count-down, and Big Brother Naija to name a few.
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The performance artist has also worked with a number of Nigerian celebrities like Kaffy, Psquare, Phyno, and more. You can even catch him in Phyno's music video for "Alobam."
Dflex even headlined his own show last year entitled "Limberness," to promote the act of contortion. A brilliant way to prepare for the America's Got Talent audition.
Dflex says that his America's Got Talent audition will be his most "memorable" moment to date. Tune in this week to see if Nigeria's most flexible man gets through to the next round.
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