The Federal Circuit has ruled that the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) – the federal agency that investigates and issues orders regarding imported goods that infringe intellectual property rights, among other things – may block the importation of goods that do not infringe a patent at the time of entry into the U.S. but that are later used in an infringing manner by customers in the U.S. Issued en banc (i.e. as a full court), the ruling reverses an earlier Federal Circuit panel opinion holding that there must be infringement at the time of importation.
CAN THE ITC BLOCK GOODS THAT DO NOT INFRINGE?
Patent law distinguishes between "direct" and "indirect" infringement of a patent. In the case of method patents, direct infringement occurs when someone performs all of the steps of a patented method himself or herself. Indirect infringement occurs when someone induces or contributes to direct infringement of a patent by another, for instance, by an integrator or an end user. Indirect infringement by inducement can occur in some instances where one party provides a product to another along with instructions directing the other to use the product in an infringing manner. Notably, there is no indirect infringement by one party unless and until the other party infringes the patent directly.
When it comes to importation, a product might not actually infringe any patent when it enters the U.S., but may later be used in an infringing manner within the U.S. Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 makes it unlawful to import "articles that infringe" a valid U.S. Patent. In Suprema, Inc. v. International Trade Commission, the question was whether Section 337 authorizes the ITC to block the importation of goods that, after import, "are used by the importer to directly infringe at the inducement of the goods' seller." The ITC argued that it can block such goods, and the Federal Circuit ultimately agreed.
At issue in the case were fingerprint scanners manufactured in Korea by Suprema, Inc., imported into the U.S. by Mentalix, Inc., and then sold by Mentalix, together in bundles with its own custom software that operates the scanners, to customers in the U.S. Importantly, Suprema ships each scanner with an instruction manual explaining how to write programs that implement the scanner's functionality.
Cross Match Technologies, Inc. filed a complaint with the ITC, alleging infringement of patents that it owns that relate to biometric imaging technology. The ITC investigated, and found that Suprema was inducing Mentalix to perform an infringing method. More specifically, the ITC found that Mentalix had directly infringed the patent at issue through its integration of the scanners and its custom software, and that Suprema had actively encouraged and facilitated Mentalix's activities and that it believed there to be a high probability that the scanners were covered by Cross Match's patents. On the basis of its findings, the ITC excluded several Supreme scanners from import into the United States.
The opinion states that the ITC's interpretation is consistent with the "fundamental purpose" of the Tariff Commission to "prevent a diverse array of unfair methods of competition in the importation of goods." It also emphasizes that "the practical consequence would be an open invitation to foreign entities . . . to circumvent Section 337 by importing articles in a state requiring post-importation combination or modification before direct infringement could be shown." The Court reversed the earlier ruling and remanded. Three judges dissented.
The Suprema opinion is noteworthy at two levels. First, it makes clear that the importation of goods can be blocked if the goods are later to be used in an infringing manner in the U.S. at the inducement of the seller. This is helpful for U.S. patent holders facing unfair competition from sellers and importers seeking to skirt the boundaries of indirect infringement through a narrow reading of Section 337. Second, the opinion exhibits a high degree of deference to the ITC and a willingness to broadly construe its statutory authority to police unfair trade.


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It's natural that native speakers of any language sometimes make mistakes, although probably better-educated speakers can avoid them most/all of the time.
I was wondering if you could provide some examples of the most frequent mistakes (grammatical, but perhaps also concerning pronunciation or vocabulary) that you've noticed?
Also, could you comment on the following (i.e. say whether you consider it a mistake, whether you might commit such a mistake if speaking carelessly, whether you've heard it)?
1. "If I would have known about the party, I would have gone to it."
2. "He don't care about me anymore."
3. When we go to the party on Saturday, let's bring a bottle of wine.
4. Sign at the checkout of a supermarket: "Ten items or less".
5. I'm not speaking to nobody in this class.
6. "I would have took the train."
7. I should have went to school yesterday.
8. "If I was in a different situation, ..."
9. "I could care less".
Yes, I consider them all mistakes in BrE, just as they are defined on the web site, except that 1 is used in AmE, where it is not a mistake.
Re 6 & 7: many people incorrectly say "I would OF " instead of I would have.
You see number 4 all the time!
Number 9 I understand is the way that Americans say it, but you only hear 'I couldn't care less' in the UK.
1. I would say, "If I had known about the party, I would have gone to it." The sentence as written strikes me as unnecessarily wordy, but not as blatantly incorrect as some of the others. I wouldn't cringe to hear it.
3. What's supposed to be wrong with this one? It sounds fine to me!
4. I know it should be "fewer," but this is present in every grocery store in America and I have never once seen a sign saying "ten items or fewer." I'm sure this is going to become standard by sheer weight of usage, and I can't say that this particular mistake bothers me much. I probably even say it myself on occasion.
5, 6, 7 all unacceptable. I would be very surprised to hear anyone I know make these mistakes.
8. Should be "were," but a pretty common mistake and not as striking as 2,5,6,and 7. I might say it myself occasionally.
9. This one is very common but it drives me crazy. #4 just violates an arbitrary rule of grammar, but # 9 defies logic. I would never say it, and might even correct someone who ought to know better.
AHA!! I just realized that # 3 should be "take" rather than "bring." But I'm not going to edit out my original reaction, because I thinks its interesting - I really read that sentence many times befor discovering the error. Like the less/fewer distinction, I think the take/bring distinction is dying out. I wouldn't hesitate to say sentence #3, and wouldn't notice anything odd if I heard it.
I might also add that there is such a thing as Ebonics, or "Black English", in which #2 and #5 might be considered acceptable. As you might guess, this is a very controversial issue, and I am not very well informed about it - I think the idea is that in some American Black communities, certain grammatical variations have attained the status of a dialect. I'n sure you can find out more about this online.
Thanks, Demicjusz, for starting this thread! Its interesting to think about why some mistakes drive me crazy (#9), some definitely sound uneducated (2, 5, 6, 7) and others don't bother me much. I suppose all grammar is arbitrary; I'm not sure why I'm willing to give up on the "less/fewer" disctiction so easily but would never dream of conceding the "he don't/he doesn't distinction. I've been enjoying your contributions to the forum.
3. / 8.5 I'm sympathetic here because I've never mastered the subtle cases of "bring" and "take"!
The supermarket I go to has two signs, "10 items or less" and "10 items or fewer" -- in adjacent check-out lanes!
"If I would have known about the party, I would have gone to it."
On what grammatical grounds could you give so a high score to the grammaticality of the construct, be it either "If I would have known" or "If I'd've known (=I had have known)"? To me it sounds the prevalent use of such constructs is simply a kind of evidence that American youngs are not being taught English grammar enough. Don't you check them when you find such constructs in the essays of your students?
It would be unacceptable in an essay, but people use that construction. Age has nothing to do with it. I hear people of all ages say "If I would have ...". On the other hand, I never hear anyone I know say the ones marked 1. I'm taking a seat-of-the-pants approach here, giving general impressions, nothing scientifically accurate.
Paco - it grieves me to say it, but I believe that Br. youngsters do not receive specific lessons in grammar at all in school. How shocking!
Thanks for the reply. I googled the phrases "if I had/would have known that" and found about 10 % of people use "would have known" for "had known". What I'd like to know is the reason why those people are using "would have known" for "had known". The subjunctive past "had known" and the epistemic modal for unrealized past "would have known" somehow overlap in stating an unrealized past event. It may be the reason why people confound "had known" and "would have known".
You say your grading on the grammaticality is by a seat of your pants, but such grading is still very useful for us ESL students. We can know from books and dictionaries which expression is not grammatical and which one is grammatical. But no books tell us how much weird an ungrammatical expression sounds to the native ears. I think many of us ESL students are taught as if the wrong choice of take/bring, for example, were so serious a mistake as the basic mistakes such as those you marked as 1. To grade ungrammatcality is what we are really expecting teachers to do.
By the way the phrase "by a seat of the pants" is an idiom new to me. I searched for the source of the idiom but I couldn't find it, though OED suggests that is an expression that began to be used by airplane pilots to contrast with an automatic handling. I guess it would be wrong if I say "by a seat of the trousers" or "by a seat of the skirts" Right?


Before tonight I had not been out for over two weeks due to snow and ice followed by a cold and cough. I finally ventured down to our nearest larger town a half hours drive away because I had a meeting there. Afterward I went on a grocery shopping spree. I have been feeling really out of it — this virus has whacked me out, making me feel more of an alien than usual. Not to mention the cabin fever on top of it! Besides that I have been eating oatmeal with almond milk, mandarin oranges, celery and carrot sticks, and Progresso low fat chicken soup. I haven't been able to taste much and we have had no desserts in the house of late.
At the store I peruse the bakery section which I never do, really! I am craving something fattening and sweet but I do not know what. My brain is actually telling me that I will feel less spacey if I eat something bad! Then I see a little cheesecake short and stout (see accompanying photo). I place it in the cart and finish shopping. On the way out I grab a handful of those cheap 'sanitary' paper towels they have at the entrance of the stores these days. These particular towelettes are like pages of printing paper with alcohol splashed on them. Once in the truck I undress the cake (the dented package looks like a Tasmanian devil opened it!) and eat like I would eat a young, handsome guy after I've just gotten out of prison. I think I actually jumped on the cake. My endorphins ("our own private narcotic") went crazy. I felt the way that opium users must feel during that first hit of the day or whatever. It was like my soul got wrapped in marshmallow cream and then walked through a warm chocolate shower. I may have even blacked out. And it wasn't even a good cheesecake! It had a foamy texture and the crust was mushy. But I will never forget it. And here I thought I was too old to experience that much pleasure in the cab of a compact pickup!
O, and I feel much better!


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Now she wants to help you find your match, too. Girls, you go for the "Mr. Nice Guy"? Guys, how about the "Nerdette"? I'm sure the "Bad Boy" is on there somewhere too, in honor of Ms. Harp.
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One of the biggest highlights of SDCC and I almost missed it.
As I wandering around the gaslight district with sweat pouring buckets down my face, a friend sent me an alert to my cell that the Her Universe Fashion was starting in 20 minutes.
I was blocks but from the convention hall and it was being held at the Marriot Hotel next to it. Dilemma presented, what's the solution? Pedicab it!
Pedi-cabs are used frequently during SDCC. Pedicabs are pretty much rickshaws attached to motorized bikes. The fare can run between $8-$20 depending on where your going. Most of the pedicabs during SDCC will be decorated with promotions or posters. Later on in the week, I managed to ride in a Once Upon a Time-themed pedicab. The cyclists are usually very kind, fun,and some will even pump out music.
So began my first venture on a pedicab. It was such a thrill zooming through the streets as he blared out Beyonce "Crazy in Love". I could not stop laughing! What would have taken me an agonizing 25 minutes due to sore feet, took me less than 10 minutes. Mission accomplished!
Now why go through all that hassle for a fashion show? It's the only fashion show that every female in the geek industry should pay attention to. It was the First ever HER UNIVERSE fashion show!
It was also announced (with very, very much excitement) that they will be introducing a new brand to the franchise: STUDIO GHIBLI!!!! Some of the models walked onstage with the upcoming apparel and I know for a fact that I will be broke. Very happily broke.
Her Universe fashion show set out to present geek couture to another level. For those familiar with comic convention floors, people have been wearing their own designs of their own geek couture for a long time. Now it was presented on a beautiful catwalk with a chance at creating an exclusive line for Hot Topic store distribution. For geek fashion designers, this was a BIG deal.
I lost my voice from cheering so hard for all the talent that walked on stage. Every single outfit was a work of beautiful design. Eckstein even walked out in a custom-made Totoro inspired gown! Beautiful!
I'm not going to lie, I felt immensely lacking in my designer skills!
There were about thirty or so entries. The show was broken up into several segments with a video-bio preceding the models walking. I truly congratulate every single designer. Your hard work has inspire others to create their own.
I wasn't able to film the event but you can see snippets of the event on various websites. It was co-hosted by Nerdist Industries and I believe they will have some footage. The best video of the event so far is featured below. Her Universe website will also be highlighting each of the designers in the upcoming month.
"Nice dress Marty"- dress inspired from Back to the Future. Winner for the event!
Of all the dresses, there was one that had me jump out of my seat in shock. I really did jump out of my seat. I believe I startled the girls around me with my enthusiasm.
The dress was designed by Andrew MaClaine, from Palm Springs, California. His dress was titled "Regina's curse" from Once Upon a Time. Being an avid fan of the show, my eyes were glued. The model comes out in the modern version of the evil queen. Beautiful,but not eye popping. It was when she unhooked her belt and she instantly transformed into the evil Queen! It happens in less than 10 seconds and it is phenomenal! Check out the footage, I still have chills. From all the surprise squeals that joined mine, it was no wonder that it won fan favorite!
If you're looking at these photos in envy or telling yourself you could have designed a better outfit, then keep an eye out for the next call of submissions for next years Her Universe fashion show. Start sketching your ideas now!
This was an honor to be an audience at the first Her Universe Fashion Show. Whether I am able to attend SDCC or not next year, I will keep my eyes peeled for it!


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Fred Dieter Wiznerowicz (* 25. September 1938 in Züllichau) ist ein deutscher Ingenieur und Hochschullehrer.

Leben und Werk
Wiznerowicz absolvierte sein Abitur 1958 an der Humboldtschule Hannover. Danach studierte er an der Technischen Hochschule Hannover, wo er 1970 schließlich promovierte über die "Belastung des Drehstrom-Bordnetzes eines Schiffes bei Ladewindenbetrieb". Daraufhin arbeitete er vier Jahre in der Forschungs- und Entwicklungsabteilung der Firma Kabelmetal. Wiznerowicz wurde 1974 Professor an der Fachhochschule Hannover (heute Hochschule Hannover).

Wiznerowicz widmete sich zeit seiner beruflichen Laufbahn Kabeln und Isolierstoffen in seiner Forschungs- und Publikationstätigkeit.

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Лев Николаевич Львов (1826 — ?) — московский .

Биография
В 1850 году окончил МДАУ со званием архитекторского помощника.

В 1874 году перестраивал дом на Сухаревской пл., 10, выполнил проект придела ц. Николы на Мясницкой ул. (не сохр.).

В 1876 году надстроил двумя ярусами колокольню в Кудинове Богородского уезда.

В 1876—1882 годах построил в с. Деулина Дмитровского уезда, с западной стороны от Спасской церкви двухъярусную колокольню, соединенную с ней небольшим притвором. Её декоративное оформление очень скупо: нижний ярус, представляющий собой и вход в храм, разделен надвое узким карнизом. Верхний ярус — собственно ярус звона — представляет собой четыре вытянутых арки (по одной в каждой грани) между рустованными столбами. Венчает колокольню декоративный шатер. Подбор её состоял из шести колоколов. После гибели деревянного храма, Спасская церковь стала почитаться как память о Деулинском мире.

В 1877 году расширил Успенскую церковь в Стромыни Богородского уезда, построил часовню в Подмостье Дмитровского уезда.

В 1878 году надстроил колокольню в Подчеркове Дмитровского уезда.

В 1879 году построил часовню церкви Смоленской Иконы Божией Матери в с. Полубояринове.

В 1881 году состоял смотрителем городских зданий по Тверской, Арбатской, Пречистенской частям.

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Выпускники Московского дворцового архитектурного училища
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THE HAUTE DOG HOWL'OWEEN PARADE: It's one of the nationally famous costume dog parades. Why is that? Well, it has been around for over a decade. People really go all out with their mutters' togs. And over 500 dogs regularly show up. It's in Long Beach, the parade covers 12 blocks, and it costs to enter your pup. But watching? Completely free. Sunday, Oct. 30
PRICE-A-THON 100: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is marking the centenary of Vincent Price with a full afternoon and evening of gleeful, candy-colored horror classics on Sunday, Oct. 30. You've seen "House of Wax," yes? But are you acquainted with "The Tingler"? We pre-doff our cap to anyone who commits to all six screenings.
"MUNSTERS, GO HOME": Grandpa and Herman and the gang are a huge part of the Halloween scene. So we love that the Hammer Museum is showing this 1966 flick, for free, as a part of their Family Film series. Do your kids know the Munsters? They probably should, certainly if you adored them when you were a tot. Eight-and-over is the recommended age. Screening is at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30


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13 August, 2015 ▪ Stanislav Kozliuk
Hostages of the Kremlin
President Poroshenko says there are 30 Ukrainian citizens currently being illegally held in Russia. Human rights advocates that they know about the situation with 11, most of whom the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has yet to provide with lawyers
A wave of arrests
The wave of politically-motivated arrests of Ukrainians began almost immediately after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. One of the leaders of UNA-UNSO, Mykola Karpiuk, was arrested in March, film director Oleh Sentsov in May, and pilot Nadia Savchenko in June, accused variously of organizing criminal gangs, terrorism and mass murder. But there have been far less high-profile incidents as well, often involving very ordinary individuals. The arrests of Artem Hordienko, Vitaliy Kryvosheyev and Kyrylo Pylypenko were gleefully reported in Russian media in April 2014, which called the four men "spies" and "terrorists" who were supposedly preparing to blow up places in Russian cities. Altogether, 25 such individuals have been written about. In time, however, it turned out that these "dangerous criminals" were ordinary migrant workers who were eventually deported from the Russian Federation, according to Ukrainian press reports.
In most cases, the people were originally arrested under the popular soviet heading of "hooliganism." But then these supposed hooligans found themselves being interrogated by FSB officials who were very curious about the Euromaidan and Praviy Sektor. Stories like this, and on a similar scale, can be heard from Russian human rights advocates during the time of the Russo-Georgian War in 2008, when a similar campaign against Georgians was rolled out.
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"For a long time after being arrested, the Ukrainian consul and lawyers are prevented from visiting the individual being detained," explains Maria Tomak, a journalist with the Center for Civil Freedom. "In short, the most basic rules that the justice system should be respecting are completely ignored. For instance, a Ukrainian citizen by the name of Yuriy Soloshenko.[1] He was arrested in the center of Moscow when he arrived there on a business trip. Eventually, he found himself in the infamous Lefortovo prison. From the very start, he was accused of industrial espionage, but the case has since been requalified as regular espionage. He's been imprisoned in Russia for nearly half a year now and not once has the consul been allowed to see him."
Tomak adds that very often in these cases, the families don't want to publicize any information as they keep hoping that their silence will favor a positive outcome. "Of course, we try to explain to them that it's highly unlikely that their silence will result in any concessions if the aggressor country decides to capture their relative or friend," she says. "However, if people don't want to talk about this subject, we don't pressure them."
On May 13, Savchenko's lawyer Mark Faigin announced that some 30 Ukrainian citizens are currently imprisoned in Russia. Shortly after that, President Poroshenko mentioned the same figure. Euromaidan SOS, an advocacy group, points out that the State Security Bureau (SBU) promised to provide a list of names to confirm this information, but two weeks after the meeting, there is still no list of prisoners.
Looking for scapegoats in Ukraine
Not all those being held can boast heroic tales. There are those who agree to collaborate with the agencies holding them and to sign any statements demanded of them. For instance, there's the case of Serhiy Lytvynov. Russian propaganda claimed that he was a member of the Dnipro voluntary battalion, but it became known that Lytvynov was actually from the village of Komyshne in Stanytsia-Luhanska County and had never joined up because he was sick. Prior to being arrested, which took place last August in Russia he was working as a commercial assistant to a private business owner. He's now implicated in what has been called "the Great Ukrainian Affair," a slew of cases in which the detainees are being accused of mass murder and using prohibited methods of warfare, the most famous of whom is Nadia Savchenko.
Lytvynov has already signed a confession admitting to murder and rape. In addition, he supposedly told how Ihor Kolomoyskiy personally brought money to the Dnipro battalion and issued "criminal orders." "We have to point out that Lytvynov is a fairly controversial figure," says Tomak. "Right now, it's not even clear how he ended up in Russia in the first place, this ordinary villager without even a high-school diploma. If you read the official transcripts of the interrogations, you can see that his supposedly dozens of rapes are described in one and the same manner. It's obvious that these 'confessions' were written in certain offices.
"We can also assume that he agreed to collaborate with the agencies in exchange for something he was promised. There is information that his brother was a displaced person who supposedly moved to Russia. In short, it's hardly a heroic story. But what's important is something else. People are being used by Russia to serve its own purposes, in order for this criminal case to have some story." She adds that there could well be more people incriminated in this particular case, although it's hard to name even an approximate number.
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In addition to this "Great Ukrainian Affair," in the Russian Federation, there is also a "Caucassian Affair." This involves Karpiuk and Stanyslav Klykh, who was arrested in August 2014. After 10 months of captivity, it's still not clear where these men are being held. So far, neither consul nor lawyers have been able to see them. When it comes to Karpiuk, he has been turned into a one-man horror show of everything imaginable and unimaginable that terrifies ordinary Russians: he belongs to Praviy Sektor and he was involved in the war in Abkhazia and Transnistria. Now he's being accused of participating in the Chechen war.
"Yes, UNSO men were fighting in Chechnya, but Karpiuk was not among them," says Tomak. "The thing is, the Kremlin needs to try people on a territorial basis. It can't really try Karpiuk based on actions taken outside the territory of Russia! So he has to be incriminated for setting up criminal gangs. And the same thing is being done with Klykh, although his situation is worse. Karpiuk's family kept getting letters, albeit weird ones, but nothing at all is known about Klykh. We think that he is being held in Vladykavkaz, but we need to find him. The main defendants in this Caucasian case are Dmytro Yarosh (leader of Pravyi Sektor – Ed.) and Oleksandr Muzychko (Ukrainian nationalist who fought in the First Chechen War, coordinator of Pravyi Sektor in Western Ukraine, killed in March 2014 – Ed.) and, as with the Ukrainian affair, there could be others involved about whom we know nothing."
In addition to Ukrainians, the Kremlin's list of captives includes Russian citizens as well. There have been cases when the Russian Federation has accused its own citizens of spying on behalf of Ukraine. In fact, they are being accused of treason, which is a far worse crime than something like spying. A classic example of this is the story of Sergei Rudniev. He is a Russian citizen who had residency in Ukraine and had lived in Dnipropetrovsk for 12 years. When one of his friends, a Cyborg,[2] was taken into captivity by the militants, Rudniev went with two volunteers to negotiate his release. The "insurgents" promptly arrested all three of them, after which Rudniev ended up to the Tikhoretski Prison in Krasnodarskiy Krai in Russia. He was accused of illegally crossing the border, i.e., a Russian citizen apparently illegally crossed the border into his own country, and of possession of weapons. Later on, he was released under an amnesty deal.
SOS-ing the Foreign Ministry
Human rights advocates from Euromaidan SOS note that right now there are two important questions regarding Russia's prisoners that need answering. Firstly, there are rumors that Ukrainian soldiers are being kept as slaves in Chechnya. It's not clear who has taken them captive and where they are being held. They could just as easily be sitting somewhere in a jail.
The second question, or rather problem is the fact that in a year of war and captivity, Ukraine still has not managed to allocate money to its political prisoners for defense lawyers.
"Lawyers perform a critical function," explains Tomak. "They ensure that there is contact between the person and the rest of the world. There are examples when the 'free' lawyers provided by the RF to captives simply worked on breaking them down. They would do everything to convince the captives that the consul simply didn't feel like coming to see them and that their country had turned its back on them." For instance, in the case of a recently-released student from Lviv, Yuriy Yatsenko, the lawyer was paid for by Freedom House and a Czech humanitarian organization called "People in Trouble."
"We held a briefing in the Verkhovna Rada and called on the factions to take the bull by the horns and pay for lawyers, establish contact with families and help captives financially without any intermediaries," says Tomak angrily. "Savchenko is being cared for by her party, yes, but others have simply been abandoned. This is crazy. We still have a war here yet the people held captive by the aggressor country cannot get any financial support. Of course, all this ends up on the hands of NGOs. But international human rights organizations have their own priorities, and right now that means Sentsov and Savchenko."
RELATED ARTICLE: The Kremlin will try to secure Crimea for itself, so in 2015, it will continue to intensify the militarisation of this Ukrainian region
The only excuse the Foreign Ministry offers is that there simply aren't any items in the budget that allow such expenditures as lawyers' fees, whose services, in the case of the Russian Federation, cost a considerable amount. Lawyers who take up politically-motivated cases are particularly costly. To fix the situation, the Rada only needs to make a few amendments—but so far it hasn't. And so Ukraine's unacknowledged prisoners of war can only wait and pray.
[1] A pensioner who was the general manager of the Znam'ya Factory in Poltava for 20 years
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Talk Around Town
Return looted artworks to the Vietnamese people
Illustration by Trịnh Lập
by Nguyễn Mỹ Hà
French President Emmanuel Macron recently pledged to return artworks seized by colonialists over 100 years ago to Benin, West Africa.
Twenty-six artworks, including a royal throne, will be returned over the next two years as a result of his promise.
This act is unprecedented between France and its former colonies.
And it rang a bell.
Vietnamese fought the French colonialists and won the world-shaking Battle of Điện Biên Phủ in 1954, but nothing has been mentioned regarding looted artworks and royal treasures which have not been returned.
Việt Nam had a painful 80-year-old history with France, when the country was occupied, conquered and manipulated, then later rose up to down the French colonialism.
From 1887, together with Cambodia and Laos, Việt Nam (then named Đại Nam), merged into French Indochina.
The North, Centre and South of Việt Nam became Tonkin, Annam and Cochinchina, respectively, all under one French flag. The royal crown, whose flag was yellow with a red sun, in theory still ruled Annam, but actual power was in the hands of the French.
During World War II in Europe, France was occupied by the Nazi Germany and the Vichy government came to power. In its Asian colonies, the Imperial Japanese army overthrew French colonial rule and later surrendered after the Allies defeated the Nazis in 1945.
The Việt Minh (League for the Independence of Việt Nam), led by Hồ Chí Minh, who had been encouraging the people to fight the French occupation for years, took the opportunity with the major powers out of the picture to declare Việt Nam an independent and democratic country.
For the first time in 80 years of being occupied, dominated and exploited, Việt Nam was one free country. But freedom and independence did not last long, and by December 1946, the French, with all its military power returned to the country to reclaim domination.
President Hồ Chí Minh and his government had to evacuate to the countryside, waging a nine-year long resistance war, which is often known in the West as the First Indochina War, until the final battle in the valley of Điện Biên Phủ.
In order to create a political alternative to the Việt Minh, the State of Việt Nam, led by former Emperor Bảo Đại, was proclaimed in 1949 in the French-controlled areas.
What happened in Điện Biên Phủ shook colonial powers to their core. Following the Geneva Accord in 1954, Việt Nam was divided into two parts, with the north following President Hồ Chí Minh, and the south led by French-backed Bảo Đại.
At last the French had to leave South Việt Nam when Armerian-aided and abetted Ngô Đình Diệm toppled Bảo Đại and set up the Sài Gòn administration in 1956.
A museum to showcase Asian art, the largest of its kind not located in Asia, was established in Lyon in 1879. Ten years later, the Guimet Museum was moved to Paris.
At the Guimet, you can find artworks from China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Cambodia, Laos, and last but not least, Việt Nam.
The Guimet boasts a large bronze drum collection from the Đông Sơn era, also known as the Bronze Age (from 1,000BC to the first century AD) in the Red River Delta, the cradle of modern Việt Nam today.
On some social networks, historians and researchers have stated the desire for Việt Nam to reclaim its ancient treasures.
"They (the Guimet) have the best Đông Sơn collection," according to a noted archaeologist, who said she believed the job of retrieving the looted art lay in the hands of the Ministry of Culture.
A question directed to the front office of the Ministry of Culture did not get any official answer before this article went to print. An official speaking on condition of anonymity said this should wait until a general meeting when a decision would be made after careful consideration of expert reports.
From the average citizen's point of view, some say they would like to see the treasures brought back to Vietnamese museums, while some jokingly say just leave them for the French to protect them for us. VNS
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De lagune van Venetië wordt aan de oostkant begrensd door de Golf van Venetië in de Adriatische Zee.
De lagune is ongeveer 55.000 ha groot waarvan 50.000 ha water en 5000 ha land. In de lagune liggen meer dan 120 eilanden, waaronder Torcello, Burano, Murano en San Francesco del Deserto. Sommige eilanden zijn in de loop der tijden verzonken zoals bijvoorbeeld San Marco in Boccalama, ooit een kloostereiland.

De badplaats op de schoorwal wordt Lido van Venetië genoemd.

Met de stormvloedkering die in het kader van het MOSE-project is aangelegd wordt de lagune afgesloten bij hoogwater. De kering is in 2020 in gebruik genomen.

Een kunstmatig aangelegd eiland of landtong in de Lagune van Venetië wordt Sacca genoemd.

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Oppervlaktewater in Italië
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The 14th Satellite Awards is an award ceremony honoring the year's outstanding performers, films, television shows, home videos and interactive media, presented by the International Press Academy at the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles.
The nominations were announced on November 30, 2008. The winners were announced on December 20, 2009.
Matt Damon for The Informant!
Shohreh Aghdashloo for The Stoning of Soraya M.
Mozhan Marnò for The Stoning of Soraya M.


From planting to the plate, what is the life span of a chestnut?
Chestnuts can be planted to grow new trees, but if you want good eating chestnuts, you must graft proven varieties onto the seedling trees. After that it may take up to 7 years before you get a crop of chestnuts so it is not something that can be rushed. The really good news is that chestnut trees are very long lived and will survive for hundreds of years if they are kept in a healthy condition.
It terms of the chestnut itself, the nuts start to fall towards the end of March each year and depending on variety chestnuts continue to fall until late April. Once a chestnut falls it should be picked up as soon as possible and then kept at 0 to 3 degrees (in the crisper of your fridge) to keep them fresh. If stored properly, chestnuts will last up to two to three months but I am a firm believer in eating them in season.
Where do chestnuts like to grow and when are they in season?
Chestnuts are quite particular about their growing requirements. They prefer to grow between the altitudes of 650 to 850 meters above sea level where cold winters help fruit to develop. They demand a well-drained acidic soil of around pH 5.5 and because they develop their nuts over summer, they must have good summer rainfall (or irrigation).
Something interesting about chestnuts that we may be surprised to learn?
Chestnuts are a member of the Oak family of trees. It is the European chestnut that most people associate with chestnuts in places like France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. However, other species from Japan, China and America are equally important for their contribution to a chestnut culture.
The chestnut was probably one of the first foods eaten by man and dates back to prehistoric times.
In Australia, chestnuts arrived with immigrants of the goldrushes in the 1880's. Very old trees from the goldrush times still remain around Beechworth, Bright, Stanley and Wandiligong and these areas remain as the stronghold of the industry today.
Relatively unknown to most Australian households - about 2000 tonnes of chestnuts are produced each year in Australia.
Alison and I both come from farming families in the central west of NSW. Alison has a background in forest ecology and I am agricultural scientist. We wanted to pursue an interest in farming using ecological and permaculture principles as a sideline to our professional life in Canberra.
What is the best part about being a chestnut farmer?
Undoubtedly the best part of our farming life is working with our chestnut trees to ensure their continuity and to be part of the seasonal change which directs different tasks throughout the year.
Inviting our customers to pick from under our trees in season has really brought that important connection between the customer and where their food comes from. For us this has also brought us in touch with the importance of this nut to so many different cultures that really celebrate food in season.
The sharp prickly burrs that encase the chestnuts of course. "Ouch" is often a word exclaimed at harvest time. Fortunately these prickly burrs help protect the nuts from the kangaroos, wombats and birds that also like to chew on the odd chestnut.
As a chestnut farmer, the worst part has been the millennium drought which saw our rainfall halved and trees dying from stress and disease. We have steadily replanted and grafted to the best varieties of chestnuts so we have become quite committed to this ongoing effort to retain our orchard. Whilst we have thousands of trees we watch each one quite closely and enjoy seeing them flourish into strong and productive trees.
Your favourite way to eat chestnuts?
Roasting chestnuts with friends over hot coals with mulled wine.
Richard and Alison Moxham own and run Sassafras Nuts, a commercial chestnut and walnut farm located at Sassafras in the Budawang Ranges, 50 km south west of Nowra on the NSW South Coast. They grow and sell a variety of chestnuts and also open their farm for picking season, where they invite people to pick their own chestnuts and enjoy a picnic under the colourful, autumnal trees. We took a trip out to meet Richard and Alison and tour their farm. They showed us around sharing their genuine love for farming chestnuts and gave us a most hospitable Saturday lunch welcome - roasting chestnuts in their Swiss designed roaster, followed by a chestnut soup cooked on a wood fired stove to share on the farm for lunch.


I am tremendously so sorry about this.
Oh Kristiina, such a beautiful get away. I can understand your sadness.
Kristina, beautiful house and lovely art. I stumbled upon this website when I was searching for Varberg. I lived in Varberg for a few months many years ago. I like your website quite a lot. Great work!
I like your website quite a lot. Great work!


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Blacksmith Shop
About the Blacksmith Shop
The Blacksmith Shop was essential to the running of the plantation and vital to Washington's business endeavors. Records indicate that as early as 1755 a blacksmith shop was located along the north lane, about 200 feet from the Mansion. Most of the smiths who worked for Washington were enslaved, except for a Dutch (or German) immigrant named Dominicus Gubner.
Many of the tasks performed here were relatively mundane: making nails and hooks, mending well-worn pots and pans, and crafting various farm tools. Washington also challenged blacksmiths to create a plow he had designed and to make intricate parts for pistols and rifles. In his rare spare time, the blacksmith did small jobs for Washington's neighbors in order to increase the estate's income.
This reconstruction of the Blacksmith Shop, completed in 2009, is on the site of the original building. An excavation by Mount Vernon's archaeologists, along with period paintings and other primary sources, provided valuable clues about the structure's design. Letters, account ledgers, and other written sources detail the tools Washington purchased to outfit the shop and the types of repair work done there.


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It's time we decriminalised consensual sex among minors
The Centre for Reproductive Rights (CRR) has called on government of Kenya to review the Sexual Offences Act (SOA) to reduce the number of adolescents being sent to jail for having consensual sex with their peers.
The Sexual Offences Act does not make any distinction between sex among adolescent minors and sexual acts between adolescent minors and adults — all of which are classified and/or have been interpreted as criminal offences. The SOA also does not make any distinction between non-coercive and non-exploitative and coercive and exploitative sexual conduct between minors, and therefore criminalizes the sexual conduct among adolescents. Consequently, adolescent males have been imprisoned and, in some cases, have ended up with a permanent criminal record for engaging in consensual sexual conduct with other adolescents.
Evelyne Opondo (middle), Regional Director for Africa at the CRR.
"The Kenyan Constitution affirms that adolescents have an inherent right to health, including reproductive health. Criminalisation of adolescents to adolescent minor's sexual encounter without exception therefore unjustifiably restricts constitutional guarantees for adolescents," said Evelyne Opondo, Regional Director for Africa at the CRR.
According to the 2014 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS), slightly more than half of Kenyans have sexual relations by the age of 18 years. While a portion of this includes coerced sex, many adolescents also have non-coercive and non-exploitative sexual intercourse with other adolescents as part of a common phase during this period of life which includes experimentation and curiosity to understand their sexuality.
On the question of consent, some judges, in determining defilement charges involving sexual conduct between two adolescents, have expressed their discomfort with the criminalization of such conduct where there was demonstrated agreement on the part of both parties to engage in such conduct. In that regard, some judges have recognised that adolescents may have capacity to consent to sexual intercourse.
Sexual Offences Act does not distinguish sex among adolescent minors and those between minors.
The Court of Appeal in 'Eliud Waweru Wambui v Republic', Criminal Appeal No. 102 of 2016 held thus:"Where to draw the line for what is elsewhere referred to as statutory rape is a matter that calls for serious and open discussion… A candid national conversation on this sensitive yet important issue implicating the challenges of maturing, morality, autonomy, protection of children and the need for proportionality is long overdue. Our prisons are teeming with young men serving lengthy sentences for having had sexual intercourse with adolescent girls whose consent has been held to be immaterial because they were under 18 years. The wisdom and justice of this unfolding tragedy calls for serious interrogation."
Among the policy and regulatory suggestions CRR proposes are to: amend the Sexual Offences Act by decriminalising non-coercive and non-exploitative sexual conduct among adolescent minors; establishing a clear directive on adolescent minors' access to sexual and reproductive health information services that takes into consideration their privacy, confidentiality and evolving capacity, as per international human rights obligations; and adopting and implementing curricula on age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education, including information about issues of violence, that is provided throughout schooling and undertake public education campaigns on sexuality to reach out-of-school adolescents.
The case of DOB
In 2018, DOB was a 16-year-old Form Three student living in a village in Western Kenya. He had a 14-year-old girlfriend – YB, also from the same village. The fact of their relationship was well known to their neighbours, parents and relatives. According to DOB and his mother, both minors had several sexual encounters with each other. In the same year, YB's grandmother accused DOB of defiling her granddaughter. He was arrested, charged and sentenced to serve 20 years in prison – the maximum penalty. Despite being a minor, he was processed as an adult – court records erroneously indicated that he was 19 years at the time of the offence. His birth certificate, however, shows that he was 17 years old. Nobody ascertained his age during the entire trial. DOB is serving time in Kodiaga Prison for an egregious procedural omission.
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The Effect of Private Education on Political Participation, Social Capital and Tolerance: An Examination of the Latino National Political Survey
Author(s): Jay P. Greene, Joseph Giammo, and Nicole Mellow
Source: Greene, Jay P., Joseph Giammo, and Nicole Mellow. 1999. "The Effect of Private Education on Political Participation, Social Capital and Tolerance: An Examination of the Latino National Political Survey." The Georgetown Public Policy Review. 5(1): 52-67.
Link: Link: http://gppreview.com/previous-print-editions/fallwinter-1999-volume-5-number-1-federal- budget-policy-and-the-surplus/
Previous studies have shown a strong correlation between the amount of education individuals receive and their political participation. In addition, the more education individuals receive, the higher their levels of social capital and tolerance for others. This article provides nuance to those findings by asking if the type of school attended also influences these factors. Green, Giammo and Mellow investigate differences in the effectiveness of public and private schools in terms of disseminating civic values to Latino students. The authors find a significant relationship between civic values (political participation, social capital, and tolerance) and school sector differences.
The authors utilized data from the 1989 wave of the Latino National Political Survey (LPNS), which collected interview data from a nationally representative sample of approximately 3,400 adult Latinos in the United States. Political participation was measured by participation in the 1988 presidential election, such as voting, political rally attendance, or financially supporting a political campaign. Social capital was measured by membership in five types of organizations (charitable, Hispanic, social, sports, or work), and tolerance was measured by asking individuals if members of a group they disliked should be able to hold political office, teach in schools, or participate in public rallies.
This study demonstrated that attending private school resulted in significant increases in all three dependent variables for Latinos when compared to public school attendees. Specifically, political activity was positively related to the number of years spent in private school, as were tolerance and social group membership.
The authors lacked the data to explain the institutional influences causing the differences in civic participation, tolerance, and social group membership between public and private school graduates, but they suggest that because public school enrollment is commonly driven by housing location, public schools could be reinforcing geographic racial segregation in the minds of their students. Thus, they argue, this institutional "othering" of different races undermines the civic values that schools attempt to instill in their students. Meanwhile, private schools reinforce a common identity and purpose that can transcend race or other divisive differences, thus leading to higher levels of civic engagement. They suggest that this might be a particularly effective explanation give the fact that Catholic schools make up a large portion of private schools in the U.S., since Catholic schools have been shown to be especially effective in helping cultivate civic values in students (Bryk, Lee, and Holland 1993).
This study sheds light on how an individual's school sector enrollment impacts his or her public engagement later in life. The authors used the LNPS with the intention of investigating how such sector differences might account for variation in the uptake of civic values by a population with a disproportionately high number of immigrants. Although their results are suggestive of a possible explanation for differences in political socialization for immigrants and non-immigrants, the analyses did not include a measure of respondents' own immigrant status, or that of their parents and grandparents. If immigrants and their children and grandchildren and disproportionately represented in public schools, then a portion of the private school effect that the authors report may actually be explained by immigrant status rather than being a true sector effect.
Likewise, the omission of variables measuring religion, both at the institutional and individual levels suggests that the strength of the authors' findings might be overstated. At the institutional level, the authors collapsed the secular and religious private school groups (likely because of small sample sizes), leaving the differences between secular and religious private schools' effectiveness in providing political socialization an open question. Further, because private school attendance is generally associated with family religiosity, not accounting for this very likely misattributes some variation in the outcomes measured in the article to sector rather than family religion.
Along the same lines, the analysis left out important control variables, such as parents' income level and employment status and occupation at the time respondents were in school, which could also account for some of the differences in civic participation, tolerance, and social group membership the authors attribute to private school effects. Future projects that include a more fine-grained measure of school sector, and that account for family religiosity and other demographic variables and immigrant status will be better suited to provide explanation for variation in political socialization by school sector for immigrants and their children.
Bryk, Anthony S., Valerie E. Lee, and Peter Blakeley Holland. 1993. Catholic schools and the common good. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Keywords: Latino, School Effects, Civic Participation, Community
Sector: Catholic, Private, Public
Outcomes: Civil and Political, Cultural Impact


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If you love pizza, this could be the job for you.
Ooni is looking for 10 taste testers to make and taste pizzas using its portable wood-fired ovens.
Each taste tester will work on a freelance basis, coming up with pizza concoctions and sending feedback to the company regarding its products.
Compensation will vary from $300 to $1,000 depending on the taste tester's experience.
If you love pizza, you could get paid up to $1,000 a day to make and taste the treat.
Outdoor cookware company Ooni (previously known as Uuni), is looking for 10 pizza taste testers to create and taste pizzas made from the company's two different portable wood-fired pizza ovens, the Uuni 3 and the Uuni Pro.
The 10 hired folks, who will work on a part-time, freelance basis with the company, will be able to use the ovens, which can cook 13-inch and 16-inch pizzas in just 60 seconds, to come up with their own pizza concoctions and to taste and deliver feedback on the company's new products.
Compensation will vary based on each person's experience, with a daily rate that ranges from $300 to $1,000 for the most experienced candidates.
While that's a big gap in terms of what you can earn, the Ooni team explained they have a method to determining compensation rates.
"We've set the base rate at $300, because we understand that developing one's ability to make fantastic pizza takes time and energy to hone your craft; this rate would be appropriate for someone who is a passionate home cook who hasn't worked professionally, and who understands how to make and stretch their own dough," a representative from Ooni told Travel + Leisure.
Beyond that, candidates who can expect the higher $1,000 a day rates might include people who have added skill sets like filming high-quality video content and cooks who have worked at cooking demonstrations for large crowds.
Responsibilities will include a combination of recipe development, product testing, and even working as a brand ambassador for the brand by showcasing its products both through social media and at live events. Ooni will directly ship its ovens to each candidate, as well as covering expenses for any ingredients used for recipe testing.
In addition, there are no set number of days chosen testers will be required to work, though the company is hoping to find people willing to work at least two days a month at a schedule of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with a one-hour break for lunch in between. Taste testers can also be based anywhere around the world as this will be a work-from-home position.
Those who are interested are asked to submit a video of up to one minute and no larger than 20 MB explaining why they're right for the position and showcasing their pizza skills to jobs@ooni.com.
Applications are open through Sunday, Oct. 14, and the chosen individuals will be contacted shortly after.