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Saturday’s papers reflect the mounting anger of the British public – and some Tory MPs – over No10’s alleged partying during lockdown.
Le télégraphe quotidien writes that Boris Johnson is set to scrap Plan B Covid restrictions as he plots to win back the public and his Tory peers amid the scandal of “partygate”.
Le gardien carries Downing Street’s apology to the Queen after it was revealed government staff held two parties the night before she buried her husband. The paper also writes that Conservateur MPs will hold crisis talks over the weekend amid mounting public outrage over lockdown-busting party allegations.
The Daily Mirror reports No10 staff held “weekly wine time Fridays” while the rest of the nation was under strict lockdown.
The “raucous bash” which was held on the eve of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral and prompted Mr Johnson’s apology to the Queen had involved Downing Street staff hauling “a suitcase full of wine” into No10 and resulted in revellers breaking a child’s swing, Le soleil réclamations.
L'indépendant carries an exclusive about the “partygate” saga, reporting that the premier ministre has drawn up a list of Tory MPs he will ask to take the fall over the scandal to save his leadership.
i weekend writes that Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have been attempting to “woo” Tory MPs as pressure mounts within the PM’s own party for him to quit.
le Daily Express writes that the “devoted Queen deserves better” than the alleged conduct of No10 during a lockdown which saw her forced to solitarily mourn her husband.
Les temps reports cabinet ministers have warned Boris Johnson he is in a “last chance saloon” as those still backing the PM find it increasingly difficult to defend the conduct of Downing Street staff.
le FT Weekend also splashes with the scandal engulfing the PM, writing that his “future hangs by (une) thread”.
le Daily Star continues in the same vein, carrying the headline: “Will the last of Bozo’s flunkies caught having a lockdown party please turn out the lights”.
Ailleurs, les Courrier quotidien accuses Sir Keir Starmer of hypocrisy and features a blurry image of the Labour leader appearing to hold an alcoholic drink in the company of colleagues which the paper claims was taken in April 2021 while the UK was under strict lockdown.


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The crime occurred about 1 a.m. Wednesday at Moodoo Donuts, in the 5400 block of Beach Boulevard, according to the Buena Park Police Department.
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A 1031 exchange is a tool that investors can use to defer the recognition of capital gains when they want to sell one piece of investment property and purchase another. The reference is to the relevant section of the Internal Revenue Code, specifically Title 26, Section 1031. Originally the intention was to allow farmers to exchange parcels of land, but the allowable uses have changed since the exchanges were first permitted in 1921.
If an investor wants to dispose of one investment property and purchase a different one (or more than one) using a 1031 exchange, the incentive to do so might be a deferral of capital gains taxes, depreciation recapture, and Net Investment Income Taxes (aka Affordable Care Act taxes.) The process can also support enhanced variety in the investor's portfolio.
How Does the 1031 Exchange Process Work?
The 1031 exchange process is reasonably straightforward, although investors should be careful not to miss strict IRS deadlines or risk a failed exchange. The clock starts ticking when the initial property sale (referred to as the "relinquished asset" takes place. The investor has 45 calendar days to identify potential replacements, subject to these limits:
- Identify one to three potential replacement properties, with no maximum price (to qualify for the exchange, the price must at least equal the sale price of the relinquished asset);
- Identify as many potential replacements as you want, with a combined value of no more than 200% of the property you are selling; or
- Identify an unlimited number of potential replacements, but ultimately purchase a combination of them that equals 95% or more of the combined value.
The next deadline is for the consummation of the purchase, which must be finished by 180 days after the initial sale, inclusive of the first 45.
What About the Type of Property?
While the rules focus on replacing value (and debt), the IRS does not include details about the type of property that a taxpayer can exchange. Instead, the code language specifies a "like-kind" swap, and the IRS has allowed that most real estate is considered “like-kind” to other real estate. For example, vacant land is deemed like-kind to multi-family development, and ranch acreage is treated as like-kind when swapped for an office building.
The critical requirement is that the property is held for business or investment purposes. So while a residential rental property would typically be eligible, a personal home would not.
How Does an Investor Report the Exchange?
One of the crucial aspects of a successful 1031 exchange is using a Qualified Intermediary to manage the transaction. A QI can be an individual or a company but must be an independent actor not related to the investor or an agent thereof. The QI is responsible for overseeing the transaction, particularly ensuring that the taxpayer does not have access to the proceeds from the original asset sale and tracking the acquisition of the identified replacement properties.
The details of a 1031 exchange, including the property descriptions, dates and property values, gains or losses, and other relevant information, are captured and reported to the IRS on Form 8824 "Like-Kind Exchanges." Taxpayers should always seek the advice of a financial and tax professional.

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New York City resident and wildlife rehabilitator Ariel Cordova-Rojas decided she wanted to immerse herself in nature the day before she turned 30, so she rode her bike from Harlem to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on November 5 to take a hike.
What happened when she got there is something she said she’ll never forget.
“About a mile into my stroll, I saw a swan sitting by the edge of the bay by itself,” she said. “I’ve worked with swans before and noticed she looked a little off. She didn’t move whatsoever and just kind of looked at me.”
Cordova-Rojas, who previously volunteered at the New York City Wild Bird Fund for five years, said swans are normally territorial and can hiss at or try to flee from people when threatened. When she slowly approached the bird, the swan tried to get away, but it couldn’t walk, she said.
“At that point, I knew something was wrong with this swan,” she said. “I knew exactly where to take her, but I didn’t know how to get there because I came on my bicycle. None of that mattered to me, so I just picked up the swan, threw my jacket on top of her, scooped her up and just started to walk.”
What she didn’t realize is the rescue would take her and the swan on a two-hour trek by foot, car and subway. But that didn’t matter. She just wanted to help the swan.
Cordova-Rojas said she started to make some calls to the Wild Bird Fund to see if someone was available to pick her and the swan up, but nobody was available to give her a ride. She realized the next step she could take was to get to the subway so she could get the swan from Queens to Manhattan.
“People passing by saw someone walking with a swan trying to get (it) to safety,” Cordova-Rojas said. She said a cat rescuer named Wendy and her husband Don were willing to drive her bicycle to the Howard Beach subway station, and Wendy was able to call another friend of hers to drive Cordova-Rojas and the swan.
Eventually, Cordova-Rojas took the swan on the subway to Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn, 20 minutes later, where she was able to get a ride to the Wild Bird Fund to inspect the swan. The whole trip took about two hours, she said, and while the swan had no physical injuries or broken bones, she suspected the swan may have had lead poisoning.
The lead test came back positive and explained why the swan couldn’t walk.
“Lead poisoning is actually quite common in waterfowl and other birds in New York City,” Cordova-Rojas said. “It leeches into water sources but swans, since they’re so big, a lot of times when they’re foraging in the water, they pick up a lead anchor and it gets in their systems.”
Over time, it leads to lead toxicity, which can lead to neurological problems in the birds.
The swan will stay for a few weeks to a few months while recovering at the Wild Bird Fund, which Cordova-Rojas said is New York City’s only wildlife rehabilitation center. The swan, which she named Bae – “she was my ‘bae’ for the day,” Cordova-Rojas said – met another swan at the clinic and she may now have a boyfriend.
As someone who was born and raised in the concrete jungle, Cordova-Rojas said she was introduced to wildlife through her mother and some camping trips she went on while growing up. She said she one day wants to have her own show on National Geographic to educate youth about wildlife and nature.
The Wild Bird Fund doesn’t have a rescue squad, so while Cordova-Rojas has seen plenty of birds come into the clinic as a volunteer there, she said this experience stands out being on the other side.
“The nature of it, it doesn’t stand out but the journey of how far it took to get there definitely stands out,” she said. “It’s not my first rodeo, but it was definitely a big experience The big 3-0, right?”


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The use of anti-inflammatory in COVID patients has been criticized. It was a big mistake
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The Odd Case Against Susan Rice
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Erika Johnsen over at Hot Air is not buying Susan Rice's explanation:She relied “solely and squarely” on info from the intelligence community? That seems a bit odd, considering that the intelligence community suspected terrorism from the very beginning, which means that something doesn't fit here — and the most obvious possibility for that missing link is that somebody high up in the food chain tweaked the talking points on a very inconvenient situation with only weeks to go before a close presidential election, although the White House has denied having done so.
Prosperity, Not Austerity
David Moberg, In These Times
After playing a key role in President Obama's re-election, the labor movement must pivot immediately to a new task: moving the president away from a potentially disastrous policy of "austerity economics" and toward a second-term adoption of more worker-friendly "prosperity economics." In the weeks after the election, Obama will negotiate with the hard-right House Republicans about the looming threat of automatic across-the-board cuts.
Another Step Toward an Islamist Egypt
Barry Rubin, PJ Media
The French press agency headline says it all: “Egypt’s [President] Morsi assumes sweeping powers, branded new pharaoh.” Mursi has issued a decree giving himself virtually dictatorial powers and contradicting the assumption that he—and his Muslim Brotherhood organization—intend to rule democratically. Opposition forces said this constituted a coup.Mursi’s spokesman explained the decree in these terms: the president can issue any decree he wishes to protect the revolution. “The constitutional declarations, decisions and laws…


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One risk that banks can’t afford to ignore
Australian banks remain a staple of local investors, particularly those with a focus on income, and there are many good reasons for this. For one thing, there’s our highly favourable dividend imputation (franking credit) regime. Our Big Four banks also punch above their weight in terms of their return on equity (ROE), which compares extremely favourably on a global basis. Their average ROE sits above 10% as of 31 March versus an average of 8.25% for the US’s four largest banks as of 31 December.
But other parts of the financial sector – both at home and abroad – deserve more investor attention, as Capital Group's Andy Budden and William Pang explained recently during a webinar on the future of the financial sector.
“There are some very powerful secular trends and also a lot of disruption going on, but that makes it a stock pickers’ market,” says Budden, investment director in Capital Group’s Singapore office.
Despite the favourable ROEs of Australia’s banks – led by National Australian Bank (ASX: NAB) on 11.1% and Commonwealth Bank (ASX: CBA) on 10.5% - this figure has been declining for years. Having averaged around 17.5% before the GFC, Australian banks' average ROE dipped to about 15% by the end of 2017 before hitting the current level. This has happened partly in response to a regulatory requirement for higher capital buffers which has affected banks around the world.
Globally, banks have seen their ROEs hit by the BASEL capital requirements imposed post-GFC. Pang, a Singapore-based equity analyst for Capital Group, notes Chinese banks' average ROEs have declined from 15% in 2011 to around 7% in 2020.
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Alongside higher capital requirements, he points to “Japanification” – the prolonged period of low interest rates that suppresses banks’ lending businesses; and disruption by financial technology (fintech) companies.
On this last point, Budden and Pang touched on the trend toward “decentralised finance” (DeFi) – most glaringly in the rise and fall (and rise…and fall) of Bitcoin and its underpinning blockchain technology.
They also referenced local ASX darling Afterpay (ASXP APT) and its closest competitor, Zip Co (ASX: Z1P), among the leaders in the fast-growing buy-now-pay-later fintech category. Zip recently made local headlines amid a rumoured approach by Swedish BNPL company Klarna, which is partly owned by Commonwealth Bank.
“DeFi is something many analysts are starting to take more seriously and I believe its rise could pose a serious risk to some of the financial institutions in which we currently invest,” Pang says.
He refers here to the ongoing trials that around 50 monetary authorities around the world are conducting into digital currency, rather than the open-source varieties that have garnered the most press attention.
Budden says it could be a “gamechanger for financial inclusion” in negating the need to pay for physical issuance of currency and for things like tax collection – which have traditionally been key parts of commercial banking.
“The risk is that deposits migrate from commercial banks toward central banks – and why wouldn’t you when they’ve got zero default risk? – but once the deposits go from the commercial banks and undermine their ability to lend, it could take the lending function to central banks, which is rather intriguing,” he says.
Where are fintech disruptors coming from?
Financial exchanges – which were traditionally focused on generating revenue from company listings and clearing house activities – are one area that has seen “some very powerful forces sweeping through,” says Pang. From an Asian perspective, they have benefited from growing demand in China for derivatives-based financial products and for financial data.
“Fast-forward to today and we’ve got the exchanges sitting at the centre of some very powerful secular trends,” says Budden. Though these companies have traditionally been more cyclical in nature, they’ve started to take on more “growthy” characteristics.
“In a couple of cases they’re actually countercyclical, with Hong Kong Exchange a good example,” he says. “It’s like the financial markets’ doorway between China and the rest of the world.”
Budden points to the London Securities Exchange as another example that goes to the heart of the transformation that’s taking place in financial markets trading.
“If you go back 20 years, Goldman Sachs’ New York office had around 600 equity traders. Today they’ve got two, backed up by around 200 programmers,” he says.
“LSE has been a source of market data for a while, but a couple of years ago they bought Refinitiv – second-only to Bloomberg in market data. Market execution is still very important, comprising about one-third of their business but market data is now about 70% of their business, and it’s growing and recurring so is countercyclical.”
He also singles out Chicago Mercantile Exchange as a listed company that is benefiting from growing investor demand for derivative-based financial products.
In a similar vein, Budden highlights credit rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's, which hold up to 85% market share in their US home market. As firms developing credit products require ratings from multiple entities before distributing to various wholesale and retail market segments, these firms have “a really solid foundation for an investment thesis,” says Budden.
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Insurance companies – In faster-growing economies within emerging regions, rising levels of wealth have boosted demand for financial services such as advice and products including life insurance. In various markets, these services have become more problematic for banks to provide, too – as we’ve seen in Australia, with banks increasingly hiving off their wealth divisions and insurance businesses in the wake of various inquiries and regulatory crackdowns.
“Regulation is becoming inexorably tighter and we’re seeing lots of digital disruption, so it seems that over the next 10 years banks are going to have to think carefully about whether to innovate or potentially die long, slow deaths,” says Budden.
He argues life insurance is where you’ll find the best opportunities among listed insurers, rather than general insurance such as property, automotive and disaster insurance. “They’re very cyclical businesses and, historically, an interesting time to invest has been when the combined ratio – so premiums over claims – gets really compressed, which is when insurance companies have little choice but to start raising premiums.”
“As we look around the world, we don’t see a lot of that happening right now, and there aren’t a lot of general insurers in our portfolio right now. But it’s different with the life insurers and it is a secular trend, it’s the faster-growing economies where we see more wealthy individuals,” Budden says.
He notes several multinational companies distribute life insurance in some of these markets, though stops short of naming specific examples.
Budden says there are several stock-specific opportunities in the wealth management operations of some European banks, particularly in Spain, and in franchises based in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
He and Pang point to some internet platform companies that are copying the strategy of Jack Ma’s ill-fated Alibaba spinoff Alipay. Specific examples here include Korea’s KakaoPay and KakaoBank and Japan’s Softbank, which owns the market’s biggest digital wallet platform, PayPay.
“We’re certainly not suggesting you blindly buy the sector but very specific stock picking could be attractive,” says Budden.
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So, until four hours ago, I was a pho virgin. I don't do Northern Virginia, and I'm from a pho-free place in Middle America. Alas, no real opportunities for delicious noodle soup with beef and bean sprouts.
But today, after previous trial and failure, I succeeded in becoming a pho connoisseur (ok... maybe not connoisseur yet, but I'll get there).
The reviews from around my table: thumbs up, five stars, seven spoons... whatever, it was super good. Two of us had the pho, and my friend Ben went for the bun. We also tried both the egg and spring rolls, and I can safely say that a trip to Pho 14 isn't complete without at least one or the other. The sauces that came with everything were delicious, the food came out fast and hot, and I really don't know much about pho, but I know that this was good. I can also say that for $9.50, you could get a large take-out pho and get at least three meals out of it.
I've read reviews saying the service was spotty during the dinner rush, but our waiter (Jack) was fantastic, attentive, and made great recommendations. He informed us that they are working on the table configuration, and he offered up advice to his managers as he negotiated the small space.
He also said that pretty much every night, the rush comes after 6PM and lasts until after 9PM. If you're eager to try it, I'd suggest a Saturday or Sunday afternoon for a late lunch or early dinner.

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There’s been a great deal of discussion about online gambling recently with legislators, operators and the global community of gamblers trying to fathom complex matters such as for instance Internet “locality” ;.In the midst of these deliberations, many players have now been planning to assess the relative merits of gambling online or at land-based casinos.
Through all this there has been a lack of concentrate on the ability of the one who actually plays money at a casino. What about the gamblers that are central to any issues concerning casinos? We pose the sensible opening question – which are better, online or land-based slot machines?
Land-based slots would be the world’s most widely used casino game. They pay more winnings to gamblers than all of the other casino games together. But how well does this cherished kind of land-based gambling adjust to online play? The great majority of slots enthusiasts believe it has made the transition splendidly. The online versions of slots have become the most-played kind of online casino games, owing in part to the easy finding slots on the Internet (they’re also easy enough to get and play at land-based casinos) and in part to the fact that the game play is indeed simple.
Slot machines at land-based casinos have now been controlled by computers for several years, so it’s relatively easy to adapt the game to play online. Some players are puzzled whenever you let them know a land-based slot machine is not any higher than a computer in an elegant case, but this really is just what it is. These slots are driven by a microprocessor with an integrated random number generator. They work similar to the online versions as the operating software is hard-coded in the microprocessor.
What this means is there is very little of a distinction between how a game works and how the odds compute for online or land-based slot machines. But there are several differences.
The most obvious difference, the one that will forever separate the 2 forms, is that you can’t physically put your practical an on line slot. Similarly, land-based machines have much bigger and more spectacular light and sound displays, although the graphics on the web slots are sophisticated enough nowadays to emulate reality pretty well.
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Possibly probably the most telling difference between playing slots at an on line compared with a land-based casino is the type of the comps you receive. At a land-based establishment, the keen slots player may receive a discount or some similar small comp as an incentive for slaving away at a device for all hours. It’s quite different online because the competition among casinos is indeed intense.
With the Internet it doesn’t matter where in the world you live, every online casino would want to lure your custom. As a result you can get a comp only for deciding to play at confirmed casino regardless of how much you’ve gambled there. The sign-up bonus is really a common online attraction. It gives you a substantial value in real credits at the casino and you are able to exploit this bonus to swell your bankroll, take more time playing the slots and experience more opportunities to be a winner.

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Cathedral Prep’s talented senior class, which led the Ramblers to 28 consecutive victories over two seasons, continues to lure college recruiters.
Prep will be a busy place on National Letter of Intent Day on Feb. 5 after seven Ramblers have verbally committed to play for Football Bowl Subdivision (Division I-A), Football Championship Subdivision (Division I-AA) or Division II programs.
Two Ramblers accepted full rides to PSAC colleges, Prep announced Monday night. Two-way lineman Devonne Barnes will play on the defensive line at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and J.T. Joint will play linebacker at Slippery Rock. Prep announced that another lineman, Caleb Futscher, will play at Lake Erie College.
They join four earlier standouts who committed. Defensive backs Felix Manus-Schell (Old Dominion) and Marlon Tyree (Bowling Green) picked their schools before their senior seasons. Running back Jake DeHart (Yale) and wide receiver Alex Greenawalt (Colgate) committed to schools after the season.
Six Prep players were selected to the Pennsylvania Sports Writers’ all-state team, and nine were honored by Pennsylvania Football News following a 13-1 season during which the Ramblers reached the PIAA Class AAA semifinals.


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Creating your website is about more than using code and pictures to create a final whole. If that were so, you could create your website yourself, or you could if you know code. But the real reason that prompts most people to hire a Seattle web design company is the fact that real web design is about creating a work of art that utilizes every bit of space and color to its best advantage. From layout design to text and images, every bit of your website is thoroughly thought about and designed. The following includes just some of the attention to detail that the web designers at Rory Martin in Seattle put into your website.
Your website design starts with the background. Studies show that a uniform color background allows text and images to be more readable, so that is the best place to start. While it is possible to use an image background, a simple solid color can provide much better results. Style also plays a factor in your web design. Studies show that light colors such as white and grey are associated with professionalism, while darker colors such as black are associated with modern and alternative. Most of the time subtle light colors such as white or grey, or a subtly patterned backgrounds show the best results. While you can use a standard white background, many businesses prefer to show a bit more personality and utilize subtle coloring in their background.
Consistency Provides Better Results
Another thing that you might notice about a website is that a consistent design will help to improve results. Consistency looks good which means that it looks professional. Most customers and readers appreciate professionalism which will earn you recognition for that professionalism. Importantly, you can use differentiation in a consistent website to make certain items stand out.
Images help to draw attention, and keep interest, especially around blocks of content. Most experts recommend using large images combined with small blocks of text to tell your readers what you are about in as few words as possible. Short and sweet text combined with a visually rich website can create a great deal more impact than a long bland text with little to no visual impact. Your website should be about imagery as well as the written word so consider incorporating it with large photos, photo sliders, and other rich visual content.
Broken Grids Draw the Most Attention
An organized website on a grid layout can draw a lot of attention, but by slightly breaking up the grid, or highlighting one or two blocks from your grid, you can create a lot more visual impact, and change the way people look at your website. Organization is important and grids and broken grids are the easiest way to get there. Depending on website style and methods, either could be great for you. A couple of tips that can help with your Seattle web design include that smaller blocks of text create the most impact, large visual images are better than small pictures, and design and pattern matter. If you want to know what might work for your website, consider asking one of the Seattle web design pros at Rory Martin for a consultation and free estimate on your website.

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This green salve is something we have been using since we moved to these mountains and were introduced to it almost 4 years ago. The children love it, as do I, and we use it for any and all skin ailments. Bites, rashes, stings,
bruises, scrapes and more.
It works wonderfully soothing and is so easy to make.
Inspired by A handmade life, I added dried calendula flowers this time.
Otherwise we added the same herbs as we added to our poison ivy spray.
Lots of Comfrey, plantain and some jewel weed, we also added some dandelion leaves.
chopped it all up, added the dried calendula flowers and poured a bottle of Grape seed oil over it.
Left it in the oven for the whole day on the lowest temperature.
Then left it to strain over night
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and added the melted wax to the warmed up oil, if the oil isn't warm the wax will separate when added,
and here is lovely green goodness, ready for all those summer itches, scratches and bruises.

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May 14th, 2020
Hi everyone, here’s a quick introduction with a little info about me...
I’m super excited to be able to showcase my artworks to viewers all over the world.
For the past 20 years I have, and continue to, run my own training and graphic design business.
I have drawn and painted since I was a child, (there were horses all over my school books!), attended graphic design college and workshop sessions with some fabulous art tutors over the years. Art and painting is my passion, with a focus on artist oils.
I am able to do commission work across many different topic categories, so please get in touch if there’s something you would like.
If you would like to buy wall art but the colours aren’t quite right, let me know - I can make adjustments to the digital image to suit your decor and colour scheme.
I look forward to continuing my learning, making new acquaintances and creating works which are appreciated by many.
Now, it’s time to pick up a brush, squeeze out some oil and paint!
Get in touch via email@example.com, or visit my website at www.jumpart.com.au


Super Bowl Sunday. America’s favorite party and the last football game for seven months. A great day if you’re a casual fan or a neutral observer, the longest day of the year if your team is playing. Trust me, I know from experience. Time never moves quite as slowly as it does on Super Bowl day. If you’re not like me and don’t suffer from crippling anxiety about an inconsequential event I have absolutely no control over, you can probably get a lot done during the day. The morning never ends and the afternoon lasts forever. 4:30-6:15 is four separate eternities. And then the game starts, and, if you have a rooting interest, it’s the longest four hours in history. The day is mostly agony, broken only by the cosmic coin flip that is the final result. But, again, that’s only if you’re like me.
If you’re not like me you’re probably going to a party with a bunch of people you either like or are tangentially connected to where you’ll spend a few hours eating food and having rote, boring, uninformed conversations about football and commercials and hear such gems as “Tom Brady’s a cheater,” or “I’m so sick of the Patriots,” or “you know, this should really be the Saints. Did you folks see what happened to them?” Sounds like hell to me. I’ll be in my apartment, alone, breaking down film in real time. That’s what a true expert does. That’s why you’re reading my thoughts on the Super Bowl and not your friend Doug’s. Doug thinks he’s the first person to come up with a Sean McVay coaching tree joke. He’s not, trust me. Super Bowl parties also leave too much to chance, mostly food related. What if you get there and there are no wings? Or no pizza? Or weird chips or a weird dip you don’t want but your friend’s girlfriend made it so you have to try it? Pass. Let me provide my own spread. It’s better that way.
Onto the game itself.
New England Patriots (-3) vs Los Angeles Rams
Did you know these two teams played 17 years ago in the Super Bowl, kicking off the Patriots Dynasty? Bet you didn’t. In a weird way, the roles are kind of reversed this time around. The Patriots as the established powerhouse with the championship pedigree against the young coach-QB combo that has aspirations of something greater. But it’s far from apples to apples. For starters, the Pats are only 3 point favorites as opposed to 14 point favorites (which, game-that-shall-not-be-named notwithstanding, I don’t think will ever happen again in a Super Bowl). There’s also no pressure on the Pats. What’s their penalty for losing? Brady and Belichick are suddenly not the best ever? The key players of the Patriots’ run get nothing out of this game either way. It’s all on the Rams. They’re the ones with the revolutionary coach that will undoubtedly see 31 of his former assistants as head coaches within the next five years. They’re the ones that went all-in on free agency and have the hopes and dreams of every single NFL player who wants both money and success riding on them. They’re the ones who have to carry the flame for the NFL’s entertainment-focused agendas. They’re the ones who, most likely, will be set up as the next team to kind of run the league for a few years if they win. And they very well might win. They have the firepower offensively and the beasts on defense. They won 13 games for a reason. In an alternate reality where the Chiefs won last week, I’d be rooting for the Rams. It’s in the league’s best interest for McVay to win. I like a lot of their players. Love Jared Goff. Aaron Donald is one of the five best NFL players I’ve ever seen. I’ve always been a big Ndamokung Suh guy despite the…antics. Aqib Talib is a former Patriot great. But they’re not going to win. The Pats are too smart, too tough, too experienced. This game is going to come down to the wire. Would you rather be the team with comically clutch quarterback and the coach who’s prepared for everything or the first time coach and QB with the injured kicker? I’ll hang up and listen. Sorry, America. Pats win again.
Just kidding. I’m not sorry.
Prop Bet Special (via Bovada)
- Coin Toss- Heads -105
- National Anthem Over/Under 1:49 (Gladys Knight)- Over -145
- Will Any Scoring Drive Take Less Time Than Anthem?- Yes -145
- Over/Under Tony Romo Correct Pre-Play Predictions 7.5- Under -135
- Aaron Donald QB Hits Over/Under 2.5- Under -135
- How Many Times Will Ted Rath (Sean McVay’s get-back coach) Be Mentioned O/U 3.5- Under -400
- O/U Sean McVay’s Age Mentioned 1.5- Over -270
- O/U Total Net Yards 824.5- Under -140
- What Color Liquid Dumped On Coach? Orange +450
- Who Will MVP Mention First in Speech? Teammates +160
- First Song Performed by Maroon 5? “Moves Like Jagger” +600
- Predominant Color of Adam Levine’s Shirt? Other Color Than Black EVEN
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The Runaway Pea
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
It’s time for tea! But this plate full of veggies are VERY shocked when one little pea decides that, no, he does NOT want to be eaten, thank you very much. It’s not time for tea; it’s time for adventure!
With a hop, skip and a jump, this independent pea is seeking freedom. But what challenges will he meet along the way? Squidging through tomato ketchup, splashing in the dog’s water bowl, and getting a burnt bottom from the toaster are just a few of the unforeseen obstacles he has to navigate in this kitchen assault course. And where will it lead? Will this pea find that happy-ever-after at the end of his quest?
The Runaway Pea is a super fun story to read together, with lots of playful words used in the lovely rhyming text. There are lots of things to talk about, from the detail in the pictures to the range of emotions the pea experiences on his journey. And giggles are very much guaranteed.


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Sen. Ted Cruz is doubling down on blaming mental health as the cause for the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas that left 22 people dead, including 19 children and two teachers. The Republican senator stormed out of an interview Wednesday after being asked if gun laws will change following the nation's worst school shooting since Sandy Hook in 2012.
The Republican senator joined Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republican politicians as well as hundreds of relatives and friends of the victims mourning at a vigil in Uvalde Wednesday.


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In April 2010 the Tepid Baths closed for repairs and a major makeover. As part of this renovation project, Accoya wood was chosen for its durability and stability especially for its use in wet and humid environments such as swimming pools.
New Zealand distributor, Timspec supplied the Accoya wood which was used for the changing room doors, seats and frames.
At nearly 100 years old, the building will remain a great place to swim for the next 50 years.

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While my work throughout the past two terms has been centred on privacy and the unaccountability of the US and UK governments and their spying abilities, as this third term progressed, I began to consider whether we, as people, could argue for privacy given how much we give up on the internet. I had already addressed this issue in Term 1 with my spy wall. In this piece, I scrutinised a number of my course mate’s social media accounts and retrieved as much information as I could about them. I then connected them to how they knew each other and displayed my findings on a large wall. Despite having explored these notions however, the students that I used were art students, meaning I was connected to them on social media accounts and had access to all their information. The story would have been different for students I was not connected to or didn’t know at all.
At the start of the Jeremy Corbyn Box incident (read about what happened here), a post on a Lancaster University-related Facebook group ‘Overheard at Lancaster’ (not run by or affiliated by the University in anyway) received a lot of attention and backlash. In the comment thread of this post, students expressed their discontent towards the piece, as well as towards the arts in general. Perturbed and angered by this negativity towards my degree, I decided to create a database outlining the information of one of the students that had spoken disrespectfully. I planned to use this account and invite this student in for a “chat” about their work before confronting them about their comments and revealing to them the ease with which I was able to find out so much about them. The piece would have been my way of getting back at the student, but also a way to show him the dangers of being so vocal on the internet. Given the situation, however, I decided to hold back on going through with this idea as I knew the risks of deceiving a student and the ethical problems that would undoubtedly ensue.
In the days following the post when my emotions subsided, I was incredibly relieved that I had not gone through with my plan. Not only would the piece have been irrefutably unethical, it could have caused harm to another student, and further repercussions could have been detrimental. I used this opportunity to explore how it is useless in some respects for anyone to argue for privacy, given how much we willingly give up on social media.
From ruthless investigation, I had found out the student’s nickname, education history and political views, as well as articles that they themselves had written. From these, I was able to identify their varying views on a number of matters and could form my own opinion of them. What is perhaps most surprising is the ease with which I was able to do all of this. 1 hour of following links on Facebook, scrolling through Google, exploring LinkedIn and scrutinising the student’s website provided me with all the valuable information surrounding them. I could learn about every aspect of the student’s life through a quick google search. I could discover that they achieved 1 A*, 5 As and a B at GCSE, 2As and a B at A level and currently study a BSc at Lancaster simply from their LinkedIn profile. I could also find the student’s interests and volunteer status, and whether they are currently employed. All of this information was readily available online for people to read, which ultimately begs the question: how can we argue for privacy if we give up all of our information online anyway?
The question, however, is not so much to do with how much we already give up, but what we don’t give up. A better way to address this idea is to think of the following story proposed by Glenn Greenwald: suppose you proclaimed that you didn’t care for privacy because you didn’t have anything to hide. If that was the case, then you wouldn’t have an issue with providing someone you didn’t know with the passwords to all of your social media accounts and allowing them to access these pages. If I were to write my email address down and ask viewers to do that exact thing, I project that I would receive no emails because there is a degree of privacy that people intuitively expect. People may state that they do not care about their privacy, but expect there to be a lock on their door, or a password on their Facebook. These things act as a protective barrier; a place to escape for soul-searching; a place where someone can truly be themselves. Given this, then, we can argue for privacy. As Greenwald himself stated: “[people] do things to safeguard themselves. They put locks on bedrooms/bathrooms, passwords on social media. They have places where they can go to escape from world”… “We lose the critical part of what it means to be a free and fulfilled person” if we rid ourselves of our right to privacy. If you put a stick of tape over your webcam, you care about privacy; if you have a problem with showing someone your Facebook messages, you care about privacy. The issue is not that privacy is not sought, it’s that people confuse what can be meant by privacy. Having the ability to lock your room is a form of privacy. Being able to do that is your right as a living, existing, complex human being.
When I began my enquiry mid-way through first term, I ushered the phrase “I don’t care about privacy because I have nothing to hide.” Since then, I have changed my tune. Seeing the extent to which the UK government attempts to find things about about me as a part of a larger collective, the measures they go to and the few regulations that exist to control this made me realise that I, as a citizen, deserve to keep things to myself and need to fight for it. There are some things that the government doesn’t need to know. I do not break the law and I do not have anything that I need to hide, but I still deserve my right to privacy. As Snowden rightly postulates: “The government is supposed to know nothing about us and we should know everything about them. It is private citizens vs public officials. Yet, what happens when a culture of unaccountability takes hold of our society?” What, then, for privacy?
It is hard to say whether the commons will pass the new investigatory powers bill. If they do, the worst can be expected. In an attempt to address this, as well as the issue of having little privacy due to my own actions on social media, I have provided my entire Facebook history to be viewed by the examiner. The marker has the opportunity to browse all of my personal data, excluding my messages (which I deemed to be too personal) for as long as they wish. The piece shows the amount I have already released into the public domain and the ways this can be used to learn things about me. In doing this, the examiner must enter the taped off area. This area, inspired by Carey Young's 'Declared Void' (2003), removes the examiners right to privacy. Put simply, buy entering this area and engaging with the piece, the examiner themselves becomes subject to scrutiny. Is the camera that watches them live streaming to a separate device? Or is it taking pictures at set intervals? This will remain unanswered, but the examiner's right to privacy is lost by entering this area.
The photos below show the taped off area in which the viewer's right to privacy is invalidated. A picture of my notes of other artists I have explored is also shown.
Having explored the foundations of my enquiry into privacy through my video installation, I decided to look at the ways in which we as a society would respond to state surveillance and mass data retention in the future. Inspired by Darren Cullen’s ‘Pocket Money Loans’ exhibited at Banksy’s dismaland, I created fake adverts from the 4 largest internet providers in the UK: Virgin Media; TalkTalk; PlusNet and BT. Through reading articles addressing the importance of privacy (e.g. Anon HQ, The Times and The Guardian) and listening to panel discussions focussing on the same issues, namely the University of Arizona’s ‘A Conversation on Privacy’ featuring Noam Chomsky, Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald, I decided to focus on the ways in which companies would exploit their customers’ desire for privacy in a fictional dystopian future. In this future, privacy is advertised as an add-on to existing internet subscriptions and is offered in package and bundle deals. This dystopia that the posters reflect is something that is becoming increasingly less fictional and more of a reality, specifically in the UK.
In the UK, the secretary of state Theresa May is attempting to pass a new Investigatory Powers Bill that would essentially rid all British citizens of the right to privacy and security on the internet. Internet providers would be required to maintain user's browser history for 12 months amongst other things. In light of these revelations, it seems privacy will no longer be a basic human right, but an add-on option to our internet services (as stated). In my mind, companies will exploit the public's fear of being watched and will offer "Privacy packages" for an additional fee. In this dystopian world, the poor will be have no right to privacy and the rich will live a lie, existing under the impression that they have more privacy when in actual fact they have as few liberties as the poor they mock. Each poster draws upon consumer and pop culture to create eye-catching and colourful designs. In the Virgin Media poster for example, James Bond (Daniel Craig)–a symbol of power, strength and secrecy–is used to represent a company ethic of privacy; that is to say he is used to present the idea that Virgin, as a company, will not spy on its customers. What is perhaps most interesting about the posters is the way in which they draw upon the public’s fear of being watched. Each assures viewers that they will have their liberties protected, but the small print of each work outlines the opposite. In this fine print, customers are warned that internet companies do not have the power to go against government legislation, and by investing in privacy bundles, consumers are essentially wasting money: they cannot be protected, the law prevents this.
Each poster was created on Photoshop using a variety of techniques. For example, the PlusNet poster is comprised of three different landscapes cut together in one (shown below). The companies patented pink colour and vivid aesthetic is maintained in this piece, along with it’s key salesman who appears in every advert. The poster offers extra privacy for £35, but goes on to note that customers paying extra are not guaranteed any further safety compared to normal customers. Similarly, the TalkTalk poster uses bright and glowing colours to attract the viewers attention. This piece was created using a photo of mine, combined with a number of paint brush layers and light strokes. Similar notions to that of the PlusNet ad can be found in the small print of the TalkTalk poster.
A number of key questions are raised when viewing the posters: why are they contained solely within the studios? Is the intention for them to be seen or for the message that they may portray? Can the works be displayed in a public space? Are they intended to be a prediction or simply a depiction of this dystopia?
The decision to contain the work within the studio lies in its ethics. To take the work beyond the studio, as with the video installation, would have left the pieces up to public scrutiny. Whilst this is important, the very nature of the work would mean viewers could have, and most likely would have, been deceived. The fact that these posters advertise a more secure, private internet, something that is incredibly sort after, it would be extremely unethical and inappropriate to exhibit them in a public space without the prefix that they were pieces of art. If the intention of the piece was to deceive viewers, it would be important to inform various officials of their existence, and to make them aware that no harm is intended through their display. For these reasons, the work is displayed within the studio as viewers are less likely to be defrauded as they are aware it is art. I intend to take my work outside of the studio next year and start to address these issues of ethics further. In order to do this, the scale of my work will increase. I will attempt to make similar posters, but will seek to get them printed for billboard presentation for example. This way, the adverts become a statement against privacy and cause debate within the public sphere whilst also being exhibited in this space.
While it is important for these posters to be viewed, it is more the message behind them that is significant. The notion of additional privacy as a form of service completely negates the right we, as British citizens, have to privacy itself. As the Global Internet Liberty Campaign writes: “Privacy is a fundamental human right recognized in the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights and in many other international and regional treaties.” The fact that these posters are offering this fundamental liberty shows the extent to which security services have exploited their powers and how the rise of the internet has resulted in the loss of this basic human right. We, as people; consumers; citizens of a democracy, deserve the right to privacy, and, indeed, thousands if not millions of people attempt to regain control of this right through their own means (encrypted messages, Tor brower etc). Many believe that it is not for the security services to determine otherwise. As Edward Snowden himself stated:
“Privacy is the fountain head of all other rights. Privacy is the right to the self. Privacy is the right to a free mind. Privacy is what allows us to determine what we believe without being subject to someone else’s beliefs.. Saying you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say. To say you don’t care about a right because you’re not exercising it at this moment in time is the most anti-social thing a person can do.”
The posters show that in a world where these government departments work with zero accountability or legislation, it is the people that lose out. Big companies gain the most through exploiting the people. Privacy becomes a selling point; a money-making tactic. In my view, as I stated earlier on, I predict that this will be the bleak future that we, as a society, will soon encounter. Privacy will be an add-on to a subscription; a way to control people. This dystopian vision that Orwell was so against is no longer merely an idea, it is slowly becoming a reality.
Links can be drawn between my works and the campaign ‘Billionaires for Bush’ by Andrew Boyd. Billionaires for Bush was a “culture jamming political street theatre organisation that satirically purported to support George W. Bush, drawing attention to policies which were perceived to benefit corporations and the super-wealthy.” One of the main aspects of this campaign was it’s use of ironic banners and posters. These visuals were used to mock of the former president and his political policies. My posters, in the same light, use their aesthetic ironically to comment on privacy. Links can also be drawn to Women on Waves’s ‘dieselforwomen.com’ and the ways this group unwillingly used big brands (Diesel) to comment on the garment industry to expose the violation of workers’ rights. Their campaign was a hoax and was attacked by Diesel who threatened legal action. My works, similarly, deceptively use the names of big companies to comment on a political issue.
As I moved into third term, the scope of what I was able to create became incredibly narrow. I had pushed the boundaries of how far I could go in the previous semester and had found the limit of my enquiry; I discovered how far I could go before I would get in trouble. This proved incredibly difficult as I struggled to contemplate how I could further my investigations and scrutinise more thoroughly government notions surrounding privacy without breaking the law. I decided to move away from the limits of the law and explored the origins of this contemporary discussion of privacy.
I began the term by looking at the conversations between Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald in 2013. ‘Citizen Four,’ a documentary-film created by Poitras showing the discussions with Snowden in Hong Kong before and during the release of top secret government documents, provided me with some interesting insights into the ways in which Snowden himself made Poitras aware of his findings. The email exchanges between the two gave an indication of the extent to which average citizens were having their right to privacy breached by the NSA. The interchange of communications also showed Snowdon’s anxiety towards releasing these documents and the repercussions of his actions. This is all particularly clear and evident to see simply through reading the exchanges. What was deeply interesting about the emails was the way in which they appeared to represent a dystopian fiction; the solemnity of the situation made it appear fictitious; fabricated and untrue. Yet, there is also something disturbingly real and relatable about the exchanges. We as outsiders to the communications understand Snowden’s desire to set things right; we sympathise with his moral standpoint and negate the consequences that may come from releasing the documents. We comprehend the intentions behind Snowden’s actions and know that he only wants to start conversation and debate, he is not interested in bringing about harm. A connection can be drawn between my art and Snowden in this sense: I intend to start debate amongst my friends about the importance of privacy and the significance of unaccountable, unscrupulous state surveillance. That is not to say that my work stands hand-in-hand with Snowden’s actions, given the gravity of his disclosures, but a connection between my practice and his intentions can undoubtably be made.
In an attempt to capture these emotions and ideas that came from reading Snowden’s initial exchanges, I decided to create a short installation video, narrated by myself, consolidating all the emails sent by Snowden. The video begins with an email from Snowden outlining the seriousness of his disclosures, before moving into logistics of meeting up. The piece was recorded using a RØDE NT-USB microphone and edited using Final Cut Pro X. Multiple text layers were used to keep the visuals in time with the audio. The work is displayed in my studio space on a 32 inch TV. The decision to place the video in this environment is worth noting, as it is not within a greater public space; only art students will see it.
The question of the public space has become a key catalyst for debate in my work. I have considered taking my work beyond the studio and placing it in an environment where works like this are unusual and not expected. While this would bring about interesting debate and reactions, the ethics of doing such a thing must be thoroughly considered. I have found that, by keeping works contained within the studios, I have greater freedom with what I can do as what is created and displayed is automatically defined as art. This means that it will be viewed from the perspective of art. To take it beyond this space would leave it open to greater scrutiny with possibly greater risks and consequences. I have decided that my work for this term, and indeed the work for the previous two terms, has been centred on the studio and the reactions of art students. Next year, I intend to take this work outside of the art bubble and expose it to the university. In doing this, I will have to play close attention to ethics and must ensure that all aspects of the work have been considered.
In regards to this piece, an important question arises given what has been stated: could it be taken into a public space? In my opinion, yes. The work does not bring about harm to any other person. The very nature of what it is representing (email exchanges between Snowden and Poitras) suggest that the work would be suitable in any environment. A short description would be needed to outline the ideas behind the work, but generally it would be understood what is going on. This piece can be linked to the work of sound artist Susan Philipsz who uses sound to define a space. The artist uses recordings, mainly of her own singing voice and projects this recording into a space. She is focussed on how sound can trigger certain emotions. Like Philipsz, this work intends to shape the space that it is in. That is to say that it directs attention away from everything and towards itself. The simplicity of the text that unravels as the piece begins is able to catch the attention of the viewer. For this reason, the piece is particularly powerful in the art environment as it is able to detract from the rest of what is being displayed and centre attention on itself. In any other environment, it may be difficult to do this as the sound may not be loud, the space may be crowded with other visuals or it may not be suited to displaying video. As Philipsz herself stated "when the work is placed in a gritty urban setting, you're prevented from fully entering into a state of reverie." In this sense, the viewer would not be able to fully engage with the work. This provides valid reason for displaying the video in the studio. Another question rises from watching the piece: what is the importance of the soundtrack?
Like my video work in the previous term, this piece is accompanied by an ambient soundtrack. My decision to use a soundtrack in this instance is principally down to creating emotion within the work. The central aim of the piece is to create a sense of tension with the audience. The viewer needs to be aware of the risks that the narrator (in this case, Snowden) finds himself in, and this is highlighted with the soundtrack. That is not to say that the soundtrack is the soul source of emotion within the piece, it simply elevates the suspense of the work. In saying this, however, it appears that I am stating that the work is intended to evoke some sort of emotion from the viewer; that the viewer must feel some way towards the piece. This is incorrect. The audience simply needs to understand the anxiety behind the work; the tension that Snowden has created in sending these emails. There must be an awareness of the thrill, but also of the distress. In doing this, an observer will be able to establish their own emotions towards the piece, if any. In other words, the viewer will be able to judge how they feel towards the piece without the work telling them how they should feel. This is, once again, similar to the work of Philipsz.
A key final question to consider is: what is the work trying to show? Is it trying to say anything?
The work is intended to pinpoint the start of contemporary enquiry into state surveillance and government laws surrounding data retention and privacy. The piece takes us back to where it all started, back to the main source of inspiration behind my two terms worth of work. By doing this, I am able to show where my fundamental ideas for the two terms originated and am able to round off this years work by showing what I have achieved (e.g., I have gone from this starting point, to creating phishing letters, posters, information walls etc commenting on our loss of privacy). This does not mean that my enquiry has finished. On the contrary, it shows how far I have been able to expand off this simple idea and how far I can continue to go. In this sense, the piece is showing that this is only the beginning step, I can expand my ideas further and push more at our loss of privacy and how this can be linked to art and cause debate.


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1 World Trade Center – aka 1 WTC, aka “Freedom Tower” – is set to surpass the height of the Empire State Building today, making it the tallest building in New York City.
The 1 WTC skyscraper is being built in lower Manhattan to replace the Twin Towers that were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks. It will offer stunning views of the city, including the Empire State in midtown which, excluding its antenna, has a total height of 1,250 feet.
Tonight, the tower will be lit in blue-and-white colours in celebration of its new height and perhaps in an attempt by its owners to taunt their midtown rivals. The New York Post reports that the 1 World Trade Center owners are “waging an all-out business war against its Midtown cousin”. They’re promoting the building’s observation decks and are trying to attract the broadcasters that currently beam their signals off of the Empire State. When finished, 1 WTC will likely be declared the tallest building the United States. It is expected to rise to 1,776 feet.
Construction on the Empire State was completed on 11 April 1931. It took just one year and 45 days to build. It remained the world’s tallest skyscraper for more than 40 years, until the Twin Towers were constructed in 1972. By contrast, construction on 1 World Trade Center was delayed from 2004 to 2006 and is only expected to open for business in 2013.
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Those charged with fixing a discredited system are taking their time
IF THE next general election takes place in May, as is expected, a year will have elapsed since MPs were shamed by revelations of their systematically fiddled expenses and allowances. It looks increasingly possible, however, that the broken system will have been fixed only partially by the time voters go to the polls.
Gordon Brown asked the independent Committee on Standards in Public Life to propose reforms to the expenses regime soon after the scandal broke, thanks to the Daily Telegraph. Despite the prime minister’s pleas for a speedy inquiry, Sir Christopher Kelly, the committee’s chairman, reported only on November 4th. His main recommendation concerns the so-called second-homes allowance, which MPs can claim to maintain separate homes in their constituencies and in London. He wants it confined to the cost of renting a place or staying in a hotel. Those who currently claim for mortgage payments can do so for the duration of the next parliament, but any capital gains made over that time must be returned to the taxpayer.
Other recommendations include a ban on MPs employing relatives (currently a common practice), a decrease in the number of MPs deemed to have constituencies far enough from Parliament to require accommodation in the capital, and reduced pay-offs for those who leave office voluntarily. There will be no ban on outside jobs, which, along with the generous transitional period before the reforms are adopted, should soothe MPs’ initial hostility to the leaked contents of the report.
Sir Christopher’s lack of haste was perhaps excusable: reforming Parliament’s lax rules required serious thought and some changes have already been forced on MPs. But the likely delay in implementing his proposals looks bad. A new Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) will have the final say on reform. But it has only just acquired a chairman—Sir Ian Kennedy, an academic lawyer and recent chairman of the Healthcare Commission—who says a new system will not be decided upon until the spring. Despite being denied a vote on the changes, MPs can make life tough for IPSA. But Harriet Harman, the leader of the House of Commons, has urged them to accept the reforms. So have David Cameron and Nick Clegg, who lead the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats respectively. Their counsel will probably prevail.
IPSA members will be appointed by another committee, comprising MPs including the Speaker of the Commons, John Bercow. Adding to the confusion is the parallel effort of Sir Thomas Legg, a former civil servant asked by Mr Brown to audit all expenses claims since 2004. His report will be published in full next month.
As well as being messy and slow, the reform process has misfired a bit on substance, some say. Fears that without lavish allowances only the rich will run for Parliament are overdone; constituencies are not struggling to attract candidates. But an unintended consequence of clamping down on expenses may be to enhance the incentive for MPs to seek to become ministers, as they have higher salaries. Independent-mindedness could give way to ostentatious partisan loyalty, already endemic in the Commons. Others say the reforms are soft: the long grace period for some of the changes means that Parliament will not be fully reformed until the election after next, which could be as late as 2015. Nor is it obvious that the new system will save money: it will be up to IPSA to set the limit for rental and other claims. With grim irony as well as anger, MPs groaned when it was announced that Sir Ian could be paid as much as £100,000 ($166,000) a year.
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Former Baylor University head football coach Art Briles is alleging libel, slander and conspiracy against three Baylor regents and a senior administrator through a lawsuit, first reported by Jim Vertuno of the Associated Press.
Briles sued board Chairman Ron Murff, Regents J. Cary Gray and David Harper and Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Reagan Ramsower Thursday in Llano County district court.
“These defendants have been relentless in their false attacks upon Coach Briles in the media despite his repeated requests that they cease and retract their onslaught of untruths,” the lawsuit alleged.
The lawsuit points to comments regents gave the Wall Street Journal in October, when they said 17 women reported sexual or domestic violence against 19 Baylor football players, including four alleged gang rapes, since 2011. In the suit, Briles said these statements made to reporter Brad Reagan are false and manufactured by G.F. Bunting & Co., a public relations firm working with Baylor.
According to the Journal article, regents said Briles knew of at least one case of violence and did not report it to police, Baylor’s judicial affairs staff or the Title IX office.
This information was never disclosed to Briles before the article’s publication, the lawsuit alleges. Briles also claims comments by the defendants have prevented him from getting another job as a head football coach.
Calls placed late Thursday to Murff, Harper and Ramsower were not returned, and Gray declined comment. The four have no comment, nor does the university, Baylor spokeswoman Tonya Lewis said by email.
Briles’ Stephenville lawyer, Ernest Cannon, said Briles has had “plenty of opportunities” to coach again, until the named regents spoke out against him.
“Tell (the people of Waco) that Art Briles will see this through,” Cannon said. “He is hurt terribly, he will get his name back, he will coach again, and the people of Waco will know what the truth is and know what happened over there, why and who was responsible.”
In the lawsuit, Briles reserved the right to add more regents, the university and G.F. Bunting & Co. to the suit.
The lawsuit was filed in Llano County because Briles lived there at the time of the alleged defamation, Cannon said. The suit also said Briles “is neither a public official nor public figure for any purpose.”
The Baylor Board of Regents fired Briles in May amid a sexual assault scandal. Ken Starr also was fired as president, and Starr resigned from his other university posts. Athletic Director Ian McCaw was sanctioned and placed on probation, but he resigned days later. He now holds the same role at Liberty University.
Briles reached an undisclosed settlement with Baylor regarding his employment contract in June.
Briles said Baylor insisted that he not discuss the terms or criticize regents at the time of his settlement in June, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday. Before the settlement, Briles filed a motion in a separate Title IX lawsuit accusing Baylor lawyers of using information Briles told them against him, leading to his firing.
An investigation by Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton LLP found “fundamental failure” in Baylor’s Title IX implementation, regents reported in May, and a football program operating “above the rules.”
Two former football players — Tevin Elliott and Sam Ukwuachu — have been convicted on sexual assault charges since 2014. Others have been accused by Waco police of sexual and physical violence.
In October, Title IX Coordinator Patty Crawford resigned and began waging a public battle with the university.
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These images show an example of aorta to right atrial tunnel, a rare form of aorto-right atrial communication that was closed on the 4th day of life in the catheterization laboratory. The condition was suspected on fetal echocardiogram at 31 weeks of gestation that showed the presence of a large vascular communication between the rightward aspect of the aortic root and the right atrium (Fig. 1), with impressive flow reversal in the ascending and descending aorta. The baby was delivered at term (birth weight 2.7 kg) and had signs of aortic run-off and a loud continuous murmur. Postnatal echocardiogram confirmed the diagnosis of aorta to right atrial tunnel with a 3-mm opening into the right atrium. Three days after birth, the child became critically ill with congestive cardiac failure, poor systemic perfusion, and renal failure and required mechanical ventilation. The patient underwent cardiac catheterization on the next day. Angiograms in anterior–posterior view (Fig. 2A) and lateral view (Fig. 2B) showed the course and anatomy of the tunnel. The right coronary artery was seen arising separately from the right coronary sinus with normal course and branching pattern. The tunnel was successfully occluded by delivery of multiple coils into the tunnel with the assistance of a 3-F bioptome, through a 5.5-F long-sheath passed via the femoral vein after establishment of an arteriovenous wire loop (Fig. 3A). An additional coil was delivered into the coil mass from the arterial route by a 4-F Right Judkins catheter. Figure 3B shows the final coil mass occluding the tunnel. The patient had complete clinical recovery after the procedure. Six months after the procedure, she is well with no residual flows.
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After more than two years of publication, after the relentless pimping of its sole reason for notice, the vague sensibility of John Kennedy Jr., it’s fair to take a look at George magazine, specifically its September issue, in which the editor poses nude (as if you can tell), and see just what it has to offer.
The short answer: not much.
After a painful perusal of every word in the magazine - probably more than any of the magazine’s staff has done - I can honestly report that when the ideas are good, the execution is weak, and when the idea is weak, there’s no compensating glitter.
“Chelsea’s Guide to Stanford,” for instance, is a good idea. A sharp magazine would take it and run with it as a second-lead feature, but George throws it away in a single nondescript page.
Then there’s the question of celebrity skin. Kate Moss’ skinny butt is prominently displayed on the cover, and Cameron Diaz is shown in a skimpy bikini inside.
Now, far be it from me to complain about the presence of Cameron Diaz in any state of undress. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this - Esquire used to get a lot of mileage out of the same trick, and, while we’re on the subject, Esquire used to be what I suspect Kennedy wants George to be: glossy yet stylish, and political.
But it won’t work if the babes are divorced from content by an absence of wit and style. As it stands now, the babes are just a non sequitur.
The cover story, “The 20 Most Fascinating Women in Politics,” cheats all over the place, first by including such well-known political figures as Anne Heche - in a bustier yet, and looking sufficiently fetching to drive Alice B. Toklas away from the enveloping embrace of Gertrude Stein - and Patsy Ramsey (thank God they didn’t put her in a bustier).
Again, the idea is all right, but the vital matter of tone is absent. Each Fascinating Woman gets a blurb from a different writer rather than one unified voice - again, a lame attempt to rip off Esquire’s annual, and clever, “Women We Love” issue. What George needs is something pitched midway between Gore Vidal and Maureen Dowd; what George actually gets is a cacophonous slew of third-raters whose prose is never more than serviceable.
As for John Kennedy’s own much-trumpeted ruminations touching on his cousins’ hapless following in the family’s apparently genetic women-trouble footsteps, they sound-bite a lot better than they read; mainly, they’re so opaque and fragmented as to be incomprehensible.
It’s genuinely difficult to figure out what Kennedy thinks he’s doing with the magazine. Serious politics of whatever stripe are well-covered in The Weekly Standard, the New Republic, the Nation and a few others; intellectuals with a more social bent have The Atlantic and Harper’s.
Just what niche is George supposed to be servicing? As it is now, the magazine has all the heft of the 20-somethings peddling opinions on MSNBC, but then, they give MSNBC away - as well they should.
By far the best thing in the issue is Elayne Boozler’s last page stand-up routine, in which she tosses off a few amusing riffs: “Why don’t ‘the feminists’ support Paula Jones the way they supported Anita Hill? For the same reason ‘the blacks’ don’t support Idi Amin the way they supported Martin Luther King. Why don’t ‘The Republicans’ support Timothy McVeigh the way they support the NRA?”
Incisive, funny, dead-on. Everything the other 157 pages aren’t.
George is to magazines what “Weekend at Bernie’s II” is to movies.


Pandit Paluskar brought about significant changes in the way Indian classical music would

be taught in years to come. After traveling through much of north India (today’s Pakistan)

on May 5, 1901 he founded the Gandharva Mahavidyalay in Lahore .

Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar (1872-1931) from the Gwalior Gharana is singularly responsible for bringing classical Hindustani music out of the courts of the Mogul Emperors and Hindu Maharajas and making it accessible to everyone. Pandit Paluskar had lost his vision early in life following an accident. Balakrishna Bua Ichalkaranjikar Vishnu Digambar Paluskar But this handicap did not hold him back and he became an ardent student of classical music and studied under the guidance of Balakrishna Bua Ichalkaranjikar of the Gwalior Gharana.

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Paluskar. This novel concept was going to change the course of Hindustani Classical

Music forever. It was also the beginning of the end of guru-shishya parampara.

The Gandharva Mahavidyalaya moved to Bombay from Lahore in September 1908. Pandit Paluskar’s students became some of the most distinguished performers and teachers of classical Indian music. Economically, the school was experiencing a significant loss and was eventually auctioned off in 1925. Gwalior was ruled by the Maharaja of Scindia from 1726 to 1950. Gwalior's most famous musician was Mian Tansen. The Khayal style of singing at the Gwalior courts was started in the 18th century by Ustad Natthan Pir Baksh and his grand sons Hassu Khan, Haddu Khan and Natthu Khan.
These doyens from Gwalior had a large number of disciples. Prominent among them were: Rehmat Khan, Baba Dikshit, Masurekar Buva, Shankar Pandit, Eknath Pandit, Rajabhaiyya Poochwale, Ramkrishnabuva Vaze, Balakrishna Buva Ichalkaranjikar, Vasudev Buva Joshi Devji Buva Paranjape. .
Brahmins from this group of disciples settled in different parts of Maharashtra and disseminated the Gwalior Gharana style of singing in Pune, Bombay, Nagpur and Indore. The changes brought about by Pandit Bhatkhande and Vishnu Digambar Paluskar liberated Hindustani classical music from the grasp of “maharajas and emperors” and made it available to all through the Gandharva Mahavidyalaya. They also broke the court-courtesan linkage and made Hindustani Classical singing a socially acceptable form of art and gave it a religious and spiritual flavor by introducing the components of “Bhakti” and Bhajans in their compositions.


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LGBTQ Pride Month is now. Every day in June, we are celebrating the community by featuring one queer artist and letting them speak for themselves.
Liz Collins’ new solo show at LMAK Gallery is full of dynamic dualities: works both hard and soft, chaotic and orderly, three-dimensional and flat.
Visiting Collective Design amid all of Frieze Week’s art fairs is doubly refreshing: it’s an unabashed celebration of beautiful objects and you can touch (almost) all of them.
CHICAGO — John Chaich’s exhibition Queer Threads considers artworks that use craft aesthetics to reclaim, reimagine, and renegotiate previously accepted hierarchies of visual culture.