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Lawyer: Err on the side of disclosurePosted on Written by Jim Flannery
"The times are changing," said Miami attorney Michael Pennekamp, during a seminar to help yacht brokers stay out of legal trouble.
Specifically, he was talking about how to avoid misrepresenting pertinent facts to buyers and sellers during yacht sales transactions – and stay out of court. "The numbers [in court awards] are bigger now and a lot of people you represent made their money through litigation," he says. "It doesn't take much … for someone to go off on a jag and pursue a principle to the ends of the earth."
Pennekamp, a lawyer with Fowler White Burnett, is representing HMY Yacht Sales Inc. and broker Jim Barboni in their request for a retrial in the $1.8 million judgment against them for negligent misrepresentation.
Though not speaking directly to the HMY case, Pennekamp and Miami attorney Michael Moore addressed a packed house of 300 June 17 at a Florida Yacht Brokers Association seminar on closings and the law about issues related to negligent and fraudulent misrepresentation.
Moore says a broker has a fiduciary duty to both parties – buyer and seller – in an escrow transaction. That duty is similar to that of a lawyer or banker, exacting the "highest degree" of trust, confidence, good faith and loyalty. It includes a duty to disclose "known and suspected material facts" about a yacht, including defects and deficiencies, Pennekamp says. "Failure to disclose in a listing or the sales process exposes you to legal liability and/or expense," he says.
According to Pennekamp, negligent misrepresentation may occur when:
- A broker makes a statement about a material fact that the broker believes to be true but is in fact false.
- The broker is negligent in making that statement because he or she should have known it was false. The broker failed to use "reasonable care."
- The broker intended for the buyer to rely on that statement to make a decision.
- The buyer "justifiably relied" on the false statement.
- The buyer suffered loss or damage as a result of it.
Fraud differs from negligence in that it involves intentional misrepresentation and/or a "reckless disregard" for the truth.
A "material fact" is, in general, one that you would want to know about before making your decision if you were a buyer, Pennekamp says. Material facts could include failure to maintain a boat, engine rebuilds, engine hours, warranties, damage to running gear, fiberglass work, sinkings, collisions, hard groundings, repetitive repair of the same parts, spider cracking in fiberglass or gelcoat, and design deficiencies. Typically the jury decides whether a fact is material, Pennekamp says.
"The judge is the finder of law; the jury is the finder of facts," Moore says.
And juries often are not well-educated about boats, so they might not always be right on the mark about what is material and what is not. "Err on the side of disclosure," Pennekamp says. "Use your gut."
Pennekamp advises brokers to properly execute listing, sale, and purchase and acceptance agreements, and to include in all of them an "as-is" clause and other relevant "disclaimers, indemnifications, hold harmless and defense clauses."
The "as-is" clause essentially says the broker believes all the information he has presented about the vessel is accurate, that the broker has disclosed all known defects and deficiencies that would affect a buyer's decision, and once the sale has been consummated the buyer accepts the boat "as is" without any warranties. The clause also says no representation by an owner or broker about the boat's condition is binding on the owner or broker, so the buyer is advised to get a good surveyor and go over the boat with a fine-tooth comb.
However, Pennekamp says, under Florida law brokers cannot limit their liability for fraud, negligent misrepresentation or unfair acts or trade practices by putting an "as-is" clause in the contract. Proof of fraud, negligent misrepresentation or unfair acts or trade practices overrides the "as-is" clause. It is no longer a defense.
Pennekamp maintains that "puffing" – exaggerating the qualities of a boat in an ad – is opinion and not a factual claim, should not be relied on by a buyer and cannot be the basis for a claim of negligent misrepresentation. He maintains, too, that a buyer cannot claim negligent misrepresentation if a sales contract explicitly states the seller and broker have disclosed what they know about the boat in good faith and are not bound by any inaccurate and inadvertent representations that they might have made. Rather, the buyer, per the contract, should get a surveyor to go over the boat, take it on sea trials and rely on these investigations rather than the broker's or seller's say-so.
Pennekamp advises brokers to make sure information and photographs in their yacht listings and on their websites are "accurate, current and updated regularly," and include the same disclaimers that are in the contracts so buyers can't claim they were sucked in by misleading advertising. He recommends keeping copies of yacht listings and any correspondence regarding a particular boat, and keeping a file of memos of conversations with anyone about the boat.
Finally, brokers should always recommend that a buyer hire a surveyor to go over the boat before buying it. Even if a broker does all these things, he or she isn't "100 percent protected," says Pennekamp.
"But you're a lot more protected than if you don't," he says.
This article originally appeared in the August 2010 issue.


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|thanks, its a fun ride. Just wish the base was sintered but i'll live.
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Review: 2014 Gnu Carbon Credit
Alright, so as I'm sure a few of you know i purchased myself a Gnu Carbon Credit for Christmas. Finally got to ride it yesterday Here's some thoughts on it...
Board: 2014 Gnu Carbon Credit 162W
Bindings: 2014 Union Force's
Conditions: Hardpack, ice.
Riding Style: All mountain
Riding Level Intermediate on the groomers, noob in the park.
Let me start by saying that I pretty much took this board out of the sleeve, mounted the bindings, and went to the mountain... I didnt wax it, detune it or anything.
i took this board everywhere i could yesterday with the exception of the trees. This board performed on every aspect of the mountain... It did well on the groomers, its super fast. I actually had to corral it a few times because it got a little too fast for me, I'm not much of a speed demon up there i like to enjoy the ride,but It was super quick edge to edge compared to my cambered board which i expected with the BTX rocker profile. There was virtually no learning curve coming from a camber. I literally hopped on the thing and by the end of the run I was confidently popping side hits. Not what i expected.
As for the park. It did very well. took it off some smaller jumps. (our park isnt very big at the moment.) I was impressed definitely a lot easier to land on and smoother than my old board. I did a few 5050's on some boxes and i liked it. I'm still learning on boxes, but i was able to press it a little on the boxes. She popped! It was a lot easier to press than my old board which was stiff as a rail. It had more pop than my previous board as well, which was camber... but it was very hard to press, this board was much easier so i was able to get more pop with less force applied.
Overall this board should make any all mountain rider happy. I'm pretty sure it will have plenty of float in powder, (I didnt have much to play with) it does well in the park and rails the groomers. What more can you ask from an all mountain board?
BTW the edge hold was on point all day... Magnetraction aint no joke!
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With the exception of some blue wear on the underlug (and a very minor spot on the bottom of the trigger guard that's hard to see) this E-Series 6-inch barrel Colt Python is just about perfect. 1974 production.
There is almost no turn line, and it locks up like a vault. There's no play or slop in the action. Timing is perfect, and the bore is bright and shiny. The frame screws are perfect, with no evidence of having been turned.
Factory target rubber grips with SILVER Colt medallions (the reflection in the pics makes the meds look gold, but they're silver). Solid front sight; black outline rear.
The patches of blue wear feel no differently to the touch than the rest of the finish (glassy smooth, of course), so there is no corrosion present. Besides the spotting (I tried to highlight in the lower part of the 1st composite pic, and the right side of the 4th pic), there is not a mark on this revolver.
FULL-SIZE 5MP pics available via email on request.
$1450 Shipped from my FFL to yours. ***SOLD***
Thanks for looking.
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Serie B 2012/13 Review: Week 23
Crotone 2 – 1 Sassuolo
Saturday 26th January
Bari 0 – 1 Ascoli
Cesena 3 – 1 Vicenza
Empoli 0 – 2 Novara
Grosseto 3 – 1 Cittadella
Modena 1 – 2 Ternana
Padova 0 – 0 Livorno
Pro Vercelli 0 – 0 Reggina
Spezia 0 – 1 Verona
Varese 1 – 2 Virtus Lanciano
Monday 28th January
Juve Stabia – Brescia
With Serie B taking such a lengthy winter hiatus, it was always going to be interesting to see which sides would cope better with almost a month of inactivity. Would the sides that ended the year in scintillating form pick up from where they left off? Or would the league's strugglers welcome the opportunity of a fresh start?
If the Friday evening fixture between runaway league leaders Sassuolo and Crotone is anything to go by, it could be a case of the latter. On a pitch that resembled something of a reservoir thanks to a torrential downpour, a lively start saw the hosts take a deserved lead through Pietro De Giorgio's powerful back post header. A stunned Sassuolo found themselves two down inside the opening half hour when Kelvin Ewome Matute looped a header into the path of Mirko Eramo, who casually tucked the ball into the bottom corner. An almost instant response from Simone Missiroli gave the Neroverdi hope of staging a comeback, but a superb display from Crotone keeper Nicholas Caglioni kept them at bay during the second half. The game ended in controversy however, with referee Luigi Nasca whistling for full time just as Domenico Berardi was set to pull the trigger on a near certain equaliser.
While Sassuolo were caught napping, second placed Livorno were similarly guilty of a sluggish start, and can be grateful to have escaped with a goalless draw having been dominated on their trip to Padova. An astonishing display from Livorno keeper Vincenzo Fiorillo somehow kept Padova out during the first half, with a point blank save to deny a Diego Farias volley the pick of the bunch. The hosts did have the ball in the net through Enej Jelenic shortly before half time, but his effort was correctly ruled out for offside. It was a similar story in the second half, with Farias pulling a snapshot inches wide of the post, while Fiorillo was again on hand to palm away Aniello Cutolo's long range effort.
It was a much more satisfying weekend for Verona however, who managed to close the gap on the top two to just two points thanks to Daniele Cacia's late winner against Spezia. It was the home side that came closest to opening the scoring in the first half though, as Mario Rui clipped the crossbar with a curling long range effort. Verona piled on the pressure following the restart, with Alessandro Sgrigna clipping the base of the post from the edge of the area, before Cacia's pin-point accurate header into the top corner won it with nine minutes remaining.
The result extended the Gialloblu's lead over fourth place Varese to ten points after they failed to build on Tuesday night's victory over Brescia, succumbing to a 2-1 defeat at home to lowly Virtus Lanciano. The hosts took a deserved lead on the stroke of half time when the imperious Diego Falcinelli laid the ball into Manuel Turchi, who steered the ball home off the base of the post. Giulio Osarimen Ebagua looked to have salvaged a point with a blistering effort with quarter of an hour remaining, but a clumsy challenge by Riccardo Fiamozzi on Mohamed Fofana gave Alessandro Volpe to win it from the spot.
It was a similar story for fifth place Empoli, who fell to a 2-0 defeat at home to a resurgent Novara side who may yet harbour hopes of a play-off place come the end of the season. Daniele Croce came close to putting the Tuscan side ahead with a dipping effort that was tipped onto the bar by Francesco Bardi, while Massimo Maccarone went close with a header shortly before the break. However the visitors took the lead through Matthias Lepiller with 20 minutes remaining, the forward deftly controlling the ball on the edge of the box before calmly dispatching it into the bottom corner, and the points were secured in the 93rd minute when Flavio Lazzari scuffed the ball home from close range.
Fellow play-off hopefuls Modena also endured a narrow home defeat at the hands of Ternana, who took the lead with ten minutes remaining through Gianluca Litteri, before Matteo Ardemagni looked to have salvaged a point from the spot six minutes later. However another spot kick in the fourth minute of stoppage time saw Litteri grab his second of the match with what proved to be Ternana's winner.
Further down the table, Bari have slipped ever closer to the drop zone following a narrow home defeat to Ascoli, Simone Zaza grabbing the only goal of the game in the 15th minute with a composed finish from the edge of the area. Elsewhere there was goalless draw in the game between relegation rivals Pro Vercelli and Reggina, a result the visitors will perhaps be marginally the happier with.
Cesena picked up a vital three points at home against Vicenza, despite falling behind to Alex Pinardi's stunning early free kick. A neat finish from Pablo Mariano Granoche drew the hosts level before a Denis Tonucci header and Davide Succi strike gave Cesena just their fifth win of the campaign. There was a rare victory too for bottom side Grosseto, who likewise fell behind to Cittadella courtesy of Nunzio Di Roberto, before goals from Emanuele Padella, Federico Piovaccari and Arturo Lupoli secured the win. Still ten points adrift of safety, it is a long way back for the Grifone, but they could not have hoped for a better start to the second half of the campaign.
Player of the Week: Diego Falcinelli (Virtus Lanciano)
The 21-year-old forward, on loan from Sassuolo, was outstanding in his side's surprising 2-1 victory over promotion chasing Varese. At the heart of all his side's best attacking moves throughout, the Varese defence simply could not live with Falcinelli's trickery at times, and only the profligacy of his team mates in front of goal ensured that Virtus Lanciano's margin of victory was as narrow as it proved.
Goal of the Week: Davide Succi (Cesena)
A fine team effort culminated in Pablo Mariano Granoche chesting the ball into the path of Davide Succi, who rifled an unstoppable drive into the top corner from the edge of the box. Cesena will want to forget the first half of the season in a hurry, and if they can continue to find the net in such stunning fashion with increased regularity, they should be confident of pulling away from danger as the second half of the season gets underway.
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Ingmar Weber works in the emerging area of Computational Social Science. In his interdisciplinary research, Ingmar addresses research problems of societal relevance by using large amounts of online data to study human behavior at scale. He works with medical professionals, demographic researchers and sociologists on a wide range of topics. His particular interests include (i) using social media for monitoring public health, (ii) developing digital methods for studying international migration, and (iii) understanding the dynamics behind online polarization.
Ingmar joined QCRI in November 2012, and has since been a key person in building up the Social Computing group. Prior to joining QCRI, he spent three years at Yahoo Research in Barcelona (2009-2012), working on large-scale web mining projects, including work on the interplay between demographic attributes and web search behavior, and work on studying international migration using global email communication information. Earlier he spent two years as a postdoc at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2007-2009) and two months as a visiting researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge (summer 2008).
During his scientific career, Ingmar has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles on topics ranging from efficient data structures for search engines during his PhD, to algorithms for pricing web search-sponsored search auctions during his time as a postdoc, to current work on large-scale studies on human behavior.
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THIS SEASON: Sophomore Anna Burger will add depth to the Trojans' middle distance crew.
2011: Had a season-best 800m time of 2:19.29 to place second in her heat at the Northridge Invitational on March 12. Also had a best 400m time of 60.44 at the Trojan Quad-Meet on April 2. Ran for the cross country team in the fall with a best 5K time of 19:59.2 at the UC Irvine Invitational on Sept. 10 and had a 6K time of 24:51.19 at the CS Northridge Invitational on Oct. 21.
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New Research from AOL Advertising: "The 7 Mom Archetypes Online"
Oct 24, 2012
Moms are consuming and sharing content online at exciting rates. Did you know that Moms are online every day and spend nearly 1 ½ hours each day with content?* And, did you know at AOL, over 73% of our Moms are sharing online content every month?** Knowing what busy lives Moms lead, this is a considerable amount of time for them to spend with digital content.
So, what content are Moms sharing and consuming online?
As marketers and publishers, we tend to have a very traditional view of Moms. Armed with this traditional view, there is a tendency to think that the content that matters most to Moms is primarily parenting content.
At AOL, we know that she is more than a mother. Moms play many roles in their lives, in addition to the role of parent. We felt that by learning more about their needs and motivations - both as Moms and as Women – it would lead us to a deeper understanding of the online content they value. And it would be this understanding that, in turn, would help AOL and our advertising partners program SMARTER for Moms.
What we uncovered through our research was truly exciting. We learned there are 7 distinct archetypes of Moms online. All of them have unique personalities, priorities, passion areas, and most importantly, content needs.
After months of researching and analyzing, here is the list we have compiled of the 7 Mom Archetypes online:
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6. Intelligentle: Simple, practical and informed describes this Mom best. Actively contributes to bettering the environment for her & her family.
7. Spiritual Provider: She takes pride in providing for her family. She is a traditional and spiritual Mom. Sometimes she's so focused on being a good provider, she forgets about herself.
We took our rich learning around Moms' content needs and applied it not only to our programming approach within our Women's Lifestyle brands - such as StyleList and Homesessive - but also to our advertising solutions.
We are proud to announce that we have a brand new advanced targeting advertising solution - the first of its kind at AOL. This targeting solution goes beyond demographic targeting and enables advertisers to target these unique and distinct 7 Mom Archetypes based on their psychographic mindsets.
AOL has been connecting with Women and Moms throughout our 27-year history. This history is built upon a rich foundation of insights and a deep desire for learning more about our consumers.
In 2011, we partnered with Bovitz Inc. to conduct a quantitative and qualitative research study of Women. In this study, we surveyed over 6,000 Women online and followed up with a portion of them through a series of in-depth interviews. Following the success of the Women's segmentation, we further mined this robust research to extract the most relevant and compelling insights around Moms.
We hope that this unique learning will benefit our advertisers as well as the 45 million Moms* that visit our AOL brands each month.
To download this study in PDF form, click here. To learn more about AOL's Advertising products and solutions, visit http://advertising.aol.com/.
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**Source: AOL Women's Segment A&U Survey, August 2011


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Zip lines are most typically used as an outdoor adventure activity. They are operated at higher speeds covering longer distances and sometimes at considerable heights. Zip Line locations are worldwide. Riders are physically attached to the cable by a harness. The harness connects to a rolling assembly called the trolley which rolls on top of the cable. Usually a rider will be launched from a specially built zip line platform over an extreme drop or spectacular view of a rainforest canopy. Zip line courses have become very popular as vacation activities, and are also integrated into ropes courses or adventure camps. Ski resorts are well suited to host a zip line course due to their angle of descent and existing structures which provide excellent zip line anchors.
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Brian X. Chen over at Wired has done another piece of excellent snooping and followed a trail of evidence to uncover some awkward truths about Apple's own director of applications technology, Philip Shoemaker. Shoemaker has a whole host of iPhone Apps that he sells under his company name Gray Noodle LLC. Included in his "portfolio" of work are not the … Read More
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Espirito Santo Shares Fall After Earnings Report: Lisbon Mover
Banco Espirito Santo SA fell to the lowest level in almost a month after its 2012 earnings were below analysts' estimates and Portugal's biggest publicly traded lender said it's considering an acquisition in Spain.
Espirito Santo declined 3.7 percent to close at 99.7 euros cents in Lisbon, the lowest since Jan. 8, giving the bank a market value of 4 billion euros ($5.4 billion).
The bank yesterday posted a full-year 2012 net income of 96 million euros, compared with a loss of 108.8 million euros in the previous year. Espirito Santo is studying an offer for Banco Gallego SA in Spain, Chief Executive Officer Ricardo Salgado said at a news conference in Lisbon yesterday.
Carlos Peixoto, an analyst at Oporto, Portugal-based Banco BPI, said Espirito Santo's results were "weaker than expected" mostly because of lower net interest income, the difference between what a bank makes on loans and pays for deposits, and higher provisioning.
"The drop today is related to the bank's results, which were lower than some analysts had expected," said Pedro Oliveira, a trader at Go Bulling in Lisbon.
A downgrade by New York-based JPMorgan Chase & Co. is also hurting the shares, Oliveira said. Lisbon-based Espirito Santo was cut to neutral from overweight today at JPMorgan, whose 22- month target price for the stock is 1.03 euros a share.
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Fox News Columnist Launches Transphobic, Unscientific Rant Against MMA Fighter
Fox News contributor and self-identified "comedian" Stephen Crowder published a transphobic FoxNews.com column smearing a transgender Mixed Martial Arts fighter by repeatedly referring to her as a male and incorrectly accusing her of having an unfair advantage over her opponents as a result of "being a man."
In a March 20 FoxNews.com column [1], Crowder railed against transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox, repeatedly depicting her as a male who's interested in "beating up women":
Let me paint you a picture: your daughter is playing a contact sport. Say, football or hockey. She's gone from being your little girl to becoming a beautiful young woman. Opposite her on the field (or ice), is somebody who once was a man, until he decided that he didn't feel like being one anymore.
Enter Fallon Fox, a male-to-female transgendered person, who has now decided to make a living by beating up women.
Unless you were born and raised a woman, you don't go around hitting chicks.
Crowder's insistence on referring to Fox as a male is clearly meant to be derogatory. Mentally, physically, and legally, Fox is considered a woman. Given she also self-identifies as a woman, Crowder is violating basic journalistic standards [2] by failing to identify a transgender person by his or her stated gender. As Bleacher Report's Matt Juul recently wrote [3]:
While it's fair to debate the possible advantages of Fox's physical attributes (although there's increasing scientific evidence [4] that she has zero advantages), referring to her as a man is disrespectful and is not even close to being factually accurate. [emphasis added]
Solidifying himself as more of a "comedian" than a commentator, Crowder went on to claim - in the most stigmatizing and shameful way possible - that, because she was born a biological male, Fox has an unfair physical advantage over her female opponents:
So let's assume for a second that one can completely change their genetics (rather than the likely reality of having merely pushed certain, inconvenient gene expressions at bay) after having Bobbitt'd their wiener. It is still undeniable that for this person's entire life, that he had the hormonal profile and capabilities of a man. This is of course to say nothing of the ligaments, bone density and overall musculature that has been built over a lifetime of... well, being a man. Let's just talk hormones for a second.
On a related note, Fallon Fox has being using steroids for decades.
They're called testicles.
If you've had them, grown up with them and used them... you don't get to beat up women. [emphasis added]
Crowder is unqualified to be making statements about the physical characteristics of a transgender woman.
According to experts who have looked at Fox's case, Fox is unlikely to experience any significant physical damage over her female opponents.
Dr. Marci Bowers, MD [5]:
Most measures of physical strength minimize, muscle mass decreases, bone density decreases, and they become fairly comparable to women in their musculature. After as much time as has passed in her case, if tested, she would probably end up in the same muscle mass category as her biologically born female counterpart.
Dr. Sherman Leis [5], founder of the Philadelphia Center for Transgender Surgery:
If an individual is on female hormones, and she's been on them for several years, the hormones decrease the muscle mass, bone density, strength, libido and aggression. Those things are attributed to testosterone, and if she no longer produces testosterone, then she would have the level that an average female would have.
She's been doing that (hormone therapy) for so many years, that she probably does not have a significant advantage, if any at all. Especially because she wasn't a big man when she lived as a male. She's 5'7 and slight of build, and basically the size of an average female. Factor in that she's been on hormones for so long, and has had the surgery, she more than likely has the muscle mass, bone density and strength of most females.
As Sports Illustrated noted [6], "conclusive supporting data on the subject of competitive equity has only increased as the transgender community grows among all ages."
And James McDonald at Bleacher Report recently noted that much of the criticism about Fox's alleged physical advantage has been based on bias and ignorance [7], not real medical expertise.
This clearly seems to be the case with Crowder, who has no basis in his column for blindly insisting "she's a man!" Like his fellow Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow [8] who regularly misinforms about LGBT issues, Crowder is more interested in mocking and stigmatizing transgender people than doing actual research about the subject he's commenting on.
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Ever since Ivan Gazidis declared Arsenal's new-found financial firepower, stating that the club could afford players like Wayne Rooney and be able to pay their wages, I have said that we need to judge the management team based on this summer's transfer dealings. And at the end of the summer it looks like it's Öne-nil to the Arsenal.
For years now we've been told that there was no money to spend on players but finally the evidence was overwhelming: the cash on hand in the range of £150m, plus the new (front-loaded) stadium deals which were rolling in, plus the bumper new television contracts, all added up to a warchest that would rival any club in world football.
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Arsenal had to get this right, they had to signal a new direction for the club, they had to cast off the yoke of the old wage structure, and more importantly, Arsenal needed to show the world that they no longer sell off their star players but rather would start accumulating star players.
Lost in the hubbub of Arsenal's star signing, which we will get to momentarily, is the fact that this summer's transfer activity at Arsenal is transformational because we cleared out (almost all of) the dead wood. It was hard work getting rid of players like Djourou, Denilson, Chamakh, Gervinho, and Santos but Arsenal did it and largely finished the job.
And with the dead wood cleared out Arsenal set about looking for a £40m player with which to signal their intent. The intent to transform Arsenal from a club that sells star players to a club which buys star players.
It's clear that Arsenal set their sights on a star forward. Higuain was first up but amid reports that Real Madrid moved the goalposts on his transfer fee, Arsenal switched to what would have proved the bargain of the summer: a £40,000,001 bid to activate a supposed release clause for Luis Suarez. But there was no release clause and Liverpool's public posturing made it clear that Suarez would never be sold to Arsenal.
Signing Ozil, flat out, signals a new direction for Arsenal Football Club - we buy star players
And so we waited, and waited, and waited, until the very last minute when word got out that Arsenal were going to do a deal for Mesut Ozil. The idea that Arsenal would sign Mesut Ozil was frankly, unbelievable. I could see a player like Higuain because while he's a different class to the forwards we are used to shopping for, he's not in the very elite class of players. Ozil is certainly in that very elite class: he has been the best playmaking midfielder in Europe, consistently, for the last four to five years.
Signing Ozil, flat out, signals a new direction for Arsenal Football Club - we buy star players.
It's also transformational because it heralds a return to the old Wenger, the Wenger who spent money. The myth is that Wenger has never spent any money in the transfer market. The fact is that in the Highbury-Wenger era Arsenal had just three seasons of positive cash flow in their transfer dealings and the remaining six seasons all saw Arsène spend money on transfers. He also had four seasons in which he spent more than €20m on transfers which brought his net spend in the Highbury era to somewhere around €90m. It's true that Wenger never really bought established stars (though Henry was very well known everywhere except England) and instead bought rather judiciously.
Since moving to the Emirates, however, the story has flipped entirely. Taking out this summer, Arsenal were a net gain in the transfer market of €50m or so. Moreover, there were only two seasons of negative cash flow in the transfer market; 2009 when Arsène desperately bought Arshavin in January and in 2011 with the infamous "trolley dash".
Boom, in one fell swoop Arsenal turned around and spent €50m on just one player, erasing the gains of the past, while still leaving a sizeable chunk of money left in the bank. Money, which, Arsenal fans will now rightly ask that the club spend.
This is perhaps the most important change from my perspective. Now that the club have opened the checkbook and started spending on star players, they can't just stop. Not only do Arsenal have £100m cash on hand still but there is more money coming in and we all know it: the money from the Puma deal is not even on the books yet and other deals from this summer are starting to roll in.
The biggest thing that buying Ozil does is it energizes the fans and players at Arsenal and sends a signal to the players not at Arsenal that the Gunners are open for business
The biggest thing that buying Ozil does is it energizes the fans and players at Arsenal and sends a signal to the players not at Arsenal that the Gunners are open for business. The Arsenal fans have been greeting Ozil's signing as a bigger transfer than even Bale to Real Madrid. The Arsenal players will also be energised because they are mow team-mates with Real Madrid's former #10. And the players who don't play for Arsenal, yet, have to see this as a signal of intent. Any forwards out there looking for an increase in their goalscoring numbers will be dying to play in front of Cazorla, Ozil, and Walcott.
I know that the transfer market wasn't perfect. I think Arsène bought well to cover his defence and midfield in buying Flamini (Sagna will play centre back when needed), he bought well to cover keeper in Viviano (Szczesny has been playing very well), and he added more creativity to an already creative midfield which should translate to more shots and hopefully more goals.
We could have done better and there are still some outstanding questions about why some deals didn't get done. But for the moment we should all be excited by the fact that Arsenal finally did it: they finally landed a truly big-name player. Right now it's öne-nil to the Arsenal.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBP the Net Force.
When web service is disrupted across the world, a new nation makes its presence known. Terrorists from a virtual country called CyberNation have taken the web hostage. Their demands: worldwide recognition and rights for their "citizens." Though there are millions of CyberNation sympathizers, Net Force rallies its troops for an all-out war on three fronts -- politically, physically, and electronically -- because dealing with terrorists is never an option...
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Final "Hobbit" Flick Gets Its Full Title: Check it Out Here!
After rumors swirled that the third "Hobbit" film was subtitled "There and Back Again" last week, Peter Jackson cleared up the speculation with an extensive Facebook post on Thursday (April 24).
The director confirmed that the official title for the third flick is "The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies."
Peter explained the change of titles in his Facebook post, basically stating that "There and Back Again" doesn't make sense in relation to the entire saga.
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Our journey to make The Hobbit Trilogy has been in some ways like Bilbo's own, with hidden paths revealing their secrets to us as we've gone along. 'There and Back Again' felt like the right name for the second of a two film telling of the quest to reclaim Erebor, when Bilbo's arrival there, and departure, were both contained within the second film. But with three movies, it suddenly felt misplaced—after all, Bilbo has already arrived 'there' in the 'Desolation of Smaug'.
When we did the premiere trip late last year, I had a quiet conversation with the studio about the idea of revisiting the title. We decided to keep an open mind until a cut of the film was ready to look at. We reached that point last week, and after viewing the movie, we all agreed there is now one title that feels completely appropriate.
And so: 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' it is.
As Professor Tolkien intended, 'There and Back Again' encompasses Bilbo's entire adventure, so don't be surprised if you see it used on a future box-set of all three movies.
Before then however, we have a film to finish, and much to share with you. It's been a nice quiet time for us—Jabez and I happily editing away in a dark cave in Wellington—but those halcyon days are quickly coming to an end. It will soon be time to step into the light. Expect to see and hear much about The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies in the coming months.
And there's also The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Cut, which we're in the process of finishing, with over 25 mins of new scenes, all scored with original music composed by Howard Shore.
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I went less than two weeks ago and had upper and lower eyeliner tattoo'd on - about two days later all of it completely gone!!! I called the tattoo artist and she says it's either a "freak" accident - or because my iron was low. Has anyone heard of this before? & Yes there was ink and pain!!


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Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 9/20/1996
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Technical Abstract: Dr. Hallauer has dedicated his life to maize (Zea mays L.) breeding, so it is appropriate that this issue of Plant Breeding Reviews is dedicated to him. His primary contributions have been in understanding quantitative inheritance in maize, development of breeding methodology, the evaluation and utilization of recurrent selection for population improvement, and the development of inbred lines for use in maize hybrids. Dr. Hallauer has also been very involved in graduate student education. If the success of his students in academia and industry are a measure of his ability in graduate education, then this may very well be one of his greatest impacts on plant breeding. He has also been extensively involved in international activities and is known throughout the world for his contributions. Sprague and Lamkey (1992) reviewed Dr. Hallauer's career in the context of the development of quantitative genetics. This review will draw heavily from that one, but will focus more on Dr. Hallauer's research career.


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Marion Barry: His Life, His Way
In the summer of 1978, I attended an alley party, a gathering of neighborhood friends on Capitol Hill near the Eastern Market Metro Station. Toward mid-afternoon, there was a buzz of energy in the crowd and you could see a thirty-forty-something black man in a summer suit making his way through the people, shaking hands, announcing himself. "Who's that guy?," I asked a friend. He came our way and stretched out his hand. "Hello," he said. "I'm Marion Barry, and I'm running for mayor of Washington." He looked me straight in the eye, no blinking, straight up.
Back then, not even Barry—who is neither humble, modest nor shy about his achievements and talents—had any idea of just how far he would go, how much of an impact he would have on his adoptive city, for better or worse, just how far he might rise and how low he might fall, or how much he would seep into the lasting imagination of the city's residents, black and white.
Some 36 years later, here we were again. He walked into the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, and at first glance—walking carefully, but straight up, splendid gray suit and tie—he still had some of that charisma that makes you pay attention. But he was also, at age 78, a little diminished—by health issues and by time.
But we were all here together because of the book.
There is no end to the story of Marion Barry, or as the title of his book goes "Mayor for Life, The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr."
The book—long anticipated and long put off—is what it's all about now in Barry's life: interviews, an appearance at the National Press Club, an unusual sit-down, "on-the-record" dinner with journalists at the Look Supper Club on K Street, a forum cum-love fest sponsored by the Washington Informer at the Congress Heights school on Martin Luther King Avenue in Ward 8, all part of a here-there-and-everywhere mini-book tour. The book getting its share of knocks from the media, and others, but also praise from fans. Wherever Barry goes, his story goes with him.
If you've lived in the Barry age, you get instant flashbacks encountering him. You remember the flamboyant first-time mayoral candidate, the politician in the dashiki, the job-maker for the city's struggling African-American population, presiding over a construction boom, charming some but not all CAG members at their meetings; the infamous crack-smoking Vista Hotel tapes, the trial, coming back from a six-month prison sentence, getting re-elected to a fourth mayoral term, getting elected to the Ward 8 council seat, where he remains to this day, still drawing attention, still getting into trouble, still a force.
The book tour is bringing out almost every Barry incarnation we've seen—as well as the familiar tropes in reaction to the book by his critics. Modesty is never an issue. At the book dinner he said, "Courage, tenacity and vision, that's Marion Barry in a nutshell."
Face to face over lunch, he's a little quieter, although no less full of certainty. "I don't want my life to be just about the Vista thing, it was a life of accomplishment, where I helped people get a fair share of what they've been denied, in terms of jobs, in terms of work, in terms of participating in the business of this city. When I came here in 1965, this was still a sleepy Southern town. It was segregated, and black people weren't a part of the economy the way they should have been, and when I was elected mayor I changed all that." Asked if he had any regrets, he almost scowls. "Sure, of course, I've got regrets, who doesn't," he says. "When it comes to that, I sure wouldn't have gone up to that hotel room if I had to do it over."
The book is a kind of freight train, going full speed around the curves, dropping cargo and information, with some empty cars on it. If you want Vista, it's there in detail, according to Barry, if not according to other accounts and observers, often graphically.
But the book, written with novelist Omar Tyree, does touch on his early years, where you get a better sense of what may have formed Barry. He was born in Itta Bena, Mississippi. "I grew up poor," he will tell you. His father was a sharecropper who died when Barry was four. "I didn't have a role model," he said.
He grew up in Mississippi, in Arkansas, in Tennessee, during his formative years. Those were also the years of real segregation and Jim Crow in the south, where blacks and whites drank at different water fountains were. "I tried it once, I wanted to see what it was like to drink water from the white fountain," he says. "You just didn't do that."
In the end, Marion Barry became his own role model. Barry pursued science, has a master's degree in Chemistry and became an organizer and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during some of the most dramatic years of the civil rights movement.
"My mother [Mattie Cummings] picked cotton, but she later became a domestic. She insisted to the people who she worked for that she would come in the front door, not the back door. She said to them "If I'm good enough to teach and raise your kids then I'm good enough to come through the front door. And she did."
His vision about himself is heroic, in terms of the difference he made in the city for its black residents. "I knew what needed to be done and I did it," he says. From the moment he came to town as a SNCC organizer with the reputation of a go-getter and firebrand, he kept moving forward. "People liked me, people followed me. I ran for the school board and won, I ran for the city council and won, I ran for mayor and won."
"You want to know why I came back after all that, I was on the council again, but I went to Safeway on Naylor Road, to get some groceries, and I couldn't get out of there for two hours. It's true." People said, "why don't you run again, Marion? The city, the people need you. So I ran," he says. That was his last mayoral run, in 1994, when he beat both Council member John Ray and Mayoral incumbent Sharon Pratt Kelly, who ran a distant third. That was also, after his victory, when he told disgruntled white voters "to get over it."
The segregated South framed Barry's political context. In the book and in conversation, he often refers to white folks and the white establishment as a kind of political antagonist, against himself and African-Americans in general.
He is asked about Mayor Vincent Gray's campaign platform of "One City," of bringing the city together racially and ethnically. "It's not real," he says. "Can't be done. It's just not real. It's a slogan, that's all, a pipe dream." Barry endorsed Gray in the Democratic primary earlier this year, in which Gray, operating under a cloud, was beaten by Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser. Barry said he'll be supporting Bowser.
Talking about the new demographics of the city and its neighborhoods in which the black population is declining, he says it's "gentrification, pure and simple, that's driving people out of the city, the people who made up the backbone of this city. It's a disgrace. "
"I'm not done," he said. "I'm going to continue fight for economic empowerment. If you don't have capital, you don't have power."


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What I love about history is that through critical analysis and careful research, it is able to provide an insight or provide a voice to people, places, and things once thought to not have a story. Through history the unknown becomes the known.
Coming here to St. Lawrence, I would have never imagined becoming a history major. In fact, I had no idea what I wanted to study because of the limitless possibilities. Growing up, I was always a history bluff; I just found it so fascinating, although the history courses that I could take were very limited. I feel that one cannot learn and understand the complexities of the future without first knowing and understanding the complexities of the past. Have you ever heard the saying, "History repeats itself"? It wasn't until the second semester of my sophomore year when I fell in love with a special topics course co-taught by Professors Liz Regosin and Jennifer Hansen. In this special topics course called "Behind Bars," we studied the history of discipline and punishment here in the United States from the colonists, to the Quakers, eventually leading up to the world of today. This course sparked my interest because I was able to connect an academic field of study to a personal experience of mine. Growing up, I was the child of an incarcerated parent, never truly understanding what prison actually was. This same semester I also took another history course taught by Professor Regosin, called African-American History 1865-Present. Never have two courses that I've taken intertwined with one another so much that it was difficult to create a distinction between the two. From taking both of these courses, I have learned that the 'criminalman' perceptions of African Americans today (males especially) didn't just begin, but lie historically embedded in the perceptions of slaves and freedmen. One thing I want to mention that I am so grateful for is the fact that I was able to learn things about my history that I had never before heard. The atrocities of Rosewood as well as the trial of the Scottsboro Nine are just a few of the many events revealing the untold history of African American life.
My future plans are to go on to grad school to study public policy, possibly go to law school, but my ultimate goal is to obtain my doctorate. I want to be an example. An example that exemplifies that you can become anything in life that you dream, you just have to believe in yourself. Once you believe in yourself, other people will believe in you too. That belief (faith) in me is actually how I got here to SLU in the first place. I am an Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity program (HEOP) scholar. The HEOP program provides children from educationally and economically disadvantaged families the education that they so rightfully deserve. I am also a Ronald E. McNair scholar as well. Teaming up with Professor Regosin once more, I was able to further my research about prisons, ultimately looking at the phenomenon now deemed mass incarceration. I wanted to figure out the driving forces behind African Americans comprising 13% of the total U.S. population but almost half of the prison population. If it wasn't for these two history classes my passion for research may have never emerged in the way that it has.


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Joseph Campana
Princeton University Press, $24.95 (hardcover)
If one of the great paradoxes of art is that creation incites destruction, perhaps no period of cultural making proved that point more clearly than the Renaissance, an age in which the making and breaking of art were as intimate as lovers. The same era that witnessed Michelangelo's fervor for painting and sculpture also witnessed Savonarola's fervor for burning books, paintings, and other purportedly lewd objects. Shakespeare's England had just undergone the most destructive era of iconoclasm in the history of Christianity. Perhaps it is fitting that a book on the state of the arts in America would be written by a distinguished scholar of Renaissance literature; for another great paradox of art was cemented in the Renaissance, which Marjorie Garber makes her subject in Patronizing the Arts. As she puts it, "The arts are doubly patronized in America today. On the one hand, they are supported, financially and institutionally, by foundations, corporations, universities, and private donors. On the other hand, they are condescended to, looked down upon, considered recreational rather than serious work." The interlacing of these attitudes or, as Garber describes it, the under- and over-valuing of art is endemic. As this is, in her view, a condition neither to lament nor cure, what is the point of a book published in 2008 on the civic life of the arts?
In part, Garber's task is to describe the history of the current mode of "patronizing" of the arts. She does so with the characteristic breadth of a scholar and the anecdotal flair of the cultural critic. (Garber has authored several cultural studies on topics ranging from cross-dressing and bisexuality to real estate and dogs.) Much of the first chapter, then, treats the notoriously complex relationship between artists and patrons, from the Medici family (with its many geniuses) to the MacArthur Foundation (with its "genius" grants). Garber's reader is treated to quotes from Shakespeare's Timon of Athens and Samuel Johnson's testy letter to his unresponsive patron Lord Chesterfield. The sheer variety of facts can overwhelm, organized as they are in short paragraphs with disjunctive or absent transitions. Where might this history lead? From nineteenth-century Europe to the Harlem Renaissance to the definition of the "culture vulture" to "postmodern" art galleries and their practices to Ruth Lilly's donation to Poetry magazine, Robert Frost's originally intended poem for the Kennedy inauguration, and the history of the poets laureate of the United States: all in a few pages. The second chapter traces the history of American governmental support for the arts, with brief comparisons to the state-sponsored arts funding of other nations. The third chapter explores the complex and often controversial relationship between corporations and cultural funding, and there's certainly much to learn here. At times exhilarating, at times, dizzying, Patronizing the Arts won't leave the reader wanting for knowledge. Such drive-by histories are all the rage of late, but they can also leave the reader hungry for more analysis and less anecdote.
Garber's most interesting and potentially significant claims come as she attempts to relocate the arts, first in relation to the sciences and then with respect to the university. The sciences, Garber suggests, provide "a better analogy for the activities of art-making" and her chapter on that subject not only traces the history between the arts and sciences as disciplines (even in their privileged locations the laboratory and the studio) before tracing the migration of notions of genius from art to science over the last few centuries. Garber encourages not only a greater relationship between art and science (such as BioArt, which makes the scientific manipulation of organic matter its practice and medium) but also wonders if artists might not take on board the model of massive science project, funded to make possible the presence of dozens or hundreds of collaborating hands working toward one goal.
As for the university, this is Garber's last best location for artists. While she maintains that patronage for the arts should reside everywhere (while also admitting this to be an insufficient if accurate assertion), she describes the university as being "in a position to supply the missing piece that holds the edifice [of arts patronage] together." Noting the increasing hiring and tenuring of artists in the university, Garber encourages another analogy with the sciences, which hire and tenure professors in fields possessing theoretical and practical application, such as engineering, physics, and chemistry. "The makers of art," she asserts, "should be housed in universities." Most of Garber's examples tend to be visual (a consequence, no doubt, of her post as chair of Visual and Environmental Studies and the director of the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard). Garber avoids in this late chapter the highly fraught relationship between creative writing and literary studies, a subject about which whole books might be written (though elsewhere she advocates the separation of artists and critics along the lines of art studio and art history).
Ultimately, one might wonder if there is sufficient specificity, applicability, and innovation in Garber's suggestions to move beyond platitude to the real cultural reformation that would place rigorous creativity at the center of cultural activity. Still, her defense of the arts from charges of subjectivity, arbitrariness, or amateurishness may be heartening to artists if they are reading this book. It isn't clear if they are or will be though this is not necessarily a failing of Patronizing the Arts. For whom will this bell toll? It may most profitably address the cultural bureaucrat, the patron of the arts, the corporate arts liaison, the head of funding agencies, or the development officers, deans, provosts, and presidents of academic institutions, all of whom might be persuaded to abandon the patronizing of the arts and enhance the patronage of the arts, lending more support to creative acts of all varieties. It is a virtue of the book that it takes seriously the role of the arts in an often indifferent age. Moreover, Garber's interdisciplinary approach to the arts reflects an awareness of some of the most exciting frontiers in creativity. As such, Patronizing the Arts might do some real good. Of course herein dwells a paradox Garber most certainly recognizes: the institutionalization of art is as vital as it is threatening to artistic innovation. Anyone who can resolve that paradox deserves a genius grant.


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Body of missing S. California man found
A tourist from Southern California who had been missing since Dec. 19 has been found dead.
A written Fire Department statement said the car rented by 31-year-old Yogi Yoswara of Alhambra, Calif., was spotted in Papaaloa River shortly after 1:30 p.m. on Monday. His body was found about 100 yards downriver.
Former state Rep. Jerry Chang, whom Yoswara's family and friends had contacted to help find the missing man, said that an email from the owner of the Papaaloa cabins where Yoswara was staying prompted the river search.
"The email said that because it was raining that night, the road to the (cabin) may have been unpassable, so that gave them a clue," Chang said Tuesday morning.
Chang said that Fire Chief Darren Rosario told him that the area had already been searched, but he told his men "to search the other side of the road, because (Yoswara) might have gotten lost."
"I think that's what happened, that he took the wrong road and tried to go over a stream and got washed away," Chang said."They went again with police and … found the vehicle without a passenger, and then later on found his body downstream."
Yoswara was last seen between 8 and 9 p.m. the night of Dec. 19, Yoswara's friend, The Rev. Heintje Tjahja, said in an email. The last person to reportedly see him alive was Marie Thompson, a Honolulu woman whom Yoswara befriended while on the Big Island.


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Using technology as a tool to connect people to vital information and services
This grant supports a test of the feasibility and viability of an Internet-based electronic personal health record focused on a low-income population. The purpose of the project is to research strategic alliances, define a structure, release a limited pilot, and determine the feasibility of a broad-based implementation. One Economy has an Internet site, The Beehive, which may partner with an already-established, Web-based personal health record to give users access to this application. The project will be considered successful if it results in the working poor connecting to vital information and services through the use of an Internet site.
Grant Details
Amount Awarded $50,000.00
Awarded on: 9/27/2004
Time frame: 10/1/2004 - 9/30/2005
Grant Number: 51719
One Economy Corporation
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text: Tamaqua's 8 year-old All-Star team finished in second place of the West Hazleton 7-8 year-old baseball tournament. Team members include, front row from left, Carson Barron, Jamie Zuber, Jennifer Frederickson, Dominic Banditelli, Dante Agosti and Tyler Steigerwalt. Second row, Randy Steigerwalt, Tate Ligenza, Emma Kuczynski, Emily Titus, Joey Minehan, Casey Akins and Michael Minchoff. Third row, Coach Ziggy Kuczynski, Tom Banditelli and Manager Chad Barron. Nathaniel Noftz was also a member of the team.


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Accused Priest Is Placed On LeaveAug 19, 2002 | The Boston Globe
Monsignor Michael Smith Foster, the judicial vicar of the Archdiocese of Boston, has been placed on administrative leave - at his request - following allegations made last week that he sexually molested a Newton teenager in the 1980s.
In his role as the archdiocese's chief canon lawyer, Foster has been advising Cardinal Bernard F. Law on canon law issues related to the sex abuse scandal. He is also the presiding judge of the Metropolitan Tribunal, which hears all annulment cases.
The archdiocese's announcement about Foster was unusual because he had requested that he be placed on leave.
Paul R. Edwards, 35, who now lives in Winchendon, filed a lawsuit last week in Suffolk Superior Court alleging that Foster molested him repeatedly in the rectory of Sacred Heart Church in Newton, where Foster was a newly ordained priest. Foster is the 20th priest from the archdiocese since February who has been accused of sexual misconduct and placed on administrative leave.
Foster, 47, denied the allegations in a statement released yesterday by his attorney, Joseph L. Doherty.
''I am devastated by these false accusations,'' he said. ''I pray that the truth will be revealed as quickly as possible.''
Edwards says Foster recruited him as an altar boy and molested him in his rectory room ''on numerous occasions'' in the 1980s.
In his lawsuit, Edwards also alleges that another priest, the Rev. William J. Cummings, raped him during a youth group trip to New York City in December 1982. In 1993 Cummings told his congregation at St. John the Evangelist Church in Cambridge that he had the virus that causes AIDS. He died a year later.
Edwards asserts in the lawsuit that after Foster earned his canon law degree and went to another Newton parish in 1988, Edwards visited him and told him about the alleged rape by Cummings. In an interview with WHDH-TV, Edwards said Foster told him not to tell anyone about the rape.
Spokeswoman Donna Morrissey said in a statement yesterday that the Archdiocese of Boston only recently heard of the complaint against Foster. Foster will receive his salary and medical benefits during his leave.
The archdiocese is in the process of notifying civil authorities, she said.


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Sonoma County: Dine 5-star
Population: 472,102. Median single-family home price: $484,000 (Healdsburg).
Wineries open to the public: 305
Take a trial run: Eco-happy H2Hotel is within walking distance of stellar food and tasting rooms. From $215; h2hotel.com
"Everyone's thinking about food and wine all day long here," says Sondra Bernstein, proprietor of The Girl & The Fig restaurant in Sonoma. "It's like, 'What's happening in the news?' " Bernstein, who has many projects, recently added a 2-acre biodynamic farm in a sharecropping agreement with a winery.
Though Napa, one valley to the east, may draw more tourists and buzz, it was the Sonoma Valley that in 2009 became the nation's first Cittaslow ("Slow City"), a hard-won designation that Cittaslow International awarded the valley for keeping it sustainable, local, and small-scale.
Live in Sonoma County and you may start to take things for granted. You might think rack of lamb is always grilled on an authentic Argentine parrilla, as it is at Francis Ford Coppola's winery in Geyserville. That any class called "The Art of Wood-Fired Cooking" would naturally be taught by Andrea Mugnaini, an authority on Old World open-hearth ovens (her oven company has a Healdsburg cooking school). That every pizza joint offers house-cured lardo as a topping (Diavola Pizzeria in Geyserville). That your Sazerac should be poured by the guy who literally wrote the book on artisanal cocktails (Scott Beattie at Healdsburg's Spoonbar). Which is to say, you just might get a little spoiled.
Runners-up: Napa County; Vancouver, B.C.


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At last, the official EPCA photos we were all looking forward to. EPCA posted them on the website on Wednesday, where delegates are able to download them by using their conference username and password. A few selected highlights have been chosen for the Blog's readers (photos copyright EPCA).
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PHOTOS: Official EPCA 2009 Berlin photos
Sofia Honore joins Vinmar
Vinmar has appointed Ms Sofia Honore as its agent for chemicals marketing, based in Lisbon, Portugal, from 1 June 2009, the company announced on Friday. "Sofia's seven years of petrochemicals experience complements Vinmar's product and market portfolio very well. She will play a key role in the company's aromatics and related chemicals buying and selling activity throughout Europe," the company said […]
Trading places
I hear today that senior trader Jeroen Baaima has left Interchem to set up a European chemical desk at Vitol in London, which will be handling benzene, toluene, xylenes and pygas. He starts on 1 August and is on leave until then.
Also trading places, is styrene and solvents trader Roy Denneman who has left Vinmar in the Netherlands. No news yet on where he is headed.