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Pac-12 Networks
Logo of the Pac-12 Networks
August 15, 2012 (2012-08-15)
Where Champions Play
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The Pac-12 Networks (P12N) is an American sports-oriented digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by the Pac-12 Conference. The network's studio and production facilities are headquartered in the South of Market district of San Francisco, California.
In addition to the national channel, it also operates a group of six regional sports channels focusing on different schools within the conference under the Pac-12 Networks brand:[1]
Pac-12 Arizona, which carries events from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University
Pac-12 Bay Area, featuring events from the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University
Pac-12 Los Angeles, featuring events from the University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California
Pac-12 Mountain, featuring events from the University of Colorado and University of Utah
Pac-12 Oregon, featuring events from the University of Oregon and Oregon State University
Pac-12 Washington, featuring events from the University of Washington and Washington State University
3 Carriage
4 On-air staff
4.1 Current on-air staff
5 Executive personnel
5.1 Member institution contributions
6 Online services
6.1 Pac-12 Now
6.2 Pac-12 Plus
7 Strike
Overview[edit]
Announced on July 27, 2011 and launched on August 15, 2012, the national network was available to at least 48 million pay television households in the United States at the time of its debut,[2] while the regional networks are available in all providers within their respective Pac-12 regional territory.[3] It is the third sports network to be devoted to a specific collegiate athletic conference (after the Big Ten Network and the now-defunct MountainWest Sports Network) and the first to be owned by a conference outright without support from outside companies (Fox Entertainment Group owns 49% of Big Ten Network, while the defunct MountainWest Sports Network had CBS and Comcast as partners, and SEC Network and the future ACC Network are wholly owned by ESPN).
The networks feature 24-hour coverage of Pac-12 sanctioned sporting events, including olympic sports as well as broadcasts of archived sports telecasts. The contract ensures that every football and men's basketball game is televised nationally.[4] Sports not featured on the national Pac-12 Network are instead carried through the regional networks as well as on the Pac-12 Digital Network, which was launched the same day.
On June 10, 2012, the Pac-12 Conference announced a partnership with pay-per-view service In Demand and Comcast Media Center (CMC) that would provide the networks with technical support, video on demand services, and support for TV Everywhere services. The infrastructure of the Pac-12 Networks, 12 member institutions and CMC's operations in Denver, Colorado are connected via fiber network. Master control origination services, including compression and satellite front-haul services, satellite receiver authorizations, and disaster recovery are also run through the CMC in Denver.[5] The following month on July 22, the Pac-12 Conference announced an additional partnership with In Demand that would provide mobile production facilities and below-the-line crews for all 12 schools in the conference.[6]
Programming[edit]
The Pac-12 Networks produce telecasts of roughly 850 collegiate events each year (350 events on Pac-12's national network, and 500 events carried on Pac-12 regional networks).[1] The national network includes 35 football games, 100 men's basketball games and 40 women's basketball games on an annual basis. The Pac-12 national network also features all spring football games, coaches shows, and news conferences. The Pac-12 network has also shown rugby matches played by schools from the PAC Rugby Conference, even though college rugby is not a sport sanctioned by the NCAA.[7]
Original programs broadcast by the networks include:
Pac-12 Sports Report - A weekly studio show discussing and highlighting the Pac-12 events of the week
Pac-12 Football Weekly - A weekly studio show breaking down the latest football news from around the Pac-12
The Drive - A weekly docu-series that provides a behind-the-scenes look inside Pac-12 football and men's basketball programs with exclusive content and audio from players and staff[8]
Pac-12 Classics - A replay of classic Pac-12 games and events which includes commentary from the players and coaches involved
Pac-12 Encore - A replay of recent Pac-12 games or events
Pac-12 Playbook - A weekly football coaches show[9]
The 12 Best - A series that counts down the top 12 conference sports moments within various categories
Varsity Days - A program featuring rare or never-before-seen footage of Pac-12 athletes and coaches, recapping historic moments and unforgettable battles
Timelines - A 12-installment series chronicling the great sports moments from the previous year for each Pac-12 school
Conference of Champions - A non-sports program that profiles current students in various features exploring how the university and educational experience fuels personal aspirations and future career endeavors. Presidents, chancellors, and professors supply additional context, providing viewers a unique and poignant look at the rich history, culture, and traditions of each Pac-12 university.
Carriage[edit]
The original announcement of the Pac-12 Networks' launch on July 27, 2011 included the announcement of carriage agreements with four major cable providers, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Bright House Networks to carry the Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Digital Network at launch. The agreements did not guarantee that the Pac-12 Networks would be available in all areas within the territory of a Pac-12 university, and a minimum of 40 million homes nationally at launch date.[10] The agreements complimented a 12-year deal that the Pac-12 Conference had struck with Fox Sports and ESPN that began in 2012. In addition, the network entered into extended negotiations with satellite providers. Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott stated in a May 8, 2012 interview with sports radio station KJR in Seattle that he is "quietly optimistic" that deals with providers would be made in time for the channel's planned fall 2012 launch. As of September 7, 2013, the Pac-12 Network has not yet signed carriage deals with DirecTV, Charter Communications and Verizon FiOS.
On July 20, 2012, the Pac-12 Conference announced a long-term agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC), a cooperative of 900 mostly smaller and rural cable providers, allowing any member of the NCTC access to carry one or more of the Pac-12 Network as well as providing access to the Pac-12 Digital Network through the NCTC WTVE TV Everywhere platform.[11] In an August 10, 2012 conference, the conference announced that NCTC members Strata Networks and All West Communications in Utah, San Bruno Cable in the San Francisco Bay Area, GCI in Alaska, LocalTel Communications in Wenatchee, WA and Ashland Communications in Oregon had agreed to carry the Pac-12 Network.[12] On July 28, 2012, Frontier Communications announced on one of its official Facebook accounts that the company would carry the channel on Frontier FiOS TV.[13] The deal was officially announced on August 1, 2012.
Several smaller providers reached carriage agreements with the network during the month of August 2012. On August 1, Oregon-based cable providers BendBroadband announced an intention to carry the Pac-12 Network as well as the Pac-12 Digital Network on their "bendbroadband2go" TV Everywhere platform.[14] Two days later on August 3, 2012, Arizona-based Western Broadband and Orbitel Communications announced their intent to carry the Pac-12 Arizona Network.[15] On August 6, Astound Broadband announced an intention to carry the Pac-12 Bay Area Network.[16] A day later on August 7, Wave Broadband announced an intention to carry the Pac-12 Bay Area, Oregon, and Washington Networks.[17] On August 8, 2012, CC Communications announced its intent to carry the Pac-12 National Network and one Pac-12 regional channel (on August 30, 2012, CC Communications began carrying the Pac-12 Mountain network, in addition to the national network).[18] Click! Network also revealed on their official Facebook page that it would carry the Pac-12 Network.[19] On August 21, 2012, Canby Telecom announced an intention to carry the Pac-12 National Network as well as all Pac-12 regional networks.[20]
On September 8, 2012, Dish Network announced that it would carry the Pac-12 National Network starting on September 8. To date, it is the only satellite carrier to have struck a carriage agreement with the Pac-12 Networks, and was the largest pay television provider to reach a carriage deal during 2012, bringing the Pac-12 Networks' national coverage to approximately 60 million households.[21] On February 1, 2016, however, Pac-12 restricted access to the regional channels for DISH subscribers.[22] On October 10, 2012, the conference came to an agreement with Consolidated Communications for its SureWest Communications system in Northern California to carry the Pac-12 Networks Bay Area regional service.[23] On September 6, 2013, Pac-12 Networks entered into a deal with AT&T U-verse to carry the main feed on channel 759 (as well as on channel 760 in the San Francisco Bay Area, and on channel 761 in Los Angeles).[24]
As of 2015, the Pac-12 Networks were "available in" 90 million homes, but about 12 million actually subscribed to the network, according to SNL Kagan.[25] On February 10, 2016, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission on behalf of Jessop & Proulx LLP, added Pac-12 Network to its list of foreign broadcasters that are allowed to be carried by Canadian pay television providers.[26] By the end of 2016, Pac-12 Network had carriage deals with Charter Communications in Los Angeles and Dallas,[27] Frontier FiOS,[28] and streaming service Sling TV,[29] but still had not come to terms with DirecTV.[30] In August 2017, the Pac-12 Networks were added to FuboTV.[31]
On November 28, 2018, it was reported that the Pac-12 Networks will no longer be available on AT&T U-verse as of December 2, 2018.[32] Approximately 19 million homes were subscribed to the network in 2018, according to SNL Kagan.[33]
In March 2019, the channel became available in Australia via the ad-supported streaming service 7plus.[34]
On-air staff[edit]
Current on-air staff[edit]
Basketball and football
Roxy Bernstein – football and basketball game announcer
Kevin Calabro – football and basketball game announcer
Rich Cellini – football and basketball game announcer
Aaron Goldsmith - football and basketball game announcer
Guy Haberman - football and basketball game announcer
Greg Heister - football and basketball game announcer
J.B.Long - basketball game announcer
Ted Robinson – lead football and basketball game announcer
Mark Rogondino – soccer and basketball game announcer
Paul Sunderland – basketball game announcer
Jim Watson – basketball game announcer
Ron Pitts – football game announcer
Glenn Parker – lead football game analyst
Curtis Conway – studio football analyst
Ronnie Lott – studio football analyst
Jeremy Bloom – football game/studio analyst
Jake Plummer – studio football analyst
Yogi Roth – football game/studio analyst
Ben Braun - men's basketball analyst
P.J. Carlesimo - men's basketball analyst
Jarron Collins – men's basketball analyst
Dan Dickau – men's basketball analyst
Sean Elliot - men's basketball analyst
Doug Gottlieb - men's basketball analyst
Lamar Hurd - men's basketball analyst
Ernie Kent – men's basketball analyst
Steve Lavin - men's basketball analyst
Matt Muehlebach - men's basketball analyst
Don Maclean – lead men's basketball analyst
Mary Murphy – women's basketball analyst
Kevin O'Neill - men's basketball analyst
Bill Walton – men's basketball analyst
Mike Yam – studio host/news anchor
Anne Marie Anderson – women's sports game announcer
Kevin Barnett – volleyball game announcer
Krista Blunk – women's sports game announcer
Jason Knapp – water polo and lacrosse announcers
Ato Boldon – track and field analyst
Eric Byrnes – baseball game analyst
Justin Gimelstob – tennis analyst
Cobi Jones – soccer analyst
Holly McPeak – sand volleyball analyst
Al Scates – men's volleyball analyst
JT Snow – baseball game analyst
Kevin Stocker – baseball game analyst
Kevin Wong – men's volleyball analyst
Executive personnel[edit]
Larry Scott - Pac-12 Commissioner, Executive Chairman of Pac-12 Enterprises[35]
Mark Shuken - President, Pac-12 Networks[36]
Member institution contributions[edit]
The UCLA Music Department helps with the networks' on-air music production
Arizona State University and Washington State University provide access to their highly acclaimed digital imaging libraries
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California also provides contributions[6]
Online services[edit]
Pac-12 Now[edit]
On June 8, 2012, Pac-12 Enterprises announced a partnership with Ooyala to develop the Pac-12 Digital Network, branded as Pac-12 Now,[37] which serves as the TV Everywhere platform for the Pac-12 Network. Pac-12 Now is available through web browsers, mobile and iOS devices, with content accessible via a login through a pay television provider.[2] The Pac-12 Digital Network broadcasts 800 live sporting events, including Olympic sports, 30 football games and 130 men's basketball games annually. Video on demand content, including recent and classic events, are also available on the service.[38]
Pac-12 Plus[edit]
In June 2016, Pac-12 Enterprises announced that social network Twitter will broadcast least 150 live games in the 2016-2017 season under the brand Pac-12 Plus. The service will not feature college football or basketball, but less prominent sports like soccer, baseball, softball, ice hockey, gymnastics, swimming and track and field.[39]
Strike[edit]
On December 8, 2012, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) declared a strike against the network, citing the hiring of non-union television crews at lower wages at many of the twelve campus sites.[40][41] The strike ended 10 days later.[42]
The following channels also exclusively air collegiate sporting events:
Big Ten Network - shows sports involving the Big Ten Conference
SEC Network - shows sports involving the Southeastern Conference
Longhorn Network - shows sports and programming involving the University of Texas at Austin
ESPNU - a national network focusing on sports from several collegiate athletic conferences
Fox College Sports - a slate of three regional networks focusing on sports from a variety of collegiate athletic conferences
MountainWest Sports Network - a defunct network that carried sports involving the Mountain West Conference
^ a b Pac-12 Announces deal for national, regional networks, ESPN, retrieved 2011-07-27
^ a b "Pac-12 Networks: News and notes from the Stevenson teleconference". 2011-08-10.
^ "Pac-12 creates its own network". 2011-07-28.
^ "Commissioner announces Pac-12 Network". 2011-07-27.
^ "Pac-12 Networks Prep for Upcoming Launch". 2012-06-10.
^ a b "In Demand to Provide Production Services for 400 Pac-12 Networks Games". 2012-06-10.
^ Rugby Mag, Mainstream Broadcast for Cal v UCLA, Feb. 19, 2014, http://www.rugbymag.com/men's-di-college/10521-mainstream-broadcast-for-cal-v-ucla-.html
^ "For Cal football, at least 'The Drive' TV series is a winner". 2013-11-15.
^ "Pac-12 Networks release schedules". 2012-07-18.
^ "Breakdown of Pac-12 Network deal". 2011-07-27.
^ "PAC-12 ENTERPRISES AND NCTC REACH LONG-TERM CARRIAGE AGREEMENT FOR NEW PAC-12 NETWORKS". 2012-07-20.
^ "Pac-12 Networks Adds More NCTC Affiliates, Continues Negotiations with Satellite, Telco Providers". 2012-08-10.
^ "FrontierWest Facebook post". 2012-07-28.
^ "Pac-12 Network adds more cable carriers". 2012-08-01.
^ "WESTERN BROADBAND AND ORBITEL COMMUNICATIONS TO CARRY PAC-12 NETWORK, PROVIDING SUBSCRIBERS IN ARIZONA WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS TO PAC-12 TEAMS". 2012-08-03.
^ "Astound to carry Pac-12 Networks in Bay Area". 2012-08-06.
^ "Wave Broadband to carry Pac-12 Networks". 2012-08-07.
^ "PAC-12 Networks Coming To CC Comm Digital TV Aug. 30". 2012-08-08.
^ "Click Cable Facebook Post". 2012-08-08.
^ "Canby Telcom reches deal with Pac-12 network". 2012-08-21.
^ "DISH Network joins the Pac-12 family, in time for football". 2012-09-08.
^ "I am a DISH customer and used to be able to watch all seven networks on TV Everywhere, but now I can't. How do I fix this?".
^ "Pac-12 Networks Signs SureWest Deal in Northern California". 2012-10-10.
^ "Pac-12 Networks and AT&T U-verse reach distribution deal". 2013-09-07.
^ Travis, Clay (May 7, 2015). "The 15 Most Valuable Sports Networks". Outkick the Coverage.
^ "Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2016-52: Addition of Pac-12 Network to the List of non-Canadian programming services and stations authorized for distribution". CRTC. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
^ "Is Pac-12 Networks available on Charter?". Pac-12.com.
^ Fang, Ken (June 17, 2016). "Pac-12 Network gets picked up by one more cable provider, but not DirecTV". Awful Announcing.
^ "Sling TV Becomes College Football Destination With Pac-12 Networks" (Press release). Sling TV. September 8, 2016.
^ "Pac-12 Network chief says talks with DirecTV are dead". Fierce Cable. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
^ "Pac-12 Networks announces multi-year partnership with fuboTV" (Press release). Pac-12.com. August 31, 2017.
^ Wilner, John (November 28, 2018). "AT&T will no longer carry the Pac-12 Networks on its U-verse service". The Wenatchee World. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
^ 1Tracy, Marc; Draper, Kevin (January 1, 2019). "As the Rose Bowl Arrives, the Pac-12 Struggles to Keep Up". The New York Times.
^ Knox, David (7 March 2019). "7plus adds two new US live streaming channels". TV Tonight.
^ "Pac-12 TV Networks: Additional details". 2011-07-28.
^ "Pac-12 Networks names Mark Shuken as new President". 2017-08-14.
^ "BendBroadband to carry Pac-12 Networks". 2012-08-01.
^ "Pac-12 Enterprises and Ooyala Partner to Create 24/7 Digital Sports Network Built for Live, Integrated Broadcast and Broadband TV Entertainment". 2012-06-08.
^ Twitter signs another live sports deal: Pac-12 to live-stream 150 events next season - Todd Spangler, Variety, 14 July 2016
^ "Pac-12 Network workers walk off the job". 2012-12-08.
^ "IATSE declares strike against Pac-12 Network". 2012-12-08.
^ http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/18/entertainment/la-et-ct-iatse-pac12-20121218
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3. The average heart weighs between 7 and 15 ounces, a little larger than your fist.
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What are your favorite ways to keep your heart healthy?
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That's wonderful Holly! Thank you for reading and sharing your thoughts.
Ann, Great post as usual. I love the fact that laughter and dark chocolate are great for us! What a wonderful combo. Thanks for all you do, friend!
Thank you Marcy. Yes it's great when things like laughter and dark chocolate are actually ways to improve our health!


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Ak Miller, 84; Pioneer Drag Racer Helped Found Hot Rod Assn.
By Shav Glick
Dec. 21, 2005 12 AM PT
Times Staff Writer
Ak Miller, a pioneer drag racer who had a career as a driver and car builder in many facets of motor racing for six decades, died Dec. 15 of a heart attack in a rest home in Pico Rivera. He was 84.
Miller began his racing career on Southern California's dry lakes in the 1930s as a charter member of the Roadrunners, one of a group of car clubs that created the Southern California Timing Assn. and the National Hot Rod Assn. He served twice as president of the SCTA and was a charter member of the NHRA, serving as vice president with Wally Parks as the founding president.
After a long association with land speed record attempts on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and Muroc Dry Lake (now Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base), Miller was elected to the Dry Lakes Hall of Fame.
Miller also competed in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb, Baja 1000 off-road races and events in Italy and Mexico. With Ray Brock as his crewman, Miller won in his class nine times at Pikes Peak and also won the 1963 Baja 1000.
For the La Carrera Panamericana, a race that spans the length of Mexico held to celebrate the completion of the Pan-American Highway in 1950, Miller built his Ak Miller Special, "El Caballo de Hierro" ("The Iron Horse"), a conglomerate that had an Oldsmobile engine and a 1927 Model T Ford body mounted on a 1950 Ford chassis. According to racing lore, the Mexicans called it "Ensalada" because it was a "salad" of parts.
In 1953, Miller had no trailer and no sponsor except for Hot Rod magazine, so he drove the car from his home in Whittier to the start of the race in Juarez, Mexico. Then he "did a little fine-tuning," raced over the 2,000-mile course for six days and drove back home.
"We were young and tough," Miller recalled recently. "We could race for 20 hours and we wanted to prove a hot rod could do it."
Born Akton Moeller, in Denmark, Miller migrated to Whittier with his parents as a child.
As a teenager, he worked in the Nixon family store and in later years enjoyed recalling that young Richard M. Nixon often asked him to bring him a candy bar and to "help yourself as well."
Years later, when Miller was at the White House with a group of racing personalities, he was being kidded by friends about the legitimacy of his story when President Nixon walked into the room, grasped Miller's hand and said, "Ak, did you bring me a candy bar?"
There are no survivors and there will be no services. Miller told friends that he wanted his ashes scattered at the Bonneville, Pikes Peak and Baja race courses.

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LAS to feature Angel Melody's 'Growing Up On Maui'
By Staff | Jul 5, 2012
Angel Melody's art includes "The Sunflower Creatures."
LAHAINA – Lahaina Arts Society will host Angel Melody as its featured artist for July 2012.
Her feature show, "Growing Up On Maui," will be on display in the Banyan Tree Gallery in the Old Lahaina Courthouse from Monday, July 2, through Sunday, Aug. 5.
The public is invited to the opening reception for the show on Friday, July 6, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Born on Maui, Angel has been exhibiting her paintings in Lahaina art galleries since she was five years old.
She has painted four large outdoor murals – ranging in sizes up to 28 feet by 8.5 feet – in schools in the Lahaina area.
She traveled to Thailand in 2010 and painted the mural "Wildlife of the World," measuring 21 feet wide by more than eight feet tall, in ABS Bilingual Elementary School in Chiang Mai.
Angel seeks more mural commission opportunities in schools, homes and public places.
While attending college at the University of Hawaii on Maui, Angel did the illustrations for two children's books: "Kalani's Wish" by Maui resident Kanara Woodford and "Seafoam Wavefollower and The Mysterious Ghost" by Maui pediatrician Dr. John Briley.
Angel's original oil paintings are available at Lahaina Art Society, under the Banyan Tree in Lahaina and at Sweet Wahine children's emporium in the Pioneer Inn Shops near Lahaina Harbor.
She recently graduated from the University of Hawaii Maui College with a two-year liberal arts degree.
For information, call Lahaina Arts Society at 661-0111.
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Q: Add dynamic form content in MVC I'm trying to add dynamic content to my mvc application.
I'm using Steven Sanderson post Editing a variable length list, ASP.NET MVC 2-style, and thanks to it, I had some dynamic content into it.
Due some constraints of my application, I had to make a change into base Gift class.
The problem is that now the application doens't work.
In my Model I have:
public class Gift
{
    //public string Name { get; set; }
    //public double Price { get; set; }

    public List<string> MyList { get; set; }
}

And now, I'm getting null values in gifts parameter
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Index(IEnumerable<Gift> gifts)
{
    return View("Completed", gifts);
}

Can anyone help me on this?
EDIT:
Here is my View code:
<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<IEnumerable<Enviro2011.Models.Gift>>" %>

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="HeadContent" runat="server">
    <link rel="Stylesheet" href="../../Content/styles.css" />

</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server">

        Gift List

    What do you want for your birthday?
    <% using (Html.BeginForm())
       { %>

        <% foreach (var item in Model)
               Html.RenderPartial("GiftEditorRow", item);
        %>

    <%: Html.ActionLink("Add another...", "Add", null, new { id = "addItem" }) %>
    <input type="submit" value="Finished" />
    <% } %>
</asp:Content>

Edit2
I also have found out the post Model Binding To A List from Phil Haack, and works just fine, but I can't implement the feature 'Add Book' !!!

A: The problem is that you're looping through the model and not the items in the model.
Here's what you can do:
<% foreach (var item in Model.MyList)  // <-- Add the ".MyList"
       Html.RenderPartial("GiftEditorRow", item);
%>

We'll assume that your partial view receives only a string.
As far as your Ajax call not working, the problem there is that you're trying to submit twice, once using the actionLink and the other using Ajax.  Change the ActionLink to an explicit link with no action behind it:
Add another ...

Then your jQuery Ajax call will fire.

A: Do you have below action into your controllor
public ActionResult Add()
{
    return View("GiftEditorRow", new MyList());
}

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Businesses develop over time, and as they do, their spa- tial requirements change. If your current lease is set to expire, it's a good idea to take the time to carefully evalu- ate your office to determine whether you should seek out a new space or renew your current lease. Here are some of the signs that you should seek new space: You are not using your square footage to the fullest If you have many unused offices, extra conference rooms that sit empty or cavernous open spaces that are vacant, you're wasting money on unnecessary square footage. Downsizing to a smaller unit will save you money and can improve productivity. Just make sure that you leave a little room to grow in your new unit. You are paying more for your rent than your neighbors Do some market research and find out what the aver- age rental rate is in your area. If you're in a highly sought after building, you are located in a green building or you have exclusive amenities, your rent may be a little higher than the norm; however, if you are paying a much higher amount than the going rental rate, it's time to move or try to renegotiate at renewal. Your turnover rate is high Poor employee retention can have a number of causes, but office space in an out-of-the-way location or with uncomfortable conditions can contribute to the problem. Conduct an anonymous survey to ask your existing team their honest opinions about their location. You can inquire about the ease of commute, accessibility to services and stores, climate control, lighting and other topics. You may discover that your current office space is a drag on morale. You are using every inch of space While you don't want to pay for empty square footage, having employees packed in from wall to wall is just as problematic. Ideally, you should have enough available work space to comfortably fit additional employees as your company grows.
Your space conflicts with your brand Try this experiment--leave your office building and then walk in, imagining you are your ideal customer. Think about what types of messages the lobby, elevators, hall- ways and your office space send. Now, think about your brand image. Are there inconsistencies? Your office space should accurately reflect the identity of your company. If you prize your rich heritage, a spot in a historic building might be ideal, but would it send the right message if you are a cutting-edge tech company that emphasizes looking to the future? Your employees do not have the right work spaces Think about how well your available space suits the way your employees work. Are collaborative teams located near each other in adjacent offices or an open work space or are they spread throughout a choppy floor plan? Do employees that need to concentrate or deal with sensitive or confidential information have private places to work? Ideally, an office space should have both open and private working areas. You'll need to carefully evaluate how much of each type of work space your team requires and whether or not your current office is able to provide it.


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Today's consumers want assurance that the products they buy contain ingredients that come from environmentally and socially responsible suppliers.
Bonsucro Certification provides transparent proof that sugarcane production and the supply chain meet these strict requirements. Independent, third party Bonsucro certification from SGS demonstrate your compliance with the standard's requirements.
Bonsucro Certification developed from Better Sugarcane Initiative Certification, an earlier industry stakeholder group concerned about the social and environmental impacts of sugarcane production. Bonsucro is an association of sugarcane producers and downstream processors whose aim is to ensure a sustainable future for sugarcane production through socially and environmentally responsible initiatives.
Organizations wishing to produce and sell biofuels that can count towards an EU member's renewables targets need to be assessed against the sustainability criteria outlined in the European Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC). The Bonsucro standard is approved by the European Commission to meet these sustainability requirements.
During a Bonsucro audit prior to certification, key production indicators including your energy and water consumption and greenhouse gas emission are assessed. Regulatory compliance, labor rights, a continued secure local food supply and other human factors affecting the impact of the production on the local population are also assessed.
SGS is a trusted global leader in audit and certification services and holds an accreditation on Bonsucro certification. Our network of auditors are highly qualified in all aspects of sugarcane production and the sugar and bio fuel supply chains, local and international regulations and guidelines. They work with you toward the continuous improvement of your operations and Bonsucro Certification.
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I don't know whether "Pierre Gagnaire à Séoul" can help revive the very corny Lotte Hotel or not, but it had been ages since I last pushed its doors... and I guess I'm not the only customer to experience this weird feeling on his way to the 35th floor and to the first restaurant by a 3 Michelin Star Chef in Korea.
After Paris, Tokyo, Hong-Kong, and Dubai, the Pierre Gagnaire franchise opened shop in Seoul.
The timing couldn't be worse... or better for the Lotte Group : all luxury restaurants are struggling, but this chaebol is on an aggressive investing drive (purchasing food and beverage companies, building a new 555 m high Lotte World II...), and intends to gain ground as rivals struggle (most rivals : fellow retailer Shinsegae just opened a giant new complex in Busan, and purchased at a bargain price a key building near its headquarters in downtown Seoul).
Enough biz talk. And let's not waste time describing the curvy decor creating two niches with a view on the city center, enhanced by a smart system of mirrors.
Food, now. For this first encounter of the third kind in Seoul and after experiencing some overacted cuisine extravaganzas at "Gaya par Pierre Gagnaire" in Paris, I didn't dare taking too risky a path on the rather stimulating menu, and went for a simple and classic course. No surprise there (ie veal with eel and boletus), except for a few successful innovations maintained on the side (ie amuses-gueule and dessert), and at the right level.
My first impression : not a major disruption, but the possibility for Seoulites to enjoy the real Parisian-style, 3-star thing.
This fills a competitive gap with rival Asian neighbors, and could spark some positive competition at the national level. Eventually. And if Lotte can sustain the "caprice" until better times come.
Knowing that a much quicker and more positive way of putting definitely Seoul on the global culinar map would be to promote high end Korean restaurants : this courageous opening doesn't make for last year's tragic loss (see "Annus Horribilis").


What: "The toughest, meanest, battling monsters ever!," or at least that's what the package says. These guys take a similar approach as M.U.S.C.L.E. figures in that they're weirdo wrestlers, with some looking more monster/alien-like than others. The particular variety that I have, pictured above, are made of an incredibly soft, stretchy rubber (I had some of this same kind as a kid, and over the years they started to melt onto other toys and become really deformed), and come in red, blue, green and flesh colors. Different, harder rubber versions of the Musclemania figures seem to have been produced prior to these (as pictured/described on both the University of MUSCLE and MinifiguresXD), which could possibly explain why the characters pictured on the back of the package don't match up to the stretchy rubber characters inside--it appears as though the same name and packaging was being used to sell different figures than those that were initially sold under the Musclemania name.
When: The figures I have are marked 1986, but based on other reports different versions of the Musclemania figures were sold as early as 1984.
Where: Sold in the U.S. at least. I remember getting some at Toys R Us, but I'd guess they were sold at various toy stores and department stores.


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July 15, 2019 You are here:Home General We Forfeited Salaries to Realise a Dream – Bugos
We Forfeited Salaries to Realise a Dream – Bugos
In a lifetime spanning 46 years, he has juggled careers as a footballer, a print journalist, a broadcaster, and an administrator. Over the last 10 years, however, Sebugwawo has dedicated the vast majority of his time to The Observer Media Limited.
A dyed-in-the-wool Observer loyalist, Sebugwawo lives for the glory of the company. It is that passion that makes him arrive at office by 6am everyday. Since The Observer's inception, Sebugwawo, who is better-known to colleagues and friends as Bugos, has worked in different capacities. He started out as an office superintendent, before taking up the role of sports writer, which he left in 2008 to ascend to his current position of promotions officer.
Sebugwawo says his passion for the kind of journalism that The Observer promised to pursue tilted the scale in favour of an uncertain dream. It also helped that he had enjoyed a long working relationship with most of the paper's founders and shared similar passions with them.
"I had worked with and trusted the people that were starting the paper. For me, getting to work more closely with them was like a reunion," says the outspoken, lean-bodied Bugos.
Preparations to launch The Weekly Observer started in December 2003. And Sebugwawo, then a sports presenter at Star Radio, part of the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC), did not shun the opportunity that the project offered him to exploit his journalism talent and organisational acumen. Working with Aliro, the brainchild of The Observer, Sebugwawo trekked Kampala's streets in a bid to register the new enterprise. In January 2004, The Observer Media Ltd was a fully-registered company.
"Our first office was sheltered under the late Aliro's wife's office for about three weeks, until February 2004 when we shifted to Ruth Towers," he narrates.
The company's first desks were procured from William street in downtown Kampala and, together with Aliro, Sebugwawo purchased 20 green plastic chairs from Shauri Yako market. Later, office utensils such as cups and a kettle followed. Luckily for the upstart company, the proprietor of Ruth Towers, Edward Kiyenje, offered a section of his building for one month free of rent.
However, The Observer could not pay its new recruits either. It meant that some pioneer employees such as Sebugwawo had to endure up to three months without pay. But for Sebugwawo, the hunger to see a dream come true eclipsed the yearning for monthly wages.
As his colleagues compiled articles for the newspaper's first issue, Sebugwawo took to promoting a product no one had ever seen.
"We printed many notices and I distributed them with Hassan Badru Zziwa along streets and at the National Theatre. Additionally, I aired aerts for it on Star FM, where I worked part-time until 2007, free of charge for a month even before the first issue had been printed thanks to the kindness of Charles Sserugga Matovu, the then station manager," he says.
As The Observer marks 10 years, Sebugwawo is already dreaming of other achievements he would love to see.
"In the next 10 years," he says, "I would want to see the company's most significant growth being in owning its printing machine and premises."
Source : The Observer


What are YOUR holiday traditions in winter season?
I watch movies and get drunk all day on christmas with friends. Usually we'd have a standing rib roast or a turkey as well.
This year will be different though.....I don't really drink anymore so maybe just the turkey.
I would like to someday at christmas time fulfill my idea of "Extreme Lawn mowing". This consists of a motorcycle who's undercarriage has been raised high enough that a lawn mower blade can be attached the the underside of the bike. It is then a competition to see who can mow the lawn the fastest, and have the least amount of severed limbs by the end. A must-have for the idea would probably be Ancient feudal Austrian Sabatons.
Dude, I would SO participate in Extreme Lawn mowing.
I keep to a corner waiting for when I'm going to get yelled at. Which always happens, every year. We always go and see my grandparents on Christmas eve and on Christmas day we go see the other side of the family.
Maybe this is why I always end up depressed each year on Christmas.
Extreme lawn mowing over someones face sounds fun.
Talk about doing stuff, then complain about not doing stuff, cristmas eve make trifle and cristmas day eat trifle. We also seem to have pie more often in december *shrugs* family's not big on cristmas.


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Q: Creating a function to work out oddsratios I am attempting to write a function that calculates odds ratios. The function must take as an argument a data frame with three variables ("female", "male" and "n") and four observations, and return the odds ratio.
df <- data.frame(female = c("White", "White", "non-White", "non-White"),
                 male = c("White", "non-White", "White", "non-White"),
                 n = c(85, 5, 5, 10))
# data represented as a table
xtabs(n ~ female + male, df)
# the odds ratio here is:
(85 * 10) / (5 * 5)
#34

MyoddsRatio <- function(df){
  df <- df %>%
  mutate(oddsratio = (n[1]) * n[4])/(n[2] * n[3]))
return(df)
}

To test if the function works I'd like to see it return an oddsratio of 34.

A: If your dataframe will always be in that format, you can use summarise
library(dplyr)
MyoddsRatio <- function(df) {
  df %>%
    summarise(oddsratio = (n[1] * n[4]) / (n[2] * n[3]))
}

MyoddsRatio(df)
  oddsratio
1        34


Karl Buch, Roll Foundry, established in 1855 manufactures and produces Chilled Cast Iron and Chromium Cast Steel rolls for the paper, plastics, rubber and food industries, as well as Cast Iron and High Chromium Cast Steel rolls for the steel industry. Recognized for standards of high quality and reliability for over 100 years. Corporate offices and plants are located in Siegen Germany.
Eisenbau Krämer, established in 1921 manufactures rolled & welded steel shells/pipes used in paper machines, other machinery, as well as oil and gas pipelines. In 1990 it was the first German company to obtain ISO 9001 certification for longitudinally welded pipes. Corporate offices and plants are located in Hilchenbach and Recklinghausen Germany.


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Q: Order of fields when using a bit field in C I have a struct of the following type
typedef struct
{
unsigned int a : 8;
unsigned int b : 6;
unsigned int c : 2;
}x, *ptr;

What i would like to do, is change the value of field c.
I do something like the following
x structure = { 0 };
x->c = 1;

When I look at the memory map, I expect to find 00 01, but instead I find 00 40.
It looks like when arranging the second byte, it puts c field in the lowest bits and b field in the highest bits. I've seen this on both GCC and Windows compilers.
For now, what I do is the following, which is working OK.
unsigned char ptr2 = (unsigned char*) ptr
*(ptr2 + 1)  &= 0xFC
*(ptr2 + 1)  |= 0x01

Am I looking at the memory map wrong?
Thank you for your help.

A: You can depend on the ordering of bit-fields to be deterministic as long as your program is intentionally not cross-platform.
While the C specification does not dictate the ordering of bit-fields, the platform's ABI does. In the case of System V AMD 64, the allocation order of bit-fields is defined as "right to left" (section 3.1.2). For ARM 64, it depends on the endianness of the data type (section 8.1.8.2). Because your C compiler adheres to platform ABI of the target architecture you're compiling against, you can depend on a fixed allocation order of bit-fields within a given platform.

A: C standard allows compiler to put bit-fields in any order. There is no reliable and portable way to determine the order.
If you need to know the exact bit positions, it is better use plain unsigned variable and bit masking.
Here's one possible alternative to using bit-fields:
#include <stdio.h>

#define MASK_A    0x00FF
#define MASK_B    0x3F00
#define MASK_C    0xC000
#define SHIFT_A   0
#define SHIFT_B   8
#define SHIFT_C   14

unsigned GetField(unsigned all, unsigned mask, unsigned shift)
{
    return (all & mask) >> shift;
}

unsigned SetField(unsigned all, unsigned mask, unsigned shift, unsigned value)
{
    return (all & ~mask) | ((value << shift) & mask);
}

unsigned GetA(unsigned all)
{
    return GetField(all, MASK_A, SHIFT_A);
}

unsigned SetA(unsigned all, unsigned value)
{
    return SetField(all, MASK_A, SHIFT_A, value);
}

/* Similar functions for B and C here */

int main(void)
{
    unsigned myABC = 0;
    myABC = SetA(myABC, 3);
    printf("%u", GetA(myABC)); // Prints 3
}

A: I know this is an old one, but I would like to add my thoughts.

*

*Headers in C are meant to be usable across objects, which means the compiler has to be somewhat consistent.

*In my experience I have always seen bitfields in LSB order. This will put the bits in MSB->LSB order of c:b:a
The 16 bits, read in byte order is "00 40".  Translated from Little-endian, this is a 16-bit value of 0x4000.
This is:
c == [15:14] == b'01
b == [13:8] == 0
a == [7:0] == 0

A:
When I look at the memory map, I expect to find 00 01, but instead I find 00 40. It looks like when arranging the second byte, it puts c field in the lowest bits and b field in the highest bits. I've seen this on both GCC and Windows compilers.

Ignoring endianness for a second, if you just arrange all fields in a purely sequential stream of increasing bits, you get the allocation below in the "bitstream order" column, and you see the last field in your struct c is the last field in the stream. Now, chunking things up into bytes, you get four permutations including little endian order (which is actually identical to pure bitstream order) and two big endian orders.
Compilers targeting Windows only build for little endian machines (in the past, the kernel had to deal with some big endian ones, but all current compatible architectures are little endian - x86/x64/arm64), and writing 1 to field c (bit c0 below) would yield 1<<6 or 0b01000000 (0x40) in byte 1.
On big endian machines, there is more than possible ordering:

*

*allocate the bitfields in decreasing order from the most significant bit in the word to the least significant, and swap every byte within that word (with high bytes at low addresses and low bytes at high addresses). You can find this ordering in gcc on Linux with big endian machines.

*allocate the bitfields in increasing order from least significant bit to most significant, like LE, and swap whole bytes within the word. You can find this in the C51 8051 microcontroller compiler.

Absolute Bit
Bitstream order
Byte
Bit in byte
LE order
BE order#1
BE order#2

0
a0
0
0
a0
a0
b0

1
a1
0
1
a1
a1
b1

2
a2
0
2
a2
a2
b2

3
a3
0
3
a3
a3
b3

4
a4
0
4
a4
a4
b4

5
a5
0
5
a5
a5
b5

6
a6
0
6
a6
a6
c0

7
a7
0
7
a7
a7
c1

8
b0
1
0
b0
c0
a0

9
b1
1
1
b1
c1
a1

10
b2
1
2
b2
b0
a2

11
b3
1
3
b3
b1
a3

12
b4
1
4
b4
b2
a4

13
b5
1
5
b5
b3
a5

14
c0
1
6
c0
b4
a6

15
c1
1
7
c1
b5
a7

A: memory always depends on the underlying machine structure (endianness) and on the strategy for packing/arranging the structure the compiler is performing.

A: You set a C structure to raw bits at your peril.
You know that the bits are and what they mean, so you can fill out the fields of the structure. Yes it's more code than memcpy, but it won't break if someone adds a field, and if helps enforce bit-level specificity at the communcations level.


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package org.hornetq.core.example;

import org.hornetq.api.core.TransportConfiguration;
import org.hornetq.api.core.client.ClientConsumer;
import org.hornetq.api.core.client.ClientMessage;
import org.hornetq.api.core.client.ClientProducer;
import org.hornetq.api.core.client.ClientSession;
import org.hornetq.api.core.client.ClientSessionFactory;
import org.hornetq.api.core.client.HornetQClient;
import org.hornetq.api.core.client.ServerLocator;
import org.hornetq.core.remoting.impl.netty.NettyConnectorFactory;

/**
 * A simple example of using twitter connector service.
 *
 * @author Tomohisa Igarashi
 */
public class TwitterConnectorExample
{
   private static final String INCOMING_QUEUE = "queue.incomingQueue";
   private static final String OUTGOING_QUEUE = "queue.outgoingQueue";

   public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception
   {
      ServerLocator locator = null;
      ClientSessionFactory csf = null;
      ClientSession session = null;
      try
      {
         String testMessage = System.currentTimeMillis() + ": " + System.getProperty("twitter.example.alternativeMessage");
         if(testMessage == null || testMessage.trim().equals("")) {
            testMessage = System.currentTimeMillis() + ": ### Hello, HornetQ fans!! We are now experiencing so fast, so reliable and so exciting messaging never seen before ;-) ###";
         }

         // Step 1. Create a ClientSessionFactory

         locator = HornetQClient.createServerLocatorWithoutHA(new TransportConfiguration(NettyConnectorFactory.class.getName()));

         csf = locator.createSessionFactory();

         // Step 2. Create a core session.
         session = csf.createSession(true,true);

         // Step 3. Create a core producer for queue.outgoingQueue.
         ClientProducer cp = session.createProducer(OUTGOING_QUEUE);

         // Step 4. Create a core consumer for queue.incomingQueue.
         ClientConsumer cc = session.createConsumer(INCOMING_QUEUE);

         // Step 5. Create a core message.
         ClientMessage cm = session.createMessage(org.hornetq.api.core.Message.TEXT_TYPE,true);
         cm.getBodyBuffer().writeString(testMessage);

         // Step 6. Send a message to queue.outgoingQueue.
         cp.send(cm);
         System.out.println("#### Sent a message to " + OUTGOING_QUEUE + ": " + testMessage);

         // Step 7. Start the session.
         session.start();

         // Step 8. Receive a message from queue.incomingQueue.
         //         Outgoing connector forwards a message(sent at Step 6.) to twitter immediately.
         //         Since incoming connector consumes from twitter and forwards to queue.incomingQueue
         //         every 60 seconds, It will be received in 60+x seconds.
         System.out.println("#### A message will be received in 60 seconds. Please wait...");
         ClientMessage received = cc.receive(70 * 1000);
         received.acknowledge();
         String receivedText = received.getBodyBuffer().readString();

         while(!receivedText.equals(testMessage))
         {
            // ignoring other tweets
            received = cc.receiveImmediate();
            if(received == null) {
               // no other tweets. test message has gone...
               return;
            }

            received.acknowledge();
            receivedText = received.getBodyBuffer().readString();
         }

         System.out.println("#### Received a message from " + INCOMING_QUEUE + ": " + receivedText);
      }
      finally
      {
         // Step 9. Be sure to close some resources.
         if(session != null)
         {
            session.close();
         }
         if(csf != null)
         {
            csf.close();
         }

         if (locator != null)
         {
            locator.close();
         }
      }
   }

}


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Q: R: Is it possible to update the timezone for all objects in a list that have POSIX-related dates I am exploring Facebook's prophet package in R.  I have noticed that the package sets all dates to the GMT time zone with no way (that I am aware of) to set the time zone when calling the function.
My question is: given that the prophet algorithm returns a list of lists with several different POSIXt or POSIXct objects, is there a way to change all of these objects at once to the same time zone without having to change all objects individually?
For instance, if I have an object created by the prophet function called prophet.model, I can update history.dates or start from the GMT timezone to the "Europe/Paris" time zone using:
library(prophet)
history <- data.frame(ds = seq(as.Date('2015-01-01'), as.Date('2016-01-01'), by = 'd'),
                      y = sin(1:366/200) + rnorm(366)/10)
prophet.model <- prophet(history)

attr(prophet.model$start,"tzone") <- "Europe/Paris"
attr(prophet.model$history.dates,"tzone") <- "Europe/Paris"
Can this be done instead for the whole object prophet.model at once without having to make individual calls to attr?