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Cune 'Gran Reserva' Rioja 2012
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"The 2012 Cune Gran Reserva, a blend of 85% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano and 5% Mazuelo, matured in barrel for two years and was kept in bottle for three years before it was released. It had a lot of freshness, with notes of red fruit and an iron-like touch, reminiscent of beef blood and meat, austere and serious. The oak is pretty much in the background. The palate is sleek and polished, with fine ... read more
WA:91
WS:90
Item ID: #31510
Winery: Cune Winery
Shelf at store:12c
Category: Spanish Red
Region: Spain » Rioja
2012 — 750mL (wine) 2010 — 750mL (wine) 2011 — 750mL (wine) (currently unavalable)
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"The 2012 Cune Gran Reserva, a blend of 85% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano and 5% Mazuelo, matured in barrel for two years and was kept in bottle for three years before it was released. It had a lot of freshness, with notes of red fruit and an iron-like touch, reminiscent of beef blood and meat, austere and serious. The oak is pretty much in the background. The palate is sleek and polished, with fine tannins and a soft mouthfeel. Very good balance and drinkability. 50,000 bottles were produced in this excellent but low-yielding vintage."
"A velvety texture carries lively flavors of cherry, berry, vanilla and spice, supported by orange peel acidity and light, firm tannins in this alluring red. Balanced, in the traditional style. Drink now through 2022. 2,500 cases made.
–TM"
CVNE (Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España) is one of the most renowned and historic bodegas in all of Spain. Founded in 1879 by the Real de Asúa brothers, Eusebio and Raimundo, the company has been an integral part of the Rioja region's ascendance in the world of fine wine. With their combination of traditional roots and innovative vision, CVNE has been one of Rioja's most reliable sources for high quality wine. The company is still run by descendants of the Real de Asúa brothers, now represented by the fifth generation with current CEO Victor Urrutia Ybarra.
Since its founding, CVNE's goal has been to increase the scope of production while maintaining the level of quality on which their reputation was built. Forty years after the original bodega was created, CVNE expanded into the Alavesa region. Today, CVNE is comprised of three separate bodegas: Cune, Viña Real, and Contino. Each of the three estates produces a distinct style of wine from a distinct terroir, and each of their flagship bottlings occupies a well-deserved place in the pantheon of great Spanish wine.
Cune is the winery where the company began in 1879. It still sits on its original site, Barrio de la Estación, in Haro, Rioja Alta, directly next to the train station. They produce white, rosé, crianza, and reserva wines, sourced almost entirely from Alta fruit. Additionally, Cune produces a sub-label called Imperial (named for the original half-liter "Imperial pint" bottling) which releases Reserva and Gran Reserva bottings in exceptional years.
The bodega in Barrio de la Estación boasts an impressive collection of 19th century structures which surround a central patio. Chief among the architectural wonders is the Nave Eiffel, designed by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel. This room, begun in 1890 and completed in 1909, is a textbook example of the marriage of aesthetics and functionality. The roof is supported by metal trusses which crisscross the room at regular intervals, thus eliminating the need for columns and making for a more efficient use of space.
The beauty of the winery notwithstanding, the real wonders of Cune are found below ground. To walk through the dank, dimly-lit cellars is to trace the history of the bodega, vintage by vintage, era by era. Through civil war, regime change and the march of technology, Cune has remained a constant in the cultural iconography of Spain.
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CVNE (Compañía Vinícola del Norte de España) is one of the most renowned and historic bodegas in all of Spain. Founded in 1879 by the Real de Asúa brothers, Eusebio and Raimundo, the company has been an integral part of the Rioja region's ascendance in the world of fine wine. With their combination of traditional roots and innovative vision, CVNE has been one of Rioja's most reliable sources for high quality wine. The company is still run by descendants of the Real de Asúa brothers, now represented by the fifth generation with current CEO Victor Urrutia Ybarra.
Since its founding, CVNE's goal has been to increase the scope of production while maintaining the level of quality on which their reputation was built. Forty years after the original bodega was created, CVNE expanded into the Alavesa region. Today, CVNE is comprised of three separate bodegas: Cune, Viña Real, and Contino. Each of the three estates produces a distinct style of wine from a distinct terroir, and each of their flagship bottlings occupies a well-deserved place in the pantheon of great Spanish wine.
Cune is the winery where the company began in 1879. It still sits on its original site, Barrio de la Estación, in Haro, Rioja Alta, directly next to the train station. They produce white, rosé, crianza, and reserva wines, sourced almost entirely from Alta fruit. Additionally, Cune produces a sub-label called Imperial (named for the original half-liter "Imperial pint" bottling) which releases Reserva and Gran Reserva bottings in exceptional years.
Viña Real
Viña Real, CVNE's Rioja Alavesa-based winery, released its first vintage in 1920. The Viña Real style is one that showcases the forward fruit of Alavesa while simultaneously possessing the structure to age for half a century and more. The original fruit source was in the Elciego area, in the heart of Rioja Alavesa. Those vineyards were located adjacent to the old Camino Real, from which the wine takes its name. Nowadays, the grapes are principally sourced from sunny south-facing slopes which run from the Sierra de Cantabria mountain range down to the Ebro River. As is also the case with the Cune line, the Viña Real wines are produced from over 50% estate fruit, an unusually high percentage for Rioja.
The new Viña Real facility was completed in 2004 from a design by the Bordelaise architect Philippe Mazieres. The winery is situated on top of the hill known as Cerro de la Mesa and commands sweeping views of both the Alavesa vineyards and the town of Logroño, Rioja's commercial center. The heart of the facility is a huge circular chamber which, when viewed from the outside, resembles the upper portion of a giant wine barrel. Inside, the facility is a marvel of modern technology. The above- ground portion houses the winemaking facility, which was designed with the goal of complete reliance on gravity-flow, made possible in large part by a rotating central crane. Below this is the main ageing room where the barrels rest in concentric circles around the central axis. The facility also features twin tunnels dug into the center of the hill where the bottle ageing takes place.
If the Cune bodega represents CVNE's commitment to tradition, the Viña Real bodega demonstrates their forward-thinking philosophy and their embrace of modern technology.
Contino
Contino is a single-estate bodega (62 ha of vineyards) based in a 200-year-old farmhouse just outside the town of Laguardia in the Alavesa region. The estate's name comes from the royal guard of 100 soldiers who guarded the monarch. The label is emblazoned with the bust of San Gregorio, the patron saint and protector of vineyards.
José Madrazo Real de Asúa (father of Contino's current winemaker, Jesús Madrazo) established the estate while serving as CVNE's technical director in 1974. The idea was to create one of the first single estate bodegas in the Rioja region, in direct contrast to the Rioja tradition of blending grapes from different regions and sites. CVNE had long been sourcing fruit from the Contino site for its Viña Real, but decided to purchase the entire plot around the farmhouse and plant it all to vines (a large portion of the land still had other crops planted at the time).
The current winemaker at Contino, Jesús Madrazo, spent much of his childhood at the bodega and possesses a remarkable depth of knowledge about all the details of the estate. After half a lifetime's worth of intimate exposure to the terroir and vinification practices, it's little wonder that his work at Contino is held in such high regard. While the bulk of the vines planted at Contino are Tempranillo (85%), Madrazo has also been a champion of the Graciano grape which comprises the bulk of the remaining planting. The balance is planted to Garnacha, Mazuelo and Viura.

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Q: Explain limit_conn_zone $server_name in nginx I am configuring nginx for basic DDoS protection. I want to use the limit_conn module as described in http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_limit_conn_module.html.
In particular I do not understand this example:
limit_conn_zone $binary_remote_addr zone=perip:10m;
limit_conn_zone $server_name zone=perserver:10m;

server {
    ...
    limit_conn perip 10;
    limit_conn perserver 100;
}

The description is:

For example, the following configuration will limit the number of connections to the server per a client IP and, at the same time, the total number of connections to the virtual host

The first part is clear, I am allowing not more than 10 simultaneous connections from one IP.
But does the second rule mean, that I am only allowing 100 connections to my server? Because if it so, and the attacker just opens ~100 connections it would block everyone from accessing the server, effectively making DDoS attack succeed.

A: Yes, the second rule means that you're going to allow no more than 100 simultaneous connections to that specific domain. However, considering you have also limited max connections per ip, the attacker will need to use different ip's to success with the attack.
I must add that limit_conn is just a way to mitigate an attack, but it won't be enough to mitigate a real DDoS attack.
You may want to look at these nginx directives: limit_req, limit_rate, client_body_timeout, client_header_timeout.
This article will show you that there is more to do in order to mitigate a DDoS attack:
https://www.nginx.com/blog/mitigating-ddos-attacks-with-nginx-and-nginx-plus/
Also, this article will point you to some configuration tips:
https://www.nginx.com/blog/tuning-nginx/
Hope it helps.

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If you think your pricey Halloween costume is going to set you back, just wait until you see how many costs come with buying a home.
Buying a property is likely the largest financial decision you will make in your life and it's important to do so thoughtfully. From how much house you can afford to which neighborhood is right for you, it's important to consider each aspect carefully. Check out the reasons you may regret your decision to buy a home down the road.
Job security should be one of your first thoughts before you purchase a home. If you have reason to believe that you may be out of a job in the foreseeable future, now is probably not the right time. Mortgage lenders are not forgiving on missed payments and it's a good idea to buy a home only when you are confident in your employment status or ability to afford your monthly mortgage for the future.
When you make a home purchase, it's generally a good idea to stay put for at least several years. A buy or rent calculator can help you determine what is the break-even point for you. That's the number of years when it makes more sense for your net worth to buy instead of continue renting. Buying a property is generally a long-term commitment and probably not for you if you find yourself frequently changing cities. If you have to sell a recently purchased home on short notice it can be difficult to do without absorbing a big loss. Renting may be the better option for you if you find yourself moving more often than staying put.
Although many single people buy homes, this is often a decision made with a partner or spouse. If your relationship with the person you're buying a home with is unstable or the reason you are in a certain area (significant other, family) is not secure, you could face serious buyer's remorse in the near future.
Whether your debt is of the student loan, credit card or private loan variety, high debt ratios are a sign that you may want to hold off on making such a large financial commitment. If your expenses consume more than 50% of your income each month, you probably can't secure a mortgage anyways (and even if you do it will likely be at a higher interest rate, which can cost you thousands of dollars over the life of your loan). It's a good idea to try paying down your debts before buying a home.
Remember, you don't have to buy a house. If your current personal, financial or employment situation is shaky, you may want to hold off on the purchase for now. Run the numbers to see what's best for you. Be scared for the right reasons this holiday season – not because you have found yourself in a costly housing situation that isn't right for you.


Home goals holiday The year 2018.
We are a couple of weeks into this year and so far our family has been blessed with the virus that will not go away. I had it first, gave it to Grace, who gave it to Brooke, who gave it to Rob... who is still battling it. Cough, congestion, runny nose, just overall feeling run down. It is for the birds and I hope that by this weekend we can officially kick it to the curb.
But that is not my only goal for 2018.
I also want to tackle the junk drawer in our kitchen, finally get the sports wallpaper down in baby number 3's bedroom and be caught up on laundry for more than an hour.
I want to celebrate 10 years post high school graduation with all my girlfriends at our reunion, let Shania Twain take me back to the summers of my childhood at her concert and celebrate 8 years of marriage to my person, my other half.
I hope to nail the princess birthday party for my 4 year old, not cry when my little bug turns 2 and cherish the newborn snuggles come April.
I plan to cut out cursing, yell less and encourage the random dance parties and sing alongs.
I can't wait to welcome 28, celebrate friends getting married and marvel at the sweet babies being brought into our world.
I will soak up the chances to rock my children to sleep, read them more books and push their little personalities to the surface even more.
I will practice patience, not take for granted the time spent with family and friends and be the best me that I can be for myself, my husband and my kids.
2018 may have started out a bit underwhelming... but it's another year. A blank slate. An opportunity to make it what I want it to be. And for that I am thankful.
I don't make goals or resolutions in the New Year but I love what it says about putting God first. I definitely need to work on doing that more. Hope your family gets to feeling better.


WASHINGTON (AFP): US President Donald Trump publicly upbraided British Prime Minister and ostensible ally Theresa May late Wednesday, rebutting her criticism of anti-Muslim propaganda in a diplomatic row between the two leaders.
Plunging headlong into a high-profile spat with one of America´s closest international partners, Trump suggested May focus on defending the United Kingdom rather than criticizing him.
"@theresa_may, don´t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!" he tweeted, after an earlier tweet with the same message used the wrong Twitter handle for May.
He has infuriated British authorities with his tweets on terrorism in Britain, including highly publicized run-ins with London´s Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan.
Before Trump´s latest missive, the White House had scrambled to limit the fallout, saying that even if the anti-Muslim videos were misleading, the president was pointing out a real problem.
"The threat is real, and that´s what the president is talking about," said White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
Another video is described as showing a mob pushing a teenager off a rooftop, without any context — it appears to be footage filmed during unrest in Egypt in 2013. A man was executed for his role in the teen´s death.
The third video allegedly depicts a Muslim smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary.
All three videos were originally posted by Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First, which hailed Trump for his support.
"THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD TRUMP, HAS RETWEETED THREE OF DEPUTY LEADER JAYDA FRANSEN´S TWITTER VIDEOS!" the group tweeted in triumph.
Brendan Cox, widower of MP Jo Cox who was murdered by a right-wing extremist last year, said: "Trump has legitimized the far right in his own country, now he´s trying to do it in ours.
"Spreading hatred has consequences & the president should be ashamed of himself," he said.
Trump´s behavior renewed calls for May to revoke an invitation for the American president to make a state visit.
David Lammy, a lawmaker for Britain´s opposition Labour Party, said: "The president of the United States is promoting a fascist, racist, extremist hate group whose leaders have been arrested and convicted. "He is no ally or friend of ours," he said.
Trump´s Twitter posts Wednesday were part of an early morning burst in which he again dismissed CNN as "Fake News" and insisted the US economy was in "record territory" by many measures.


Even though it's October, it was still a pretty toasty evening for Lindsey and Brooks' engagement session in Chastain! Thankfully it turned out to be a gorgeous night to stroll around the park! We were on a mission to find a spot that Lindsey passes often when walking the Chastain Park loop with friends and while we never found it, we DID find some hidden gems that were absolutely perfect! I had so much fun with these two and they absolutely made my job easy! Lindsey and Brooks - thank you for spending your evening during your busy season with me. Next time we should use those Delta benefits and go to Italy. Deal?!


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UTS's Paul Kennedy and Dan Catchpoole from The Children's Hospital at Westmead are using data science to improve treatments for kids with cancer. Their research will inform tailored treatments and help clinicians to make better decisions.
My favourite bird is rainbow lorikeets and budgies and king parrots.
When Thomas was first diagnosed with leukaemia, we were in complete shock. The day we came
in, we weren't at all expecting our son to be diagnosed with cancer. I think for the
first three months we walked around in shock, not knowing what to do. When we met a lot
of the other families who were treated with the same type of cancer that Thomas has, ALL,
it was quite evident that a lot of the children reacted differently. The treatment may have
been the same, but the outcome of the treatments for the kids was quite different, and that
was quite confronting, particularly with one family that we met where it was the same diagnosis
as Thomas and he didn't make it. So that's where we think the research is so important.
The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. We see about
40-50 patients a year in our hospital, and it represents about 25-30 per cent of all
patients. It's been well known in that disease that two patients can present in the hospital,
and they're treated with exactly the same treatment course of drugs, but one will survive
and one won't. We want to understand what are those hidden molecular switches, pathways
that may be causing that patient not to respond well to the current therapies. The research
that we're doing with big data, data mining, visualisation, in conjunction with UTS will
eventually be the diagnostic tools of tomorrow.
My research is all about using data science to better treat kids that have cancer. My
area is to help them to make sense of that data, to transform it from this very high
dimensional 80,000 pieces of information down to smaller information where they can see
the relationships between the different patients so that we can predict whether a patient will
relapse or not, and to help the clinicians to make better decisions.
We can't hold him back at the moment. The things that he loves to do, he loves to play
cricket, we go swimming, we just want him to be a kid and enjoying all the things we
love to do.
Our research has attracted international interest, but funding is difficult in this area because
it's a rare cancer. To progress the research, we need outstanding people to actually do
the research, and this is where you come in. Please share this video with your friends
and sponsor our research.
Dan Catchpoole (Kids Research Institute)
Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems
UTS Data Arena
Children's Hospital Westmead
Every year across Australia over 950 young people under the age of 18 are diagnosed with some form of cancer, the deadliest childhood disease. One problem that researchers are grappling with is the question of why patients with similar diagnoses can respond differently to the same treatments.
To think outside the box on this issue, Associate Professor Paul Kennedy from UTS's Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems is working with Associate Professor Dan Catchpoole from Kids Research Institute at The Children's Hospital at Westmead to devise a virtual pipeline to manage, measure and compare gene data from current cancer patients with data from previous cases.
"We aim to make complex genomic information accessible, to remove irrelevant information, leaving the relevant information to help the clinician," says Catchpoole, who heads the Tumour Bank at The Children's Hospital at Westmead. "The end result will be patients receiving highly individualised therapy and care."
So far the Tumour Bank has collected 30,000 samples from 3000 patients across 50 types of cancers since its inception in 1998. Kennedy and Catchpoole's team has begun testing the genomic data from these samples, mostly ones from childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia and rhabdomyosarcoma.
"We see tumour tissue specimens as 'little packages of information' about the patient and their disease," says Catchpoole. "This information can be unpacked very quickly through current DNA sequencing or 'omic' technologies, leaving us with vast amounts of data that needs to be sorted, sifted and made sense of."
Paul Kennedy with Dan Catchpoole
Kennedy points out that what the team is looking at is a mass of gene activity values, gene variation data and clinical data all at the same time.
"For instance, in leukaemia, there can be over 40,000 attributes consisting of (up to) 20,000 gene variations, 20,000 gene activities and less than 100 clinical attributes," he says. "As there are many more attributes than the number of patients, this makes for a very difficult data mining problem."
To tackle this problem, the cross-university team is using the UTS Data Arena — a 360-degree interactive data visualisation facility — to immerse themselves in the data and analyse it in a very novel way.
Catchpoole says the UTS Data Arena allows them to interpret the data by providing a lower dimensional space to pick out new patterns of change that exist in individual patients.
In August 2015 Catchpoole and Kennedy's team won the first stage of the Big Data, Big Impact Grant at the Premier's Awards for Outstanding Cancer Research, worth about $60,000.
And Kennedy told the awards' ceremony that his team has now reached an exciting point in their research.
"We're finally putting together all the bits and pieces we've been working on over the years. You don't always get the chance to work on things like this. It can have such a big effect and really change kids' lives. That's why it's such an honour to be doing this research."
Photographer: Julia Stepowska
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Jo Brand's social worker comedy Damned is set to return to Channel 4 soon. With new unfathomable legislation, much has changed at Elm Heath Social Services – but quite a lot hasn't. Rose (Brand) remains as irritable, chaotic and resentful as ever, while Al (Alan Davies) apathetically trying to surf a mid-life crisis. Here Brand tells us all about the second series.
Can you give us any hints as to what to expect in series 2?
I suppose I should say first of all that we've got a new character, who's quite an annoying, know-it-all student called Mimi [played by Lolly Adefope], who's on work experience from her social work training. She's a kind of reminder to the time-servers that they're not quite as great as they think they are. And they're not quite as efficient, and they're not quite as up-to-date with life as they thought they were.
No, it can't be a good thing, because although Martin is in many ways a rather endearing character, he's got a little bit of a bossy streak running through him, a slightly obsessional, managerial blip in his character. He's changed, shall we say. He's not one of the boys anymore.
Sometimes when people become bosses they desperately try to still be in with the lads. But Martin has decided not to do that, to the detriment of good relationships.
Are all of the same characters returning?
Yeah, we have Denise the scary boss, we have Nitin, Ingrid, Al, and of course Nat, the world's worst receptionist.
Is it easier writing a second series, because you've already established all of the characters and the feel of the whole thing, or is it more difficult, because you've already used up all of your original ideas?
I would say more towards the latter. I think, when you have got the characters, that does help, because you know where you're going with them, but on the other hand, when you're writing a sitcom, it has got to have jokes in it, and jokes are hard to write of a consistently good standard.
Do you think you've become a better writer, the more sitcoms you've written?
What I've done with Damned, which is very different from Getting On, for example, is that Damned is very written. Not much of it is improvised.
I really wanted to try to write something that was similar to Getting On in the sense that it's sad and harrowing, as well as funny, but that it wasn't improvised.
We actually divided it up between us [the other writers are Morwenna Banks and Will Smith] so we wrote two episodes each, once we'd decided on the narrative running through it. Because I think, for example, Al has decided that he's a bit jaded and he wants to get out – that runs through all the episodes, so you have to wait until the end to see if he does or not.
So you need to work out how you're going to run things like that throughout the series, which is difficult if you're quite old and your brain has shrunk.
With three of you writing your own episodes, is it difficult to maintain a similar tone throughout the series?
Or, because we've got so many great comics in it, like Alan, Isy [Suttie] and Kev, they were also given carte blanche to make suggestions to say anything they wanted to, and I think that really added to it.
The big rule, as a writer, is don't be precious about what you've written, because other people can always improve it.
All three of us write the phone calls and a lot of them are based on advice from our social worker, who is our mole working in a social work department. So they are very accurate.
But they are fun to write, because some of them are very silly, but there are others that are very depressing. Again, it's trying to get that balance right – you want to reflect the reality of the job, but it's also called a sitcom, so you've got to have comedy coming out of the characters in it.
Do you think that having a mum who was a social worker left an impression?
Yes I do. There's an odd attitude to social workers. My mother was a very caring, very well-educated; she had real common sense and knew absolutely what was going on.
But the picture people like to draw of social workers is that they are a bit useless and out of touch, and they all eat quinoa and don't really know what's going on.
So in some ways I wanted to set the record straight about the way I experienced my mum as a person, which was very bright and humorous, and the colleagues she worked with over the years were just normal people trying to get the job done the best they can. They're not these weird characters that we've invented in our culture.
Government cuts are hitting social work more than ever. Is that reflected in the series?
Yeah, I think that's something of a running theme, really. The demands on the workers are ever magnifying, and the time available to do them therefore is shrinking. There's a good deal of papering over the cracks going on.
So although we don't explicitly make statements about 'the government' and 'the cuts' it's always there as a message underneath the surface.
And it's not just direct cuts to social services, its things like Sure Start children's centres. And loads of those have closed down, so that whole rung of support has disappeared. So mothers who are trying to raise their kids on virtually no money and with no support, don't have those places to go to that they used to.
Before the last series, you said there seemed to be a shortage of compassion around. We haven't really got a whole lot more now, have we?
No, we haven't, really. And I think a small number of people who write appalling things online are making it worse, really. Particularly around things like increasing reports of abuse, for example, in various industries and in Parliament.
There are certain people online who are trying to suggest women deserve everything they get. And I think because it's a relatively small number of people, it's not actually that bad, but because the impact is so great with online threats and abuse on Twitter, it seems much worse than it is.
I think it's a bit of a weird time, that we haven't really worked out what we want to do with our culture, because the big social media companies haven't really done enough to regulate it, so I think we have to work out what to do about that.
When you were on Have I Got News For You, you spoke out about the culture of abuse. Do you feel a sense of triumph that the issue is finally being taken seriously, or dismay that we're still having this conversation in 2018?
I'm more depressed about the state of politics than anything else. But I'm rather hopeful about the gender pay gap and the whole position of women in society.
I do feel like it's moved on massively from where we were when I started doing comedy in the 1980s. Women are getting much more confident, and speaking out much more. Now it seems to be a question of getting a lot more men on side.
• Interview courtesy of Channel 4 Press. Read an interview with Alan Davies here.


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'Let's sit down, Father. Time to take a break,' Alex Yap gestures to a bench along the path in East Coast Park.
'Yah, and then you would pester me to buy you ice cream!' As they laugh, Harry starts coughing.
'Dad, is that . . . helping?' Alex gestures to the portable oxygen concentrator in the basket of Harry's walking frame, and to the nasal cannula his father wears day and night.
'Sorry, sorry,' Alex checks his messages while Mr Yap catches his breath.
'Okay. I'm fine now,' his father says.
That evening, Alex and his wife, Jessica, are making dinner in their 5-room HDB flat.
Living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is no walk in the park both for sufferers and family caregivers. Mr Yap is in an advanced stage of COPD and will increasingly need strong family support to help him with routine daily tasks, psychological support, and ideally a programme of exercise, psychotherapy, and end-of-life care planning. Mr Yap's son, Alex, who is close to his parents, sees an obligation to help them, but Jessica, Alex's wife, is less certain about this obligation. Alex's parents need near constant and watchful assistance, with emergency hospitalisations to be expected, and it is unclear who will cover the high costs of Mr Yap's COPD treatment and care. Can she and Alex cope with these responsibilities when they have young children? Is their HDB flat able to accommodate six family members, and possibly one more – if employing a domestic helper for housework or care work becomes necessary? Will Jessica's parents also need care assistance? Will Alex share equal responsibility in the care of their parents? It is not mentioned in the case whether Alex or Jessica have jobs that may have to be given up or down-sized if Alex's parents move in and need full-time care.
What does it mean to respect family relationships when healthcare needs within families create enormous caregiving and financial burdens, on the scale experienced in COPD care and dementia care? Physicians report that family relationships can and often do turn fragile under such circumstances, and it is important as a first step to consider who should have responsibility in a care system to identify both the objective and subjective burdens faced by individual family members so as to better understand how family relationships can be best supported. In Singapore, workers who pay taxes receive parental care and childcare relief, but this benefit is not available to persons providing child or parental care who pay no taxes either because they are unemployed, retired or in the lowest income bracket. This disparity means that the family caregiving work of segments of the citizenry is not awarded equal recognition and benefit. With Singapore's old age support ratio at 5.4 in 2016, and projected to be 2.1 in 2030, men and women are not encouraged to leave the workforce, but many do because of the special burdens they face in trying to meet the needs of parents with severely debilitating long-term illnesses, when support fails due to fragmented or inaccessible care support services. The issue of coordinating responsibility for integrated support is a complex one due to the multiple unmet and sometimes hidden needs, outlined below, to be addressed on different policy fronts.
An example of an objective burden is cost, a topic discussed in Michael Gusmano's commentary on financing in this case module. In addition to financial help for expensive treatments and therapies for Mr Yap that help relieve suffering, financial subsidies or in-kind resources should be considered. A second objective burden is the adequacy of living space if families of three generations decide to reside together or close to each other to facilitate assistance with care. Research shows that caregivers also have unmet needs that include better support from care professionals for physical conditioning and symptom control, information about the trajectory of the illness and end-of-life conversations and planning; and that professionals can relieve the caregiver burden through understanding that caregivers share the intensity of the illness experience with the COPD sufferer.
Subjective experiences of caregiving can be highly varied. Studies of caregiving in COPD indicate that spouses place caring within a framework of give-and-take in marital relationships, but care by a spouse is challenging or might be ruled out in Mr Yap's case. In other studies, younger caregivers with work and childcare responsibilities are more likely to find caregiving burdensome, in part due to a lower level of perceived reciprocity in the parent-child or sibling relationship compared with relationships between spouses. Family caregivers with higher levels of education find it harder to accept the loss of independence and social experiences in caring for someone with COPD, as the disease can mean increasing confinement in the home for both the sufferer and caregivers. Different caring styles in men and women are also reported, with women carers more often being too proud to ask for help from other family members and men being more willing to seek external sources of help.
Respecting family relationships also entails considering how best to support them in this varied terrain of experiences of care. Mr Yap may experience less respect if he feels he has little choice but to live with family caregivers who are over-burdened or have difficulties accepting the caregiving role. Filial piety in such situations may mean seeking additional or alternative care arrangements for the ill person. But Gullick and Stainton (2008) observe that COPD patients and their caregivers often recognise that their family is 'the best thing in life', and many studies report that family provides a reason for the ill person to soldier on and is a source of connectivity and joy. As long as the family determines that living together is the best solution, there are compelling grounds here for the society to support them so that this situation is less burdensome for all involved.
Commentary by Chin, Jacqueline, 'Respecting family relationships in the care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease' in Chin, Jacqueline, Nancy Berlinger, Michael C. Dunn, Michael K. Gusmano (eds.), A Singapore Bioethics Casebook, vol. ii: Caring for Older People in an Ageing Society (Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2017), http://www.bioethicscasebook.sg.
When is it fair to limit public subsidies for expensive technologies?
Along with her concerns about the possibility of moving her in-laws into her flat, Jessica is worried about who will pay for the new, expensive treatments for her father-in-law's COPD. The new drugs could relieve Mr. Yap's symptoms, help him to stay out of the hospital and care for his wife, but the government does not subsidise them. The cost of new treatments that do not qualify for full government subsidies is a frequent source of tension for patients and families in in Singapore. Alex wants to provide appropriate support to his parents, but Jessica wants to make sure that doing so does not overwhelm the family. Understandably, she also wants to have a say in this decision because it will shape all of their lives. Although her primary focus is the burden of providing direct care, she is also worried about the financial implications of Mr Yap's treatment.
This case raises several common concerns faced by patients and families in Singapore and other nations with advanced healthcare systems. Which drugs and other treatments ought to be subsidised by the government? To what extent is it reasonable to shift the costs of healthcare treatments to individuals?
When are out-of-pocket costs unfair?
These criteria are reasonable starting places, but they raise a host of questions. Reaching agreement on the meaning of these terms is a challenge. What does 'major improvement' involve? How are benefits defined and measured? Across the world, there are disagreements concerning how the value of technologies that add months or years of life should be assessed, but it is even harder to reach consensus on value when interventions relieve suffering. Most of the new, expensive treatments for COPD can relieve symptoms by decreasing airway inflammation and relaxing the airways, and by preventing exacerbations of the disease. They may help reduce the need for inpatient hospitalisations and may improve the functional status of COPD patients, but there is no evidence that they extend life.
Health economists often rely on so-called 'willingness-to-pay' surveys to determine the economic value of new drugs, but these surveys do not produce consistent results. Complicating matters further, placing limits on public subsidies for clinically effective technologies stands in tension with the idea, embraced by most countries, that distributing care on the basis of ability to pay is not justified. A system in which people are asked to cover most of the out-of-pocket expenses associated with effective care will exacerbate existing economic inequalities. Although most countries impose some out-of-pocket costs on patients, a just health system should not shift so many costs to people that they either go without the care they need or threaten their family's financial security.
Another question raised by this case is whether limiting public spending on healthcare for older people like Mr Yap may free up resources for younger people. Mr Yap has already lived a long life, but his children and grandchildren (along with other younger people in Singapore) have not had that opportunity to do so. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to spend limited public resources on younger people than to offer subsidies for expensive COPD drugs for Mr. Yap? Claims of this sort are often used to justify limiting healthcare spending for older people. The desire of Alex to help his parents, and the concerns expressed by Jessica, remind us that reality is more complicated.
Older people are often members of families. The children and grandchildren of current older people, rather than being engaged in a struggle for resources with their parents and grandparents, benefit from public spending on their older relatives and can be harmed if public subsidies do not exist. In Singapore, not only are children expected to care for their parents and grandparents, the healthcare financing system reinforces this expectation. For example, Singapore offers tax rebates that are designed to encourage Alex and his wife to top up Mr Yap's Medisave account (https://www.iras.gov.sg/IRASHome/Individuals/Locals/Working-Out-Your-Taxes/Deductions-for-Individuals/CPF-Cash-Top-up-Relief/ ). This illustrates why it is important to understand transfers between population groups over a life time. Limiting healthcare spending on Mr Yap and other older people may place significant financial pressure on their children and grandchildren.
Commentary Perspective by Gusmano, Michael K., 'When is it fair to limit public subsidies for expensive technologies?' in Chin, Jacqueline, Nancy Berlinger, Michael C. Dunn, Michael K. Gusmano (eds.), A Singapore Bioethics Casebook, vol. ii: Caring for Older People in an Ageing Society (Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2017), http://www.bioethicscasebook.sg.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and is expected to increase in Singapore as the population ages. Patients have a high-symptom burden, low quality of life, and unmet needs at the end of life (EOL). Thus, the situation with which Mr Yap and his family has to cope is a common one as COPD advances. Patients suffer increasing breathlessness which severely limits their physical capacity, quality of life, and psycho-emotional well-being. Families have to bear a greater burden of assistance with daily life activities and finance.
There is an increasing number of new drug and device options in the treatment of COPD. While they do not improve survival they do relieve symptoms, prevent disease exacerbations, and preserve the quality of life. However, all of them are relatively expensive and not covered by any government financial subsidies. This is a major factor contributing to poor patient adherence and conflicts in the family when the outcome is uncertain and yet the patient suffers severe relapses requiring repeat hospitalisations.
There is robust evidence that pulmonary rehabilitation and exercise programmes will improve the quality of life in patients with COPD although this modality of supportive care is extremely poorly received by local patients due to multiple systems and human barriers. These include the very strong motivation needed to persist with exercise training despite increasing breathlessness, the inconvenience of travelling to a centre for rehabilitation, and the cost of these programmes.
A major problem to be addressed in many patients with severe COPD is anxiety-depression. It is associated with worse outcomes and a high burden of hospitalisation.
Caring for a patient with COPD requires a well-designed multiple-disciplinary programme which integrates cognitive behaviour therapy and psycho-emotional support with rehabilitative exercise and medication for breathlessness. This may involve taking multiple drugs with different devices, a regular exercise training programme with a professional trainer, relaxation for panic attacks from a psychotherapist, home visits by nurses and palliative care experts, and perhaps even admission to a hospice in the final stages.
Because of the complexities and uncertainties of EOL care for patients with COPD in the contemporary healthcare system, the patients cannot be left to cope by themselves as the advancing disease render them fragile and helpless. Effective engagement of the family is a vital element of this process.
Patients like Mr Yap who need continuous oxygen are in the advanced stage of the disease. They need help to address their EOL preferences and the practical arrangements to realise these goals.
Due to the unpredictable disease trajectory and the focus on treating escalating symptoms as COPD advances, EOL care preferences and planning are often not addressed by their personal physicians during routine clinic reviews. Instead, this is commonly performed, out of necessity, during a crisis, in an emergency department setting amidst a life-threatening exacerbation with severe time, cognitive, and emotional constraints, which is less than ideal.
Mr Yap is already on long-term oxygen; this is a sure sign of late phase COPD, and his physician should now broach the subject of EOL preferences and advanced disease care at his next clinic appointment. Since this is a complex longstanding problem and, unlike cancer patients, Mr Yap may not have anticipated it, it should be approached carefully and indirectly.
One way to initiate an EOL conversation is to ask him to imagine a severe attack of breathlessness when he may not be able to speak or may indeed become unconscious; ask if he has considered this possibility and how he would like his care decisions to be made should he not have the capacity to do so himself. At this point it may be best to simply leave this question unanswered with him, perhaps with an information leaflet and patient decision aid on 'personal choices' of care and let him reflect and talk the issues over with his family. Advanced medical care nowadays is complex with a wide array of choices and costs, and having the patient make some decisions while he has the capacity to do so will prepare his loved ones and also help his doctors do a better job as the disease progresses.
It is most important that his physician emphasises that palliative care will be integrated with disease-specific 'active' therapies for him. And that it is not a case of stopping active care and switching over to palliative care alone. There is undoubtedly, an overlap between life prolonging therapy and palliative care, and maximising Mr Yap's quality of life throughout the continuum of care should be prioritised.
Commentary by Lim, Tow Keang, 'Supporting patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their caregivers' in Chin, Jacqueline, Nancy Berlinger, Michael C. Dunn, Michael K. Gusmano (eds.), A Singapore Bioethics Casebook, vol. ii: Caring for Older People in an Ageing Society (Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2017), http://www.bioethicscasebook.sg.
Nordtug, B., Krokstad, S. and Holen, A. (2011), 'Personality features, caring burden and mental health of cohabitants of partners with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or dementia', Aging & Mental Health, 15(3), pp.318-326.
Currow, D.C., Ward, A., Clark, K., Burns, C. M. and Abernethy, A.P. (2008), 'Caregivers for people with end-stage lung disease: characteristics and unmet needs in the whole population',Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis, 3/4: 753-762.
Gullick, J. (2012), Chapter 8, 'Psychosocial dimensions of COPD for the patient and family', in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - Current Concepts and Practice, Ong, Kian-Chung (ed), INTECH Open Access Publisher.
Who owns the coordination of multi-disciplinary care of a community-dwelling older person with advanced COPD?
Family caregivers of COPD sufferers often share the intensity of the illness experience and encounter tensions because of multiple unmet needs. How can care professionals better support family caregivers?
When a patient with COPD exacerbates his condition by smoking, how should healthcare professionals address the issue?


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Ethiopia has a cover of 1:250,000 scale topographic maps, compiled from 1:50,000 scale wide-angle aerial photography flown in an American aid project between 1963 and 1967. The resulting maps were issued between 1971 and 1976 on the UTM projection with 100 m contours. Ninety-five sheets were published each covering one and a half degrees longitude by one degree latitude with 16 for each International map of the World quadrangle. These maps are now published in four-colour versions, but were originally available as six-colour editions. Since 1993 EMA has been engaged in a digital revision program for the 30 most important sheets in this series.
1:50,000 scale coverage of Ethiopia is also progressing. Areas to the south of Addis Ababa were mapped in the early 1970s at this scale in a joint project with the British Directorate of Overseas Surveys (now Ordnance Survey International (OSI)). These quarter-degree sheets showed relief with 20 m contours and were subsequently adopted as the national standard. After the end of the British aid project the series has progressed with UN and Swedish aid, and the long term involvement of Swedesurvey continues to assist in the many aspects of EMA work. New aerial coverage has been flown since 1980 concentrating upon areas of economic importance and maps have been published for these areas. Coverage is best in the south and west of the country, 1,580 sheets are required for complete national coverage, and about 50 percent of Ethiopia was mapped at 1:50,000 by 1996. About 50 maps a year were being revised in this series in the mid-1990s. An ARC/INFO-based digital mapping system has been tested by EMA and the introduction of digital data capture and production is speeding up production for both topographic series.
EMA also publishes 1:1,000,000 scale coverage, on IMW sheet lines, and a single-sheet 1:2,000,000 scale map. It issued the national atlas in 1988, incorporating 1:5,000,000 scale full-colour maps on a wide variety of themes. This includes a basic gazetteer, and work on a more detailed national gazetteer is well in progress. Other mapping of the country includes larger-scale project maps for irrigation and hydroelectric work, as well as administrative mapping. Over 100 towns are covered in large-scale plans, and a city guide map is issued for Addis Ababa.
Soviet military topographic mapping for Ethiopia exists at the following scales: 1:1,000,000 (10 sheets, complete coverage, published 1953-1984); 1:500,000 (28 sheets, complete coverage, published 1963-1983); 1:200,000 (175 sheets, complete coverage, published 1977-1983); 1:100,000 (625 sheets, complete coverage, published 1977-1982) and a city (1:10,000) topographic map of Addis Ababa published in 1978. These products are available in print, digital raster and digital vector GIS formats from East View Geospatial.
The Ethiopian Geological Survey (EGS) was established as a separate department in 1968 and is responsible for official earth science research in Ethiopia, including geological, geochemical, geophysical and hydrogeological surveying and the publication of hard copy and digital earth science maps. About 25 percent of the country is mapped at 1:250,000 scale in a series started in the 1970s, using topographic sheet lines, with best coverage in northern, western and southern parts of this country. A regional geochemical mapping program was started in 1995 parallel to the geological series. Other maps are published at 1:100,000 and 1:50,000 scales for a few areas of the country. The 1:2,000,000 scale geological map was compiled by the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR). Digital geophysical data is released for many areas in digital vector GIS format.
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Amongst the other mapping agencies in the country are the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) whose headquarters are located in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Tourist Commission publishes a 1:2,000,000 scale tourist map of the country, printed double-sided with a town map of Addis Ababa on the back. Amongst the foreign agencies with small scale coverage of Ethiopia are Cartographia, International Travel Maps (ITM) and New Holland.
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He is cofounder of Men Against Pornography (www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1139) and a frequent speaker and workshop leader at colleges and conferences (www.speakerspca.com). Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he graduated cum laude from St Olaf College majoring in philosophy and English, then received a master of divinity degree in theology and literature from Union Theological Seminary and an M.F.A. in theater arts from Columbia University School of the Arts. From 1981 to 1991 he was managing editor of three U.S. women's magazines— Essence, Working Woman, and Lear's. He has completed a young adult novel, Goners, and is at work on a book about the culture of sexual orientation. In collaboration with the composer Adam Sherburne, of the band Consolidated, he has written book and lyrics for a rock/hip-hop opera titled Cocklash. He has lived with the writer Andrea Dworkin since 1974. Their home is in New York City.
Potts holds a degree in fine arts and a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. He is well known as a radical feminist activist and author. He has written a series of books and articles criticizing traditional concepts of manhood or maleness, such as Refusing to Be a Man: Essays on Sex and Justice, Why I Stopped Trying to be a Real Man,[5] and The End of Manhood: A Book for Men of Conscience.[6]
Potts created "The Pose Workshop," which entailed men adopting the poses that women strike in pornographic shots (intended partly for men attending Christian retreats), a version of which was broadcast on BBC television.
Potts is a founder of the group Men Can Stop Rape[7] and developed the group's 'My Strength' campaign[8] which aims to educate young men on sexual relationships, consent and rape. He also creative director of the group's "My Duty"[9] sexual-assault-prevention media campaign, which is licensed to the United States Department of Defense's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office.[10]
Potts is credited with the quote: "Pornography tells lies about women. But pornography tells the truth about men."[11]
Potts has described how, as a feminist male, he has had to reevaluate and even discontinue relationships with some of his male friends.[12]
Potts currently serves as Communications Advisor[13] for DCMetroTheaterArts.com, where he publishes theatre reviews, interviews, and essays about live theatre in Washington, D.C.
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Stage performance board withdraws controversial circular
The Maharashtra Stage Performance Scrutiny Board (MSPSB) on Tuesday withdrew its circular that derecognises the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) and instructs auditoriums to lodge criminal complaints against the copyright society if anyone insists on its no-objection certificate to let out such venues for live performances.
mumbai Updated: Dec 14, 2011 00:52 IST
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Assistant government pleader Ranjit Bhosale told the Bombay high court that the board would withdraw the circular, as suggested by the court earlier while hearing a petition filed by the IPRS.
The IPRS counsel Sandeep Marne clarified that the sole copyright society of the country had not issued any threatening letter to auditoriums and also assured the court that the society will not issue any communication to auditoriums insisting they should ensure an IPRS license or NOC before letting out their premises for live performances based on their copyrighted artistic works — primarily popular Hindi movie songs.
The copyright society, which has over 2,500 members, had approached the court challenging the circular issued by the MSPSB on August 10.
According to Marne, the board has no business and authority to issue such a circular as it is not concerned with copyright regulation.
The circular stated that for stage performances across Maharashtra, only a suitability certificate from the board is required, and no other permission is necessary.
The circular, purportedly issued after receiving several complaints against the IPRS, also advised auditoriums to lodge first information reports (FIRs) or make written complaints to the board if any stage performance was obstructed by the copyright society.
In its petition, the IPRS has stated that it is a non-profit, registered with the charity commissioner since 1969, and has been formed to protect copyrights of its members.
Arguing for the copyright society, advocate Marne stated that there would be no control over copyrighted artistic works if such a directive was issued, and it would amount to open theft.
On December 8, a division bench of justices PB Majmudar and Mridula Bhatkar had opined that the board should withdraw the circular after advocate Marne pointed out that the circular would encourage people to infringe copyrights of IPRS members.
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Volkswagen has released a new teaser of the Volkswagen ID Vizzion, the electric limousine concept that the manufacturer will unveil in Geneva.
The very short video unveiled on YouTube reveals part of the cockpit, the front seats in this case, in which we note the lack of steering wheel and pedals . This is not a surprise since the manufacturer has already announced.
The surprise comes from the presence of a hologram that welcomes us in this video. This new interface gives priority to gestural and voice commands, confirming what Volkswagen has announced. Lexus had already unveiled similar technology on the concept car UX Concept unveiled at the last Paris Motor Show.
The Volkswagen ID Vizzion powered by a 306 hp electric motor and boasts a range of 665 km when energy recovery under braking is activated with a battery of 111 kWh. The power is transmitted to all four wheels and allows ID VIZZION to reach a very reasonable maximum speed of 180 km / h.


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Summer is usually a bit slower than other seasons as many take time off and enjoy trips, cruises and family gatherings. We'll still be here if you need us, but here's to a summer full of adventure!
Georgia has amazing locations, from mountains to lakes and ocean beaches. Whenever I'm on an out-of-town shoot, I try to take time to visit the city and see the sights. A recent shoot in Savannah allowed a side trip to nearby Tybee Island.
This small town and it's lighthouse and nearby museum, which is housed in the battery garland of Fort Screven, is worth a visit if you're in the area. When you visit Tybee, be sure to have dinner at A-J's Dockside. It has a laid back atmosphere, great food, music and a sunset view not to be missed.
The new year is underway and one of my first trips of the year is to New York City to film two interviews with a client. I've enjoyed traveling to NYC since my corporate days at Amtrak when I came to the city a few days each month.
One advantage of filming around NYC is the abundance of rental houses and personnel. While I wasn't asked to hire locally, I made the decision to save my client the expense of someone traveling with me. I rented the lighting gear from a local rental house and my PA was referred from someone who hired me in Atlanta. It's a small production world, after all!
After the shoot day had wrapped, I made my way to Times Square, which continues to evolve into a more pedestrian-friendly space. No matter how many times I visit New York, I never tire of it's energy!
Every so often, I enjoy looking back at where I've traveled for client projects. It's always surprises me how many cities I've visited, interesting people I've met and projects I've worked on in the past year.
I'm often asked if we film productions outside the Metro Atlanta area. I can answer that question with a definitive 'yes!' In fact, most of our gear lives in hard-side travel cases, so whether we're traveling across town or across the country, it arrives safely and ready for action.
Though we rarely work outside the USA (Hamilton, Bermuda is my only non-US city this year), I have a Passport and more importantly, a TSA Precheck number to skip those pesky security lines.
Each red pin indicates a city we have visited for a shoot in the past year.
I enjoy travel - despite the occasional hiccup encountered some days. You could even say travel is in my blood. In my corporate life, I worked for Amtrak. That job involved a lot of travel - primarily between New York City, Washington, DC and Miami, FL.
It's not quite the same hectic travel schedule today, but early 2014 had me racking up a dozen Delta flights (24 segments) in a four month time frame. I'll mention that Bermuda in February is not a bad destination!
Now that Labor Day 2014 is behind us, travel is once again right around the corner. See you at the airport!


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Elderly, disabled, jobless or homeless? The Coalition is still blaming you
By Michelle Pini | 18 April 2018, 12:00pm | comments
Jack, who lives on Melbourne's streets. (Image by Cincotta Photography courtesy @HumansinMelb).
Despite the myriad of studies highlighting Australia's growing inequality, the take-home message from the Turnbull Government is, if you're poor, it's your fault. Senior editor Michelle Pini reports.
THIS TIME LAST YEAR, IA reported on the ways in which the Turnbull Government was not only failing Australia's elderly, disabled, jobless and homeless but was blaming them for their own predicament.
Certainly, there have been no discernible policies designed to help people out of poverty in the last 12 months. The tendency to heap guilt on the impoverished and most vulnerable in our society, however, has since been honed into an artform.
Not content with cutting wages, social welfare, education, health and foreign aid, this Coalition Government has relentlessly targeted the elderly, the sick and the needy by ensuring the gap between the wealthy and everybody else continues to grow.
There's no correlation between lower company tax rates, employment, or economic growth. Common sense shows this, and historical and international data confirm it. #auspol pic.twitter.com/C2thvwex5v
— Australia Institute (@TheAusInstitute) February 13, 2018
It has embraced the comprehensively discredited trickle-down economics approach with the zeal of Margaret Thatcher. The Turnbull Government has ignored all evidence to the contrary, suffered constant policy rejection in the Senate and lost its 30th Newspoll in a row, but it has resolutely continued to flog its wildly unpopular tax cuts for big business, along with pay, welfare and service cuts for everyone else.
At the same time, the level of disenfranchised people among us is greater than ever before — this is undisputed and confirmed by both government and independent studies.
A Foodbank report, 'Rumbling tummies: Child hunger in Australia', found that one in five children are going hungry, missing meals on a regular basis and living in households where food insecurity is a fact of life.
An estimated 13 per cent of Australians are reported to be living below the poverty line. The unreported number is believed to be much higher.
So you reckon the economy is going well, @TurnbullMalcolm @ScottMorrisonMP "Australian children going hungry, report finds, with one in five kids missing meals"https://t.co/1Zoz3pn7D5
— Bob Fawcett (@BobOfAlex) April 15, 2018
This IA report by Gerry Georgatos delved into Australia's unreported poverty and its toll on the vulnerable, including the elderly:
Australian pensioners will increasingly make up a significant proportion of Australian poverty. Today, a pension averages about $20,000 a year and it is more than tough going — it is punishing. For many, there is psychologically damaging and irrecoverable trauma. The aged pension is, in fact, poverty.
In 20 years, the pension will be worth the equivalent of $70 per week comparative to today's value — dirt-poor living. Unless Australians have their home paid off by their retirement and one million dollars saved in superannuation, they will live their last stretch of life in poverty. With the passing of each year, fewer Australians will be on track to achieve this and, soon enough, it will be near impossible for the majority to come anywhere near close.
That the Government is not addressing these issues is obvious, but its seemingly manic determination to forge ahead with policies that will only compound this inequality is astounding.
The Australians stuck below the poverty line https://t.co/5tchJVwA5l It's a very elitist & arrogant perception to believe that poverty 'is a state of transition.' It is a persistent state of being because our society makes it that way.
— Melissa O'Donovan (@SoulGroundau) March 4, 2018
Despite promising to uphold the NDIS, cuts to disability entitlements and aid institutions together with reduced accessibility have been implemented, with devastating consequences for Australia's disabled.
Jobs growth figures are continually inflated with people who work as little as an hour per week in insecure employment and then no longer qualify as "unemployed". Inflated figures notwithstanding, unemployment has still increased to 5.6 per cent.
Programs such as Newstart have created an underclass of (mainly) young people who are disadvantaged for attempting to lift themselves out of poverty.
Instead of consulting with Indigenous communities on strategies to deal with social problems, the Government has introduced and extended its "world first" cashless welfare card — a discriminatory tool which has been described as treating Indigenous Australians as "third class citizens".
Prime Minister Turnbull, however, describes it as:
"... an exercise in practical love, in compassion, in ensuring the taxpayers' dollars are not being spent on substance abuse and drugs leading to violence."
Despite the spectacular failure of #RoboDebt, the Turnbull Government has pursued ever more sophisticated ways in which to continue targeting so-called "welfare cheats", with the latest instalment passing the Senate.
ACOSS CEO Dr Cassandra Goldie had this to say about the bill:
"This bill will increase already shockingly high homelessness numbers. More than 80,000 people stand to be cut off from payments after just 12 months of this new legislation."
Despite vehement opposition from health professionals and aid agencies, the Government is also continuing its plans to subject welfare recipients to random drug tests.
The view that government's role is to create a strong economy so we have a healthy society is around the wrong way. We need a healthy, just society in order to have a strong economy.
— Mr Denmore (@MrDenmore) April 17, 2018
While being poor is no longer reason enough to qualify for government assistance, it now also bears a mark of shame previously unequalled in Australia's history. In short, the take-home message from our Government is, if you're poor, it's your fault.
A myriad of studies and reports have highlighted Australia's growing inequality but our Government does not appear to be listening. This affects real people — like you, and me, and Jack – featured in our cover shot – who now lives on Melbourne's streets.
Today has been okay, but yesterday was pretty bad. I've been homeless for about a year now. I never would have thought that would happen to me but ... here I am, brother.
I was married with two kids. We were childhood sweethearts. We met when we were 14 and were together for 19 years.
I worked hard to provide for my family but it seemed like I could never get on top of our finances. My ex-wife told me she loved me so much that she'd live in the gutter with me but even after I worked so hard and bought her a house it wasn't good enough. It always felt like money kind of ruled our lives and that nothing I did was really enough. It really got me down and I fell into depression.
I used to try and relax by smoking a bit of pot now and then but my wife didn't like it. She gave me so many warnings but I just didn't pay attention. Then one day she said, that's it, no more chances.
We got divorced. I was still working at this time and kept on working for a year after but then my depression got so bad I couldn't work anymore.
I managed to stay off the streets for a while. I couch-surfed for a bit and then I was with my mate at his place but he lost it and now we are homeless together.
I never really know what each day holds — some are good, some are bad. I'm just happy today is a good one.
You can follow senior editor Michelle Pini on Twitter @vmp9.
Elderly, disabled, jobless or homeless? It's your fault, according to LNP https://t.co/LifkBiVh2i Well of course it is...for voting #LNP
— Ming The Merciless (@MGliksmanMDPhD) May 3, 2017
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It's hard to believe that Harry Potter turned 20 this year. For the past two decades, the world has been clearly divided into two groups of people: Fans of Harry Potter and the Muggles who love them. And as if the 20th anniversary celebrations happening this year weren't enough to get your dress robes in a twist, fans of the beloved series have an even bigger treat coming this fall — three actually! Here's everything we know so far about the three new Harry Potter books.
As part of the 20-year anniversary of Harry Potter, the British Library will mount a massive exhibit of all things Potter, from original illustration sketches, handwritten drafts, and notes from author J.K. Rowling, to movie props and more. Harry Potter: A History of Magic opens in London, England on Oct. 20 and will run through February 2018. To coincide with the anniversary exhibition at the British Library, two new Harry Potter books will also be released on the same day.
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NFL Buccaneers' Ndamukong Suh using Warren Buffett's advice
Matt Ryan (2) of the Falcons is chased by Ndamukong Suh (93) of the Bucs during the regular season game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on January 03, 2021 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.Cliff Welch | Icon Sportswire | Getty ImagesNational Football League lineman Ndamukong Suh tries to speak with Warren Buffett quarterly to catch up and solicit investment advice.The two have been close since 2009, when Suh attended the University of Nebraska. The last time he spoke with the "Oracle of Omaha" was during the holidays. Suh, who now plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, said Buffett discussed opportunities and being in position when they arrive."As you can see, he's been super cash-heavy," Suh told CNBC on Friday. "It's being prepared to make moves and see where there's opportunities in the market."Though Suh is busy preparing for the New Orleans Saints on Sunday, in a showdown between iconic NFL quarterbacks Tom Brady on the Bucs and Drew Brees on the Saints, he said he stays aware of market turmoil and activity via CNBC mobile alerts. While waiting for investing opportunities, he's also preparing for life after football."I have aspirations to be more successful off the field than I was on the field," Suh said. "I think I'm in a fairly good place, but I know I have a lot of hard work ahead of myself to accomplish that."Suh's portfolioSuh, 34, has been particularly keen on opportunities in hospitality and restaurants, and says he's "bullish" on the sectors."I've seen a lot of good growth in those areas that a lot of people wouldn't expect," Suh said. (He's an investor in a SPAC in the hospitality space, but declined to name it.)"There's going to be a bigger demand as the vaccine is rolling out and people more open to being out in public," Suh said. "Deliveries and the opportunity to grab and go; I've seen a lot of success in those spaces."Suh didn't add publicly traded food companies to his portfolio in 2020, but privately he has "projects in the pipeline" this year around Portland, Oregon, where he grew up."We've signed leases and waiting for things to get up and rolling as things come back," Suh said.Other investments include Silofit, a fitness company that specializes in privatized workouts. The Canadian company went through a $2.5 million fundraising round last November, according to Crunchbase, and Suh says the firm is expanding.He's used his NFL stardom to make connections with Gary Shiffman, chairman of real estate company Sun Communities Inc, and former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. He has stock in both companies and is exploring investments in tech firms, too."I would say I'm a hands-on investor," Suh said. "I like to get my hands dirty. I like to add value, which is why I like to be an advisor to companies if I'm not a board member or a venture partner."Defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh of the Detroit LionsGetty ImagesA meeting with Phil KnightWhile with the Detroit Lions in 2011, Suh made the headlines when he was suspended for two games after stomping a Green Bay Packers player. He returned to Portland and met with Nike founder Phil Knight, who helped him turn a negative into an opportunity.Suh said Knight told him: "'We're going to be able to leverage this from a branding perspective.' And Nike is one of the smartest groups as storytelling, so they've been able to leverage me in a lot of ways."Since then, Suh's foundation has focused on providing opportunities for others, one of which he described as the "young Black professional housing project." Suh's mission is to provide housing to young entrepreneurs, allowing them to focus on building their business, not on rent.With Covid-19 impacting the nation, rent prices in the city have declined, but monthly rent for a a one-bedroom apartment still exceeds $1,100, according to The Oregonian, which used data from apartment websites."Rent is not easy," said Suh, adding he has a 40-unit and 56-unit project in the architect phase before moving to city approval."I think they'll find that it's a good project and one that will come online soon," he said. "It's high-quality living and having the ability to help young professionals get their feet wet in their business focuses but also at the same time, not having to be concerned with their living situation."Tom Brady #12 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers throws a pass during the first half against the New Orleans Saints at Raymond James Stadium on November 08, 2020 in Tampa, Florida.Mike Ehrmann | Getty ImagesBrady owes SuhSuh described the NFL's Covid-19 season as "challenging," especially with changing protocols as the league got serious following an outbreak on the Baltimore Ravens."I'm lucky to be an older guy," he said. "I anticipated what I needed to do and knew all I needed to take care of when it comes to football. The ancillary pieces, I could just handle that as it came."Suh added he's was impressed with how young players on the Bucs handled the season, especially rookies."I know their head was spinning just with football, let alone with the pandemic they had to deal with," said Suh. "Definitely a challenging year but something that we all believed that we could handle. As professional athletes, we're always adjusting and adapting. So, I think it's in our blood to be able to find ways to get things done."Speaking of getting things done, Suh is counting on Brady to lead the team past the Saints to continue their pursuit of a Super Bowl. It would be his first title and Brady's seventh.Suh gives Brady flak for the 2019 Super Bowl the quarterback cost him, as the Los Angeles Rams fell to Brady's New England Patriots."He owes me a Super Bowl since he stole one from me in [2019]," Suh joked. "I got to take care of business this year and would love to get that Super Bowl," he added. 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