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Monsignor William Lynn leaves the Criminal Justice Center, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 in Philadelphia. Lynn is the first Roman Catholic church official in the U.S. ever charged with child endangerment, for allegedly keeping co-defendants former priest Edward V. Avery and the Rev. James J. Brennan, and other accused predators, in ministry. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Monsignor William Lynn leaves the Criminal Justice Center, Tuesday, March 27, 2012 in Philadelphia. Lynn is the first Roman Catholic church official in the U.S. ever charged with child endangerment, for allegedly keeping co-defendants former priest Edward V. Avery and the Rev. James J. Brennan, and other accused predators, in ministry. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? A witness in a landmark priest abuse trial told a jury on Thursday she felt "helpless and trapped" as a 13-year-old because a priest was fondling her when she worked weekends at the rectory.

The woman said she didn't tell anyone for years and later learned the priest had fondled two younger sisters.

Her testimony came on the fourth day of the child endangerment trial of Monsignor William Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy in Philadelphia. Lynn is the first Roman Catholic church official in the U.S. charged with child endangerment after being accused of leaving predators in jobs around children.

Defense lawyers say Lynn took orders from two archbishops. No other church administrators are charged.

The priest accused of having fondled the woman when she was a girl at a suburban Montgomery County parish around 1970 was removed from ministry after the church sex abuse scandal broke in 2004. By then, he had admitted to an archdiocesan review board his "longstanding habit" of fondling girls' breasts, according to a 2005 grand jury report. The Associated Press is not naming him because he was never charged.

Prosecutors are showing jurors his personnel files and those of 20 other accused priests to try to show that they were left in ministry despite complaints and some admissions of child sexual abuse.

A fellow priest had contacted the archdiocese about the accused priest in 1988, when he had moved to Bucks County. Police there had received a complaint about him the previous year but declined to press charges. He was accused of fondling an 8-year-old girl in traction at a hospital.

The woman said her mother had signed her up to cook for priests on weekends for $5. She said the molestation left her deeply wounded.

Some 30 years later, the woman wrote a letter to Lynn, whom she knew from their childhoods in Roslyn, Montgomery County.

On cross-examination, she acknowledged that Lynn's office responded when she first reported her story in 2002, offered to pay for therapy and later informed her that the priest had been removed from ministry.

The trial is expected to last several months as prosecutors outline how the archdiocese handled sex abuse complaints over several decades. Lynn's sole co-defendant is the Rev. James Brennan, charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in 1996. Brennan and Lynn have pleaded not guilty.

Earlier Thursday, jurors heard about a notorious Philadelphia priest who admitted he sexually assaulted three eighth-grade boys in one year. He resigned in 1980 after admitting a string of abuse complaints but asked to be reinstated in the late 1990s.

Confidential church files read Thursday show that Lynn advised against it because of the risk to the archdiocese. There's no mention of the potential harm to children, prosecutors noted.

The ex-priest testified before a grand jury investigating priest sexual abuse in 2005. He was never charged because of legal time limits.

By then, he had become a Latin teacher at a public middle school on Philadelphia's Main Line.

Also Thursday, jurors saw Lynn's post-treatment recommendations for a priest who had written a lewd letter to an altar boy. The priest described his sexual fantasies about the boy and asked him to write "Yes" on a school bulletin board if he wanted to act them out. The priest acknowledged he had a compulsive interest in gay pornography and masturbation.

Doctors at St. John Vianney in Downingtown, a church-run facility for priests with alcohol or sexual problems, did not think the priest had "a pathological interest in children or adolescents," according to Lynn's 1996 memo to Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua. The doctors considered the letter a "single fantasy."

Bevilacqua ordered that the priest's Levittown parish be told he was on a "health leave" during his treatment, the confidential documents show.

Lynn recommended that he be assigned to a new parish afterward, given that another priest had found the letter and pornography in the rectory. Bevilacqua agreed.

Lynn's memo outlined a detailed, four-year follow-up program that included daily Sexaholics Anonymous meetings for 90 days and regular meetings with a support team that included Lynn or a designee. Prosecutors allege the archdiocese rarely followed through on such after-care programs.

No testimony is planned on Fridays, so the trial is set to resume Monday.

Bevilacqua died of heart disease on Jan. 31, a day after he was ruled competent to testify at Lynn's trial.

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Joe Pulizzi

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Mari Smith

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I rarely see social media as a sales tool. I see it as an amplification tool to help spread stories that were likely going to spread anyhow, but few sales will come directly from it. There is the occasional news story about some business that did well with it, but that is often just an exception that proves the rule. Social media is more about awareness than sales. Of course awareness is a step in the sales process, but it is just one step of many.

Sales are often cannibalistic toward brand premiums, because people can come to expect them.

One of the best ways to do social media is to offer some ?research? about that social media channel?people love to talk about themselves. ;) That might not drive sales?but it will at least gain some awareness.

Aaron Wall is an SEO expert and the founder of SEOBook, a site offers marketing tips, search analysis, online business tips, and general commentary on the evolution of the web from an algorithmic, publishing & business model perspective.

Paul Gillin

Pick your spots and start by doing one thing well. For many B2B companies, blogs are the killer app because of their long-tail search performance. Or perhaps a vigorous LinkedIn campaign is the ticket to create awareness of your expertise in specific markets. Whatever you do, don?t try to boil the ocean. Master one tool before moving on to others. Don?t spread yourself too thin.

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It?s impossible to generally state that there?s one best strategy for using social media as a B2B sales tool. It all clearly depends on your audience and how they prefer to communicate with you. YouTube might be great for some businesses who need to demonstrate their product in use and for others a LinkedIn presence might be more logical to establish credibility. I caution businesses in taking a one-size-fits-all strategy since identifying your customers? needs, interests and how they access value from you must be the cornerstone of developing your entire marketing strategy ? whether that?s social media or more traditional outreach and communication methods.

Toby Bloomberg

To have a strategy! I caution your community not to jump into any social media initiative until they understand:
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2. Who they want to engage with (audience)
3. What they?ll talk about (content direction) and
4. The identifying the extent of resources they can dedicate (time, people, technology, dollars).

Toby Bloomberg consults, speaks and trains on how to combine social media with branding, marketing and other customer touch points to build relationships. Her blog Diva Marketing is a Forbes Pick of Best Women Blogs on Marketing & Social Media. She is the author of Social Media Marketing GPS. Connect with her on @tobydiva.

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Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. She provides consulting in internet marketing and manages Community Support & Advertising at Mashable. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules

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Other excluded ideas include ?divorce? and ?disease?, sparing students who may have family going through those situations.

School officials say they are only trying to show sensitivity to a diverse school population. But some education commentators say the ban may do more harm than good. Core Knowledge Foundation spokesperson Robert Pondiscio notes that the ban on common ideas and words means that students no longer can draw on life experiences when taking tests.

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Mailbag: Let's hold off on the Pineda panic

Don't worry about Yankee's velocity, understand he's young and developing

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Much of the talk over Michael Pineda's lost velocity is unwarranted.

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By Tony DeMarco

NBCSports.com contributor

updated 7:35 p.m. ET March 27, 2012

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Baseball Expert Tony DeMarco has been covering the big leagues since 1987, and been casting Hall of Fame ballots for the last 14 years. He answers questions weekly here:

Q: Much has been made of the lack of zip on Michael Pineda's fastball this spring. Is there a real reason to be concerned?
? Stan Marshall, Indianapolis

A: I think it's too early to tell. Pineda's first problem this spring was reporting to camp about 20 pounds heavier than he finished last season. So he was behind conditioning-wise, and it's taken time for him to catch up. That undoubtedly cost him several miles per hour in his early-spring outings.

But Pineda's fastball velocity has been picking up as the spring has unfolded, and that's a pretty typical thing. In his last start on Sunday, Pineda reached 93-94 mph, and while that's still a few mph's down from where he was at last season, it can be good enough.

So let's see where he's at in April and May before determining if this is a longer-range concern. My guess is he'll be in the 95-96-mph range by then.

A couple of things about fastball velocity: While it can be what separates a dominant No. 1 starter (think CC Sabathia, Justin Verlander) from a middle-of-the-rotation type, it's far from the determining factor in a pitcher's success.

Tim Lincecum is a great example of a pitcher who doesn't throw as hard as he used to, as he's gone from 95-plus pretty regularly to sitting between 90-94, and dialing it up higher on occasion. In these cases, command of secondary pitches takes on more importance, and Lincecum obviously has made that adjustment.

In Pineda's case, he also possesses one of the game's better sliders, so that gives him two plus pitches. A key will be developing a better off-speed pitch ? in his case, a change-up ? that will make his fastball that much more effective.

What everybody needs to keep in mind here is that Pineda is only 23, has 171 innings of big-league experience, and still is in the learning and developmental stage, so there are going to be rough spots in his development.

He does need to cut down on his pitch counts, but ought to be able to increase his innings total to around 200 this season. It's also a safe assumption that he will allow more hits per inning than the sparkling 7.0 total (133 hits in 171 innings) he posted last season.

But given the increased run support he'll receive, winning 13-15 games with an ERA in the 3.50-3.80 range is a reasonable projection. And who wouldn't take that season from a 23-year-old with upside potential?

Q: What do you think of reports of a rift between Bobby Valentine and Ben Cherington? Was this inevitable, or is it all a bunch of nonsense?
? Gary Woodson, Boston

A: Valentine already has shot down that Boston Globe story, calling it, 'lazy journalism'. And at least one of the issues supposedly in play has been resolved (at least temporarily), with Jose Iglesias being sent to Triple-A, giving the shortstop job to Mike Aviles.

So I have to think 'rift' was too strong a word. You could go through all 30 big-league organizations and find differences of opinions on their own players. It's part of the evaluation process that goes on every spring ? all throughout a season, really.

In the case of Daniel Bard's conversion to the rotation, there are legitimate points to both sides of the argument about where he's needed most, as well as legitimate differences of opinion about how Bard's stuff translates to the rotation.

Nobody really knows for sure, and my guess is that since this was a major part of the Red Sox's off-season planning, Bard will at least get the opportunity to make the reliever-to-starter conversion.

There also can be inherently different objectives for general managers and managers ? and that's not a bad thing. While everybody is trying to win at the big-league level, a general manager has overall organization concerns.

That can put him at odds with a manager who wants a young player such as Iglesias immediately at the big-league level, while the general manager believes the long-term organization needs would be better served if that player gets more minor-league seasoning.

So while Valentine did have issues with GMs Steve Phillips and Tom Grieve in his previous big-league managing jobs, let's not go there quite yet.

Q: With the recent news around the Mets' financial scandal, do you think they can turn things around more quickly than we first thought?
? Jasmine Olson, New York

A: While the Mets are gaining some certainty in their financial situation, it's still far from ideal. The recent developments have insured that the Wilpon family will be able to retain majority ownership of the club, but don't look for them to do any major free-agent spending again for awhile.

In fact, I think they're looking at the same type of payroll for the next few seasons ? and in case you missed it, they were forced to slash about $50 million from their 2011 payroll to around $90 million this season.

The current problem is too much of their payroll is sunk into three players ? Johan Santana, Jason Bay and David Wright ? and it's likely to stay that way for two more seasons.

Santana is owed just under $50 million for the next two years plus a $5.5-million buyout in 2014. Bay has $32 million remaining on his deal plus a $3-million buyout in 2014. Wright is in the last guaranteed year at $15 million, but look for the club to pick up a $16-million option in 2013, and likely extend him.

But as Sandy Alderson recently said, the best solution is to build a strong core of young players coming through the system, and there is potential for that to happen. But Matt Harvey and other top prospects need to reach the big leagues and succeed, and the Mets also need to generate increased advertising and ballpark revenues. Time and patience still is required, Mets fans.

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Source: Killer didn't send French attacks video

PARIS (AP) ? A video apparently showing a Muslim gunman's attacks on soldiers and a Jewish school was sent to the Al-Jazeera television network but not by him, French police said Tuesday, raising the specter of a possible accomplice.

Al-Jazeera on Tuesday decided not to air a video that seems to have been filmed from the killer's point of view and includes the cries of his victims. The decision came after President Nicolas Sarkozy asked them not to broadcast it.

A French official close to the investigation said it was not sent by Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman who was killed in a shootout Thursday after a 32-hour standoff with police at his apartment building in Toulouse.

Another official said the envelope sent to Al-Jazeera contained a Wednesday postmark from a large postal processing center for the area around Toulouse, meaning it was unclear exactly where it was mailed from. He could not say anything about who may have sent the video.

The first official said a technical analysis had concluded that it was not sent by Merah but did not indicate whether that analysis included fingerprints, DNA, surveillance or other data.

Merah was surrounded in his apartment since a pre-dawn police raid Wednesday. Police did not elaborate on why they think he did not put the package into the mail before then.

Prosecutors have said that Merah filmed all of his attacks, which began March 11 with the murder of a French soldier. Before the spree ended, two more soldiers and three Jewish children and a rabbi were killed, while another student and another paratrooper were wounded.

Police said Merah claimed the attacks and had told them he had links to al-Qaida, traveled to Afghanistan and received weapons training in the militant Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan.

Sarkozy has called the attacks isolated acts of violence, the work of a "lone wolf" ? but investigators have questioned some of Merah's claims and say they are open to the possibility of accomplices.

Preliminary charges for complicity in murder and terrorism have been filed against Merah's older brother, Abdelkader, though no evidence has emerged that he took part directly in the shooting.

It was not clear if Abdelkader could have sent the video. Police first detained him as they carried out Wednesday's early raid.

The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.

"What we know is that it (the video) was reassembled. Things were added in. We don't know if the full sequence was in it. But it was not just the video as it was filmed. There was an editing process and additions made," the first official said.

Zied Tarrouche, Al-Jazeera's Paris bureau chief, said the video had clearly been edited, with religious songs and recitations of Quranic verses laid over the footage.

The footage appeared to have been taken from the point of view of the killer, perhaps from a camera hung around his neck, according Tarrouche, who described the video to BFM television station. He said they were a bit shaky but of a high technical quality.

"You can hear gunshots at the moment of the killings. You can hear the voice of this person who has committed these assassinations. You can hear also the cries of the victims, and the voices were distorted," Tarrouche said.

The footage was contained on a USB key sent with a letter to the Paris office of the Qatar-based television company, Tarrouche said. The letter, written in poor French with spelling and grammar errors, claimed the shootings were carried out in the name of al-Qaida. The second official said it was hand written in all capital letters.

The channel said the video was received from an anonymous source on Monday and immediately passed it on to French police. It decided not to show the images.

"In accordance with Al Jazeera's Code of Ethics, given the video does not add any information that is not already in the public domain, its news channels will not be broadcasting any of its contents," the broadcaster said in a statement.

Al-Jazeera said it had received many requests by media to look at the video but it would deny all of them.

That decision came after Sarkozy, other French officials and family members of the victims had asked that it not be broadcast.

"I ask the managers of all television stations that might have these images not to broadcast them in any circumstances, out of respect for the victims ? out of respect for the Republic," Sarkozy said Tuesday.

Tarrouche said the Paris prosecutor, whose office is leading the investigation, had also called to explain the consequences of disseminating the images. But Tarrouche said the prosecutor said he would not prohibit the channel from "doing its work as journalists."

Al-Jazeera was frequently used early in the Iraq and Afghan wars as a conduit for militants, including Osama bin Laden, to distribute taped statements. As the Iraq war progressed, many of these tapes included gruesome killings and beheadings of Western or foreign hostages, although the station edited out some of the grisliest scenes at the moment of death.

The broadcasts drew outrage, especially from the U.S. government. Over time, most militant groups opted instead for posting such videos on their own websites, where they were not subject to outside editing.

Meanwhile, Merah's father, who was estranged from his son and lives in Algeria, has reportedly said he wants to file a complaint for Mohamed's death. In his address, Sarkozy expressed outrage at that idea.

Sarkozy, in the middle of a tough re-election campaign, has announced a raft of new measures aimed at preventing the spread and incubation of radical ideas, including penalizing those who regularly consult websites that promote jihad.

On Tuesday, he said wanted to speed up the process of expelling radicals from France as well as prevent them from ever entering.

"Extremists are playing with our administrative formalities. Our job is to be more efficient," he said. "Preachers who continually target our system can stay where they are. We don't want them on the soil of the French Republic."

Meanwhile, another brother, Abdelghani, told a religious representative that the family wants Mohamed Merah's body to be buried in Algeria.

The funeral home was to make the request Tuesday with the Algerian consulate, and the body would be transferred Thursday if the authorization is granted, Abdallah Zekri, a representative of the Paris Mosque in charge of Toulouse.

Abdelghani Merah initially wanted the body buried in France, but insisted he would not attend any funeral of his younger brother, "who he considers a monster," according to Zekri.

Ultimately the brother gave in to his mother's wishes, Zekri said.

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Associated Press writer Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this story.

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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Egypt ex-intelligence chief 'mulls presidency'

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Friday, March 23, 2012

Video: Roger Altman on Goldman Op-Ed

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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Icy Saturn moon ?may be active?

Nasa's Cassini spacecraft has spied possible signs of geological activity on Saturn's icy moon Dione.

It sees features that resemble hot fissures and indications of a possible ice volcano on the satellite.

The fissures look remarkably similar to the "tiger stripes" found on Saturn's moon Enceladus, which spew powerful jets of water into space.

On Dione these features may now be idle, but other lines of evidence suggest some activity is ongoing.

The new findings suggest this saturnian moon could be a more dynamic place than was previously supposed.

Dr Bonnie J Buratti, from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, presented the results at the 43rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in The Woodlands, Texas.

The case for activity on Dione relies on several different lines of evidence.

Previous observations of Saturn's magnetic field have picked up a stream of charged particles originating from Dione's surface. In addition, scientists announced earlier this month that they had detected a thin oxygen atmosphere around the moon.

But the most obvious evidence, the JPL researcher explained, was to be found in the moon's surface features. For example, one large region in Dione's leading hemisphere is relatively free of impact craters.

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We haven't detected obvious jets, like we have at Enceladus. But we're still looking?

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Either material flowed into these craters, filling them in, or they were covered over by debris from an eruption. A clue comes from the identification of an apparent cryovolcano in this flat region of Dione.

Cryovolcanoes have so far been found on Enceladus, Neptune's moon Triton, and - debatably - on Saturn's moon Titan. They erupt water-ammonia or methane instead of molten rock.

"We also see what I like to call a 'palaeo-tiger stripe', both on Tethys (another Saturnian moon) and Dione. It looks like a fossilised tiger stripe," Dr Buratti said.

Images from Cassini also reveal the presence of "rampart craters" on Dione, which result when a space rock slams into soft material. The could suggest the ice beneath the surface is warmer than usual.

Heat search

During the question and answer session following Dr Buratti's talk, John Spencer from the South West Research Institute, revealed that Cassini's CIRS instrument had been searching for heat emission from the moon, but had so far failed to find any.

Dr Buratti agreed that evidence of hotspots would provide a "smoking gun" in the case for geological activity on Dione.

Linda Spilker, project scientist on the Cassini mission, explained that if there was any activity at Dione, it would be at a lower level than on Enceladus.

"We haven't detected obvious jets, like we have at Enceladus. But we're still looking," Dr Spilker, who is also based at JPL, told BBC News.

Prof William McKinnon, from Washington University in St Louis, commented: "I suspect that not a lot is going on on Dione right now."

But he said things could have been different in the past, adding: "There's clearly been resurfacing... we know something happened."

The discovery of geysers on Enceladus, which are supplied with liquid water by a sub-surface ocean, has been one of the science highlights of Cassini's mission.

It moves around Saturn in a distorted, oval-shaped orbit rather than a circular one. This causes Enceladus to be pulled and squeezed by Saturn's gravity, inducing the heat that enables geological activity.

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Monday, March 19, 2012

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