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Will Daisy Ridley's career go the way of other SW actors?
Thread: Will Daisy Ridley's career go the way of other SW actors?
ChrisIII
It seems while the second tier actors in Star Wars films usually go on to promising careers, sometimes the leads aren't so lucky.
Mark Hammil of course is well known for his voice acting but his live-action career didn't quite go the way of Harrison Ford's, or even Carrie Fisher.
Hayden Christensen, likewise, also seems to have mainly drifted away from acting, and many of his films were pretty much eventually direct to video, while Natalie, Ewan etc. still do a lot of work.
Now it looks like Ridley's latest film is in deep trouble:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/daisy-ridley...kin-1834250904
She hasn't really done that much apart from the Murder on the Orient Express either since the star of TFA it seems.
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Originally Posted by ChrisIII
Portman and McGregor both had respectable careers before doing Star Wars.
Kind of like Isaac.
Boyega seems to be getting the roles like Fisher and Ford did during/after Star Wars.
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This is what happens when you hitch the franchise to the worst actor between the three of them.
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She's only 27. She will get a lot of films
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Hard to say. Of the original cast, for years, only Harrison Ford's career really took off and that was more after he was cast as Indiana Jones. Mark Hamill hit it "big" as a voice actor.
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Didn't hammil lose roles because of his car accident?
Wish her best. Can't say that i have been impressed by her performance but well, at least she's a familiar face now thanks to star wars so i guess it can help for a while in the job hunting department.
Or maybe she will do like so many other actors who never managed to score another big role and she will switch to voice acting.
(that's a bit of a joke, no need to get mad)
Daisy Ridley's career is still too young to know whether she's going to have a bad go of it after Star Wars. A lot of it is her role as Rey and some scattered TV appearance and that's not nearly enough to know whether she's going to have a major acting career after this. If I really had to suspect, it could go the way of Mark Hamil or Hayden Christensen, both of whom don't seems to have done that badly. Sure we don't see much of Hayden, but he doesn't seem to be in bad shape either.
Yeah, Hayden seems to be mostly a kind of fairly relaxed guy about things, seems to be focused mainly on farming rather than acting. (Almost like an anti-Luke of sorts).
Although he technically wasn't the film's lead it's kind of a shame what happened with Lloyd though.
If I recall, he had been cast as the oldest brother in the pilot for the television series, "Eight Is Enough". Then he got the Luke Skywalker role which he knew could be his big break. But the studios had a lot of actors breaking contracts to get bigger roles and they decided to play hardball, refusing to let him out of his contract. In a fit of rage or despair or whatever, he drove his car off the road and messed up his nose a bit. The studio then relented and let him out of his contract. So he actually gained the role of Luke because of the accident.
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Originally Posted by Powerboy
...refusing to let him out of his contract. In a fit of rage or despair or whatever, he drove his car off the road and messed up his nose a bit. The studio then relented and let him out of his contract. So he actually gained the role of Luke because of the accident.
Except he'd already shot Star Wars, before the accident.
Except for a few re-shoots (which didn't inlude close up of his face) SW was already done filming.
The accident happened after ANH and before ESB
Last edited by Güicho; 05-01-2019 at 05:35 AM.
Yeah, it happened between a new hope and empire strikes back.
Mark actually did some reshoots after the accident for the original film. It seems like a lot of the stuff around the accident has been sort of become mythologized, and the changes in Mark's look are due more to aging more than anything. Even Mark seems to not quite get the story straight at times.
Here's an interesting breakdown of it: https://seanmunger.com/2013/07/18/fa...lls-car-crash/
Originally Posted by Güicho
Upon looking it up, I see what the problem is.
People Magazine in the late 1970s reported it as Hamill not being able to get out of his Eight is Enough contract and running his car off the road which led to being let out of his contract. This was accurate but I don't think they gave any time scale and didn't make it clear he had already done Star Wars.
Apparently what happened is that he had done the Eight pilot and then done Star Wars but Eight is Enough then went to series and he wanted out although he was contractually obligated to it if it went to series. It might have interfered with Star Wars sequels. It is unclear what might have happened. With the money he made from Star Wars, he certainly could have bought his way out of the contract if they were willing but they might have played hardball and gone to court. But once he had the car accident, they relented and let him out of the contract.
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PEOPLE magazine isn't the most reliable of sources, to say the least.
What also doesn't sound right is the idea that Hamill perceived STAR WARS being his "big break" back in 1976. At the time, nobody had ANY expectations that STAR WARS was going anywhere. The general expectation was that the movie would bomb horribly.
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Scottish Crown Estate Act 2019
Changes over time for: Cross Heading: Planning and reporting
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Scottish Crown Estate Act 2019, Cross Heading: Planning and reporting.
Planning and reportingS
22Strategic management planS
(1)The Scottish Ministers must prepare a plan for the management of the Scottish Crown Estate.
(2)The plan must set out the Scottish Ministers'—
(a)objectives, priorities and policies in relation to the management of the Estate (including the acquisition of new assets), and
(b)assessment of how those objectives, priorities and policies align with the Scottish Ministers' other objectives, priorities and policies.
(3)The plan may contain such other information about the Estate and its management as the Scottish Ministers consider appropriate.
(4)When preparing the plan, the Scottish Ministers must consult—
(a)each manager,
(b)such other persons as they consider appropriate.
(5)A manager must have regard to the plan when—
(a)preparing a management plan,
(b)exercising any of the manager's other functions.
(6)The Scottish Ministers must—
(a)lay a copy of the plan before the Scottish Parliament, and
(b)publish the plan in such manner as they consider appropriate as soon as reasonably practicable after a copy of it is laid before the Parliament.
(7)In subsection (5)(a), "management plan" means—
(a)where the manager is Crown Estate Scotland, a plan prepared under article 19(1) of the Crown Estate Scotland Order,
(b)otherwise, a plan prepared under section 24(1).
I1S. 22 in force at 1.6.2019 by S.S.I. 2019/170, reg. 2(b)
23Review of strategic planS
(1)The Scottish Ministers must, not later than the end of each 5 year period, review the plan prepared under section 22(1).
(2)Following such a review, the Scottish Ministers must either—
(a)revise the plan, or
(b)lay a statement before the Scottish Parliament indicating that they consider that the plan should not be revised.
(3)Section 22(2) to (6) applies to a revised plan as it applies to the plan prepared under subsection (1) of that section.
(4)In subsection (1), "5 year period" means—
(a)the period of 5 years beginning with the day on which the plan prepared under section 22(1) is laid before the Parliament, and
(b)each subsequent period of 5 years beginning with the day on which—
(i)a copy of a revised plan is laid before the Scottish Parliament, or (as the case may be)
(ii)a statement is so laid under subsection (2)(b).
I2S. 23 in force at 1.6.2019 by S.S.I. 2019/170, reg. 2(c)
24Management plansS
(1)A manager of one or more Scottish Crown Estate assets must prepare plans for the management of the assets.
(2)Each plan is to cover a period of 3 years.
(3)Each plan must set out—
(a)the manager's objectives for the period to which the plan relates,
(b)the activities that the manager proposes to undertake during that period in pursuit of the objectives,
(c)any risks associated with those activities,
(d)outcomes against which the achievement of the objectives may be assessed,
(e)how the manager proposes to maintain, and seek to enhance the value of, Scottish Crown Estate assets and the income arising from them during that period, and
(f)whether the manager proposes to dispose of any Scottish Crown Estate assets during that period and, if so, how the manager proposes to use any proceeds of the disposal.
(4)This section and section 25 do not apply to Crown Estate Scotland (but see article 19 of the Crown Estate Scotland Order).
I3S. 24 in force at 27.9.2021 by S.S.I. 2021/308, reg. 2, sch.
25Preparation and revision of management plansS
(1)A manager must—
(a)prepare a plan under section 24(1) as soon as reasonably practicable after becoming a manager,
(b)submit that plan to the Scottish Ministers as soon as reasonably practicable after it is prepared,
(c)submit each subsequent plan prepared under that section to the Scottish Ministers no later than 3 months before the start of the period to which the plan relates.
(2)The Scottish Ministers may—
(a)approve a plan without modification,
(b)approve a plan with modifications agreed with the manager, or
(c)reject a plan.
(3)If the Scottish Ministers reject a plan, the manager must submit a revised plan to the Scottish Ministers within such period as the Scottish Ministers direct.
(4)When the Scottish Ministers approve a plan under subsection (2)(a) or (b), the manager must publish it as approved in such manner as the manager considers appropriate as soon as reasonably practicable after it is approved.
(5)The manager—
(a)may revise a plan from time to time,
(b)must do so if—
(i)the function of managing a Scottish Crown Estate asset is transferred to or from the manager in regulations made under section 3(1),
(ii)such a function is delegated to or by the manager under section 5, or
(iii)the delegation of such a function to or by the manager under that section ceases to have effect,
(c)must submit any revised plan to the Scottish Ministers.
(6)Subsections (2) to (4) apply to a revised plan submitted under subsection (3) or (5)(c) as they apply to a plan submitted under subsection (1).
(7)Where the Scottish Ministers are the manager—
(a)subsections (1)(b) and (c), (2), (3), (4), (5)(c) and (6) do not apply,
(b)the Scottish Ministers must publish a plan (including a revised plan) in such manner as they consider appropriate as soon as reasonably practicable after the plan is prepared.
26Annual reportS
(1)A manager of one or more Scottish Crown Estate assets must prepare in respect of each financial year a report on its management of the assets during that year.
(2)The report must, in particular, include an assessment of how the manager's activities during the financial year have contributed to the meeting of its objectives for that year.
(3)For the purposes of subsection (2), a manager's objectives for the financial year are its objectives as set out in a plan prepared under section 24(1) for a period which includes all or part of that year.
(4)The report must include a list of any directions given to the manager, or revised or revoked, during the financial year by—
(a)the Scottish Ministers under section 37(1),
(b)the Secretary of State under the Crown Estate Transfer Scheme.
(5)But a direction given, revised or revoked by the Secretary of State is not to be included in the list, or otherwise mentioned in the report, if the Secretary of State so notifies the manager.
(6)Otherwise, it is for the manager to determine the form and content of the report.
(7)A manager (other than the Scottish Ministers) must send a copy of its report to the Scottish Ministers no later than 3 months after the end of the financial year to which the report relates.
(8)This section does not apply to Crown Estate Scotland (but see article 18 of the Crown Estate Scotland Order).
27Laying and publication of annual reportsS
(1)The Scottish Ministers must lay a copy of each annual report before the Scottish Parliament.
(2)They may do so by laying before the Parliament a copy of—
(a)a consolidated report comprising two or more annual reports, or
(b)an individual annual report.
(3)The Scottish Ministers must publish each consolidated or annual report in such manner as they consider appropriate as soon as reasonably practicable after a copy of it is laid before the Parliament.
(4)A manager must not publish its report prepared under section 26(1) until a copy of it has been laid before the Parliament.
(5)In this section, "annual report" means a report prepared under—
(a)section 26(1), or
(b)article 18(1)(a) of the Crown Estate Scotland Order.
I6S. 27(1)-(3)(5)(b) in force at 1.4.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/77, reg. 2(1), sch. 1
I7S. 27(4)(5)(a) in force at 27.9.2021 by S.S.I. 2021/308, reg. 2, sch.

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Q: Can't create pdf using python PDFKIT Error : " No wkhtmltopdf executable found:" I tried installing pdfkit Python API in my windows 8 machine. I'm getting issues related to path.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\pdfcre", line 13, in <module>
    pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf')
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pdfkit\api.py", line 22, in from_url
    configuration=configuration)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pdfkit\pdfkit.py", line 38, in __init__
    self.configuration = (Configuration() if configuration is None
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pdfkit\configuration.py", line 27, in __init__
    'https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Installing-wkhtmltopdf' % self.wkhtmltopdf)
IOError: No wkhtmltopdf executable found: ""
If this file exists please check that this process can read it. Otherwise please install wkhtmltopdf - https://github.com/JazzCore/python-pdfkit/wiki/Installing-wkhtmltopdf

Is anybody installed Python PDFKIt in windows machine? How to resolve this error.
My sample code :
import pdfkit
import os
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf='C:\\Python27\\wkhtmltopdf\bin\\wkhtmltopdf.exe')
pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf')

A: The following should work without needing to modify the windows environment variables:
import pdfkit
path_wkhtmltopdf = r'C:\Program Files (x86)\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe'
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=path_wkhtmltopdf)
pdfkit.from_url("http://google.com", "out.pdf", configuration=config)

Assuming the path is correct of course (e.g. in my case it is r'C:\Program Files (x86)\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe').

A: I am learning python today, and I met the same problem, lately I set the windows enviroment variables and everything is OK.
I add the install path of wkhtml to the path, for example:"D:\developAssistTools\wkhtmltopdf\bin;" is my install path of wkhtml, and I add it to the path, everything is OK.
import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_url("http://google.com", "out.pdf")

finally, I find a out.pdf.

A: import pdfkit
path_wkthmltopdf = b'C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe'
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=path_wkthmltopdf)
pdfkit.from_url("http://google.com", "rajul-url.pdf", configuration=config)
pdfkit.from_file("output.xml","rajul-pdf.pdf", configuration=config)

The Above Code block is working perfectly fine for me. Please note that file which needs to be converted is in the same directory where the pdf file is creating.

A: Ran into the same problem on a Mac. For some reason-- it worked after unistalling the pip installation and reinstall wkhtmltopdf using brew

pip uninstall wthtmltopdf

and use brew

brew install Caskroom/cask/wkhtmltopdf

A: Please install wkhtmltopdf using,
sudo apt install -y wkhtmltopdf

for windows machine install it from below link, http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html
and you need to add wkhtmltopdf path into environment variables

A: You need set:
pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf',configuration=config)

A: IOError: 'No wkhtmltopdf executable found'
Make sure that you have wkhtmltopdf in your $PATH or set via custom configuration. where wkhtmltopdf in Windows or which wkhtmltopdf on Linux should return actual path to binary.
Adding this configuration line worked for me:
config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf="C:\\Program Files\\wkhtmltopdf\\bin\\wkhtmltopdf.exe")
pdfkit.from_string(html, 'MyPDF.pdf', configuration=config)

From github
Seems you need to pass configuration=config as argument.

A: Found the decode on a windows platform needed to be a binary string, try:
        path_wkthmltopdf = b'C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe'
        config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=path_wkthmltopdf)
        pdfkit.from_url(url=urlpath, output_path=pdffilepath,configuration=config)

A:
def urltopdf(url,pdffile):
    import pdfkit
    '''
        input
        - url : target url
        - pdffile : target pdf file name
    '''
    path_wkthmltopdf = 'D:\\Program Files (x86)\\wkhtmltopdf\\bin\\wkhtmltopdf.exe'
    config = pdfkit.configuration(wkhtmltopdf=path_wkthmltopdf)
    #pdfkit.from_url(url=urlpath, output_path=pdffilepath,configuration=config)
    pdfkit.from_url(url,pdffile,configuration=config)

urltopdf('http://www.google.com','pdf/google.pdf')

very good solution!
thanks everyone!

A: When I tried all of the above methods, I was till facing Permission Error as I don't have the admin rights to my workstation.
If that's the case for you too, then make sure when you install your wkhtmltopdf.exe. The destination folder for installation is in your python site-packages folder, or add the directory to sys.path.
Normally it gets installed in Program files folder.
I changed the installation directory and this works for me:
import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_url("http://google.com", "out.pdf")

A: [For Ubuntu/Debian]
first run: sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
then: sudo apt-get install -y wkhtmltopdf
hope it would solve your problem.

A: for windows Try to use the complete path C:\Program Files\wkhtmltopdf\bin\wkhtmltopdf.exe

A: No need to write wkhtmltopdf path into code. Just define an environment variable for that, and it works.
import pdfkit
pdfkit.from_url('http://google.com', 'out.pdf')

For me this code is working.

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Ultra Antibody Combination Inhibits COVID-19 Virus
Ultra antibody combination inhibits COVID-19 virus, animal experiments show protective effects. A few days ago, the research progress of a new coronavirus neutralizing antibody was officially published in the top academic journal Science.
An international research team composed of dozens of scientists reported on two powerful neutralizing antibodies and revealed the specific mechanisms by which they recognize and prevent viruses from infecting cells. Preclinical studies have shown that the use of these two antibodies alone or in combination can protect animals from infection by the new coronavirus. The researchers pointed out that because different antibodies use different mechanisms of action, the combined "cocktail" therapy will help combat the drug resistance of the new coronavirus due to mutations.
In this study, scientists isolated B cells from two survivors of severe COVID-19 and screened nearly 800 monoclonal antibodies that target the spike protein of the new coronavirus. Two potent neutralizing antibodies, S2E12 and S2M11, stand out. The IC50 for neutralizing live virus is as low as 0.04 nM and 0.02 nM, respectively.
▲Two neutralizing antibodies S2E12 and S2M11 targeting the spike protein of the new coronavirus (picture source: reference [1])
Animal challenge experiments have shown that these two antibodies can provide good protection with only a very low dose. "Among the various human monoclonal antibodies tested with the hamster model, this is the antibody with the lowest dose currently required." The paper pointed out.
The researchers injected hamsters with S2E12, S2M11, and a mixture of two monoclonal antibodies, and exposed them to the new coronavirus 48 hours later. After 4 days, when they examined the lung tissues of the animals, they found that whether it was a single monoclonal antibody or a combination of two antibodies, the preventive injection effectively eliminated the replication of the virus in the lungs. Compared with the control group, the viral nucleic acid The number dropped by 2 to 5 orders of magnitude.
▲The results of the challenge experiment show that S2E12 and S2M11 and their "cocktail" can provide strong protection and eliminate the replication of the new coronavirus in animals (picture source: reference [1])
For the mechanism of action of these two powerful antibodies, the researchers also did a detailed analysis, using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine their role at the molecular level. The 3D structure data showed that both S2E12 and S2M11 can recognize the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the new coronavirus spike protein, and competitively prevent the host cell ACE2 receptor from binding to RBD.
In addition to directly preventing the interaction between the virus and the receptor, S2M11 can also lock the spike protein into an inactive conformation that cannot bind to the receptor, which means that the virus will not be able to fuse with the cell membrane, making it unable to invade the cell.
▲S2M11 combines with the spike protein trimer to lock the virus in a state where it cannot bind to the receptor (picture source: reference [1])
Leading this research is the University of Washington and Vir Biotechnology, a company focused on developing infectious disease treatments. Not long ago, a neutralizing antibody S309 developed by this research team showed a "broad-spectrum" anti-coronavirus potential in in vitro experiments. The optimized version based on S309 has now entered clinical phase 2/3 evaluation.
The researchers pointed out in the paper that the combination of S2M11 and S2E12 or their mixture with S309 can have a synergistic effect on the neutralization efficiency. Due to the unique and complementary mechanism of action, different formulations of the antibody "cocktail" will help neutralize a variety of different virus mutants, thereby controlling the spread of the virus and reducing the problems caused by drug resistance mutations in clinical applications.
In order to determine the safety and effectiveness, the two new powerful neutralizing antibodies and their combinations reported in this study also need to be verified by subsequent human trials. We look forward to more good news from the results of clinical trials!
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Preparing for Rio 2016
By Richard Murray	/ 6 July 2016 / 0 comments
This is a paid advertorial by DFS
With the success of the London 2012 Olympics for the Great Britain team and the weight of expectation from the nation has never been so high! With pressure beginning to ramp up and less than a month to go to the Olympics we look ahead at what the top GB athletes are doing to prepare for this momentous event.
Routine & base training is key
High level athletes such as those competing at the Olympics this summer will have been peaking their training plans in the last couple of months and therefore will need anywhere between 8 to 10 hours of sleep per night. Sleep is absolutely essential for both the body and mind when training hard and your quality of sleep tends to deteriorate when going to bed after 11pm so getting an early night could be the key to maintaining a certain quality of sleep and to get your mind and body into a routine.
Because the Olympics is every four years, many athletes will plan their training years in advance. For example long distance runners may spend years building up a base mileage or cardiovascular strength before then focusing their training on a specific event. By building a base level strength, athletes are limiting injury when training becomes more intense which is important because there is nothing worse than an injury hitting late in training which can unwind years and years of preparation.
When to train?
Olympic athletes train early in the day, why? Because you are much less likely to get distractions early in the morning that effect or impact your workout, also it sets you up for the day ahead so get ready to feel great! Get a training partner, Olympic athletes are known to train together for years before that turn to competing against each other. Training with a partner helps motivation and will help you pick up the intensity of your training, especially on those days where you feel less than your best. Accountability is a big part of success and therefore if your head isn't in it one day, you are not just letting yourself down by not training, but you are letting someone else down so your adherence to exercise tends to increase with a partner for that reason. Surround yourself with positive influences.
Olympic athletes spend a lot of time preparing psychologically for the big day and not just physically. This includes anything from reading inspirational books & quotes to rehearsing mantras. All of which can help you reach your fitness goals no matter what they may be. Continued focus on training for years does take a psychological toll on many athletes and it's sometimes a challenge for athletes to stay motivated. Whilst performing in such events as the Olympics, a sports physiologist is often needed to consult athletes who feel the added stress of performing in front of an international audience against the best competitors in the world. Visualise your victory and you will stay on track.
Taking time off is just as important as anything to a training routine. Our bodies need time to recover and our minds need down time to concentrate on the things that make us happy. This year it has been reported that several athletes are using yoga, meditation and even using their favourite TV shows to calm themselves prior to an event.
In fact athletes such as Laura Trott, Adam Peaty & Max Whitlock have teamed up with DFS with the launch of their limited edition sofa in the run up to to the Olympics called 'the Britannia' which celebrates Team GB and the importance of family and having a strong support system and home network amongst athletes. Adam Peaty has said "when you push yourself mentally and physically in the run up to the Olympics and training 35 hours per week, it is important to surround yourself and spend time with family and this is imperative in giving him strength and keeping him on track with his training.
The downtime is is hugely important to any successful athletes routine." DFS said, 'At DFS, we know the importance of home. The value of proper rest and relaxation can be sometimes overlooked, but it has the power to make us truly great. The athletes we've been working with have shown us that, and we can't wait to bring that 'home' feeling to Rio for all of Team GB.' Talent made in Britain, starts at home. Max Whitlock echoed this by saying that recovery is a massive part of a sport and having time at home and relaxing is important to repair and set you up for the next day of training. He understands what part his family have played in his success describing that without them he wouldn't be in the position that he is.
For more information about DFS, you can also visit their Twitter and Instagram page.
About the author: Richard Murray
A very passionate sports writer who has been sharing his views and opinions for the last three years.
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At The Wall Street Journal, a smartphone app has reporters on board for shooting video
The text-based web is dead, says Michael Downing. When AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced his intention this month to transform the company into a platform for video, Downing heard a death knell — one he's been expecting for some time. We are, after all, as he says, on the precipice of "the rise of the visual web."
Downing has a dog in this fight; he's the founder of Tout, a video sharing website and app that makes it easy for users to upload and share short — under 15 seconds — videos in real-time. Although originally designed as a consumer device, it also appealed to publishers: The Wall Street Journal approached Downing with the idea for a proprietary app that reporters could use as a news gathering tool. With the addition of some analytics tools and a centralized management function that allows editors to quickly vet clips before they're published, that became WorldStream, which we wrote about in August.
"Consumer behavior has become much more accustomed to consuming the news they want as it happens," says Downing. "The WSJ was trying to be much more in line with real-time news and real-time publishing."
More than half a year later, how's WorldStream working out? The Journal seems pretty happy. On the business side, WorldStream point man and WSJ deputy editor of video Mark Scheffler describes the project as a "destination but also a clearinghouse." While all of the WSJ's mobile videos are first published to the feed, many go on to live second lives across a wide variety of platforms. Some clips follow reporters to live broadcast appearances, while others are embedded into article pages and blogs. Andy Regal, the Journal's head of video production, said that they don't break out WorldStream views from the newspaper's overall video numbers, which he said total between 30 and 35 million streams per month.
That kind of traffic across platforms draws the attention of advertisers. The WSJ says video ads generate "premium" rates, meaning somewhere around $40 to $60 CPM. Says Tim Ware, WSJ director of mobile sales, of the Journal's broader video strategy: "We're very bullish on the growth of WSJ Live this fiscal year, and thus the growth in video ad revenue. We're also starting to contemplate some one-off sponsorships within our overarching video coverage of select events and stories." (After spending about a total of about an hour on WorldStream, however, I only saw one ad — for a "smart document solutions" company — repeated about a half dozen times.)
But the surprise, both for Downing and WSJ management, is how readily — and ably — the WSJ's reporters have taken to the new medium; getting reporter buy-in has been a struggle for many newspaper video initiatives. "It started out as an internal tool because we didn't know how many people would be able to accommodate this kind of approach with the technology and the software," Regal says, "but they think about it as part of their daily work now." Armed with iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Android devices, hundreds of WSJ staffers have filed video clips via Tout; in the 229 days since launch, that's 2,815 videos. In many cases, Downing said, the reporters didn't even need training: "They just jumped right in and started using it."
Charles Levinson has been reporting for the Journal from places like Syria "What are the assets that give us an advantage over the competitor? We have 2,000 reporters around the world," he said. "How do you parlay 2,000 reporters into good video?" Levinson says the Tout app is helping the WSJ avoid print media's tendency toward "mediocre" video production.
Christina Binkley is a style columnist at the WSJ who first experimented with the app while reporting on New York's 2012 Fashion Week. She says there's a lot of pressure on reporters to be producing a huge variety of content — articles, columns, blogs, Instagrams, tweets. She said, unlike some other apps, WorldStream has really stuck with her: "I can add a lot of value to my column very quickly without having to mic somebody up."
Scheffler says some of the reporters have gained basic video shooting skills so quickly that the footage they file can be edited together into longer clips that could pass for more traditionally produced video. Going forward, Scheffler hopes to put better mobile editing tools in their hands: "Being able to be full-fledged creators on a mobile platform is something that we're just going to continue being at the frontier of," he said.
Regal's focus, meanwhile, will be to make sure none of that prime footage is being lost in the ever quickening deluge that is the WorldStream feed. He's considering a "Best of WorldStream" weekly digest, and a variety of other news packages that make that valuable content more findable, and more shareable.
News organizations have been chasing the promise of video advertising for years now, and the rise of apps like Vine illustrate the rise of social video sharing. But Downing says he isn't worried about the competition. "Ninety-nine-point-nine percent of the existing video sharing apps have to do with self-expression," he says, comparing Vine to something like Instagram. Tout's enterprise apps skip the idea of sharing with friends and focuses on fast, concise updates from outlets that users follow based on broader personal interest.
"It's a real-time, reverse chronological vertical feed of updates," says Downing, "Whether it's Twitter or LinkedIn, that is becoming the standard form factor for being able to track that information that you curate yourself."
Since partnering with The Wall Street Journal last year, a number of publishers have pursued similar agreements with Tout — CBS, Fox, NBC Universal, WWE, La Gardere and Conde Nast are among them. By the end of 2013, Downing expects to host around 200 media outlets, including some of News Corp.'s other brands. Downing says these publisher agreements are now the company's "primary mode of business," not the consumer product.
What does Downing see coming in video? He confidently points to Google's spring 2012 earnings report, when for the first time, its cost-per-click rate fell. "That was the sounding bell. That was the beacon. That was the one clear signal to the world that the era of the print metaphor defining the web experience…was over."
Tags: Regular post Android Andy Regal AOL CBS Conde Nast Facebook feed Google Instagram iPhone LinkedIn Mark Downing Mark Scheffler mobile video editing NBC Universal real-time analytics real-time reporting streamification Tim Armstrong Tout Twitter video video advertising Vine Wall Street Journal WorldStream
AOL's Patch will lose at least $100m this year and revenue is tiny
Business Insider :: AOL's local business, Patch, will lose at least $100 million this year and generate paltry revenues, according to documents we've obtained from a source. Analysts say that, during 2011, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong invested approx. $160 million into Patch, a network of 850 or local news blogs. His big bet was that AOL could, eventually, richly profit by filling one of the last remaining "white spaces" on the Internet by creating local content and selling local ads against it.
How did the bet do this year?
Continue to read Nicholas Carlson, www.businessinsider.com
Tags: AOL Patch local content loss Tim Armstrong
A tech-industry punchline: can AOL and Yahoo come back to life?
Businessweek :: Shortly after the news broke that Yahoo! had ousted Chief Executive Carol Bartz on Sept. 6, Tim Armstrong's phone began ringing. According to people with knowledge of the calls who were not authorized to speak on the record, the AOL CEO spoke several times that day with bankers who wanted to reopen talks begun in 2010 about merging the two companies under Armstrong's leadership. The logic: By combining the companies' content and audience, the former Google executive could extract better ad rates and build a more profitable business.
It's a terrific idea—if you're Armstrong or a fee-seeking investment banker. But the idea of merging these struggling Internet icons has become a tech-industry punchline.
Continue to read Peter Burrows, www.businessweek.com
Tags: AOL Yahoo Carol Bartz Tim Armstrong Yahoo!
Huffington Post employees flee ... AOL
Business Insider | SAI :: So far very little has been said about the HuffPo employees after it was purchased by AOL. Many of whom have been with Arianna for years, and who, on many levels, are responsible for building HuffPo and making it at valuable as it was. - Turns out many of them are not happy. "Brutal", "Awful", "The worst few weeks." And the cracks are beginning to show.
Continue to read Glynnis MacNicol, www.businessinsider.com
Tags: AOL Huffington Arianna Huffington Huffington Post Tim Armstrong
Manipulated AOL stock? - Arianna Huffington: "if you buy AOL stock right now ..."
TNW Industry :: Section 9 of the Securities Exchange Act (link to PDF download) of 1934 prohibits market manipulation, a deliberate attempt to interfere with the free and fair operation of the market and create artificial, false or misleading appearances with respect to the price of, or market for, a security, commodity or currency.
According to a Tweet (see below) from Dylan Byers, a reporter for AdWeek, Huffington, speaking to Michael Arrington, founder and co-editor of TechCrunch at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, stated the following,
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@DylandByers tweet: "Huffington to Arrington: 'Ithink if you buy some AOL stock right now, you're goint to make a lof of money.'"
That said, it could be argued that that Huffington is engaging in market manipulation concerning AOL's stock.
Details - continue to read Jeff Cormier, thenextweb.com
Tags: AOL Huffington AdWeek Arianna Huffington Discrupt New York Dylan Byers TechCrunch Tim Armstrong
AOL's Tim Armstrong to Mike Arrington: paid content can work
Techcrunch :: Tim Armstrong and Michael, Arrington touched on a variety of subjects, including AOL's agressive content strategy at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. While AOL's content has remained free, Armstrong does seem to think that a paid content model can work. "It's a matter of how you do it…but I'm a long term believer in paid content as a strategy."
Continue to read Leena Rao, techcrunch.com
Tags: AOL Business Issues Paywall Disrupt New York Michael Arrington paid content paywall Techcrunch Tim Armstrong
The newsonomics of AOL/Patch buying Outside.in
Editor's Note: Each week, Ken Doctor — author of Newsonomics and longtime watcher of the business side of digital news — writes about the economics of news for the Lab.
There are two ways to be local, we've learned.
You can create local news, as newspapers, TV, and some radio stations — and more recently, tens of thousands of bloggers — have done. Or you can aggregate local, sorting through what those newspapers, TV and radio stations, and bloggers have created, picking up what you want, lifting a headline and quick summary and providing a link.
Over the years, the aggregators have often laughed — not publicly, of course — at those silly people who sink millions into creating local news, or content of any kind, while creators have joked — sometimes publicly — that some day those aggregators will have to turn out the lights, when all the content creators have gone bankrupt and out of business. Creation is hugely expensive, when all you have to do is build a better algorithm, scoop up what's already there, organize it better than someone else, and sell advertising against it. That's why the first decade of this century has been largely the decade of the aggregators, with the Googles, Yahoos, MSNs and AOLs, among the leaders in aggregation — and revenue.
So as much as AOL CEO Tim Armstrong talks about sparking a content revolution and creating lots of original content, in the background, he also needs to up his aggregation game, using more and more of other people's content. That's how I read the recent announcement that AOL's Patch is buying Outside.in, a company that uses technology to roundup local content, dividing it into the categories of local news and local blogs — and which has partnered with newspaper companies in its four-year history. (Sadly, the memorable url construction, owing to an Indian .in domain, will probably fade into history.) It's a small play, but one that may have bigger impact on the emergence of hyperlocal news — and local advertising/marketing dollars — in the years ahead. Let's look at the newsonomics of the Outside.in deal, and what it tells us about the future of Patch itself and AOL's play to get bigger audiences faster.
The deal — for a purchase price of less than $10 million — is small when compared to the investment ($14.4 million) put into Outside.in by some high-profile investors (Union Square Ventures, Marc Andreessen, John Borthwick, Esther Dyson, and CNN) and when compared to AOL's $315 Huffington Post buy. It's tiny, also, when compared to AOL's spending of $606 million for 14 acquisitions since the beginning of 2010 — a number, of course, that itself pales against Google's 48 purchases for $1.8 billion over roughly the same period.
Yet it parallels the HuffPo buy in a major way: It's an attempt by AOL to get bigger faster. Look at AOL's financials and it's clear Armstrong is in a race against time. As one savvy newspaper veteran pointed out to me last week, AOL looks, ironically, a lot like a newspaper company. It has a legacy circulation product, in slow, but unmistakeable decline — its AOL-brand Internet access service — and a digital ad business (in turnaround mode) that isn't growing fast enough to turn the company sustainably profitable in the future. So The Huffington Post not only pasted the face of Arianna atop the site, in hopes her followers will follow, but acts as the wished-for rocket fuel for overall company traffic growth over the next couple of years, especially as the election season, with its political interest, dawns once again.
Patch is part of that strategy for audience growth, drawing into AOL customers through the local pipeline.
The Outside.in deal aims to do a simple thing to support that growth: create more page views around local content, at a lower cost to AOL. Or putting it even more simply: bulking up Patch, on the cheap.
And isn't that what critics of fast-growing Patch — more than 800 served up across the country, the fastest-growing news startup and hirer of journalists in the last several years — have said since Armstrong and Patch President Warren Webster announced its hypergrowth plan last summer. For all of you who have said, "I don't get the business model, they're paying too much for content," Armstrong and Webster apparently agree with you.
Patch still needs to make its one editor/reporter per Patch pencil out, but it can do something about the costs of lassoing other content. Peruse the Patches around the country — mainly on the coasts, but with a growing representation in the Upper Midwest — and you see lots of vitality and lots of variable quality. At the top sites, you'll find the site updated with posts and tweets every few hours, and that owes itself both to the hard-working Patch editors (10-plus hour days are still not uncommon) and their ability to pull in good stringers. The budget for those stringers actually varies by the month, as Patch balances budgets and getting its allocations right. Take a bigger Patch site — serving a city of 80,000, for instance — and it may get more than $2,500 a month in freelance budget, while smaller ones serving communities of 20,000 may only get $1,200.
What Outside.in offers Patch is a new tool to manage how much local content it offers through aggregation — rounding up news from other local sources, including local dailies and weeklies and blogs, and how much it decides to pay for directly. Add Outside.in to Patch pages and you may get the sense of a fuller news report, Patch+. Sure the plus requires readers to link off the site, but that's the nature of the aggregation game. You get more readers to come to because you've created one of the largest centers of local content. If you do it right, you can be ahead of the game — and trim costs.
Let's look at it on a pure cost basis. If Patch gets 1,000 sites up and going, which should happen this year, and it can trim what it spends on stringers by an average of $500 per site per month, that's $6000 a year in savings per site. For the Patch network in general, that's $6 million a year. With Outside.in costing no more than one and a half times that number, you've paid for the acquisition in less than two years. (Of course, there are also ongoing operating costs as Outside.in CEO and able web serial entrepreneur Mark Josephson and some other team members join Patch.)
The tweaking, of course, is both about the algorithm — tour Santa Cruz Outside.in today, and the top five news stories are from the local Patch!; where's the local daily, the Sentinel? — and in the content model. What's the mix of paid, fresh voices and local aggregation that pulls in, and retains, audience?
That question is, of course, what leading local newspaper sites have been trying to figure out as well. A number of newspaper partners of Outside.in itself have tried, without significant commercial success, to figure out the formula. Other sites like SeattlePI.com have used aggregation (SeattleTweets) and innovators from the Miami Herald to the Journal Register papers have signed up local bloggers, in distribution and ad-revenue-sharing programs. All of these are works-in-progress at getting the local original content creation/aggregation model right.
Patch could get it right, or righter, and become a more formidable challenger to local newspaper sites — especially as they go to paywalls of various kinds. (Although that also reopens the question of how findable and linkable their own local content is for the aggregating algorithms of Outside.in and others.) If it does get it righter, it could also become a more likely potential partner for media companies looking to cut their own local costs and reach audience. It's all in getting that cost of content unit/ad yield per unit of content right, and no one's yet minted the winning formula.
We can see the dilemma in one current market. Journal Register CEO John Paton (who talks about competing with Patch, here) has been working with Outside.in, to supply aggregated content for the planned fyi.Philadelphia site. He put that relationship on hold this week, and delayed the product launch, as he conjures the question: Is the new Patch/Outside.in a friend, a foe, or some in-between still to be figured out?
Tags: Small post advertising AOL Arianna Huffington blogging business model CNN Esther Dyson Google Huffington Post John Borthwick John Paton Journal-Register Marc Andreesen Mark Josephson Miami Herald newspapers online advertising Outside.in paid content Patch paywall Seattle Tweets SeattlePI.com Tim Armstrong Union Square Ventures Warren Webster
4 Minute Roundup: AOL Buys TechCrunch; Knight Updates News Challenge
4MR is sponsored by Carnegie-Knight News21, an alliance of 12 journalism schools in which top students tell complex stories in inventive ways. See tips for spurring innovation and digital learning at Learn.News21.com.
In this week's 4MR podcast I look at the recent shopping spree by AOL, including buying tech news blog TechCrunch for more than $30 million. PaidContent founder Rafat Ali tells me what TechCrunch needed to do to finally seal the deal. And I also talked with Knight Foundation's director of digital media, John Bracken, about recent changes in the Knight News Challenge contest for next year's entrants.
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The Newsonomics of journalistic star power
Maybe it's a trend, or maybe it's a bubble, but Jim Romenesko's blog is chockablock with high-level journalist movement. The Newsweek Six are on the auction block, sought by eager bidders, as Time Warner solidifies its relationship with Fareed Zakaria, making him a wholly owned, cross-platform phenomenon, and Howard Fineman gets tapped on the shoulder by The Huffington Post, soon after it hired away The New York Times' Peter Goodman.
Daniel Gross jumps from his long-time Slate home to Yahoo Finance. The National Journal makes acquisition after acquisition, this week reeling in Dave Beard, the well-respected editor of Boston.com, where he joins numerous other veterans (AP's Ron Fournier, Newsweek's Michael Hirsh, The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder, Fox's Major Garrett, among them) who've recently made a switch. After an apparent flirtation with AOL, Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg stay safely in the News Corp bosom, while AOL spends its bonus dough on TechCrunch, buying a brand and an established news operation.
Other well known journalists are also suddenly fielding calls of interest — and often moving on to new adventures. Bloomberg's been hiring pedigreed journalists by the dozens, for Bloomberg Government and other initiatives. Patch is snatching many of its regional editors from daily newspaper ranks.
What we're seeing is a market develop. This is market that newly prizes talent, but a certain kind of talent. Most of the hiring is at the minor star level, though the lumens emitted vary. How do you measure — critical to digital success — the light?
First off, the hiring companies believe they know sustainable models of building businesses on higher-quality content. That may seem basic, but when we look at the much of the newspaper, broadcast, and consumer magazine worlds, that belief is flagging. They look at well salaried, professional staffs and see high "cost structures," which are harder to justify, given current levels of advertising and the lack of successful digital revenue models.
We know that Yahoo and AOL, increasingly competitive with each other, believe they've found a working formula to make good content pay profitably. Tim Armstrong, AOL's CEO, talks about "sparking a content revolution." His formula, and Yahoo's, is fairly straightforward, and borrows its commandments from the Demand Media bible. It's all about the efficient ad monetization of content, with analytics — know the nature of the content, target the reader and align the advertiser — that seem to grow better week by week (see The Newsonomics of content arbitrage).
(AOL, ironically, is milking its online access business — yes, lots of people still think of AOL and Internet service as the same thing — drawing 43 percent of its revenue from it. That's similar to newspapers milking the print business for as long as possible, as they can make the inevitable digital transition. By that comparison, AOL's lifeline is much shorter, with a 25-percent 2Q drop in customers paying for that access, while most newspaper companies' circulation revenue down only in low single digits.)
The newsonomics of the star hires is intriguing. Think of these "star" hires as individual SKUs, "products" whose value can be estimated against the customers they bring in the door. Those conversion customer metrics are evolving. Counting pageviews is the simplest way. Take those views at whatever (premium?) rate you can sell them, and you've got a first number. The intangibles are how many new unique visitors the Zakarias, Finemans, and Grosses bring with them from their old haunts. How many of those new customers become regular customers of the outlet? That gets you to some annual and/or lifetime value metrics. As metrics are collected and tested, we'll see some more science brought to what is now a star-search art form.
There certainly are other intangibles. What is Yahoo News exactly? What is HuffPo? What is AOL? As they define themselves as legitimate news companies, the new stars bring cred — and legitimacy. In addition, they are magnets to other, lesser-known talent, signaling, "it's okay to come here." There's economic value in that, too.
Notably, few established legacy brands are hiring new top-end talent; Time's Zakaria hire is a smart, though unusual one, enabled by the Newsweek uncertainty and Time/CNN linkage. For the most part, legacy news companies' growth scenarios are borrowed, curiously, from those now hiring those stars: multiplying the amount of content available under their brands, harnessing amateur and lower-cost stuff from local bloggers, licensing from Demand Media and aggregating content through FWIX, Outside.in, and OneSpot. They're the ones paying heed, at least indirectly, to Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales' observation that hiring six-figure columnists in this time is silly: "The best of the political bloggers are easily the equal of the opinion columnists at the New York Times. I don't see the added value there and question whether a newspaper should be paying large sums of money for that any more."
The hirings at the National Journal and Bloomberg point to a different kind of business model. Those companies have found niche models involving significant reader and/or enterprise payment, and now are building out, and around, those businesses. They, too, believe they can make a new business out of superior content.
It's complicated, and there are more than two phenomena happening here. Yes, some players that have built successful enterprises — think Yahoo, AOL, Huffington Post — on non-professional staff content (through aggregation, pro-am sites, and more) are now adding the pros at the top, to reinforce brands and put faces on them. At the same the high-cost, pro-based enterprises are going the other way.
It's not an equilibrium, nor will these models meet in some neat middle, but there's some sense of coming at a similar solution from two ends of the spectrum. It's a blend of old and new, expensive and cheap, and no one yet knows the best formula.
Arianna Huffington explains it as a maturation, and indicates the hiring of pros was part of the original Huffington Post plan: "From the day we launched, it was our belief that the mission of The Huffington Post should be to bring together the best of the old and the best of the new. Bringing in the best of the old involved more money than we had when we launched. But now that our website is growing, we're able to bring in the best of the old."
The likely result of these moves? By 2015, news companies will pay top dollar, and pound, euro and yen, for top-end talent, and they'll pay as little as possible for good-enough newsy content that fills many topical and local niches. Over the next several years, the most successful media brands will have mastered better the economics of pro-am journalism.
Infrared image of a star cloud courtesy of NASA.
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Econsultancy: AOL on why journalism is technologically challenged
Interesting summary of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's comments at a recent industry event, at which the chief executive flagged the importance of human editing and journalists in using technology to give the content they produce scale.
Armstrong is betting that content will be the next huge development area online:
"The content space will be the epicenter of the internet."
Part of the reason for that is how slow journalism has been to adapt to changing technologies. Even at the most basic level. For instance, journalists are often not included in corporate technology upgrades. Says Armstrong:
"Journalists I met were often the only people in the room who never had access to a lot of info, except what they already knew."
That is a problem he wants to fix at AOL, by creating platforms and strategies for writers and editors that utilise the best the web has to offer.
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The Newsonomics of content at the margins
Yahoo's purchase of Associated Content, for over $100 million, seemed to come out of the blue. Actually, though, it didn't. Yahoo made a foray at buying Demand Media two years ago, but the parties couldn't come to terms. At that point, Demand's model seemed to make sense, but hadn't matured to a point of conventional-wisdom validation.
We're now at that point: The well-dissected, advertising-drives-content Demand model is at the center of Demand Media, AOL's Seed, Examiner.com and Associated Content. The Newsonomics of content arbitrage that I wrote about for the Lab a month ago is a certified phenomenon; the conventional wisdom is that these algorithm-driven, user-gen-aggregated, SEO-augmented, metrics-monitored businesses are at the center of a new way to produce "content." Not news, mind you, but newsy content, some of it wonderfully useful, some of it wince-worthy. News content is far too costly to produce, doesn't produce enough of a long-tail and doesn't link that easily to commerce — the buying of stuff that fuels advertising.
The newsy stuff, though, is an annuity. That's an interesting term, used by Associated Content CEO Patrick Keane, when I interviewed him a couple of weeks ago. An annuity. That's a business made from the long tail. Pay for something once — and not much; in the case of Associated Content, $5 to $30 per piece — and monetize it forever. That's why the evergreen content encouraged by the Associateds and Demands runs to "How to Teach Your Dog Sign Language," and "10 Surefire Tips on Selling Your House at a Competitive Price."
It's content written for search engine optimization (good piece on SEO ascendancy Monday by the Times' David Carr). It's also, to put it simply and directly, ad bait. Ad bait of the kind that newspaper ad directors could only dream about over the decades, the kind they gained with advertorial sections (wedding guides, personal finance sections) as journalists — can you imagine! — wrote stories about what they thought was newsworthy. The hubris — and sometimes, good news judgment.
It's those algorithms and deepening technology under content, under advertising and under the matching of the two, that drives this Yahoo/Associated Content deal. Over the last several years, Yahoo has built an advertising targeting platform on acquisitions (Right Media, BlueLithium) and its own development, leaving the paid search business to Google and Microsoft. That platform is all about matching up content, web users, and advertising messaging. Yahoo has fine-tuned it, though it's always a work in progress. It's brought in partners (including half of U.S. newspaper companies) to gain more inventory and identified its future along those user/content/advertising lines.
The next step: Gain lots more content to sell ads against. Yahoo can do that several ways: organic growth; more partnerships; bringing more content under its own brands, on its own site. The Associated Content buy meets that third goal. The $100 million purchase price buys the annuity, lots of ad-bait content to feed the ever-smarter ad engine.
Here's the best part: margins. When I asked Patrick Keane, who will apparently be joining Yahoo as part of the deal, how much of Associated's revenue derived from selling ads on its own site and how much from partner sites to which it licensed the cheap user-gen content it aggregated, he didn't want to talk percentages. He did acknowledge that more than half, though, came from the Associated site. And Keane liked it that way. Why? "The margins are a lot better," he told me.
That's a simple statement, but one driving much of the new digital business. Revenue and profit growth are going to get tougher for such big companies as Yahoo and Google, and it's a big challenge for the new independent AOL. One way to boost dollars is to boost margins. That means transacting more business on your own site — where you don't have to share revenues with other sites, other content owners.
I've tracked Google's progression along those lines. Go back to 2004. Then, Google reported that 49 percent of its revenues were coming from affiliate sites, as it offered its technologies to help affiliates make a few bucks. That was the high-water mark of affiliate earnings, by percentage. In 2009, the affiliate percentage was down to 30 percent; 66 percent of revenues come from Google's own sites. Over time, it has smartly directed more and more traffic to stay at its owned websites — its time-on-site has increased consistently — and monetized that traffic, without having to share revenues. In part, that's contributed to its amazing profit growth, a banner $6.5 billion in profit, up $2 billion year-over-year, in the terrible-for-everyone-else 2009.
Yahoo breaks down its revenue into "owned and operated" sites and "affiliate" sites, though its trend lines are less easy to see. Clearly, though, the push toward O&O revenue is a key one, and one that the Associated purchase reinforces.
What might that push mean for Yahoo's affiliates, especially those in the Newspaper Consortium, which have gladly used Yahoo ad technology to better their ad rates in selected topical areas? It's hard to see how it is good news. The Associated content aims at many of same topical categories that newspaper sites target; so the industry looks like it has gained new competition — competition owned by its partner.
Maybe more significantly, Associated is welcomed on the Yahoo site by Matt Ledma, Yahoo VP for local. "We feel that a contributor-driven model is absolutely part of the future of media," Idema told Reuters. User-gen content can be topical — travel, health, pets, you name it — and it can be local. Local user-gen is the territory voraciously being chased by Examiner.com. Looks like Examiner may have a new competitor in the pro/am, user-gen local space: Yahoo.
These — Yahoo, Associated, Examiner, Demand — are the companies showing aggressiveness today, leaving one question for the moment: Where are the legacy news-producing companies, those who have long created the features-like content in this picture — and why haven't they bought these startups or built similar models?
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Q: ASP.NET Core WEB API - Receive multiple files in post request This is my controller action:
// POST: api/Customers/Create
[HttpPost(), Route("Create")]
public async Task<ActionResult> CreateAsync([FromForm] CustomerModel model)

And it receives a CustomerModel:
public Guid? Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Address { get; set; }
public string PhoneNumber { get; set; }
public string Email { get; set; }
public bool? IsActive { get; set; }
public  List<CustomerLicenseModel> LicenseFiles { get; set; }

My CustomerModel has a custom class that is a list of files of type CustomerLicenseModel
public  List<CustomerLicenseModel> LicenseFiles { get; set; }

And this is the CustomerLicenseModel:
public class CustomerLicenseModel
{
    public LicenseFileType LicenseFileType { get; set; }
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LicenseFileType can be Front or Back.
public enum LicenseFileType
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How can I send this via a http request?
If I have a List<IFormFile> inside my CustomerModel, I can send multiple files via postman or swagger for an example, but I need to know what the LicenseFileType is.
Can somebody help?

A: Swagger  does not support the transmission of this format by default, So I suggest you use postman to send requset.


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Labour bill reaches Senate
Gov't wants bill fast tracked through house The long awaited Labour Bill which was passed by the Chamber of Deputies early May, has now reached the upper chamber of Parliament, the Senate, for further discussion ahead of its passing and publishing in the National Gazette.
Published : May 15, 2009
Minister of Labour, Anastase Murekezi (R) and Francois Ngoboka (L) at the senate chambers presenting the Labour Bill on Wednesday. (Photo/ G. Barya).
Gov't wants bill fast tracked through house
The long awaited Labour Bill which was passed by the Chamber of Deputies early May, has now reached the upper chamber of Parliament, the Senate, for further discussion ahead of its passing and publishing in the National Gazette.
Defending the bill before members of the Senate, the Minister of Labour and Public Services, Anastase Murekezi, said that the Government is focussed on the passing of the labour code in a bid to streamline the workforce and other vital areas in the economy, such as business.
Murekezi urged the house to act fast as the law is long overdue.
"The Government perceives this law if passed, as one that will increase the productivity of people since working hours will be increased to 45 a week instead of 40 while we also intend to see the cost of doing business reduced since issues of workers insurance are all catered for in the new bill, the reason we want it passed and published in 2 months time," Murekezi urged Senators.
The session chaired by the President of the Senate Vincent Biruta also had senators give their views and ideas on several articles addressing issues of maternity leave, internship as well as jobs in the informal sector.
Some of the contentious issues raised by the senator including the law not addressing the needs of employees in the informal sector especially jobs in the rural areas, while reforms made don't add value to some jobs because of their nature.
Senators also argued that the 45 working hours a week will disorganise jobs where people work in shifts such as factories which operate on a 24 hour basis.
Murekezi however told the lawmakers that private employers have room to negotiate working hours and determine shifts, adding that the working hours directly affect employees in the public service while those in the private sector have room for negotiations.
He further said that on the issue of Meternity leave, Murekezi said that there are clear specifications of how mothers earn their incomes while they are having their maternity leave.
Mothers are entitled to 12 consecutive weeks of maternity leave but they can start the leave two weeks before giving birth.
He also added that a mother who returns to work immediately after the first six weeks of her leave is entitled to two hour off-duty to breast feed for a period of six months after giving birth.
"While we are not abusing the rights of mothers and children, the Government is also urging people to take advantage of daycares and pre-schools where children can be put for further care at an early age just in case the mother wants to resume work. This is how it is done in more advanced economies" Murekezi said.
The bill also stipulates that the minimum wage will be determined by a ministerial decree that sets the rates of wages and salaries after a mutual agreement between concerned parties.
The Bill aims at facilitating investment in Rwanda and enhancing job creation in consideration of the modern economic times, especially in issues related to; easing employment contracts, reducing investment costs, establishing a limited number of days of annual leave, permitting an employee to enter into contracts with different employers and easing issues relating to laying off employees in case of economic difficulties among others.
Senators also suggested that a clause be added in the law that will allow those on internship to attain Certificates of Practice which they would use on their CV's, as well as a provision to entitle interns to a certain allowance during internship, on agreement with the employer.
Members of the Public Service Committee in the Senate will continue deliberating on the law today.


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Can the East African Community stabilise eastern DRC?
As clashes escalated between the rebel March 23 Movement (M23) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) armed forces in North Kivu, the African Union (AU) on 30 October called for urgent dialogue between the two. The fighting has led to deaths and internal displacement as citizens flee the violence.
Under Kenya's leadership, the East African Community (EAC) has taken bold steps to resolve the crisis in eastern DRC. The bloc's diplomatic engagement comes after the DRC joined the EAC in March, becoming its seventh member state.
The decades-long conflict now comprises over 100 active armed groups. Its roots lie in the massive refugee crisis caused by Rwanda's 1994 genocide, which saw people and armed genocidaires moving into the region. As rebel groups flourished in the absence of a strong Congolese army and government, neighbouring Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi pursued their enemies and their economic interests in the restive region, taking advantage of its enormous natural resources.
On 20 June, former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta (now Kenya's peace envoy) convened a peace conference (the Nairobi Process) of EAC leaders. They undertook to deploy a regional force to eastern DRC to help combat the armed groups. Under Kenyatta's guidance, Kenya is leading the diplomatic and military efforts.
This is the first time the EAC is sending troops to a member state. It will be a litmus test of the bloc's ability to handle complex political and security challenges.
The combination of military and diplomatic action is a positive feature of the EAC initiative
The regional force (comprising contingents from Burundi, Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan) will help the DRC's armed forces 'contain, defeat and eradicate "negative forces"' in the east. The Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) has overall command of operations. Backed by EAC troops, it is expected to focus on four provinces: North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-Uélé and Ituri. The EAC force has a six-month renewable mandate subject to bi-monthly strategic reviews.
This decision was spurred by rising political and security tensions in eastern DRC. Armed groups multiplied, with a notable resurgence of M23, allegedly with support from Rwanda and, to a lesser extent, Uganda.
The EAC peace process puts the bloc's conflict resolution capacity in the spotlight. Success will depend on resolving intractable political, security and economic challenges in eastern DRC, which probably won't happen soon.
There are some advantages for the EAC, though. Unlike the various initiatives led by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) since 1998 in the DRC, the EAC intervention falls squarely within the political scope of subsidiarity. This principle prioritises regional bodies' role in resolving crises in their jurisdiction.
The EAC force's robust and offensive mandate means it can engage armed groups
All the countries bordering eastern DRC (Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi) are EAC members. Solutions involving all four states should have a greater chance of success, considering how intertwined their political, economic and security interests have become over the years.
Recent Institute for Security Studies research shows that East African leaders better understand the crisis. With the necessary political will, they would know which forms of leverage work best and could call out recalcitrant counterparts who frustrate the process.
The combination of military and diplomatic action is another positive feature of the EAC initiative. Political dialogue and consensus are vital – and can be supported by the Luanda Process started in July. Facilitated by Angola, it aims to mediate between DRC and Rwanda. The military component of the EAC process complements existing efforts to stabilise the region and build an effective and professional FARDC that can secure its borders.
The EAC force's robust and offensive mandate means it can engage armed groups. This presents an opportunity to tackle the limitations of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) and the Force Intervention Brigade forces that it absorbed.
A sustainable solution must involve Rwanda, which is excluded from the EAC regional force
However, the EAC force must learn from the experiences of similar deployments, including the AU Mission in Somalia, SADC Mission in Mozambique and the G5 Sahel and Multinational Joint Task Force against Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin. These lessons include the need for strategic coordination, local partners, support for peacebuilding, and securing the necessary resources.
In an area as complex as eastern DRC, the challenges facing the EAC might yet outweigh the advantages. These include securing the financial, technical and human resources for a robust political process that reaches into the root causes of the crisis – the DRC's profound governance and institutional problems.
Another test will be how to address countries' security concerns while tackling thorny issues of ethnicity, access to land, justice and equity in eastern DRC. Grassroots engagements would need to complement international mediation and peacebuilding.
The most difficult task will probably be building trust and confidence between countries. Relations between the DRC, Rwanda and Uganda are poor, with the DRC accusing its two neighbours of supporting M23. Full-scale and lengthy diplomatic efforts will be needed to reverse this.
Current tensions between Rwanda and the DRC, which lead to the expulsion of Rwanda's ambassador to the DRC, are unhelpful. Failure to resolve the conflict could ignite a new crisis. A sustainable solution must involve Rwanda, which has been excluded from the EAC regional force. And while Rwanda's relations with Uganda are improving, its ties with Burundi remain poor – although the border between both countries was recently reopened.
On the ground, the military dynamics are equally tricky. The deployments of Ugandan and Burundian troops in eastern DRC in November and December 2021 (respectively fighting their enemies – the Allied Democratic Forces and RED-Tabara) – were formalised under the EAC's Nairobi Process. But Rwanda remains sensitive to their presence in an area it considers vital to its security. Complicating matters is that the DRC government allowed Uganda to deploy troops to eastern DRC but not Rwanda.
The EAC regional force must define its scope of engagement, clarify different contingents' roles, lay out command and control structures, establish oversight measures and coordinate with MONUSCO and the Force Intervention Brigade.
Clarity is also needed around allegations that the FARDC collaborated with 'negative forces', including some Mai-Mai groups and the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, in their anti-M23 operations.
For the EAC process to succeed, it must be coordinated with other regional and international initiatives that the DRC is a part of. This can happen under the DRC and Great Lakes Region peace and security framework currently chaired by DRC President Félix Tshisekedi.
These diplomatic steps are vital. Without them, the EAC's engagement risks adding to an already over-militarised eastern DRC without helping to restore peace and stability.
Koffi Sawyer, Senior Research Consultant, ISS Pretoria
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Single Invoice Finance vs A Bank Loan – What's Right For You?
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You can have a decision within 24 hours of applying and providing supporting documents.
There are no rigid guidelines. You can have a solution tailored specifically to your needs.
The application process is comparatively low doc compared with most banks.
In most instances, your home won't be required as security.
Single invoice finance providers generally charge a single fee. You know it before you commit to the deal. There should not be application fees, account fees, exit fees, early repayment fees. You don't pay the fee until the transaction is complete. In other words, when you get paid.
Companies which have only been in business for a short time can be approved for funding as long as they have strong customers.
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