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Energy Efficient eBook-Reader Runs on Linux
The Hanlin eReader V3 from Tianjin Jinke Electronics out of China claims to provide a month of use between battery charges. By then 10,000 pages of reading should have been possible – provided you have the requisite time and patience.
Thanks to its ePaper electronic ink display, the Hanlin eReader V3 can save on power consumption, according to its producer. Once a page is fully displayed, further power is not needed. An additional benefit is that the text-to-background contrast helps readability in even the poorest light.
Unlike Amazon's Kindle eBook reader, which is also based on electronic ink technology, the Hanlin is not equipped with Internet access. However, this point is moot for non-U.S. users in that Amazon's Kindle is available only in the U.S. due to its dependence on Sprint's EVDO network.
The Hanlin device accepts content over an SD card (up to 4 Gbytes) or via USB 1.1, with text formats including PDF, DOC, MP3, HTML, TXT, CHM, PNG, TIF, GIF, JPG, PPT, EPUB and LIT. It supports numerous languages (with more to come) and weighs 7.5 ounces. Wolf Linux, an apparent Chinese Linux variant, is the operating system and the device runs on a Samsung Arm9 CPU at 200 MHz. Memory consists of a 32 MB SDRAM and an internal 2 MB NOR Flash. The 6-inch display should be easily readable at a resolution of 800x600 pixels. A stereo audio jack is included.
Availability of the source code is still questionable. December of last year, a user on the GPL violations mailing list tried unsuccessfully to obtain certain source code elements.
The Hanlin eBook is unlikely to be on Ebay any time soon, but is available for $361 from the Jinke website, albeit only by bank wire transfer (no credit cards or PayPal). Alternatively, the product is orderable as the "Walkbook" from a vendor out of Istanbul via PayPal.
Issue 26: Linux Shell Handbook 7th Ed./Special Editions
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SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
Will The Machine change the way future programmers think about memory?
CoreOS Announces Distributed Storage System
The new Torus distributed storage system is available under an open source license on GitHub
Google Beats Oracle in the Android Lawsuit
Juries decides Google's use of Java APIs Was Fair Use
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St. Louis-based Ameren Corp. Addresses Tougher Air-Quality Regulations
March 30, 2005 12:00 AM - Jeffrey Tomich, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ameren Corp., which operates 12 coal-fired power plants in the Midwest, was the biggest buyer nationwide of federal allowances for sulfur-dioxide emissions, which cause acid rain.
EarthNews Radio: Organic Consumers Association
March 30, 2005 12:00 AM - Paul Geary, ENN
Is the organic-label body-care product you're using really organic?
Bamboo Shortage Threatens Pandas in China
March 29, 2005 12:00 AM - Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press
Giant pandas in western China could be at risk of starvation because the bamboo plants that they eat are beginning to die off in a cycle that happens about every 60 years, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Air Pollution in Munich Exceeds EU Limit, Prompting Calls for Action
March 29, 2005 12:00 AM - Associated Press
Munich has become the first German city to violate a new European Union guideline on air pollution, authorities said Monday, prompting calls for quick action to combat emissions.
Indiana Man Photographs Endangered Bobcats
March 29, 2005 12:00 AM - Associated Press
A northeastern Indiana hunter who found mysterious animal tracks in a swamp set up an infrared-activated camera that captured images of two endangered bobcats.
Study Finds High Toxins in Wash. Fish
March 29, 2005 12:00 AM - Associated Press
A state Department of Ecology study has found that fish in the Spokane River have the highest concentrations of toxic flame retardants of any freshwater fish in Washington state.
Unlikely Bedfellows Lobby against US Gas-Guzzlers
March 29, 2005 12:00 AM - Chris Baltimore, Reuters
A group of former national security officials Monday took up the cause of weaning U.S. drivers from their oil addiction -- normally the realm of environmental groups -- and asked the Bush administration to spend $1 billion on lighter, more fuel-efficient automobiles.
On Beyond Organic: God, Food & the Environment
March 29, 2005 12:00 AM - Icicle Networks
Last month, the Archbishop of Canterbury called on the Church of England to adopt ecologically sensitive policies regarding recycling and using organic foods for communion rituals.
Nuclear Power Plants Turning to Dry Casks for Storing Used Fuel
March 29, 2005 12:00 AM - Erica Werner, Associated Press
About 40 percent of the nation's nuclear power plants have begun moving spent fuel out of cooling pools and into massive dry casks, embracing a storage approach that a National Academy of Sciences panel said offers safety advantages.
Activists Gear up to Fight Seal and Elephant Culls
March 29, 2005 12:00 AM - Ed Stoddard, Reuters
Animal rights groups have begun fresh public campaigns timed for the start of the annual seal hunt off the coast of Canada this week and suggestions that South Africa may kill elephants for population control.


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in an effort to roll my own customizations into my blog home page. Great page of help!
Specifically, I'd like to show the most recent post from any parent category. I believe that
$wp_query->post requests X number of posts (determined in options > reading) and drops those into an array. What needs to happen next is to extract the posts from that array where the post category doesn't have a parent (this identifies them as posts in a parent category) and drop those into a new array. Then, I need to extract the newest post from this new array and display it on the page. I think I have the idea behind how this would work, but I'm light on my PHP code knowledge. Any suggestions? All comments welcome.
Elsewhere on the page, I'd like to do something similar, except rather than pull posts from a parent category, I would like to pull posts from any category where the category name contains a specific string. Again, I think I need to loop through the posts in the original array and extract those where the cat has the string in it's name, and dump those to a new array. Then, I'd pull the latest post from this array to display on the page. (Or, maybe the second array is not needed, if both the condition and number of posts could operate on the original post array.)
In order for this to work, I recognize that within the number of posts originally queried (determined in options > reading), there would need to be at least one that satisfies each of the conditions above, otherwise there would be no posts to display. That's cool, I can deal with that. But...
Can anyone offer some code advice to get me started on these two customizations? I imagine the code would come in handy for many who have similar endeavors with WP.


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SHAFTSBURY The Vermont State Police will be hosting a meeting next month in Shaftsbury to re-establish a community advisory board.
The board will be comprised of individuals from 12 Bennington County communities.
Police say the advisory board allows communities to share resources, relate experiences and offer solutions.
The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. Aug. 7 at Shaftsbury Fire Department. A police lieutenant will make a presentation and answer questions.
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A story from the Civil War home front?
As a way to honor the men and women of 1861-65 and "keep their memory green", The Friends of Grant Cottage are compiling an archive of Civil War Ancestor Stories.
If you'd like your ancestor's story preserved, please send it via snail mail to:
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The audio clips below were researched, contributed, and recorded by the dedicated docents, various Friends of Grant Cottage, and other members of our community. Listen online, or for a more enhanced experience, visit the Cottage and pick up a copy of the guide with map in the Visitors Center and follow the tour on-site.
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Hard to believe it's been two years since I posted! I expect to be writing more regularly moving forward. Not that the bar is very high at this point :)
Over the past few years I've helped write a few papers related to distributed virtual environments in various workshops. In case you're interested, here's pointers:
The Near-Term Feasibility of P2P MMOG's. There's been a lot of research on creating peer-to-peer distributed virtual environments, e.g. a P2P version of World of Warcraft. Using World of Warcraft traffic patterns and UK consumer broadband capabilities, this paper suggests that it's not possible to operate a pure P2P massively multiplayer game on today's internet.
Group Movement in World of Warcraft Battlegrounds and Avatar Movement in World of Warcraft Battlegrounds. These two papers examine movement of actual player avatars in World of Warcraft, specifically in battlegrounds. They suggest that previous models of avatar movement are inconsistent with observed behaviors. This is relevant for tasks such as workload evaluation and simulation of online games.


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Following the line: establishing south-east artists practice
Jonathan Jones, Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi artist and independent curator
Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century: a celebration, 30 September 2014
Jonathan discusses his research to define a wider Koori artistic movement and outlines the striking similarities better the work of artists in the nineteenth century such as Tommy McRae and contemporary artists such as Roy Kennedy.
Word pictures: cultural stories by William Barak
Carol Cooper, Senior Curatorial Fellow, National Museum of Australia
Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century: a celebration, 30 September 2014
Carol discusses the life and cultural stories of artist William Barak and tries to match the words of Barak to his drawing to recognise his storytelling intent.
Panga: a Paakantye draughtsman on the Paroo in the 1870s
Dr David Hansen, Senior Researcher, Sotheby's Australia
Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century: a celebration, 30 September 2014
David talks about the collections of pastoralist Frederic Bonney, including the remarkable drawings of Panga, whose work is a valuable record of life on the Paroo River from an Indigenous stationhand with traditional knowledge.
Landmark women: Alex Sloan
Alex Sloan, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Landmark Women, 26 September 2014
Popular 666 ABC radio host Alex Sloan reflects on growing up in the country, her work at the national broadcaster and her life in the Canberra region.
Spirited: behind the scenes
Martha Sear, National Museum of Australia
Spirited exhibition lecture series, 18 September 2014
Senior curator Martha Sear shared behind the scenes about the two years' work in the making of the National Museum exhibition Spirited: Australia's Horse Story.
Landmark women: Elizabeth Truswell
Dr Elizabeth Truswell, visiting fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Landmark Women, 15 August 2014
Geologist Dr Truswell has combined her love of botany and geology with the study of palynology (the study of fossil and living pollen grains and plant spores). Her interest in deep-sea drilling has helped to create art works which have been exhibited in Canberra.
Landmark women: Susie Beaver
Susie Beaver, owner, Beaver Galleries
Landmark Women, 18 July 2014
Susie Beaver has worked in the arts with various community organisations across the country. Susie and her husband Martin run Beaver Galleries, Canberra's largest commercial gallery, tirelessly promoting contemporary Australian artists.
Landmark women: Julia Newton-Howes
Dr Julia Newton-Howes AM, Chief Executive Officer, CARE Australia
Landmark Women, 27 June 2014
Julia discusses her life and work around themes of poverty, aid and development, gender equality and women's empowerment, and her pursuit of data and evidence as a trained scientist.
Individual inspiration and social connection in western Arnhem Land
Dr Luke Taylor, Australian National University, with an introduction by Genevieve Jacobs, 666 ABC Canberra
Old Masters exhibtion lecture series, 5 June 2014
Anthropologist and author Luke Taylor examines how the different schools of bark painting in western Arnhem Land on show in the Old Masters exhibition transformed the way that Yolnyu people represent their world.
Landmark women: Mary-Jane Mountain
Dr Mary-Jane Mountain, retired archaeologist
Landmark Women, 16 May 2014
Mary-Jane talks about her 57 years as an archaeologist covering her experiences both teaching at universities in the United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea and Australia and conducting fieldwork while completing her PhD in a remote PNG village.


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Crabapple Science Olympiad team takes second
Fri, 03/25/2011 - 3:24am The Citizen
The Crabapple Lane Cardinal's Science Olympiad team went to county competition March 19 and came home with a strong second place finish. The team consisted of 27 members from 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades. Each student that competed earned at least one award for placing in the top six. Events in the Olympiad included water rockets, mystery architect, and crime busters. The Cardinals will now prepare to go to state competition in May. The team is coached by fifth grade teacher Pat Costa. Photo/Special.


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"The teacher knows how their students are doing, and they're not reliant upon these types of tests," Swasey said. "It doesn't really benefit the teacher or the student or the parent, in my opinion."
Associate State Superintendent Judy Park agreed that teachers have a sense of how their students are performing. But she said testing identifies the specific concepts students struggled with and equips educators with a tool to tailor instruction.
"That's the real tragedy," Park said. "For those students who have been opted out, the teacher doesn't have that information, the student doesn't have the information, the parent doesn't have that information."
She said the angst over testing is due to a false notion that sees instruction and assessment as two separate things. In reality, she said, each complements the other.
"Good instruction has to include good assessment," Park said. "They're one and the same. It's all part of that package of providing quality education."
Riddle described the SAGE materials as "brilliant" and said she's been impressed with the information the test generates.
"If I had a student who opted out of testing and came to my classroom next year, wow, I won't know where they are and I'm going to be guessing and time is lost," Riddle said. "It's a huge disadvantage for the teacher but more for the student, and I would hope parents would appreciate that."
Making the change
The transition to a new assessment has generated concerns that too much classroom time is being spent on math and English SAGE preparation, forcing educators to trim other subjects.
Riddle said SAGE is significantly different from its predecessor and, by next year, teachers and students will be familiar with the computerized format.
"It's just new technology," Riddle said. "But, in the end, the testing goes faster because it's more efficient."
She said in the past, results from the year-end tests wouldn't arrive until after classes had resumed in the fall. SAGE, she said, minimizes student error and provides almost immediate results that can be used to plan the next year's schedule.
"Change is hard," Riddle said. "People get nervous with change and I can see why they get nervous, but this kind of change is good. We're doing it for a great reason, and that is so we can speed up our instruction, deepen the instruction that we're doing in the classroom and meet the needs of individual kids."
But Swasey said SAGE is another step toward treating students like human capital to be inventoried and processed.
"The way that I see it, or any reasonable person would see it, (students) turn in so many assignments and so many quizzes and so many things throughout the year, you do not need a government-created or government-mandated high-stakes test to know how a child is doing in a class," she said.
Swasey likened standardized testing to a cartoon familiar to testing opponents that depicts a line of animals — a monkey, an elephant, a goldfish in a bowl, etc. — that are told they must perform the same task of climbing a tree.
But Horsley prefers a different metaphor. He said education is like building a house, and you wouldn't wait until construction is finished to check the work.
"The same rules apply to quality instruction," he said. "You assess along the way to ensure that students are learning what they need to build the blocks toward additional learning."
State education officials are already bracing for a potential uproar when the test scores are made public. New York and Kentucky saw a drop in test scores after their first year of Core-aligned testing, and students in Utah are similarly expected to see lower numbers of grade-level proficiency during the first year of SAGE.
Proponents say that points to success of the Common Core, rather than failure. If schools are being charged with meeting a higher standard of rigor, the argument goes, then the initial transition years will see more students falling short.
"I'm just going to be begging and pleading with anyone that will listen to me to help me make sure the public is well-informed with accurate information about what these scores mean," Park said.
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MIAMI (June 3, 2014) Tropical Storm Boris formed Tuesday off Mexico's Pacific coast, and it's expected to produce torrential rains and the risk of flooding and mudslides in the coming days.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm was centered about 125 miles southeast of Salina Cruz, Mexico and moving north at about 5 miles per hour with maximum sustained winds of about 40 miles per hour.
A tropical storm warning was in effect in southern Mexico from Salina Cruz to Mexico's border with Guatemala.
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Is there a work around for this problem? I can't update by version of wordpress for a while as our version of php is lower than needed for 3.4.2. Is there anything I can do to get around this as I really want to use the plugin to solve my pagination issues. The workaround on this thread
is not needed as wordpress-seo/admin/class-pointers.php already had the modified code.
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Novirhabdovirus is one of the genera of Rhabdoviridae, along with Vesiculovirus, known to infect aquatic hosts. They can be transmitted from fish to fish or by waterborne virus, as well as through contaminated eggs. Replication and thermal inactivation temperatures are generally lower than for other rhabdoviruses, given the cold-blooded nature of their hosts. Hosts include a large and growing range of marine and freshwater fish.[1][2]
A common characteristic among novirhabdoviruses is the NV gene, an approximately 500-nucleotide-long gene located between the glycoprotein (G) and polymerase (L) genes. The expected protein encoded by the NV gene is not found in the virions, leading to its being named a "nonvirion" (NV) protein. This is the origin of the genus name Novirhabdovirus.[3]
The four recognized species of the genus are Hirame rhabdovirus, currently isolated to Japan, Infectious hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHNV), enozootic to North America but now present in Europe and Asia, as well, Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV), enzootic to Europe, but now present in North America and Asia, as well, and snakehead rhabdovirus (SHRV).[4] Two tentative species of the genus, identified the Seventh Report of the ICTV, are eel virus B12 (EEV-B12), and eel virus C26 (EEV-C26).
- M.H.V. van Regenmortel, C.M. Fauquet, D.H.L. Bishop, E.B. Carstens, M.K. Estes, S.M. Lemon, J. Maniloff, M.A. Mayo, D.J. McGeoch, C.R. Pringle, R.B. Genus Novirhabdovirus. Seventh Report of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. Academic Press. 2000. Retrieved on 2007-07-15.
- ICTVdB Virus Description: 01.062.0.06. Novirhabdovirus. ICTVdB - The Universal Virus Database, version 3. Retrieved on 2007-07-15.
- ^ Mortensen HF, Heuer OE, Lorenzen N, Otte L, Olesen NJ (September 1999). "Isolation of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus (VHSV) from wild marine fish species in the Baltic Sea, Kattegat, Skagerrak and the North Sea". Virus Res. 63 (1–2): 95–106. doi:10.1016/S0168-1702(99)00062-3. PMID 10509720.
- ^ Whelan, Gary E. Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) Briefing Paper Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved on 2007-07-15.
- ^ Johnson, Marc C.; Benjamin E. Simon; Carol H. Kim & Jo-Ann C. Leong (March 2000). "Production of Recombinant Snakehead Rhabdovirus: the NV Protein Is Not Required for Viral Replication". Journal of Virology 74 (5): 2343–50. doi:10.1128/JVI.74.5.2343-2350.2000. PMC 111716. PMID 10666265.
- ^ Rhabdoviridae ICTVdB Index of Viruses, Version 28, June, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-07-15.


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To get distortion function (sum of distance for each point to its center) when doing K means clustering by Scikit-Learn, one simple way is just to get the centers (
k_means.cluster_centers_) and sum up the distance for each point.
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SPARKS, Nev. (October 24, 2013) Officials in Sparks, Nev., Thursday released the name of the boy who killed a middle school teacher and injured two students before turning his gun on himself on the campus of Sparks Middle School.
In a prepared statement city officials identified the boy Thursday as Jose Reyes, 12.
He was in the seventh grade.
The city came under pressure from media organizations to release the boy's name after police refused, saying they wanted to respect his family.
City officials later acknowledged a report from the Univision affiliate in Reno that disclosed the name and said they would release it publicly to be fair to families and other media outlets.
Sparks Middle School teacher Michael Landsberry, 45, died in the attack as he tried to shield students.


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Hi I have a UITabBarController in XCode 4.5 as the root controller with many tabs I need to change the order to.
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Its not always as easy as we hoped it'd be, a friend of mine is going through a tough time, he's a victim of the credit crisis and has suffered a redundancy and a decline in credit rating. I think about his situation and wonder how different things turned out from what he dreamed, If i thought my friends situation was bad, consider my neighbours situation, he has been through a bankruptcy and now he cannot even open a bank account, he's having to look into bad credit bank accounts, and since you pay for a bad credit bank account, this is like taking a poor person and making them poorer. It really says a lot about our banking system!
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I was making a WordPress theme I named Origami. Problem is that since there is a free theme in the WordPress directory with that name, it tells me "update" to the newest version of the the theme...which is a totally different theme. Apparently the name is the only identifier WP uses to match themes to ones in it's directory and tell you to update.
Of course I can use a different name...but what if a theme gets added to the WP directory with the same name as one I've already released? The point is, I need some method of separating my themes from possible themes of the same name in the directory in order to stop buyers from clicking the "Update Theme" link and deleting their current theme for one they didn't expect. I could brand them in the actual title (such as "Origami by XXX") but that's not preferable.
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Jorn Barger invented and named the Weblog, and in many respects I think his concept was never improved upon for efficient transfer of info.
I want a theme that pretty much looks like the old RobotWisdom: Single column, header, horizontal menu followed by a tight list of links.
Simple, direct, no ceaseless scrolling, no distractions, get to the point...
I wish the option of having any listed link open into an internal commentary on a page with the same header and menu as the index page's.
Any features beyond this may eventually be useful, but are not immediately required.
Is this too simple for WordPress?
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Thales' corruption involvement[edit]
No mention is made of the involvement of the Thales groups in the South African arms deal. Why not? This is surely relevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 01:15, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
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The article makes no mention of Thales' in-flight entertainment division. Perhaps it should be mentioned briefly. ANDROS1337 14:20, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
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I reverted his last edit which changed The Thales Group (Euronext: HO) is an French electronics company for The Thales Group (Euronext: HO) is an French electronics company .
Even though we could argue his previous edit history on this page clearly hints it is only a vandal who is trying to have fun here. Examples of his previous edits are renaming Thales to Thalas or signing the article. On the point proper the place the group is based, as well as the major shareholders, leave very little doubts. Matthieu (talk) 22:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- I'm reverting another edit were Thales was changed from a French group to a Global one. I'm repeating the point here, it is based in France, has it's most important offices in France, the centralised technical center is in Valence-Provence (not to be mistaken with Valence in Spain), it is registered in France and so forth. Would Thales be considered purely international then so can each and every companies worldwide such as British Aerospace (important offices in the USA), Microsoft (offices all accross the globe) and so forth. It is owned by French groups and the French state and in all cases the group's official website leaves no ambiguity here ( http://www.thalesgroup.com/docfile/dyn/69395F5D621C7B2769055139620C4603:5A336D53465B6822540A187D0D185852:17444E72500C0C03532328673E556970 and http://www.thalesgroup.com/Groupe.html/Historique.html ). Another edit reverting it without any discussion after this one will be a "Three-revert rule" violation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:3RR. Matthieu (talk) 08:28, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
This is the English version of this Wikipedia article. Would it be too much to ask to have a pronunciation guide that can actually be read and pronounced by people who speak English (e.g., THEY-leez, or TAH-less, or however it is actually pronounced)? These "IPA" codes serve only to make whoever typed them feel clever. They certainly do not actually help anyone pronounce "Thales" correctly. 220.127.116.11 (talk) 20:53, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
- Pronunciations are usually given in the Wikipedia using the IPA (click on the IPA pronunciation of Thales in the article to see an explanation why, and how does it work). I don't think your comment on people using IPA reflects the truth. Apart from that, I have spoken to several British Thales workers and they tend to pronounce their company name TAH-leez. As I don't have good sources for that, I will not amend the article.--Gorpik (talk) 11:14, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
- Vowels the same as "sashes" or "matches". Constructions such as "tah-leez" will get you nowhere, since there isn't a single spelling-to-sound mapping. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 18.104.22.168 (talk) 06:57, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
If looking for citations: pronunciation by a French speaker can be found in first few seconds of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEWZC7o1TM - the main difference from the pronunciation used by English speakers (which can be found elsewhere in the company's Youtube channel) is that the stress is moved towards the end of the word. Ewx (talk) 08:09, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
- Its not very clear but the pronunciation on the video appears to be the same as used by English speakers without the accent! MilborneOne (talk) 08:17, 17 May 2014 (UTC)
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If Angola intends as it has stated in the past, to be a leader both within the continent and on the world stage, it must start by addressing its own concerns, particularly when the UN explicitly tells you to do so. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
If Angola intends as it has stated in the past, to be a leader both within the continent and on the world stage, it must start by addressing its own concerns, particularly when the UN explicitly tells you to do so. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
By Juan E. Méndez, United Nations special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment
More than once, I begged my torturers to kill me. Years later, I think about it and wonder if I really meant it. I think I did, at the time.
I was tied up, nude and blindfolded, and electrically prodded all over my body. Twice they pretended they were executing me by placing a gun to my head or in my mouth and clicking the trigger.
By Debbie Sharnak, Argentina-Paraguay country specialist
On August 27, 2014, Paraguay took a huge step forward in promoting the rights of domestic violence survivors when they released Lucia Sandoval from prison. Sandoval had been in jail for over three years on the charge of homicide after she defended herself against an abusive husband. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
This month we celebrated International Women's Day on March 8 and the kick-off of the 59th UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Both of these events happen every year. But this year is special.
2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the landmark framework on women's health and rights. This is where our rallying cry, "women's rights are human rights," originated (though the concept has been around a lot longer than 20 years!). It's also the basis of our My Body My Rights campaign, which seeks to accelerate progress on comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights, issues that still have a long way to go. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to give two major speeches in Washington, DC. The first is Monday at the conference of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). The second is on Tuesday before the U.S. Congress.
Tuesday's speech has been generating headlines, with more than 30 Members of Congress reportedly declaring that they will not attend. But despite the controversy surrounding Netanyahu's invitation to speak before Congress, the policies of his government are what deserve real scrutiny.
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You get 3.7 million Syrian refugees.
You get stories like the one told by this woman living in a refugee camps. She has been in a Lebanese camp for three years with her two sons, one of whom is autistic. She has necessities, but little else; what she dreams of is that her children get an education. SEE THE REST OF THIS POST
October 24th is United Nations Day –meant to commemorate the passage of the Charter of the United Nations. One of the principles of the UN Charter, enshrined in the preamble, is:
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The same day Ban Ki Moon, UN Secretary General, visited the Gaza Strip saying, "a restrictive occupation that has lasted almost half a century, the continued denial of Palestinian rights and the lack of tangible progress in peace negotiations" was the root cause of latest escalation in violence, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People hosted a lecture by Noam Chomsky in the UN General Assembly Hall on resolving the Israel/Palestine conflict.
It couldn't have happened at a more pivotal time. Significant movement is happening globally and with Secretary of State John Kerry's announcement that the Quartet (the U.S., the U.N., Russia and European Union) are meeting this Friday in Brussels, it's time for the international community to finally end the status quo.
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We've talked about how a holding company works in the past, provided a beginner's explanation of holding companies, and even looked at two high profile private holding companies, Walton Enterprises, LLC and Cascade Investment, LLC. I even gave a very basic explanation over at About.com as to how family members can invest together through a limited liability company.
Tonight, I thought I'd go over a very basic, very simplified explanation of a much more advanced concept that isn't appropriate for most people but will show how a family holding company can be used to gift millions of dollars tax-free to heirs and others, while retaining control of assets and binding a group together economically. This is a high-level, conceptual explanation. Do not act on any of this without consulting with your own tax attorney, tax accountant, and other qualified advisers.
The Basics of a Family Holding Company
Imagine you wanted to setup a family holding company to serve as a central investment vehicle to teach your children or grandchildren about money, business, finance, economics, and create a central entity that held everyone together through regular family meetings. You approach a good attorney and accountant and, in compliance with your specific tax situation and the legal rules in your state, you setup the entity.
It would be easier to walk you through the basics of the process in a fictional illustration. In this example, let's pretend I am a 65 year old retired manager with four kids, all of whom are married, and twelve grandchildren. In our pretend world, I am sitting on a portfolio worth $5,000,000 that I want to begin transferring to the next generations in a tax-efficient way. That means there are twenty people involved besides my spouse and me: four kids, four sons-or-daughters-in-law, and twelve grandchildren. I establish a company called Kennon & Kennon, LLC in the state of my choice, most likely Nevada, Delaware, or my home state. I opt for partnership taxation on an individual level, bypassing the personal holding company tax.
Next, I contribute some common stocks to our fictional family holding company, all of which have built-in capital gains.
Finally, I contribute some real estate holdings, local businesses, and shares of a community bank to our fictional family holding company.
Now, in our made-up entity, my theoretical 65-year-old spouse and I are sitting on 100% ownership of a company called Kennon & Kennon, LLC that holds common stocks, real estate, and shares of private businesses. The firm's assets are $5,000,000. It has no debt. Thus, net worth is also $5,000,000 before accounting for capital gains taxes due on the built-in profits from appreciated securities.
Over the long-run, based on the holdings in Kennon & Kennon and current market levels, imagine I expected a long-term rate of return of 8%. That means the company has a net worth of $5,000,000 but I'm expecting it to earn $400,000 through a combination of profits, dividends, interest income, rents, and capital gains.
My attorneys write-up a great limited liability operating agreement. In it, I am named the Managing Member and have a range of powers specifically delegated, including the sole right to determine distributions, including dividends or return of capital, to the various members. The document also divides Kennon & Kennon, LLC into 100,000 membership units, or "shares", each of which would be worth $50. After all, the company has $5,000,000 in net worth and is now cut into 100,000 pieces. At this moment, I own all of them so not a lot has changed.
Gifting the Shares of the Family Holding Company to Family Members
The next step is to take advantage of the gift tax exclusion. As of the current tax year, you can give $13,000 away to a person without any gift tax consequences or using up your lifetime exemption. With your spouse, that rises to $26,000 per year.
With twenty family members that I'd like to bring in as shareholders, this would mean my spouse and I gifting $26,000 per year to everyone, or $520,000 in total. But the catch is, you can often go for special discounts. For one, we are going to be able to back off the capital gains taxes that will be owed on the transferred shares, lowering the value of each gift. For another, we can take deductions for illiquidity and limited voting rights. It's entirely possible you could transfer, in the right circumstances, $50,000 worth of assets to someone and claim it as only $26,000. But this requires a lot of very good tax advice and full transparency and disclosure to the IRS as to the claims you are making. It is not something you would do on your own without the expert guidance of good tax accountants and attorneys.
Let's ignore those discounts for now, which are often a vital part of lowering estate taxes and getting more money into the hands of your kids and grandkids prior to death. Instead, let's say that everyone gets precisely $26,000 worth of assets, or 520 membership units of Kennon & Kennon, LLC.
That means the first Christmas, I would transfer 520 shares of Kennon & Kennon membership equity into the capital accounts of each family member. Nothing has changed. As the managing member, I still have control over the business. I still have control over the investments. They can't get their hands on this money unless I want them to, allowing me to use it as a forced savings account, if that is my intention. In total, I'd transfer 13,520 membership units, leaving my spouse and me 86,480 membership units.
In other words, my spouse and I now own 86,480 / 100,000th of the company. Each of the kids and grandkids own 520 / 100,000th of the company. My stake is worth $4,324,000 and each kid and grandkid has $26,000.
The Growth Is the Secret to Giving Away a Lot of Money with a Family Holding Company
Next year, imagine the business does, in fact, grow by 8% after taxes. The $5,000,000 in net worth would expand to $5,400,000. With 100,000 shares outstanding, each membership unit would now be worth $54, not $50 like the prior year. My 86,480 shares are worth $4,669,920. Each kid and grandkid has $28,080. In effect, I was able to gift them the extra $2,080 without counting it against my gift tax exemption because the asset is now held in their name. It's theirs.
The same formula would be followed and I'd gift everyone $26,000 only this time, that would mean transferring 481 membership units to their account, not 520 shares like last year because the shares are more valuable at $54 each than they were last year at $50 each. They are getting the same total gift value but fewer membership units.
For our second Christmas, then, I would gift 9,620 shares in total, or 481 shares per person. This would bring my total ownership to 76,860 shares and each of the family members to 1,001 shares.
You know what? Let's just look at a spreadsheet to see how this would play out if you kept it up each year for a decade.
Looking at our fictional Kennon & Kennon family holding company, it would be possible to give away $8,467,795 in wealth to children and grandchildren without paying a single penny in gift taxes or estate taxes. Furthermore, this only required the transfer of $26,000 x 20 recipients for 10 years, or $5,200,000 in total. The extra $3,267,795 that was gifted came from the transfer of economic ownership of assets to the heirs who now collect the dividends, interest income, and rents.
Let's look what happened:
- The fictional 65-year-old me started with $5,000,000 that he wanted to give away to children and grandchildren
- Through joint spousal gifts, $26,000 was given of 20 recipients every year for 10 years, all in the form of shares of Kennon & Kennon, LLC
- I retained total control, submitting tax payments for each member but reinvesting earnings without paying dividends so capital expanded at 8% per share per annum, on average.
- At the end of the period, I was left with $2,319,205, my heirs had $8,467,795, not a penny went to the government in the form of estate taxes or gift taxes, and the total Kennon & Kennon family holding company business has a net worth of $10,787,000.
And remember: This doesn't even include those liquidity discounts and other exemptions that would have made it possible to transfer more than $26,000 per year to heirs, while still claiming only a $26,000 gift. Done right, you might have been able to give away much more money.
Maintaining Control of the Family Holding Company
If the operating agreement were well-written, it would permit me to retain control save for a vote of 90% or so of the membership equity, meaning I could always have the option of voting myself a salary if I ever needed cash. I wouldn't have to worry much about a coup or finding myself kicked out on the street. (We aren't discussing inter-personal issues for now. If you need to use money to control your kids or are worried about conflicts due to dividend payouts, you have much larger issues that need to be addressed. That is far beyond the scope of this article.)
You can also get complex. You could, for example, create a series of trust funds and gift the shares to the trusts and deal with things such as the generation skipping tax. You could add provisions forcing in-laws to sell out their stake in a divorce, depending upon your jurisdiction. You can do a lot of things. You could even match share gifts for those who saved and invested in the company dollar-for-dollar; e.g., a grandchild worked after school and earned $5,000, so you gift him an extra $5,000 in the family firm. It really is a blank tablet upon which you can carve your own manifest destiny depending upon your family's assets, dynamics, cultures, and values. Many families that build family holding companies will hold required annual meetings to get everyone together and share a common bond.
With a setup like this, you could live another couple of decades and transfer millions upon millions of dollars to your family without hitting the estate tax or gift tax, while retaining a significant equity portion yourself if you manage the capital well enough. That is because the faster the net worth grows, the higher the share value per membership unit, meaning you transfer the same amount of money each year, but fewer shares or equity percent. In fact, at only 8% growth, it would take only 10 years with no dividends to get the value of each share to around $108.
There Are A Lot of Other Applications for Family Holding Companies
There are many other applications for family holding companies. A family with a few great managers who wanted to all kick in and buy a $3,000,000 hotel together could do it whereas it may be beyond the resources of any individual branch of the family. Of course, you don't want to go into business with someone just because they are friend or family. Love them all you want, but there is no reason to do something stupid with your money by investing alongside those with financially sub-optimal tendencies such as drug or alcohol dependency or gambling addictions.
You can get creative. Imagine if you were J.K. Rowling. You could transfer ownership of the copyrights to the Harry Potter books to a family holding company and slowly give a portion to your children, grandchildren, non-profit-charities, and other entities all while retaining total control of your characters to ensure their literary integrity.


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There are plenty of metaphors to choose from, as we all breathlessly watch the Republican Party make their latest attempt at semi-rational governing.
At the first Thanksgiving 383 years ago, Native Americans and Pilgrim immigrants gathered with mutual respect to share a bountiful harvest they'd produced together. This Thanksgiving, though, there's no respect or sharing in the homes of GOP nativists.
Wherever I go, the question is almost always the same, and it's to be expected, considering my past co-chairmanship of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, more commonly known as the 9/11 Commission. The question: Are we safer now?
Those media images of children being held in prison-like camps and facing Justice Department judges without legal help may have shown some of America at its worst, but we have also become a nation in response.
b condoms feels that the Homeland Security Program could also address the rate of unwanted teenage pregnancies in rural areas; teen girls living in rural counties account for 20% of teen births, although they only account for 16% of the population.
Too many children and families live in fear of losing their loved ones because of our broken immigration system.
There is no doubt that the Visa Waiver Program merits a national discussion free from partisan politics. Terrorists have already used the VWP to gain access to soft targets. Whether additional security measures would have prevented their entry is the $64 million question.
The events unfolding in Missouri have brought all eyes on the issue of law enforcement practices. Racial disparities in our justice system abound. But there is also a subtler dynamic at work: how the government spends money and the very real and human consequences of those decisions.
Until we alter our drug strategy, we can expect more murder and mayhem south of our border -- and greater numbers of immigrants fleeing north for safety.
After a U.S. Border Patrol agent in 2010 fatally shot a fleeing teenage drug smuggler twice in the back, a review by the Justice Department deemed the shooting death justified. But now that conclusion has been called into question by law enforcement officials.
It's difficult to imagine what these children anticipated upon entering the U.S. Almost no new arrival is ever really prepared for the whirlwind of U.S. culture. But they can't have been expecting the visceral vitriol that greeted some of these young refugees. The "backlash to the backlash" on the U.S. border crisis has now begun.
Thanks to smartphones, iPads, and the like, everyone is now a photographer, but it turns out that, in the public landscape, there's ever less to photograph. So here are a few tips for living more comfortably in a photographically redacted version of our post-9/11 world.
Some would say that instead of providing more funds to care for children, we should crack down by amending the law to allow for summary deportations, and by dramatically increasing our enforcement capabilities at the border. This reflects neither the reality of the problem nor our values as a nation.
The Murrieta protests were a shameful, sickening display of anti-immigrant sentiment. Such vigilante behavior and vitriol are out of sync with American values, and have no place in a civil society.
James F. Tomsheck's removal as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's chief of internal affairs has raised more alarms about the agency, which has witnessed a dramatic spike in shootings and violence in recent years.
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James Wall, Captain Kangaroo's neighbor "Mr. Baxter" on the children's show and longtime stage manager for CBS News, has died. He was 92.
CBS News says Wall died Wednesday in New York City after a short illness.
The former vaudevillian joined the popular children's show in 1962 as a stage manager before persuading the show's producers to create its first black character in 1968.
He played Baxter and another recurring roll on the show until 1978.
Wall was a stage manager for many CBS broadcasts over the years, including "60 Minutes," ''Face the Nation," and the US Open Tennis Championships.
In 1994, Wall was honored with an achievement award by the Director's Guild of America.
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AbstractDESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The dementia of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is caused by the buildup in the brain over many years of amyloid. Therefore, the development of a brain scan that measures brain amyloid could identify those individuals at risk for the later development of AD. Early detection can lead to early therapy and delay the onset of symptoms. It is estimated that the delay of the onset of symptoms of AD, for just 5 years, would save $50 billion per year in U.S. health care costs. The number of people who are potential candidates for an AD diagnostic brain scan is in excess of 30 million in United States alone. The goal of this work is the development of an AIzheimer's Disease (AD) diagnostic brain scan. AD is caused by the deposition of amyloid in the brain and a diagnostic brain scan for AD could be developed if amyloid imaging agents were made transportable through the blood brain barrier (BBB). This work will prepare a genetically engineered fusion protein wherein the amyloid-imaging agent is fused to a targeting ligand that undergoes receptor-mediated transport across the BBB in vivo. This BBB transport vector has been genetically engineered to enable use in humans without immunological reaction. The fusion protein will be a bi-functional molecule that not only crosses the BBB, but also binds to the amyloid plaques of AD brain in vivo, and contains a chelator moiety for radiolabeling. In phase I, the fusion gene was engineered, cell lines were produced, and the bi-funtionality of the fusion protein was demonstrated--the fusion protein both binds the BBB receptor and binds the AD amyloid. The phase II work will produce a cell line secreting the fusion protein, and the production of this protein will be scaled up for manufacturing. Following the validation of the fusion protein, the pharmacology/toxicology and IND preparation will be performed during the 03 year. The completion of the phase II work will enable the preparation of an IND to the FDA for testing of this novel in vivo brain scan that will be the first diagnostic test specific for AD. The AD brain scan may allow for the early detection of those individuals at risk for later development of brain amyloid and AD, and allow for early drug therapy.
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Tar Sands Action Day Five: Gulf Coast Residents Fight To Prevent New Oil Disaster
Since the Tar Sands Action began on Saturday, 220 people have been arrested for civil disobedience by the U.S. Park Police. Last night, Bill McKibben appeared on Keith Olbermann's show after being released from jail. Today's protest features residents of the Gulf Coast, who have brought up tar balls from the BP oil disaster, with first-hand accounts of the devastation caused by oil spills. As the action continues this week, major news outlets are picking up on the story: CBS, The New Yorker, Reuters, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Politico and numerous others have all run stories on the civil disobedience against the tar sands pipeline.
The nation's largest environmental organizations, representing millions of Americans, from Friends of the Earth to the Environmental Defense Fund, are standing with the Tar Sands Action protesters: "There is not an inch of daylight between our policy position on the Keystone XL pipeline, and those of the protesters being arrested daily outside the White House." 275 protesters have been arrested to date.


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Student expelled after sex assault sues CU for civil rights violationA male student has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the University of Colorado claiming the college discriminated against him during a sexual assault investigation that ultimately led to his expulsion.
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Both parties want the small business vote and an extended interview with Peter Strong
Gloves are off and the lines are drawn with both sides of politics preparing to battle for the massive, 'small business' vote. It is a sector that makes up half of Australia's workforce and on the final day of the NAB National Small Business Summit in Brisbane, a key event for the small business lobby, company owners outlined what they want from government. Tracey Kirkland has this report followed by an extended interview with the head of small business peak body group COSBOA, Peter Strong.
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Will mergers continue to reshape the data center landscape? Investment bankers tracking the industry predict say there are more deals to come, with telecom companies with cloud computing aspiration shaping up as the likely buyers. Read More
Investing: Interxion is Top Performer for Q2
The industry's only IPO of 2011 turned out to be the best performing stock for the second quarter. Interxion, the European hosting and data center specialist, saw its shares gain 16.5 percent. Read More
Today's Fusion-io IPO Leads Wave of Fundings
Today's scheduled IPO for Fusion-io is just one major event in a busy week for financings, including funding for flash memory maker Violin Memory, WAN optimization specialist Aryaka, and stealthy startup WayIn. Read More
Chinese Data Center Firm Makes IPO
Chinese Internet data center services provider 21Vianet Group Inc. raised $195 million in its iniital public offering yesterday on U.S. markets, selling more shares than planned for a price $2 above the proposed range. Read More
Cloud Stocks Are Big Winners on Wall Street
It was a breakout quarter for stocks of companies focusing on cloud computing, as a pair of acquisitions boosted several shares across the sector. The top five performers in our quarterly Data Center Investor roundup were cloud computing plays that saw their shares soar by 35 percent or more in the three-month period ending March 31. Read More
Earnings Preview: Will Equinix Platform Deliver?
Colocation market leader Equinix (EQIX) will be reporting its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, and investors and analysts will be closely scrutinizing its results. Read More
Data Center Stocks Gain on Terremark Deal
Leading data center stocks are sharply higher today as investors buy up shares of Savvis (SVVS), Internap (INAP) and Rackspace (RAX) in the wake of Verizon's $1.4 billion deal to acquire cloud hosting specialist Terremark. Read More
Interxion IPO Grows, Prices at Top of Range
European IT infrastructure provider Interxion (INXN) has boosted the size of its initial public offering, and its stock will debut at $13 a share, at the top of the previously-announced range. Read More
Interxion IPO Expected in $11 to $13 Range
European colocation provider Interxion Holdings expects shares of its IPO to price in a range between $11 and $13. Interxion's offering is scheduled for Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. Read More
Cramer's Dismal Data Center Track Record
Oh boy. Jim Cramer's talking about data center stocks again. So let's look at his track record. For all those investors that followed Cramer's "sell, sell, sell" recommendation in Oct. 2009, here's what you missed. Read More
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