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Lascarin ( laskirigngna) est un terme utilisé au Sri Lanka pour désigner les soldats indigènes qui combattaient pour les Portugais lorsqu'ils occupaient l'île (1505–1658) puis continuèrent de servir comme troupes coloniales jusque dans les années 1930. Les lascarins ont joué un rôle crucial non seulement dans les armées coloniales, mais aussi dans les succès des campagnes des royaumes locaux.

Étymologie
Le terme provient du mot persan  (Lashkar ), signifiant camp militaire ou armée — apparenté à l'arabe 'Askar (عسكر), signifiant garde ou soldat (d'où askari). Les Portugais ont transformé ce terme en lasquarin ou lascarim, pour désigner un matelot ou un soldat asiatique. Au Sri Lanka, il a été utilisé dans son sens militaire (comme en Inde avec les artilleurs musulmans appelés ). Les Néerlandais adaptèrent le mot en  et les Britanniques en , , , etc.

Histoire
Les Portugais ont débarqué pour la première fois au Sri Lanka en 1505 et dès 1517 ils ont été capables d'édifier un fort à Colombo et de contrôler l'essentiel du commerce extérieur de l'île. Après le  (le sac de Vijayabahu) de 1521, qui divisa le royaume de Kotte, ils intervinrent dans les affaires intérieures et les conflits des royaumes locaux. Manquant de troupes portugaises, ils engagèrent des soldats locaux pour défendre leurs intérêts et ceux du royaume de Kotte, et pour les aider dans leurs offensives. Presque tous ces lascarins étaient des Cinghalais convertis au catholicisme (ou parfois des Tamouls), comme les Karava et les Niar. À cette époque, de nombreuses personnalités des royaumes locaux adoptèrent le catholicisme. Après que les Portugais eurent imposés leur contrôle direct sur le royaume de Kotte à la fin du siècle, beaucoup des soldats loyaux au roi devinrent des lascarins ; ils continuèrent à occuper des rangs comme ceux de , ,  ou Kankani.

Les lascarins ont été cruciaux lors des combats des Portugais contre les royaumes locaux, en raison de leur connaissance de la géographie locale. Dans presque toutes les batailles, l'armée portugaise était majoritairement composée de lascarins. À de nombreuses occasions, ceux-ci changèrent de camp et se rallièrent aux royaumes locaux. Lors de la campagne de Danture de 1594 contre le royaume de Kandy, les forces du roi Vimaladharmasuriya I doublèrent grâce à leurs défections et à la  en 1630, presque tous les lascarins désertèrent. Pour cette raison, les Portugais s'appuyèrent plus sur des mercenaires indiens, malais et  lors des offensives suivantes. Les lascarins combattirent aussi des deux côtés lors de la Guerre néerlando-portugaise qui mit fin à l'occupation portugaise au milieu du .

Les lascarins ont servi les Néerlandais de 1640 à 1796. Ils étaient divisés en  (), ce qui signifiait compagnie, chacune étant formée de deux ou trois commandants indigènes, Mohandiram, Arachchis ou Kankanis, et de 24 hommes du rang. Plusieurs  étaient commandés par le Mudaliyar d'un Korale (comté).

Durant l'occupation britannique, les lascarins perdirent leur rôle militaire, devenant plutôt une garde de cérémonie. Ils furent maintenus comme garde privée des  les plus puissants, avec l'accord des autorités britanniques.

Ils fournissaient ainsi la garde d'honneur lors des visites des membres de la famille royale et l'escorte de la délégation du protectorat britannique des Maldives lorsqu'elle venait apporter son tribut annuel au gouverneur de Ceylan. La fin officielle des lascarins a eu lieu dans les années 1930 avec la fermeture du département des affaires indigènes et de la désignation de Mudaliyars - même si des lascarins ont encore joué un rôle cérémoniel pendant de nombreuses années.

Uniforme
La garde d'honneur lascarine du gouvernement de Ceylan comportait trente-six gardes en tuniques écarlates avec des broderies d'or, des jupes ou des pantalons blancs et un couvre-chef à plume. Ils portaient des lances et un  (parasol blanc) et marchaient au son d'une musique militaire interprétée au tambour et à la flûte.

Commandement
Les gardes lascarines étaient sous le commandement d'un . Basnayake dérive du néerlandais (), signifiant commandant, et Muhandiram est un titre honoraire conféré aux responsables indigènes dans la hiérarchie administrative. Les lascorins de chaque Korale (comté) étaient commandés par leur Mudaliyar, un rang correspondant à celui de capitaine dans les régiments européens. Les sous-officiers étaient les Cangaans ou Kanganies (sergents). Les simples soldats étaient des .

Voir aussi
 Guerre néerlando-portugaise

Notes et références

Histoire du Sri Lanka
Unité ou formation militaire dissoute


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Monkey-ball cake is one of the greatest (and tastiest) kiddy recipes of all time. It's easy to set up, quick to put together (we did this while the other 2 babies were taking their morning nap) and as you can see, even a kid as little as Super Puff can do *most* of it with little help from an elder. I was really excited to be able to make this with my girl. I have my own yummy memories of monkeyballin' in the kitchen with my siblings when we were all young – most likely in this very same pan! It comes out tasting suspiciously like cinnamon rolls, and the pull-apart design is definitely a winner with kids. Puff certainty had a blast making it, and (of course) everyone loved eating the finished product (3 toddlers on a sugar-high can be ridiculously entertaining on a rainy afternoon)! Even Puff knows that things taste better when you make them yourself! This technically is the cheater's version of this recipe, as the dough was store-bought, but that's what makes it kid-friendly – and the finished product is delicious!
This is one of our FAVORITE things to make together!!! Love, love it. Looks like Super Puff likes it too!!!
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you are truly the greatest mother ever with all this fun stuff you do!! we will have to try this next week too!!
yummy tasty stuff and you still did it the hard way! 😉 Cut the biscuits, skip the rolling into balls, skip the rolling in butter and just toss the biscuit pieces into a bag full of sugar and cinnamon. Shake to your hearts delight, fish out of sugar and cinnamon and put into the bundt pan…then pour the butter over! hehe… The pictures are great! I wish I'd gotten pictures of my girls when we did them…sigh…we'll totally have to do it again! So easy, so much fun, and so tasty!!
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Kendall – Okay. That may be easier, but you've taken all the FUN out of it! PUFF rolled 'em. PUFF buttered 'em. PUFF sugared 'em, PUFF put 'em in th' pan! . . . what fun is it for the kid to just put dough in a bag!?? I suppose the shaking is allright, but I'll have to stick to my (messier) version! You'll have more time to get pictures if you do it MY way *winks* She felt so accomplished at the end cuz' she did it all by herself.
Rita – Monkey BREAD is prolly more politically correct *giggle* We've always called it monkey balls after those spiky seed-pods that fall from sweet gum trees. . .
MY BABY MONKEY is SOOOOO SMART!!!!! I love that monkey.
We don't make it a lot though. But when we do, it's SO good.
You know, my hubby has been wanting this for a little bit. We may have to make this next weekend (when we get to the store to buy the stuff).
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StanChart's U.S. sanctions scrutiny extended
FILE PHOTO: People walk outside the main branch of Standard Chartered in Hong Kong, China, August 1, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip/File Photo
(Reuters) - Standard Chartered has agreed to a further extension of its U.S. deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) until the end of December this year, it said on Friday.
StanChart entered the DPA with the U.S. Department of Justice and New York County District Attorney's Office in December 2012, accepting that it had broken laws by processing payments for sanctions targets in countries including Iran, Burma, Sudan and Libya.
The bank avoided prosecution in exchange for a cash settlement of $327 million and an agreement with the U.S. authorities to improve its sanctions compliance.
"The group has taken a number of steps and made significant progress toward compliance with the requirements of the DPA and enhancing its sanctions compliance programme," StanChart said in a statement. "But that the programme has not yet reached the standard required by the DPA."
The DPA was extended for three years in 2014 and a further nine months in November 2017 as StanChart sought to strengthen its controls under the scrutiny of an independent monitor.
The bank is also being investigated over whether it continued to violate Iran-related sanctions after 2007.
"The agreement also indicates that the group continues to co-operate with an ongoing U.S. sanctions-related investigation, but that additional time is needed," StanChart said.
Reporting by Justin George Varghese in Bengaluru; Editing by David Goodman

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This Person Got Slammed After Criticizing A 'Prison Monkey' Tattoo Artist
The U.S. has a really messed up prison system, to completely understate the situation. In Ava DuVernay's documentary on the prison system for Netflix, 13th, she shares a number of truly alarming statistics: the U.S. comprises 5% of the world's population, but we hold 25% of the world's prisoners. The movie goes on to explicate how mass incarceration is used to perpetuate modern-day slavery and a constant policing of the poor. It's a grim, but educational viewing.
Unfortunately, not many people have watched it, or done any kind of self-education on the subject whatsoever! We have so many prisons, prisoners, and former prisoners in the country, but most people have a completely unsympathetic view to their plight. Though being released from prison implies you've paid your debt to society, many people still treat anyone convicted of a crime like they're tainted for life.
Reddit user u/Hdalby33 shared a screenshot of a text conversation that completely encapsulates this hypocrisy, which was first shared on the Instagram account How To Not Get Tattooed. In it, someone writes that they want their money returned because they didn't realize their tattoo artist is a convicted felon. They use the words "prison monkey," and demand an additional inconvenience fee.
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That's a pretty disgusting message!
But it's almost worth it for the clapback from the tattoo parlor. They are not taking this laying down.
The shop deliberately works with people trying to get back on their feet after serving time, and works with charities with this sole purpose. They were obviously disgusted by the discriminatory behavior of this entitled jackass, and banned them from the salon for good.
The post went viral on Reddit, and user futhee shared a story about their uncle, who also deliberately works with people who have been released from prison.
"My uncle, bless him, is an engineer with his own successful firm and he almost exclusively hires people who have spent time in prison," they wrote. "When I first heard this as a teenager, I thought he was a lunatic. Then I spent some time at his office many years ago.
"He loves helping his employees become educated, gives them time to learn necessary skills, and then pays them well to help them build a good life. I love my Uncle Fred and will never forget this valuable lesson he taught me about second chances."
User msixtwofive asked a great question: why do we consider people who have served their time as needing a "second chance"? They suggest that's not really the right way to think about it:
The thing is, why do people believe it's a second chance?
Second chance would be they didn't go to prison. When they're done paying their time they're done.
This is one of the things I hate about america - they have a boner for f**king sending people to long ass sentencing and then on top of that there's a ridiculously impossible society to go back into with a criminal record.
Whats the f**king point of prison if your debt to society remains unpaid after you get out.
A lot of people agreed that this system wasn't working, and there were some specific reasons why:
Yep, prisons make a lot of money off prisoners, in both their labor and contracts from the government. It helps them when citizens who have never experienced the prison system maintain a culture of distrust and dislike towards those who have. Then they won't be able to find work and are far more likely to turn back to crime to live.
But it really doesn't make sense to think that way, as user OneNeptune wrote:
What's the alternative this person has in mind? That anyone convicted of a felony would be locked up for life? Wards of the state forever? Homeless? At what point has a convicted felon paid their debts to society? I thought that was the purpose of the prison sentence - ideally (im unfortunately well aware of the reality) an opportunity to reform the convicted to become a contributing member of society. If the convicted served their sentence and earned a release - then as far as I'm concerned their debts are paid and they should have the opportunity to lead a normal life.
On the text's Instagram post, people also applauded the parlor's response:
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An insider and a populist vie for South Ward seat on city council
by Jordan Green
A long-time community leader and voice of dissent goes up against a vetted insider and anointed successor in the contest to represent the South Ward on Winston-Salem City Council.
Winston-Salem voters will elect at least one new city council member in next year's municipal election with the retirement of Molly Leight, who has represented the South Ward since 2005.
Before Leight announced her decision, she approached John Larson, the vice president of restoration for Old Salem Museums & Gardens, to run for the seat.
"He's obviously so smart and is a proponent of all the things that I hold dear — of safety and historic neighborhoods," Leight said. "Who could have more experience with that than John?"
Leight said she took the advice of Wanda Merschel, a former city council member who retired in 2013.
"Molly, just think of someone you would trust with your neighborhood," Merschel told Leight.
The 66-year-old Larson is retiring from his job at Old Salem at the end of the month. A South Carolina native with a background in history and architecture, he moved to Winston-Salem in 1976 to work with Old Salem, a landmark in Winston-Salem and the South Ward particularly.
"Some people talk about Old Salem as a tourist attraction — economic growth, heads in beds," Larson said during a recent interview at Washington Perk & Provision. "It's also a major neighborhood. Residents live there. There are churches. There's a college and a museum. My role has been to deal with the facilities. As you drive through Old Salem, what you see is years of effort to stabilize a neighborhood that was in decline since the 1950s.
"This began long before me," he continued. "I've always championed preservation, including removing non-performing commercial properties. All of that requires working with the city."
Along with Leight's endorsement, Larson is inheriting her most ardent political opponent — community leader Carolyn Highsmith. The two will square off in the Democratic primary, scheduled for March 15.
Prompted by her neighbors in the Konnoak Hills neighborhood who were concerned about a rash of house break-ins, Highsmith blindsided Leight by running as a write-in candidate in the 2009 general election. Officially running unopposed, Leight garnered only 57.8 percent of the vote in that election, thanks to write-in votes for Highsmith, along with Republican candidate Nathan Jones. In the next election, Leight ran an active campaign, and fended off an official challenge from Highsmith, carrying 72.2 percent of the vote.
The 62-year-old Highsmith holds deep roots in Winston-Salem. And like Larson, she's no stranger to city government.
While the historic Moravian settlement of Salem attracted Larson to Winston-Salem almost 40 years ago, Highsmith moved to Konnoak Hills, a suburban neighborhood established in 1929, with her parents in 1963. She said her grandparents "have long lines of living in south Winston-Salem." A nurse practitioner, Highsmith moved to Chapel Hill for several years but returned to Winston-Salem to provide end-of-life care for her mother in 1996.
She became active as a neighborhood leader in 2007, when Konnoak Hills experienced what Highsmith described as "our first crime wave ever" — the unintended consequence of police clearing drug houses from the old Brookstown neighborhood to make way for BB&T ballpark, and displacing them to the south. At the police's suggestion, Highsmith formed several neighborhood-watch groups serving 100-200 households each. Eventually, the newly activated neighbors brought the watch groups together under the umbrella of the newly formed Konnoak Hills Neighborhood Association.
"When you begin to address the factors that create crime, you being addressing all the socio-economic factors," Highsmith said.
Highsmith's involvement in the South Suburban Area Plan further burnished her leadership credentials.
Against the recommendation of the planning department, Highsmith said a group of developers pushed for commercial development on both sides of Peters Creek Parkway south of Interstate 40. Highsmith and other residents supported the original plan, which limited commercial development, and saw it through to approval in 2011.
"That's when I stepped out from being a neighborhood leader to being a community leader," Highsmith said during an interview under a gazebo at Konnoak Hills Moravian Church.
Larson has also experienced some success as a community leader. When the NC Department of Transportation announced that one of the interchanges of the Business 40 downtown expressway would be decommissioned, Larson made a vocal plea for it to be the Main/Liberty interchange — the corridor that runs through Old Salem. Greg Errett, a transportation-planning director for the city, advocated instead that the Cherry/Marshall interchange close because of concern that funneling more vehicular traffic will disrupt the pedestrian experience on the West Fourth Street Restaurant Row. Many of the city's institutional players ultimately took Larson's view, which prevailed in the final planning document.
"I worked very hard to protect the Main Street exit and have Cherry/Marshall be the main connector," Larson said. "Main Street will be the cultural corridor. It needs to be a core anchor. You will be able to take that historical corridor and tie it back to the city. The first step is to take Main and Liberty back to two-way."
Larson noted that the corridor connects downtown to Old Salem, Salem College, UNC School of the Arts, and residential neighborhoods like Washington Park and Konnoak Hills. He added that mothballing the ramps on and off of Business 40 will allow for infill that makes the pedestrian experience more seamless, with wider sidewalks and enhanced street lighting.
Both Larson and Highsmith cite owner-occupied single-family homes as an anchor of neighborhood stability, and both expressed sensitivity to the needs of residents in outlying areas of the ward who might not see a direct benefit of the spectacular resurgence of downtown, with its burgeoning parks, art galleries and fine-dining scene. Both also want to see the downtown renaissance continue.
Preservation comes up as a central theme of Larson's campaign, while Highsmith talks about the widening class divide in Winston-Salem, worrying that people who live far away from downtown will feel increasingly left out.
Leight said one of the most gratifying aspects of her service on city council is her observation "that there are fewer neighborhoods buying into fighting City Hall because the city has been so proactive in helping neighborhoods and doing things to maintain quality of life in neighborhoods."
Highsmith doesn't exactly see it that way.
"I'm passionate about people where they live and their economic survival," she said. "I've been a grassroots community organizer. You can make a lot of impact as a grassroots community organizer, but there are decisions made for us at a policy level. If I'm on city council I can make a bigger impact.
"We have a thriving cultural scene, a great restaurant scene," Highsmith continued. "That's a fruition of the vision of some movers and shakers 20 years ago. That's kind of a top-down vision. There's a widening gap with Winston-Salem having a high level of poverty. I've seen the gap in the South Ward."
Larson said Winston-Salem needs to take care to preserve "reference points" that undergird the city's unique cultural identity such as Old Salem and the Reynolds Building.
"Size is not what this is about," he said. "It's about quality experience. I think Winston-Salem is a quality experience. All the people who have invested their lives in this city need that advocacy. It doesn't matter what their race is. It doesn't matter what their economic status is. All we're asking for is a mechanism to move this city forward in a rational, progressive way."
Larson's election to the South Ward seat would likely reinforce the cohesion and steady forward movement of the current council, but if Highsmith wins she said she'll make sure the working class has a voice.
"It really is the people versus the elite," Highsmith said. "They've got their vision, but they really need to hear mine, too. We want to build on the success, but if we're not careful we won't recognize this city in 25 years."
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Soso Tsintsadze: collapse of the "Georgian dream" is unavoidable and it will be a disaster for Ivanishvili
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Leader of the political coalition "Georgian dream", Bidzina Ivanishvili, announced information about breakup of the coalition.
Ivanishvili said that collapse of the coalition is a normal thing, as there are few different parties united there.
"We are a coalition, which consists of different parties, therefore, this is a normal process, there is such a possibility", - Ivanishvili said.
Political Scientist Soso Tsintsadze said to "Internet.ge" that collapse of the coalition is unavoidable and it will be a disaster for Ivanishvili.
- Bidzina Ivanishvili said that the coalition "Georgian dream" may collapse. Is it possible to have processes developed in this direction?
Soso Tsintsadze, political scientist: Bidzina Ivanishvili now said that the coalition might collapse, but he knows well with 100% guarantee that it will happen. It may not happen in a month, but the coalition will fall apart definitely.
- How can this fact reflect the various parties yet included in the coalition?
- This will be a disaster for Bizina Ivanishvili himself and his plans too. With my personal point of view, this will be a disaster, as his project "Georgian dream" will fail and all his activities will be come to an end.
- What to expect for the parties in the coalition?
- As for individual parties of the coalition. Unfortunately, parliament membership is associated with many temptations in our country. It will be very bad for the coalition itself, but they can build career personally.
- If the coalition falls apart, who will take care of "Georgian dream" coming true?
- Even if it does not collapse, dream will stay as a dream. They cannot do anything. Fulfilling the promises? Everyone make promises today. What is needed for fulfilling of the promise? Coming to the power with a majority, the rest is a lyric poetry. Ivanishvili has a very small chance of coming to the power with majority. Therefore, they can accommodate themselves to non-fulfillment of the promises even now.
"Internet.ge" also contacted a political scientist Zurab Abashidze for a comment regarding the same issue.
The political scientist does not rule out a breakup of the coalition; however he neither sees a problem in that.
According to him, the world parliamentary experience showed that this is a normal phenomenon; there will be nothing special about it. As for the reasons of the coalition collapse, political scientist troubles to title them now.
"There will be no big trouble, if the coalition "Georgian dream" collapses. It is yet hard to say, who will be the initiator of it, whereas, no one can speak about it in advance, when such a processes are expected in October. The most important is the result of the elections – what will be their result in the parliament elections and what kind of mood they will have on October 2", - the political scientist said.
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This Christmas, I made a batch of truffles as a gift for one of my very favorite people. Obviously, there's a million different flavor options here, but I went for peppermint, almond, and cocoa truffles.
To start, form a double boiler using a pot of boiling water and a heatproof bowl. Melt your chocolate and butter together. In another pot, Heat together your cream and corn syrup until just boiling. Pour over the chocolate and stir gently until combined and smooth. Move mixture to a baking dish and chill for about an hour and a half.
Now, use a spoon or melon baller to roughly scoop the chocolate into even-sized pieces on a tray lined with parchment paper and chill for another 45 minutes. This allows you to separate the chocolate before actually rolling to avoid melting chocolate getting all over your hands (it will anyway, but this definitely helps a ton).
Melt your 8 oz of semisweet chocolate into another bowl until smooth. You may have to remelt once or twice throughout the rolling process, depending on how quickly you work. Set up your coating stations, with each topping in its own little bowl. Take out your chocolate filling pieces and, one at a time, roll into a ball using your hands, dip until coated evenly in semisweet chocolate and then coat in one of your toppings. Let sit for about 45 seconds in the topping bowl to set before moving. To keep your hands cold to avoid melting, try working with gloves or holding some ice in between truffles. Now, just continue this process until all truffles are rolled and ready to go. Let your chocolates dry for about an hour before serving. Serve at room temperature.
Oooo your truffles look great! Especially love the one covered in peppermint! What a treat!


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Welcome to the Herts Network of U3As website
The Herts Network is a group of 40+ U3As from across Hertfordshire and into Beds and Bucks. A list of all of our affiliates are shown on the U3A List page. Simply click on one of the U3A names to link to the local website.
The primary objective of every U3A is to support the further learning of people in the third age (after schooling and working). It is learning for fun with no qualifications needed and none awarded.
The Herts Network was set up to facilitate this through cooperation between the U3As in the region by :
providing member U3As with an outlet to offer support and encouragement to one another
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Network meetings are held several times during the year for committee representatives to discuss network-wide issues relating to U3A.
Network Events occur ad hoc during the year, including a Network Quiz and study days, to bring together members from throughout the region.
A national U3A structure has been put in place to manage over 1,000 U3As across the UK.
Herts Network is part of the Eastern Region, which in turn reports into The U3A Third Age Trust at national level.


Recently, Brynn shot with Jordan Matter! Two photos from their shoot have be released and added to the gallery! Click on one of the photos below to be directed to the gallery to view them!!
Brynn and the rest of the Hawkettes will be competing at USA Nationals this weekend! Best of luck to you ladies!
Jon Applegate, Jordan Matter, + More!
I just added photos from some photoshoots Brynn did back in 2016! Check them out in the gallery!
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Brynn's POM team has made it to State! Congratulations ladies!!


Fixed Costs of the Grid … 55%?
"Distributed generation" (DG) is what the electric utility industry calls solar panels, wind turbines, etc.
The article points out what is well-known: even with aggressive use of solar, any DG customer still needs the grid ….. at least this is true until a reasonable cost methodology for storing electricity at the point of generation comes on-line (at which time perhaps a true "off-grid" location is possible.
So …. for a DG customer …. the grid becomes a back-up, a source of power when the sun does not shine, the wind does not blow, etc.
So the fairness question is: should a DG customer pay for their fair share of the grid? Asked this way, the answer is obvious: yes. Just like people pay for insurance, in that same way should people be asked to pay for the cost of the grid.
Unfortunately, these costs are astronomical. This paper claims that they are 55% of total costs!
This entry was posted in Sustainabilty, Systems, Technology, Uncategorized, Well-Being - Community and tagged batteries, smart grid. shaping power on January 14, 2017 by reidcurtis.
"The Grid" is a perfect example of how Bill Gates thinks about book genres the way Netflix thinks about TV and movies.
"This book, about our aging electrical grid, fits in one of my favorite genres: 'Books About Mundane Stuff That Are Actually Fascinating,'" he writes.
Growing up in the Seattle area, Gates' first job was writing software for a company that provided energy to the Pacific Northwest. He learned just how vital power grids are to everyday life, and "The Grid" serves as an important reminder that they really are engineering marvels.
My son received it as a Christmas gift, and stayed up all night finishing it. I ordered it the same day he told me.
Finally, a readable history of energy. Why does our grid look as it does?
The incredible role that Jimmy Carter played in the creation of the Department of Energy, the passage of two major pieces of legislation.
GRID traces energy from Thomas Edison to Thomas Unsall, who was his personal secretary. It was Unsall that formulated, and then implemented, an ambitious plan to centralize the nations power grid. Until he took over in Chicago, no one could figure out how to create, through government regulation and clever pricing, what today is an effective monopoly. What makes this even more remarkable: the monopolies are largely for-profit.
GRID traces the emergence of energy policy, beginning with President Jimmy Carter.
It includes the Energy Policy Act of 1978 and the Energy Policy Act of 1982.
Postscript: I just read the book a second time, and was stuck by its notes at the end, its index, and its general comprehensiveness.
– LOAD IS DOWN: the planet is rife with innovations that are saving electricity – and most of them are coming without burden to the consumer (like turning thermostats down, wearing sweaters, etc.). So the demand for electricity peaked in 2007, and is unlikely to go higher until at least 2040.
– GENERATION IS UP: At the same time, the ways to generate power better are increasing. Solar panels have dropped at least 50% in cost in a decade, while getting more effective. Wind turbines are excellent, and are continuing to improve. Coal generators are being slowly replaced by natural gas. Natural gas plants have desirable properties beyond generation, e.g. they can start up quickly and can come down quickly.
– GENERATION IS BECOMING MORE RESILIENT AND MORE DISTRIBUTED. . After a decade of blackouts largely traceable to storms and poor line maintenance, the push is on for resilience, and it is working. The means to resilience is distributed generation (DG), which ultimately will prove to be very beneficial. However, because of regulatory roadblocks, perverse incentives, and a host of other complexities, it will be some time before the benefits of resilient DG are fully realized.
– PREDICTING LOAD IS IMPROVING: Predicting load by five minute increments is improving. Smart meters and smart algorithms make it entirely plausible to predict load well 24 hours ahead, and extremely well 4 hours ahead.
– PREDICTING GENERATION IS IMPROVING: the book tells horror stories about DG increasing instability and unpredictability. How can a utility plan for a surge due to a scorching sun? A big breeze? I find these horror stories to be suggestive of where this dysfunction will all end up, namely: prediction will improve dramatically through better weather forecasting, better detailed knowledge of all contributing generators.
– A NEW MATCHING OF LOAD TO GENERATION IS VISIBLE. For all the horror stories, I think the future looks bright because matching predictable load to predictable generation is doable today, and will become a norm in the future once all the roadblocks are removed.
– ASYNCHRONOUS POWER IS ALMOST HERE. Just as emails are asynchronous, while telephony is synchronous, in that same way, electricity has always been a synchronous technology – because there has never been a way of storing electricity. The world is moving fast toward asynchronous power because of batteries. When this happens, the world is going to change very fast.
– TIME OF DAY PRICING WILL ACCELERATE ALL CHANGES. I am shocked at how pathetic time of day pricing is. Its ubiquitous – but pathetic. Once time of day pricing sends market signals about that discourage peak power use, so managers will take increasing advantage of using power (load) when it is cheapest, and avoiding power use (avoiding load) when it is most expensive, then we will begin to see thousands of innovative solutions for accomplishing this very simple goal.
This entry was posted in Business Models, Sustainabilty, Technology, Well-Being - Community and tagged energy, History, smart grid. shaping power, smart meters on January 2, 2017 by reidcurtis.
Here is an update on Iora Health ….. the Cambridge, Mass innovator in Health Care supporting primary care services in 34 US locations. I first began tracking them when I was tracking Turntable in Ls Vegas, which is one of their sites.
2. They just raised $75 million in a Series D financing ….. really interesting. The lead investor was the Singapore State fund Temasek … also interesting (big dogs). Apparently all existing investors stayed in the Series D – a good sign. Series C was $48 million, and the dollars before that (in A and B) were $13 million, I think. So that means that they have now raised $146 million…..that is a ton of money for a venture backed company! This tells me that they are telling investors what I believe to be true….that Year 1 hurts because the subscriber base in building but years 2 and onward can be profitable……but I have found no docs that say this.
18 sites are Medicare only Advantage Plans for 65+ only —— 16 sites partnering with Humana and 2 partnering with Tufts. So Humana is their big partner, but only to support their Medicare advantage plan for seniors.
3 "fund" sites —— one for cooks and one for carpenters and one in Queens for "Grameen members"…..must be a credit union for each trade maybe?
6 sites with Harken/United Health ….. but very interesting that they are not listed on their official website…. they just take about 6 sites in ATL.
4. My guess: the Series D raise of $75 million is going to be dedicated to Medicare Advantage plan expansion, through Humana, Tufts, and a few others. My hunch is that they do not see how to make the community model work…moreover, they see the ramp up as being needlessly painful. My hunch is that the Medicare Advantage model is profitable in Year 1, which investors would love! My hunch is that they have figured out to make these site smaller, more manageable, more care flow positive from the start, and that they are ultimately most profitable sites. Humana and other big dogs probably see them as a way to keep health care costs down……..while maintaining or improving senior outcomes. Anyone else have a guess or facts on this????
US-based Iora Health has closed a $75-million Series D financing in a round led by Singapore state fund Temasek Holdings. Other investors who participated in the round include Iora Health's existing institutional investors .406 Ventures, Flare Capital Partners, F-Prime Capital, GE Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Polaris Partners, and Rice Management Company. "We are honored to have Temasek join Iora on our journey to transform healthcare," said Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, MPP, co-founder and CEO of Iora Health. "Temasek's investment in Iora will accelerate our vision of fixing health care delivery which is one of the largest business and social problems, not just in the US, but globally.
Iora Health, a Cambridge startup aiming to "reinvent primary care" with a novel model for payment and delivery of care, said Monday that it raised $28 million in Series C funding from new investors including Foundation Medical Partners, Rice Management Co., GE Ventures and Khosla Ventures.
Existing investors included Boston's .406 Ventures, Fidelity Biosciences and Boston-based Polaris Partners. Iora Health will use the additional financing to fund rapid expansion to continue delivering transformative health care, according to the company. The company has raised $48.2 million in total and plans to double its current workforce of 140.
Iora Health has developed a different health care operating system that starts with primary care, driving patient experience, engagement and clinical outcomes, while reducing overall health care costs, according to the company.
Iora Health currently manages eleven primary care practices across the U.S. for distinct patient populations including employee groups, Medicare Advantage patients and union members and their families. Iora sponsors include the Culinary Health Fund, Dartmouth College, the Freelancers Union, Grameen PrimaCare, Humana, King Arthur Flour, Lahey Health, the New England Carpenters Benefits Fund and Turntable Health.
The company, founded in 2011, last raised a $13 million round of funding two years ago from existing investors including Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh.
This entry was posted in Business Models, Personalization, Systems, Well-Being, Well-Being - Community, Well-Being - PersonaL and tagged bewell, Iora, personal well-being, Personalization on December 20, 2016 by reidcurtis.


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5 Things We Learned From NFL Week 9
Cancer, hurricane Sandy, and short-man's disease…it's an almost football-free week of football observations!
Jesse Brukman
1 – Having Your House Flooded and The State You Play In Destroyed Will Make It Difficult To Pass A Football
NY Giants QB Eli Manning had an awful game in a loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers this week (10-24, 125 yards). But to be fair, this is what his apartment building looked like after hurricane Sandy. And this is what New Jersey looks like still today, so cut the guy a little slack.
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2 – Don't Call Aaron Rodgers Short
While the Green Bay Packers are on a roll, winning their last four contests, Aaron Rodgers took to 60 Minutes on Sunday to explain that he doesn't like to be called short. Coming out of high school at 5'11" and 180 lbs., nobody thought Rodgers would have a college career, let alone a professional one. Then, after finally making it to a college team and into the NFL draft, he dropped to the 24th overall pick after being projected in the top five. Needless to say, Rodgers might have a Wisconsin-sized chip on his shoulder. And on the 60 Minutes episode, they catch a fan telling Rodgers, "I thought you'd be bigger." It does not end well.
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3 – The NFL Just Did Sean Payton a Huge Favor
Because of a fishy out-clause in his contract extension with the New Orleans Saints, Sean Payton is a free agent once his Bounty Gate suspension ends at the end of this season. While it's certainly possible that Payton would like to send a huge screw you to the commissioner and the rest of the league by re-signing with the Saints and contending for a Super Bowl, another likely scenario has the offensive genius going to Dallas. Cowboys coach Jason Garrett is on the hot seat with a mediocre season and ginger complexion, and Payton is an NFC East veteran (he was the Giants' offensive coordinator) and a hot commodity that insane human parody Jerry Jones can afford.
4 – So Chicago Looks Like The Best Team In The League?
The Bears just trounced the Titans 51-20, no-chin wonder Jay Cutler has thrown just two interceptions in the last five games (for him, that's miracle-level), and they're currently well ahead of the Packers for control of the NFC North at 7-1.
5 – If Your Head Coach Gets Cancer, Your Team Will Do Great
Andrew Luck just set the single game, all-time passing record for a rookie in the Colts' win against the Dolphins. Indianapolis is now 5-3 and contending for a playoff spot just one year from losing maybe the best quarterback ever. Now, we're not saying that head coach Chuck Pagano getting leukemia and leaving the team for treatment is the explanation for the Colts success, but it's certainly inspired the team to overachieve in ways nobody expected…which kind of sounds like we're saying that head coach Chuck Pagano getting leukemia and leaving the team for treatment is the cause for the Colts success. Yes, we are aware that we're going to hell.
Here's what we learned from NFL Week 8.
Screw the NFL, show me girls.
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Sponsored: Yamaha MusicCast - any music, anywhere
Take your sound around your home - and you don't need to replace all your gear, either.
Imagine showing today's music tech to somebody from the 70s, the 80s or even the 1990s. They'd swoon as you used your smartphone to scroll through all the music ever recorded.
They'd recoil in terror as you turned your home cinema speakers up to eleven. And they'd honk with laughter when you tried to get music from one place to another in a mess of cabling, incompatible apps, Wi-Fi woes and Bluetooth pairing and unpairing.
Wouldn't it be great if your audio was available wherever you wanted it to, without any fuss?
That's where MusicCast comes in. It brings all your audio together, so you can take the sound wherever you want - effortlessly.
Streaming the football from Sky Sports to a portable speaker in the garden? MusicCast can do that. Connecting your old but amazing hi-fi gear to Apple Music, Spotify and Napster? MusicCast can do that too. Multi-room? Of course.
The idea is to make any audio available to any part of the system, anywhere in your home. For example, a wireless speaker might act as a transmitter for your headphones, or your soundbar could stream audio from your Sky box, or you might stream a CD from your micro system to a wireless speaker or FM radio to your soundbar.
What MusicCast is, and why it's great
MusicCast isn't a single product. Rather, it's a whole family of devices - over 20 so far, with lots more on the horizon - ranging from TV soundbars and AV receivers to wireless speakers and traditional hi-fi components. Audio is transmitted in high quality without any lossy compression, and if you have any Bluetooth A2DP devices they can receive audio from MusicCast too.
The MusicCast system comes from Yamaha, who know a thing or two about music: their instruments grace the world's biggest, most prestigious stages and they've invented all kinds of audio gear including the first commercial soundbar and the first commercial home cinema processing hardware. For over 125 years Yamaha has not only had its roots firmly in music but also sound quality.
MusicCast has been sound tuned not just in Japan, but in Germany and then again in the UK. Tuning the products specifically for the UK market and the discerning audio listener.
But Yamaha's non-musical activities are relevant here too: it makes commercial and enterprise networking equipment for hospitals and airports where rock-solid reliability is crucially important, and with MusicCast it promises to deliver the same combination of effortless setup and always-on reliability that it gives its big-budget clients.
MusicCast supports hi-res audio including 192/24 FLAC, WAV and AIFF and 96/24 ALAC. Some high-end devices will also support DSD (Direct Stream Digital) up to 5.6MHz - and if you already have DSD devices without MusicCast compatibility you can hook them up to a MusicCast product to turn them into an audio source. You don't need to worry about bitrates, either: MusicCast automatically downsamples the audio to the highest quality supported by each device.
Playing nice with your existing home audio gear
MusicCast isn't an open standard - it's all Yamaha's own work - but you're not limited to Yamaha gear.
MusicCast happily streams to Bluetooth A2DP hardware, so your existing wire-free headphones, speakers and other devices will happily receive MusicCast audio.
If you've splashed out on Yamaha's RX-V79 or RX-A50 series AV receivers, you've got MusicCast-enabled hardware. That said, we're pretty excited about the YSP-5600 soundbar, the world's first sound projector to deliver Dolby Atmos and DTS:X – the latest in object based audio technology. It has 44 speakers with Yamaha's patented sound beam bouncing tech called Intellibeam to deliver extraordinary, immersive surround sound audio - and because it's MusicCast you can get that audio from wherever you like, not just anything within reach of an HDMI cable.
It's all about the app
The brains of the operation live in the free MusicCast app, which you can get on both iOS and Android. The app integrates with your Napster and supports Spotify Connect, although for now if you're an Apple Music subscriber you'll need to stream that via AirPlay: integration is on the to-do list but it hasn't been finished yet.
The best part about Bluetooth and Airplay on board everything is you don't have to wait for Yamaha to integrate your favourite service into MusicCast. You can stream to any one of your MusicCast devices right out of the box and bounce the audio around your home.
You can give devices friendly names - such as "soundbar" instead of "YSP5600" - and then make things happen with a couple of taps: tap on the room you want to control and then tap on the audio source you want to use. It's rather like what the Philips Hue app does with lighting: all you need to do is tell the app what you want and it does the work for you. Yamaha tells us that more features are in development and that the app will be updated regularly, and you can try it right now by downloading it from your friendly neighbourhood app store for free.
Tell 'em about the money, honey
MusicCast hardware starts at a respectable £199.95 - that's the RRP for the WX-030 network wireless speaker - and the launch line-up encompasses hi-fi network receivers, active speakers, soundbars, multi-speaker packs and AV receivers ranging from the affordable to the extraordinarily powerful.
The speakers and starter packs are on sale this autumn, with the higher-end gear launching in the winter. You'll find full details, demos and the obligatory deep-voiced promo videos at http://Yamaha.com/musiccast.


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Dørvær  est un groupe d'îles de la commune de Træna, en mer de Norvège dans le comté de Nordland en Norvège.

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L'archipel compte une douzaine d'îles et d'îlots, dont les plus grands sont Buøya, Ørkja, Nordskarven, Dørværøya, Torvøya, Bukkøya et Geitøya. Le Dørværtingen sur Buøya mesure  de haut. Il existe de nombreux récifs autour de l'archipel.

Dørvær est situé juste au sud du cercle polaire arctique et est l'archipel de Træna le plus proche de la terre. Le groupe d'îles était auparavant habité, mais le dernier habitant a quitté l'île dans les années 1990.

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Notes et références

Liens internes
Liste des îles de Norvège

Île de Nordland
Île de la mer de Norvège
Île inhabitée
Træna

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Gallery 3.0 Beta 1 is ready!
Gallery 3 is finally in beta! We've been hard at work over the past 8 months designing and building a worthy successor to the Gallery line and we are happy to say that we've got something that we think will make you very happy. The big news for this release is that from this point on, we will support upgrades to future releases! But don't take our word for it, download it now!
Gallery 3 Beta 1 is not a finished product, yet. We still have a lot of polishing left to do on it. But most of the big pieces are in place and it's beginning to really shine. Even in its incomplete state, it is a stable and reliable product. If you're looking to move forward and you're willing to live a little bit on the edge, now is the time. If you're excited about creating beautiful themes and writing your own custom modules, now is a great time to get involved!
We've commissioned a professional audit from our good friends over at Gotham Digital Science and they gave us a list of security flaws in the product. We have fixed all the major flaws they uncovered. There are still some little issues left, but they are along the lines of "you should ask for the old password as a confirmation when you let users change their password". We'll fix them, but they're not fixed yet. Are all the security holes closed? We hope so, but history says that there are probably a few that we haven't uncovered yet. If you install Beta 1 on a public site, we encourage you to watch for new releases and be prepared to upgrade when we put out security fixes.
Gallery 3.0 is easy and fun to customize. We have made every effort to make it much easier for the casual developer to hack on the product. You don't need a computer science degree to do something really cool with it! And our user-centric development process ensures that the user interface is not an afterthought.
Scope and target audience - Before starting development on Gallery 3.0, the target audience and the scope of the application were clearly defined. Gallery 3 is not a general purpose web application handling any file format you throw at it. And it's not supported on every web platform that exists.
We made tough decisions early on to make the product leaner and faster for you. For example, we got rid of photo-level permissions and provide them only at the album level. This makes the app faster and easier to maintain while simplifying the UI and removing a feature that most don't use.
Simplicity - We've got some great usability and user interface experts on our team, designing and prototyping interfaces that just make sense. The emphasis is on making simple, frequent tasks quick and easy. To see an example of this, check out the admin dashboard and the user/group administration page.
Size matters! - Gallery 3.0 is currently a mere 4.4MB (uncompressed on your disk), with all its features. Compare that to the 16.5MB of Gallery 2.3's bare bones minimal package. Leaving out some levels of abstraction really helps to lose some weight!
On the shoulders of giants... - Gallery 3.0 is made possible by some truly great advances in technology.
We evaluated many PHP frameworks before choosing Kohana. It makes PHP application development simple and fast. Thanks to the Kohana folks for providing this first class application framework!
PHP 5. We're taking advantage of many of the new features and capabilities available in the latest versions of PHP. This allows us to write less code and have a faster product.
We're using jQuery to create the rich user interactions in the browser that make the application fast and light. Especially with with jQuery UI and a host of plugins, UI development couldn't be more hassle-free.
Easily customizable - Did you know you can create your own theme just by copying an existing theme to a new folder? How's that for easy? There's no new templating language so if you know HTML and PHP you can start hacking today.
Easily extendable - We've worked hard to keep things simple. You can write your own module complete with installer, menus and theme integration in just a few lines of code. And to make life easier, we've created a Developer module that gives you a point and click way to create your own modules.
Fewer configurations - We support Gallery 3 on Unix running MySQL 5, Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.2.3. By restricting the number of platforms that we support, we can put out high quality releases faster. Gallery 3 may work with MySQL 4.1, IIS and other platforms but the Gallery team is going to focus its energy on making the best possible product on the supported configuration.
You can track development on our Trac roadmap.
If you have any overall feedback, please visit the Gallery 3.0 Beta 1 Feedback forum topic and let us know! If you have questions, please visit the Gallery 3 Wiki, the future home for Gallery 3 documentation.
Submitted by engineer on Sat, 2009-06-06 01:45.
Just download and install it. Importing pictures from gallery2. So far, it runs well.
When I click "Appearance" -> "Theme Choice", the page title is "Theme Administration". And click "Appearance" -> "Theme Options", the page is "Theme Details". Well, it is okay to me, but I think it's better to have consistent name.
Submitted by bharat on Sat, 2009-06-06 02:48.
@engineer: good catch! I've fixed those issues in the latest code.
Gallery 3 problems? Check gallery3/var/logs before you post!
Submitted by engineer on Sat, 2009-06-06 03:16.
"Recaptcha is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows. automated spam filtering service. In order to use it, you need to sign up for a ReCaptcha Public/Private Key pair, which is also free. Once registered, the the challenge and response strings are evaluated at recaptcha.net to determine if the form content has been entered by a bot."
The domain is my website URL. It should be like "...getkey?domain=%url&...", right? What is the "%url" variable name?
Submitted by valiant on Sat, 2009-06-06 06:04.
not quite sure what you see. to me, it looks all fine.
both links in that paragraph work fine.
the 2nd points to "recaptcha.net"
Submitted by VENCO on Sat, 2009-06-06 07:49.
Excellent work on the beta, guys!
A question on the G2 importing. I see you are looking into enhancing the import module by also importing permissions from G2. If I import now and more features become available later, do I have to reimport everything again, or can the new features simply be added on to the information already imported?
On a sidenote, on the "ReCaptcha Challenge Filtering" page: "Once registered, the the challenge and response strings are evaluated at recaptcha.net to determine if the form content has been entered by a bot.
And under "Graphics Settings": "The GD graphics library is an extension to PHP commonly installed (ON) most webservers. Please refer to the GD website for more information."
Submitted by dwdallam on Sat, 2009-06-06 09:07.
Crazy. I can't wait for the final. After that, my hosting company will roll it up and I can get to work installing it. I'm really excited about this. Flash slide shows? Nice. Great work. Really focused. One question for now: Will G3 actually center the copyright water mark now?
Thanks guys--you rock all the way to the Andromeda galaxy.
Submitted by dave8401 on Sat, 2009-06-06 11:34.
@bharat: thanks for fixing the cgi bug. but maybe there's now another one in the beta.
I checked our G3 from Git yesterday and everything was working perfectly (install, import of g2 with 2500 photots > 50 albums, ...).
Hopefully this is getting fixed soon. Thanks for the beta release.
As said yesterday everything was working perfectly.
qq: does anybody know how to embed the gallery3?
Submitted by rich0 on Sat, 2009-06-06 12:29.
Hmm - looks like the application also requies that SimpleXML be installed for php - that isn't mentioned in the documentation.
Also - it appears that the menu bar doesn't work on konqueror 3.5.9 which is fairly standards-compliant. It looks like it works in firefox. I'm not sure if it is the plan to only support a few webbrowers.
During the initial install it didn't give me the option to change the location where album data is stored. That might be an issue for some users.
Looking forward to trying this out once I get it working. Didn't see any mention of webdav on the features list - it was really nice when this feature came out for v2 as it made uploading photos really easy. I'm not sure I'll get much use out of the flash-based plugins - if anything I might try to disable them (seems counter to promotion of standards).
Submitted by crumdev on Sat, 2009-06-06 17:45.
Beta 1 is the first version of G3 I've tried and, overall, I like the changes.
I'm sure as I work through the Beta I'll have more comments. Thanks for all the work!
Submitted by Panu on Sat, 2009-06-06 19:19.
Submitted by bharat on Sat, 2009-06-06 19:41.
@engineer: I fixed the issue with the recaptcha string; we should have been using a placeholder for that entire url. If you pull the latest code, you'll get the fix.
@dave8401: drat, it's hard to get that right. Can you do me a favor and send me a dump of your phpinfo() output? That would help me figure this out.
@rich0: simplexml is installed by default. Is there a particular reason why you didn't have it available? Sorry about the Konqueror issue.. we've been focusing our energy on the big boys. But if you file a bug, we'll be happy to try to fix that. As for the data storage directory, we went with a dir that would work well for most users.. we'll probably offer a way to configure that at some point if there's enough demand. We care more about usability than tight adherence to standards and the Flash uploader provides functionality that's not going to be available until HTML5 so that's probably going to be our main approach, at least for now. If somebody is willing to write a webdav module, we'll definitely help out.
@crumdev: 1) the JS confirmation dialog box is a quick and dirty hack, we'll be fixing that. Ticket for that is http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/355 2) we may do inline editing, but it's challenging to do that while still maintaining a good separation of core code from themes. Ie, the theme would probably have to collaborate on the editing process making theming harder. :-/ I'd love to see inline editing, though. 3) what kind of sidebar area would you like to see? We do have one now with the info module, it'd be easy to add lots more info there. 4) yeah, I hear you. The tags module is going to get beefed up a lot before the final release.
@panu: check your gallery logs (see my sig) and try disabling eaccelerator if you have it active.
Gallery 3 problems? Check gallery3/var/logs before you post and file bugs here!
Submitted by rich0 on Sat, 2009-06-06 20:50.
Simplexml isn't enabled by default on my distro (gentoo). Not the end of the world - once it is actually packaged it will just be listed as a dependency and then users will rebuild php when they install g3.
Don't get me wrong - it looks like a great project! G2 was such a massive accomplishment it will definintely be hard to beat it - looking forward to it when you're there (I'm still importing my g2 albums so perhaps I'll find it is already compelling to switch).
Submitted by patrixmtl on Sat, 2009-06-06 22:37.
Submitted by tahoejoe on Sun, 2009-06-07 06:15.
#1 curious to try the new version... but are there any precautions to take when upgrading versions so it goes nice and smooth. I don't want to loose the "customizing" I did to the layout. ex. being sure my custom header stays the same, my theme stays the same.
#2 And I'm getting ready to use either joomla of dotnetnuke. Is 3.0 ready to bond with either???
Submitted by floridave on Sun, 2009-06-07 06:47.
1: Just like G1 -> G2 the G2 -> G3 is not a upgrade but is a G2 -> G3 import. Data in G2 is not lost during a import. G3 does not have G2 themes. The layout in G3 is very different. More themes will come as we get a stable product first. Try for yourself and you might find that customizing G3 to be easier than G2 and smarty.
Submitted by Elhcay on Sun, 2009-06-07 10:47.
Wondering if Gallery 3 would eventually be able to import straight from G1, or I'd have to convert to G2 first - but that would mean double url remaps?
Submitted by oriolhernan on Sun, 2009-06-07 11:04.
When deleting an image or album makes the gallery unstable and other images than selected are deleted as an image, but the database remains intact so their links remain in the gallery.
Submitted by dave8401 on Sun, 2009-06-07 13:16.
Here my phpinfo() output. Let me know if you require any help/info.
Do you have any info about integrating g3 into an existing site (any hint how to start, some loc, ...)?
Submitted by nagstrup on Sun, 2009-06-07 17:39.
Submitted by bharat on Sun, 2009-06-07 18:16.
@oriolhernan: it sounds like you've found a serious problem, but I can't fix it unless I have a lot more details. Can you please describe what you did, what happened, and what you expected to have happen instead? If we can't understand the bug, we can't fix it.
Problems? Check gallery3/var/logs before you post! and file bugs here!
Submitted by SamBeckett on Mon, 2009-06-08 00:16.
I run the latest CentOS 5.3 with Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6.
Gallery 3 says "Gallery requires PHP 5.2.3 or newer."
I know I can update things myself, but I don't like to do that.
So I guess I am just going to have to wait for CentOS 5.4 and hope PHP 5.2.* is included.
Submitted by bharat on Mon, 2009-06-08 01:07.
Submitted by oriolhernan on Mon, 2009-06-08 07:05.
- I'm trying to recreate the same error deleting albums and images but don't happens anymore.
- I hope that the next server add module will be much better than the actual. In this message is attached the error that shows me every time I want to import an album. Also, the albums never are added when I click on add. I have to request the order and then go to maintenance page and resume the operation. In any case, i am unable to add more than one folder at same time.
Submitted by pmaciver on Mon, 2009-06-08 10:41.
I haven't downloaded or installed this yet, but I would like to know if it is possible to have a private gallery but give people access to it by having a unique link. Link you can do with picasa and on face book.
I don't want to have to create users for everyone that I want to give access to private galleries I just want to be able to give them a link that has a unique key for that gallery that would allow them to view it.
So is this functionality available?
Submitted by Panu on Mon, 2009-06-08 11:45.
I'm not sure what is the problem, I have php 5.2.9 and mysql 5.1.33 and recent apache of course.
... hmm after disabling eaccelerator all gallery pages give me fatal error with the above error message. Same error if I re-enable eaccelerator though. It was the first time I touched the server in 3 weeks so I'm pretty sure there wasn't any other changes pending.
Submitted by oriolhernan on Mon, 2009-06-08 12:12.
I had twice the same problem of the pictures deleted.
I added two main albums and inside one of them 5 other. One of them has images of 2560x1600 pixels. All are added ok but the first image in this album has no thumbnail so I tried to delete this one and reupload again. The problem is that when I deleted this image almost all the images in the gallery are deleted.
I hope you can understand this problem. A great one!
Submitted by peremees on Mon, 2009-06-08 14:24.
I have the same problem as Panu. Blank page after import save button and eaccelerator is disabled. Where I can find the import log?
Submitted by csteelatgburg on Mon, 2009-06-08 14:46.
@peremees and @panu I had the same problem and it turned out to be a file system issue. I use Dreamhost and they obfuscate the drive paths. When logged in through SSH, pwd shows a path of /home/username/directory, but it's actually /mnt/local/home/username/directory.
Submitted by vonmax on Mon, 2009-06-08 19:32.
i installed the g3 beta 1 but only the home page (.../gallery/index.php) works.
if i try to access to dashboard (gallery3/index.php/admin) I receive an unformatted page and the link to Browse the Gallery is now gallery/index.php/index.php/.
if I go to Options --> Edit album and I change the title, when i click to MODIFY nothing happens.
Submitted by steelfly on Tue, 2009-06-09 01:44.
All maintenance tasks popup the progress window, but there is no progress. No errors in apache log file or gallery logfile. I see continued requests for the maintenance page. At first I saw this when I was doing an import from g2, but I tried running all maintenance tasks and get the same thing.
Submitted by bharat on Tue, 2009-06-09 03:35.
@oriolhernan: we're going to either rewrite or delete the server_add module. I don't know how to reproduce that bug so I don't know where to start on fixing it. Can you reproduce it reliably? If so, how? Can you file a bug please?
@steelfly: most likely you're missing a feature in PHP that is causing it to crash. If you can reproduce this with 5.2.3+ please file a bug. If not, I suggest you use tcpdump and watch your TCP traffic to see the real error.
Submitted by nagstrup on Tue, 2009-06-09 05:28.
Maybe not what you want, but it worked for me.
Submitted by osomanden on Tue, 2009-06-09 06:20.
Submitted by engineer on Tue, 2009-06-09 07:31.
Thanks, the recaptcha problem is gone. By the way, I've new problems.
1. If I submit translattion, then drop MySQL database and reinstall a new Gallery3, and then get translation update. I can't get the translation I just submitted, can I? Because I just do it but something I just translted are gone, I only get the translation submitted a couple of days ago.
If disable all permission to everybody group, thumbnails can't be showed even if I've login as administrator. Give everybody group only a 'view' permission, thumbnails show correctly.
"Oh no! Your server needs a configuration change in order for you to hide photos! Ask your server administrator to set AllowOverride FileInfo Options to fix this."
Submitted by peremees on Tue, 2009-06-09 10:53.
Other problem. I tried add photos from server. It work fine when take 2 or 3 folders. When I have more folders it doesn't works. Dialog box closed and the message is "Add from server completed". But no photos added. In this message is attached the log.
Submitted by maredzki on Tue, 2009-06-09 14:53.
Submitted by dansell on Tue, 2009-06-09 19:18.
Just finished translating everything that was available to Swedish. Thanks for all the great work.
Submitted by bharat on Tue, 2009-06-09 20:24.
@osomanden: can you verify that you don't have a PHP accelerator (Zend Optimizer, eAccelerator, APC, etc) running? Are you importing from a multisite G2?
@engineer: re #1, I'll defer to valiant on that one. For #2, ? thought the warning made things pretty clear. If you don't have that setting, permissions won't work. You need to fix it first.
@maredzki: thanks! fixed in the latest code.
Submitted by valiant on Tue, 2009-06-09 21:10.
Thanks for reporting the translation server issue.
But you should always keep a backup of your database table 'outgoing_translations'. it's a local copy of all your translations.
Submitted by talmdal on Wed, 2009-06-10 03:27.
Submitted by osomanden on Wed, 2009-06-10 04:11.
There is no accelerator running. Only lighttpd on it´s own.
I am importing from a single site G2.
Pls. Let me know if you need further information.
Submitted by valiant on Wed, 2009-06-10 05:18.
the plural translations stuff should be fixed now. you'll need to update your gallery3 version from git.
please let me know if any of your submissions don't get accepted.
you can find out by clicking "Get updates" after submitting your translations. if your translations don't show up in the db table "incoming_translations", then the server either rejected the ones that you don't see, or it flagged them for approval_required.
specific translation submissions get rejected if there's a problem with the source string of the message (e.g. malformed HTML), and they get marked for requiring approval, if the translation contains HTML other than a small subset of allowed HTML elements / attributes.
Submitted by dansell on Wed, 2009-06-10 07:59.
how do you translate the pop ups? Not sure of the terminology here but say you click "Add photo/item". You get the upload photos dialog but there's no way to translate the text there even in translation mode. If there are other ways I'd be interested so I can translate the remaining parts into Swedish.
Submitted by Luluberlu on Wed, 2009-06-10 08:01.
Thanks a lot for the time you spend doing such a great job.
I don't know if ths has been repported before, but the add from server module do not support a large nu,ber of pictures.
I add problem with my G2 so instead of importing it, I just made a fresh install of g3 and recreate album with the server function.
Then I tried to add the folder containing all sub folders album, the modul starts doing his job but after few sec it just stopped without error message and I came to the gallery.
I had to add folder few by few to make it works.
Unfortunalty I did'nt had time to systematicaly look at the problem, so I don"t know if its related to number of files of total file size. But the problem occurs even with folder only with pictures, without subfolders. I guess so its one of the two explanations I gave.
Sorry for not be able to give you right now more info, but I will try to look at this more carefully ASAP.
By the way is ther any project to allow album download for users ?
Submitted by doceave on Wed, 2009-06-10 10:09.
1) If I start adding photos to an installation of Gallery 3 Beta now, will upgrade to Beta 2 allow me to keep all my albums?
2) When/If they are available, where will I be able to download themes for Gallery 3?
Thanks so so much guys!
Submitted by talmdal on Wed, 2009-06-10 14:20.
The plan is that now that we have hit beta 1, there will be an upgrade path for future releases.
When someone writes them? We are focusing on delivering Gallery3 with our planned features and that included an easy to use theme. If all you are looking for is different colors, then you should just be able to copy the default theme and change the colours in the CSS. More complex themes, as I was told in university, "are left as an exercise for the community"
Submitted by talmdal on Wed, 2009-06-10 14:29.
yes, it has https://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/gallery/ticket/383 and we are looking at rewriting the module.
Submitted by valiant on Wed, 2009-06-10 15:33.
Submitted by Luluberlu on Wed, 2009-06-10 15:55.
Submitted by talmdal on Wed, 2009-06-10 23:58.
@Luluberlu: Never useless, the more feedback we get the better.


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The Math Driving Brokerage M&A
Published by Rick Ellis on April 5, 2019 April 5, 2019
"How could you say that's all my company is worth?" He sat back and glared across the desk, his face getting red.
Wanting to lighten the moment, I responded. "I'm sorry, I don't set the value for your brokerage; the market does that. I'm just the guy who has the bad taste to point out that it's not worth as much as you think it should be."
The broker was planning an exit strategy and we were discussing his options when the conversation turned toward his pricing expectations. He threw out a number that was high– really high.
Irritated, he said, "I've been in the area 25 years; in fact, in this very building for most of the time. I sell more homes than anyone else around and everyone knows me. We are one of the largest independent real estate brokerages. How could you say that's all my company's worth?"
There was a lot I could have brought up, but instead I said, "Let's look at the math of the deal. Your business is largely you. You are the top producer and your days are spent as an agent, not necessarily as a manager. From a buyer's perspective, your production is not profit, it covers the company's overhead and provides an income to you. Here, we'll take a moment and back your production out then look at the math."
I wrote some numbers based on his P&L's, turned the pad around and continued. "If you were paid like one of your agents. here would be your company's true profitability. What it means is that if someone were to pay the price you have in mind, it would take a minimum of four years for that buyer to recoup their investment AND they would not make one dime during that period, it would all go to you. And… if they paid a manager, it would take more than five years." I paused, lowered my voice and looked at him. "Honestly, would you do a deal like this?" He was silent and I added, "and neither would a buyer."
The math of the deal is a driver in real estate brokerage sales. The math is the crucible test. In most instances, there must be enough adjusted income after expenses to cover debt service and provide a reasonable return to a prospective buyer. Brokers tell me all the time "they can come in and build it up and make more money than I do." True; but they won't pay a premium for the privilege of having to come in and work hard to grow a company just to pay the old owner his or her price.
For you as a broker/owner, an important part of transition planning is knowing the value of your brokerage… what is it REALLY worth? Just as the math of the deal is a driver, there are a number of other factors that will drive value too:
Let's talk. Brokers do have many options and there are ways to make your company appeal to today's buyers. I am in your area regularly and we can have a confidential, no-promises conversation to look at all the options.
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