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The Justice Department has launched an investigation into how sexual assault complaints are handled in Missoula, Montana.
As NPR's Martin Kaste reports, news of the inquiry has shocked the town.
MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: People in Missoula already knew something was up. The University of Montana has been investigating student allegations of rape, and a sexual harassment complaint was filed against the football team in January. But things got a lot more serious yesterday, when the Justice Department said it would investigate the university, local cops and prosecutors, ostensibly for not responding adequately to cases of sexual assault.
Missoula Mayor John Engen appeared shaken.
MAYOR JOHN ENGEN: While I and Chief Muir have no sense that we have failed to do our jobs, I can be proven wrong.
KASTE: The city and university have pledged to cooperate. But at an awkward joint news conference, Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg lashed out at the federal officials standing right next to him.
FRED VAN VALKEBURG: I think this is an overreach by the federal government.
KASTE: He said they wouldn't tell him what exactly he's doing wrong. But he assumes the feds think he should be prosecuting more sexual assault cases.
VALKEBURG: They are essentially sending a message to every local prosecutor in America that they will use their resources to second-guess every decision a local prosecutor makes.
KASTE: It is highly unusual for the Justice Department to investigate decisions made by local prosecutors. Scott Burns is the head of the National District Attorneys Association.
SCOTT BURNS: When you're talking about allegations of sexual assault or sexual abuse cases, they're the hardest. You know, when it's a he-said-she-said, and you don't have DNA or physical evidence, and sometimes you go forward and sometimes you don't.
KASTE: In Missoula, Thomas Perez, of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, acknowledged that it's rare for his agency to review local prosecution decisions, but that doesn't mean it can't.
THOMAS PEREZ: Under the Obama administration, I have pledged that we will enforce the laws and we will enforce all of the laws, and we will do so fairly and independently, and to ensure adequate protection of everyone in the community.
KASTE: The Civil Rights Division has shifted its focus lately, using investigations and the threat of lawsuit to press for reforms at police departments. Now, it seems they have prosecutors in their sights, too.
On the phone after the press conference, a tired-sounding Missoula County attorney said he probably wouldn't fight them on this.
VALKEBURG: It's really a situation where a person is essentially bullied into doing whatever it is they want done, because they have so much power and you have so little.
KASTE: But at the University of Montana, women like Brittany Salley-Rain welcome the federal involvement.
BRITTTANY SALLEY-RAIN: It brings a real gravity to the situation and a seriousness that I think, you know, maybe wasn't present before.
KASTE: The undergraduate helps to run the Women's Resource Center. And she says she hasn't heard complaints about prosecutors dismissing rape allegations. But she says there is a bigger issue of a campus culture that can lead to assault and she hopes the federal investigation will have an effect on that.
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Who was Mohammad
Who was Muhammad?
How accurate is the Quran?
How has the Quran been rewritten over the last 1400 years?
These questions and many more are answered in Living by the Point of my Spear – a thoroughly researched biography of Mohammed, revealing the hidden facts about Muhammad's sayings and deeds that have disappeared from history for 1,400 years – concealed by the use of the old Arabic language, to fool other nations into thinking that Muhammad was a true prophet. Concealed by the deliberate methods of Muhammad himself, who frequently rewrote the prophecies he supposedly told and concealed through generations of followers who have rewritten and falsely interpreted the Quran.
Zaki Ameen is a Muslim and former Imam, who having researched the history of Muhammad and the origins of the Muslim faith, uncovered shocking facts about the Quran and about Muhammad's life. Living by the Point of My Spear lets you follow Zaki Ameen's journey of discovery to uncover the dark side of Muhammad.
The biography of Muhammad is addressed and dedicated primarily to Arabs and Muslims, however all readers will find content that is interesting, well researched and informative. Written from the perspective of a Muslim, it is free from any western influences and is researched solely from Arabic literature and sources.
Being a former Imam of a mosque, Zaki Ameen understands the Arabic mentality and the suffering of Muslims as individuals and as a society. Living by the Point of My Spear is the first time ever that an Arab has spoken out with such honesty and clarity on the secret truth of Muhammad.
Different sections of the book investigate the secret of Islam's longevity, how Muhammad frequently rewrote the Quran using a method called Abrogation and how the Quran has been rewritten since the time of Muhammad. It also explores how Mohammad received his 'prophecies', questioning the nature of Jibreel, the inspiring angel, whom he claimed inspired many of his prophecies – some of which he would then rewrite or remove completely the next day on some new guidance.
The book looks in detail at the prophet Muhammad's relationship with Abu Sufyan and at how Muhammad viewed and treated women, slaves and other nations, including the Turks. It shows how he perpetuated the image of his own holiness, creating laws sentencing those who disagreed with him to death and imposing different taxes on the nation's he conquered, depending on their loyalty.
The book focuses particularly on two sections of the Quran – the Tawba chapters and how the so called Satanic Verses were explained away.
If you wish to discover the true biography of Muhammad and the true history of the Muslim nations, then Living by the Point of my Spear is the book for you.
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Here is where mohammad is in the Holy Bible. "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves." – Matthew 7:15
AND: Matthew 24:11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. AND: Matthew 24:24 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect–if that were possible.
AND: Mark 13:22 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the elect–if that were possible. AND: Acts 20:29 I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come in among you and will not spare the flock.
AND: 2 Peter 2:1 But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them–bringing swift destruction on themselves.
AND: 1 John 4:1 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. AND: Revelation 16:13 Then I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
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Mets Knuckleballer Wins Cy Young Award
I will never be a Hall of Famer and will never lead the league in strikeouts. So begins the memoir published earlier this year by R.A. Dickey, starting pitcher for the New York Mets. How wrong he was. Dickey had a remarkable season this year. Not only did he lead the National League in strikeouts, he also led in innings pitched, complete games and shutouts. And yesterday, the perfect ending to a season not even Dickey could have imagined. He received the highest honor for a pitcher: the Cy Young Award.
What makes Dickey's story so remarkable is that he's 38 years old, 14 years older than the Cy Young runner-up, and he bamboozled hitters this year by perfecting one pitch: the knuckleball. A pitch many dismiss as a curiosity, a trick.
And R.A. Dickey joins me now from Nashville. Congratulations on the award, what a great honor.
R.A. DICKEY: Thank you so much. I enjoy being here. Thanks.
BLOCK: You absolutely blew your competition away, right? You got the Cy Young award with 27 of 32 first place votes from baseball writers. Sounds like a huge vindication for the knuckleball.
DICKEY: Well, you know, I think people appreciate a good story, too, you know. And I'm glad that statistically I was able to perform to a level that enabled the voters to let my story come through. But, you know, I think there's some sentimental value. I think it's much bigger, for me at least, it's much bigger than just the statistical analysis. I mean, it's also about a story and a narrative.
BLOCK: And the narrative goes way back, right, to 2006, at least, the Texas Rangers put you in their starting rotation. Talk about your first game pitching the knuckleball consistently. What happened?
DICKEY: Well, sure, yeah, you know, the Cy Young represents the shiny side of the coin. On the other side of the coin might have been that April day in 2006 when I was pitching with the Detroit Tigers and, you know, about an hour into the game, I had tied a modern day Major League record for the most home runs given up in a game.
BLOCK: Ouch.
DICKEY: I was sick. And, you know, I'm walking off the field to a myriad of boos at Arlington Stadium. And I'm gonna tell you something, if you can get the fans at Arlington to boo you, you've really done something wrong. And so I was walking off the field to that. And so, to go from that place where, you know, I got sent down the next day to minor leagues with no guarantee that I'd ever have another shot at playing in a Major League game at the Major League level.
BLOCK: Well, what happened in between? I mean, how do you explain how you mastered the knuckleball and what brought you to the Cy Young award finally?
DICKEY: Well, I don't know if the show's long enough to talk about all the years that I've toiled in the minor leagues. But I tell you one place that it should start and that's that, you know, I am, by no stretch of the imagination, a self-made man. I've had people really pour into me in a way that has been transforming, not only as a pitcher, but in my personal life as well.
And, you know, some of the old knuckleballers that I really sought counsel from, Phil Niekrow, Charlie Hough, Tim Wakefield, all gave me a piece of their knuckleball acumen. And from there, I was able to add my own personality with the pitch and try to grow it organically as possible by repetition, over and over and over again, and a lot of hard work. And I think that just - it transpired over the course of years, you know.
BLOCK: I've heard you say this, R.A. Dickey, if you throw a good knuckleball, you know it right away, no question.
DICKEY: Yeah. You know it right away. It's an incredible sensation. It's unlike any other pitch in that regard. When you throw it and it comes off your fingernails just right and you see it start with no spin on it at all and it's going toward the hitter and it's wiggling this way and that, you can feel it immediately. And you just want to try to reproduce that feeling over and over and over again.
And I finally got to a place where I could do that seven, eight, nine out of ten times and I started having some success.
BLOCK: Where are you going to put your Cy Young award?
DICKEY: I'm not sure. You know, the truth of it is, for a long time, I had my identity wrapped up in who I was as a baseball player, so when I wouldn't perform well, I would not be who I should have been. And I've learned over time and with help that that's not a healthy way to live and so I've really efforted to hold it loosely.
And what I mean by that is, you know, I don't want to put a lot of stock, although this is an incredible honor, I mean no disrespect to any of the voters, for my own life, I try to hold it in a way where my life is not influenced or impacted by subjective awards. There's an opportunity for growth in both winning an award or losing an award and I try to take it as that.
BLOCK: Well, R.A. Dickey, congratulations, great to talk to you.
DICKEY: Thank you so much.
BLOCK: That's R.A. Dickey of the New York Mets, winner of the National League Cy Young award. His book is "Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest For Truth, Authenticity And The Perfect Knuckleball." Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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"Nashville" stars Connie Britton as Rayna Jaymes, Hayden Panettiere as Juliette Barnes, Clare Bowen as Scarlett O'Connor, Eric Close as Teddy Conrad, Charles Esten as Deacon Claybourne, Jonathan Jackson as Avery Barkley, Sam Palladio as Gunnar Scott, Robert Ray Wisdom as Coleman Carlisle and Powers Boothe as Lamar Wyatt.
Guest Starring Kimberly Williams-Paisley as Peggy, Judith Hoag as Tandy, David Alford as Bucky, Ed Amatrudo as Glenn, Tilky Montgomery Jones as Sean Butler, Rya Kihlstedt as Marily Rhodes, Nicholas Strong as JT, Gary Weeks as Reid Olsen, Michiel Huisman as Liam McGuinnis, Ron Clinton Smith as Officer Dunigan, Michelle Rivera as female cop, Matthew Cornwell as Mitch, Todd Truly as Marshall Evans, Matt Lowe as Steve, J. Karen Thomas as Audrey, Afton Williamson as Makena, Cory Allen as hipster producer, Linds Edwards as soul patch producer, Mike Parker as old school producer, Jim O'Rear as creepy silent producer, Victoria Galen as zoo keeper, Anthony Nguyen as photographer.
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Jostens' Yearbook Production Website Granted Industry First Patent
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—September 1, 2010—Yearbook Avenue, Jostens' innovative yearbook creation Website for schools, has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, making Yearbook Avenue the only patented online yearbook system available.
As an innovator in designing software to support the creation of yearbook pages online prior to printing, Yearbook Avenue has significantly changed the way school yearbooks are created and school yearbook programs are managed. Staffs use the page ladder feature in Yearbook Avenue to plan their annual, the image library and image tagging features to collect and catalog images, and other tools available in Yearbook Avenue to track yearbook coverage of students and groups.
"Jostens is dedicated to providing yearbook advisers and staffs with the strongest yearbook creation tools and technology to design their yearbook in preparation for printing," said Eric Loring, eBusiness vice president, Jostens. "Yearbooks are an important tradition in schools and Yearbook Avenue's patent demonstrates our commitment to growing the tradition through innovative technology and processes."
Jostens' unique product and processes helps students and schools create a unique, relevant and inclusive yearbook. Design tools in Yearbook Avenue provide virtual access to all pages, enabling yearbook editors to review all content and flow as the storyline for the unique school year develops.
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Minneapolis-based Jostens is a provider of products, programs and services that help people celebrate important moments, recognize achievements and build affiliation. The Company's products include school yearbooks and other memory book products, scholastic products such as class rings and graduation products, and products for athletic champions and their fans. Jostens is a subsidiary of Visant Corporation, a marketing and publishing services enterprise servicing the school affinity, direct marketing, fragrance and cosmetics sampling and educational and trade publishing segments.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. –Eleanor Roosevelt
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.–Milton Berle
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." –Teddy Roosevelt


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Tensions are again spiking here on the lush, subtropical Black Sea coastal plain, where heavily armed Russian troops aided by United Nations observers have held apart the warring armies of Georgia and insurgent Abkhazia for 15 years.
Last Wednesday, two powerful bombs exploded in the Abkhaz capital of Sukhumi, destroying a section of a railroad recently repaired by Russian construction troops that Georgia says are illegally in the rebel statelet, which Tbilisi – supported by most of the world – views as Georgian territory.
The next day, a few miles from this border post, Georgian police arrested four of the Russian peacekeepers, who have been in place under a 1994 cease-fire deal, leading a top Russian general, Alexander Burutin, to warn that if it happens again, "the consequences will be grave and there could be bloodshed."
If the fragile 1991 settlement that enabled the former Soviet Union to break relatively peacefully into 15 countries starts to unravel, the flash point may well be right here. But the antagonists would not be ragtag irregulars of the 1993 war but real armies, probably backed on one side by a resurgent Russia, on the other by NATO.
Peering over the half-mile-long bridge that separates Abkhazia from the Georgian town of Zugdidi, Ruslan, a burly Abkhaz border guard, says he helped to drive the fleeing Georgian Army across that bridge 15 years ago and expects to see them – now trained and equipped by the US – attempt a return any day now. "We will never agree to be part of Georgia again," he says. "I intend to live as an Abkhazian in a free country, and I'll fight for as long as it takes."
Most of the world breathed a sigh of relief when the USSR's collapse did not bring vast Yugoslavia-like upheavals, and cheerful scenarios seemed to be borne out when the former Soviet Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined the European Union and the NATO alliance in 2004.
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Amid the hopeful 1990s, few people noticed the savage wars of secession that rocked the Caucasus region, leading to the emergence of fiercely pro-Moscow statelets like Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and the Armenian enclave of Nagorno Karabakh in Azerbaijan.
Along with Transdniestria, a rebel Slavic republic in Moldova, these little pieces of post-Soviet unfinished business were tagged "frozen conflicts" because it seemed unlikely that any big country, even Russia, would ever recognize their de facto independence.
But dramatic geopolitical changes are threatening a return to hot war, this time with an oil-rich, stronger Russia standing unambiguously behind the separatist territories.
After many Western countries recognized the former Serbian territory of Kosovo earlier this year, despite Moscow's angry opposition, Russia eased its 14-year-old economic embargo on Abkhazia and the State Duma passed a resolution demanding full recognition. The prospect of NATO expansion into Georgia and Ukraine – a question that was postponed at NATO's Bucharest summit in April – has prompted Moscow to crank up its rhetoric against Georgia and send construction troops, not covered by the 1994 agreement, into Abkhazia. Those troops were tasked with reopening a dormant railroad link that runs from Rostov, Russia, through Sochi to Sukhumi, and would be crucial for supplying troops in the event of a conflict.
Though war does not appear to be on the immediate horizon, many here fear that it's coming. "Tensions are growing very fast, and we find ourselves on the line of confrontation between Russia and the West," says Oleg Damenia, director of the Center for Strategic Studies, an official think tank in Sukhumi. "Georgia's military budget is now 10 times larger than Abkhazia's. In this situation, we have no choice but to turn to Russia for support."
The Kremlin says the existence of separatist statelets in Georgia should make Europe wary of admitting such a fissiparous country to NATO. At the Bucharest summit, then-President Putin reportedly told President Bush that Ukraine is a similarly unstable place, whose pro-Russian east could tear away.
"Russia is trying to demonstrate the possible price of NATO expansion, by warning that Ukraine is an extremely fragile entity," says Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs, a leading Moscow foreign policy journal. "If NATO will push toward Ukraine, Russia might turn to very ugly means. There is huge potential for Russian irredentism in Ukraine," he says.
Last month Moscow's nationalist mayor, Yury Luzkhov, was declared persona non grata in Ukraine after he said that Moscow should take back Crimea, a Russian-populated peninsula that is still headquarters of the Russian Navy's Black Sea fleet and which was a "gift" to Ukraine from former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1954.
Some Russian nationalists go further and suggest the time is approaching for a wholesale redrawing of the post-Soviet map, to gather in Russian minorities and other pro-Moscow ethnic groups who felt stranded on foreign soil by the USSR's collapse.
"NATO expansion endangers our national interests, but at the same time Russia has grown much stronger and is in a position to revisit the status quo in the post-Soviet space," says Alexander Dugin, head of the International Eurasian Movement, a Moscow-based group of nationalist intellectuals, businessmen, and policymakers. "Russia understands that we cannot allow Ukraine to enter NATO as a whole state. We will witness a wave of separatism in Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Russia is no longer weak and at the West's mercy; it's on its way to recreating itself as an imperial power."
Future redivision of territory?
Mr. Lukyanov says that such extreme views are unlikely to get much traction in the Kremlin, but neither do Russia's leaders rule out a future redivision of post-Soviet territory. "The Russian elite does not consider the current status quo as final," he says. "All the countries of this region are highly unstable, and subject to unpredictable shocks. No one here believes that the transition of the post-Soviet space has reached its final destination."
The new tone in Moscow is music to the ears of Abkhazia's rebel leaders, who believe all the attention now being paid them after 15 years of isolation could be their ticket to full statehood.
"Until now the world community has only recognized the partial collapse of the Soviet Union. But why can't the captive nations inside those states also have their freedom?" asks Garry Kupalba, Abkhazia's deputy defense minister.
"The world thinks we don't exist, but we do. We're building our own state, with all the attributes of a state, including armed forces. And Russia is helping us," he says.


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Spuyten Duyvil Playground
Spuyten Duyvil Playground
Spuyten Duyvil Playground has the same name as the adjacent public school, the nearby creek, and a neighborhood in the northwestern Bronx. There are two major theories concerning the origin of the Dutch name Spuyten Duyvil. According to the first, a trumpeter dispatched to the Bronx during the 1664 British invasion of New Amsterdam vowed to cross the turbulent creek "en spijt den Duyvil" (in spite of the Devil). The second is based on a 1647 reference to a gushing fountain that emptied into the creek, "Spuit den Duyvil" (Devil's Spout) or to the creek itself (Devil's Spate). At least fourteen different spellings of the name have been recorded, including those mentioned above and Speak Devil, Speight den Duyvil, Speit den Duyvil, Spike & Devil, Spiling Devil, Spilling Devil, Spitendeuval, Spitten Divil, Spittin Debell, Spitting Devil, and Spitton Divil.
Although Henry Hudson explored the area from the Half Moon in 1609, the property was not developed until the 1850s with the arrival of the Hudson River Railroad and the establishment of an iron foundry and stove factory by Elias Johnson and his partners. The Johnson interests had 170 acres surveyed and laid out as a village for workers and their families. Spuyten Duyvil's first school opened in 1857, and it became School #46 when the Bronx joined New York City in 1874. A new school was built in 1890-91, and was redesignated P.S. 24 in 1903. Spuyten Duyvil's population and residential construction grew substantially after World War I and again in the decades following World War II.
In 1950 the Board of Estimate acquired an undeveloped parcel of the former James Douglas estate for a school building and playground. The property was bounded by Independence Avenue, Douglas Avenue (named for the Bronx entrepreneur), and W.235th and W. 236th Streets (which were laid and paved around this time). The new Spuyten Duyvil School (P.S. 24) welcomed its first pupils in 1953, and the P.S. 24 playground opened to the public two years later. Operated jointly by the Board of Education and Parks, the playground featured three separate recreation areas. There were handball courts and a roller skating surface on one side; basketball courts and half-courts in the center; and a sandpit, kindergarten swings and slides, seesaws, wading pool, and a comfort station on the other side. New York City's 641st playground was later named for Spuyten Duyvil.
Playground facilities were improved in 1998 with the completion of two requirements contracts funded by Council member June M. Eisland and Mayor Giuliani. The $240,497 renovation included new play equipment, asphalt paving, and safety surfacing as well as the reconstruction of the yardarm flagpole.


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Indian woman gang-raped on orders of village elders, say police
Kolkata, India: A 20-year-old woman in eastern India has been gang-raped by 13 men on the orders of a village tribunal as punishment for having a relationship with a man from a different community.
The woman, who is now recovering in hospital, told police she was assaulted by the men on January 20 in Birbhum district in West Bengal.
Police said that her male companion was tied up in the village square, while the assault on the woman happened in a mud house nearby.
"We arrested all the 13 men, including the village chief who ordered the gang rape. The accused have been produced in court, which remanded them to jail custody," Birbhum's police chief, SuperintendentSudhakar, said.
India toughened laws on sex crimes in March last year following the gang rape and murder of a physiotherapist on a bus in Delhi in December 2012.
The case led to nationwide protests for better security and sparked a national debate about gender inequalities in India.
A 51-year-old Danish tourist was gang-raped in central Delhi last week by at least five men whom she had asked for directions.
The West Bengal victim's family told media that she was assaulted because village elders believed she had violated the rules of her caste by falling in love with a man from another community.
The couple were ordered to pay a fine of 25,000 rupees ($459), said the victim's mother, adding that the village head then ordered the rape of her daughter.
Human rights groups say rulings issued by tribal elders acting on their own authority are not uncommon in rural regions. In northern parts of India, illegal village councils known as "khap panchayats" act as de facto courts settling rural disputes on everything from land and cattle to matrimony and murder.
But such councils are coming under growing scrutiny as their punitive edicts grow more regressive - ranging from banning women from wearing Western clothing and using mobile phones, to supporting child marriage and sanctioning the lynching of young couples in so-called "honour killings".
The assault comes after a spate of high-profile rapes in West Bengal which have brought Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the first woman to run the state, under fire for not doing enough to stop violence against women.
West Bengal recorded the highest number of gender crimes in the country at 30,942 in 2012, 12.7 per cent of India's total recorded crimes against women. These crimes include rape, kidnapping and sexual harassment and molestation.
Earlier this month, West Bengal's capital, Kolkata, witnessed public protests against police who have been accused of failing to act on the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl who was later murdered.


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Morris Cohen (Soviet spy)
Morris Cohen a.k.a. in London as Peter Kroger (2 July 1910 - 23 June 1995), was born in New York to a family of descendants from Russia. His father was from an area near Kiev, and mother was born in Vilnius. Cohen received an athletic scholarship as an outstanding rugby player to attend Columbia University.
In 1937 and 1938 Cohen joined the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion and fought as a foreign national "volunteer" in the Spanish Civil War with compatriot Amadeo Sabatini, veteran and career Soviet spy. Cohen was injured ion the war. In 1938 Cohen agreed to begin serving Soviet foreign intelligence, and by November 1938 returned to the United States. Cohen married Lona Cohen who was an activist in the CPUSA in 1941.
In mid 1942, during the World War II, Cohen was drafted into the U.S. Army and later was stationed in Europe. Cohen was demobilized from the Army in November 1945 and returned to the United States and resumed active espionage work with Soviet intelligence.
As Soviet spy networks were compromised in this immediate period, connection with Soviet intelligence was temporarily ended, but resumed in 1948, when the Rezidentura ascertained that Cohen could be approached. Together with Lona Cohen they ensured the continued secret connection with a number of the most valuable sources of the Rezidentura. They began working with Col. Rudolph Abel along the line of illegal intelligence up to 1950, at which time they secretly left the United States and went to the Soviet Union.
In 1954 the Cohens reappeared in London as antiquarian book dealers under the names of Peter and Helen Kroger, working for Soviet intelligence with Conan Molodogo. Morris Cohen became the British Illegal Rezident. British security officials arrested the Cohens on 7 January 1961 as part of a Soviet espionage network that had penetrated the British navy. Cohne was sentenced to 25 years.
In 1967 the Soviet Union admitted the Cohens were spies and in August 1969 Britain agrees to exchange them for a British subject held in the Soviet Union. The Cohens returned to Moscow and Morris continued the work of training younger colleagues for illegal intelligence.
The Cohens were awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Friendship of Nations for their espionage work. After the collapse of the USSR they also were given the title of Heroes of the Russian Federation by the Yeltsin government. They lived out their lives on KGB pensions until their deaths—Lona in 1992 and Morris in 1995.
The Cohens are referenced in Venona decrypts 1239 KGB New York to Moscow, 30 August 1944; 50 KGB New York to Moscow, 11 January 1945, regarding an erroneous report Morris had been killed in Europe. The Cohens helped pass Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviet Union. His code name in Soviet intelligence and the Venona files is "Volunteer".
See also
External links
- Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) [1]
- Russian Federal Foreign Intelligence Service, Veterany vneshnei razvedki Rosii (Veterans of Russian foreign intelligence service), Moscow: Russian Federal Foreign Intelligence Service, (1995).
- FBI Morris and Lona Cohen file, 100–406659.
- Rebecca West, The New Meaning of Treason, New York: Viking (1964), pgs. 281–288.
- Joseph Albright and Marcia Kunstel, Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy, New York: Times Books (1997) pgs. 244–253.
- John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, Yale University Press, pgs. 316, 317–319, 320, 321, 334.
- Interview with Dr. Svetlana Chervonnaya


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With the modern proliferation of self-expression and body-modification in the form of piercings, tattoos, implants, tucks and plastic surgery, another less-welcomed means of expression is on the rise. It's the trending practice of self-injury among teens, college students and even some adults.
"I'm going to hurl myself against the wall, 'cause I'd rather feel bad than not feel anything at all." — From Warren Zevon song "Ain't That Pretty at All" She was just 13 years old when Elizabeth experimented with cutting for the first time. A gifted athlete and student, she'd had body image struggles from a very young age. At 31, Bethany can still remember the feelings that drove her, more than a decade ago, to throw herself against cement walls and scratch her arms and legs with sharp metal or stones. Samantha is a new mom who has grappled with various self-harming behaviors for years, including cutting, bulimia and burning her skin. Unlike Elizabeth and Bethany, it's a battle she still fights every day. With the modern proliferation of self-expression and body-modification in the form of piercings, tattoos, implants, tucks and plastic surgery, another less-welcomed means of expression is on the rise. It's the trending practice of self-injury among teens, college students and even some adults. But thanks to research that's underway to help understand and treat self-harming behaviors, along with a rise school and community response, people who have struggled like Elizabeth, Bethany and Samantha, whose last names are being withheld because of the sensitive nature of the topic, may find a light at the end of the tunnel. According to Janis Whitlock, director of the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery, the reasons for self-injuring are diverse. "Many who self-injure report overwhelming feelings of sadness, rejection, anxiety, or emotional numbness as common emotional triggers," she said. According to Celeste Trickler, a prevention specialist at Canandaigua Middle School, she has seen a steady increase in the number of students involved in self-harming. Elizabeth's story Elizabeth G., an outstanding athlete and student, first experimented with cutting one year ago when she was 13. She had body image struggles for much of her life, and her first mode of self-harming was by restricting her eating habits. It didn't offer much relief. "I had all these feelings inside me that I didn't understand and I didn't know how to express," said Elizabeth, who lives in Monroe County. "I didn't know how to explain them to myself or other people. So I used a razor blade and made shallow cuts in my hip area — I knew no one would ever see them." Nobody gave her the idea or taught her how to cut, Elizabeth said. And it wasn't really that common among her friends. "Right when I started, I knew I wanted to stop, but I didn't know how," Elizabeth said. "I knew I was experimenting, but I wasn't going to let it be a life-threatening thing." She had heard the horror stories and read the blogs of "when kids let it get out of hand." It scared her enough that she didn't ever want that to happen. But still, Elizabeth secretly punished herself with thoughts that she should should be prettier or skinnier. She believed she "wasn't good enough," and needed to "find a way" to hurt herself. Thanks to two very good friends who pushed her into confessing to her parents, Elizabeth continued cutting for only a month and a half. When she finally faced her parents, it took 30 minutes to communicate, through tears, what had been going on. The key for Elizabeth was talking things out and starting to understand that she didn't have to feel like she wasn't good enough. After four months of therapy, she and her parents believe she's got a solid plan in place. "I don't have to put pressure on myself to be perfect all the time," said Elizabeth. "I learned to stop myself and stop worrying over everything." She admits that cutting never became an addiction she had to overcome. "I just wanted to see if it would make me feel better, and it didn't," Elizabeth said. "I realized it was really kind of stupid — there wasn't a point to doing it. I'm glad I got the help, and I've never had the urge to cut again." Bethany's story Bethany M., 31, is now the mother of three and living in Ontario County, but she can still remember the feelings that drove her to self-harm more than a decade ago. "It was when I went to college and realized I didn't know who I was or why I was there," she said. "I was disappointed with myself, and every time I wanted to do something, I felt like I couldn't. Every time I had something to say, it came out wrong." Self-harming seemed like the only thing she could actually control, she said. "I used to toss myself up against concrete walls and bruise my arms up," said Bethany. "I would also take little rocks and sharp pieces of metal and scratch my wrists and legs." Concealing her bruises and scars with pants, long sleeves and thick bracelets, she isolated herself from potential friendships and positive experiences. "I don't think I wanted to stop," Bethany said. "I continued because I knew what it felt like, what to expect, and it seemed to hurt less than other emotional realities. It made so much sense at the time." Eventually a few people found out and "looked at her differently," and she didn't like that feeling either. "My college roommate wrote me a note asking me about it, and I hated that," said Bethany. "It was the same feeling of helplessness I felt before." Ultimately, Bethany said she "fell in love with people too much to hurt someone they loved," referring to herself. Her perspective turned around even more, and she learned to love herself more fully, when she became a mom and realized "her body wasn't just hers any more." Samantha's story Samantha W., 22, is a new mom living in Ontario County who has struggled for years with various self-harming behaviors, including cutting, bulimia, and burning her skin, which she tried only once. She stopped immediately because it "was not the kind of pain that she wanted to feel," and turned to cutting. "I was in fifth grade, about 13," she said. "I was going through so much, and felt so much pain on the inside that I wanted to find anything I could do to get my mind off that kind of pain. I thought if I could feel physical pain, then maybe I could take away from the emotional pain I was feeling and thinking." Unfortunately, it worked. Until the next time she felt pain — and the behavior became like a drug. "I needed something," said Samantha. The cutting became an addiction, she said. It's one she still grapples with, even now. Most often she resists, but sometimes, she doesn't. "I don't cut every day," she said, "but it's still a struggle and I battle it every day. I never cut just to cut. I'm truly in a bad place, and I don't know where else to turn except to a razor or scissors. When you're really really down or upset or angry, it's hard to see something sharp and not want to put it against your skin." Today Samantha's left forearm is nearly covered in scars, as are her thighs. In her earlier years, she concealed those scars by wearing a hoodie non-stop, year-round, even on scorching hot summer days. "I've come to the point where I'm not ashamed," Samantha said. "It's not me, but it is a part of me, and I've become stronger. " Samantha remembers the day her dad first found out she was cutting. They were in their garage, weight lifting. "It was my turn to hit the bench," she said. "I put my arms up on the bar — I would always try to make sure I had my sleeve tucked between my palm and the bar — but it fell down, and my dad saw. To this day I'm glad that he saw — if he hadn't, I probably wouldn't be alive today." In April, Samantha will tell her story before a crowd of 300 and will sit on a panel, answering questions about her journey. "I've been through a lot that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy," she said. "I never want someone who's going through something like this to feel alone." What motivates Samantha to keep her cutting in check today? It's knowing how close she has come to death, unwittingly, because a cut went too deep, or nearly nicked a main artery. It's also the thought that she'll have to explain her thousands of cuts to her daughter one day. "I think about when she grows up, and her seeing my scars," Samantha said. "I want to be as strong as I can for her. I want to be as good a role model as I can be. I never ever want her to grow up and think that is even an option." Why the need to self injure? Cornell's Whitlock said people who self-harm are often very sensitive — but not in a bad way, she said. They simply have a high emotional perception and don't know what to do with those feelings. Self-harming is actually a self-medicating coping mechanism that comes from a normal, good desire to feel better. "This is not about 'I want to end my life,'" Whitlock said. "The impulse is really a desire to feel better, it's just not the way to achieve that end." For some, self-injury provides a way to manage intolerable feelings or a way to experience some sense of feeling, she said. It is also used as means of coping with anxiety or other negative feelings and to relieve stress or pressure. According to Whitlock, those who self-injure may be doing so to feel in control of their bodies and minds, to express feelings, to distract themselves from other problems, to communicate needs, to create visible and noticeable wounds, to purify themselves, to reenact a trauma in an attempt to resolve it, or to protect others from their emotional pain. "Regardless of the specific reason provided," Whitlock said, "self-injury may best be understood as a maladaptive coping mechanism, but one that works — at least for a while." When does it start? "Self-injury can start early in life," said Whitlock. "Our research suggests that early onset self-injury is common around the age of 7, although it can begin earlier." Most often, she said, self-injury behaviors begin between the ages of 12 and 15 and can last for weeks, months or years. For many, self-injury is cyclical, meaning that it is used for periods of time, stopped and then resumed. "People can go in and out of high or low engagement, which can be deceiving for observers," said Whitlock. Further, college studies reveal that 30 to 40 percent of those surveyed began self-injuring when they were 17 or older. The majority of those surveyed also said they stopped within five years of starting, although the behavior can last well into adulthood, Whitlock said. The oldest self-harming person Whitlock has encountered was age 64. Who is at risk? It's commonly assumed that females are much more likely to self-injure than males, but there's no one unique profile, Whitlock said. It's not just middle class or upper middle class white females, or someone who has been traumatized. Some self-injurers come from stable, healthy homes and lives without that much of a trauma history. "It could be your neighbor, your kid, it could be your child's friend," Whitlock said. "There's something in this particular behavior that reflects our culture — I don't know why. It speaks to young people now, and seems to be very accessible — probably because body-modification has become so accessible." Tell-tale signs include scars and marks, or several fresh wounds or scars in clusters, especially on the arms, which is common for females. Guys tend to punch themselves or something else with the overt intention of hurting, Whitlock said, so look for damage to their hands. "There are definitely guys who cut in the same way girls do, but there are more men who will lash out with their fists," Whitlock said, adding that some studies suggest males are equally likely to self-injure as females. Whitlock encourages those struggling with self-harming to "keep talking." "And if you aren't talking yet, start," she said. "Find someone you trust and share. Learning how to be OK with uncomfortable emotions is the first step in getting better." Support at school? According to Canandaigua's Trickler, representatives from nine area school districts meet monthly in partnership with Ontario County. The group came together about 20 years ago with the initiative of reducing substance abuse, she said, and monthly meetings have been ongoing for more than a decade. Cutting is one of the subjects frequently addressed, she said. The first incidence of cutting that Trickler observed occurred in 1997, but it's a behavior that's definitely trending. In the last four years, she has seen a steady increase in the number of students involved in self-harming, with the highest number in 2013. Still, the percentage of students who cut and have reported it is very low — an estimated 18 out of more than 950 students. That number is in stark contrast with Whitlock's research, which indicates that in an average secondary school, about 10 to 13 percent of students may be chronically self-injuring, including cutting and self-scratching. About 25 percent, she said, report chronic self-injuring, one-time self-injurers and those who are flirting with the idea. "We are always meeting with kids, and we do see recovery," Trickler said. The change is coming, she said, because schools are offering support and coping tools. A response protocol is now in place that includes notification of parents, a checkover by the school nurse who cleans wounds and checks for infection and a plan to replace the cutting, Trickler said. Students also do checkins as they move ahead, she said. If a student appears to move beyond experimentation and their behavior becomes chronic, Trickler said she links students and parents with local counselors or therapists. Teachers, likewise, are equipped to be on the lookout students who may be at risk and alert a school psychologist. The Butterfly Project Many students have found a positive self-management tool via "the Butterfly Project," a non-profit organization founded by a Virginia teenager, Crystal Dameron, which provides help for teens who are suffering self-injury. Dameron said she was inspired to launch the Butterfly Project because of teen icon Demi Lovato, who confessed she started cutting at age 11. When individuals feel like they want to cut, Dameron encourages them, via Facebook and Tumblr, to take a marker or pen and draw a butterfly wherever the self-harm would occur. They may name the butterfly after someone they love or after someone who really wants them to get better. As long as the butterfly stays — no scrubbing off is allowed — it's a reminder and incentive for the individual to keep from cutting. "If you cut before the butterfly is gone, it dies. If you don't cut, it lives," the Butterfly Project Facebook page says. "We try to use healthy aspects of the Butterfly Project as replacement therapy, whether it's in journaling or drawing or listening to music," Trickler said. "One of our goals is to be clear with parents that cutting is not a suicidal gesture," said Trickler. "It's been described as a cry for help, or 'silent scream.'" When parents are notified, Trickler said it's an opportunity to educate them about how to respond and how not to respond. "We encourage them to be as non-reactive as possible, and listen." Advice to families No one can give advice to parents as well as the children they're trying so hard to understand and help. And although the words were different, the advice was the same from Elizabeth, Bethany and Samantha. "If your kid comes to you and tells you they're cutting — don't freak out," said Elizabeth. "Don't get mad. Don't tell them they're a freak and there's something wrong. Just love and support them." Samantha cautioned against getting angry, or upset, or judgemental. "Just be there," she said. "And don't be afraid to ask questions. Tenagers will probably get so annoyed, but the best thing for parents and siblings to do is ask, ask, ask. And then pay attention." Parents can be completely oblivious, Samantha said. They should take note if their child is shutting himself or herself in the bedroom or the bathroom, if they avoid talking to people, if they're always wearing a hoodie, if they say things like "I wish I were never born," or "people would be better off without me." Patience, love and understanding are crucial for someone who is self-harming, said Samantha. To those who cut … Likewise the best advice for one who wants to cut, is from someone who used to cut. "Get help, no matter how scary it is," said Elizabeth. "Talk to a teacher, a sibling, find someone you trust. Try to figure out why you're feeling the way you are. Listen to loud music, write, paint, write songs — put your feelings on paper even if you can't put them into words." Self-harming is extremely glamorized online, Elizabeth said, when in truth it's nothing like that. "It's not a good thing — it's harmful in the long run," she said. "And you're not going to be proud when your future husband sees those scars." For someone who typically pulls away from people in order to spend time alone, Bethany suggests taking that option away, and "being around other people, even if you're not talking." Ultimately, she said, you need to reach out to somebody. Anybody. Think about the reasons you are happy, about the people you love and about the people who love you, said Samantha. "Then tell yourself that cutting is not an option — it's really not," she said. "One little cut can change your life, and it's not something you can ever take back." Signs of self-injurious behavior — Unexplained burns, cuts, scars, or other clusters of similar markings on the skin — Arms, fists, and forearms opposite the dominant hand are common areas for injury, however evidence can appear on every body part — Inappropriate dress for season (consistently wearing long sleeves or pants in summer) — Constant use of wristbands/coverings, — Unwillingness to participate in events or activities which require less body coverage (such as swimming or gym class), — Frequent bandages — Odd or unexplainable paraphernalia such as razor blades or other implements which could be used to cut or pound — Heightened signs of depression or anxiety. — When asked, individuals who self-injure may give evasive responses, or offer implausible stories which may explain one, but not all, physical indicators For more, visit www.selfinjury.bctr.cornell.edu/ Self-Injury Awareness Day SIAD is a grassroots annual global awareness event on March 1, where on this day, and in the weeks leading up to it, some people choose to be more open about their own self-harm, and awareness organizations make special efforts to raise awareness about self-harm and self-injury. Some people wear an orange awareness ribbon, write "LOVE" on their arms, draw a butterfly on their wrists in awareness of "the Butterfly Project" wristband or beaded bracelet to encourage awareness of self-harm. The goal of the people who observe SIAD is to break down the common stereotypes surrounding self-harm and to educate medical professionals about the condition. More online: The Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery — www.selfinjury.bctr.cornell.edu/ To Write Love On Her Arms — twloha.com/ The Butterfly Project on Tumblir — butterfly-project.tumblr.com/ The Butterfly Project on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Butterfly-Project/162488130484385


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Click to viewThis is the game that Steven Spielberg and Electronic Arts wanted to make, but couldn't. The project known as LMNO will never be, but this "visual target" of the game that hoped to make us cry shows it could have been beautiful.
1UP, following up on its behind the scenes look at the development and double cancellation of LMNO (aka The Escape Artist), has first video of the game Spielberg and EALA were working on. This "target render" is painfully brief, pre-rendered, wouldn't-this-be-cool kind of stuff, but it's unmistakeably Spielberg and offers a peek at the non-verbal communication tricks LMNO was aiming for.


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Gov. Mark Dayton, a leading supporter of the nearly $1 billion Minnesota Vikings stadium project, said Monday that he is "encouraged" that an extensive legal and background check of team owners Mark and Zygi Wilf indicates that they can pay for their share of the team's new home.
But in a letter Monday to the Minnesota Sports Facilities chairwoman Michele Kelm-Helgen, Dayton urged the authority to make sure the owners and team contribute "significant equity" to the project, and not rely heavily on personal seat license fees.
"I strongly urge you to negotiate a final financial agreement, which requires the Vikings' owners to provide a signficant share of their financial contribution from their own resources, and not from Vikings' fans through the sale of expensive personal seat licenses," Dayton wrote.
The authority, the public body overseeing the stadium project, and team are in the final stages of negotiating important use and development agreements for the venue, which the team hopes to open in time for the 2016 NFL season. The agreements are tentatively scheduled to go to the authority board for a vote at its Sept. 27 meeting.
The Vikings are responsibile for paying $477 million of the stadium's $975 million construction cost with the state of Minnesota and city of Minneapolis responsible for the rest.
The team's portion of the funding includes a $200 million NFL loan and revenue from stadium naming rights as well as the sale of personal seat licenses to season ticket holders. Revenue from those sources could easily be tens of millions of dollars or more, leading critics of the stadium financing package to question whether the owners and team have much financial exposure at all.
Under the stadium legislation approved in May 2012, the authority has the "exclusive right" to sell the licenses, but retains the team to act as its agent in marketing and selling them.
"That exclusive right certainly includes the authority to set the maximum prices, which can be charged for those licenses," Dayton wrote. "While the legislation allows stadium builder's licenses to be a component of the team's financing, those revenues were not intended to replace the need for the team's owners to make a significant equity or capital contribution."
A month-long "due-dilgence" audit of the Wilfs by the stadium authority determined last week that the owners had more than enough money to pay for their share of the stadium's construction cost.
The audit, which stemmed from a New Jersey judge's ruling in early August that the Wilfs had defrauded business partners in a real estate transaction in that state, said that even in a "worst-case" scenario involving tens of millions of dollars in punitive damages, the Wilfs had the financial capability to pay their share of the building cost.
The judge is expected to award puniitive damages in the case next week.
"Your financial assessment reportedly shows that the Vikings' owners could finance their share of the stadium's costs with little or no revenues from stadium builder's licenses," Dayton wrote. "Therefore, I strongly urge you to keep those pricers at an absolute minimum. I have always said that this building should be a 'People's Stadium.' Excessive personal seat license fees conflict with that goal."


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Consistent hiring practices can help to avoid charges of disparate impact discrimination
In April, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a revised Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions under Title VII of the Civil Right Act of 1964 (Guidance). Under the Guidance, an employer may commit disparate impact discrimination against a protected minority classification if the evidence shows that its facially neutral arrest and conviction policy or practice disproportionately denies employment to a protected minority group and the employer cannot demonstrate that the policy or practice is relevant to the position in question and consistent with business necessity.
The new guidance replaces and updates the EEOC's 1987 policy. According to the agency, statistical evidence demonstrates that African Americans and Hispanics are arrested and convicted of crimes at a much higher rate than the general population, and that facially neutral arrest and conviction policies may have a discriminatory disparate impact on their being selected for employment. Under the new guidelines, an employer may defend against a claim of disparate impact discrimination if it shows that the disparate impact is job-related and consistent with the needs of the business. To make this defense, employers must consider three factors:
- The nature and the gravity of the offense or conduct
- The time that has elapsed since the offense and/or the completion of the sentence
- The nature of the job held or sought (referred to as the "Green factors")
The Guidance encourages the use of a targeted screen evaluating these three factors, which provides for an individualized assessment of the applicant, to determine if the policy as applied is business-related and consistent with business necessity.
The Guidance makes clear that an arrest is not a conviction, and a refusal to hire based solely on an arrest is not job-related or consistent with business necessity. However, conduct underlying the arrest may make the individual unfit for the position in question. The EEOC notes that certain federal regulations prohibit the employment of persons convicted of certain crimes, and that Title VII does not preempt these federal regulations. However, where state laws or regulations prohibit the employment of persons convicted of certain crimes, the employer must still demonstrate the policy is business-related and consistent with business necessity.
The following are suggested best practices for complying with the EEOC's guidance and minimizing the risks associated with a finding of disparate impact discrimination:
- Assess your current policy/ practice. Eliminate any policies or practices that exclude applicants for employment based upon an arrest or criminal record.
- Develop a written policy. Develop and implement a written, narrowly tailored policy and procedures for screening applicants and employees for criminal conduct. A "narrowly tailored policy" identifies criminal conduct with a demonstrably tight nexus to performance or fitness for the position in question. Draft written job descriptions that identify the essential job functions and requirements and how the jobs are performed. Determine the specific offenses that may demonstrate unfitness for performing such jobs.
- Include an individualized assessment. The targeted screening policy should provide the person in question with notice of an individualized assessment and a link between fitness for the job and the crime. The individualized assessment should provide the applicant with the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the crime, and his fitness for employment.
The Guidance notes that the individualized assessment should explore the following areas:
- The facts surrounding the offense
- The number of offenses and convictions
- The age and recidivism rate at the time of conviction
- Evidence that the individual was employed in the same or similar position, after conviction, with no further convictions
- The length and history of employment before and after the conviction
- Rehabilitation efforts such as education and training
- Employment and character references regarding fitness for the position
- Whether the person is bonded under a federal, state or local bonding program
- Declare the business purpose. The policy should state its purpose and business justification. Have the policy signed by the CEO or chief human resources officer.
- Provide education and training. Train managers, hiring officials and decision makers on how to implement the policy and procedures consistent with Title VII and the Guidance. Keep records of this training.
When asking about criminal convictions, limit questions to convictions relevant to the job in question and make sure all questions are consistent with business necessity.
- Maintain confidentiality. Keep information about the interview and criminal records confidential and limited to management individuals who have a need to know.
Reviewing your policies and practices in this area now will help to ensure compliance and minimize the risk of running afoul of the EEOC's guidance.


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.. coz special occasions need something special!!
Today is a special date 05/06/07.. a special day for me.. and hence posting a special Maharashtrian combo of Amrakhand Puri for RCI Maharashtrian Cuisine!
Amrakhand is a very popular dessert from Maharashtra.. also known as mango flavoured Shrikhand.. The most common brands in Pune for Amrakhand are Chitale Bandhu, Amul, Warana and now Aarti's ;) Thanks to these people, my mother never happened to prepare it at home.. And so this was my first trial at it.. and its really a very very easy task(preparing) and later very very yummy and easy task (finishing off! :D).. Being a milk product, it can also be eaten on fasting days.. Needs some preparation though.. but all the efforts are paid off once you have the first spoonful!! :)
Amrakhand is a popular dessert for Maharashtrian wedding, others being jilebi, bundi laddu, gulabjamun etc.. It can be eaten alone, but then you tend to eat very little. Maharashtrians serve it with hot puffed puris! I served it with simple Puris and batatyachi bhaaji!
Amrakhand Puri
What you need:
500 gm Full Yoghurt
200 gm Kesar Mango Pulp
1 cup Powdered Sugar
1 tsp Powdered Cardamom
1/2 tsp Nutmeg Powder
8-10 strands of Kesar
How to proceed:
1) Place the yoghurt in a thin cloth/odhani and tie it
2) Hang it for 5-6 hours till all water from Yoghurt drains off
3) If there is still some water, place it under something heavy to drain excess water
4) Now remove the yoghurt and add sugar to it and mix well in a large bowl
5) Add cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and kesar to it
6) Finally add mango pulp and mix well
7) Keep to cool in the refridgerator
8) Remove 5-10 mins before serving.
9) Enjoy Amrakhand with hot puris!
To make the most simple Maharashtrian Puris: Add a tsp of turmeric, salt and oil to wheat flour and knead to soft dough. Roll into puris and fry in oil.


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http://mmajunkie.com A bantamweight bout between Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto (18-4 MMA, 0-1 UFC) and Damacio Page (15-6 MMA, 0-1 UFC) has been scratched from next month's UFC 135 event.
Both fighters suffered injuries in the lead-up to the fight.
UFC 135 takes place Sept. 24 at Denver's Pepsi Center. The night's main card, including light-heavyweight champ Jon Jones vs. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, airs on pay-per-view.
Yamamoto vs. Page was slated for a part of the preliminary card that's expected to stream on Facebook.
Yamamoto made his long-awaited UFC debut earlier this year and suffered a unanimous-decision loss to Demetrious Johnson at UFC 126. The K-1 HERO'S and DREAM vet now is just 1-3 in his past four fights following a seven-year, 14-fight win streak in Japan.
Yamamoto, who was slated to fight Chris Cariaso at UFC 130, has now pulled out of two straight fights.
Page, who competed in the WEC prior to the organization's merger with the UFC earlier this year, closed out his WEC career with a submission loss to Johnson and then was tapped out again during his UFC debut, which came in a UFC on Versus 3 bout with ex-champ Brian Bowles back in March. The Greg Jackson-trained fighter had won seven of eight bouts before the back-to-back losses.
The latest UFC 135 card now includes:
MAIN CARD (Pay-per-view)
- Champ Jon Jones vs. Quinton "Rampage" Jackson (for light-heavyweight title)
- Matt Hughes vs. Diego Sanchez
- Rob Broughton vs. Travis Browne
- Nate Diaz vs. Takanori Gomi
- Mark Hunt vs. Ben Rothwell
PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)
- Tim Boetsch vs. Nick Ring
- Aaron Riley vs. Tony Ferguson
- Ricardo Romero vs. James Te Huna
- Cole Escovedo vs. Takeya Mizugaki
- Junior Assuncao vs. Eddie Yagin
For the latest on UFC 135, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Aguilas' Tejada ends mini-slump, drives in four
Cardinals' top prospect Taveras chips in two RBIs in 9-2 romp over Leones
Aguilas 9, Escogido 2
Former American League MVP Miguel Tejada doubled, singled and drove in four runs to lead the Aguilas rolled past the last-place Leones. Manny Ramirez singled twice and scored twice in his second game for Cibaeñas, which got two RBIs apiece from Cardinals top prospect Oscar Taveras and Marlins outfielder Chris Coghlan. Mauro Gomez (Red Sox) went 2-for-4 and scored a run for Escogido. Box score
Toros 7, Gigantes 6
Eugenio Velez, who spent the season with the Cardinals' Triple-A affiliate, homered, drove in two runs and scored twice as the Toros held off the Gigantes. Willis Otañez also went deep for Este, while Twins infielder Alexi Casilla went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles, an RBI and a run scored for Cibao. Box score
Estrellas 3, Licey 2
Padres prospect Daniel Robertson delivered a walk-off single in the ninth inning to give the first-place Estrellas their fourth straight win. Felix Pie, who spent the season with the Braves' Triple-A affiliate, was 3-for-4 with a double for Oriente. Braves infielder Juan Francisco supplied the Tigres' offense with his third and fourth homers. Box score
Venezuelan Winter League
Aragua 6, Caracas 0
Former Major Leaguer Ken Ray struck out seven and allowed four hits over six innings as the Tigres ended the Leones' four-game winning streak. Alex Romero and Rangers farmhand Yangervis Solarte drove in two runs apiece for Aragua, while former Mets Minor Leaguer Angel Calero pitched four innings of scoreless relief for Caracas. Gameday box score
La Guaira 7, Lara 5, 12 innings
Alex Cabrera delivered a two-run double in the top of the 12th inning as the Tiburones outlasted the Cardenales to snap a three-game losing streak. Former Dodgers farmhand C.J. Retherford homered, doubled twice and also had a pair of RBIs for La Guaira, while Cubs infielder Luis Valbuena went 2-for-4 with a two-run triple and two walks for Lara. Box score
Magallanes 1, Margarita 0
Astros farmhand Sergio Perez struck out four over five innings and combined with three relievers on a five-hitter for the first-place Navegantes. Former Major Leaguer Eliezer Alfonzo went 2-for-3 and drove in the game's lone run with a single in the first. Cubs outfielder Dave Sappelt doubled and walked for the Bravos. Box score
Zulia 3, Caribes 1
Minor League veteran Dwayne Pollok allowed a run on four hits over seven innings, helping the Aguilas halt a three-game slide. Sandy Leon (Nationals) and Jose Flores (Giants) hit back-to-back RBI singles in the second for Zulia, while Luis Nuñez singled home Gorkys Hernandez (Marlins) with the Caribes' only run. Box score
Mexican Pacific League
Mexicali 8, Mazatlan 1
Rafael Diaz gave up a run on three hits over six innings as the Aguilas shut down the Venados. Former Angels farmhand Ricky Alvarez drove in three runs and Jorge Guzman went 3-for-5 with a two-run homer and two runs scored for Mexicali. Oswaldo Morejon had two hits and drove in Mazatlan's lone run. Gameday box score
Culiacan 9, Guasave 5
Yankees prospect Ronnier Mustelier went 3-for-4 with a grand slam and five RBIs as the Tomateros snapped a six-game losing streak. Former Yankees infielder Ramiro Peña was 3-for-3 with a walk and a run scored for Culiacan, while Twins prospect Chris Colabello collected three hits, including an RBI single, for the Algodoñeeros. Gameday box score
Los Mochis 4, Navojoa 3
Major League veteran Jason Botts hit a solo homer, singled and scored twice as the Cañeros rallied for their third win in a row. Saul Soto capped the comeback with an RBI single in the eighth for Los Mochis, while Wes Bankston and Matt Esquivel homered for the Mayos. Gameday box score
Hermosillo 9, Obregon 2
Braves prospect Todd Cunningham went 3-for-5 with an RBI to lead an 18-hit attack as the Naranjeros avoided a third straight loss. Former Reds farmhand Jesse Gutierrez also had three hits, including his league-leading 12th homer, and scored twice for Hermosillo. Carlos Valencia singled twice and scored a run in a losing effort. Gameday box score
Puerto Rican Winter League
Caguas 7, Carolina 3
Andy Gonzalez homered, drove in three runs and scored twice for the first-place Criollos. Rey Navarro (Royals), Aaron Bates and Carlos Rivera each chipped in two hits and an RBI for Caguas, while Padres slugger Kyle Blanks doubled twice, drove in a run and scored once for Carolina. Box score
Manati 9, Ponce 4
Keiji Nakahara homered twice and drove in four runs, powering the Atenienses to their second win of the season. Edwin Maysonet (Cubs) and Ivan De Jesus (Red Sox) contributed two RBIs apiece for Manati, while Rangers catching prospect Jorge Alfaro supplied all of the Leones' offense with a pair of two-run homers. Box score
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How on Earth Did This Full-Court Buzzer-Beating Heave Go In?
It's a fact of life: buzzer beaters are always fun to watch (almost as much fun as watching difficult shots that go even worse than logic dictates).
The latest wild and improbable effort to defy the odds? This full-court shot from a high school basketball game in Minnesota on Tuesday (December 8).
Here's the set-up. Austin was trailing Northfield, 56-54, when one of Northfield's players missed a free throw with 1.6 seconds left in the game. Austin's Oman Oman corralled the rebound and let loose a miracle. Well, this is a season for miracles, right? His full-court shot somehow went in the basket as the horn blared, giving Austin a 57-56 victory and most certainly making Oman the big man on campus.
That's a big-time basket, for sure. Now, let's see if he can up his game with this ridiculous shot.


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- A duplicate file finder should compare the file content. While there may be an option to search for duplicate file names or files with same size, these are not the measures which qualify two or more files as duplicates.
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I just finished reading the comments from the last couple posts. Lots of great thoughts and ranging opinions on this whole Favre matter.
One thing I didn't mention in any of my previous posts on Favre-to-Vikings, is that I think the Favre signing will be a significant psychological boost for the Vikings. Earlier this year, when Jay Cutler Favred himself out of Denver (or was pushed out Denver depending on your perspective), lots of folks initially said that the Bears gave up way too much to get him. They did give up a lot, no question. But I think it was a smart move (and a surprising one for Angelo). I figured the Bears signing Cutler would be an instant psychological boost for the Bears. It was and importantly, the excitement has only grown in Chicago since the signing – training camp was wild with Cutler there.
In many ways, the Cutler to Bears situation is similar to the Favre to Vikings situation. Both QBs have the luxury of having fine RBs and good running games behind them. Both will have decent O-Lines. Both will probably have good defenses to support them (if the Williams' duo aren't suspended). Both will be throwing to mediocre, at best, receivers. Both are self-centered, clearly. But perhaps the most significant similarity is that both QBs have landed on teams that have struggled to find consistent/quality QBs over the years. And because of this, the positive psychological effect their acquisition will have on the respective organizations, fans, coaches, teammates, will be huge.
Some may dismiss this psychological stuff as "fluff"/as not being a legit factor, but I think psychology is a huge part of football. Before the Cutler signing, I had the Bears hovering around .500 – same with the Vikes. But after these signings, I think both will now compete with the Packers for NFC North supremacy. When the perception is that THE position that has been a question mark for both teams for a while now has been settled, it has the psychological effect of inundating the team with confidence. Even if the reality may be different and even if there may be legit statistical reasons why these signings shouldn't be a boost, if the perception is that the QB position has been at least temporarily shored up, chances are, that flow of confidence will carry forward and lead to some extra success in the season.
In fact, what I find somewhat interesting is that we're already seeing the positive psychological effect of Favre's signing on the Vikings – and yet at this point in his career, I view Favre as a mentally fragile athlete. Will his confidence be restored because of the support from a team that desperately wanted him or will his mental fragility infect his new teammates?


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A quiet valley in the middle of New Zealand's North Island isn't the first place you'd think to find the perfect union of art and nature; but then, life is full of unexpected events. Just ask Bilbo Baggins.
A 40-minute drive from the small town of Matamata, in the Waikato district, is a world-first: a genuine, permanent movie set open to the public. This is the location of Hobbiton, the village first featured in the Lord of the Rings movies and now The Hobbit trilogy. It's on the Alexander family farm and tours depart every quarter-hour for a 90-minute wander around the set. On a coach ride from the Shire's Rest car park to the five-hectare site of the village, guide Henry Horne gives us the background.
Back in 1998, in an unwelcome interruption to a televised rugby match, a New Line location scout tapped on the door of the Alexander homestead and was asked to call again later. It was an inauspicious beginning to what has become a mutually beneficial partnership between the family and director Peter Jackson. He had spotted the farm from the air while searching for a setting for Hobbiton, the bucolic country village where the Lord of the Rings saga begins. The huge old pine tree beside a lake was the clinching factor — Henry explains how it had almost been felled earlier, as it was in the way on a stock track used by the farm's sheep — and 30 contractors moved in to spend nine months building a cluster of hobbit houses with their small round doors and windows set into grassy banks.
At the conclusion of the filming, Hobbiton, like all the other sets around the country, was to be destroyed, but weather delayed the work. Before deconstruction could begin again, so many rabid Tolkien fans had come knocking on the Alexanders' door wanting to look at the site, that son Russell persuaded Jackson to allow him to conduct tours of what was little more than a series of holes in the ground. Even so, 200,000 international visitors came in the following eight years; and when making The Hobbit movies was proposed, the Alexanders knew exactly what to do.
This time, more than 70 workers spent 2½ years constructing 44 hobbit holes that are built to last, and once filming finished Hobbiton Movie Set Tours began operations. Now visitors can delight in walking around a village that is complete in the tiniest detail, with hobbit trousers hanging on clotheslines, firewood piled up outside individually designed doorways, moss and lichen clinging to the picket fences, flowers and vegetables growing in the gardens. The artichokes are real, but the lichen is the result of art and artifice, a small-scale example of the obsessive care that has been, and still is, taken to ensure a totally convincing experience.
"We want to enable a real emotional opportunity," explains Henry. "People should feel that they're stepping inside Middle Earth."
That's part of the reason why visitors are guided: "For us, it's all about the story and the personal journey, and we want to be able to share that with the world."
He adds, "It's not just the movie that's the draw card. A third of our visitors haven't seen the movies, but 98 per cent have read the books."
Nevertheless, it's the examples of Jackson's finicky care with background detail that fascinate everyone. Standing on the hill above Bag End, the house belonging to Bilbo and Frodo that is one of just two with a proper interior — the others are only a couple of metres deep behind their doors — is an oak tree painstakingly reconstructed in fibreglass moulded on an original, its thousands of leaves made in Taiwan and individually wired in place.
"It was in shot for 11 seconds," Henry says.
The path leads through the shaggy grass, past Samwise's house in Bagshot Row and the party tree opposite, around the lake, over the humpbacked stone bridge by the water mill, and the tour finishes at the cosy Green Dragon Inn with a special brew of cider or beer.
Across the lake, set into luminously green hillocks, are the brightly painted round doors of the hobbit holes surrounded by foxgloves and hollyhocks. It's as pretty as a picture: but it's also marvellously real.
If you go
The second instalment of The Hobbit trilogy, The Desolation of Smaug, was released in cinemas on Dec. 13.
Air New Zealand flies direct from Vancouver to Auckland daily: www.airnewzealand.co.nz
Hobbiton Movie Set and Farm Tours is close to Matamata, 175 km south of Auckland. Entry fees are $75 NZ adult/$38 youth/$10 child and 90-minute guided tours run every quarter hour from 9:50 a.m. to 4:05 p.m., seven days a week. For more information visit www.hobbitontours.com and www.matamatanz.co.nz
Pamela Wade was a guest at Hobbiton. Hobbiton did not review or approve this article.