The China-EU School of Law (CESL) at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) is the first law school which was approved by the Ministry of Education (MOE) of the People's Republic of China under the "Sino-foreign Schools Agreement." Former Premier Wen Jiabao expressed his hope that "CESL will educate a great cohort of talented legal professionals equipped with knowledge spanning both Chinese and Western law". The ceremony took place at CUPL's Changping campus in the presence of Jose Manuel Barroso, then President of the European Commission, and Li Keqiang, then Vice Premier of the State Council and member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of China's Communist Party.
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Paramount sued over 'Top Gun'
By David Hejmanowski - Case Study
"The copyright to the story reverted to the Yonays under the Copyright Act, but Paramount deliberately ignored this, thumbing its nose at the statute."
 — Complaint against Paramount Pictures
"These claims are without merit, and we will defend ourselves vigorously."
 — Paramount statement
Paramount Pictures was in need of a hit. Immediately prior to the pandemic, it had suffered several major big-budget motion picture flops, and it was losing out to major studios that had cash cow franchises like Star Wars, Marvel, Harry Potter, James Bond and more. And then the pandemic hit and shut theaters down, making the studio's financial picture even more bleak.
Thus, it was with great fanfare that "Top Gun: Maverick" hit theaters a few weeks ago. And it was a massive, massive hit. It's been the #1 movie in the United States since its release, and as I type this, it is nearing $600 million in box office gross worldwide. It was precisely what Paramount needed at this moment. Except, that is, for the lawsuit from the family of the man who created the original, written story that Top Gun is based on.
Shosh and Yuval Yonay, who are the widow and the son of the late Ehud Yonay, have filed a lawsuit in the federal court for the central district of California. The original story at the center of the dispute was written by Ehud and appeared in a 1983 edition of California magazine. It was called "Top Guns". Paramount purchased the film rights and three years later, in 1986, Tom Cruise hit the silver screen in his flight suit.
Copyright law in America allows the original creator of a licensed work to regain the rights after 35 years, and the Yonays did so in 2020. Paramount still owns the rights to the film, including the ability to sell copies of it, show it in theaters, sell DVDs, stream it, etc. But in order to legally create a new derivative work, they would again have to pay for the rights to the underlying story.
Paramount was aware of the claim by the Yonays before the movie release and has given two alternative defenses. First, they claim that this work is further derivative of their original license and thus permitted. Second, and somewhat contradictory to the first claim, they say that the movie was completed before the end of January 2020 and just delayed by COVID restrictions and released later. The Yonays claim that filming didn't finish until 2021, and there may, therefore, be a need for Tom Cruise to exit the pilot's seat, and take the witness stand instead, in order to determine the exact filming timeline.
Since we've referred to how much money has been made on this film it's also a good time to talk about how individual movie theaters make money showing films. If you go to the Marcus and pay $12 for a movie ticket (or better yet to the Strand and pay only $7) the theater keeps only a small fraction of that ticket price.
The studios get to set the amount of the ticket price that they'll take, but for a major blockbuster or large studio, it's not usual for them to take 60%, 65% or even 70% of the ticket price. And they have complete power to set that amount since they can simply decline to allow the theater to show the movie if it won't pay the amount. Even worse, the studio can increase the amount after the film has already been in the theater for a week or two and require the theater to pay the higher amount on tickets already sold. If you've ever wondered why movie concessions cost so much, it's largely because the theaters actually make very little money on the tickets themselves.
It's likely that the dispute between the Yonays and Paramount will be settled out of court (especially since Paramount has some money to put toward such a settlement due to the success of the film), but if not, it's possible that a third Top Gun film could be ready before this lawsuit finally works its way through trial and appeals.
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David Hejmanowski is judge of the Probate/Juvenile Division of the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, where he has served as magistrate, court administrator, and now judge, since 2003. He has written a weekly column on law and history for The Gazette since 2005.
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Who can resist picking up the maul and banging away on a Hi Striker?
A high striker, also known as a strength tester, or strongman game, is an attraction used in funfairs, fundraisers, and carnivals. It operates by utilizing the lever where one end holds a puck attached to the tower and the other end is struck by the person or contestant using a hammer or mallet. The aim of players is to ring the bell suspended on top of the tower. If the lever is struck with enough force, the puck will raise high enough to hit the bell, indicating a success. Modern versions use a spring-loaded version of the lever, others use an enclosed striking mechanism.
Operators entice people to try the high striker with phrases such as: "Step right up!","Test your strength!", or "Who are the men out of the boys?"
Step right up and test your strength on the High Striker! It's the classic fairground game guaranteed to sort the men from the boys. Using the provided mallet, players must hit the base of the tower as hard as they can to raise the metal puck up to the large bell at the top of the tower.
The High Striker (or strongman game, as it is sometimes known) is a popular choice for any fairground or fete as it always pulls a crowd and can also provide a great earnings potential. It is also a fantastic idea for any corporate or team building events where a fun competitive game is sure to be a big hit!


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'Urgency and frustration': NY education commissioner laments late COVID rules for schools
Gary Stern
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In a memo to school leaders released late Thursday, state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa expressed frustration that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's staff has not yet released health and safety guidelines for the opening of school this fall.
"While the nature and extent of COVID-19 and its variants are still dynamic, it is essential that schools receive whatever guidance the Governor and the (Department of Health) intend to offer about the 2021-2022 school year as soon as possible to provide time for you to take necessary measures to safely welcome students in September," Rosa wrote.
She wrote that the "urgency and frustration" shared by school officials statewide was palpable and shared by the Education Department.
Rosa recommended that school districts, in the meantime, rely on the latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which Cuomo's staff says will be the basis for the Health Department's upcoming guidance.
The CDC on Tuesday recommended universal indoor masking for schools this fall, regardless of vaccination status.
Many education officials have said in recent days that it is difficult to plan for the opening of schools until the state issues key decisions on a number of issues, like masks, social distancing, daily screenings, contact tracing and quarantines, and possible COVID testing requirements.
"We need to find out how to open and what mitigating steps we have to take," said Harry Leonardatos, a Rockland County principal and incoming president of the School Administrators Association of New York State. "We need to know. There are too many issues that are unresolved."
Rosa did address one of the unresolved issues: remote learning.
She wrote that the Education Department will not require school districts to offer an all-remote option for students in 2021-22, but that districts must be prepared to offer the option should a public health emergency force schools to close again.
Rosa did write, though, that districts may work with families and students to offer a remote option if deemed in the best interest of the student. She said that districts should consider using their online capacity — developed during the spring of 2019 and the entire 2019-20 school year — to offer remote opportunities that meet students' needs. Districts may do so with their BOCES or through cooperation with other districts, she said.
"This can help where documented medical conditions prohibit the safe return for students to in-person instruction and where students who have otherwise struggled have excelled with remote learning," Rosa wrote.
She noted that other issues that have not yet been addressed by the Health Department, like social distancing requirements for schools, could affect the need for remote instruction.
Now districts will have just over a month to figure out if they want to offer remote instruction in certain circumstances and how to do so, decisions that have staffing implications. There is a broad consensus among educators that teachers should no longer simultaneously teach students who are in class and students who are on computers at home.
"If you want quality instruction, you can't have the split approach," said Eric Byrne, superintendent of Rye City schools and president of the Lower Hudson Council of School Superintendents.
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Q: Programming with Java for beginners I am a registered Student at a university in Switzerland, thus I know that programming is part of Electrotechnik (electrical engineering), the field I am going to take.
How can I learn programming with Java with easiest way, and without help by others?
I tried it through learning books, but I found it not easy, especially to do it alone.

A: Grüß, Thomas, if you haven't learned any programming it may be a little hard to start, but the Sun Java Tutorials are a good place to start.

A: Try the Java Tutorial.  It will walk you through actual examples, with code that you can try out in various IDEs.  I usually find that easier than reading a book.

A: Head First Java is good, if you can get past the style.  Some people like it, others hate it (I haven't found anywhere in between).  The funny part is the ones that like the style are the people who have more experience I find (not 100% true) but the book is aimed at those with little experience.
If you like the style it is a good book, if you hate the style, there are others, just let use know (as others have asked), are you 100% new to programming and if not what other languages do you know.  Also what part(s) of the langauge are you having trouble with in particular?

A: In fact you have to learn two things, programming and Java.
I would recommend the book thinking in Java (Bruce Eckel), the current version is the 4th edition but you can download the 3th revision for free...

A: For someone that knows nothing about programming, just reading tutorials will not do it for you. It would be good to download an editor and actually write the programs with any tutorial you use.

The thing about programming, the more you actually write the better you get at it.

A: What books have you tried so far? When I started someone recommended to me "Sprechen Sie Java?" my Hanspeter Mössenböck which actually worked pretty well for me back then (having written not a single line of code before starting with Computer Science).

A: You could try a free course at Javapassion.

A: Another option for you if want to get a jump on your studies, you could go through the open courseware from M.I.T.  For example, the Intro to Java Course.

A: Try the FREE book Java Programming for Kids, Parents and Grandparents by Yakov Fain

A: *

*Get yourself set up and complete a "Hello World" tutorial, there are so many all over the next.

*Once you know you can compile a Java program and view the output. Think of a small program. It might something as simple as converting Celcius to Fahrenheit and vice versa. Build that, using Google and whatever other resources you need to to find what you need to do. Once you get that running, think of something more complicated. Build that, keep doing this for a little while.

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*By building real apps, that give you something you want you will be much more motivated and you will understand what you are doing better because all the curly details haven't been solved for you the way they are in online or book tutorials. You may not use the most elegant design but you will learn more.

However at some point you will need to start to delve into books about Object Oriented architecture etc. but for now just jump in and force your brain to learn.

A: Another vote for actually doing some coding here. If you don't like the exercises in books then try programming something you're interested in personally. In my quest to learn C# I'm writing a program to correlate and display photos and GPS tracks and as a spin-off I'm trying to write a 3D graph component in WPF. Having a real problem I'm actually interested in makes a big difference to me, you can get a bit tired of implementations of bank account classes and vehicles.

A: Take a look at BlueJ. It was designed to teach Java

A: I recommend the Stanford course CS106A, which is available for free to download, and can also be found on iTunes.  It's a great course, and the teacher is very enthusiastic:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106a/
I agree with others that the Sun tutorials and the Thinking in Java free book are excellent, however, I don't think they can replace a video for someone completely new to the field.

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Today's world is a massive amount of noise for each one of us, and our brains seem to be addicted to it. We can reach out to any kind of information, at any hour during the day. We are bombarded with emails and ads everywhere. Beyond this noise that some can argue is outside of ourselves, our world tends to get busier by the day. How can we still stay sane, function properly, keep the energy level up and be productive? We need to take a break from time to time. Let's see why and how a retreat can help.
As we evolved from the primitive human species, we did create a whole new world that made the life safer and more comfortable for us. But there are certain aspects of how our body functions that didn't quite adapt yet.
Way back then, the humans used to live quite a different life. They lived like hunters, and were used to a lot of exercise every day. Their sleeping pattern was according to the sun, waking up with the sunrise and going to sleep at sunset. They were getting a lot of natural light during the day. Their food was mainly unprocessed and the level of stress and worry were at a level they could easily cope with.
Nothing similar to the way we live today. A sedentary life, when our body is craving for activity. We go to sleep late, while watching TV, giving our brain a lot of unnatural light and messing with it. We eat a lot of sugar that harm our body with every gram and face high levels of stress and worry every day at work, commute, school and even in our free time. We're basically now part of a noise that's considered just normal life.
It's actually a real challenge to live in today's noisy world equipped with the brain adapted to our ancestor's lives. No wonder so many of us feel "the blues", feel exhausted, burnout or even depressed. These are just ways in which our brain is telling us to take a break, to give it time to process and reboot.
To avoid falling into any of these negative states, we need to give our brain and body a reset from time to time. The best way to do so is under the form of a retreat, at least twice a year if not every 3 months.
A retreat means going to a place where you can stay, in silence, for at least 2-3 days. In silence means that you go alone, and that you have no phone or internet signal (or deliberately switch them off completely). It also means you take no music with you, don't watch any TV nor read any book or newspaper. You don't spend time engaged in conversations with anyone.
Just sit in silence and listen to your brain.
You can take long walks, run, bike etc. Just do that in silence. In the first few hours or even during the whole first day of the retreat, the brain will go from thought to thought, switching between ideas with the speed of light. It will mainly be all about your job, the things that worry you, your mundane life, what makes you miserable and so on.
But after this, once the brain has emptied the daily worries, the really interesting part will happen. The brain will start speaking meaningful things. It will tell about desires, things that make you happy. Your mind will find resolutions to past unresolved problems. It will find peace and quiet. And this will be the perfect ground for you to restart and improve whatever you and your brain will agree to improve to both feel better.
Our life is full of distractions coming from absolutely all directions. Our brain is busy processing all this, and in time we forget about ourselves, and what makes us happy. A break then has the role of putting away all the daily problems to really give time and quiet for us to realign with ourselves, our values and desires. It's also the best way to avoid some serious illness.
I recommend you try this, as soon as you can. Your brain will thank you!


36 Days of Type is a yearly open call inviting designers, illustrators and visual artists to share their view on the letters and numbers from our alphabet.
All my submissions were developed in Houdini and rendered using Mantra and in some cases Redshift. This is a learning reel of sorts. The goal here was to start from scratch each day and draw from material and tricks I've learned over the past few years using the software.


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Sharon Celeste Miller, 55, of Anderson Road, Sprakers, N.Y., passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 6, 2013, at her home in her husband's loving arms.
Born in Amsterdam, N.Y. on November 30, 1957, a daughter of Louis Cuyler and Evelyn Pearce Cuyler. She was a lifelong area resident and was a 1975 graduate of the former Wilbur H. Lynch High School in Amsterdam. She went on to attend FMCC and later was a graduate of the Austin Beauty School with certificates in Nail Tech and Barbering. She received her New York State License in both Barbering and Nail Technician.
Sharon worked for herself at Celestial Nails and for A Cut Above Salon in Fonda for many years. She also worked as an office manager and billing specialist for Dr. Kurt Konieczny in Amsterdam, where she enjoyed meeting with his patients and their families and squeezing all the little pudgy baby thighs she could, her best part of the job.
Sharon loved all kinds of animals and caring for them. She enjoyed crafting that included stamp art and also enjoyed her career as a nail tech and barber. Tending to her flowers, herbs, vegetable garden and canning were also a passion of hers. Everyone knew Sharon as a kind heart who loved being with her family and friends. While struggling with her illness, she never complained and always was concerned for others.
She married John J. Miller Jr. on July 9, 1977. In addition to her loving husband, survivors include her two beloved sons, Jacob (Jayette) Miller of Amsterdam and Lucas Miller and his fiancee, Haley Fonda of Amsterdam, N.Y.; one brother, Jeff (Joanne) Green of San Antonio, Texas; and two sisters, Pam Carnevale (Edward) of Dallas, Texas and Debby Lambert of Las Vegas, Nev.; cherished granddaughter, Anabelle Miller; stepmother, Carolyn Cuyler of San Antonio, Texas; father-in-law, John Miller Sr. of Amsterdam; nieces and nephews, Erin and Ashley Bartosik, Kate and Daniel Quiri, Brandon Miller, Steve Carneval and Lauren May; sisters-in-law, Linda (Richard) Bartosik and Deborah (Mark) Quiri; one brother-in-law, Richard (Stephanie) Miller. Aunts, uncles and cousins also survive. She was predeceased by her father, Louis Cuyler of Amsterdam; and her mother, Evelyn Pearce of California.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 10 a.m. at the Betz, Rossi & Bellinger Family Funeral Home, 171 Guy Park Ave., Amsterdam, with Rev. Brett Popp presiding. Cremation will take place at Vale Cemetery Crematorium in Schenectady. The family will receive relatives and friends on Wednesday, July 10, 2013, from 4 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, it was Sharon's request that donations be made to the Ayers Memorial Animal Shelter, 133 Hill Top Road, Sprakers, NY 12166 or to Mountain Valley Hospice, 108 Steele Ave., Gloversville, NY 12078 in her memory. Please sign the family online guestbook at www.brbsfuneral.com.
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Kick off the holiday season by joining us at Larta Institute to celebrate the move to our new office in the South Park area of Downtown Los Angeles. We will also toast our two recent awards for excellence in fostering entrepreneurs and innovation. Prototypes and materials from many of our portfolio companies will be proudly displayed. While our network spans the globe, we hope to see our local friends at the Open House. If you've ever wondered what goes on inside the walls of Larta, now's your chance to find out.
Drop by and visit us on Friday, December 1st from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at our new office located at 1149 S. Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Light refreshments from Portos will be served.
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The mayor of Monrovia, Jefferson T. Koijee is currently in Bristol, U.K attending the Global Parliament of Mayors Conference or GPM.
Speaking at the opening session of the parliamentary gathering yesterday (Oct. 22, 2018), Mayor Koijee presented the position of the great city of Monrovia ranging from Health, Security, Agriculture, Youth Employment, Infrastructure, and Education.
According to him, these sectors are key to the development of Monrovia and improving the livelihood of its inhabitants.
"I am delighted to be here for this unique session and wish to extend greetings on behalf of the great people of Monrovia and the president of Liberia Amb. George M. Weah. I have come to let you know that despite the many challenges faced my city, we have been doing some tremendous work for the past seven months since we took over as mayor of our capital." Mayor Koijee averred.
"I have the pleasure to share with you some of our challenges as a city. Currently, we are exploring avenue to mobilize financial, technical and logistical resources in tackling our solid waste management, Security and communication. The mobilize resources will help provide technical and logistical support which are some of our major challenges. As you are aware, my country was one of the countries hit with the deadly Ebola virus disease in 2014 that resulted in over 4,000 lives been lost and left our health system broken. My city as an epicenter of economic and political activities in the country, my city play host to approximately one million people which is about 35 % of our total population. The City of Monrovia experienced the worst casualty of the outbreak and has left a negative impact on our health center," he stressed.
He also said tackling waste in Africa especially Monrovia needs a holistic approach with support from International partners and wealthy cities.
The Monrovia City Mayor further reminded his colleagues that the issue of transportation in the city is also a major challenge residents of Monrovia are faced with.
"In Monrovia, we have the state-run University and students leave from distances to attend the University but to get vehicles to transport students to school are difficult. It is a serious problem and we need your intervention. We have also started the process of revamping the Monrovia City Police, making the police a unique and professional force to protect lives and property within the city limit of Monrovia. We have beefed up the strength of our police force to regulate laws through the enforcement of the city ordinance. However, must still needs to be done" he noted.
In a rather passionate tone, Mayor Koijee appealed to his colleagues to join him in enhancing the capacity of the City Police, noting that, most of the difficulties found in Monrovia with respect to citizen gross disregard for the city ordinance, is the issue of the capacity of the security arm of the city Government to enforce the ordinance.
As a result of his brilliant presentation at the opening session, Mayor Koijee has been selected to Co-chair the Health Committee and will be representing the parliament at the World Health Organization summit in Lyon, France from December 4-6, 2018.
The young mayor who joined 28 African Countries at this year's session is the only West African Mayor and the second Mayor to be elected on the Executive Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors.
The Global Parliament of Mayors Conference Bristol 2018 is being held under the theme: "Empowering Cities as Drivers of Change" focuses on global governance and the urgent need for the influence, expertise and leadership of cities to be felt as international policy is shaped.
GPM Bristol 2018 will provide mayoral participants with a global network of connections and a space to develop the collective city voice necessary to drive positive change. The programme will engage participants in decision-making, with panels, debate, and voting on priority issues including migration and inclusion, urban security and health.


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Wearables—Wearable devices offer real-time monitoring of workers' vital signs and can alert workers to the presence of environmental dangers. They can also cut health care costs by reducing health risks such as respiratory problems, cancer, dermatitis and hearing damage. An added bonus to employers is that wearables can provide an idea of what may have caused an employee's injury before filing a workers' compensation claim.
Hand-held mobile devices—Although the use of mobile devices can be a distraction and safety liability, there are useful apps that detect safety hazards, log safety incidents, track OSHA requirements and even determine when the heat index is too high on job sites. The key to improving worker safety with hand-held mobile devices is using them responsibly.
Drones—Sending drones into high-hazard areas instead of humans helps safely assess damage and plan emergency response.
Aside from new devices, data science has enabled companies to analyze photos from job sites and then scan them for safety hazards, using an algorithm that correlates those images with their accident records.
Although the technology still needs some fine-tuning, companies can use such algorithms to rate project risks. As a result, the technology could prove extremely helpful in detecting elevated threats and then intervening with safety briefings.
By using the cloud, companies have been able to completely overhaul the way they interact with each other and with their workers. In a nutshell, the cloud consists of multiple networks of servers that allow apps to be accessed anywhere through the internet instead of confined to a particular computer or network.
Businesses that have projects and crews in multiple locations especially appreciate the benefits of the cloud, since it is efficient and allows for the seamless transfer of information and monitoring of workers' safety.
New technology can be a waste of money if you don't deploy it properly. It's easy to get caught up in the wow factor of technology and lose sight of what you're hoping it will improve. Without a plan in place for deployment, you may be wasting your investment.
Before seeking out new technology, consider ways to improve your processes. After improving your processes, you can identify gaps that new technology can address. No amount of technology will help if your processes are what need to be fixed.


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The Most Pretentious TV Shows Of All Time
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List Rules Vote up the series that tried to be groundbreaking in their form or message, but in a self-indulgent way that makes you roll your eyes.
When it comes to the most pretentious TV shows of all time, things tend to get tricky due to the subjective nature of the question. How exactly does one define what some might call a pretentious TV series (or pretentious film), after all? For the purposes of this particular list, one might consider a TV show in question to fit the bill if it accidentally comes across as condescending, preachy, not as earth shattering as it thought it'd be, and/or amassed a following largely consisting of a hipster population.
Here you'll find a collection of shows that some might just peg under the title of pretentious television. Whether they tend to be shows for TV snobs, hipster television series, or ultimately proved to miss the mark, it's up to you to decide which of these shall inherit the not-so-coveted title of the most pretentious TV shows of all time.
Take your revenge by voting up the most self-indulgent shows and feel free to add any of your own that you feel belong on the list.
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Girls Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Jemima Kirke
Girls is an American television series that premiered on HBO on April 15, 2012. Created by and starring Lena Dunham, Girls is a comedy-drama following a close group of twenty-somethings living ...more
The Big Bang Theory Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan
The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, both of whom serve as executive producers on the show along with Steven Molaro. All three also serve as head ...more
shellywin672 added The Real Housewives of Potomac
The Real Housewives of Potomac (abbreviated RHOP) is an American reality television series that premiered on January 17, 2016, on Bravo. The show was developed as the 8th installment of The Real ...more
kikibeth34 added Sex and the City Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis
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The Newsroom Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr.
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Q: Move page number and headigns to margin How can I move page number and headings to the margin using KOMA-Script?
I'm looking for this layout:

where red circle means position of the page number after the section (or chapter) name.
So far i have following code:
\documentclass[12pt,parskip=half, DIV=calc]{scrbook}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern, libertine}

\usepackage[headsepline]{scrpage2}
\setheadwidth[0pt]{textwithmarginpar}

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{includemp,showframe}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\section{test}
\blindtext[1]
\marginpar{\blindtext[1]}
\blindtext[3]
\end{document}

A: Swap the loading order.
Note that scrpage2 is outdated. Its successor is package scrlayer-scrpage. This package sets \pagestyle{scrheadings} automatically.

\documentclass[12pt,parskip=half]{scrbook}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern, libertine}

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{includemp,showframe}

\usepackage[
  headsepline,
  headwidth=textwithmarginpar,
  footwidth=head% if footer and header should have the same width
]{scrlayer-scrpage}% modern version

\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\section{test}
\blindtext[1]
\marginpar{\raggedright No Wombat can be found here, please be aware of that}
\blindtext[3]
\end{document}

With outdated package scrpage2 you have to activate the page style scrheadings manually.
\documentclass[12pt,parskip=half]{scrbook}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern, libertine}

\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{includemp,showframe}

\usepackage[headsepline]{scrpage2}
\setheadwidth[0pt]{textwithmarginpar}
\setfootwidth[0pt]{head}% if footer and header should have the same width
\pagestyle{scrheadings}% <- added

\begin{document}
\section{test}
\blindtext[1]
\marginpar{\raggedright No Wombat can be found here, please be aware of that}
\blindtext[3]
\end{document}


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Bjarke Myrthu on the role of the interface in an i-doc
"The interface is content" says Alexandre Brachet from Upian. What does this mean?
The interface is no just a way to navigate through content, it is a way to place the user within a story space, and by doing so it gives roles, it explains the possibilities, it generates feelings in the users… and it therefore becomes a type of content in its own rights. But do we know what a good interface should do? Do we know how to design it? Do we know which role it should take in our interactive stories?
I have asked Bjarke Myrthu, CEO of Blindspot App (former CEO of Storyplanet), to tell us more about his "interface ethos". Bjarke is someone I value very much because he is a real pioneer in the world of i-docs and he keeps pushing the boundaries and exploring the form. He will be coming to i-Docs 2014 to speak about his new adventure: Blindspot, an app that will allow us to build playful and immersive stories for our iPads and mobile platforms. For Bjarke, the big novelty is that we are finally going from 'machines controlling man to man controlling machines' – meaning that we can finally start building tools that enhance our creativity in such an intuitive way that we won't have to spend hours "fitting" within the logic of the software itself. This also means that interfaces are going to become more playful and tactile (mobile platform). See what other trends Bjarke is forecasting by watching at his Hangout in the UX Series.
On the other hand Gavin O'Carroll, a senior user experience designer that has recently worked on the redesign of Sky.com, tells us that a good story interface should relax us so that we enjoy the fact of exploring – far from the clicking mode that we associate with work and "doing". Learn more about "cognitive ease" and its effect on catharsis and flow by watching Gavin's interview on the UX Series.
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Institutt for maskinteknikk og produksjon
2D numerical modelling of sediment transport with non uniform material
Lizano Ramon, Laura Isabel
Institutt for maskinteknikk og produksjon [2529]
Numerical modelling is nowadays an important tool for predicting river flows and sediment transport. Two dimensional (2D) models give more detailed information than the often used one dimensional (1D) models, and 2D models have the advantage over three dimensional (3D) models that the simulation times are reduced, and therefore could be more attractive to use in many applied cases, where 3D flow effects are not so important. When using numerical models in predicting sediment transport, the non-uniformity of the bed material has to be considered, especially in natural environments, where it is very likely to have different particle sizes. Sediment transport is highly dependent on the grain size distribution of the sediment mixture of the river bed. The main goal for this thesis was to see if the 2D model CCHE2D could assess accurately the sediment transport in a case with non-uniform material. A physical model study carried out by S. Lanzoni in 2000 was selected for this purpose. In the laboratory, a straight flume with a bimodal sediment mixture was used. Experiments on sediment transport were conducted in the flume, where bed load was the dominating transport mode, alternate bars developed during the experiment and equilibrium conditions were reached. The data from the physical model was the input for the numerical model used in this thesis.CCHE2D was capable of replicating the bed load transport rate in the flume, with only a 1.5 % difference between the measured average value and the simulated value. From the numerical modelling study, it was concluded that the modified Ackers and White formula for calculating sediment transport capacity gave the best results compared to the other available formulae in CCHE2D. This formula includes the hiding and exposure effects, which are important for a sediment mixture like the one used in the studied case. During the study, the main parameters that influenced the sediment transport process were identified. The numerical simulations proved to be very sensitive to the roughness height, the adaptation length and the mixing layer thickness. The study showed that the bed load transport rate calculation is also strongly dependent on the boundary conditions. Uncertainties on parameters and boundary conditions were solved by calibration and sensitivity analyses. The CCHE2D model could be applicable to cases where depth averaged values are accurate enough for the prediction of the physical processes that are being modeled, especially, in cases where helical flows have minor influence on the results. The time required for the simulations and the computational resources were adequate for carrying out this study. However, an applied case with a more complex geometry would require much more computational resources. Additionally, assessment of the parameters requires measured data and calibration.
Institutt for vann- og miljøteknikk


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The State of Qatar consists of 8 municipalities. The most important municipalities are Ad Dawhah, Al Rayyan and Al Wakrah. The country is situated in the Middle East, bordering Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. It is one of the smallest countries in the world with a surface area of 11,581 square kilometers. The nation's terrain is mostly flat desert land. Its climate is arid with hot humid summers and mild winters.
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The State of Qatar is dominated by the Islamic culture. The majority of the population identify themselves as Muslims with around 67.7% practicing the religion. The official language is Arabic. The country is ethnically diverse with a mixture of Arabs and foreigners. The Kuwaiti legal system is a mix between the civil law and the sharia law. The government form is an absolute monarchy. The chief of state is Amir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The head of government is the Prime Minister Sheikh Khalid ibn Khalifa ibn Abdul Aziz Al Thani.
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Qatar is a growing tourism destination with limited tourism attractions and destinations. With the Football World Cup 2022 a variety of new tourism attractions will be opened and made available to the public. Some of the major destinations include the Katara Mosque, the Al Jassasiya Carvings, the Al Wakra Museum, the Qatar National Museum and the Doha Corniche. The nation has a total of approximately 2 million tourists visiting every year with the majority originating from the neighboring gulf states.


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MyFintec is a new broker that opened its doors in May 2018. MyFintec is owned and operated by Kin LTD – which is a company registered on the Marshall Islands. This broker mainly focuses on cryptocurrencies and forex. A lot of information about this broker can be found directly on the website so we'll go step by step.
With a higher deposit, your account will have more options and settings that you can control. Traders who prefer more opportunities will probably choose the model that gives them the highest security and options they can use during trading.
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After a rigorous process of proposal development and review by experts at Digital and the University of California, Sequoia 2000 began in June 1991. The focus of the research was a high-speed, broadband network spanning University of California campuses from Berkeley to Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego; a massive database; storage; a visualization system; and electronic collaboration. Driving the research requirements, were earth scientists. The computing needs of these scientists push the state of the art. Current computing technologies lack the capabilities earth scientists need to assimilate and interpret the vast quantities of information collected from satellites. Once the data are collected and organized, there is the challenge of massive simulations, simulations that forecast world climate ten or even one hundred years from now. These were exactly the kinds of challenges the computer scientists needed.
Sequoia 2000 was also a catalyst for maturing the POSTGRES research database software to the point where it was ready for commercialization. The commercial version, Illustra, is available on Alpha platforms and is enjoying success in the banking industry and in geographic information system (GIS) applications, as well as in other government applications with massive data requirements. Illustra is also making inroads into the Internet where it is used by on-line services.
Yet another major result of Sequoia 2000 was a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop an alternate architecture for the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). EOSDIS will process the petabytes of real-time data from the Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites to be launched at the end of the decade. The alternate information architecture proposed by the University of California faculty was the Sequoia 2000 architecture. It will have a major influence on the EOSDIS project.
For the earth scientists, gains were made in simulation speeds and in access to large stores of organized data. These scientists used some of Digital's first Alpha workstation farms and software prototypes for their climate simulations. An eight-processor Alpha workstation farm provided a two to one price/performance advantage over the powerful, multimillion-dollar CRAY C90 machine. In another earth science application, scientists using Alpha and hierarchical storage systems could simulate two years' worth of climate data over the weekend without operator intervention; formerly, two months' worth of data took one day to simulate and required considerable operator intervention. Thus many more simulations could be processed in a fixed time and "time to discovery" was decreased considerably.
Now that we can look at Sequoia 2000 in retrospect, would we do such a project again? The answer is a resounding "yes" from all of us involved. It was a complex project that included 12 University of California faculty members, 25 graduate students, and 20 staff. Another 8 faculty members and students provided additional expertise. Four of Digital's engineers worked on site, and a variety of support personnel from other industry sponsors participated, including SAIC, the California Department of Water Resources, Hewlett-Packard, Metrum, United States Geological Survey (USGS), Hughes Application Information Services, and the Army Corps of Engineers.
But as is the case with such ambitious projects, there were unanticipated and difficult lessons for all to learn. To experiment with real-life test beds means considerably more than writing a rigorous set of hypotheses in a proposal. Michael Stonebraker, in his paper, notes a number of challenges we faced and the lessons learned. One of the issues that kept surfacing was the "grease and glue" for the infrastructure, that is, the interoperability of pieces of software and hardware that composed the end to end system. This remains a challenge that needs research if we are going to achieve the promised goals of internetworking. Another of the sticky points was that of scalability. On the one hand, it is difficult to build a very large networked system from scratch. On the other hand, as we slowly built the mass storage system to the point of minimal critical mass, we found that the current off-the-shelf technologies for mass storage were not ready to be put use for our purposes. So yes, we believe the project was worthwhile with some caveats. We gained critical knowledge about the technology, but we also came a long way in learning the art of directing and leading the type of project that is necessary to assist the Information Technology industry in its quest for the ubiquitous distributed information system.
How else are we going to get insight into the critical issues of building and reliably operating a robust information infrastructure without building a large test bed with real end users whose needs push the state of the art at each point along the way? We believe that large projects similar to Sequoia are crucial. The papers that follow attest to the important knowledge gained. We have focused specifically on the end to end system --- from the scientists' desktops to the mass storage system, the challenge of building and using a large data repository, the timely and fast movement of very large objects over the network, and browsing and visualizing data from networked sources.


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9,623 cases of TB registered
The programme manager of the National Leprosy and Tuberculosis programme, Dr Foday Dafae, disclosed in a press conference over the weekend that in 2007, 9,623 cases of Tuberculosis (TB) were registered.
Speaking at the Grassroots Gender Empowerment hall at John Street in Freetown, Dr Dafae said in 2004 there were 5,863 cases, in 2005, 6,930, in and in 2006 8,208 cases of TB were registered in TB health clinics nationwide.
He added that when people with pulmonary (lung) cough, sneezed or spat, they propelled the germs in the air that caused TB.
The programme manager noted that a person needed to inhale only a few of these germs to be infected, adding that an infected person did not necessarily feel ill.
Continuing, Dr Dafae disclosed that globally, "TB is a massive public health problem with nine million new cases and two million deaths annually".
TB, he noted, was also a serious public health problem in our country, noting further that there had been a steady increase in the number of new cases reported to our clinics.
"The treatment successes rate has jumped from 75% in 2004 to 87% in 2007", he revealed, adding that, "we now have 84 diagnostic centres nationwide as compared to less than 20 in 2004, maintaining that with this progress, it is our belief that we can stop TB".
Speaking on the slogan for this year's World TB day commemoration: "I am stopping TB", he pointed out that, "I am stopping TB is more than a slogan. It is the art of a two-year campaign that belongs to people everywhere who are doing their part to stop TB".
The programme manager stated that it was about celebrating the lives and stories of people affected by TB, "our country men; women and children who have taken TB treatment; nurses; doctors; our TB supervisors in the field; community workers-anyone who has contributed towards the global fight against TB".
Dr Dafae accentuated that the World Health Organization's (WHO) target was to detect 70% of sputum positive cases and to successfully treat 85%.
At the moment, he said, "our case detection rate is 52%."


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In the introduction to The Bird-Life of London Dixon outlines his motivations for writing the book. He mentions that the study of nature now occupies a prominent place in the educational course of the Council's elementary schools. However, Dixon feels that many of the text books on this topic are of a low-quality and full of errors. He therefore hopes that his book will encourage further study of London's birds and that it will help teacher's teaching Nature-studies in the city's elementary schools.
Dixon makes some suggestions for the nature curriculum. Firstly, he emphasises that schools should focus their attention on birds that can be found in the school's district. The reason he gives is that this will demonstrate how certain birds inhabit certain localities; why they do so; how they do so. But Dixon is also championing the local and encouraging teachers to teach their students about the birds they might see whilst playing on the street or walking to school – he is championing a sense of attachment to place and local knowledge.
Dixon also mentions the "school museum", which he says is all too often a mere cupboard full of odds and ends and rubbish of no use whatever from an educational point of view. This reminds me of an article by Tim Dee published in the New York Times a few years ago. The article is about the now extinct practice of having a nature table in primary school classrooms. It is about how this loss links to the wider losses of wild space and biodiversity that we are now experiencing and our separation and alienation from nature.
Dee details the kinds of items that found their way onto the nature tables of his childhood: …furry catkins in jam jars, bunches of wilting bluebells, smooth chalk pebbles and knuckle-bone flints. But these days such items would be considered dirty, perhaps dangerous, and potentially illegal.
Not only has the nature table been banished from classrooms, but we have banished nature from our language (there was a bit of a furor a few years ago when the OUP published a new edition of their Oxford Junior Dictionary that removed certain nature words and added in more technology oriented words), from our everyday lives, and into protected areas. For Dee these protected areas, as well-intentioned and laudable as they are, are another means of cutting us off from nature, or at least mediating our experience of it through interpretive signs, bird hides and raised walkways.
This mediation and cosseting of nature leads people to believe that nature happens only in nature reserves, in special places where we might be shown its specialness. And it leads people to overlook nature nearby, the gardens and field edges and leftover woodland where Dee got his start as a birdwatcher.
Dixon's idea of the school museum differs from Dee's: Each should contain at least stuffed specimens of the common birds of the neighbourhood, together with a set of models of the eggs of the commoner species. It is not a random collection of objects that have grabbed the passing fancy of a child. Personally I think I prefer the nature table that Dee describes from his childhood to Dixon's collection of dead and stuffed birds, though I know I would have found Dixon's museum fascinating as a child.
I grew up in the post-nature table era, but I had no less of a penchant for collecting specimens than Dee or his classmates: pebbles, shells, jars of sand, leaves scotch-taped into notebooks, rubbings of tree bark, conkers, pine cones, feathers, sticks, daisy chains, I even had a pet snail for an afternoon before it started oozing green slime. I was fascinated by the collection of old identification books that lived on our bookshelves at home. There were books of birds, butterflies, plants and mushrooms. I took them into school to show my teacher. I got my own bird book and a pair of binoculars as a present and watched the birds in my back garden – magpies mostly. I grew up in the city, but I don't think of my childhood as one disconnected from nature. True, my family also "visited the countryside" on weekends and holidays, and in that sense I was luckier than most of the other kids on my row of Council houses. But I remember the city as a place sufficient in nature to pique the interest of a young naturalist.
The study of birds within the Metropolis offers a field of research absolutely denied to the ornithologist in more rural surroundings. This is in relation to the ways of birds under more or less abnormal conditions, which illustrate in a wonderful manner their adaptability to novel circumstances.
The bulk of the book is dedicated to profiles of the many birds found within London. Each profile details the birds local names, its status in British avifauna and its radial distribution within fifteen miles of St Paul's. Each profile also typically contains information about the bird's breeding habits, feeding habits, a description of the male and female and a description of the bird's eggs. Scattered throughout the book there are also beautiful illustrations.
As a dweller in the country I knew the Ring Dove as one of the shyest and wariest of birds; in London I was simply amazed to see it so tame and confiding, walking about the parks, picking up bread scattered by passers-by, and almost remaining to be kicked out of the way.
The Pied Wagtail seems to possess a special propensity for paying casual visits to most uncongenial places in towns and cities. Many years ago I used frequently to see this Wagtail in the most central parts of Sheffield, running along the roofs of the factories or daintily tripping by the margin of the filth-stained rivers, an arm's-length from roaring machinery.
…there is not an open space where its actions many not be observed during all the hours of daylight.
As I've mentioned before, House Sparrow numbers have severely declined in the UK, the RSPB website mentions a decline of 71% between 1977 and 2008. The species has now been red listed – something that would have seemed unbelievable to Dixon and W.H. Hudson.
I wonder if we humans have had to adapt ourselves to the city, like the crow and the ring dove, or whether some are born urbanites, like the house sparrow? As I mentioned, I grew up in the city. As a teenager, I dreamed about escaping the city. I wanted to live in a small house in the middle of the countryside, far from human habitations. On certain days I still have that same dream though I have chosen to live in cities and I have dedicated my writing to exploring urban nature. I think I am a house sparrow at heart. But who's to say the house sparrow doesn't sometimes long for more rural environs?
In a belt of glorious shrubbery there the Blackcap could be heard in numbers all the summer through warbling deliciously, the Rooks cawing noisily in the trees overhead. There the Goldcrest bred, Titmouse and Creepers had their haunt, and the Thrush and Blackbird piped the livelong day. All is now laid bare and desolate; in the meadows adjoining, some of the most magnificent timber round London has been felled; everything of beauty is given over to the arch-spoiler the speculative builder!
Habitat destruction and encroachment remains one of the biggest threats to wildlife, including in cities, which expand out into surrounding green spaces, or else remaining green spaces within cities are built over. Sometimes buildings are demolished and the land is left to turn into "wasteland", but it remains in an uncertain between space. Though some, such as the folks at the Wasteland Twinning project, are fighting to save, or at least catalogue, these wasteland spaces.
During winter the game-dealers' shops are a study in themselves, especially Leadenhall Market, where from time to time some of our rarest bird visitors find their way for sale in the Metropolis. A fair collection of rare birds could be obtained in this locality alone by the enterprising naturalist.
Dixon mentions several birds that have been shot at various locations around London, including the Ring-Ouzel in a sewage farm and the Snow Bunting, which Dixon says has been shot often within his 15 mile radius. He also refers to the bird-catchers, who seem to be catching birds to sell as caged pets, birds such as the Wood Lark, the Hawfinch, the Goldfinch, and the Siskin. Dixon won't even mention the location of the Kingfisher, for fear the information will be used by bird-catchers.
For some birds Dixon seems indifferent to these depredations, but in the case of the Kingfisher, he believes it is such a beautiful ornamental bird that it should be cherished by all of London's inhabitants. He notes that in some areas, due to the strict enforcement of laws protecting the Kingfisher, its numbers have increased, however, he notes: unless sentiment can be invoked for its protection Acts of Parliament are useless.
This reminds me of another article, this time by George Monbiot, in which Monbiot argues that environmentalists are guilty of a failure of emotional honesty. Whilst terms like sustainable development and ecosystem services are thrown around to persuade others to care for the living world, environmentalists are failing to admit that what motivates them is not economics but love: The reality is that we care because we love. Nature appealed to our hearts, when we were children, long before it appealed to our heads, let alone our pockets. Dixon is making a similar point, Acts of Parliament alone are not enough to ensure the Kingfisher's protection, though they do go some way if properly enforced. What is needed above all else is sentiment, love. People need to love and appreciate the beauty of the Kingfisher, or any bird, before they will be moved to protect it.
Many of the birds Dixon mentions are not quite as common as they were in 1909 – the corncrake is a stark example of this. On mainland Britain it is only found along a narrow fringe of western Scotland, hundreds of miles from London, which it called home in Dixon's time. We have banished nature tables from our classrooms and our dictionaries are being stripped of nature words. Still, reading The Bird-Life of London makes me hopeful.
If Dixon visited present day London he would probably be dismayed at the advances of the speculative builder. But if he spoke to a few people on the street he might also notice a change in sentiment. I doubt many ring ouzels are shot in London these days and egg collecting is no longer a common hobby. Part of my motivation for doing this project was to see how attitudes to urban nature have changed. I didn't expect to be reading books from the early decades of the 20th century, I had thought urban nature writing was a fairly recent phenomenon. So it makes me hopeful to see how far back urban nature writing goes. It also makes me hopeful to see how positive Dixon is towards newcomers. Though he does see some birds, such as crows, as pests, he is mostly open to new arrivals in the city. This egalitarian attitude is, I believe, what we need to sustain nature well into the 21st century. And I hope it is still very much alive in the streets of London.
 According to Wikipedia, Wembley Park once contained a tower called Watkin's Tower, which was commission by Sir Edward Watkin, Chairman of the Metropolitan Railway Company. It was intended to rival the Eiffel Tower and to encourage people to use the Metropolitan line that had been extended to Wembley Park. The tower never quite lived up to its promise, became structurally unsound and was demolished in 1904, just eight years after it had opened.
 I've recently been reading The New Wild: Why invasive species will be nature's salvation by Fred Pearce, which looks at alien species, attempts to debunk myths about their role in the destruction of ecosystems (and even questions the notion of ecosystems in the first place) and argues that they may, in fact, be the saviours of nature in the anthropocene. It has definitely confirmed and shaped some of my thinking about "alien" species and which species belong where. Well worth a read!