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En , la Walt Disney Company annonce son intention d'acheter une majorité des actifs de 21st Century Fox. La transaction s'est finalisée le  par la dissolution de 21st Century Fox, l'acquisition de plusieurs actifs par Disney et la création d'une nouvelle société, Fox Corporation ainsi que plusieurs ventes à d'autres sociétés pour obtenir l'accord des différentes commissions anticoncurentielles internationales. Le montant de la transaction est de  d'USD pour Disney desquels doivent être déduit les sommes récupérées des ventes contraintes.

Les principaux actifs achetés par Disney sont 20th Century Fox, FX, Fox Networks Group, la participation de 73% dans National Geographic Partners, Star India et 30% d'Hulu. Fox Corporation comprend Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Television Stations, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox Deportes, et Big Ten Network. Les principaux actifs vendus sont Sky à Comcast, Fox Sports Net à Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Historique

Novembre 2017 à avril 2018 : premiers projets

Le , le site CNBC révèle que 21st Century Fox serait en pourparler avec Disney pour lui vendre une partie de ses activités dont les studios 20th Century Fox, les chaînes européennes de BSkyB mais aussi National Geographic Channel et Star India. Les chaînes Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News et Fox Sports Net sont alors exclues de la transaction pour des raisons de réglementation. Le , selon la presse, Disney aurait repris des discussions pour acheter une partie de 21st Century Fox, tandis que Comcast reste en pourparlers avec celle-ci.

Le , Disney officialise son intention de rachat de la plupart des actifs du groupe américain 21st Century Fox pour  de dollars ( en actions et  de dette). Pour Reuters, le rachat de 21st Century Fox par Disney sera profitable en Inde aux 69 chaînes de Star India et son service de streaming Hotstar, Disney récupérant aussi les droits de la Coupe du monde de cricket.

Le communiqué officiel détaille les éléments suivants :
 achat pour  d'USD en actions et assumera  d'USD de dette
 21st Century Fox va créer une spinoff qui ne sera pas vendue à Disney avec Fox Broadcasting Company et les stations Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2 et Big Ten Network
 Disney récupère les filiales suivantes
 production cinématographique : 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures (non mentionné Blue Sky Studios).
 production télévisuelle : 20th Century Fox Television, FX Productions et Fox 21 Television Studios
 diffusion télévisuelle : FX Networks, National Geographic Channel, Fox Sports Regional Networks, Fox Networks Group, Star India
 les participations dans Hulu, Sky plc, Tata Sky et Endemol Shine Group

Plusieurs filiales ou participations ne sont pas listées dans le communiqué officiel comme le studio d'animation Blue Sky Studios (filiale de 20th Century Fox) ou la participation minoritaire dans le groupe de média saoudien Rotana Group. Selon une analyse du New York Times, le rachat du groupe Sky par Disney aurait des conséquences surtout si le rachat entamé par Rupert Murdoch de l'intégralité du groupe Sky est validé par les régulateurs. Cette montée à 100 % du groupe Sky formerait un groupe ayant plus de revenu et de contenu que les concurrents européens réunis RTL, Mediaset, ITV, ProSiebenSat.1 et Vivendi. Pour The Motley Fool, l'achat de 21st Century Fox permettra à Disney de lutter contre Netflix au travers de 3 plateformes, celle ESPN prévue en 2018 qui regroupera les chaînes ESPN et les 22 chaînes locales de Fox Sports Net, celle à vocation familiale non baptisée prévue en 2019 avec les contenus Disney, Pixar, Marvel, et Lucasfilm, mais aussi avec une participation de 60 % dans Hulu ayant un taux de pénétration de 22 % du marché américain (comparé au 61 % de Netflix ou 36 % d'Amazon) avec une vocation plus adulte et diffusant déjà Les Simpson de 20th Century Fox Television. Pour Live Mint, le rachat de 21st Century Fox par Disney aura des conséquences sur le marché indien dont celui du service par contournement mais l'industrie cinématographique est déjà en mutation. Variety précise que la participation de Disney dans Vice Media sera augmenté avec les 5 % détenus par 21st Century Fox depuis un investissement de 70 millions d'USD réalisé en 2013.

Le , The Hollywood Reporter évoque des pourparlers entre 21st Century Fox et Sinclair Broadcast Group pour que Fox Broadcasting Company, future partie de la "New Fox", achète  de Sinclair Broadcast Group et lève un verrou pour la fusion entre Sinclair et Tribune Media tout en renforçant le futur Fox.

Le , Disney dévoile les contours de son futur service de vidéo par contournement, qui proposera les films et séries Disney, Marvel et Lucasfilm et aussi le catalogue de 21st Century Fox en cas de validation du rachat mais aucune production  qui sera réservée à Hulu ni les coproductions comme celles de Netflix. Le , 21st Century Fox prévoit  d'investissements dans Sky News pour rassurer l'OFCOM britannique dans le cadre de son rachat de la totalité de Sky et de son rachat par Disney.

Le , Disney annonce une réorganisation à effet immédiat de ses divisions en anticipation de l'achat de 21st Century Fox avec la fusion des parcs et des produits de consommation et la création d'une division regroupant diffusion de contenu et l'international.

Le , Disney propose d'acheter Sky News dans le cadre du rachat de Sky par 21st Century Fox de Rupert Murdoch même en cas d'échec du rachat de 21st Century Fox par Disney. Le , la commission britannique sur les fusions et acquisitions impose à Disney d'acheter l'intégralité de Sky si l'achat de 21st Century Fox est validé par les autorités américaines. Le , dans un communiqué commun 21st Century Fox et Disney annoncent le choix de Disney pour l'acquisition d'une partie de 21st Century Fox et l'agenda cette acquisition.

Le , Comcast fait une offre de  d'USD pour acheter Sky alors que Disney n'a pas finalisé l'acquisition d'une majorité de 21st Century Fox détenant 39 % de Sky, froçant le duo Disney-Fox à faire une contre-offre. Le , dans le cadre de la future réorganisation, Lachlan Murdoch deviendrait le nouveau CEO du nouveau Fox et John Nallen, actuel CFO prendrait la place de COO. Le , Comcast confirme vouloir lancer une nouvelle offre exclusivement en numéraire pour contrer Disney dans l'achat de 21st Century Fox. Le , 21st Century Fox annonce à ses actionnaires une réunion le  pour voter la fusion avec la Walt Disney Company. Le , le Wall Street Journal rappelle qu'un des fleurons de 21st Century Fox est le groupe indien Star India. Le même jour les actionnaires de Disney et de Fox ont reçu un document officiel détaillant la fusion proposée, soumise au vite du , les actifs non achetés par Disney seront transférés dans une nouvelle entité temporairement surnommée « New Fox » .

Juin 2018 : Bataille d'enchères entre Disney et Comcast pour 21st Century Fox et Sky

Le , un juge fédéral du Département de la Justice des États-Unis approuve la fusion entre AT&T et Time Warner, ouvrant la voie au rachat de 21st Century Fox par Disney ou Comcast. Le lendemain, , Comcast fait une offre d'acquisition de  de dollars sur 21st Century Fox, en compétition avec l'offre de Disney. Comme l'offre de Disney, l'offre de Comcast n'inclue pas Fox News et une partie des activités autour du sport de 21st Century Fox.

Le , Disney garantit des investissements dans Sky News pour 15 ans en cas de rachat pour satisfaire l'ofcom. Le , Disney augmente son offre de rachat de 21st Century Fox pour atteindre le  d'USD en actions et liquidité, auxquelles s'ajoute l'achat de la dette de 13,8 milliards d'USD de 21st Century Fox. Le , Disney confirme prévoir vendre d'autres actifs que Fox Sports Net en cas de rachat de 21st Century Fox pour satisfaire les régulateurs financiers. Le , à la suite des contre-offres de Comcast (65 millards) et Disney (), 21st Century Fox décale le vote initialement prévu le 10 au .

Juillet 2018 à mars 2019 : les Commissions anticoncurrentielles et contreparties

Le , le Département de la Justice des États-Unis approuve l'achat de 21st Century Fox par Disney à condition de vendre sous  le réseau des 22 chaînes régionales Fox Sports Net.

Le , le New York Post annonce que Disney et Comcast pourraient se partager 21st Century Fox, Comcast achetant Sky et Disney achetant le reste des activités en vente. Le , CNNMoney indique que Disney en rachetant 21st Century Fox va mettre la main sur Star India et ses 60 chaînes touchant 700 millions de téléspectateurs, Fox Star Studios et ses films pour Bollywood mais aussi le service de vidéo à la demande sur Hotstar et ses  d'abonnés. Le , Comcast annonce ne pas surenchérir sur l'offre de Disney de  d'USD pour l'achat de 21st Century Fox. Le , les actionnaires de Disney et de 21st Century Fox valident l'achat d'une grande partie des actifs 21st Century Fox par Disney pour  d'USD.

Le , les Yankees de New York annoncent leur intention d'acheter la chaîne YES Network à Disney après le rachat de 21st Century Fox et pour satisfaire le Département de la Justice des États-Unis.

Le , l'Union européenne repousse la date de validation de l'achat de 21st Century Fox par Disney au 19-.

Le , Comcast remporte l'enchère sur Sky avec une offre à  par action totalisant  d'USD contre Disney-Fox avec  par action, toutefois cette perte pour Disney d'un acteur européen majeur de la télévision payante est salué en bourse le lendemain par une augmentation de 2 % tandis que Comcast chute de 6%. Les analystes dont Todd Juenger de Bernstein saluent le retrait de Disney dans cette course aux enchères avec Comcast pour 21st Century Fox puis Sky car l'intérêt d'un opérateur de télévision payante, directe et satellitaire même majeur à l'échelle européenne s'accorde mal avec la stratégie de Disney accès sur la vidéo à la demande en service par contournement.

Le , Disney et 21st Century Fox acceptent de vendre la participation de 39 % dans Sky à Comcast, pour  d'USD.

Le , New Fox annonce la mise en place de sa nouvelle organisation pour le , avant la finalisation du rachat par Disney. Le , Disney annonce avoir garanti des concessions à la commission européenne afin de respecter les lois antitrust dans le projet d'achat de 21st Century Fox mais le détail n'a pas été révélé. Le , Disney publie les documents officiels relatifs à la vente des 22 chaînes de Fox Sports Net, condition de la justice américaine au rachat de 21st Century Fox en parallèle le régulateur chinois n'a pas encore fourni son accord ni de commentaire alors que la tension monte entre Donald Trump et Xi Jinping.

Le , la Commission européenne approuve l'acquisition par Disney des actifs de 21st Century Fox à condition de vendre ses participations dans les déclinaisons européennes des chaînes d'A&E comme History et Lifetime.

Le , Disney ouvre les enchères pour les 22 chaînes de Fox Sports Net. Le , le régulateur financier chinois valide l'achat de 21st Century Fox par Disney sans condition.

Le , l'autorité de la concurrence brésilienne CADE se donne jusqu'au  pour analyser l'impact au Brésil de l'achat de 21st Century Fox par Disney principalement la concentration des chaînes sportives. Le , Uday Shankar actuel président de 21st Century Fox Asia et de Star India est nommé à la tête de The Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific regroupant ses activités précédentes de Fox et celles de Disney sous la division Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International et devient président de The Walt Disney Company India.

Le ,  (COFECE), l' mexicaine demande la vente des intérêts de Disney dans la coentreprise de distribution cinématographique Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing de México à Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. Le , la COFECE valide l'achat de 21st Century Fox par Disney mais le président Andrés Manuel López Obrador évoque un conflit d'intérêts d'un des membres de la commission.

Le , l' brésilienne le Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica repousse sa décision sur l'achat de 21st Century Fox par Disney à la date limite du  malgré la venue de Robert Iger au Brésil afin de statuer sur d'éventuels risques de monopoles principalement sur les chaînes sportives. Le , Bloomberg annonce que Disney aurait accepté de vendre les chaînes Fox Sports brésiliennes et mexicaines pour satisfaire la CADE et COFECE en raison de la fronde lancée par le Grupo Globo au Brésil et Televisa au Mexique. La , la presse annonce la publication de l'accord officiel de la CADE pour le lendemain validant l'achat de 21st Century Fox par Disney à la suite des concessions accordées par Disney.

Le , Disney finalise l'achat de la majorité des actifs de 21st Century Fox pour  d'USD.

Conséquences de l'acquisition finalisée le 20 mars 2019

Le , alors que Disney finalise le rachat de 20th Century Fox, la presse s'interroge sur les conséquences sur Disney de l'affaire judiciaire opposant les acteurs et producteurs de la série Bones et la direction de 20th Century Fox Television. Un juge a déclaré la direction de 20th Century Fox coupable « de mensonges, de tromperies et de fraude » afin de minimiser les gains de la série et qu'il demande 179 millions d'USD de dommages et intérêts ainsi que des garanties aux nouveaux directeurs chez Disney. Le , le directoire de Disney amende le contrat de travail de Bob Iger lui accordant un bonus de  d'USD pour l'acquisition de 21st Century Fox mais supprimant l'augmentation de son salaire de base de 8 millions d'USD. Le , Debmar-Mercury annonce qu'elle stoppe son partenariat avec 20th Television pour la gestion des publicités des émissions en syndication et confie la gestion à CBS. Le , Ravi Ahuja, actuel CFO de Fox Networks Group est nommé CFO de Walt Disney Television, sous la présidence de Peter Rice et la responsabilité du CFO de Disney, Christine McCarthy. Le , Disney aurait accepté l'offre des Yankees, Amazon et Sinclair Broadcast Group des 80 % de YES Network précédemment détenus par 21st Century Fox pour 3,47 milliards d'USD.

Le , au lendemain de la finalisation de son achat de 21st Century Fox, Disney annonce la fermeture du studio Fox 2000 Pictures. Le , Walt Disney International réorganise ses directions en Asie et nomme des directeurs issus de 21st Century Fox sous la direction d'Uday Shankar, ancien de STAR TV.

Le , selon The Motley Fool, la présentation de Disney+ faite le  éclaire sur la motivation de l'acquisition de 21st Century Fox par Disney, étendre son catalogue de films, séries mais aussi de documentaires avec National Geographic, augmenter sa participation dans Hulu et récupérer des licences Marvel. Le , à la suite de son acquisition de 21st Century Fox, Disney lance une seconde campagne de licenciement, après la distribution en mars c'est au tour du service des publicités de Fox Networks Group. Le , Kevin Mayer, président de Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International, déclare que l'une des motivations de l'acquisition de 21st Century Fox par Disney est une croissante en Asie et en Inde. 21st Century Fox et Disney sont principalement complémentaires en Asie, avec par exemple la presque absence de 21st Century Fox en Chine ou les marchés différents en Inde mais il y a de fortes redondances en Asie du Sud-Est.Toutefois l'achat de 21st Century Fox, et sa filiale STAR TV, force Disney à revenir sur sa décision en 2016 de stopper la production cinématographique indienne, avec la fermeture des studios d'UTV Motion Pictures. Un autre changement initié par 21st Century Fox depuis 2009, dû au succès de Star, est le découpage en sous-régions, voire par langues en Inde avec des entités dédiées au tamul ou à l'hindi. C'est en Inde que Disney modifie le plus son organisation à cause d'une prédominance de 21st Century Fox, Star en tête, bien que Star soit absente du secteur des émissions pour la jeunesse.

Le , Sinclair Broadcast Group dépose une enchère pour Fox Sports Net (sauf YES Network). Le , Sinclair Broadcast annonce l'acquisition des 21 chaînes régionales de Fox Sports Net pour 10 milliards de dollars. Le , Disney Media Distribution transfère la gestion publicitaire de 20th Century Fox à OMD, laissant Publicis et MDC Partners sur la touche. Le , le site Legal Sports Report confirme que la participation de Fox Sports dans le site de paris en ligne DraftKings a été achetée par Disney lors de l'acquisition de 21st Century Fox malgré les ventes de Fox Sports Net à Sinclair Broadcasting et le transfert par scission de Fox Sports à News Corp. Le , Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation annonce que Disney prévoit 53 licenciements à partir du 25 juillet.
Le , Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation annonce 87 licenciements supplémentaires aux studios de Century City pour des raisons de postes en double dans la nouvelle organisation.

Le , Disney aurait licencié près de 250 personnes dans les services de productions cinématographique et d'effets visuels et fusionne la Fox Research Library avec les Walt Disney Archives. Le , Disney prévoit de diffuser une partie de la compétition de l'UFC sur la chaîne FX, son ancien diffuseur et l'obtention du contrat de gagné gagné par ESPN en 2018. Le , Disney prévoit de supprimer 124 postes supplémentaires de 20th Century Fox Film Corp majoritairement basés au Fox Studios, totalisant 264 postes avec les annonces du 24 et 31 juillet, mais 3000 pourraient être impactés par la consolidation. Le , Sinclair Broadcast Group finalise l'achat des 21 chaînes de Fox Regional Sports Networks . Le , Disney annonce 70 à 80 suppressions de postes au sein National Geographic et l'arrêt du magazine National Geographic Traveler. Le même jour Disney finalise la vente des 80 % qu'elle détient dans YES Network à un groupe d'investisseurs dont les Yankees, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Amazon et RedBird Capital.

Le , la société française Banijay annonce racheter Endemol Shine, actuellement détenu pour moitié par Apollo Global Management et pour l'autre moitié par The Walt Disney Company, formant ainsi le plus gros producteur audiovisuel au monde (sous réserve d'accord des régulateurs compétents).

Le , Disney officialise le retrait du terme « Fox » dans les noms de ses labels cinématographiques Fox Searchlight Pictures et 20th Century Fox pour éviter les confusions avec Fox Broadcasting Company, Twentieth Century Fox Animation est rebaptisé 20th Century Animation . Les noms respectifs sont Searchlight Pictures, apparus dès décembre dans des mails, et 20th Century Studios mais les autres filiales dont la télévision ne sont pas encore concernées. Pour le Wall Street Journal le prochain défi pour la société Disney et de maintenir les studios 20th Century Studios et Searchlight Pictures à flot avec une ligne directrice complémentaire de ses autres labels : Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Pixar.

Le , Disney vend les studios FoxNext Games et sa filiale Cold Iron Studios achetés lors de son acquisition de 21st Century Fox à Scopely. Le , malgré la vente de FoxNext, Disney ferme le studio Fogbank Entertainment et licence les 60 employés de San Francisco, exclu de la vente.

Le , Disney procède à la fermeture des chaînes Fox Play et Voyage dans les pays européens, notamment en France et au Brésil.

Les Sociétés après l'acquisition

Sociétés achetées par Disney
 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
 Fox Family
 20th Century Fox Animation
 Blue Sky Studios
 Fox Searchlight Pictures
 Fox 2000 Pictures
 Fox Studios Australia
 Fox Stage Productions - Le , la société est intégrée au Disney Theatrical Group
 Boom! Studios (part minoritaire)
 Twentieth Century Fox Television
 20th Television
 Fox 21 Television Studios
 Fox Networks Group
 FX Networks
 FX Productions
 National Geographic Partners (73%)
 Fox Networks Group Latin America
 Fox Networks Group Europe
 Fox Networks Group Africa
 Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific
 Star India
 Hulu (United States) (30%)
 Tata Sky (30%)
 DraftKings (participation minoritaire)
 Vice Media (5 %)

Renommages

Sociétés de 21st Century Fox vendues par Disney

Le , dans le cadre de son acquisition de 21st Century Fox pour 71,3 milliards d'USD, la  Walt Disney Company a déjà réduit sa facture de 13 milliards d'USD grâce aux ventes des 21 chaînes de Fox Sports Networks pour 9,6 milliards d'USD et de YES Network pour 3,47 milliards d'USD pour satisfaire les autorités de régulation mais d'autres transactions ont eu lieu.

 Sky (39.14%) – après le succès de Comcast aux enchères, 21st Century Fox a vendu sa participation de 39% dans Sky pour £17.28-par action, valorisant cette participation à 11,6 milliards de £ ( d'USD).
 A&E Networks Europe (50%) – Le , la Commission européenne a statué que Disney vende les chaînes européennes d'A&E, dont History, H2, Crime & Investigation, Blaze et Lifetime. C'est Hearst Corporation, qui détient déjà l'autre moitié d'A&E, qui a acheté la participation de Disney dans les chaînes européennes
 Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing de México – Le , Disney a vendu sa filiale de distribution conjointe au Mexique à Sony Pictures Releasing.
 Fox Sports Net – à la demande du Département de la Justice des États-Unis, Disney avait  pour vendre les 22 chaînes régionales de sport après finalisation de l'achat. À la suite d'enchères le Sinclair Broadcast Group a acheté le  Fox Sports Networks (sauf YES Network) à Disney pour 10 milliards d'USD.
 Fox College Sports
 Fox Sports Go
 YES Network (80%) – à la faveur d'une clause du contrat de création de la chaîne, la société de gestion de l'équipe Yankee Global Enterprises, la chaîne a été vendue le , à un consortium regroupant Yankee Global Enterprises, Amazon et Sinclair Broadcast Group pour 3,5 milliards d'USD.
 Fox Sports Latin America (Mexique et Brésil) – Le , Bloomberg annonce que Disney a accepté de vendre les chaînes brésilienne et mexicaine de Fox Sports pour satisfaire les commissions nationales respectives
 Fox Sports Brazil
 Fox Sports Mexico
 Debmar-Mercury (publicités) - Le , Lionsgate annonce un nouveau contrat avec CBS pour la gestion des publicités des émissions en syndication confiée précédemment à 20th Television
 Endemol Shine Group - le , la société française Banijay annonce racheter Endemol
 FoxNext Games et sa filiale Cold Iron Studios (jeux vidéos) - Le  vente à Scopely.

Sociétés de la nouvelle Fox Corporation
Le , une nouvelle société indépendante est annoncée pour regrouper les actifs restants de 21st Century Fox, nommée Fox Corporation. La société a été officialisée le .
 Fox Broadcasting Company
 Fox Television Stations Group
 MyNetworkTV
 Fox News Group
 Fox News Channel
 Fox Business Network
 Fox Sports Media Group (United States only)
 Fox Sports 1
 Fox Sports 2
 Fox Deportes
 Big Ten Network (51%)
 Fox Studio Lot

Analyse

Le principal motif de l'acquisition de 21st Century Fox par la Disney est le développement du catalogue pour son service Disney+. Ce motif est apparu après l'achat de BAMTech. Une raison était l'ajout des chaînes sportives du Fox Sports Networks qui auraient pu compléter l'offre d'ESPN dont le service ESPN+ créé sur la base de BAMTech. Mais les instance anti-monopole ont requis la vente de ces chaînes pour éviter un monopole dans le domaine du sport.

Grâce à la Fox, Disney a acquis une part majoritaire dans un second service, Hulu, le restant étant détenu par Comcast, ce qui explique une bataille d'enchères.

Pour certains médias, le motif est d'abord lié aux droits cinématographiques dont ceux de l'univers cinématographique Marvel détenus par la Fox, comme les X-Mens et la Quatre Fantastiques. L'acquisition de la Fox a aussi eu un impact sur la production cinématographique, principalement avec la décision de réduire de 15 à 6 films par an pour l'ancien studio 20th Century Fox. Parmi les autres droits, on peut aussi noter Avatar que Disney a développé dans un parc d'attractions, ceux de la La Planète des singes ou les droits sur la première trilogie Star Wars.

Références

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NANS urges Buhari to increase salaries of Police officers
The National Association of Nigerian Students has appealed to President, Muhammadu Buhari to increase the salary of officers of the Nigeria Police Force.
The student body also appealed to the President to ensure a deliberate housing policy that covers all cadres of officers of the Force.
NANS President, Danielson Akpan, made the appeal during a briefing in Abuja while reacting to the arrest of his Vice-President, Chidi Ilogede by officers of the Police in Enugu.
He said Ilogede was arrested by officers of the Enugu Command for issuing a seven-day ultimatum to management of Madonna University who had six of its students arrested for being involved in alleged cybercrime for six months.
Akpan said NANS had a meeting with the representatives of the university and the Nigeria Police Force on how to resolve the issue.
He said the student body has resolved all issues concerning the arrest of his VP and subsequent charges dropped by the university.
"The prompt response and intervention of the IGP Abubakar Adamu on this very issue has once again re-affirmed our belief in an efficient police architecture that is responsive, professional and diligent in discharging effective policing anchored on public driven service and institutional engagement.
"We commend the IGP for the new approach he has introduced since assumption of office. We are satisfied with efforts at stemming crime, especially kidnapping, robbery and cybercrime. We hope this vigour continues.
"Security is key to national development and prosperity of any nation. There's no gainsaying the fact that the Nigeria Police Force deserves the support to adequately and effectively ensure safety of lives and citizen, reduce crime and ensure professionalism.
"We appeal very strongly to our dear President, Muhammadu Buhari to pay greater attention to the Nigeria Police Force by increasing the salaries of men and officers of the force.
"We also appeal to the President to ensure a deliberate housing policy that covers all cadres of Force. Motivation of staff and their regular promotion are essential in delivering effective and professional driven police force and this must be considered," he said.

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July 9 Brazil, a Papal stampede and Dom Helder Camara
Today in 1980 some people died in a stampede trying to get in to see Pope John Paul II in a soccer stadium in Fortaleza, Brazil. The stadium had been scheduled to open at 8 a.m., about three hours before John Paul's arrival, however tens of thousands of people tried to force their way in about 4 a.m. and several of the stadium's gates were forced open to the crowd, many without tickets. Later in the day, police reports raised the number of deaths to seven while local hospital's reported that more than 100 persons had been admitted with injuries suffered during the incident.
Earlier that year at the beginning of May, the pope had celebrated mass in a stadium in Kinshasa, Zaire in which nine people had been trampled when crowds rushed a gate to see the pontiff. John Paul II, was the first pope to travel extensively and so there was considerable interest in just catching a sight of him. He became one of the most travelled world leaders in history, visiting 129 countries during his pontificate. He was the first pope to visit Brazil, the world's most populous Catholic nation and had been invited to open the National Eucharistic Conference, which was celebrated every five years by Brazil's 335 bishops. It was a 10-day visit and vast crowds turned out each day in cities throughout the vast country to catch a glimpse of him. Despite generally chaotic conditions and poor planning on the part Brazilian authorities, there had not been a single reported injury until his visit to Fortaleza towards the end of the trip. It had been the 11th city the pope had visited and was in the country's impoverished northeast.
Once it had been Brazil's most prosperous sugar and cotton growing area, but had become plagued by droughts and floods and so many people were leaving to find work in the megacities in the South. This migration, would be the main theme of the conference as the Bishops examined the plight of the millions of Brazilians who have moved within the country or emigrated to seek better economic opportunities
The northeast of Brasil, was also home of the iconic Bishop Dom Helder Camara of Recife who was known as a consistently powerful voice for the poor. A self-identified socialist, although he was careful to declare constantly that he was not a Marxist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, and a famous advocate of liberation theology. He is remembered for having said, "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist. He had played an important part in the Second Vatican Council and a few days before the council ended, 40 bishops led by Câmara met at night in the Catacombs of Domitilla outside Rome. They celebrated the Eucharist and signed a document under the title of the Pact of the Catacombs. In 13 points, they challenged their brother bishops to live lives of evangelical poverty: without honorific titles, privileges, and worldly ostentation. They taught that "the collegiality of the bishops finds its supreme evangelical realization in jointly serving the two-thirds of humanity who live in physical, cultural, and moral misery". They called for openness "to all, no matter what their beliefs". This would have a big influence on the young Argentinian Jesuit, Jorge Bergoglio who would become Pope Francis
Under the guidance of Câmara, the Catholic Church in Brazil became an outspoken critic of the military dictatorship that lasted 21 years in Brazil till 1985. Because of Camar the church became a powerful movement for social change, also creating many enemies. Traditionalist Catholics urged the military government to arrest Câmara for his support of land reform and his colleague, Father Antônio Henrique Pereira Neto, was murdered. In 1973, Câmara was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize but his candidacy was blocked by two members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, who where cooperating with the Brazilian ambassador in Oslo. He was a thorn in the side to the military dictatorship in Brazil and they were vehemently against him receiving the Nobel peace prize. In 1985, on reaching the age of 75, he handed in his resignation as is required by the Vatican, and tellingly John Paul II quickly replaced him with a very "conservative" bishop, Dom José Cardoso Sobrinho, who set about undoing his predecessor's work.
Despite the stampede in Fortaleza, the pope attended the folk music show as scheduled, celebrated a customary open-air mass and then proceeded to open the conference as planned. John Paul II was known as The Pilgrim Pope and made more foreign trips than all previous popes combined. In total he logged more than 725,000 miles visiting many countries that no pope had ever previously visited. He had four visits to Brazil.
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Saturday 15 Oct, 2011 | By ChrisHutcheon | Football Betting, Football Betting Tips
Live on SS1, 2 & ESPN: Sat 12.45, 17.30 & Sun 13.30, 16.00: It's 11/2 with Ladbrokes that Liverpool and Man United play out a 1-1 draw.
Liverpool striker Luis Suarez admits his side aren't realistic title contenders this season but the Reds are at least moving in the right direction and they'd like nothing more than to impact matters at the Premiership's summit by beating Manchester United.
However, they're Paddy Power's 21/10 outsiders at Anfield, where the champions are 2.5 (6/4) with Betdaq to put one over on their bitter rivals and that's a reflection of the flying start Sir Alex Ferguson's men have made to the campaign.
Nevertheless, United weren't at their fluent best at Stoke in their last away match and were somewhat fortunate to beat Norwich 2-0 a couple of weeks ago, so there's every chance Kenny Dalglish's charges could pick up a point, a result Skybet rate at 12/5. Alteratively, price the hosts at a tasty 11/10 in their 'Draw No Bet' market.
Ladbrokes offer odds of 11/2 for the inevitably high-tempo showdown to end one-each and although it's odds-on at 4/6 with Sportingbet for both teams to find the net on Merseyside, it could take a while for the deadlock to be broken. Subsequently, Betfred's even money for the first goal to arrive after the 27th minute catches the eye and that opener is an enticing 6/1 courtesy of Boylesports to be struck by Suarez.
If United drop points, then neighbours City will claim top spot with a victory against Aston Villa, a result Ladbrokes offer at 4/11 at Eastlands, where Stan James quote Roberto Mancini's emphatic favourites at 20/23 to be in front at the end of each half and Totesport offer a 3-1 home win at 10/1.
Also at 1.36 (4/11) to pick up three points, this time via Betdaq, are third-placed Chelsea, who entertain Everton. Heading to Stamford Bridge on the back of consecutive 2-0 defeats, the Toffees' lack of cutting edge could be their undoing and the hosts tempt at 11/10 with bet365 to prevail 'to nil'.
Sunderland boss Steve Bruce is coming under increasing pressure following his side's poor start to the season but it hasn't exactly been plain-sailing for Arsenal either. Nevertheless, the Gunners have to be fancied at 4/9 (bet365) to grab a much-needed victory as the pair meet at the Emirates Stadium and Arsene Wenger's troops are a 7/1 shot at Ladbrokes to strike twice without reply.
Elsewhere, unbeaten high-flyers Newcastle look overpriced at 2/1 (Partybets) as they welcome Spurs to St James' Park, although Skybet's 12/5 for the draw looks the best bet and Wigan and Bolton are 23/10 () to share the spoils at the DW Stadium.
In the Black Country derby, Partybets make West Brom and Wolves 12/5 to be inseparable, meanwhile, Boylesports chalk 5/4 against a Norwich triumph over Swansea, Totesport fancy Stoke, at 11/10, to see off Fulham and QPR are 10/11 with Stan James to bounce back from their 6-0 defeat at Craven Cottage, by beating Blackburn.
Recommended Bets:
Liverpool and Manchester United to draw 1-1 – 11/2 (Ladbrokes)
First goal at Anfield after 27th minute – evens (Betfred)
Chelsea to beat Everton 'to nil' – 11/10 (bet365)
Newcastle and Tottenham to draw – 12/5 (Skybet)


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Zarni de Wet has a beautiful voice. American musician John Mayer says "I just want to hear it again". And we thought you may want to hear it too. The 24-year-old singer-songwriter tells SAPeople about the inspiration behind her song 'Feel Something', her move to America, and the bittersweet importance of feelings.
So, what was the inspiration behind 'Feel Something'?
I had just moved to Seattle from Boston, before that New York, and before that South Africa…I have moved around a lot!
The Seattle transition was the most difficult one, even more than my immigration to America from South Africa.
Leaving beautiful South Africa is something that will always be tugging at my heart and I miss it dearly.
Coming to Seattle however was a challenge for me financially, emotionally and career-wise.
I was young when I came to America and had a wonderful child-like view of the whole immigration; but when I moved from Boston to Seattle, I really felt that I was starting my own "adult" life for the first time.
My boyfriend and I were living together in a tiny apartment and so busy with our careers we were hardly seeing each other.
So I wrote the song based on this feeling that as long as we have the basics in place – love, drive, trust and dreams – we could do anything. The chorus of the song essentially says, even though something may hurt, at least you are feeling it and you know you truly are living your life.
Better than going through life in a numb and closed off way- I think!
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After two years of working as a Duelling Pianist, I felt ready to focus on my original music and now I am doing just that.
I am playing music for a living, anything from Corporate gigs to Private House Parties and many in between. I even play at the Seattle Airport once a week!
The most exciting part of my musical life at the moment is that I am working on a new 6-song EP.
In October I used a crowd-funding website (Kickstarter) where fans and friends can donate money and 107 people together raised $7434 for me to create this new collection of songs.
I am working with a producer in Canada, Tyler Johnson who has discovered many unknown artists and helped them get from point A to point B. I am lucky to be working with such a talented producer who is connected to a large Record Label (Nettwerk Records that released Sarah McLachlan, Fun and many more) and who will help me to refine, record and market my music correctly to hopefully help me gain National and International exposure.
My last 3-song EP was released last year and I was tempted to make a full length record this time around, but we felt that a collection of 6 strong songs was more what Industry Professionals are looking for nowadays when it comes to promoting and marketing a new artist.
And when last did you visit South Africa?
March 2013. I wish I could go more than once a year! I will be coming home again this April!
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Following his Air Drive profession, Ron gathered over 22 years experience in the enterprise world as a senior mission supervisor for the Motorola Government Electronics Group. Throughout that time he was chargeable for group building, development and instruction, and conducting numerous teaching courses in manufacturing, administration, group, and communication. He has been with CollegeAmerica, Colorado Springs for six years. Throughout that time, he has served as an instructor, acted because the director of school development, served as the affiliate dean of enterprise and accounting, and has been the dean of education for over 4 years.
So says a research by the College of Pittsburgh Graduate College of Public Well being, revealed throughout the journal Medical Care. Researchers examined smoking-related responses from higher than 36,000 low-earnings adults without dependent youngsters utilizing knowledge from the federal Centers for Illness Management and Prevention's Behavioral Danger Issue Surveillance Survey for the years 2011 to 2015. New Jersey is residence to over 2,000 licensed hospitals, nursing homes, and medical care amenities. The New Jersey Division of Health works to make sure that citizens receive acceptable ranges of care in each regulated facility.


"that is quite a bit to be." He looked at the Older Tarl. You must not tell other members of the Caste of Scribes," he cautioned.
I smiled to myself. How clearly Torm wished to keep caste lines and virtues demarcated.
had brought her to this place in love that we might here together drink, one with the other, the wine of the Free Companionship.
the auctioneer, but he cuffed her to one side and she fell to her knees weeping. She was sold for twenty-five gold pieces.
Philemon, of the Caste of Scribes, his eyes wide with fear, threw a look after the guards, and then he, too, turned and fled.
Inge then knelt before Targo. "I am of the scribes," she said, "of high caste. Do not permit this to be done to me!"
"Your ears will be pierced," said Targo.
"I must commend you," said Shaba. "You have powers of observation worthy of a scribe-or of a warrior."
He turned the chain and slipped a ring from it, handing it to me.
"It can bring wealth and power," I said.
"Such things are not of interest to me," said Shaba. The tribal stitching of tattoo marks on his dark face wrinkled with a smile.
"But I do not expect you to believe that," he said.
"How hard it is for two who do not share caste to understand one another," he said.
"Your man was courageous to come and fetch us," I said.
"I did not know a scribe could be so courageous." I said.
of his caste, the maps and notebooks of Shaba. Ramani and his fellows had wept. I had then left them, returning to my lodgings.


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We have many limited editions which come with coloured discs.
Among our range is A Winter of Coloured Drinks by Frightened Rabbit which turns 10 years old this year. Released in March 2010, it was celebrated by critics and is now being released with a blue 'ice-cold' disc that reflects its nautical theme. A Scottish indie band, Frightened Rabbit was formed in 2003 and sadly ended after the suicide of one of the two brothers in the band, Scott Hutchison, in 2018.
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Reactis V2012.0.1 and V2011.2.5 are now available.
Fixed "Error: Signal not found in bus" messages that could occur if the "Bus element name visibility" setting (in Edit->General) was set to "Show element names for all buses" (#2250).
Resolved problem where "edge" output triggers from Stateflow chart were not properly buffered when multiple triggers occurred within the same time step (#2253).
Fixed "Invalid 'case condition' expression" error that would occur if a "newline" character was used in the 'Case Conditions' expression of a "Switch Case" block (#2242).
Fixed bug where "Simplest" rounding mode setting would incorrectly be reported as not supported for "Multi-Port Switch" blocks (#2246).
Resolved issue where Reactis would in some cases infer the wrong data type for a DWork vector in an S-Function (#2244).
Fixed "Bug: invalid cast" that could occur when filtering an element of a bus in a test suite using the "." notation (#2202).
Fixed minor issue in Japanese GUI translations (#2252).
Resolved problem where "edge" output triggers from Stateflow chart were not properly buffered when multiple triggers occurred within the same time step (#2254).
Fixed "Invalid 'case condition' expression" error that would occur if a "newline" character was used in the 'Case Conditions' expression of a "Switch Case" block (#2243).
Fixed bug where "Simplest" rounding mode setting would incorrectly be reported as not supported for "Multi-Port Switch" blocks (#2247).
Resolved issue where Reactis would in some cases infer the wrong data type for a DWork vector in an S-Function (#2245).


In September, we asked panellists to send us a postcard. This could be an actual postcard from their area, or a photograph they had taken themselves.
We also asked them to write us a few sentences about what the image means to them, and what they think about the place they live.
Lots of panellists responded. You can see their postcards here, and you can download a copy of the September Directive here.


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*Reminder…we have a 'short story terms quiz' on Tuesday February 7th. Please make sure you review each evening.
-We will continue to read our "read-along" novel "If I Should Die Before I Wake".
-We will are going to take a look at our "Yes/No Charts for the short story "Identities". You were to come up to different arguments for the question "Was the office justified when he killed the man?".
*We will brainstorm and add more arguments to our chart then what we may have had on our own.


This is a follow up to yesterday's post where I was arguing that investing in inspiration – i.e. products – is the easiest way to make money.
In On VCs and Products and Services JP commented on this, wondering if VCs are missing the point somehow as we move into a 'Because Of rather than With world'.
We're moving into the Because Of Rather than With World, so eloquently described by Doc. Where infrastructure is often built on a Nobody Owns It Everyone Can Use It Anyone Can Improve It world. Where the creativity and innovation of the knowledge worker teams operate on the edge of the core infrastructure. A core infrastructure that used to be a rich vein of gold, but is now a humble spade.
And maybe. just maybe, VCs aren't prepared for this. Product-based business plans are all about With. You make money With the product. Knowledge-based business plans will all be about Because Of. You make money Because Of the product.
This notion of 'because of' is complicated. JP explains it at more length in this post – but I think there are two things going on here – firstly there is a transition from product to commodity. At that point the model switches from making money by selling (i.e. with) a product to making money by using a product to do something else (i.e. because of it). To repeat from the excerpt above "A core infrastructure that used to be a rich vein of gold, but is now a humble spade.". This is product commoditisation which is something VCs understand well – the plan is always to exit before it happens.
The second thing going on is an emerging view that there is a need to create products that go straight to the 'because of' stage without being premium 'with' products first. Linux and blogging are oft cited examples. We do stuff (have fun, do business, make money) because of these technologies rather than with them. This blog helps me to make good investiments, it doesn't make any money itself. If Linus Torvalds had not open sourced Linux and Dave Winer had not opened up RSS we wouldn't be where we are today (and you quite literally couldn't be reading this blog which sits on a Linux server and you probably access via RSS).
VCs have not been behind these innovations, it is true. Thankfully there are fantastic innovators like Torvalds and Winer and many other open source gurus whose lives are about contributing to the greater good. I get that. Venture capital is different though, it is about making money, and we do that by supporting people with great ideas who are similarly motivated.
It is true that most VC investments have been in products of the 'make money with' kind, but we have played a part in many 'because of' developments as well. E.g. MySpace, YouTube, JBoss and MySql are (or were) all venture backed.
I concede that these types of company are more difficult for us to fund, but they do happen. The difficulty is in building cash flow and the exit strategy usually has to be that someone (NewsCorp, Google, Oracle) will pay a strategic premium for your business. (The definition of strategic by the way is 'can't explain it now'.) A lot of what I have been wrestling with on this blog over the summer relates to this issue.
This is all about perception, the perception that Web 2.0 companies are free-riding on someone else's infrastructure investment. And the VC community may well believe that as well, I need to think about it.
I may be missing something here, but I haven't viewed the low cost of starting web2.0 companies as any kind of free riding. They pay hosting and bandwidth costs at market rates. The reason they are cheap is that in the early days there isn't much traffic. As I said yesterday, once the traffic picks up there is often a need for VC.
These thoughts are all forming rather than formed and rather complex. I think I need to go and have a cup of tea.


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AOL may buy more online media and even traditional newspapers in its bid to boost the digital content it offers customers, a senior company executive said. "It is a possibility," AOL Chief Technology Officer Alexander Gounares said. The move would be in line with AOL's strategy to have most of its content, including international content, from internal sources, he added.
The company said last Tuesday that it had acquired TechCrunch, a technology news blog. AOL already owns Engadget a web magazine on gadgets and consumer electronics. The investment in technology content is deliberate as a significant proportion of AOL's audience is interested in technology news, Gounares said.
AOL now plans to expand the content it offers to provide its audience with community news and information. The notion of community and content for community has been around before the printed word, Gounares said.
When people get up in the morning they want to know not only the national and international news, but also the best deals and events going around locally, Gounares said. They also want to be in touch with family and friends using social networks, he added.
AOL already runs the Patch community sites, which are focused on coverage for individual towns and communities. Referring to the role of the journalist working for a Patch site, Gounares said it was like that of a village "shaman" or town crier who makes sense of what is happening in the community, and conveys that to the reader.
The Patch sites have a cost edge over traditional local newspapers because they operate without expensive buildings and take advantage of a centralised sales organization. In addition, technology developments can be rolled out across other Patch and AOL sites, Gounares said. AOL India is, for example, considering rolling out Patch.
AOL also runs Seed.com, a site that purchases writing and other content and distributes it to its various properties. AOL would like to produce more content in-house, but in some situations it is not always possible to have in-house the right person at the right place and time, or an expert on a particular topic, Gounares said. Seed.com fills that gap, he added.
AOL also acquired last month 5min Media, a video syndication network, and Thing Labs, whose Brizzly family of web-based social software allows users to create, share and explore content. It believes that social networking platforms, such as its Lifestream aggregator, will be one of many ways people will stay in touch and get content about family, friends and the local community.
The company is planning to launch Wow.com, a deal-of-the-day service with national and local offers. "Our business model is advertising, and a very valuable part of advertising is the deal, the coupon," Gounares said. He did not however disclose the number of merchants that have signed up for the Wow programme.
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There's a nuanced debate on welfare waiting to happen, and Benefits Britain 1949 isn't it
Channel 4's Benefits Britain 1949 asked modern benefits claimants to live under conditions from 1949 - the reason being, what exactly?
By Frances Ryan
When it comes to the welfare state, it's clear there's a conversation to be had. There needs to be an unpicking of the false dichotomy between "workers" and people on benefits. There needs to be a shift away from the focus on capping benefits to providing a living wage. There's a nuanced debate waiting about how disabled people can be given the right support to work. That's why, last night, Channel 4 decided to dedicate an hour of prime time television to asking an unemployed, sick woman to lift a potato and to making an old man cry.
For anyone who didn't see Benefits Britain 1949 – and as it happens, chose not to enter the televisual equivalent of beating themselves around the head with a blunt object – the programme charged itself with seeing how present day benefit claimants would cope with the welfare system as it was when it was first introduced. "Does it point a way out of this current crisis?" the narrator asked. Well no, of course not, but don't let that stop you.
It was as if Channel 4 had been hired by the Department for Work and Pensions to summarise government rhetoric for anyone who hadn't been paying attention the past year or so. In sum, people on benefits should not only be pitted against "workers", but each other.
There was "Good Claimant": a visibly disabled man who wanted to work. Craig used a wheelchair due to spina bifida and although in the past few years he'd applied for hundreds of jobs, he'd been given none. There was "Harmless Claimant": an old man called Mervyn who lives on a state pension. There was "Bad Claimant": a long-term sick woman with an overtly working class accent. Karen had a range of conditions (like arthritis and heart problems) that are hidden and therefore "don't count", and she had been on sick benefits for seven years.
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Karen had styled hair, acrylic nails, and Egyptian style figurines in her house. This was, apparently, evidence that her benefits were too high and that, probably, she was faking her illnesses. I should mention at this point that Karen was fat. There was a moment, about when the camera brushed past Karen's stomach to focus on her brightly polished nails. It felt as though, rather than a 1940s test, we were supposed to be craving a Daily Mail-led dystopian future – where benefits are awarded proportionate to a claimant's weight and how neat their appearance is. ("Had your hair done in the last six weeks?" "She's fat too! Fatty! She's a fatty!")
Karen was soon told to do a series of "1949 tests" like lifting a potato or using scissors in order to show she was fit for some kind of employment. Like working in a potato origami factory, perhaps. She'd already been assessed by Atos, and seemed to be in considerable pain, but the jaunty music and camera angles told me putting her through a series of humiliating tests was the right thing to do.
Mervyn, meanwhile, was struggling to get by on a 1949 pension. In one inspiring scene, he was forced to pawn his grandfather's watch and then move into a nursing home. He then started talking about his dead wife and we watched as he ran into his bedroom and sobbed. "Pensioners barely had enough to live from week to week," trilled Mrs Townsend, the work officer stalking him. "The stigma was so great for the elderly receiving help in 1949 that many didn't apply," added the narrator. I wasn't sure whether this was meant to be a good thing but I was distracted thinking about how much I hated Karen.
While Craig was happily sent off for work experience at a call centre, Karen was told to sew for her benefits. If you weren't sure yet if you hated Karen, the producers helpfully orchestrated a scene in which she was put to work next to a seamstress with one arm. The camera paused subtly on the woman's stump as Karen sat motionless next to her, and at least one Channel 4 producer looked at themselves in the mirror and cried.
Ah well, all's well that ends well. Good Claimant got a job. Harmless Claimant was given his grandfather's watch back. Bad Claimant, although annoying legalities meant she had to have her benefits reinstated after the show, had been humiliated.
In a nifty ending, all three were brought together and asked to decide which of them they thought was most worthy of benefits. I was hoping the fat woman would have to fight the crippled boy for a scrap of food, but sadly they all just left. Next week? We can only hope.
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Google+ is growing. According to a Google executive, more than 500 million people have set up profiles, 235 million actively use Google+ functionality such as Hangouts (its video chat feature) and sharing links (via the +1 button), and 135 million use Google+ as a stand-alone social networking service.
Google+ recently launched a new component called Communities. If you are active on Google+, you likely have received invitations to join a few of these.
Google+ Communities resemble Facebook and LinkedIn Groups, enabling users to filter the ever-increasing stream of posted content and focus on relevant topics.
"Google+ has always been a place to crowd around common interests and meet new people…With Google+ Communities there's now a gathering place for your passions," said a Google blog post announcing the new feature.
In terms of functionality, Google+ Communities let users create and join public or private groups, add discussion elements, plan events, conduct Hangout video chats, and post links using +1 buttons on external websites.
Many well-known brands have jumped on the Communities bandwagon. But anyone can create a community to discuss most any topic — that includes ecommerce merchants.
The benefits to merchants who wish to create a community are two-fold.
Introduce a brand. Communities enable focused conversation around topics of shared interest. Merchants can use Communities as yet another channel to introduce new people to their brand — recognizing Communities are not for promotion.
Findable in search engines. Content from public communities are indexed and discoverable through search on Google and Google+.
A best practice for merchants may be to couple Communities with Google+ businesses pages. While Google has yet to devise a mechanism where the two actually intersect, a business page can serve promotional functions, while Communities focus on topics of shared interests.
Step 1. Go to your Google+ profile and look for the Communities icon in the left-hand column. Click the icon to begin.
Click the Communities icon to begin the setup process.
Step 2. You will be taken to the Communities page, where you are presented with several options.
View Communities you currently belong to.
See invitations from Google+ Circles members.
Click the red "Create a Community" button located in the upper right-hand corner of the page.
Step 3. You will be presented with a pop-up window that asks whether you want your Community to be Public (viewed by anyone) or Private (only invited members can join and see what's shared).
Choose to make your community Public or Private.
If you choose the public option, you will be presented with a form field where you can input the name or title of your community, along with an option to determine whether anyone can join without the need for approval or whether approval from the community moderator is required.
Add a tagline and choose whether or not approval is required to join.
Once you make your selection, click the blue "Create Community" button located in the lower right-hand corner. Google+ will then create your community. However, there is still one more step that needs to be taken.
Step 4. After your Community is created, you will be shown a page that asks for several pieces of information.
About. This section includes a place to provide a description of the community, including a location if it geographically-based.
Other setup options include the use of a photo image, description and discussion topic categories.
Once you have completed your edits, click the "Save" button.
Step 5. You can invite other Google+ members into the community, as well as post a notice about it on your Google+ profile. You will be notified when people who join the community share items and participate in discussions.
Those are the steps required to create a Google+ Community. All that is left is to kick-start discussions and invite others to join.
Here is a video from Google+ that talks more about Communities.


Secretariat's autopsy revealed he had a heart nearly three times the size of a normal thoroughbred heart.
ROBERT Fierro, a well-known pedigree analyst, racing and breeding consultant, along with former publisher Jay Kilgore, who has developed digital video programmes and services to expand the parameters of thoroughbred biomechanics and motion analysis, and Frank Mitchell, respected author and biomechanics expert, have used their years of experience to develop methods of collecting and using data to assess the racing and breeding potential of horses.
DataTrack International was set up in 2005 to take advantage of this new technology and to be part of that revolution in racing and breeding.
Establishing DataTrack wasn't straightforward, as many buyers and trainers considered technology to be a threat to their careers. There also wasn't an immediate demand from owners who were already successful without using data. They would need a lot of convincing that the use of data could be of further benefit to them.
Over the years, interest in equine biomechanics data has fluctuated. Unsurprisingly, stars of the sport seem to have a huge impact. For example, after the death of Secretariat they found he had a massive heart – everyone in the industry started to pay attention to cardio.
When Zenyatta captured the media's interest after becoming the first mare to win the Breeders' Cup Classic and the first horse ever to win two different Breeders' Cup races, the talk centred around stride length and again demand for gait and stride analysis grew.
When there is a star, they capture the interest of owners and trainers in advances in technology that can offer an insight into what gives one horse an edge.
From talking to Fierro and Kilgore it has become apparent that in 2017 it's not an easy job to talk to a trainer about data-driven approaches to training horses. Despite the huge opportunity to personalise training programmes, most data reports produced for owners never get seen by the trainers, because they are not interested. However, the big, well-funded trainers have been using technology for years.
Technology that may have been previously out of reach for smaller operators is now becoming less expensive and more accessible, and it would be great to see trainers welcoming data reports as there are massive opportunities to use insights drawn from gait analysis to personalise and develop more effective training regimes.
In the southern hemisphere there are so many more syndicates in contrast to Europe and that's why equine technology businesses are blossoming.
Also, the people who put together syndicates are younger people and they're the people who are typically more data-driven and interested in technology. Younger people like numbers. They like instant gratification and returns – not just on investment – but it's easy to show them that, everything else being equal, the value of a horse with a 24ft stride is greater than a horse with a 23ft stride.
DataTrack has developed BreezeFigs, a speed figure system that analyses stride length and other factors displayed by horses in motion at two-year-old sales or at racetracks (in races or morning breezes) to select the most promising racing prospects. From over 17,000 horses analysed, BreezeFigs' top selections include nearly 80% of all stakes winners to emerge from the major two-year-old sales in North America since 2005. Daily Racing Form has incorporated BreezeFig as part of its DRF-Plus online handicapping services to select the unraced or lightly-raced horses with the best chances to win races.
BreezeFigs have been successfully used to determine quality not only in the United States, but also in New Zealand, Britain and France.
Fierro and Kilgore explain how they developed BreezeFigs: "We started collecting data during three years at Keeneland, so six meets worth of races. We found that 78% of all the horses that came in first, second or third, had conformation with similar angles and segmental distances.
"We made sure we were accurate by using simple measuring strips along the track. We spent three more years collecting data from two-year-old sales we attended. That was easily between 2,000 and 3,000 strides per year.
"By measuring and analysing a particular horse and comparing the results with a database of other horses, you can assess how a horse is likely to perform. For example, a horse that is short from the elbow to the ground and high from the flank to the ground, will have a downhill trajectory that is most suitable for horses who have to settle and close late.
The objective of BreezeFigs is to identify for buyers at the sales those horses which are the true overall athletes, not just those that have the fastest times; and to tell handicappers which horses in what races are most likely to win a race-especially in their first starts.
An analysis for one horse, which includes the BreezeFigs number, stride length and a couple of other internal numbers costs $100.
"To give you an idea, here in the USA, buyers see the speed data at the breeze-up sales and it will send the price of fast horses up when it comes to bidding," states Fierro and Kilgore. "One of our poster horses is Commanding Curve, who came second in the Kentucky Derby to California Chrome.
"That horse went 21 and four for a two-furlong work which is not lightening fast but he did it with a very good long stride, very good efficiency of motion, great biomechanics and proportionality, great heart. The client of ours, West Point Thoroughbreds, picked up this gelding for $75,000 and he's had career earnings of $600,000.
"Data is great for syndicates because they can make the case for bidding up to $80,000, and not stopping at $50,000, because of their stride, heart and cardio data," they concluded.
Commanding Curve (Master Command) trains for the Belmont Stakes (Gr 1) at Belmont Park (6/6/14). Trainer: Dallas Stewart. Owner: West Point Thoroughbreds.
While many existing owners and trainers will continue to work the way they always have, a new breed of owner with a background in technology will support trainers who are using technology and data to improve their chances of success.
Data is the new oil and so it should be no surprise that the new people coming into the sport and investing money into horses are those who have made money by following data and tracking the ebbs and flows of data on markets and it's hardly surprising that they want to take a similar approach to have success with their horses.
The world's five biggest companies are all tech companies (Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook) and they all have Irish offices. How would a data-driven approach change racing in Ireland?
Robert Fierro and Jay Kilgore will be presenting at the upcoming HorseTech Conference which is being held at the Royal Veterinary College on October 18th, 2017. Commenting on the upcoming event they said: "It's great to be presenting at an event that's being video-recorded and live-streamed free as it can be a particularly steep learning curve for trainers as they have the additional challenges of finding it hard to get away from the farm to learn about new innovations and experience the new processes that they can adopt.
For more information on this conference, go online to horsetechconference.com.
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Dave was president of the Insurance Institute of Ontario for two terms (1999 through 2001) and he received the GTA Fellow of Distinction award from the Chartered Insurance Professionals Society for 2004.
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The prospect of having a new or redesigned website can be exhilarating. You daydream about the visuals, how well it will function and attract clients, and the new people it will reach. But, how do you get from point A to point B when you're ready for that site now?
I see so many small businesses try to dive into website design before they are truly ready. For most people, your website is your most powerful tool in getting people to hire you or purchase your product. Why would you want to rush something so big?
Whether you are just starting out and going the DIY route, or looking to expand and hire a pro, the same process can shape your approach. Ask these 5 questions before you embark on a web design project!
What is the single main purpose of my site? Sure, you want people to sign up for your newsletter, follow your social accounts, comment on your blog, etc. But, if a visitor could only take one action, what would you want that to be? View your services and hire you? See your new arrivals and purchase that product? Whatever it may be, make sure that action is front and center. This purpose should be on your mind as you develop each page and consider the site's navigation. Make it possible from every page and not something a potential customer has to search and search for. .
What is my brand's personality? Before you build the site, you need to understand your brand's values and point of view. This includes designing your brand's visual identity, which is items like your logo, brand colors & fonts, and style. Your brand identity is your base, and the site is built up from this style foundation.If you are redesigning your site, you might instead ask, what about the personality of my current site isn't working or do I want to change? Having a grasp on these concepts will also make it easier for you to find a web designer that matches the style and aesthetic you want to achieve in your website. (See this post for more on defining your brand!).
What content do I need to prepare? This one is a biggie. Before the web design can begin, you first need to consider what pages you require and how they will connect. Then, you must have all your copy written or updated, photos taken, videos recorded, and any other content that will be part of your site.Many people get eager and want to work on the design and layout before these pieces are all ready, which requires patience. I know you're excited, but designing a site without having the copy ready is like trying to bake cookies without the flour. Sure, you can mix up the rest of the ingredients in preparation, but nothing will come together into batter form until the flour is added. Plus, seeing the copy and photography will help the designer get a better sense of your overall brand style and then reflect that in the design. .
What outside accounts will I need? Beyond the site itself, you'll need to consider what outside accounts you want to set up, like your mail server (MailChimp, Infusionsoft, etc.), social media, etc. People will most likely find these on your website somewhere, so you'll want to be able to consider how to incorporate opt-in boxes or links to these important accounts. They are usually a way for someone to stay connected to you after they leave your website - oh so important! .
What are some examples of websites that inspire me? When you are ready to work on your website, start paying closer attention to the websites you visit. What makes you want to stay on a site? What makes it easy to navigate? What makes you yell ackkk!! and close the tab? You'll start to see patterns in the styles and layouts that you love, which will help in determining the direction of your own site. Using several inspiration examples will help you stay away from straight up copying another site and instead use the bring the best elements together that will be uniquely yours.Make sure you are also staying away from anything that feels extremely trendy. While there may be a new standard in functionality that you want to be sure to incorporate, make sure you are singing your own song when it comes to your visuals. If you start to see everyone's homepage display a marble background with pink flowers on top, perhaps you should try a photo that won't blend into that crowd quite so easily. A great test is if your photo is pinned onto a Pinterest board, would anything distinguish it from all the other visual noise?
Though this process requires more thought and planning, it will help you immensely down the road in the web design stage. Staying thoughtful and purposeful will help your business grow in the long run, and who wouldn't want that?


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Q: Laravel doesn't drop table on rollback or refresh I created a new migration called "listings", I basically just followed TraversyMedia's crash course to help my learning process of PHP and Laravel.
I wanted to add a simple modification to the listings migration so it references a user ID (the 'poster').
I did that like this:
$table->unsignedBigInteger('user_id');
$table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users');

I did migrate:refresh, even tried migrate:rollback then migrate again, but still: whatever I do, the listings table will never be dropped, I have to do it manually. Every other table gets dropped but this and I don't understand why.
It had a "down" function too:
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public function down()
{
    Schema::dropIfExists('listings');
}

Did I do something wrong? Did I miss something?
I use: Laravel 9.38.0, PHP 8.1.10 with Zend Engine v4.1.10

A: Probably you're using MyISAM storage engine.
MyISAM is a non-transactional storage type, and any write option needs to be rolled back manually (if needed). InnoDB is a transaction storage type that automatically rollbacks the writes if they are not completed.
In your /config/database.php file change mysql data as :
'engine' => null,

to
'engine' => 'InnoDB',

This above method will apply on your all database tables.
If you want to use InnoDB on specific table then add this line on your migration file as :
Schema::create('listings', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->engine = 'InnoDB';

    // ...
});

See Database Connection & Table Options

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