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Legal REALTOR®: The Issue of Sex Offenders
By Robert S. Kutner, Esq., Partner Castner & Edwards
In light of recent developments at Penn State University, the issue of sex offenders has once again become front-page news. When a broker suspects that a sex offender may be living or working near a property being marketed, the REALTOR® is faced with an obvious dilemma.
Is the agent legally required to disclose that possibility to a prospective buyer, so the buyer can make an informed decision whether to purchase? Does a buyer's agent have a duty to investigate by checking the online registry or contacting the police department? What about the listing agent's fiduciary duty to act in the seller's best interest? How does the offender's distance from the property affect the agent's duties? Compounding the situation is a question of morality. Is it ethical to remain silent if speaking out could avoid significant harm?
No Bright Line Test
Unfortunately, no statute or court decision provides a bright line test. The Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, Chapter 93A, requires that a person acting in trade or commerce disclose to a prospective buyer any "fact" that may influence the buyer's decision to purchase. Possibilities are not facts. When a "fact" involves a non-physical offsite hazard, what is the duty of disclosure? What if the alleged sex offender has not been convicted? Whether or not the person was convicted, the offender could move tomorrow.
Although there is no clear rule, a 1997 decision of the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), Urman v. South Boston Savings Bank, concerning disclosure of chemical hazards offers guidance concerning disclosure of off-site conditions. In Urman, the buyer of a condominium sued the seller for not disclosing nearby contamination of groundwater. Prior to purchase, the buyer was not advised of contamination in the school's groundwater or that the school had been closed for seven months. When he learned of the contamination and school closing, the buyer sued the seller (bank).
Before trial, the judge dismissed the case ruling that the bank had no duty to disclose facts of which it had no actual knowledge and no duty to investigate. No evidence existed that the groundwater had reached the condominium or ever would reach it. The judge also based his decision on a finding that the buyer had presented no admissible evidence that the market value of any home in the neighborhood was adversely affected by the groundwater contamination or no justification to assert a claim that they had bought into a "bad neighborhood."
Upon appeal, the SJC affirmed dismissal. According to the Court, the disclosure standard is: In appropriate circumstances, offsite physical conditions, known to a seller who is subject to G.L. c. 93A, may require disclosure if the conditions are "unknown and not readily observable by the buyer [and] if the existence of those conditions is of sufficient materiality to affect the habitability, use, or enjoyment of the property and, therefore, render the property substantially less desirable or valuable to the objectively reasonable buyer."
The SJC also quoted from a 1995 New Jersey case, Strawn v. Canuso, that found no need to disclose "transient social conditions," limiting the duty to disclose to "conditions rooted in the land." The fact that a sex offender may live or work nearby is a "transient social condition," since the offender may move next week or next month.
Risk of a Claim
Despite the reasons that disclosure about a sex offender may not be legally required, should an assault occur, there is a risk that a claim will be asserted against the broker or the seller. This risk can be avoided if disclosure is made. Because doing so may impact a sale, the best practice is for the listing agent to discuss the situation with the seller to obtain approval before disclosure to avoid a claim for breach of fiduciary duty. Absent seller authorization, the agent must choose whether to accept the listing.
One method for a buyer's agent to limit the risk is to describe the limits of the agent's duties in a written agency agreement. It is advisable that the agent present properties that meet the buyer's criteria, but the buyer is obliged to investigate all matters relating to the property that are important to them. These include obtaining a home inspection, lead paint inspection, or insect inspection to determine the condition of the property; to verify zoning; to determine square footage and to obtain a survey; to check the quality of the schools and to check crime statistics, including the presence of sex offenders. MAR's MassForms Exclusive Buyer Agency Agreement contains such a limiting provision.
The state's sex offender registry law provides specific information online. Sex offenders convicted or released within the past 20 years are required to register annually, identifying their residences, workplaces, and crimes. The Mass. Sex Offender Registry Board maintains the information available from local police departments. To obtain information, the person making the request must certify that the purpose is for his/her own protection or for the protection of child under the age of 18 or for he protection of another person or whom the requesting person as responsibility, care, or custody. Real estate agents, even those who represent buyers, are not authorized statutorily to obtain information for clients.
Once an agent learns as a fact that a sex offender lives near a particular property there is an increased risk to an office. Actual knowledge of the agent is legally presumed to be known by the broker with whom the agent is associated. Once the broker (company) is charged with knowing that fact, failure to disclose that knowledge in all other transactions near to the offender's residence or workplace could provide a basis for a lawsuit. That lawsuit could be asserted by a buyer who claims that the property purchased is worth less than the buyer paid or by an occupant who is harmed by the sex offender.
Should the agent obtain knowledge and make the decision to disclose it to a buyer, the agent should be careful to avoid defamation by identifying the offender. The better procedure is to make disclosure by street or block and advise the buyer to contact the local police department for specific information about registered sex offenders in a particular neighborhood.
As a final note of caution, it is important to have general liability insurance as well as errors and omissions (professional liability) insurance. Unlike general liability policies, most E&O policies exclude coverage for bodily injury claims.

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THE SUNKEN CHIP--A Good Chippie in Paris, B; LA ROTISSERIE D'EN FACE--Fowling Out in Saint Germain des Pres, C
I have to admit that it took me a longtime to become a fan of fish and chips. The first hurdle was overcoming an aversion born of regular exposure to Gorton's frozen fish sticks (fish fingers in England), a staple of my New England childhood that was only tolerable as an excuse to eat a lot of ketchup and tartare sauce. To do this day, however, my heart still sinks at the sight of the little round portrait of a bearded-skipper-in-a-yellow-slicker that's the pictorial trademark of this Gloucester, Massachusetts based brand, now owned by a big Japanese seafood company.
Then, as a hard-up student in London when I was 19, I was introduced to proper English fish and chips from a place around the corner from our shabby unheated 'maisonette' (duplex shared with four others) in Fulham, a neighborhood that was in those days the preserve of hard-working immigrants and civil-service pensioners in wooly jumpers (today, to my never ceasing amazement, Fulham, which I disliked because living there meant endless waits between connecting trains at the Earl's Court tube station, has become quite smart). Knowing the fridge was bare, Peter, my Australian flat-mate, bounded through the door one night with several newspaper-wrapped parcels from the chippie around the corner and we ate. Grateful to be fed when I had only two pounds in my pocket, I kept my critical facilities at bay while silently thinking that this grease fest was more about crunchy batter than anything else.
All of this changed, however, during a weekend trip to Brighton with a boyfriend--Tim from Coventry who worked as a verger in a famous London cathedral. He said he knew where to get really good fish and chips from a hole-in-the-wall near the pier, and this time round and surely abetted by the fact that I was besotted with him and had some welcome sea air in my nostrils, they were delicious. Nice fat crunchy chips (French fries, in American parlance), long strips of cod encased in golden batter and sprinkled with malt vinegar and a pint of Strongbow cider made for a great cheap feast at a nearby pub table, and since then I've never had a chip on my shoulder when it comes to Blighty's favorite comfort food. Instead, I really love a good fish-and-chip feast now and again.
So when I heard that Englishman Michael Greenwold, half of the chef team at the terrific Roseval restaurant in Belleville (Simon Tondo is his culinary partner) and fellow Brit James Whelan had opened a chippie near the Canal Saint Martin, I was off like a shot even though it was a very hot day. I'm not enough of a scientist to know why deep-fried food appeals even when the temperature is soaring, but I arrived with a real appetite for lunch, and I wasn't disappointed. The pal I was meeting, a fellow Connecticut Yankee, and I decided we'd go for the yellow pollack platter and, in the interest of research, a deep-fried battered sausage platter as well.
While waiting for our food to come up--you can eat in here at wooden picnic tables or to do takeway and find a shady spot on the banks of the nearby canal, I was liking this place right away for no other reason than that it wasn't another hamburger joint. I love a good burger, and I initially welcomed the first few burger trucks and places that opened in Paris, but the trend has now gained a seriously dulling momentum for anyone who really likes French food. For a further explanation of my reaction to the current burgermania in Paris, you might be interested in reading this essay.
Well, the fish and chips platter won me straight away, because the fish was so fresh--the seafood here comes from Thomas Saracco, a young small-boat fisherman in Brittany who's won a reputation for his best-quality catch, and the batter was almost tempura like. Alas, the chips were soggy--I think the fryer needs some adjusting, but the dreaded side of mushy peas, a traditional Anglo garnish for this feast and something I haven't touched since an encounter with a stodgy scoop of same at Harry Ramsden's in Blackpool about ten years ago, were delicious--bright green, sweet, and garnished with chopped fresh mint. Our neighbors were eating monkfish nuggets and squid, also on offer that day--the menu varies according to what Saracco lands, and they also looked delicious.
Since my sausage preferences run to the fennel-seed or hot-pepper spiked coarse-grind Italian sausage I grew up eating in Connecticut, or, more recently, morteau or Auvergnat sausage--and I do love my sausage, I won't bang on about the bangers, because I don't think I have the DNA to appreciate them. Boudin noir, morcilla, other soft sausages, yes, but aside from their gentle whiff of sage, my pulse rate just doesn't move for these. I do love the malt vinegar that was on the table, though--there's something decidedly medieval about that taste, and I'm a big pickled onion man, too, a craving that could have been satisfied by the big jars of same on the white Metro-tiled back wall with canisters of classic English sweeties.
So for a good off-the-cuff summer feed, The Sunken Chip is a lot of fun, and I also like it for the fact that it chalks up a win for gastronomic diversity in burger-mad Paris these days.
The dog days of August are a challenge in terms of finding places to eat when friends come to town, but they also offer me a rare opportunity to revisit places I haven't been for a very longtime. So when a gaggle of pals decided on dinner the other night and wanted somewhere in Saint Germain des Pres, it occurred to me that we could go to La Rotisserie d'en Face, a place I hadn't been in years.
When chef Jacques Cagna opened this studiously 'Country French' style dining room specializing in roast chicken in 1992, I lived on the Left Bank and went often, because the straightforward food was good and it was reasonably priced. You often saw Cagna here, too, because his eponymous two-star main table was just down the street, and he was rightly proud of the simple but good-quality French comfort food he served here. So the La Rotisserie d'en Face got a lot of press coverage, and then became a listing i most of the world's major English language guidebooks to Paris. It remains in these pages today, too, although I rather doubt that most of the writers have been back recently.
Cagna retired several years ago and closed his main restaurant, but this place soldiers on and fills a need in a popular tourist neighborhood for simple uncomplicated French food as much today as it did on the first day that it opened. I think concierges must love it, too, since it hits the right buttons for being within walking distance of their front doors, and also moderately priced with a menu to please almost all comers.
The fact that it's August and many Parisians are away on holiday notwithstanding, this is a restaurant that people who lived in the neighborhood pretty much stopped going to many years ago, because it became known as a tourist table. Rightly or wrongly, this is just a fact of living in a heavily touristed city. When a restaurant's clientele becomes largely transient and mostly foreign, Parisians don't want to eat there anymore. The other night, though, there was a large well-dressed family from Bordeaux, but as far as I could hear, almost everyone else was foreign, including the four of us, Americans who have all lived in Paris for a very longtime.
Eyeballing the menu, we agreed it looked more innocuous than interesting, but no one had any trouble finding something to eat. As it was a warm night, three of us had the cold tomato-zucchini soup with basil and the fourth chose the chicken liver and duck pate with watercress salad. Served in white porcelain bowls, the soup brought business-class dining to mind, since even at the height of tomato season in France, it lacked any depth of flavor or the rich scarlet color of ripe tomatoes and was timidly seasoned. The translation of the French word 'courgette' to 'zucchini' on the menu was another indication of their predominantly American clientele, too, since the British and most other northern European call them courgettes. In America, the vegetable must have either arrived with or gained popularity after the arrival of Italian immigrants. Though it was served too cold and defaced with a squirt-bottle dribble of sticky brown sauce that was probably some derivation of Balsamic vinegar, the pate was "correct," as the French would say, the adjective in this instance meaning something that's acceptable. Of more interest, actually, was the accompanying watercress salad, since these crisp peppery greens seen to infrequently on Paris menus were ideal for rousing heat-dulled appetites.
Our exceptionally attentive and polite waiter, who automatically spoke to us in English, because who else comes here but English-speakers and he'd overheard us speak English, asked the three of us who ordered the roast chicken with potato puree if we wanted a wing (i.e. breast) or a leg, a nice touch, and told me when I asked that he sells many more wings than legs. The fourth diner chose the 'pastilla' of guinea hen, eggplant and pine nuts in a honey sauce. Well, the birds were sad fowl, with dry compact meat with very little flavor and the sort of elastic skin that's created by heat lamps. They were described as 'spit-roasted' and 'free-range,' but the hopefulness elicited by these phrases sputtered as soon as we tucked in, and almost as if to emphasize the sorry anonymity of these poor poulets was the way they were garnished--with a single sprig of flat parsley and a few cubes on unripe tomato. The accompanying potato puree was 'correct,' but the jus that sauced our plates was remarkable only for nearly total absence of flavor.
Meanwhile, the pastilla had flown the coop in terms of what this word should mean in Moroccan cooking, where it's a specialty. Instead of flaky layers of pastry interleaved with fowl, my friend got a floppy confectioner's sugar dusted crepe-like reticule stuffed with a "correct' ragout of guinea hen and eggplant. Almost as some sort of vegetal consolation prize, her sack was accompanied by a large serving of salad and a few cubes of unripe tomato were scattered on her plate as--as what? Well, something decorative rather than edible. Not surprisingly, a pall briefly settled over the table as we tasted our food, and it was only banished by good conversation, a nice bottle of Saint Veran, and the well-intentioned ministrations of our very nice waiter. No one was tempted by dessert, and when we sat down on a cafe terrace for a coffee after dinner, one of the gang accurately judged the meal we'd just eaten as "Correct, sans plus," or acceptable, but not more than that, helas!
The Sunken Chip, 39 rue des Vinaigriers, 10th, Tel. 01-53-26-74-46, Metro: Gare de l'Est, Chateau d'Eau, Bonsergent, Closed Monday and Tuesday, Wed-Sat open for lunch and dinner, Sunday noon-6pm. Average a la carte 15 Euros, www.thesunkenchip.com


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Finally, it's Friday, and no one can take that away from you. Greta's mom is home, I have a line on a new microwave, and uh....that's about it. Possibly things are finally starting to settle down. Be a change of pace.
I plan on rocking out as much as possible today. Ain't a Friday without a little air guitar going on.
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Will Obama Keep Power 'by Any Means Necessary'?By Stella PaulLet's go there: if Obama thinks he's losing, will he allow safe and fair elections on November 6? And if he does lose, will he peacefully turn over power to Mitt Romney on January 20, 2013? Or will he cling to power "by any means necessary," as a highly placed insider alleges? Now, I'm truly sorry to raise such disgusting, un-American, crazy-sounding questions, but, alas, they're not crazy, and I've got a disquieting amount of evidence. The Democrats have already accused Romney of murdering a woman with cancer, financial felonies, and not filing taxes for ten years -- the last charge delivered by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on the Senate floor, on the basis of absolutely no evidence whatsoever. By Democrat standards, I've got enough proof to put away Obama, et al. for life without parole. Whatever chicanery Obama and his investors may be contemplating, it will probably unfold against some gargantuan crisis, manufactured or otherwise. So cast your mind back to September 11, 2001, the day of the New York mayoral primary. In the chaos after the attacks, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who was term-limited from running, pleaded that his leadership was essential and that he should be granted an extra three months in office after his term ran out on January 1. Giuliani's unprecedented power-grab was rightfully scorned by his eventual successor, Michael Bloomberg. So what did Bloomberg do when he ran into term limits? He deployed his multi-billion-dollar fortune to manipulate the law and buy himself a quasi-legal third term, claiming that only he had the expertise to handle the 2008 financial crisis. My point? Politicians a great deal more conventional than Obama have loathed giving up power, and they have used crises and unethical machinations to try to keep it. Now, let's look at just some of the disturbing evidence that indicates that Obama and his investors are plotting something big: Super-High-Level Trial Balloons USA Today reported that on September 27, 2011, Governor Beverly Perdue, Democrat of North Carolina, told a Rotary Club audience, "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover[.] ... You want people who don't worry about the next election." When outrage greeted her suggestion, she retreated to the standard defense: she was just joking. What a kidder! Meanwhile, that same month, Peter Orszag, Obama's former director of the Office of Management and Budget, published an article in The New Republic titled "Too Much of A Good Thing: Why We Need Less Democracy." In it, he posited that the country was too polarized; hence, "radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic." Please note that these suggestions to suspend elections and radically reduce democratic control did not come from basement-dwelling bloggers. They came from the governor of the very state in which the Democrats are holding their national convention and from one of Obama's most prominent Cabinet members. Their close timing suggests that these ideas were circulating at the highest levels of the Democrat power elite. "Whom Does the Government Intend to Shoot?" That's the question recently posed by retired Major General Jerry Curry in the Daily Caller, in light of horrifying reports that the Social Security Administration is buying 174,000 rounds of hollow-point bullets for distribution to 41 locations in the U.S. According to Major General Curry, Social Security's ammo spree follows the purchase by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of 46,000 rounds of hollow-point ammunition. Will they be shooting fish in a barrel? Most terrifying of all, Major General Curry reports that the Department of Homeland Security ordered 750 million rounds of hollow-point ammunition in March, then subsequently ordered an additional 750 million rounds, including bullets capable of penetrating walls. "This is enough ammunition to empty five rounds into the body of every living American citizen," writes Major General Curry, who wonders what plan might require "so many dead Americans." I strongly suggest that you read Major General Curry's article for yourself, so you can appreciate the full horror of what he describes. After pointing out that Congress has done nothing to investigate these weapon purchases, Major General Curry, a 40-year veteran, concludes with these chilling words: Executive Orders Obama may not be fond of governing, but he certainly does enjoy issuing executive orders -- 135 so far. As American Thinker's Warren Beatty points out, these little-reported edicts reveal an all-too-predictable pattern: concentrating all national power and resources in Obama's hands, in case of "emergency." So far, Obama has granted himself the right to control all transportation, including highways, airports, seaports, and railroads, and all modes of communication, storage facilities, electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels, and minerals. Should you resist any of these emergency measures, rest assured that the U.S. government is now well supplied with bullets. Openly War-Gaming against American Citizens A recent issue of the well-respected Small Wars Journal featured an article titled "Full Spectrum Operations in the Homeland: A 'Vision' of the Future." Written by retired Army Col. Kevin Benson of the Army's University of Foreign Military and Jennifer Weber, a Civil War expert, the article helpfully game-played, in full operational detail, how the Army would destroy a local Tea Party insurrection. The authors claim that should Tea Party rebels take over a City Hall, "Americans will expect the military to execute without pause and as professionally as if it were acting overseas"; therefore, "the Army cannot disappoint the American people, especially in such a moment." The brazenness of this scheme for the U.S. military to kill Americans created a small, temporary stir. The Washington Times editorialized, "This is a dark, pessimistic and wrongheaded view of what military leaders should spend their time studying." The Washington Times also noted: Active Partnership with America's Foreign Enemies Many spectacles have enlivened presidential elections over the years, but 2012 marks the first time that high-level military personnel have felt compelled to publicly tell the president to stop leaking national security secrets. A group of former U.S. intelligence and Special Forces operatives created a 22-minute video, "Dishonorable Disclosures," to shame Obama into shutting up about priceless intelligence related to bin Laden's death, British-Saudi penetration of al-Qaeda, and the Israeli-American Stuxnet virus attack on Iran's nuclear program. Normally, presidents don't want to endanger American citizens and military personnel by leaking top-secret information -- but aiding and abetting the enemy is apparently all in a day's work for Obama. And so, if he wants to stir up trouble before the election, either at home or abroad, he'll have plenty of enemy partners to help. First, he's got the Russians, to whose president he was caught whispering on a hot mic about missile defense, "This is my last election[.] ... After my election, I have more flexibility." Second, Obama is this close to the Muslim Brotherhood, who are world-class experts on unleashing political violence. Obama helped the Muslim Brotherhood ascend to power in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and Libya, and he's placed its operatives in the highest levels of the American government. Surely, such clever characters as Huma Abedin, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's deputy chief of staff, and Mohamed Elibiary, a Homeland Security Advisory committee member, can be trusted to think up some exciting turmoil to apply where needed. And finally, close to home, Obama can rely on the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico, whom he supplied with thousands of guns. Gratefully, they used their American taxpayer-funded AK-47s to wipe out rival drug gangs and to murder Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Attorney General Eric Holder is presently in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents on Operation Fast and Furious, and Obama ("President Transparency") has claimed executive privilege to withhold them. Sending hordes of expensively armed drug gang members across our border should be a snap, now that Obama has crippled our Border Patrol. Just think of all the headline-grabbing distractions these energetic young men can unleash! Active Partnership with Domestic Criminal Groups When Louis Farrakhan met Ahmadinejad: now there's a romance made in the bowels of hell. Toss in the head of the New Black Panthers and fifty radical imams, and you've got the "Beast Axis" that was forged in a Manhattan hotel on September 27, 2010, according to The Blaze. New Black Panther Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz boasted on Black Panther Radio that he "stands on solid ideological ground" with "His Excellency, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad," who understands "the dynamics and the politics of world revolution." Apparently, Obama approves of these antics, because his attorney general, Eric Holder, dropped charges against the New Black Panthers, even though they were caught on tape allegedly intimidating Philadelphia voters in the 2008 elections. Naturally, Holder's Department of Justice then lied about its actions, covering up its political motivations. Holder specifically protected King Samir Shabazz, who now serves as national field marshal for the New Black Panthers. Shabazz spearheads the Panthers' ambitious new plan to "create inner city militaries that would go into nurseries and kill white babies and murder white people in the street." Let's hope this "inner city military" is not what candidate Obama mysteriously referred to in 2008 when he pledged, "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." Imagine, for one monstrous moment, the destructive potential of this burgeoning alliance between the Obama-protected New Black Panthers, Obama's old Chicago associate Louis Farrakhan, and the genocidally obsessed Ahmadinejad. If your blood didn't run cold, you weren't imagining hard enough. A Tsunami of Voter Fraud On June 15, 2012, Obama bypassed Congress and issued de facto amnesty to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. Suddenly, whole new vistas of voter fraud opened up to the Democrats. Admittedly, they've got to ramp up quickly for November, but this gang should prove up to the challenge. Helping matters along, Holder is busy suing states that require photo ID to vote and attempting to disenfranchise the military. Together, these well-coordinated efforts should provide Obama with the means to pull off staggering amounts of voter fraud. "By Any Means Necessary" If all else fails, Obama and his investors may be prepared to keep power "By Any Means Necessary." This information comes from an uncannily predictive website called The Ulsterman Report. Those who have followed its fascinating interviews over the last couple of years with two anonymous sources, Wall Street Insider and White House Insider, have seen its scoops confirmed again and again. Well over a year ahead of any other media, The Ulsterman Report was informing readers that Valerie Jarrett ran the White House and that Obama was strangely disengaged from the actual tasks of governing. It predicted the emergence of obscure figures -- Kamala D. 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I'm now officially an empty nester. Both kids have moved out and while I love them dearly, I filled up both rooms so they can't move back. Whaaa. My bad. It wasn't intentional. I made one room my dedicated writing cave and the other is fast filling up with boxes. I'm losing the room I've been in for 22 years next year at the school where I teach. A person can accumulate a lot of junk in 22 years. Anyway, I'm packing and cleaning, but I'm excited to be getting a brand new room.


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"As both Steele and his wife are deceased, no one was available to testify in his defense. However, when the lawsuit was filed, his adult children issued a statement denying the allegations."
If no one was able to testify [defend] Mr. Steele, is he automatically guilty? Reading the story makes it sound like he is. Is he guilty because the church agreed to settle out of court? I wish I could understand the law pertaining to this.
I'm not sure whether it was actually the church that made the decision to settle or its insurance company. It's usually the insurance company, which makes a cold calculation of potential gains and losses, then opts for the decision making the most actuarial and mathematical sense.
While the terms were not disclosed, and I am not privy to them, I suspect the payout here was pretty modest. And I suspect it was covered by an insurance company to the extent it exceeded the deductible, typically about $5,000.
These are challenging cases for all concerned. The incentive to settle is very high, as both proving and disproving are very dicey and difficult propositions.
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Pilot/Summoner: | Gold Ranger |
Season: | Samurai |
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Length: | 80.7 m |
Width: | 43.4 m |
Height: | 39.4 m |
Weight: | 2000 tons |
Speed: | 650 |
The Samurai ClawZord is Gold Samurai Ranger's second Zord that resembles a Lobster. It can form the Claw Battlezord. Antonio stores it, along with Octozord in his fish cooler. Like the rest of the zords, it appears to have some sort of animal intelligence. It was battle-damaged many years ago and Ji, now recognizing Antonio as part of the team and acknowledging his symbol power and technical skills, gives it to him to repair. It becomes his personal Megazord. It is utilized the same way as the OctoZord and the FoldingZords by enlarging it with samurai symbols
Claw Battlezord
The Claw Battlezord is the battle mode of the ClawZord. It has 4 modes that are changed by Antonio spinning a disc that appears next to him in the cockpit. Listed below are the three modes that do not use other zords in a combination.
- Claw Battlezord East: Primary Battle Form with a red face. Attacks with Claw Pincher Slash
- Claw Battlezord West: Second battle mode with a green face that uses the Claw Zord's tail as a fan-like weapon.
- Claw Battlezord South: Third battle mode with a blue face and attacks with Double Katana Strike
Other Combinations
Claw Battlezord North
When Antonio's zords combine- the Claw Battlezord and the OctoZord, the fourth mode of the Claw Battlezord is unlocked. Claw Battlezord North attacks with the OctoZord as a lance (yari). Has a gold and red face.Claw Armor Megazord
ClawZord can also combine with the Samurai Megazord to form an even bigger Megazord. The Claw Armor Megazord is a six-zord combination that can be accessed with the Black Box. Super Samurai (episode) It can be accessed when the Ranger in Super Mega Mode places the Super Samurai Union Disk inside the Black Box while in the cockpit. The Claw Armor Megazord can be combined even with a Ranger absent. Shell GameTo transform, part of the legs of the ClawZord contributes to the height of the new Megazord. The body of the Samurai Megazord bends backwards to allow for the upper body of the Battlezord, while the Samurai Megazord's former arms form scabbards for the ClawZord's double blades. On one occasion, the Claw Armor Megazord used a giant brush to create the Symbol Power Shield (反, han).
- Double Katana Strike - The Claw Armor Megazord's finisher.
- Battle Cannon Blast - It can also use the Samurai Battle Cannon if the Double Katana Strike is not enough.
- Shogun Ranger Fire/Shogun Battle Cannon Blast - with Shogun Mode.
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Originally Posted by Kagamine I love the sound that dial-up makes... I think it became a battle of oldfags vs newfags. Generational edition. So other words, I made a lulz thread.
Originally Posted by NatsumeHack So other words, I made a lulz thread. No, Nat. They made a lulz thread. Somehow. I'm actually not sure how the subject changed so quickly.
WOTM #32 Voting Threads are up! This month's theme is Change! Come vote for your favorites in the Casual and Advanced Voting Threads!! Originally Posted by Metal Zeta You are both a bad person and a wonderful person at the same time Originally Posted by Tatoba I hearby declare you Kaga 'M. Ine, Mayor of Glitch City. Originally Posted by SebasChan You, my dear madame, are made of awesome. Originally Posted by Ghost 97 I'm just gonna say it: I love you. In every single way, plus a few new ways I just invented. Originally Posted by Captain Ivan You never get enough of those quotes, huh. It's like some sort of Kagapedia. Originally Posted by Tatoba Kaga is like some sort of wizard. A wizard with a post seeing third eye. Originally Posted by Tatoba It's not as though Kagaga has any future plans to take over RPG, and maybe eventually the world. Originally Posted by OverlordRoo Glitches are Kaga's porn. She's got, like, glitchophillia, I swear. Originally Posted by rpg101 Huh, a 15 year old that runs WotM and has a far superior grasp of the English language then me. I feel like a waste of flesh. Originally Posted by Aragorn It is not enough to be Fonz cool. You have to be Kags cool. Originally Posted by OverlordRoo The Kagarmy increases... Originally Posted by OverlordRoo And another point for Kaga for being completely fucking right. :I Seriously man, you gotta stop being right all the time and give the rest of us a chance... Originally Posted by Tatoba That's right, my moirail is a singing program. Or she was... until the glitch happened. Originally Posted by ★LunaLight★ It is a power grab. Kagami wants to take over RpG with Brovo so that the managers can rule side by side with Brovo crushing the opposition. Then they will make love and live happily ever after. Originally Posted by Rainaa I liked Kagamine before it was cool. Originally Posted by DarkGrey Plus, why would I not fear you? You're like that kid in the class that nobody screws with because his brother's in a street gang. What I'm saying is that you have connections. Originally Posted by MistressRainbow Sorry I got Lost in Kagamine's Endless Quotes Tab! There's so many that I swear it's like a Nebula imploded and Out popped a Little Book filled with Kagamine-isms O_O It's quite a Pandora's Box kind of Deal... No! It's Kagamine Box ._. *Locks self in Safety closet* Originally Posted by OverlordRoo She's a super strong glitch on a god pony who can see all and is immune to the mystery of cinnamon toast crunch. Originally Posted by OverlordRoo KAGA IS THE ICEBERG OF OUR UNIVERSE, MAN. AND WE'RE ALL LEONARDOO DICAPRIO, CLINGING ONTO BITS OF THE WRECKAGE FOR DEAR LIFE. BUT WE AIN'T GONNA MAKE IT MAN. YOU CAN'T PAP AN ICEBERG. Originally Posted by PlatinumSkink You drew that? You just turned 50% more adorable. Thank you. Originally Posted by OokamiAlyx I would say don't kill yourself with all this work, but it seems the legendary Kagamine is indestructible..... Originally Posted by XkatX ...Kagamine. You are now my friend. You have no choice in this matter. Originally Posted by Raez God damn it, so far I agree with everything Kagamine has said on this thread. Originally Posted by overwatch Lol, kaga is like some sort of glitch/ninja/wizard/psychic lady. bottom line? She can see the unseen
Originally Posted by Kagamine No, Nat. They made a lulz thread. Nope. Seriously, everyone in this thread needs to read this.
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I like that picture of Matt Damon doing the problem. Good Will Hunting is a great film.
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Originally Posted by Card VII Nope. Seriously, everyone in this thread needs to read this. Already did. I was referring to the generational thing. Which had nothing to do with what Nat posted, but rather where people took it. Therefore, "they" made a lulz thread as opposed to Nat.
Originally Posted by Kagamine Therefore, "they" made a lulz thread to Nat. I agree
Originally Posted by Kagamine Therefore, "they" made a lulz thread as opposed to Nat. No, Nat did. He wanted everyone to argue over a pointless internet meme that has no answer for his entertainment.
Originally Posted by Card VII No, Nat did. He wanted everyone to argue over a pointless internet meme that has no answer for his entertainment. ...Yeah but... when I made that comment... I wasn't even talking about the proble-... never mind.
Originally Posted by Kagamine ...Yeah but... when I made that comment... I wasn't even talking about the proble-... never mind. Yeah, I know what you mean. "They" made their own lulz thread by derailing and talking about generational divide. I get it.
Did people decide on "undecided trolleroni" or "288" cuz it really is 288 ya know. I know the subject changed and blah blah fuck you.
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After dominating the football combine sector for years, Under Armour launched its high school basketball version this month. Following the program's tip-off in Los Angeles two weeks ago, UA's Combine360 system made a stop in the Big Apple this past Sunday, attracting some of the best talent in the Northeast. This invitational-only event, the only one of it's kind, was held at the Chelsea Piers Sports Complex in Manhattan. Players were chosen by coaches from Under Armour-sponsored high school programs. Each program was allowed to bring in five players into the combine.
Among some of the talent on the scene were Ricardo Ledo, a 6-5 junior from South Kent (CT) Prep, considered one of the best in his class. Baltimore (MD) St. Frances', Philadelphia (PA) Roman Catholic's Shepard Garner, Langhorne (PA) Neshaminy's Ryan Arcidiacono, and West Hartford (CT) Northwest Catholic's Kuran Iverson were also in attendance.
The combine creates a grades each prospect on their athletic performances. The highest score a player can get is a 360. The combine is divided into seven section, each serving their own unique purpose. Since the players have to go online and fill out a questionnaire as part of the final section of the combine, final scores were not available.
The first section of the combine tested foundational athleticism. It measures athletes on nine different constituents, ranging from strength, speed, flexibility, power and endurance. The workouts included broad jumping (jumping forward), vertical jumping (jumping upwards), and medicine ball seated throw for power, 10- and 20-yard sprints for acceleration and speed, a 5-10-5 run for agility, a grip test for strength, a sit and reach for flexibility and a 300-yard shuttle for conditioning. The foundational athleticism element is worth up to 120 points.
The second component was the integrated movement drills, worth up to 40 points. It's purpose was to measure how well athlete's nervous systems interacted with muscles and movement in order to create the adequate balance and posture. This three-drill element consisted of a pressing squat exercise that examined the bodies movement patterns and mobility, a push-up opposite which identified postural strengths and cross body firing patterns, and a single leg T-Balance drill for overall body balance.
Next came the basketball movement facet of the combine. It basically allowed athletes to take in drills that would contribute to the improvement and development of their basketball skills. They did some vertical jumping, some sideline to sideline running that tested their conditioning, and also put their lane agility to test. The highest possible score for this session was also 40.
The fourth part of the workout was a 40-point max visual ability segment. It's near/far accommodation drill showcased an athlete's ability to switch focus, helping to improve their reactions and hand-eye coordination. A vertical saccadic movement drill demonstrated how effectively these prospects were with swift up and down eye movement through the readings of letters. The same drill was practiced for horizontal saccadic movements.
The last three sections of the combine concentrated on off-the-court proceedings, where such things as mentality, nutrition and communication skills came into play, all worth 40 points each. The mentality portion focused on matters such as attitude, coachability, confidence, effort and composure, among many others. The communications sector touched on things like conversation, body language, and humor, while the nutrition questionnaire focuses on dairy intake and nutrition awareness.
Breaden Anderson (right), a highly touted prospect out of Canada who now plays for Plantation (FL) American Heritage proved to be one of the best pure athletes in the building, finishing first in a variety of tests including setting the record for the highest vertical jump with 32 inches. Julian Debose, a 6-3 guard from St. John's College HS in DC, came in second with 31 inches of vertical jumping ability. Anderson also led the way in broad jumping with a splendid mark of 10 feet, 3 inches. Bishop O'Conell's Will Furgeson of Herdon, VA, finished second by jumping forward nine feet.
In the 20 yard run, Anderson once again led the pack with a finish time of 2.69 seconds. Three others came in tied for second with a time of 35 seconds. In the 300-yard run, Anderson shared the best time record with Furgeson, as both ran it in 52 seconds. Andrej Pajovic, a former teammate of Anderson's teammate at Wilbraham (MA) Wilbraham & Monson, finished with the second best time after running the 200 yard run in 53 seconds. In the 5-10-5 shuttle, another Wilbraham & Monson player, Jules Tavares, had the day's top mark with 4.3 seconds.
The event, which also featured a speech from former prep/Duke star Jay Williams, received rave reviews in scouting circles, with DraftExpress Tweeting at one point Sunday, "The NBA needs to look at some of the things Under Armor is doing and start thinking about replacing their severely outdated combine drills."
Look for the the event to continue expanding as it explores new cities and probably even broaden its system. Definitely something fun to watch develop over the next few years.


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Woods Cross' 21 overall wins puts the team second behind Salem Hills in 4A, which has 22.
Bountiful's 3-0 sweep over Clearfield was a quick match. They won with scores of 25-14, 25-14 and 25-20. Lalani Purcell, one of the Lady Braves' setters, guided the scoring with 20 assists and picked up four aces, setting the table for the rest of the team as they coasted through the match.
Bountiful has won seven of its nine most recent matches since Sept. 5.
Viewmont's push for a top seed in the 5A playoffs took a tumble last Thursday when they lost to Hunter in five sets (24-26, 25-17, 21-25, 25-15, 10-15). The Vikings fought back from deficits in three of the first four sets, dropping the first by two points.
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