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News.com.au
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- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Award-winning Leopold home on Lake Connewarre notches big sale
An award-winning lakefront home that's played host to a string of well-known Aussie musicians has notched up one of Leopold's biggest sales. A buyer already living on the Bellarine Peninsula has bought the secluded four-bedroom house, designed by acclaimed architect Kerstin Thompson, after a seven-month campaign. Bellarine Property, Barwon Heads agent Levi Turner said he was unable to disclose the sale price of the 4.86ha property at 15 Maloneys Rd, Leopold. It was originally listed with a $5.75m price guide, which was slashed to $4.75m to $4.95m in February. At this price, it would be Leopold's most expensive home. Megan Washington, Vance Joy, Tim Rogers and the late Kinky Friedman are among musicians who have played in the home's on-site recording studio. The property on the shores of Lake Connewarre also features a pool, a sports oval/heli pad, an olive grove, fruit trees and three outdoor baths on a raised deck. Mr Turner said it ranked among the top 10 homes he had sold on the Bellarine Peninsula in 12 years of real estate. 'It was a couple of things – the views are amazing and the privacy. It's so tucked away but you are 15 minutes to get into Geelong,' he said. 'And the house won architectural awards. 'The buyers are going to do some internal cosmetic renovations to make it their own but from the outside, from an architectural point of view, you could still build it today. It was really cool.' The 22-year-old home received both the 2005 Victorian Coastal Award for Building and Building Design and the 2003 Australian Institute of Architects' Victorian Chapter Harold Desbrowe-Annear Award, which recognises each year's best residential project. Its long, black structure is designed to blend into the environment and features a folded roof that mimics the shape of an origami black swan. The residence is divided into three pavilions, including the main three-bedroom house, a guest apartment with recording studio and a garage/carport for five vehicles. Mr Turner said there was a solid response from the market throughout the campaign. 'You get these amazing properties on the Bellarine and the Surf Coast and Geelong and you think 'everyone is going to love it' and people do but to actually buy it, one, they've got to have the money and two, be in a position to buy and they are few and far between,' he said. The vendor was a self-confessed cricket tragic who incorporated an oval into extensive gardens by landscape architect Tim Nicholas. Paths wind through the property to Lake Connewarre where a raised deck provides storage for watercraft.
Metro
06-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
I'm nearly 70 — it's time to fulfil my biggest sexual fantasy
Welcome to How I Do It, the series in which we give you a seven-day sneak peek into the sex life of a stranger. This week we hear from Leopold*, a 69-year-old former English teacher who lives in Spain. After separating from his partner eight years ago, Leopold has kept his sex life alive with the help of sex workers and masturbation sessions. And despite almost turning 70, he's proving it's never too late to discover a new desire: he wants to find a dominatrix to spank him. 'I've been fascinated by spanking and domination for a long time, but always as the dominant. It suddenly dawned on me that maybe I wanted to be in the submissive role instead,' he explains. 'I've become obsessed with this fantasy and pleasured myself intensely with it for five days straight, without even the need for Viagra, which was a surprise. 'I'm ready to begin a new chapter of sexual exploration.' Without further ado, here's how Leopold got on this week… The following sex diary is, as you might imagine, not safe for work . Love reading juicy stories like this? Need some tips for how to spice things up in the bedroom? Sign up to The Hook-Up and we'll slide into your inbox every week with all the latest sex and dating stories from Metro. We can't wait for you to join us! You'd think I'd be able to find a woman to give me a good thrashing — if not someone I've accidentally irritated, then at least among the professionals. But no. I've been in touch with quite a few sex workers, but many don't reply, and others want money even to just consider my request for a session. I haven't made it easy for myself either, since I'm in Spain but want to be dominated by 'an English gentlewoman'. I've seen my sex worker, Juanita, fairly regularly over the years. She's travelling at the moment though, so today, I'm meeting a woman called Susi. I like to prepare myself, so I shave my penis and balls, and as I have been to the chiropractor in two months, I head to a nail bar nearby for a pedicure. I have the Viagra ready. I take one an hour before the session, and then one 10 minutes before Susi arrives. I think she's leading me into the bedroom, but the language barrier between us becomes apparent as she takes me into the bathroom and tries to position me over the bidet to wash my penis. I'm a little hurt by this as I've already spent time preparing myself — but it's likely she does this with every client, and she's not to know I'm already squeaky clean. Back in the bedroom she starts kissing me but I'm a bit distracted by the constant pinging of messages to her phone. I try to ask her to put it on silent, but instead she pushes me down onto the bed, and places it on the pillow beside me. I give up and try to concentrate on her enthusiastic caresses before she asks me if I want a blowjob. Juanita will spit on my nether regions a lot when she does this, and it drives me wild with desire — but when I try and ask Susi for the same, she doesn't understand. She holds the phone to my mouth and makes me repeat it, translating it so she can understand, which leaves us both laughing. When we move on to penetrative sex, I let her know that I only really have the stamina for cowgirl, regular or reverse. She does this well, though my encouraging cries of 'ride, cowgirl, ride' mean another session with Google translate and a lot more giggling. All in all, a very pleasant hour for £85, and I will always remember the laughter. Even though it's a transaction, I do feel a little bit of an emotional connection. I'm back at my computer looking for someone who will dominate me — I feel sexually and emotionally incomplete without this experience. I would never look down on another's consensual kink, but I'm not interested in some fantasies that others are: I wish to avoid being dressed in feminine undergarments or rubber, having my parts locked into a cage, being insulted, or having my balls kicked. Neither do I get any pleasure from watching other men being dominated, though the occasional well-written description has struck a chord. For me it's all about the spanking of the buttocks. I'm comfortable with the spanking part, having received the odd slap from partners and, recently, practiced on myself. I do worry about the implements or impact tools, as I've heard them called, though — I have a vague fear that, after a stroke or two, I'll leap to my feet screaming my safe word. I check my emails, and still no response from anyone wishing to fulfil my request. With sex on my mind, I book in a session with Juanita. She provides the girlfriend experience: she greets me with a passionate kiss, takes my hand and leads me to her bedroom. She tells me to undress and falls to her knees. Then she pushes me onto the bed and undresses herself, as I watch, entranced by her beauty. We caress and kiss for a while and then she starts to go down on me, until I tell her to turn around so I can return the favour. Then it's penetration time. She puts a condom on me ('XL', I bet she says that to all the boys) and climbs on top, as she knows my preferences. First it's regular cowgirl and then I tell her to turn around so that I can watch her magnificent bottom in action. She won't accept a proper spanking but says she is is quite happy with the occasional encouraging slap. As for spanking me, she says she is horrified by the thought of causing pain. The finale is always the same; she goes down on me and I finish, covering my face in case I look especially ugly in the moment. I get in touch with Juanita, asking if she's free again this weekend, but she's not available. I know she's not really my girlfriend but it feels like a rejection, and I wonder if she's finally had enough of this old man. I see her Whatsapp status update, which says she will be unavailable for a few days. Not just me then, which is a relief. I rarely think of Juanita and we hardly ever exchange messages apart from when I ask for a session. And yet, for that hour or two, I am completely in love. Still no answer from my prospective doms but looking on X, I find an interesting possibility. A woman offers her bottom for spanking sessions and, while I am particularly keen to find myself across a woman's lap, I'm still interesting in being the spanker. So, I get in touch with Greta, and we go about setting some boundaries. She tells me she doesn't actually touch men, but I can touch her wherever I like. I say that, at some point, I might want to masturbate and she says that's fine, but she won't watch me. Our compromise is I'll send her to stand against the wall, displaying her reddened bottom while I pleasure myself. More Trending Her response is a smiley emoji along with a devil, which I take to mean we've agreed. We set a date three weeks away. Thanks to my new found fantasy I'm feeling, almost constantly, low-key horny. I seem to have lost all sense of guilt and shame about wanting my sexual desires satisfied. I've also been reading about the prostate, and how regular ejaculations are good for it. Apparently, around 21 per month is a healthy number to aim at and, since I can't afford that number of sex worker sessions, I'm going to have to up my masturbation game. No porn today; I'll just run through the script I've written in my head for my session with Greta and daydream about, one day, getting that spanking. Do you have a story to share? Get in touch by emailing MetroLifestyleTeam@ View More » MORE: I get why women say Jason Statham's hair is 'ideal' — I'm more attractive bald MORE: Should men give women seats on the Tube? Have your say MORE: 'Speedo Summer' is here and the lads are getting their legs out
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Today in Chicago History: Federal officials take control of the Chicago Housing Authority
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 30, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) High temperature: 93 degrees (1953) Low temperature: 35 degrees (1873) Precipitation: 1.49 inches (2004) Snowfall: None 1923: Nannette Anderson became Chicago's 'first lady speeder sentenced to jail.' She received a $50 fine and a one-day jail sentence. She stayed locked up for an extra five hours because her husband showed up late with the payment. 1924: A week after 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered and his body was discovered adjacent to Wolf Lake, investigators were still trying to piece together who might be responsible for the crime. Then, a slip of the tongue pointed all eyes on Nathan Leopold. He admitted to owning a similar pair of the rare, expensive glasses as those discovered near Franks' body — and losing them at the same spot while supposedly birdwatching a few days earlier. Further questioning connected him as owner of the typewriter on which a ransom letter was typed. When Leopold could not produce either item, he became a suspect. His friend Richard Loeb was also questioned by police. Vintage Chicago Tribune: Leopold and Loeb Both men claimed they took a Leopold family car for a joyride that night, but their alibi fell apart when the family's chauffeur said the vehicle was in the garage the day of Franks' murder. The 'perfect murder' Leopold and Loeb thought they had constructed actually left investigators with no other suspects but them. With the retrieval of Leopold's typewriter from a harbor in Jackson Park, the chain of evidence that connected the two young men to the crime was complete. Both confessed to killing Franks. 1937: Striking workers clashed with police on Memorial Day at the Republic Steel plant on the South Side — the only one in the Chicago area that had stayed open during a bitter nationwide showdown between a number of steel companies and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, which was trying to unionize the plants. Flashback: Chicago's place at the forefront of labor history Ten demonstrators were killed and 60 were injured, as were 60 police officers. Shortly after Memorial Day, the strike folded as workers streamed back to their jobs in Chicago and elsewhere. Ultimately, however, the union won its contract. 1995: In the largest takeover of its kind, federal housing officials took control of the Chicago Housing Authority four days after its chairman, Vince Lane, and the CHA board resigned under a cloud of mismanagement. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo removed CHA from its list of troubled public housing authorities on Aug. 1, 1998, and returned control of the agency to the city of Chicago on May 1, 1999. 2020: A Chicago protest, in response to George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis, became violent and looting took place around the city for the next three days. 5 years after killing of George Floyd, protest in Chicago decries Trump directive to empower police Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago's past. Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at krumore@ and mmather@
Chicago Tribune
30-05-2025
- Chicago Tribune
Today in Chicago History: Federal officials take control of the Chicago Housing Authority
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on May 30, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) 1923: Nannette Anderson became Chicago's 'first lady speeder sentenced to jail.' She received a $50 fine and a one-day jail sentence. She stayed locked up for an extra five hours because her husband showed up late with the payment. 1924: A week after 14-year-old Bobby Franks was murdered and his body was discovered adjacent to Wolf Lake, investigators were still trying to piece together who might be responsible for the crime. Then, a slip of the tongue pointed all eyes on Nathan Leopold. He admitted to owning a similar pair of the rare, expensive glasses as those discovered near Franks' body — and losing them at the same spot while supposedly birdwatching a few days earlier. Further questioning connected him as owner of the typewriter on which a ransom letter was typed. When Leopold could not produce either item, he became a suspect. His friend Richard Loeb was also questioned by police. Vintage Chicago Tribune: Leopold and LoebBoth men claimed they took a Leopold family car for a joyride that night, but their alibi fell apart when the family's chauffeur said the vehicle was in the garage the day of Franks' murder. The 'perfect murder' Leopold and Loeb thought they had constructed actually left investigators with no other suspects but them. With the retrieval of Leopold's typewriter from a harbor in Jackson Park, the chain of evidence that connected the two young men to the crime was complete. Both confessed to killing Franks. 1937: Striking workers clashed with police on Memorial Day at the Republic Steel plant on the South Side — the only one in the Chicago area that had stayed open during a bitter nationwide showdown between a number of steel companies and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, which was trying to unionize the plants. Flashback: Chicago's place at the forefront of labor historyTen demonstrators were killed and 60 were injured, as were 60 police officers. Shortly after Memorial Day, the strike folded as workers streamed back to their jobs in Chicago and elsewhere. Ultimately, however, the union won its contract. 1995: In the largest takeover of its kind, federal housing officials took control of the Chicago Housing Authority four days after its chairman, Vince Lane, and the CHA board resigned under a cloud of mismanagement. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo removed CHA from its list of troubled public housing authorities on Aug. 1, 1998, and returned control of the agency to the city of Chicago on May 1, 1999. 2020: A Chicago protest, in response to George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis, became violent and looting took place around the city for the next three days. 5 years after killing of George Floyd, protest in Chicago decries Trump directive to empower policeSubscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago's past.
Hindustan Times
28-05-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
US halts student visa interviews amid plans to vet online profiles
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to stop scheduling interviews for student visas as the Trump administration weighs stricter vetting of applicants' social-media profiles. The directive, laid out in a cable sent to diplomats worldwide on Tuesday, marks the latest effort by the administration to restrict foreign students' entry to American schools over claims that they might threaten US national security or promote antisemitism. The move raises the stakes of an ongoing battle between the White House and universities — one that initially centered on elite schools such as Harvard University and Columbia University over antisemitism — but that's morphed into a larger attack over the role of US higher education. David Leopold, a Cleveland-based immigration attorney, said the Trump administration's move could be 'cataclysmic, maybe even catastrophic' for both international students and the US universities that rely on them. 'The economic impacts and cultural impacts are massive,' Leopold said. Halting or even slowing visa applications would have ramifications for hundreds of thousands of students globally, and scores of educational institutions across the US, which have increasingly bolstered their ranks by attracting overseas talent. International students accounted for 5.9% of the total US higher education population of almost 19 million. In the 2023-2024 school year, more than 1.1 million foreign students came to the US, with India sending the most, followed by China. Most international enrollees who come to the US study science, technology, engineering or mathematics. About 25% studied math and computer science, while nearly one in five opted for engineering. Foreign students also typically pay full tuition, offsetting costs that allow universities to provide more financial aid to US citizens. US schools with the most overseas students are New York University with more than 21,000 international students, Northeastern University and Columbia, according to the Open Doors Report, which is sponsored by the State Department. Vetting foreign students for visas is already a rigorous process, requiring applicants to prove strong academic credentials, financial means, ties to their own country and the intent to return home after graduation, according to Leopold. 'Effective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of required social media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued,' Rubio wrote. He said that guidance is expected in the coming days. The State Department cable says interviews that have already been scheduled can go ahead. It was reported earlier by Politico. The Department of Homeland Security referred a request for comment to the State Department. State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce declined to comment on Rubio's order directly, saying nothing had been released publicly. 'Every sovereign country has a right to know who's trying to come in, why they want to come in, who they are, what they've been doing, and at least hopefully within that framework, determine what they will be doing while they're here,' Bruce said. 'So that's nothing new. And we will continue to use every tool we can to assess who it is that's coming here, whether they are students or otherwise.' Rubio had foreshadowed further restrictions in March after plainclothes police arrested Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk outside her home. Öztürk, who helped write an op-ed supporting Palestinians, was later freed on bail as she fights possible deportation. 'If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student, and you tell us that the reason you are coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus—we're not going to give you a visa,' Rubio said at the time. Last week on Fox Business, Kevin O'Leary, a Trump ally who has appeared on Shark Tank, recommended a vetting process for foreign students, while praising them for intellect and patriotism. 'These students are extraordinary individuals and they don't hate America,' he said. 'Why don't we vet them first, check their backgrounds, clear them, and tell them, 'You graduate Harvard, you're an engineer or whatever, you stay here and you start a business here and you'll get funded here and you'll create jobs here because that's why you came here in the first place.'' Tuesday's move on student visa interviews comes days after DHS sought to block Harvard from enrolling international students — an effort that was swiftly halted on a temporary basis by a federal judge. The administration is also moving to cancel all remaining federal contracts with Harvard, which total about $100 million. A top lawyer at the Justice Department suggested on Tuesday that the Trump administration has more action coming, naming the University of California system as one that could expect 'massive lawsuits.' 'We're working on a full front of activity in the courtroom,' said Leo Terrell, a civil-rights attorney who leads the agency's antisemitism task force, in a Fox News interview. 'Trump is going nowhere. We are going to have to match them in court.' --With assistance from Janet Lorin, Alicia A. Caldwell and Eric Martin. (Updates throughout with details of order and additional background.) More stories like this are available on ©2025 Bloomberg L.P.
