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What happened when millennials moved in with octogenarians for TWO WEEKS? TV show captures riotous drinking, accusations of narcissism and VERY heated dinner table chat
- Channel 5's new social experiment is called Mind the Age Gap
- Aims to examine the size of the generation gap in the twenty first century
- Twelve people aged between 19 and 83 live in a house together for two weeks
- Television, phones and social media were banned while books and newspapers were provided to provoke debate
Eighty-three year old Dee Major was prepared for pretty much anything when she agreed to take part in a television experiment earlier this year.
Everything, that is, but the noise. 'It was honestly incredible,' she recalls now.
'They would all talk over each other, not listening. There was a lot of shouting.'
'They' being the six young people ranging in age between 19 and 28 with whom sprightly octogenarian Dee recently set up home.
Joining them were five other men and women from the other end of the age spectrum – the youngest of them 62.
It was admittedly a temporary measure: the twelve unlikely co-habitees – a cross-section of races, religions and sexuality as well as age - shared a house for two weeks under the scrutiny of television cameras for a new series which aims to examine the size of the generation gap in the twenty first century and whether age is the biggest factor that divides us as a nation.
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(From L-R) Bob, Kevin, Jenny, Lin, Dee, Eddie, Tracy, Eden, Tyrrel, Jed and Joey are all placed in a house together for two weeks
Debates rage between the age groups after they are banned from using their mobile phones and watching television
Dee, 83, from Bournemouth, is the oldest person in the experiment and is a mum of two, grandmother of three and great grandmother of five
To ensure the housemates engaged with each other, television, phones and social media were banned while books and newspapers were provided to provoke debate.
What, you think, might ensue? Spirited discussions about Brexit? Thoughtful chats about the meaning of life? Not quite: shouting matches is perhaps a better description, at least in the first instance.
Certainly viewers of the first episode – there are five overall - could be forgiven for thinking that the generation gap is more of a Grand Canyon.
On their first evening in the house, the younger generation get on with the pressing business of getting riotously drunk, making romantic overtures and shouting in language which, while purportedly English, is impenetrable to anyone who has celebrated their fiftieth birthday.
('Whatever language they're speaking - it's not mine' laments 62-year-old retired police detective Kevin).
The oldsters, meanwhile, have a couple of robust glasses of red wine before making their way to bed. Both sets, meanwhile, start out with firm opinions about the qualities of their opposites.
The youngsters see their elders as out of touch, overly nationalistic and set in their ways.
They in turn see the millennials as self-centred, patriotic and hedonistic – although 67-year-old former police inspector Bob Ferris goes further in his diagnosis.
'I had a pretty firm idea about the millennials: Entitled, narcissistic and addicted to social media,' he declares now.
Then again, Bob is not shy about making his opinions known. Unapologetically traditional in his views, he admits he finds homosexuality 'unnatural' and is not averse to slightly dubious jokes about race.
The married grandfather of five, from Surrey, says he took part in the experiment as he thought it would be a chance to enjoy some 'meaningful discussions' about politics and social issues. Alas, he was to be disappointed.
The tone was, arguably set on the first night during a parlour game in which participants had to guess the identity of a famous character.
When Angela Merkel came up, five out of six of the twenty-somethings did not know who she was.
'It wasn't entirely confined to the youngsters - a couple of the old ones didn't know who she was either. But it was still a bit of a shock,' Bob recalls now.
'In general I found it quite disturbing the lack of social and political awareness among the young people. One of them couldn't remember if he voted to stay or remain, two of them had never voted. So the healthy debate part didn't really live up to its billing.'
Bob, 67, from Surrey, gets into an argument with Tyrrel, 25, from Brixton. She brands him racist after a discussion about black men and education
The fact that none of his young housemates could walk past a mirror without looking at it also underlined Bob's deep-rooted view that most are preoccupied with the personal rather than the public.
'All of them were obsessed with their appearance,' he says.
Bob found himself at the centre of many of the conflicts in the house, and came to blows early on with Tyrrel, a lively and opinionated 25-year-old black girl from Brixton who brands Bob a racist after a discussion – again, shouting match would probably be a better term – about young black men and education.
'You know that young black lads aren't very educated are they,' he tells her. 'They fail dismally at school for reasons I don't fully understand.'
A baffled Tyrrel accuses him of first generalisation, and then of prejudice.
'The frustrating thing was that she wouldn't listen to what I was trying to say,' Bob recalls now. 'She had already made up her mind so she just kept shouting.'
But then recalcitrance was a common trait among the young adds great-grandmother Dee, a retired counsellor, who says that while she became very fond of several of the youngsters many of them were all too ready to be offended.
'They often latched on to one word to get offended by,' she says. 'They didn't seem to understand that often we were talking about experiences long ago, about how things were. A bit more listening and a bit less shouting would have been helpful.'
Bob is a divorced ex-police officer whose second wife has been a rock during his recent cancer battle
The younger group aged from 19 to 29 have very different views and opinions to the older group which causes some friction
A self-confessed UKIP voter Dee, who describes herself as 'outgoing, feisty and open-minded' says that in particular she was 'shouted down' whenever she tried to talk about immigration.
'When I tried to talk about UKIP I was denigrated. I haven't got a loud voice so I suppose I kept fairly quiet. That's the ironic thing - that the younger generation get very het up about tolerance but they also get incredibly het up when you don't agree with them.'
Not that she was particularly surprised by this. 'My grandchildren are all late twenties early thirties so I'm very used to younger people,' she says wryly.
What struck her most, perhaps – apart from those noise levels – was that for all their opinions the younger generation had a lack of awareness about the realities of life.
'On the whole they did seem very naïve,' she says.
Bob, meanwhile, points out that by the time he was their age he was married with children.
In fairness the conflict was far from just confined to across the generations: Bob rubbed up many of his older contemporaries the wrong way, including mild churchgoing Jenny, 74, who describes him as overpowering, and gay businesswoman Lin, 64, who uses a markedly ruder word.
The older group, range from 62 up to 83, and get frustrated with the younger group when they have no idea who the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel is
He did have one young fan meanwhile in the shapely form of 29-year-old Tracy, a single mother of two from Buckinghamshire.
'I liked him,' she says. 'Bob had a tough time from some of the younger ones but he comes from a generation as my grandparents did when you called things a certain way – it wasn't deliberately derogatory, more a crossing of wires.
'Yes that generation can be judgemental but they are honest and they grew up in a world that wasn't very politically correct where they called it as they saw it and in some ways I prefer that to a lot of the fakeness you get now.'
Tracy is a former page 3 girl turned social media 'influencer' – she has two million followers on Instagram – and at first glance would appear to tick every box on Bob's millennial list, given that her 'job' seems to involve a lot of time doing yoga in a series of tight Lycra outfits and taking pictures of it.
Nor does she vote, acknowledging she has 'zero interest' in politics. Underestimate her at your peril however.
'Because I had my daughter at 19 I had to grow up very quickly - people my own age seemed quite childish in comparison. People think we're self-obsessed but I worked three jobs and studied hard to raise my daughter alone.'
By large a calming presence in the house, Tracey admits to being taken aback by the volatility of its residents – particularly her peers.
'On the first day everyone was so furious,' she acknowledges. 'I think it didn't help that we were in a little bubble with no phones no TV, everyone piles in. It's a bit of a pressure cooker situation. But as time went on and we got to know each other things changed. As we shared stories it helped us all to understand each other better. '
Tracy, 29, is a single mother of two from Buckinghamshire, who is also a former page 3 model and a social media influencer
A turning point came, she says, when the housemates showed photographs of their younger selves and shared their life stories.
'It got very emotional at times,' she says. 'It was a chance for everyone to understand why people were the way they were.'
Particular flashpoints were sexuality, race, and immigration: many of the younger generation are shocked when Dee reveals there used to be a colour of wool known as 'n***** brown', while Bob's declaration that he isn't 'comfortable' with homosexuality upset two of the younger gay men in the house.
Even Joey, who professes to be comfortable around the older generation from what he describes as a 'typical working class upbringing' listening to 'old war stories' of his father and grandfather admits to being shocked by some of the opinions on display among the senior citizens.
'I knew there would be some prejudice but it was quite full on in some cases. I'm from a generation that isn't used to that,' he says.
'Then again I was surprised by some of the ways the younger people were acting. I've had my moments – but there were 80 year old people in the house trying to sleep at three in the morning and people shouting and screaming, so there was a lack of consideration that I didn't like.'
Jed (left), 24, from Castleford, admits he doesn't remember whether he voted to remain or leave in the 2016 vote. Joey (right) 28, from Tottenham, felt 'stuck in the middle'
'I was a bit stuck in the middle in a way in the house, at the younger end of the older lot but a bit too old to be getting drunk and shouting and rowing.' Joey took part in the experiment believing it would be a learning curve and says that ultimately, while at first he thought he'd 'joined a madhouse' the experience did live up to his hopes.
'In the end I learned loads about cooking, politics, all kinds of things,' he says. 'And even if some of the older folks' views surprised me a bit and I didn't agree with them I could see where people's opinions were coming from.'
Indeed even Bob, with the advantage of a period of reflection, is in forgiving mood.
'Alcohol played a big part in the evenings,' he says. 'Whereas the older ones had their couple of glasses of red wine and went to bed the youngsters would drink every last drop and then there was some shouting and screaming until the early hours. But if I had the energy maybe I would do that – they were away from home in a totally alien environment with very little means of burning off the excess energy.'
For his own part, Joey spent much of the time playing scrabble with Kevin – they got along so well that he and partner Alice have arranged to go and stay for a weekend over the summer - and putting the world to rights with Lin while pouting social media obsessive Tracy formed a close if unlikely bond with mild-mannered traditionalist Jenny, who has never owned a computer but declares Tracy 'absolutely wonderful.'
For her own part Tracy believes that while in general everyone managed to see past the number on the birth certificate in the end, it still plays its part in creating barriers.
'We are all guilty of making snap judgements,' she adds. 'If we were all wearing blindfolds people would have made even more amazing friendships irrespective of age.'
The experiment lasts for two weeks and is monitored by psychologists who watch the interactions between the two different age groups
For Clinical Psychologist Dr Hamira Riaz, who observed the two weeks experiment at close quarters, watching the interactions confirmed her instinct that like-minded souls will always gravitate to each other whatever their age.
'Very quickly the two generations thing broke down and they started to build tribes based on personalities not age – that happened rather quickly,' she says.
'While the flashpoints were some of the more social and political issues, day to day people bonded with people who shared their mindset. Introvert, extrovert, having a very fixed viewpoint or being open to new things – these qualities cross the age spectrum.'
In fact, after a few days together, relative concordat was reached among even the most fractious cross-generational housemates – including Bob and Tyrrel. With the benefit of hindsight, does he think the age gap is bigger today than it was when he was a boy.
'In the end my overwhelming conclusion was not so much that the generations are different but that people are different,' he says. Dee feels much the same way.
'Young people think they know it all - but we've all been there and all thought like that if we're honest,' she says. 'We're not so different really – we've just lived longer.'
Mind The Age Gap starts tonight at 10pm on Channel 5 and will air every night this week at 10pm (Mon-Fri)
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What Ohio’s Senate map says about GOP redistricting strategy
Senate President Matt Huffman, R-Lima. Photo from the Ohio Channel.
Early next month, new state legislative districts go before the Ohio Supreme Court. The congressional map approved last week is on its way to court, too. In both cases, Ohio Republicans controlled the process throughout, and approved maps that garnered no support from the minority party — directly at odds with the stated intent of the constitutional amendments overwhelmingly approved by voters. These new lines are transparently partisan, but they’re built to be right at the bleeding edge of defensible. The new Senate plan offers a glimpse at state leaders’ strategy.
Packing and cracking in Cincinnati and Cleveland
Three different state senators will represent portions of Hamilton County. Cuyahoga will get four. They’re the second and third most populous counties in the state, so splitting the counties was likely unavoidable. But political scientist David Niven takes issue with how those splits were made.
“Gerrymandering isn’t just about drawing a bunch of districts for your party to win. It’s also about drawing districts for the other party that they can’t lose,” Niven explained. “You maximize the number of their voters who are bunched together, so they harm the dominant party in as few districts as possible.”
This practice, known colloquially as packing and cracking, influences outcomes by changing what researchers call the efficiency gap. Efficiency has to do with the relative weight, or power, of a given vote. Casting a ballot in one party’s stronghold is less efficient, for instance, than casting it in a toss-up race. When the margins are tighter, a single vote means more.
Niven says the areas around Cleveland and Cincinnati are poster children for this approach. He contrasts the 23rd District in Cleveland where Democrats can expect about 80% of the vote, with the neighboring 27th District which gives Republicans a slight edge.
“It’s almost perfectly efficient, it’s almost the ideal district from a Republican perspective, just enough Republican votes that they win — no wasted votes,” Niven said. “You know, if you put any of those Democrats from 23 into 27, and they border each other, you could do this, you would have two Democratic districts.”
In Cincinnati, Niven says Republican drafters took their tinkering with efficiency a step further. Hamilton County skews Democratic. In 2020, voters there gave Joe Biden 56% of the vote — that’s 15 points more than Donald Trump’s share. But the current map is likely to produce two Republican state senators and just one Democrat representing Hamilton County because of major differences in population.
“That’s the special sauce, it’s not only the drawing of the lines, but it’s taking liberties with the size of districts,” Niven said. “They cram quite a few more voters into the Democratic district than into the Republican districts, because if you if you apportion them evenly it would be harder to make two Republican districts.”
We're not just talking about 100 people here, 100 people there — we're talking about a 29,000 or so difference. And you know, obviously that's a strategic choice. It has absolutely nothing to do with trying to achieve fair representation.
– Political Scientist David Niven
This stands in stark contrast to the process for the congressional map.
Republican lawmakers there insisted on as little population deviation as possible. Every district in the congressional map is equivalent, plus or minus one person. Sponsor Sen. Rob McColley, R-Napoleon, used an equal population argument to justify splitting Summit County. And Republicans used population as cudgel as well. Sen. Theresa Gavarone, R-Bowling Green, criticized the Democratic proposal noting one district was 748 voters above the ideal population while another was 491 voters below.
Those considerations went out the window for the Ohio Senate map.
“The Democratic district has 371,000 people. One of the Republican districts has 342,000 people,” Niven said of the Hamilton County Senate districts. “We’re not just talking about 100 people here, 100 people there — we’re talking about a 29,000 or so difference. And you know, obviously that’s a strategic choice. It has absolutely nothing to do with trying to achieve fair representation.”
It’s worth noting that courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have determined populations from district to district do not need to be exactly the same, and they do give greater leeway to state legislative lines. But while cases like Tennant v. Jefferson County and Reynolds v. Sims established that small deviations are fine, “as nearly as is practicable” populations must be equivalent. Further, they determined that where states do deviate, they must “justify population differences between districts that could have been avoided.”
Flipping the math outside Columbus
In 2020, Senate District 16 was decided by just 116 votes. Incumbent Sen. Stephanie Kunze, R-Hilliard, was able to fend off a challenge from first time Democratic candidate Crystal Lett.
“We were in the race for about two years,” Lett, who now works with Red, Wine and Blue, said. “It was an insanely hard-fought race. I don’t think I could have possibly worked harder than I did.”
Franklin County has grown considerably since the previous Senate map was drawn in 2011. That influx puts the district’s current population more than 12 percent higher than the ideal population, and it has also pushed the district to the left, creating more of an opening for candidates like Lett.
But the results aren’t likely to be as tight as they were in 2020 anytime soon. Under the previous map, district 16 favors Democrats over Republicans 52%-45%. With the new map, that advantage flips — favoring Republicans 52%-46%.
Mapmakers accomplished that swing by excising suburbs like Worthington that are trending blue, while adding in the entirety of largely rural Union County.
“I think the needs of Union County voters and the needs of Western Franklin County voters are significantly different,” Lett argued. “I think it’d be a huge challenge to represent both areas and represent them well. And I think that’s maybe the biggest offense of gerrymandering itself is that it lumps communities in that don’t have much in common and expects someone to be able to meet the needs of everyone that they represent.”
She also calls it “interesting” that she no longer lives in the district.
“They literally drew the line around my precinct to draw me out of the district,” she laughed. “I am by a mile no longer in Senate District 16, which I can’t imagine was done on accident.”
The six-point swing in the 16th District is actually one of the biggest on the map, but by keeping the margin within the range of what could be considered competitive, it has the sheen of fairness. Similar shifts can be seen throughout the map. While a handful of left leaning districts see their margins climb markedly, right leaning districts see their figures move slightly — sometimes up, sometimes down, but often just enough to maintain an advantage. Niven says while those changes are subtle, they’re significant.
“It’s not that far of a distance from standing on the deck of a boat to being, you know, drowning in the water a few feet away,” Niven said. “It’s not that many votes, a lean Democratic district to a lean Republican district, but it makes a world of difference.”
Sen. Kunze is term limited, so she won’t end up running in the new 16th District. Still, she doesn’t see the inclusion of Union County in her district as all that surprising given the population growth in central Ohio. And she rejects the idea that incorporating a largely rural neighboring county will change the complexion of the district. Instead, she highlights Jerome Village right across the county line from Dublin.
“That growth and influx is dynamic and increasing all the time, and to me, my little bit of time that I’ve seen and known people that moved out to Jerome village, that looks much more similar to a Franklin County (voter) than it does to a Union County voter,” Kunze said.
Niven argues the impact of those changes affect more than just the margins. He says drawing in Union County re-centers the district — pushing it away from a growth area for Democrats and toward something of a no-man’s land.
“So realistically, this would be an afterthought race for Democrats,” Niven said. “Not one that they would go into fully expecting that they could win, which is I think where it is right now.”
But Kunze and Lett are more sanguine about the district’s competitiveness. Speaking about the current GOP advantage, Kunze said, “I expect that to drop. I expect it to remain a very competitive seat.”
Although Lett believes the new district would be more challenging for Democrats, she thinks it’s still winnable.
“If I swung the district nine points in 2020, could another Democrat come in and swing the district back to having a Democrat win? I think that’s obviously possible,” she said.
And that is part of the trade off when mapmakers maximize the efficiency of one party’s votes. Although the lines are static, people aren’t. Populations shift constantly, and given enough time, margins can narrow, or even flip.
But here again, Republican lawmakers may have insulated themselves by favoring a purely partisan process. Assuming the courts allow it to take effect, the new map will only be in place for the next four years, because no Democrats voted for it. With supermajorities in both chambers, and a map that gives them an edge, the GOP’s grip on power seems unlikely to slacken before the latest map expires.
After that, Republicans can go back to the drawing board, and Ohioans could see the same process play out again.
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- The Lion King is one of the biggest animated films of all time
Comedian John Oliver was confirmed as Zazu, while other big names in the production - set for release in July 2019 - include Seth Rogan and Billy Eichner.
"It is a director's dream to assemble a talented team like this to bring this classic story to life," said director Jon Favreau, who helmed Disney's hit live-action remake of The Jungle Book (2016), in a statement confirming the cast.
The production will build on Disney's hugely lucrative reimagining of that movie and several other classics from its vaults - including Beauty and the Beast, Maleficent and Cinderella - for contemporary audiences.
The Lion King is one of the biggest animated films of all time, with a lifetime global box-office gross of just under $1 billion.
It won Oscars for the song Can You Feel the Love Tonight by Elton John and Tim Rice, and for its score by Hans Zimmer, plus two Grammy Awards, with the soundtrack selling more than 14 million copies.
Translated into eight languages, the film's 23 global stage productions have been seen by more than 85 million people. The worldwide gross for the brand exceeds that of any film, Broadway show or other entertainment title in history.
Stunning early footage of the live-action version shown at Disney's D23 fan convention in Southern California in July climaxed in the iconic moment when Rafiki introduces newborn Simba to the animals of the savannah.
"This is a story that belongs to everyone who grew up with the original film," said Favreau. "I wanted to demonstrate that we could be respectful of the source material while bringing it to life using new techniques and technologies."
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David Cameron today vowed to protect Britain from terror attacks after Nick Clegg threatened to block plans for new secret courts.
The Prime Minister intervened after the Liberal Democrat leader objected to extending secret hearings to cover civil trials.
In robust terms, Mr Cameron promised to plug “significant gaps” in Britain’s defences by setting up the secret courts and allowing the GCHQ spy listening centre to monitor text, internet and social media traffic despite an outcry over this “snooper’s charter”.
“The big picture is this: government, prime ministers, have a responsibility for national security,” he said. “We should take every step that’s necessary to keep the country safe.”
He said the Government should not put civil liberties at risk but he warned that “difficult decisions” would need to be taken on these issues and promised to work through them with the Lib-Dems and other critics to explain why the changes were necessary.
In a letter to the National Security Council, Mr Clegg had warned that he would not support the new civil “secret courts” unless judges, rather than ministers, decided when they should be held and added that these arrangements should not cover inquests.
The secret hearings are intended to allow MI5 and MI6 officers to give evidence without jeopardising their covert information-gathering techniques or intelligence sharing with America and other countries.
But Mr Clegg said the security services “cannot be allowed to ride roughshod over the principle of open justice”.
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said he would have “no difficulty accommodating” Mr Clegg’s concerns and signalled a partial climbdown over the plans by saying judges would have the “final say” on what evidence is heard in secret.
However, he rebuffed Mr Clegg’s suggestion of a ban on secret hearings in coroners’ courts.
Mr Clarke warned that America was already cutting back on intelligence sharing because of concerns that secrets could come out in British courts after Binyam Mohamed aired allegations that he had been tortured by the CIA with the collusion of British spies.
“The Americans have got nervous that we are going to start revealing some of their information and they have started cutting back, I am assured, on what they disclose,” he said.
Mr Clarke is also reportedly preparing to limit the “closed material procedures” — secret hearings — to cases where disclosure poses a risk to national security, or where a secret agent’s life could be at risk, rather than just where “sensitive” information is discussed.
MPs and peers on the Joint Committee on Human Rights have attacked Mr Clarke’s proposals saying they were “inherently unfair” and based on “spurious assertions” about the risk of material being made public.
Secret hearings, where special advocates represent the parties, are used in some deportation and other cases to restrict the activities of terror suspects. But a Supreme Court ruling said it had no power to do so in civil cases.
In an interview with The Guardian this afternoon Mr Clegg appeared to openly attack coalition policies calling the Tories’ approach a “blunderbuss”.
Contrasting the way in which Lib- Dems govern with the Conservatives’ approach, he said: “Over the last couple of years there are some things we have proceeded with in sort of a blunderbuss fashion, legislatively. But there are other areas I am directly responsible for — on individual voter registration — where we have been very careful to publish stuff, scrutinise, react and amend.”
‘Hoo-ha based on alarming descriptions’
The Justice Secretary today defended plans for a so-called “snooper’s charter” for GCHQ to monitor all text, internet visits and social media traffic — but not the content of the messages.
He stressed that these rules already applied to phone calls but the extension has sparked a Tory and Lib-Dem revolt and speculation that the proposals could be delayed.
“The hoo-ha at the moment is based on rather alarming descriptions of what we’re supposed to be doing,” he said, adding: “What’s proposed is the rules that nobody was complaining about when it was telephone calls can now be extended to others with the same safeguards.”
It came after Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, was accused of a U-turn over the plans to allow the authorities greater access to phone, email and internet records.
He said legislation would now only be published in draft. Civil liberties campaigners and Lib-Dem MPs last night welcomed Mr Clegg’s words as a significant concession, although the Coalition remains committed to overhauling the rules on communications records.
Ministers are facing a backlash after confirmation that the Coalition wants to go ahead with changes that would allow the state immediate access to the phone numbers people dial, the addresses they email and the web pages they access.
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Murray’s talent undimmed, but fitness factor clouds Open return
Former world number one Andy Murray’s ranking dropped as low as 839 during 2018 as he played only six tournaments, with the Scot arriving in Melbourne looking to prove he can compete again at the top level.
The three-time major winner and double Olympic champion pulled out of last year’s Australian Open to have hip surgery and only returned in June on grass at Queen’s Club in London and then played on the same surface at Eastbourne.
He sat out Wimbledon in July and made just four more tournament appearances, including a Grand Slam return at the US Open, before ending his season after Shenzhen in September to concentrate on working his way back to full fitness.
Despite his truncated season Murray showed glimpses of his best — most notably in his third comeback event at Washington in August.
Murray won three gruelling three-set matches in his first hard-court event after surgery to reach the quarter-finals, including an impressive victory against British number one Kyle Edmund who was a semi-finalist in Melbourne a year ago.
Murray’s fierce will to win was amply demonstrated as he survived a final-set tie-break in a last-16 epic against Marius Copil that ended at 3:02 am with the Scot bursting into tears.
In his final event of 2018 in Shenzhen, Murray showed his talent was undimmed — recording his first comeback victory over a top 10 player against David Goffin before closing down his season to finish with a year-end ranking of 240. He enters the Australian Open at 230.
He was upbeat after winning his first match of the season at Brisbane last week but was easily beaten in the next round in straight sets by Russia’s world number 15 Daniil Medvedev.
“In the second set I made a few too many mistakes,” Murray said. “I think when you obviously play better players, I mean he’s 15 in the world or so, they will expose any errors that you make in your game.”
But it is his body’s ability to withstand five-set matches over two weeks in energy-sapping heat that will be the unknown factor for a man searching for a first Australian Open title at the age of 31.
“There are still things that I want to achieve,” said Murray.
“I have been so close so many times that the Australian Open is the one I would pick to win if I could,” added the Scot who has lost in five previous Melbourne finals.
“I missed playing here and I’m going to go out and compete as hard as I can. Whether I am capable of that I don’t really know.”
Murray confirmed he still has some pain from his hip, but said he was “in a better place than I was a few months ago”.
“I owed it to myself to give myself the best possible shot to get back to a level I was happy with.”
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Matt Flinner Trio : Winter Harvest
My list of favorite mandolin players is fairly short – Dave Grisman, Mike Marshall, Chris Thile, Ronnie McCoury, Sam Bush. To followers of bluegrass and its many extensions, these virtuosos are easily recognizable and, frankly, regular occupants on lists like mine.
Recently, I have added another mandolin picker to my list – Matt Flinner.
To be honest, I don’t know why Flinner hasn’t been on my list for years. I caught him, well over a decade ago, with flatpicker David Grier at a tiny coffeehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, and distinctly remember being blown away. More recently, I saw him backing up Darrell Scott at a local festival – his talent remained prodigious. The only thing I can chalk it up to is not having any of Flinner’s recordings in my collection – sort of an “out of ear, out of mind” type of thing.
Well, no more.
Flinner’s talents are now front and center in my musical psyche after receiving Winter Harvest, his most recent release with guitarist Ross Martin and bass player Eric Thorin, his mates in the Matt Flinner Trio.
Perhaps most interesting about this record is the process Flinner, Martin, and Thorin set about recording it. For most bands, the idea of “road testing” a tune means working the kinks out over multiple shows, fine tuning it over time until, in the band’s mind, the tune is well practiced and tight. For this trio, road testing means, literally, writing tunes on the road on the very day they will be performed and recorded. Flinner and his mates first attempted this is 2006, when they began what they call their music du jour process of songwriting. For each show, each member of the band would work up a new song to be played and recorded that very night. No extra practice, no time to work the bugs out. One can imagine the final notes being worked out in the van outside the venue.
This is songcraft at its most organic and it certainly works for Flinner’s trio. The music is guaranteed to be fresh and invigorating – with new tunes constantly taking shape, there is no way Flinner, Martin, and Thorin can get stale, and the spontaneity and zeal of these new songs is very much alive on Winter Harvest. Bluegrass, folk, jazz, and international flavors blend splendidly. Highlights include the disc opener, “Raji’s Romp,” the somber “Bitterroot,” and the easily whimsical “The Stumbling Bro.”
Because I have known of Flinner for years, I consider it nigh on sinful that I haven’t taken the time to know his recordings better. Winter Harvest is an apt introduction, one that demands I quickly dig deeper into his earlier works.
Winter Harvest is out now on Compass Records.


Health Insurance firms in Delhi may increase the premium of their policies by 5 percent if the insurance claim data in the Delhi-NCR region show high numbers of respiratory ailments and disorders according to an India Today report. Another option for these companies is to take a health checkup of people before getting them on board.
However, there has been no concrete data related to smog-related hospitalisation and insurance claims.
Insurance policies around the country are usually priced according to geography. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority, an autonomous and regulatory body for insurance companies permits geographical pricing of insurance policies. Some of the parameters which affect the price of a policy in different parts of the country are costs of living and availing healthcare, as well as the record of claims and incidents of cheating.
Speaking to India Today, Ashish Mehrotra, CEO and MD of Max Bupa Health Insurance said, “Geographical pricing will help us in pricing policies appropriately, as places with lower incidences of health risks and cheaper cost of treatment are not affected due to the expensive costs in cities.”
According to a health insurance official, the practice of classifying zones according to health hazards and risks is not popular. “The data is scattered and not standardised,” he said.
Insurance officials also say that apart from health hazard parameters, fraud and cheating of insurance companies should also be a determinant for the pricing of health insurance policies.
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