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Budget office chief: ObamaCare creates 'disincentive' to work
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FILE: Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf delivers testimony before the first Joint Deficit Reduction Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.REUTERS
The head of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office delivered a damning assessment Wednesday of the Affordable Care Act, telling lawmakers that ObamaCare creates a "disincentive for people to work," adding fuel to Republican arguments that the law will hurt the economy.
The testimony from CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf comes after his office released a highly controversial report that detailed how millions of workers could cut back their hours or opt out of the job market entirely because of benefits under the health law.
Bipartisan Budget Deal Puts Ryan Under Fire From Fellow Conservatives
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By JONATHAN WEISMAN
Published: December 11, 2013 (h/t Drudge Report)
Paul Ryan Discusses Budget Deal: Representative Ryan and Senator Patty Murray agreed on a budget plan that could possibly prevent another government shutdown.
Representative Paul D. Ryan's eight terms in Congress have produced much political celebrity and Republican respect but just two laws bearing the Ryan name — a renamed post office and a modified excise tax on arrows like the ones he uses for bow hunting.
Representative Paul D. Ryan and Senator Patty Murray took questions about their bipartisan budget deal on Tuesday in Washington.
Then on Tuesday he struck a budget deal with Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, that affixed a new label to the polished veneer of Mr. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican: deal maker and, to some, traitor.
Exclusive — Ryan to Obama: Get 'Revenue Through Growth,' Not Taxes
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by Joel B. Pollak
House Budget Committee chair Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) has rejected President Barack Obama's demand to raise taxes as part of Obama's proposal to achieve $1.6 trillion in additional tax revenues to avoid the "fiscal cliff."
Instead, Ryan backed Speaker John Boehner's position, which is that any new tax revenues must be achieved without passing higher tax rates.
In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, Ryan specified that new revenues should come through economic growth and tax reform, not tax hikes:
Speaker Boehner has outlined a bipartisan way forward to avoid the "fiscal cliff" and get our economy growing: common-sense entitlement reform coupled with pro-growth tax reform. We can find common ground on responsible spending restraint and greater revenue through economic growth, but we have yet to see either a serious plan or leadership from President Obama. Speaker Boehner and House Republicans have delivered both.
Earlier today, President Obama signaled an openness to tax reform, but said that "closing loopholes in deductions" would not cover the cost of extending the current tax rates for the top two percent of earners.
Obama reiterated that he interpreted last week's election results as a mandate to raise taxes as a means to balance the federal budget. Ryan told ABC News yesterday that the electorate had not voted for higher taxes, since Republicans had retained control of the House of Representatives after opposing tax hikes.
Ryan's support for Boehner signals growing unity among House Republicans behind the Speaker's refusal to consider new taxes. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also made a firm commitment to prevent tax hikes in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News last week. Bipartisan talks on the "fiscal cliff' begin Friday.
Ryan on tap to deliver 'hard truths' in VP nomination speech
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If Chris Christie lit a fire under Republicans last night, it's now up to Paul Ryan to provide the fuel to keep it burning for what promises to be a hard-fought two-month battle to win the White House.
The Republican vice presidential candidate is teed up Wednesday to deliver the "hard truths" Christie talked about in his rousing keynote address on opening night. While Christie is known as the GOP fighter, Ryan is the point-man for budget-balancing solutions the party claims to represent.
The Wisconsin congressman has been quietly preparing his speech for days. Members of Ryan's staff contacted by Fox News earlier this week said they couldn't say precisely how long it would be, but that he has "teased" some of the ideas in it before.
Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, is best known for his controversial plans to overhaul Medicare and the tax system. They are likely the kinds of "hard truths" Christie raised Tuesday night, as the New Jersey governor claimed Mitt Romney and Ryan would lead a "new era of truth-telling" in Washington.
Videos surface of Dems, including President Obama, praising Paul Ryan
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Before Paul Ryan was pinned as an "extreme" and "radical" ideologue, Democrats actually kind of liked the guy.
Several clips of prominent Democrats — including President Obama — praising Ryan have surged through the Internet in the days since Mitt Romney tapped the Wisconsin congressman as his running mate. They once called his ideas "serious" and "honest," which is not what the Obama campaign and its affiliates are saying about him now.
Arguably the most robust praise came from Erskine Bowles, the White House chief of staff under former President Bill Clinton who recently co-chaired President Obama's deficit-reduction committee.
In a late 2011 talk at the University of North Carolina, Bowles told the audience "this guy is amazing."
In Iowa face-off, Ryan hammers jobs message as Obama employs drought politics
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Paul Ryan used his first solo campaign swing as Mitt Romney's running mate Monday to hammer President Obama as a jobs killer, forcefully echoing Romney's message, while Obama used a pair of nearby campaign stops to accuse Ryan of hurting drought-stricken farmers.
Ryan was dispatched to Iowa by team Romney to challenge the president as Obama kicked off a three-day bus tour across the Hawkeye State.
Ryan, a Wisconsin congressman, was occasionally interrupted by hecklers during a speech at the Iowa State Fair but stuck to a meat-and-potatoes message of jobs and the deficit.
"As you see the president come through on his bus tour, you might ask him the same question that I'm getting asked from people all around America, and that is, 'Where are the jobs Mr. President?'" Ryan said in Des Moines.
Romney Breitbart Exclusive – Paul Ryan: We Win, We Repeal
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July 5, 2012 by Joel B. Pollak
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), chair of the House Budget Committee–and potential running mate of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney–told Breitbart News this week that the party's leaders are "absolutely" committed to repealing Obamacare.
"It would have been nice for the Supreme Court to repeal it for us," he said, "but it's no harder today than it was the day before the decision. We win, we repeal. It's just that simple."
Ryan, speaking exclusively with Breitbart News, added that there was no disagreement about repealing Obamacare among the various Republican leaders, or with the Romney campaign. "Not in any of the meetings I have been having," he said.
Earlier in the week, conservatives criticized apparently conciliatory postures by the Romney campaign and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). McConnell and Romney have since confirmed their commitment to repealing Obamacare as a first priority after the election.
Asked whether Republicans had a plan ready to replace Obamacare, Ryan pointed to several plans that had already been proposed, including his own and that of Rep.Tom Price (R-GA). While there was common agreement on the need for a "patient-centered" system, Ryan said there were "differences of opinion" on the details of an alternative, particularly on the issue of whether to use tax credits to help people buy insurance.
"I don't think those differences will be resolved between now and the election," Ryan said. "There will be a cacophony of ideas." He explained that Republican leaders would introduce reforms one-by-one, following repeal of Obamacare in the 113th Congress.
Paul Ryan: 'Meet this moment, and bring about change from the debt-laden welfare state'
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by John Gizzi
If Paul Ryan were to become president or vice president someday, or speaker of the House, he would still likely be remembered for the work with which his name is almost always linked: the House GOP's alternative budget, officially known as "The Path To Prosperity," but inevitably referred to in media shorthand as "The Ryan Budget" or "The Ryan Plan."
It is a plan that has carried him to the nation's front pages in the years since he introduced the first version in 2008 and indeed, it propelled him to being the Veep candidate with the most media coverage between March 16 and April 16, according to HighBeam research. He bested popular Sen. Marco Rubio, 27 percent to 23.5 percent, according to the analysis of media attention, released last week.
The Ryan Budget, unlike its predecessors, has special significance in 2012: This is a presidential election year and The Ryan Budget is sure to be targeted by Democrats as a repository of "gloom and doom" and, perhaps, embraced by Republican officeholders and candidates as a program they will enact if they maintain control of the House and win the Senate and presidency this fall.
Paul Ryan: I'd 'Consider' a Vice Presidential Run
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Posted on March 25, 2012 at 2:57pm by Madeleine Morgenstern
CBS – Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Sunday he "would consider" running in the vice presidential slot on the 2012 Republican ticket, though is "so focused" on his current job that it's "not even" in his mind.
Ryan, chair of the House Budget Committee, unveiled a budget plan this week that has been praised by GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney — and been dubbed the "Romney-Ryan budget" by top Obama administration adviser David Plouffe.
"I'm so focused on my job in Congress. If I wanted to be president or vice president so badly I would have run for president. I don't — so I didn't," Ryan said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Still, Ryan wouldn't entirely close the door on the No. 2 spot when pressed by host Norah O'Donnell.
"I would consider it but it's not even something in my mind because it's a decision someone else makes at a later time," he said. "It's a bridge I haven't gotten close to having to cross so in the meantime I think it's important to do my job."
Democrats Say U.S. House Victory Sends Message on Medicare
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Democratic national leaders touted Kathy Hochul's victory in an election for an open congressional seat in a western New York district that traditionally has been safe GOP turf as a clear sign of public opposition to the Republican plan to privatize Medicare.Analysts cautioned about reading too much into the election results from one congressional district, even one long controlled by Republicans. Still, they said the Democratic win should make Republicans nervous about voters' reception to their Medicare proposal.Don't count Rep. Paul Ryan among the nervous, the author of the budget plan involving Medicare, who defiantly predicted on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" this morning that the Democrats would ramp up what he described as their "Mediscare" tactics. The Wisconsin Republican denounced the Democratic attacks as "demagoguery."


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Academia Robotics Team to join NASA's competition in USA
From right to left: Syeda Sarah Shahrin, Saquib Shahzad, Mohammad Jawadul Hassan, Chowdhury Miftah Mahmood Sagir, Kazi Shahul Hossain, Uzair Tahamid Siam, and Sadequa Nusrat
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An inter-school team of six Bangladeshi high school students are all set to compete at the upcoming NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge 2018 to be held at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA from April 12-15, 2018. This is the first ever high school team from Bangladesh to participate in any international rover challenge.
Each year, the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge features an engineering design challenge to engage students worldwide in the next phase of human space exploration. The competition challenges high school and college students to create a vehicle designed to traverse the simulated surface of Mars. Since last year, this competition started welcoming international high school and undergraduate students. The students design, build, and test technologies that enable rovers to perform in a wide variety of environments. Guided by a theme of overcoming the problems of planetary exploration, this year the competition will mimic the opportunities, challenges, and decision-making that future explorers will face in interplanetary space.
This year, around 100 teams from all over the world have been invited to take part in the final round after meeting the competition requirements. The key task is to design and create rovers capable of traversing a challenging exoplanetary landscape in accordance to a 60 page guidebook provided by NASA. The planned course for the competition requires two students, one female and one male, to traverse a terrain of 0.50 miles that includes a simulated field of asteroid debris, erosion ruts and crevasses of varying widths and depths. The challenge's weight and time requirements encourage compactness, light weight, high performance and efficiency. Teams earn points by sending an eight page long technical report before the competition. During the competition, they have to assemble the rover, complete course obstacles, perform tasks throughout the mission following proper strategy and reach the final destination by touching the ground as few times as possible.
To take part in the competition a team is required to have 6 students and 1 Advisor. Six rover enthusiast friends, Muhammad Jawadul Hassan (Captain), Saquib Shahzad, Kazi Shahul Hossain, and Sadequa Nusrat from Academia School; Syeda Sarah Shahrin from Maple Leaf International School, and Uzair Tahamid Siam from Sea Breeze International School, came together to form "Academia Robotics Team" to become the first ever high school team from Bangladesh to participate in this coveted global competition organized by NASA. Over the last few months, the team has collectively designed and built a fully functional manually driven rover and has since submitted a thorough technical report to the competition body. The team is mentored by Chowdhury Miftah Mahmood Sagir, a recent EEE graduate from American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB) and a robotics enthusiast, who also has a past record of participating in International Rover Competitions and representing our country in a global stage.
As making a competent rover and participating in international competitions requires huge expense, the team is seeking sponsors' help to invest on their rover and other expenditures. This will help them to put up a good fight or even bring back success for our country. The team hopes that many more such enthusiastic Bangladeshi teens can participate in global competitions in the future without funding restrictions as more sponsors come forward to help facilitate youth interest in STEM fields or otherwise.
Check out the team's Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/AcademiaRoboticsTeam. To help or become a sponsor, e-mail them at jawadulhas01@gmail.com or miftahmahmood@gmail.com
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REDMOND, WA – (Marketwired – May 11, 2016) – Versium, a leading data technology company that delivers automated data technology solutions to marketing agencies and enterprises, today announced it has been selected as a "Cool Vendor" in the Cool Vendors in Retail, 2016 report by Gartner, Inc., a leading global independent information technology research and advisory company.
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500 Year Anniversary of Moctezuma and Cortés' First Meeting
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The 3 speakers will be delivering a lecture of approximately I hour (20 minutes each) on different aspects of the significance of the 500 year anniversary, followed by a q&a and reception for further questions/networking opportunities.
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Booking deadline: Friday 8 November 2019, 12.00 pm
On 8th November 1519, Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma Xocoyotzin met for the first time, and less than two years later, in August 1521, the Spanish had completed their conquest with the aid of thousands of native auxiliaries who fought against the Aztecs. While this anniversary is being commemorated in Spain, Mexico have requested an apology from its former colonial master for the atrocities committed against its indigenous population. As such, this anniversary, and the subsequent anniversaries that will be remembered in the run up to the end of the siege of Tenochtitlán have very different connotations depending on your point of view.
500 years on, this guest panel aims to interrogate the contentious nature of historic anniversaries; the significance of this meeting for the Aztecs and other indigenous Mexicans, and its importance for the Spaniards and the narrative that it would help create. The guest speakers are: public historian, author and historical adviser for Horrible Histories, Greg Jenner; the UK's leading Aztec specialist, Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock, and NTU History's Dr Amy Fuller, who has published and lectured on the Conquest of Mexico.
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Driving on a suspended license is a crime in California. This comes as a shock to most people since it does not sound that serious, and it does not involve violence, drugs, or theft. However, as a misdemeanor, there can be mandatory jail, making it more serious than one might expect.
In addition, driving on a suspended license is punishable with high fines and serious California Drivers License consequences and DMV records. Jail can be up to six months or one year, and, depending on your situation, may carry mandatory jail. However, occasionally, driving on a suspended license can be filed in court as an infraction, specifically California Vehicle Code section 14601.1(a). An infraction removes the concerns with jail. Nevertheless, the fine may still be relatively high. Furthermore, an infraction still carries serious DMV consequences: two negligent operator points for seven years. Once the points are added to a DMV record and a Los Angeles driver's auto insurance company takes notice, the insurance rates will go up significantly. Some insurance companies may even drop a driver or deny insurance.
There are different kinds of "driving on a suspended license" charges. However, the most common is probably CVC 14601.1(a) for driving a motor vehicle while the license is suspended or revoked for offenses not related to driving ability. This usually occurs for failure to appear on another case. For example, if a driver gets a speeding ticket in San Diego California, but fails to appear in North County Traffic Court in Vista, in San Diego County by the due date on the bottom of the speeding ticket, the Court Clerk will notify the DMV of the failure to appear. The California Department of Motor Vehicles will then eventually suspended the California Drivers License of the licensee. If, subsequently, the licensee/driver is pulled over for any reason in the South Bay by a Torrance Police officer, then the driver will be charged with driving on a suspended license filed at the Southwest District Court by the Torrance City Attorney's Office. (The driver should still resolve the Compton Courthouse speeding ticket immediately, the case with the CVC 40508 and 40509.5 failure to appear that caused the suspension.)
The other extremely common driving on a suspended license charge is 14601.2(a) for driving on a suspended license due to a DUI. This usually occurs when a driver fails to provided proper proof of completion of a post-DUI-conviction alcohol program or fails to pay the mandatory license re-issue fee to the DMV even after complying with all of the other DMV requirements post-DUI-conviction. A first offense of VC 14601.2 in the Superior Court of California, whether in Orange County or Los Angeles County, carries mandatory jail of ten days with a maximum of six months. A second offense within five years carries mandatory jail of thirty days with a maximum of one year in jail. The fine also goes up significantly.
The main defense to driving on a suspended license is lack of knowledge of the suspension. If the driver did not know his/her license was suspended, that element of the crime is not met, and should not be convicted. The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, the prosecution, or, unfortunately, the judicial officer (when acting improperly as a prosecutor) will show that the driver/defendant was notified of the suspension based on the DMV records. This notice is most commonly a letter from the DMV sent to the driver's address that is on file with the DMV. It can also be a police officer giving verbal notice, or any other notice that is recorded by the DMV. Then, the driver/defendant can overcome this presumption of knowledge of the suspension with evidence that the driver did not know that the license was suspended. This may involve showing that no letter was received from the DMV, was never told of the suspension, shows proof of total compliance with any item required to avoid the suspension, or some other evidence demonstrating lack of knowledge of the suspension.
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The workshop "Art, Science, and Philosophy" will bring on Monday, December 12, 2016 philosophers, artists and scientists together to rethink the concepts of art, nature and "human nature" in the age of technoscience, where the biological sciences become the new technological frontier, at: Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3, Room ZG 24, 14:00–18.15 hrs.
The workshop and the Angewandte Innovation Laboratory Talk of the Mexican philosopher María Antonia González Valerio is part of the research collaboration "Question about the Limits: Art, Science, and Philosophy" between the Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of México, Mexico City.
The collaboration project aims to initiate and develop a debate about the relationship of ontology and aesthetics in the age of technoscience from the perspectives of art, science, and philosophy: During the twentieth century science and technology acquired a dominant role in redefining the concept of life. Technology-driven science and research rendered the basic physical and functional unit of heredity, the gene, accessible to human manipulation, thus turning biology into technology. The genetic code and computer code became interchangeable, opening up new possible constellations for designing the biological sphere. Simultaneously we saw big shifts in the developments of the sciences in the least two decades, when fundamental principles and ways of doing science and research in the field of biotechnology began to erode, like the reproducibility of experimental settings. Today research processes are getting more and more outsourced, away from the laboratories of scientific institution to new start-ups, turning the research process into a black box for the scientist involved. On the other hand we see with the growing DIY movement cutting-edge technologies getting into the hands on non-professionals, and new genome editing technologies like CRISPR cheap and easy to use revolutionizing the question about the ontology of life.
This ground-breaking development went unnoticed in the art world: it was not until the 1990s that artists began to make increased use advanced technology to explore and create new art forms, such as digital art or bioart. Science-based art emerged, enhancing progressive encounters with science and technology and shifting the terrain of art towards cutting-edge technologies and the technosciences. With the rise of bioart, a variety of new materials, such as DNA, bacteria, cells, tissue cultures, and transgenic organisms, entered the art world as a means of artistic expression. Obviously, this also made it necessary for artists to get acquainted with new epistemologies and a new logic of producing reality within the techno-scientific regime. By bringing their artistic endeavour with cutting-edge technology to the public's attention, science-based art has provoked greater reflection on the limits of manipulating and/or creating life with biotechnology, highlighting the new genome editing technologies like CRISPR and new approaches in the field of synthetic biology. Therefore, it is high time to shed some light on the relationship of ontology and aesthetics in the age of technoscience by focusing on the production of art that is related to technoscience; not only because of the technologies it uses — and recently also biotechnologies — but most importantly because from this relationship a model emerges which is fruitful for understanding and interpreting reality. Therefore, the question "What is art?" needs to be posed in the light of an ontology that deals with technoscience and the production of reality within biotechnologies. The philosopher María Antonia González Valerio will frame the workshop with her introduction and investigation about the revival and reappraisal of natural philosophy in the light of biotechnology. Her approach, which she calls "the ontology of immanence" engages above all with predominant traditions that seek to answer the question as to the essence of nature and its relationality either with reference to language or to history. In the twentieth century these lines of thought have resulted in nature being subsumed under culture, and this is why it has repeatedly been deemed necessary to try to close off and dislocate parts of nature. In recent decades the remnants of nature left over from the grasp of culture have tended to be made over to philosophical anthropology, which does not offer any solution to the philosophical issues involved. A revival and renewal of natural philosophy must engage with the recent findings of the technosciences and biotechnology and relate them theoretically to the novel aesthetic ontologies that now seek to interpret the world of sensate organisms (plants and animals including humans).
14:00–14:15 Ingeborg Reichle, Welcome and Introduction
14:15–14.45 María Antonia González Valerio, Landscape, Environment and Molecular Biology: Perspectives about Teleology
14:45–15:15 Virgil Widrich, Art & Science & the Small Bang Theory
15:15–15:45 Bernd Kräftner, "Don't leave the kitchen!" A Recipe for Art-Science Incubations
15:45-16:15 Herwig Turk, Labscapes and Landlabs: Re-Reading Environments
16:15–16:45 Coffee Break
16:45–17:15 Tanja Gesell, Present Absent: Biomolecular & Artistic Structure Research
17:15–17:45 Christoph Bock, What if … we all know each other's genomes?
17:45–18:15 Frank Rösl, Personalized Medicine: A critical view from the perspective of a basic researcher
19:00 Angewandte Innovation Laboratory Talk: María Antonia González Valerio, Art, Science and Technology
Prof. Ingeborg Reichle, Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Prof. María Antonia González Valerio, Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City
Prof. Virgil Widrich, Department of Art & Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Dr. Bernd Kräftner, Department of Art & Science, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Herwig Turk, Department of Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Dr. Tanja Gesell, Department of Structural and Computational Biology, Max F. Perutz Laboratories & University of Vienna
Prof. Christoph Bock, CeMM Principal Investigator, Visiting Professor at the Medical University of Vienna, Coordinator of the Biomedical Sequencing Facility
Prof. Frank Rösl, Division of Viral Transformation Mechanisms, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
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Ingeborg Reichle is a media and cultural theorist writing on contemporary art, new technologies, and new media with a focus on biotechnology and artificial life. She is chair of the Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts, Vienna. In 2004 she received her Ph.D. from the Humboldt University Berlin with her dissertation Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art, published 2005 in German and 2009 in English by Springer publishers, Vienna and New York. She is co-editor of seven books, the most recent being IMAGE MATCH. Visueller Transfer, "Imagescapes" und Intervisualität in globalen Bildkulturen (Fink, Munich 2012). She completed her habilitation thesis in 2013 titled Bilderwissen – Wissensbilder: Zur Gegenwart der Epistemologie der Bilder at the Humboldt University Berlin, where she was FONTE professor from 2014 on. In 2010 she curated the BioArt exhibition jenseits des menschen – beyond humans at the Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité in the context of the conference Leben 3.0 und die Zukunft der Evolution at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin. Since 2000 she has been a guest lecturer and guest professor at various international institutions, including the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York; the Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston; the Life-Science Lab, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg; Timbusu College, National University of Singapore; and the National Autonomous University of México (UNAM), México City.
María Antonia González Valerio is a philosopher working in the fields of aesthetics and ontology with a focus on biotechnology and the arts. Since 2007 she is a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature, National Autonomous University of México (UNAM). She is the author of three books: Prolegómenos a una filosofía natural. Escritos de ontología estética (Herder, 2015), Un tratado de ficción. Ontología de la mimesis (Herder, 2010), and El arte develado (Herder, 2005). She is co-editor of five books, the most recent: Pròs Bíon: Reflexiones naturales desde el arte, la ciencia y la filosofía (UNAM, 2014). She is the coordinator of the art collective BIOS Ex machinA (workshop for the fabrication of the human and the non-human) and the head of the interdisciplinary research group Arte + Ciencia (Art + Science) based at UNAM. María Antonia González Valerio founded Arte + Ciencia in 2011 and it seeks to produce art and knowledge (art research) at the intersection of the humanities, arts, and sciences. Arte + Ciencia has organised several exhibitions including Sin origen/Sin Semilla (the first transgenic and biotechnological exhibition in México), MUCA Roma-MUAC, UNAM, México, 2012–2013; Bioartefactos: Desgranar lentamente un maíz MACO, Oaxaca, México, 2014; and Bestiario del día final, Quinto Piso, México, 2015. It has organized workshops that reflect on the collaboration between art and science: "Artistic investigations into Robots and Plants" (2015), "Antropología del cerdo" (2015), "Vida maquinaria: Limitaciones y transgresiones en la relación arte-vida-sociedad" (2014), and "From Bioethics to Bioart: The Question about the Limits" (2014).
Virgil Widrich is a director, screenwriter, filmmaker, and multimedia artist. He works on a large number of films and multimedia projects, sometimes as part of a creative team, and is especially known for his short films and multimedia works. In 2004 Virgil Widrich was a member of the Ars Electronica jury and he chaired of the Austrian Film Directors' Association until 2007. He is also a member of the Academy of Austrian Film. From 2007 to 2010 Virgil Widrich taught the class of digital arts as a professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2010 he is the chair of the Department of Art & Science with a post-graduate Master Programme in art and science. He is one of the founders and managing directors of the multimedia company Checkpointmedia GmbH and owner and managing director of Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H.
Bernd Kräftner is an artist and researcher. He studied medicine, has worked as a filmmaker and a writer, and since 1998 he explores the messy interfaces between science and society. He has carried out various transdisciplinary research projects funded, for example, by the Austrian Ministry of Science; the Wellcome Trust's SciArt Programme, London; the ZKM, Karlsruhe, and the Humboldt University, Berlin. He was co-curator of the science exhibition The True/False Inc, Vienna 2006. From 2008 to 2010, he was the principal investigator of the research and art project "Pillow Research: Multiple Diagnoses and Hidden Talents", sponsored by the Translational Research Programme of the Austrian Science Foundation, and additionally he is principal investigator of the science and art project (2010–2012) "'In the Event of?' Anticipatory and Participatory Politics of Emergency Provision", sponsored by the Arts & Science Call 2009, Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF). Bernd Kräftner has conducted numerous transdisciplinary research projects on and at the interfaces of science, society, and art, he is the founder of the research group Shared Inc. (Research Centre for Shared Incompetence), and is a senior lecturer at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the Departments of Art & Science and Digital Art.
Herwig Turk is a media artist, working in installations, photography, film and digital media at the intersection of art and science, with a particular focus on the biosciences. He creates his artworks in the context of interdisciplinary discourses and in close collaboration with scientists and researchers. From 2010 to 2013 he was Artist in Residence at the IMM (Instituto da Medicina Molecular), Lisbon. From 2003 to 2009 he collaborated with Paulo Pereira, Director of the Centre of Ophthalmology at IBILI (Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra). Recent exhibitions of Herwig Turk's work include shows at the MAK Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, the Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, the TESLA Labor für Medienkunst, the Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna, and the Transmediale festival, Berlin. His work is currently on show at the MMKK (Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten) in his solo show Herwig Turk. Landschaft = Labor (September 29, 2016 – January 8, 2017). Since 2014 Herwig Turk teaches as a senior artist at the Institute of Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Tanja Gesell is a postdoctoral scientist from the University of Vienna and a free artist. She holds master's degrees in biology and fine arts from the University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, where she was a student in the master class of Rosemarie Trockel. In 2009, she obtained her Ph.D. in molecular biology at the University of Vienna. Before her maternity leave, Tanja Gesell also did research as a mobility fellow at Harvard University and at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and as a Marie Curie Fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK. Tanja Gesell is a cofounder of and lecturer in the new Connectivity Seminar at the University of Vienna. In this seminar connections between various natural science disciplines, the humanities, and the arts are established with regard to the aspect of structure.
Christoph Bock is a principal investigator at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on dissecting the role of epigenetics in cancer and on developing high-throughput technologies for precision medicine. He is also a guest professor at the Medical University of Vienna's Department of Laboratory Medicine, scientific coordinator of the Biomedical Sequencing Facility at CeMM, and an adjunct group leader for bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. Christoph Bock obtained his PhD summa cum laude from Saarland University and the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in 2008, followed by three years of postdoctoral research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, where he contributed to the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics project. At CeMM, he co-initiated and leads Genom Austria, the Austrian contribution to the International Network of Personal Genome Projects, and he is a principal investigator in BLUEPRINT (International Human Epigenome Consortium). Christoph Bock has received several research awards, including the Max Planck Society's Otto Hahn Medal (2009), a New Frontier Group grant by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2015–2020), and an ERC Starting Grant (2016–2021).
Frank Rösl is a scientist and since 2002 head of the Division of Viral Transformation Mechanisms, Research Programme "Infection, Inflammation and Cancer", German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg. This field of research received considerable publicity when Harald zur Hausen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2008, his mentor and colleague with whom Frank Rösl worked together for more than 15 years. Frank Rösl has been a professor at the faculty of Theoretical Medicine, University of Heidelberg since 2001. His research fields are: innate immunity and viral escape mechanisms; metabolic aspects, intracellular energy sensoring; papillomaviruses and non-melanoma skin cancer, vaccine development. In 1986 he received his doctorate from the Department of Molecular Biology of DNA Tumor Viruses, German Cancer Research Center. His habilitation thesis in 1994 was in virology at the faculty of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Heidelberg. Because knowledge and innovation evolve not only within a well-defined field, but rather through transgressing boundaries and through developing open and creative communication, Frank Rösl endeavours to bring art, science, and the humanities together to enable epistemic transfers. From 2008 to 2011 he was a member of the interdisciplinary research group "Bildkulturen" at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin, and in 2008 was co-applicant of the research project "Transfer-Knowledge – Knowledge-Transfer. On the History and Contemporary Relevance of Transfers between the Life Sciences and Humanities (1930/1970/2010)" in collaboration with the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) from 2009 to 2013.


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Roughing It by Mark Twain
Previous: Chapter XLVI.
Next: Chapter XLVIII.
Chapter XLVII.
Somebody has said that in order to know a community, one must observe the style of its funerals and know what manner of men they bury with most ceremony. I cannot say which class we buried with most eclat in our "flush times," the distinguished public benefactor or the distinguished rough--possibly the two chief grades or grand divisions of society honored their illustrious dead about equally; and hence, no doubt the philosopher I have quoted from would have needed to see two representative funerals in Virginia before forming his estimate of the people.
There was a grand time over Buck Fanshaw when he died. He was a representative citizen. He had "killed his man"--not in his own quarrel, it is true, but in defence of a stranger unfairly beset by numbers. He had kept a sumptuous saloon. He had been the proprietor of a dashing helpmeet whom he could have discarded without the formality of a divorce. He had held a high position in the fire department and been a very Warwick in politics. When he died there was great lamentation throughout the town, but especially in the vast bottom-stratum of society.
On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck--and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?
Prodigious preparations were made for the funeral. All the vehicles in town were hired, all the saloons put in mourning, all the municipal and fire-company flags hung at half-mast, and all the firemen ordered to muster in uniform and bring their machines duly draped in black. Now-- let us remark in parenthesis--as all the peoples of the earth had representative adventurers in the Silverland, and as each adventurer had brought the slang of his nation or his locality with him, the combination made the slang of Nevada the richest and the most infinitely varied and copious that had ever existed anywhere in the world, perhaps, except in the mines of California in the "early days." Slang was the language of Nevada. It was hard to preach a sermon without it, and be understood. Such phrases as "You bet!" "Oh, no, I reckon not!" "No Irish need apply," and a hundred others, became so common as to fall from the lips of a speaker unconsciously--and very often when they did not touch the subject under discussion and consequently failed to mean anything.
After Buck Fanshaw's inquest, a meeting of the short-haired brotherhood was held, for nothing can be done on the Pacific coast without a public meeting and an expression of sentiment. Regretful resolutions were passed and various committees appointed; among others, a committee of one was deputed to call on the minister, a fragile, gentle, spiritual new fledgling from an Eastern theological seminary, and as yet unacquainted with the ways of the mines. The committeeman, "Scotty" Briggs, made his visit; and in after days it was worth something to hear the minister tell about it. Scotty was a stalwart rough, whose customary suit, when on weighty official business, like committee work, was a fire helmet, flaming red flannel shirt, patent leather belt with spanner and revolver attached, coat hung over arm, and pants stuffed into boot tops. He formed something of a contrast to the pale theological student. It is fair to say of Scotty, however, in passing, that he had a warm heart, and a strong love for his friends, and never entered into a quarrel when he could reasonably keep out of it. Indeed, it was commonly said that whenever one of Scotty's fights was investigated, it always turned out that it had originally been no affair of his, but that out of native good-heartedness he had dropped in of his own accord to help the man who was getting the worst of it. He and Buck Fanshaw were bosom friends, for years, and had often taken adventurous "pot-luck" together. On one occasion, they had thrown off their coats and taken the weaker side in a fight among strangers, and after gaining a hard-earned victory, turned and found that the men they were helping had deserted early, and not only that, but had stolen their coats and made off with them! But to return to Scotty's visit to the minister. He was on a sorrowful mission, now, and his face was the picture of woe. Being admitted to the presence he sat down before the clergyman, placed his fire-hat on an unfinished manuscript sermon under the minister's nose, took from it a red silk handkerchief, wiped his brow and heaved a sigh of dismal impressiveness, explanatory of his business.
He choked, and even shed tears; but with an effort he mastered his voice and said in lugubrious tones:
"Are you the duck that runs the gospel-mill next door?"
"Am I the--pardon me, I believe I do not understand?"
With another sigh and a half-sob, Scotty rejoined:
"Why you see we are in a bit of trouble, and the boys thought maybe you would give us a lift, if we'd tackle you--that is, if I've got the rights of it and you are the head clerk of the doxology-works next door."
"I am the shepherd in charge of the flock whose fold is next door."
"The which?"
"The spiritual adviser of the little company of believers whose sanctuary adjoins these premises."
Scotty scratched his head, reflected a moment, and then said:
"You ruther hold over me, pard. I reckon I can't call that hand. Ante and pass the buck."
"How? I beg pardon. What did I understand you to say?"
"Well, you've ruther got the bulge on me. Or maybe we've both got the bulge, somehow. You don't smoke me and I don't smoke you. You see, one of the boys has passed in his checks and we want to give him a good send- off, and so the thing I'm on now is to roust out somebody to jerk a little chin-music for us and waltz him through handsome."
"My friend, I seem to grow more and more bewildered. Your observations are wholly incomprehensible to me. Cannot you simplify them in some way? At first I thought perhaps I understood you, but I grope now. Would it not expedite matters if you restricted yourself to categorical statements of fact unencumbered with obstructing accumulations of metaphor and allegory?"
Another pause, and more reflection. Then, said Scotty:
"I'll have to pass, I judge."
"How?"
"You've raised me out, pard."
"I still fail to catch your meaning."
"Why, that last lead of yourn is too many for me--that's the idea. I can't neither-trump nor follow suit."
The clergyman sank back in his chair perplexed. Scotty leaned his head on his hand and gave himself up to thought.
Presently his face came up, sorrowful but confident.
"I've got it now, so's you can savvy," he said. "What we want is a gospel-sharp. See?"
"A what?"
"Gospel-sharp. Parson."
"Oh! Why did you not say so before? I am a clergyman--a parson."
"Now you talk! You see my blind and straddle it like a man. Put it there!"--extending a brawny paw, which closed over the minister's small hand and gave it a shake indicative of fraternal sympathy and fervent gratification.
"Now we're all right, pard. Let's start fresh. Don't you mind my snuffling a little--becuz we're in a power of trouble. You see, one of the boys has gone up the flume--"
"Gone where?"
"Up the flume--throwed up the sponge, you understand."
"Thrown up the sponge?"
"Yes--kicked the bucket--"
"Ah--has departed to that mysterious country from whose bourne no traveler returns."
"Return! I reckon not. Why pard, he's dead!"
"Yes, I understand."
"Oh, you do? Well I thought maybe you might be getting tangled some more. Yes, you see he's dead again--"
"Again? Why, has he ever been dead before?"
"Dead before? No! Do you reckon a man has got as many lives as a cat? But you bet you he's awful dead now, poor old boy, and I wish I'd never seen this day. I don't want no better friend than Buck Fanshaw. I knowed him by the back; and when I know a man and like him, I freeze to him--you hear me. Take him all round, pard, there never was a bullier man in the mines. No man ever knowed Buck Fanshaw to go back on a friend. But it's all up, you know, it's all up. It ain't no use. They've scooped him."
"Scooped him?"
"Yes--death has. Well, well, well, we've got to give him up. Yes indeed. It's a kind of a hard world, after all, ain't it? But pard, he was a rustler! You ought to seen him get started once. He was a bully boy with a glass eye! Just spit in his face and give him room according to his strength, and it was just beautiful to see him peel and go in. He was the worst son of a thief that ever drawed breath. Pard, he was on it! He was on it bigger than an Injun!"
"On it? On what?"
"On the shoot. On the shoulder. On the fight, you understand. He didn't give a continental for any body. Beg your pardon, friend, for coming so near saying a cuss-word--but you see I'm on an awful strain, in this palaver, on account of having to cramp down and draw everything so mild. But we've got to give him up. There ain't any getting around that, I don't reckon. Now if we can get you to help plant him--"
"Preach the funeral discourse? Assist at the obsequies?"
"Obs'quies is good. Yes. That's it--that's our little game. We are going to get the thing up regardless, you know. He was always nifty himself, and so you bet you his funeral ain't going to be no slouch-- solid silver door-plate on his coffin, six plumes on the hearse, and a nigger on the box in a biled shirt and a plug hat--how's that for high? And we'll take care of you, pard. We'll fix you all right. There'll be a kerridge for you; and whatever you want, you just 'scape out and we'll 'tend to it. We've got a shebang fixed up for you to stand behind, in No. 1's house, and don't you be afraid. Just go in and toot your horn, if you don't sell a clam. Put Buck through as bully as you can, pard, for anybody that knowed him will tell you that he was one of the whitest men that was ever in the mines. You can't draw it too strong. He never could stand it to see things going wrong. He's done more to make this town quiet and peaceable than any man in it. I've seen him lick four Greasers in eleven minutes, myself. If a thing wanted regulating, he warn't a man to go browsing around after somebody to do it, but he would prance in and regulate it himself. He warn't a Catholic. Scasely. He was down on 'em. His word was, 'No Irish need apply!' But it didn't make no difference about that when it came down to what a man's rights was--and so, when some roughs jumped the Catholic bone-yard and started in to stake out town-lots in it he went for 'em! And he cleaned 'em, too! I was there, pard, and I seen it myself."
"That was very well indeed--at least the impulse was--whether the act was strictly defensible or not. Had deceased any religious convictions? That is to say, did he feel a dependence upon, or acknowledge allegiance to a higher power?'
More reflection.
"I reckon you've stumped me again, pard. Could you say it over once more, and say it slow?"
"Well, to simplify it somewhat, was he, or rather had he ever been connected with any organization sequestered from secular concerns and devoted to self-sacrifice in the interests of morality?"
"All down but nine--set 'em up on the other alley, pard."
"What did I understand you to say?"
"Why, you're most too many for me, you know. When you get in with your left I hunt grass every time. Every time you draw, you fill; but I don't seem to have any luck. Lets have a new deal."
"How? Begin again?"
"That's it."
"Very well. Was he a good man, and--"
"There--I see that; don't put up another chip till I look at my hand. A good man, says you? Pard, it ain't no name for it. He was the best man that ever--pard, you would have doted on that man. He could lam any galoot of his inches in America. It was him that put down the riot last election before it got a start; and everybody said he was the only man that could have done it. He waltzed in with a spanner in one hand and a trumpet in the other, and sent fourteen men home on a shutter in less than three minutes. He had that riot all broke up and prevented nice before anybody ever got a chance to strike a blow. He was always for peace, and he would have peace--he could not stand disturbances. Pard, he was a great loss to this town. It would please the boys if you could chip in something like that and do him justice. Here once when the Micks got to throwing stones through the Methodis' Sunday school windows, Buck Fanshaw, all of his own notion, shut up his saloon and took a couple of six-shooters and mounted guard over the Sunday school. Says he, 'No Irish need apply!' And they didn't. He was the bulliest man in the mountains, pard! He could run faster, jump higher, hit harder, and hold more tangle-foot whisky without spilling it than any man in seventeen counties. Put that in, pard--it'll please the boys more than anything you could say. And you can say, pard, that he never shook his mother."
"Never shook his mother?"
"That's it--any of the boys will tell you so."
"Well, but why should he shake her?"
"That's what I say--but some people does."
"Not people of any repute?"
"Well, some that averages pretty so-so."
"In my opinion the man that would offer personal violence to his own mother, ought to--"
"Cheese it, pard; you've banked your ball clean outside the string. What I was a drivin' at, was, that he never throwed off on his mother-- don't you see? No indeedy. He give her a house to live in, and town lots, and plenty of money; and he looked after her and took care of her all the time; and when she was down with the small-pox I'm d---d if he didn't set up nights and nuss her himself! Beg your pardon for saying it, but it hopped out too quick for yours truly.
You've treated me like a gentleman, pard, and I ain't the man to hurt your feelings intentional. I think you're white. I think you're a square man, pard. I like you, and I'll lick any man that don't. I'll lick him till he can't tell himself from a last year's corpse! Put it there!" [Another fraternal hand-shake--and exit.]
The obsequies were all that "the boys" could desire. Such a marvel of funeral pomp had never been seen in Virginia. The plumed hearse, the dirge-breathing brass bands, the closed marts of business, the flags drooping at half mast, the long, plodding procession of uniformed secret societies, military battalions and fire companies, draped engines, carriages of officials, and citizens in vehicles and on foot, attracted multitudes of spectators to the sidewalks, roofs and windows; and for years afterward, the degree of grandeur attained by any civic display in Virginia was determined by comparison with Buck Fanshaw's funeral.
Scotty Briggs, as a pall-bearer and a mourner, occupied a prominent place at the funeral, and when the sermon was finished and the last sentence of the prayer for the dead man's soul ascended, he responded, in a low voice, but with feelings:
"AMEN. No Irish need apply."
As the bulk of the response was without apparent relevancy, it was probably nothing more than a humble tribute to the memory of the friend that was gone; for, as Scotty had once said, it was "his word."
Scotty Briggs, in after days, achieved the distinction of becoming the only convert to religion that was ever gathered from the Virginia roughs; and it transpired that the man who had it in him to espouse the quarrel of the weak out of inborn nobility of spirit was no mean timber whereof to construct a Christian. The making him one did not warp his generosity or diminish his courage; on the contrary it gave intelligent direction to the one and a broader field to the other.
If his Sunday-school class progressed faster than the other classes, was it matter for wonder? I think not. He talked to his pioneer small-fry in a language they understood! It was my large privilege, a month before he died, to hear him tell the beautiful story of Joseph and his brethren to his class "without looking at the book." I leave it to the reader to fancy what it was like, as it fell, riddled with slang, from the lips of that grave, earnest teacher, and was listened to by his little learners with a consuming interest that showed that they were as unconscious as he was that any violence was being done to the sacred proprieties!


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Drama as ex President Storms Ekweremadu Residence Over Assassination Attempt (photos)
By Ifeanyi Dimkpa Last updated Nov 8, 2018
Following the alleged assassination attempt on the life of the Deputy Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and son at their Abuja residence, the former President, Goodluck Jonathan has paid them a visit
Ekweremadu revealed this via his social media page saying:
'AND GEJ CAME CALLING"
"It was an honour for me and my wife to receive His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, GCFR and my friends, who came to strengthen us over the recent attack on our household. My appreciation and respect, sir."
"Meanwhile, I have received so much love and solidarity from Nigeria and all parts of the world since the event of the early hours of Tuesday. Let me, therefore, seize this opportunity to convey my profound appreciation you – friends, my colleagues, associates, dear country men and women – for the outpour of solidarity and prayers. I am humbled and overwhelmed by your kindness."
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Emirates still top brand associated with Melbourne Cup
January 14, 2020 roymorgansocial Leave a comment
Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 14-Jan-20
New research from Roy Morgan shows that Emirates is still the top brand associated with the Melbourne Cup, two years after the Dubai-based airline ended its naming rights sponsorship of Australia's most watched horse race. Nearly 3.9 million Australians (19%) associate Emirates with the Melbourne Cup, down from a high of 5.3 million (27%) in 2016. Emirates held naming rights sponsorship for the Cup from 2004 to 2017. New naming rights sponsor Lexus is associated with the Cup by nearly 830,000 Australians (4%). However, recognition rises to 10% among Australians who watch the Cup on TV and to 15% among Australians who bet on horse racing in an average week. Lexus signed a five-year naming rights sponsorship agreement for the Melbourne Cup, covering the years 2018-2022 and has ground to make up on previous sponsor Emirates, which had a sponsorship association of 9% in its first year. Other sponsors Australians associate with the Melbourne Cup include Myer, Foster's, AAMI and Sky Channel. Sponsorship recall is higher for all key brands among those who bet on horse racing, ahead of those who watch the race on TV.
ROY MORGAN LIMITED, THE LEXUS MELBOURNE CUP, EMIRATES AIRLINES, LEXUS, MYER HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX MYR, FOSTER'S GROUP LIMITED, AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED MOTOR INSURERS LIMITED, SKY CHANNEL PTY LTD
Melbourne Cup in turmoil as ratings and attendance plunge in 2019
November 7, 2019 roymorgansocial Leave a comment
Media Update – Page: Online : 7-Nov-19
TV viewership of the Melbourne Cup has plunged in 2019, dropping by more than half-a-million viewers compared to 2018 (a drop of 28% in only one year) and down over 330,000 in Melbourne – the home of the race. In total 1.324 million Australians in the 5 Capital Cities tuned in to Network 10's coverage of Australia's most important horse race. Sydney viewing was down by over 100,000 and down by tens of thousands in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. As reported yesterday attendance at the Melbourne Cup was only 81,408, the lowest attendance for nearly a quarter of a century since 1995. In line with plunging attendance figures, TV viewership was down across the whole day including the Race, Presentation, Mounting Yard and other viewing segments. Attendance at the Melbourne Cup has now dropped for five years in a row and is a clear indicator of problems facing Australia's Racing Industry which Roy Morgan shows has among the highest level of distrust of all sports.
Aussie winner declared bad for the bookies
Original article by Mark Schliebs
The Australian – Page: 6 : 6-Nov-19
TAB has reported that its turnover for the 10 races at Flemington on 5 November was $160.7m, which is 5.9 per cent lower than previously. TAB's turnover on the Melbourne Cup itself was $106m. TAB processed up to 108,000 bets per minute on Cup Day, while the numbers of wagers process by Sportsbet peaked at 35,000 per minute. Racing Victoria CEO Giles Thompson says the fact that an Australian-bred and trained horse won the Melbourne Cup is likely to have affected bookmakers' profits, as many punters backed the local horse.
TAB LIMITED, TABCORP HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX TAH, SPORTSBET AUSTRALIA, RACING VICTORIA LIMITED, BETEASY PTY LTD, LADBROKES GROUP PLC, MELBOURNE RACING CLUB
How a bunch of blokes beat the sheiks and princes to deliver an Aussie Cup
Original article by John Stensholt
The Australian – Page: 1 & 7 : 6-Nov-19
Vow And Declare, the first Australian-bred horse to win the Melbourne Cup since 2009, was passed in at the 2017 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale. The horse was bred by builder and hobby breeder Paul Lanskey; it had a reserve of $60,000 but failed to attract a bid. Vow And Declare was subsequently bought by a diverse group of investors from across Australia. Trainer Danny O'Brien was cleared over a long-running cobalt scandal in 2018, while it was the first Melbourne Cup win for jockey Craig Williams in his 16th attempt.
LANSKEY CONSTRUCTIONS
Sheik up, as McEvoy streaks to third Cup
Original article by Chip Le Grand
The Godolpin racing stable of Dubai's Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum has won its first Melbourne Cup after trying to do so for two decades. Godolphin's "Cross Counter" has become the first British-trained horse to win the prestigious race, with jockey Kerrin McEvoy riding a Melbourne Cup winner for the third time. Race favourite "Yucatan", which is part-owned by businessman Lloyd Williams, finished in 11th place. Another horse owned by Williams, "The Cliffs of Moher", was put down after fracturing its right shoulder.
GODOLPHIN RACING
Williams chasing Cup three-peat
Original article by James Thomson
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 6-Nov-18
Australian businessman Lloyd Williams is confident of winning a seventh Melbourne Cup with Irish horse "Yucatan". Williams is a co-owner of the Cup favourite, whose other owners include fellow entrepreneurs Brian Singer, Alan Green and Gerry Ryan. Williams is also the co-owner of another Melbourne Cup contender, "The Cliffs of Moher". Horses owned by Williams won the Melbourne Cup in 2016 and 2017.
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Field wide open as VRC spruiks media rights
May 18, 2018 roymorgansocial Leave a comment
Original article by Max Mason
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 28 : 18-May-18
Victoria Racing Club hopes to use a new broadcasting rights deal for the Melbourne Cup carnival to attract more people to Flemington Racecourse for the event, arguing that it is more than just about horse racing. The VRC has not issued a tender for the four-day carnival since Seven West Media gained the rights in 2002. VRC CEO Neil Wilson says it is open to deals with more than one partner, including a sub-licensing arrangement.
VICTORIA RACING CLUB LIMITED, THE LEXUS MELBOURNE CUP, SEVEN WEST MEDIA LIMITED – ASX SWM, TWITTER INCORPORATED
Lexus set to be named as Cup sponsor as prizemoney rises
Original article by Brendan Cormick
The Australian – Page: 36 : 8-Nov-17
Lexus is expected to replace Emirates as the naming rights sponsor of the Melbourne Cup, with a deal likely to be finalised in coming weeks. The car-maker is already the sponsor of the Lexus Stakes during the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The Victoria Racing Club is also expected to announce an increase in prizemoney for the Melbourne Cup, although it will still fall well short of The Everest, which boasted prizemoney of $A10m in its first year. More than 90,000 people attended the 2017 Melbourne Cup, which was won by the Lloyd Williams-owned "Rekindling".
THE EMIRATES MELBOURNE CUP, LEXUS, EMIRATES AIRLINES, VICTORIA RACING CLUB LIMITED, RACING NSW, AUSTRALIAN TURF CLUB LIMITED
Marmelo's the mother of all Cup tips
Marmelo, part-owned by property developer Ozzie Kheir and wife Linsey, is current favourite to win the $A6.25 million Melbourne Cup on 7 November. Kheir runs property group Resimax, while Phil Mehrten, who also has an interest in Marmelo, founded Probuild, a construction company that generates around $A2 billion a year in revenue. The Kheirs had an interest in 2011 Cup third-place getter Lucas Cranach and 2014 winner Protectionist. Linsey Kheir was heavily pregnant on both occasions, as is the case at the moment.
RESIMAX,PROBUILD PTY LTD
Early birds win big as bookies take a bruising
Original article by Rick Wallace
Tabcorp estimates that about $A95m was wagered on the 2016 Melbourne Cup via its TAB outlets in Victoria and New South Wales. Meanwhile, Sportsbet is said to have taken about $A25m worth of bets on the race, compared with $A20m in 2015. It paid out $A13.6m to punters who backed Cup winner Almandin. One Sportsbet customer won $A241,000 on a $A10 bet after correctly picking the first four horses to pass the winning post.
TABCORP HOLDINGS LIMITED – ASX TAH, SPORTSBET AUSTRALIA, UBET, CROWNBET PTY LTD, THE EMIRATES MELBOURNE CUP


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UPDATE: Landslide in Sri Lanka KILLS 180 people with more than a 100 missing and 75,000 displaced the flooding affecting 500,000 people
Photo theafricom.com
Search and rescue teams in southwestern Sri Lanka worked Monday to locate and evacuate people affected by days of floods and mudslides from monsoon rains that have killed 180 people.
The country's Disaster Management Center said more than 100 people were missing, and that about 75,000 people had taken shelter in relief camps set up in the south and west.
It added that floodwaters were retreating in the worst-hit areas, but that the need for immediate humanitarian relief supplies remained high.
The military has used aircraft, boats and troops on the ground to try to reach those in need of help.
In all, the flooding has affected more than 550,000 people.


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Any Given Saturday
Generally, Saturday is the day for burying weak gags and inconsequential "group hug" story arc endings. For some reason, a whole lot of people ignored that pattern today, including Olivia Jaimes, who broke out of the New, Improved Nancy's dadaist pattern for this more insightful piece.
Not her first. A few more in the mix and I'll be a true fan.
And speaking of insight, Pajama Diaries delivers a strong blow with this overly-familiar story.
I've seen the basic gag before -- though with the demise of video stores, it's now set on the couch as the couple goes through Netflix choices -- but the circularity here, plus the addition of the next generation's participation, is brilliantly compact.
And it could easily have been stretched into a Sunday strip, but it would have lost power and become argumentative. It's far better as a bang/boom daily.
Solution: When my boys were little, we set up a pattern of odd and even days to determine who got to ride shotgun in the front seat. And we'd reverse it each year since kids miss nothing and, yes, the person with "odds" got two days in a row when a month had 31 days.
I think marriages would last longer if whole families had a similar rule across the board: "It's an even day. You get to make the decision."
Or was that have to?
Careful what you wish for
Today's Pooch Cafe echoes Pope Francis's assurance that we will be united in Heaven with our dogs, which has, for some reason, started popping up in my news feed despite being a couple of years old.
It's an interesting barometer of papal kindness: According to the above-linked piece, grumpy old Pius IX and Benedict XVI said dogs have no souls, while kindly JPII and Frances teach that they will be joining us in the hereafter. I suspect this divide is more about luring flies with honey or with vinegar than it is about actual theology.
Nobody has approached it with a formal finality that would invoke Papal Infallibility, which, assuming the current pope made such a proclamation, would mean that, when I personally cross the Rainbow Bridge, I would be up for a whole lot of halo-tug and halo-toss, since I'd be greeted at least by Buttons, Puddles, Taylor, Mordecai, Szabo, Ziggy, Josh, O'Malley, Destry, Nellie, Ziwa and Vaska, and also perhaps a few I only lived with temporarily, like Thief, Suzie Creamcheese, Jack and Puck.
And let's just hope their view of heaven doesn't include being reunited with parents and littermates, because this could quickly get totally out of control.
A Mesmerizing Juxtaposition
(Carpe Diem)
(Big Ben Bolt Sundays)
I have no idea if Niklas Eriksson reads Big Ben Bolt's Sunday strips, which, two months ago, featured a hypnotized opponent. I kind of doubt he saw it when it first ran in 1957.
Whatever his inspiration, I suspect it would indeed be easier to hypnotize someone into going down for the count than to use it to make his brain invulnerable to repeated blows to the head.
Though, if you wear that kind of hat, I think you can gesture hypnotically and make just about anything happen.
Observational Excellence
I may be overthinking the funnies today, but Dave Coverly is way ahead of me on that score with today's Speed Bump.
Not only is crowding the entire team onto one part of a single rod an excellent way to simulate youth soccer, but note that he has modified the table itself with a slot such that the teams can run up and down the field in their knot.
This man has watched too much youth soccer, and I say that as someone who has coached the sport.
I would have taught them to play their positions, but we spent most of our instructional time teaching them to kick the ball without stepping on it and falling down.
Also Sprach Alexa
Several cartoonists greeted the re-release of "2001: A Space Odyssey" with jokes about Alexa and HAL, apparently without taking the time to ask Alexa to open the pod bay doors.
It was one of the first things I asked her and, yes, she came preloaded with a snippy answer suggesting that I wasn't the first to think of it and it wasn't funny.
I got my Echo when it was first released in January, 2015, which means that her programmers anticipated the question before anyone had actually asked it.
But Brewster Rockit goes beyond the obvious and has been running a delightfully silly Alexa/HAL story arc all week.
Though I would note that they already make a tiny monolith, which I know because my kids persuaded me to trade in my flip phone and get one.
And if you think the monolith in 2001 was enigmatically black, you should see my pocket monolith in direct sunlight. You need one of those Matthew Brady over-your-head hood thingies to see the screen at all, which, of course, would enhance the "walking around without watching where you're going" factor cartoonists prize.
It's only occasionally a problem, because, while I kept my flip phone in my pocket along with my car keys, my monolith is large enough that it isn't comfortable to keep pocketed and I usually end up forgetting it when I leave the house.
Which doesn't much matter because, like Lemont, I work at home.
The times I leave the house are brief and I'm not so self-important that I fear my temporary disconnectedness will disrupt the cosmos.
Though today being, as noted in Candorville, the day everyone else agrees is Saturday, and specifically the Saturday that my favorite lobster place opens for the season, I'll be leaving the house for several hours.
I'll bring the damn monolith.
But I liked today's Free Range because I'm sorry I ever let those whippersnappers talk me into trading in my phone.
(Yeah, you can look up phone numbers on the monolith. I don't care.)
What can I say? It was apparently a great day for funny comics, and with GoComics down (reason varies—either there's a bad gate or they're so popular nobody can read them), you're just about the only game in town!
Posted by: Kip W | 05/12/2018 at 10:34 AM
Also, I like the economy with which James depicted Nancy's teacher going into 'brief reverie' mode.
…Jaimes! I don't understand it. I was thinking the right spelling as I typed the wrong one.
Glad you've stuck with Jaimes' Nancy and posted it. Today's is good enough that I'll go back to reading it, at least for awhile. I had quit soon after Jerry Scott took it over, and the Gilchrists' version wasn't much better. Jaimes' drawing of Nancy's head is a bit jarring, and the humor is different, but it's all somehow pleasing anyway.
Posted by: Bookworm | 05/12/2018 at 03:06 PM
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