Friday, September 30, 2011

Trusted Ads Opt-out Manager

The following companies collect or use information about your browsing activity to assess your ad interests. If you would like to opt-out of their use of your browsing activity to serve you interest-based ads you may do so below

24/7 Real Media

Ad Network

24/7 Real Media brings the science of digital marketing to advertisers and publishers around the world with targeting, tracking and analytics. 24/7 Real Media is a WPP company.
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33 Across

Ad Network

33 Across is a social targeting platform employing technology called SocialDNA™ that uses social graph data to dramatically improve online marketing. The company is dedicated to realizing the potential of social connections in making products, advertising and services more valuable to consumers.
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[x 1]

Demand Side Platform (DSP)

[x 1] works with brands, agencies and media companies to determine the most valuable customer attributes (those characteristics that indicate who is most likely to respond favorably) and then interact with those people when and where they are online. Via their patented technology, Predictive Optimization Engine (POE ™), [x 1] uses sophisticated statistical modeling to leverage and surpass traditional direct marketing techniques, enabling automated, real-time decision making and personalization, ensuring that the right ad or message is delivered to the right person at the right time.
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Accuen

Ad Network

Accuen is Omnicom Media Group?s digital media acquisition platform that combines data, technology, and strategy to help advertisers reach the audiences most likely to be interested in their products or services. In the simplest terms, Accuen uses non-personal information about users and their behavior online to identify potential audiences for its advertising clients. The benefits of Accuen?s services are two-fold ? advertisers receive better audiences and users are served more relevant ads that provide the financial support for so much of the free Internet content users enjoy.
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AccuWeather

Publisher Related

AccuWeather, established in 1962, is the World's Weather Authority. We provide local forecasts for everywhere in the United States and over two million locations worldwide. We also provide our products and services to more than 175,000 paying customers in media, business, government and institutions. Our headquarters in State College, PA, is home to the greatest number of forecast meteorologists in one location anywhere in the world.
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aCerno

Ad Network

Akamai?s Intelligent Internet PlatformTM addresses these challenges and makes it easier for companies to be successful online by ensuring performance, instant scalability, robust security and useful data. Made up of nearly one hundred thousand servers, deployed in 72 countries and spanning most of the networks within the Internet, these servers are all controlled by Akamai software that is constantly monitoring Internet conditions. The platform makes millions of real-time adjustments in response to congestion, security threats and network failures to ensure there is no impact to our customers.
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Acxiom Relevance-x

Data Provider / Aggregator

Acxiom Relevance-x is a global interactive marketing services company that uses consumer data, analytics, information technology, data aggregation, data integration, and consulting solutions to help companies conduct direct marketing programs. Acxiom’s interactive capabilities allow marketers to have direct interaction and response with consumers, and these services include direct-mail, e-mail, mobile advertising, display advertising, social media, and Web-site personalization.
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Ad Knowledge Super Rewards

Ad Network

Founded in Fall 2007, Super Rewards pioneered virtual currency monetization with social games. Since that time, we?ve expanded to provide the leading monetization service for online, free-to-play games, mobile and online merchants.

Ad Summos

Ad Network

Ad Summos provides an analytic platform designed to help online publishers increase the value of their inventory while offering brand advertisers highly targeted audiences at scale on premium websites. The Company’s patent-pending Real ROITM technology provides a census-based definitive link between ads served online and actions taken offline.
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Adara Media

Ad Network

Adara Media is an online media services company that provides brand advertisers and marketers the ability to connect with customers of other brands through our proprietary audience platform. The platform allows advertisers and marketers to leverage proprietary demographic and transaction data from recognizable consumer brands and trusted data providers, to create "the right message to the right people at the right time" at the right price. Adara Media does not collect personally identifable information for use on our advertising platform.
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Adatus

Ad Network

The great promise of Internet was direct communication. Advertisers would be able to communicate 1-on-1 with their target audience. No massive campaign, but direct contact with the right people. Standard media buying would belong to the past. The reality is different. The growth of internet makes it harder to reach the right audience. Especially since media is often purchased by title and interest. No distinction is made between the different visitors of a website. Consumers see more advertising that does not fit their needs and demands. Because the advertiser demands attention for his message, the advertising becomes more striking and prominent. Adatus is founded in 2010 and makes online advertising more relevant to consumers. By targeting on current needs and demands. So advertisers get better results. And the sites that provide the data get additional income. Adatus is a marketplace for exclusive, anonymous online profiles. Classified on socio demographics, interest and purchase intent. Suppliers of the data get an additional income stream without any investment and risk. Advertisers, media agencies, ad networks and publishers can buy real time audience data, so the reach people rather than pages. By enriching the media with this data, the response increases substantially. And the consumer is served by more relevant advertising.
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Adatus

Ad Network

De grote belofte van Internet was directe communicatie. Adverteerders zouden rechtstreeks kunnen communiceren met hun doelpubliek. Geen massieve campagnes meer, maar direct contact met de juiste personen. Het kopen van standaard media zou tot het verleden gaan behoren. De realiteit is echter anders. De groei van het internet maakt het moeilijker om het juiste publiek te bereiken. Zeker omdat media vaak gekocht worden omwille van titel en interesse. Bij een website wordt er geen verschil gemaakt tussen de verschillende bezoekers. Consumenten zien meer advertenties die niet voldoen aan hun noden en vereisten. Omdat de adverteerder de nodige aandacht vraagt voor zijn bericht, wordt het adverteren steeds opvallender en prominenter. Adatus is opgericht in 2010 en maakt online adverteren relevanter voor consumenten. Door te richten op huidige behoeften en vereisten. Op die manier verkrijgen adverteerders betere resultaten. En de sites die de gegevens verstrekken ontvangen extra inkomen. Adatus is een marktplaats voor exclusieve, anonieme online profielen. Er gebeurt een classificatie op sociale, demografisch parameters, interesses en aankoopintenties. Leveranciers van de gegevens krijgen een extra inkomstenstroom zonder enige investering en risico. Adverteerders, media-agentschappen, reclamenetwerken en uitgevers kunnen realtime gegevens van het publiek kopen, zodat ze sneller personen in plaats van pagina?s bereiken. Door de media te verrijken met deze data, verhoogt de respons substantieel. En de consument krijgt meer relevante advertenties te zien.
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Adblade

Ad Network

Adblade is an ad network that helps both brand advertisers and premium publishers succeed in a very competitive online marketplace via Newsbullet, a unique vehicle for highly effective messaging to our massive, premium-only audience. Direct response advertisers value our strong customer support, proprietary optimization technology and industry-leading ROI. Premium publishers find a trusted partner able to deliver consistent and substantial advertising revenue.
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AdBrite

Ad Platform

AdBrite is a real-time ad exchange serving over one billion impressions a day on over 100,000 sites. We are focused on maximizing advertiser ROI and publisher yield through best-in-class-targeting and optimization technology. We do not exist to sell ads. We exist to give advertisers easy access to gobs of inventory through auction-driven pricing.
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AdBuyer

Demand Side Platform (DSP)

AdBuyer.com provides the only buying and optimization platform across search and the display ad exchanges. AdBuyer.com helps the top 5,000 search marketers grow by allowing them to get more out of their existing search campaigns and expand profitably into the display ad exchanges.
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AdChemy

Retargeting / Optimization

AdChemy is a digital marketing technology company with roots in algorithm-based performance marketing. Using our audience data management platform (DMP) and search engine marketing solutions, our customers can deliver highly relevant advertising experiences to online audiences across channels at an unprecedented scale.
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Adconion

Ad Network

Adconion is the worlds largest content distribution and monetisation platform, reaching more than 350 million unique users every month around the globe. Adconion is dedicated to providing advertisers and publishers with the best products, technology and data analysis to create successful online campaigns. Adconion helps advertisers reach customers with a variety of solutions from video and display advertising to search retargeting.
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Ad Network

The great promise of Internet was direct communication. Advertisers would be able to communicate 1-on-1 with their target audience. No massive campaign, but direct contact with the right people. Standard media buying would belong to the past. The reality is different. The growth of internet makes it harder to reach the right audience. Especially since media is often purchased by title and interest. No distinction is made between the different visitors of a website. Consumers see more advertising that does not fit their needs and demands. Because the advertiser demands attention for his message, the advertising becomes more striking and prominent. Adatus is founded in 2010 and makes online advertising more relevant to consumers. By targeting on current needs and demands. So advertisers get better results. And the sites that provide the data get additional income. Adatus is a marketplace for exclusive, anonymous online profiles. Classified on socio demographics, interest and purchase intent. Suppliers of the data get an additional income stream without any investment and risk. Advertisers, media agencies, ad networks and publishers can buy real time audience data, so the reach people rather than pages. By enriching the media with this data, the response increases substantially. And the consumer is served by more relevant advertising.
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AddThis

Social / Sharing Tools

AddThis is owned and operated by Clearspring Technologies, Inc., enables website publishers to distribute their content across the web by making it easy for visitors to bookmark and share content to their favorite social destinations. AddThis also offers publishers analytics to help them understand how and where their content is being shared. In exchange for this free service, AddThis aggregates anonymous, and non-personally identifiable data from across the platform to enable brand advertisers, through its parent Clearspring Technologies and others, to power more relevant, interest-based advertising to their customers.
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Adenyo

Ad Network

Motricity is a leading provider of relevance-driven mobile merchandising, marketing, and advertising solutions, enabling mobile operators, enterprise brands and advertising agencies to deliver mobile optimized, consumer-centric experiences that drive interaction, content consumption and commerce across the mobile ecosystem. Motricity breaks through the complexity of the mobile data ecosystem by providing a comprehensive set of hosted, managed service offerings which enable our customers to deliver customized, branded mobile data experiences.

AdGear

Ad Platform

AdGear is an ad serving platform that enables high precision audience targeting and ad analytics for publishers, technology platforms and advertisers. For publishers, in addition to traditional first party ad serving features, AdGear offers deep audience segmentation capabilities through its Dynamic Tags and Data Profiling features.For technology and media platforms, AdGear is a way to integrate ad targeting, scheduling, reporting and optimization functionality by using the platforms extensive API.
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Adify (100 networks)

Ad Network

Adify provides technology, services, and expertise so advertisers, entrepreneurs, media companies, and publishers can build and participate in thriving vertical ad networks. Adify Media is a premium mid-tail ad network powered by Adifys ad-serving platform, which connects advertisers to top-transacting audiences with 100 percent transparency. Adify and Adify Media take information privacy very seriously.
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Adify (100 networks)

Ad Network

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adInterax (Yahoo!)

Ad Network

AdInterax, a Yahoo! advertising technology, is used for the design and management of targeted online rich media advertising campaigns. Part of our product and service offering involves the serving of advertisements on behalf of our advertiser and publisher clients. We are not involved in determining when or where these advertisements are served, but rather we provide a technology that our clients can use at their discretion
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AdJuggler

Ad Platform

AdJuggler, Inc. is an application service and managed hosting provider, based in Alexandria, VA. The Company currently provides two primary application services. Its ad serving services deliver Internet advertisements to end-users on behalf of Internet portals and publishers, while its collaborative intranet service provides consumers and enterprise employees with email, calendaring, discussion threads, and remote document managemen
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AdKnowledge

Ad Network

Adknowledge, the fourth largest advertiser marketplace, specializes in performance-based marketing solutions utilizing its powerful predictive technology and completely anonymous consumer response patterns to connect advertisers with consumers across multiple channels, including email, search, domains, and social networks. With over 60 terabytes of anonymous consumer behavior data, our proprietary targeting systems run over 20 billion calculations per day to determine what ad to show to each consumer. Over 10,000 advertisers use the Adknowledge ad network to promote their offers.

AdMarvel

Ad Network

Accelerate your mobile advertising through the AdMarvel network. AdMarvel brings qualified publishers, developers and carriers to agencies and advertisers

Admeld

Publisher Related

Admeld provides web publishers with technology and expertise to maximize their revenues and make smarter decisions about how they sell their advertising. Through our platform, our clients can connect to a variety of major buyers, analyze the composition and value of their audience, and see which advertisers are bidding on it. AdMeld takes consumers privacy seriously and thinks it should be protected.
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Admeld Dutch

Publisher Related

Admeld verstrekt aan webuitgevers een technologie en expertise om hun inkomsten te maximaliseren en maakt slimmere beslissingen over de manier waarop ze hun advertenties moeten verkopen. Via ons platform kunnen onze klanten gekoppeld worden met een veelheid van belangrijke aankopers, analyseren ze de samenstelling en de waarde van hun publiek en kunnen ze bekijken welke adverteerders erop bieden. Admeld neemt de consumentenprivacy erg serieus en vindt ook dat dit beschermd moet worden.
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AdMeld German

Publisher Related

Admeld bietet Web-Publishern die Technologie und das Fachwissen, um ihre Einnahmen zu maximieren und kl�gere Entscheidungen dar�ber zu treffen, wie sie ihre Werbung verkaufen sollen. �ber unsere Plattform k�nnen sich unsere Kunden mit einer Vielzahl von wichtigen K�ufern verbinden, die Zusammenstellung und den Wert ihrer Zielgruppe analysieren und sehen, welche Werbetreibende darauf bieten. AdMeld nimmt den Schutz der Daten seiner Verbraucher ernst und ist der Ansicht, dass diese zu sch�tzen sind.
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AdMob

Ad Network

AdMob is one of the world's largest mobile advertising networks, offering solutions for discovery, branding and monetization on the mobile web. Mobile devices are a critical media platform and we are building the tools to let every business on earth leverage mobile.

Adometry

Attribution / Analytics

Adometry, formerly Click Forensics, Inc., is a provider of ad analytics and traffic quality solutions for the online advertising community. For over half a decade Adometry has led the industry in online ad verification and traffic quality management, delivering actionable insight to improve the performance of online advertising. Online advertisers, agencies, publishers, and ad networks rely on Adometry for audience verification, click quality scoring and attribution metrics to optimize online advertising results.
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Adperium

Ad Network

Adperium is a banner advertising network. Our main focus is on the entertainment and technology vertical: our audience mainly consists of young male adults. Our focus is on seamless integration with publishers and advanced targeting. We can target by interest (category), search keyword, search history, etc.
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ADPV

Ad Network

ADPV is an Interactive Advertising Marketplace. An online tool that facilitates the work of Advertisers, Agencies and supports and maximizes the profitability of campaigns and advertising.

AdReady

Ad Network

AdReady is an advertising technology company focused on making online display advertising accessible and effective for advertisers of all sizes. Through AdReady?s data-rich library of proven creative, real-time ad customization tools, and intuitive web-based interface, marketers are learning that AdReady makes it easy to build and run effective online display ad campaigns in minutes.

Adroit Interactive

Retargeting / Optimization

Adroit is an ASP-based platform that allows advertisers to instantaneously alter components of Flash display ads in real time without having to redesign, rebuild or re-traffic an existing ad, allowing a single ad template to become unlimited versions of itself. Adroits patent pending technology allows us to deliver relevant, targeted content to individuals, but not at the expense of individual privacy.
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AdRoll (Semantic Sugar)

Retargeting / Optimization

AdRoll was founded in 2007 to provide a simple and effective platform for display retargeting. AdRolls cross-network system includes a feature-rich retargeting product called RoundTrip and a site-rating system called PubScore that identifies the highest quality, best performing placements for site-targeted campaigns.
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AdSafe

Ad Network

AdSafe is the industry leader in online brand protection and risk management. Our Rating System provides an independent, third-party content rating and certification platform to help standardize and better control the online advertising ecosystem. With AdSafe's proprietary Firewall product, marketers' advertising only appears on sites with content deemed by the marketer to be consistent with brand image and corporate philosophy. AdSafe enables ad-networks to monitor their inventory performance and provides a third party certification of publisher site content. AdSafe's content analysis methodolog
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AdShuffle

Ad Platform

AdShuffle is an ad serving and marketing technology company. AdShuffle integrates both advertiser and publisher solutions within the same interface. It adjusts ads and placements in real-time. AdShuffle?s real-time architecture delivers custom reporting, creative and landing page optimization, and remarketing, as well as advanced inventory management and forecasting.
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Adsimilis Powered by AppNexus

Demand Side Platform (DSP)

AppNexus offers a platform for buying real-time online advertising. AppNexus?s clients include the largest ad networks and online advertisers. AppNexus offers a proprietary gateway to premier ad exchanges and ad inventory aggregators, and cloud computing capabilities for scalability. AppNexus is based in New York City

AdSpeed

Ad Platform

AdSpeed is an independent ad server and ad manager that serves ads and tracks and reports real-time statistics about ad impressions, clicks, revenue, and conversions.
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AdTech

Ad Platform

ADTECH is an international supplier of digital marketing solutions and a wholly-owned subsidiary of AOL Inc.the companys flagship product is an integrated ad serving platform - amended by features for mobile devices and video ads. These enable web publishers to manage, serve and evaluate virtually any kind of online advertising campaigns.
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Advertising.com (AOL)

Ad Network

AOL Advertising provides advertisers, agencies and publishers with the most powerful, comprehensive and efficient online advertising tools available anywhere. The 80+ original brands available through AOL Media offer our clients unprecedented media placements, deep integration and eye-popping creative executions. Our industry-leading network, Advertising.com, helps advertisers reach highly-targeted audiences at scale, and helps publishers maximize revenue. And our unflagging commitment to research gives clients the insight they need to make the most of their media buy. For success online, it's all right here.
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AdXpose

Attribution / Analytics

AdXpose is the leader in digital advertising analytics solutions. The company?s SaaS technology provides advertisers and publishers with greater transparency and confidence in the quality, safety, and performance of their digital advertising campaigns. The actionable optimization metrics captured by AdXpose solutions help its customers realize increased ROI, more profitable margins, and measurable ad effectiveness. AdXpose is headquartered in Seattle, WA, with offices in New York City, and is backed by Draper Fischer Jurvetson and Ignition Partners.

Affine System

Ad Network

Affine's goal is to bring relevant video content to advertisers and users.
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Aggregate Knowledge

Data Provider / Aggregator

Aggregate Knowledge is a provider of buy-side optimization technology allowing agencies and advertisers to reach their desired audiences and maximize consumer interactions for any brand or direct response campaign. On every ad impression, the Aggregate Knowledge Discovery? Platform first validates the audience reached, then selects the best creative, and dynamically personalizes its content for maximum impact.
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Akamai

Ad Network

Akamai provides market-leading managed services for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Some of these services help publishers and advertisers from across Akamais customer base to better understand their consumer end users and to provide more personalized on-line experiences, including by better targeting advertising.
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Almondnet

Data Provider / Aggregator

Founded in 1998, AlmondNet is a New York-based media and advertising technology company that makes the Internet advertising market efficient by distributing relevant paid search ads to people wherever they go, based on recent searches they made.
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Amadesa

Retargeting / Optimization

Amadesa provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, the Amadesa Customer Experience Suite, which focuses on delivering a dynamic ?web site of one? through personalization and automated content delivery. The Amadesa Customer Experience Suite offers end-to-end testing and personalization products to help online businesses maximize revenues, enhance customer engagement, increase conversions and improve marketing ROI.
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AOL

Ad Network

AOL Advertising provides advertisers, agencies and publishers with online advertising tools. The 80 plus original brands available through AOL Media offer our clients media placements, deep integration and creative executions. AOL Advertisings industry-leading network, Advertising.com, helps advertisers reach highly-targeted audiences at scale, and helps publishers maximize revenue.
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AOL Advertising

Ad Network

AOL Advertising provides advertisers, agencies and publishers with the most powerful, comprehensive and efficient online advertising tools available anywhere. The 80+ original brands available through AOL Media offer our clients unprecedented media placements, deep integration and eye-popping creative executions. Our industry-leading network, Advertising.com, helps advertisers reach highly-targeted audiences at scale, and helps publishers maximize revenue.
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AppNexus

Demand Side Platform (DSP)

AppNexus offers a platform for buying real-time online advertising. AppNexus?s clients include the largest ad networks and online advertisers. AppNexus offers a proprietary gateway to premier ad exchanges and ad inventory aggregators, and cloud computing capabilities for scalability. AppNexus is based in New York City.
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AppNexus

Demand Side Platform (DSP)

AppNexus biedt een platform voor het realtime aankopen van online advertenties. De klanten van AppNexus zijn de grootste reclamenetwerken en online adverteerders. AppNexus biedt een gateway naar belangrijke uitwisselingen van advertenties en aggregatoren voor een veelheid van advertenties, en mogelijkheden tot cloud-computing voor schaalbaarheid. AppNexus is gevestigd in New York City.
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Audience Science

Ad Network

Audience Science provides relevant advertisements to consumers based on your interests. In order to provide advertisements that may be of interest to you, AudienceScience uses general information about the types of Web sites you visit and other non-personally identifiable information about you. At no time is personally identifiable information associated with any behavioral data in the AudienceScience Audience Search Network.
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Audience2Media

Ad Network

Audience2Media focuses on specific channels of interest and represents a unique online advertising network to both Advertisers and Publishers. We partner with renowned websites within the UK as well as a number of selected international companies taking display advertising space and selling it to advertisers and agencies. We have one solution delivering "in-market" audiences to advertisers, by using a global leading technology platform allowing us to target online users with your ad, delivering ultimate performance / ROI.

Axiom

Ad Network

Axiom Advertising is a company that is dedicated to developing human potential and relationships in its team members, customers, and clients. Our mission is to generate real world solutions where the client, company, and customers are all better off for having taken a part with this ?win, win, win? strategy. A unique synergistic effect takes place, and this is what separates us from our competition.

Batanga Network

Ad Network

Batanga, Inc., is the leading Hispanic-focused online media company. The Batanga Network reaches the most U.S. Hispanics online monthly, across all categories and all demographics. Batanga.com, one of its premier online destinations, has consistently been one of the top online destinations for U.S. Hispanics over the past ten years. Batanga, Inc. maintains offices in Miami and New York.
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beencounter

Attribution / Analytics

beencounter is a Behavioral Targeting and Behavioral Tracking service. Beencounter lets its clients know which sites their visitors have been to and facilitates web personalization.
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Bizo

Data Provider / Aggregator

Bizo is a business audience targeting platform and advertising network that represents a new approach to online B2B marketing with precise ad targeting thats based on a prospects anonymous bizographics or business demographics - industry, functional area, seniority, size of company, and more. Bizo delivers ad targeting based on these non-personally identifiable attributes and behaviors.
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Blue Kai, Inc.

Data Provider / Aggregator

BlueKai is the creator of the first and largest online data exchange that is designed with consumer transparency and participation in mind. Unlike ad networks, BlueKai does not sell ads or impressions. By aggregating valuable shopping and research data across the Internet, BlueKai enables marketers and ad networks to engage in targeting and prospecting campaigns.
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Blue Kai, Inc. AT&T

Data Provider / Aggregator

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BlueKai is the creator of the first and largest online data exchange that is designed with consumer transparency and participation in mind. Unlike ad networks, BlueKai does not sell ads or impressions. By aggregating valuable shopping and research data across the Internet, BlueKai enables marketers and ad networks to engage in targeting and prospecting campaigns.
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Brainient

Retargeting / Optimization

At Brainient, we focus on helping advertisers increase the ROI of their advertising campaigns.

Brand.net

Ad Network

Brand.net is an online advertising network focused exclusively on brand advertising. Their technology is designed to allow Brand advertisers and agencies to reach the right target in the right context, efficiently and measurably.
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BrightRoll

Ad Network

With more than 79 million monthly unique viewers, BrightRoll is the world?s largest and most trusted video ad network and the leading provider of digital video advertising services.
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Brilig

Data Provider / Aggregator

Brilig is an open marketplace where recipes for unique advertising audiences are created, analyzed, bought and sold under the governance of Briligs audience commerce platform. The Brilig system removes any limitation to the listing, combination and segmentation of audience data, enabling targeting to be devised and deployed.
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Fascinating History of Wooden Spool Making Mill @Craftzine.com blog

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/09/fascinating_history_of_wooden.html

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State announces new program to help struggling homeowners - Chicago Tribune

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-14/business/ct-biz-0914-hardest-hit-20110914_1_federal-funds-aim-adjustable-rate-loan-hardest-hit-funds

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Cause of ALS is found, Northwestern team says - Chicago Tribune

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-08-22/news/ct-met-northwestern-als-breakthrough-20110822_1_als-patients-siddique-key-protein

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Steve Chapman: Why Obama should withdraw - Chicago Tribune

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-18/news/ct-oped-0918-chapman-20110918_1_obama-iran-contra-scandal-house-spokesman-bill-burton

Stupidest Opinion of The Week
(pun intended ha!)

Sjogren's syndrome: Venus Williams' diagnosis sheds light on Sjogren's syndrome - Chicago Tribune

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-06/news/ct-x-0907-sjogrens-syndrome-20110906_1_dry-eyes-rheumatoid-arthritis-joint-pain

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Netflix renames DVD-by-mail service, adds video games - CNN.com

Netflix renames DVD-by-mail service, adds video games - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/19/tech/web/netflix-qwikster/index.html?on.cnn=1

The ubiquitous red envelopes will endure, but they will carry a new name.

via Friendly for Facebook

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World of Sweets | Süßwaren Versand | Online Shop für Süßigkeiten

https://www.worldofsweets.de/index.php?force_sid=764aa553ba6b4d8de28b4bc9352dcc5d

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25 +yogurette Rezepte bei kochbar.de

http://www.kochbar.de/rezepte/%2Byogurette.html?gclid=CM6AhsW_qasCFSOAgwod9WcI0w

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25 +yogurette Rezepte bei kochbar.de

http://www.kochbar.de/rezepte/%2Byogurette.html?gclid=CM6AhsW_qasCFSOAgwod9WcI0w

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World of Sweets - Shop | Anmelden | online kaufen

https://www.worldofsweets.de/index.php?force_sid=764aa553ba6b4d8de28b4bc9352dcc5d

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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Genomic Characterization of Nipah Virus, West Bengal, India - Vol. 17 No. 5 - May 2011 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal - CDC

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/5/10-0968_article.htm

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Lebkuchen Schmidt Festtagstruhe 2011 (Festive Chest)

LivingSocial Closes Its Visual Bookshelf On Facebook

Living Social - closes Visual Bookshelf - website notice

It's not you. It's us.

First of all, thank you for your enthusiastic support over the past four years. Your continued engagement with our these applications means a lot to us here at LivingSocial, and we're sad that we haven't been able to dedicate the time and effort you deserve to keep this community alive and thriving.

It's not you. It's us. You see â€” about two years ago â€” we tried a new idea, which has taken our team and company in a new direction. This community needs tools and products that are fully supported and continually improved, and unfortunately, this is something we just can't support right now.

We know your data is important to you. Before we discontinue the service, we gave you 30 days to save it.

We have helped many of you do just that and migrate to other applications around the internet, such as GoodReads, LibraryThing, etc.

On August 12th, 2011, we shut down this suite of applications.

If you have any concerns/questions or just want to say hi (or grr!), you can reach us at interests@livingsocial.com

Saturday, September 17, 2011

T&F Online

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305569850110201?journalCode=ceds20

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The gifted group in later maturity - Google Books

http://books.google.com/books?id=R8JmpODiJXcC&pg=PA149&lpg=PA149&dq=maturity+attitude+toward+sex&source=bl&ots=hmYIPKscS8&sig=ktK7NlvwYamGFacKaGevTCMmkfQ&hl=en&ei=sTZ1TtLcOOXdiALi7bC0Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=maturity%20attitude%20toward%20sex&f=false

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Judaism 101: Kosher Sex

http://www.jewfaq.org/sex.htm

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On "The Waste Land"

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/wasteland.htm

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Sex Education: An Islamic Perspective. By Dr. Shahid Athar

http://www.islamfortoday.com/athar19.htm

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Adolescence | Chapter Outline

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072414561/student_view0/part1/chapter1/chapter_outline.html

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Friday, September 16, 2011

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Report: Army denied aid to team under fire - Marine Corps News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Marine Corps Times

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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Zinio Reader: The Catholic Church’s Secret Sex-Crime Files

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH'S SECRET SEX-CRIME FILES

How a scandal in Philadelphia exposed the church's most-guarded archive – documents that reveal a high-level conspiracy to cover up decades of sexual abuse by Catholic priests

By SABRINA RUBIN ERDELY

Photographs by SACHA LECCA

THE FIVE CO-DEFENDANTS SIT CLOSE ENOUGH TO shake hands in the Philadelphia courtroom, but they never once acknowledge one another. Father James Brennan, a 47-year-old priest accused of raping a 14-year-old boy, looks sad and stooped in a navy sweater, unshaven and sniffling. Edward Avery, a defrocked priest in his sixties, wears an unsettlingly pleasant expression on his face, as though he's mentally very far away. He and two other defendants – the Rev. Charles Engelhardt, also in his sixties, and Bernard Shero, a former Catholic schoolteacher in his forties – are accused of passing around "Billy," a fifth-grade altar boy. According to the charges, the three men raped and sodomized the 10-year-old, sometimes making him perform stripteases or getting him drunk on sacramental wine after Mass.

Heinous as the accusations are, the most shocking – and significant – are those against the fifth defendant, Monsignor William Lynn. At 60, Lynn is portly and dignified, his thin lips pressed together and his double chin held high. In a dramatic fashion statement, he alone has chosen to wear his black clerical garb today, a startling reminder that this is a priest on trial, a revered representative of the Catholic Church, not to mention a high-ranking official in Philadelphia's archdiocese. Lynn, who reported directly to the cardinal, was the trusted custodian of a trove of documents known in the church as the "Secret Archives files." The files prove what many have long suspected: that officials in the upper echelons of the church not only tolerated the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests but conspired to hide the crimes and silence the victims. Lynn is accused of having been the archdiocese's sex-abuse fixer, the man who covered up for its priests. Incredibly, after a scandal that has rocked the church for a generation, he is the first Catholic official ever criminally charged for the cover-up.

"All rise," the court crier intones as the judge enters, and Lynn stands, flanked by his high-powered lawyers, whose hefty fees are being paid by the archdiocese. The implications of the trial are staggering for the church as a whole. In sheltering abusive priests, Lynn wasn't some lone wolf with monstrous sexual appetites, as the church has taken to portraying priests who have molested children. According to two scathing grand-jury reports, protocols for protecting rapists in the clergy have been in place in Philadelphia for half a century, under the regimes of three different cardinals. Lynn was simply a company man, a faithful bureaucrat who did his job exceedingly well. His actions were encouraged by his superiors, who in turn received orders from their superiors – an unbroken chain of command stretching all the way to Rome. In bringing conspiracy charges against Lynn, the Philadelphia district attorney is making a bold statement: that the Catholic hierarchy's failure to protect children from sexual abuse isn't the fault of an inept medieval bureaucracy, but rather the deliberate and criminal work of a cold and calculating organization. In a very real sense, it's not just Lynn who is on trial here. It's the Catholic Church itself.

The deluge of sexual-abuse cases in America's largest religious denomination began in 1985, when a Louisiana priest was sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting to sexually abusing 37 boys. But it wasn't until 2002, when civil suits in Boston revealed that Cardinal Bernard Law had shielded rapist priests, that the extent of the scandal became widely known. In Germany, the church is overwhelmed by hundreds of alleged victims, and investigations are under way in Austria and the Netherlands. In Ireland, the government recently issued a scathing report that documents how Irish clergy – with tacit approval from the Vatican – covered up the sexual abuse of children as recently as 2009.

SABRINA RUBIN ERDELY wrote "The Girl Who Played With Fire" in RS 1129.

"IF YOU PULL THE STRING ON THIS ONE," SAYS A PSYCHOLOGIST WHO SPECIALIZES IN TREATING THE CLERGY, "IT WILL UNRAVEL ALL THE WAY TO ROME."

Battered by civil suits and bad press, the church has responded with a head-spinning mix of contrition and def lection, blaming anti-Catholic bias and the church's enemies for paying undue attention to the crisis. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops helped fund a $1.8 million study of sex-abuse cases against priests, but the results read like a mirthless joke: To lower the number of clergy classified as "pedophiles," the report redefines "puberty" as beginning at age 10 – and then partially blames the rise in child molesting on the counterculture of the 1960s. The church also insists that any sex crimes by priests are a thing of the past. "The abuse crisis," the study's lead author concluded, "is over."

That echoed statements by Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, who went on 60 Minutes declaring the scandal "nothing less than hideous" and then, with a sweep of his hand, announced, "That's over with!" Dolan, in turn, sounded a lot like Bishop Wilton Gregory, the former president of the USCCB, who framed the lie more eloquently: "The terrible history recorded here is history." That was in 2004, seven years ago.

Given how the innermost workings of Catholic culture have long been cloaked in secrecy, the case in Philadelphia offers a rare opportunity to understand why the cover-up of sexual abuse has continued for so long, despite the church's repeated promises of reform. The answer, in large part, lies in the mindset of the church's rigid hierarchy, which promotes officials who are willing to do virtually anything they're told, so long as it's in God's name. "It's almost like the type of stuff you see in cult behavior," says a former Philadelphia priest who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution. "Someone on the outside would say, 'That's crazy.' But when you're on the inside, you say, 'It's perfectly right, because everything is divinely inspired.' If you have a monopoly on God, you can get away with anything."

LONG BEFORE HE BECAME THE guardian of the church's secrets, Bill Lynn was a boy with a higher calling. In the fall of 1968, after graduating from Bishop McDevitt High School in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Lynn arrived at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, a stately campus whose soaring chapels, somber libraries and marble sculptures with heads bowed in prayer gave off an aura of reverence, history and costly precision. Lynn, a friendly, overweight boy whose acne-scarred face was topped with jet-black hair, was ready to begin his eight-year path to priestly ordination, a process the church calls "formation."

At St. Charles, Lynn was plunged into an environment in which every moment was accounted for. Strict rules governed all aspects of life, especially the personal. Besides the obvious prohibitions on sexual contact – including with oneself, or even in one's imagination – no seminarian was allowed to get too close with his peers, since he was to concentrate on developing bonds with God and the church. Seminary is a form of military-style indoctrination, molding men to think institutionally, not individually. "It's like a brainwashing, almost," says Michael Lynch, who attended St. Charles for nine years but was rejected for priesthood after repeatedly butting heads with his superiors. Lynch recalls a priest barking at his class, "We own you! We own your body, we own your soul!"

The goal of priesthood is a lofty one: a man placed on a pedestal for his community to revere, an alter Christus – "another Christ" – who can literally channel the power of Jesus and help create the perfect society intended by God. To model that perfection and elevate themselves above the sinful laity, clergy adopt a vow of celibacy, which has served as a centerpiece of Catholic priesthood since the 12th century. It's a tall order to sculpt chaste, living incarnations of Jesus out of the sloppy clay of your average 18-year-old male. Even many of those who wind up being ordained fail to maintain their chastity: According to a 1990 study by psychologist Richard Sipe, only half of all priests adhere to their vows of celibacy. It is not just the sex-abuse epidemic the church seeks to deny, but sex itself.

"The real secret here is the sexual life of cardinals and bishops," says Sipe, a former Benedictine monk who specializes in treating clergy and who has followed the case against Lynn. "If you pull the string in a knitted sweater, you'll unravel the whole thing. This will unravel all the way to Rome."

Many seminarians dropped out of St. Charles; others, informed that they weren't priestly material, were "invited" to leave. Those who remained were the ones willing to surrender to the process of formation: men prepared to bend to the will of their higher powers, both earthly and divine. Such intensive focus on preparing for one's "priestly burdens," however, often meant that men emerged from the incubator of seminary ill-prepared for the complexities of life itself. In 1972, while Lynn was still at St. Charles, a landmark study called "The Catholic Priest in the United States: Psychological Investigations" found that three-fourths of all American priests were psychologically and emotionally underdeveloped, or even "maldeveloped." The attitudes of these grown men toward sex, the study concluded, were on par with those of teenagers or even preteens.

Lynn thrived in seminary, where he made an impression as an affable guy who always toed the line. At his ordination, he took a solemn oath of obedience to the bishop, sealing himself into the church's vertical framework, in which everyone is bound to the strata above them. He was assigned first to a parish in Philadelphia, then to a wealthy church in the suburbs. His parishioners liked him, and Lynn's deference to his senior pastor made an impression on the archdiocese. In 1984, when a job as dean of men opened up at St. Charles, Lynn was plucked to fill it. "The dean is there to make sure you're being formed properly," explains a former Philadelphia priest familiar with the appointment. "A dean is also the type of person you want your students to want to be. We wanted to replicate priests in the model we had already been creating – nice, compliant, faithful priests. So we put Bill Lynn there: a nice, compliant, faithful priest we wanted young men to look up to."

The Accused

The five defendants in the sex-abuse trial that has shaken the church to its core: (1) former priest Edward Avery, (2) Rev. Charles Engelhardt, (3) Rev. James Brennan, (4) Catholic schoolteacher Bernard Shero and (5) Monsignor William Lynn.

Over the next eight years, Lynn was a hands-on adviser. He'd wake seminarians who overslept for Mass, take them to task for missing household chores and monitor their spiritual progress. Lynn proved himself to his superiors as someone who didn't disrupt the status quo, someone who could be trusted. In 1992, at age 41, he was named secretary of the clergy, a position that effectively made him the human-resources director for the 400 or so priests in greater Philadelphia. It was a job that required the utmost loyalty and discretion. Lynn now reported directly to Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua. If a priest broke the rules or stepped out of line in any way, it would be Lynn's job to discipline him and inform his superiors. That, says the former priest familiar with St. Charles, is precisely why Lynn was chosen for the job: "They sure as hell weren't going to pick someone who was going to send priests to jail."

EVERY CATHOLIC DIOCESE HAS Secret Archives files – it's mandated by canon law as a repository for complaints against priests so scandalous that they must be kept out of the regular personnel files. Few outsiders know the secret archives exist, and only the most trusted clergy have access to them. In Philadelphia, the sole keyholders were the cardinal and his closest aides. The files were kept in a row of unlabeled, gray-green cabinets in a windowless room on the 12th floor of the archdiocese's Center City office tower. Inside was an exhaustive compendium of scandals dating back more than 50 years: priests with drinking problems, priests who had gotten women pregnant, aging stacks of confiscated pornography. Then there were the reams of carefully typed memos that discussed priests with what the archdiocese delicately referred to as "unnatural involvements" or "unusual patterns." Priests, in other words, who had sexually abused the children in their care.

One memo directed to Cardinal Bevilacqua in 1989 described a pedophile priest's evaluation at an archdiocese-owned hospital, in which the doctor "is of the very strong opinion that Father Peter J. Dunne is a very sick man" who should be removed from ministry; the memo warned that Dunne's problem was so acute "that we are sitting on a powder keg." Another file began with a sheaf of letters that Father Joseph Gausch, an active pastor, had sent another priest detailing his sex with an eighth-grade boy in 1948, three years after his ordination. Gausch called it "the closest approximation to an old-fashioned roll that I have had in years . . . and the subject was oh-so-satisfactory and (this is what makes the story) willin'." In both cases, the response from the cardinal was the same: secret therapy, then reassign the offending priest to a new parish and pretend nothing had happened.

In the thick file devoted to Father Raymond Leneweaver, who had been moved to four different parishes after admitting to molesting at least seven boys, officials fretted in 1980 that they had run out of places to send him "where his scandalous action would not be known." Scandal is a word that pops up throughout the Secret Archives files. The officials writing the internal memos almost never express concern for the victims – only concern over the risk to the church's reputation. If the risk was deemed low, an offending priest was simply reassigned to a different parish. If the risk was high, priests were shipped to a far-off diocese with the permission of the reigning bishop, a practice known as "bishops helping bishops."

THE COVER-UP

(1) Father Avery, who DJ'd on weekends, was institutionalized for sexual abuse. After he was released, Cardinal Bevilacqua (2) reassigned him to St. Jerome (3), a parish where Avery is accused of raping a fifth grader. (4) One of the secret memos.

Even in rare cases where word of a priest's crimes leaked out, the cardinal was reluctant to expose the priest. Leneweaver was such a case; his ministry career ended only after he resigned. "His problem is not occupational or geographical," wrote the cardinal at the time, "and will follow him wherever he goes." Having acknowledged the severity of Leneweaver's compulsions, the cardinal released him from the clergy but still chose not to inform law-enforcement officials of his crimes. With his clean record, Leneweaver, an admitted child-rapist, went on to take a job as a teacher at a public middle school in suburban Philadelphia.

Bill Lynn understood that his mission, above all, was to preserve the reputation of the church. The unspoken rule was clear: Never call the police. Not long after his promotion, Lynn and a colleague held a meeting with Rev. Michael McCarthy, who had been accused of sexually abusing boys, informing the priest of the fate that Cardinal Bevilacqua had approved: McCarthy would be reassigned to a "distant" parish "so that the profile can be as low as possible and not attract attention from the complainant." Lynn dutifully filed his memo of the meeting in the Secret Archives, where it would sit for the next decade.

Over the 12 years that he held the job of secretary of the clergy, Lynn mastered the art of damage control. With his fellow priests, Lynn was unfailingly sympathetic; in a meeting with one distraught pastor who had just admitted to abusing boys, Lynn comforted the clergyman by suggesting that his 11-year-old victim had "seduced" him. With victims, Lynn was smooth and reassuring, promising to take their allegations seriously while doing nothing to punish their abusers. Kathy Jordan, who told Lynn in 2002 that she had been assaulted by a priest as a student at a Catholic high school, recalls how he assured her that the offender would no longer be allowed to work as a pastor. Years later, while reading the priest's obituary, Jordan says it became clear to her that her abuser had, in fact, remained a priest, serving Mass in Maryland. "I came to realize that by having this friendly, confiding way, Lynn had neutralized me," she says. "He handled me brilliantly."

IN HIS VERY FIRST YEAR ON THE job, Lynn received a letter from a 29-year-old medical student that would trigger the events that led to his arrest 19 years later. The student – whom the grand jury would call "James" – reported that as a teenage altar boy he had been molested by his priest, Father Edward Avery. The popular and gregarious Avery, nicknamed "The Smiling Padre," was considered hip for a priest; he moonlighted as a DJ at weddings and invited lucky boys for sleepovers at his house at the Jersey Shore. The med student included a copy of a letter he had written to Avery. "I have let too much of my life be controlled by this terrible wrong you committed," it read. "You had no right to hurt me the way you did. You have no right to hurt anyone else this way."

This was a code-red situation that Lynn had to get under control. He began by interviewing James, who described how Avery had molested him at the beach house, at the parish rectory and on a ski trip to Vermont, sometimes after plying him with beer. James said he wasn't looking for money – only an assurance that Avery would no longer be a threat to children. That was surely a relief: the risk of scandal was clearly low. Next, Lynn confronted Avery, whom he'd known in seminary. According to Lynn's memo, the priest admitted that some of the allegations "could be" true – but insisted it had been "strictly accidental" and that he had been so drunk at the time, he couldn't recall exactly what had happened.

According to church protocol, an admission of any kind meant a priest must be sent for medical care. So Lynn recommended that Avery seek treatment at St. John Vianney Hospital, a facility in the leafy Philadelphia suburb of Downingtown that maintained a discreet inpatient program that treats sexually abusive priests. Cardinal Bevilacqua approved the request, but the bureaucratic wheels moved slowly: Avery remained in the pulpit for another 10 months before he was hospitalized for his secret therapy. After his release, his doctors prescribed that he be monitored by an aftercare team consisting of Lynn and two other priests. But the church did not take the recommendation seriously. The team did not meet for more than a year – one priest later testified that he didn't even know he was on the team.

Avery's doctors also recommended that he be kept away from teens and other "vulnerable" populations. Instead, the church assigned Avery to a new residence with plenty of exposure to kids: St. Jerome, a parish in northeast Philadelphia that included an elementary school. (The rectory had an empty bed because its previous resident, Rev. Bill Dougherty, had been quietly moved to another parish after being accused of abusing a high school girl.) Officially speaking, Avery didn't work at the parish – he simply lived there, with an assignment as a chaplain at a nearby hospital. With encouragement from Lynn, he became a regular presence at St. Jerome, serving Mass and hearing confessions. He took on more DJ jobs than ever, booking gigs almost every weekend. "He seemed mesmerized, focused, as if he became a different person DJ'ing," recalls Rev. Michael Kerper, who split shifts with Avery at the hospital. Kerper, under the impression that Avery had been moved to a low-pressure chaplain job after a nervous breakdown, worried that Avery was risking another collapse by spreading himself so thin. One day, when Avery failed to show up at the hospital while on call, Kerper wrote the archdiocese to express his concern. He addressed his letter to Monsignor Lynn.

Lynn surprised Kerper by calling him directly and telling him to mind his own business. "You're not going through the proper channels," Lynn snapped. "You're not his supervisor." Avery was permitted to continue working as a DJ and pitching in at St. Jerome. The following year, according to the grand jury, Lynn received an e-mail from James, who was looking for assurance that Avery had been reassigned to "a situation where he can't harm others . . . for my peace of mind, I have to know." Lynn reassured James that the archdiocese had taken proper steps. Then Lynn met with Avery and instructed him to be "more low-keyed." In doing so, says the grand jury, Lynn helped set the stage for the horror that came next.

"IT WAS LIKE INFILTRATING A RACKETEERING ORGANIZATION," SAYS ONE PROSECUTOR. "THEY WEREN'T LIKE PRIESTS – THEY WERE JUST THUGS."

'Billy" was a 10-yearold student at St. Jerome School in 1998, and an altar boy just like his older brother before him. A sweet, gentle kid with boyish good looks, Billy was outgoing and well-liked. One morning, after serving Mass, Rev. Charles Engelhardt caught Billy in the church sacristy sipping leftover wine. Rather than get mad, however, the priest poured Billy more wine. According to the grand jury, he also showed him some pornographic magazines, asking the boy how the pictures made him feel and whether he preferred the images of naked men or women. He told Billy it was time to become a man and that they would soon begin their "sessions."

A week later, Billy learned what Engelhardt meant. After Mass, the priest allegedly fondled the boy, sucked his penis and ordered Billy to kneel and fellate him – calling him "son" while instructing him to move his head faster or slower – until Engelhardt ejaculated. The priest later suggested another "session," but Billy refused and Engelhardt let him be.

A few months later, while Billy was putting away the bells following choir practice, he was taken aside by another priest: Father Avery. According to the grand jury, Avery told Billy that he had heard all about the boy's "session" with Engelhardt – and that Avery's own "sessions" with him would soon begin. Billy pretended not to know what Avery was talking about, but his stomach lurched. Later, after Billy served a morning Mass with Avery, the priest led him to the sacristy, turned on some music and told him to do a striptease. When Billy dutifully started shedding his clothes, Avery instructed him to dance to the music while undressing. Then the Smiling Padre sat back and watched the awkward performance before taking off his own clothes and ordering the naked boy onto his lap. He kissed Billy's neck and back, telling him that God loved him. Then he allegedly fondled the boy, fellated him, and commanded Billy to return the favor, culminating in Avery's ejaculating on Billy and congratulating him on a good "session." A second session allegedly followed weeks later when Avery, finding Billy cleaning a chalice after a weekend Mass, ordered the boy to strip. The priest then fellated Billy while making the boy masturbate him to climax.

Billy never told anyone what had happened. But from then on, he made sure to trade assignments with other altar boys to avoid serving Mass with Father Avery. After summer break, when Billy returned to St. Jerome and entered the sixth grade, he was assigned a new teacher, Bernard Shero. His abuse seemed to be a thing of the past, something best forgotten.

One day, according to the grand jury, Shero offered Billy a ride after school. Instead, they stopped at a park about a mile from Billy's house. "We're going to have some fun," Shero told him. He ordered Billy into the back seat, helped him undress, and then allegedly fellated and anally raped him, managing to insert his penis only partway because of Billy's screams of pain. Then Shero made Billy perform the same acts on him. "It feels good," he repeated over and over. Afterward, he made Billy get out of the car and walk home.

Before long, Billy began to change in disturbing ways. He often gagged or vomited for no reason and became increasingly sullen and withdrawn. He stopped hanging out with his friends and playing sports. He started smoking pot at 11; by his late teens, he was addicted to heroin. Billy spent his adolescence cycling in and out of drug-treatment programs and psychiatric centers, once spending a week in a locked ward after a suicide attempt. His parents, who later took out a mortgage on their home to pay for Billy's care, were beside themselves, clueless as to what had sent their sunny child into such a downward spiral.

When his mother found two books about sexual abuse stashed under his bed, Billy brushed off her suspicions. The books were for an assignment at school, he told her, and refused to say anything more.

BILLY'S ALLEGED ABUSE AT the hands of the Philadelphia priests might have remained a secret, if not for the church's inept attempt at spin control. After the abuse scandal in Boston broke open in 2002, every Catholic diocese in America had rushed to reassure its parishioners. Philadelphia was no different: Cardinal Bevilacqua declared that in the previous 50 years, his archdiocese knew of only 35 priests who had been credibly accused of sexual abuse. That was news to Lynne Abraham, the city's district attorney at the time, since not a single one of those 35 cases had been reported to her office. When Abraham asked the archdiocese's law firm for details, it refused to cooperate. In the face of stonewalling, Abraham moved for a grand-jury investigation and assigned a team of prosecutors nicknamed "The God Squad" to probe the archdiocese's handling of sex-abuse claims.

The God Squad had no idea what they were in for. The archdiocese fought the investigation at every turn. "It was like trying to infiltrate a racketeering organization," recalls former Assistant District Attorney Will Spade. "Most of these guys just seemed to be in the wrong professions. They weren't kind or understanding or any of the things a priest should be. They were just thugs."

The grand jury subpoenaed the church's internal records. Compelled by the court, the church's lawyer began meeting with prosecutors at a Dunkin' Donuts midway between the archdiocese's headquarters and the DA's office, handing over the Secret Archives files piece by piece. "I felt like I was living in a detective novel," says Spade. Though the prosecutors had been anticipating some sort of internal records, they were taken aback at the very existence of the secret files. "I always thought it was funny, them calling it the Secret Archives files," he says. "You morons! If they're so secret, why are you even calling it that?"

When the secret archives were finally unlocked, prosecutors were stunned to find thousands of documents that detailed the hundreds of victims who had allegedly been abused by 169 priests. "There was so much material, we could still be presenting information to the grand jury today if we followed every lead," says Charles Gallagher, a former Philadelphia deputy district attorney who supervised the investigation. "We ultimately had to focus."

In 2005, the grand jury released its 418-page report, which stands as the most blistering and comprehensive account ever issued on the church's institutional cover-up of sexual abuse. It named 63 priests who, despite credible accusations of abuse, had been hidden under the direction of Cardinal Bevilacqua and his predecessor, Cardinal Krol. It also gave numerous examples of Lynn covering up crimes at the bidding of his boss.

In the case of Rev. Stanley Gana, accused of "countless" child molestations, Lynn spent months ruthlessly investigating the personal life of one of the priest's victims, whom Gana had allegedly begun raping at age 13. Lynn later helpfully explained to the victim that the priest slept with women as well as children. "You see," he said, "he's not a pure pedophile" – which was why Gana remained in the ministry with the cardinal's blessing.

Then there was Monsignor John Gillespie, who was not sent for medical evaluation until six years after Lynn began receiving complaints about him. Therapists subsequently reported that Gillespie was "dangerous" – but Lynn was more concerned about the priest's insistence on apologizing to his victims. To keep the scandal from becoming public, Gillespie was ordered to resign for "health reasons." Cardinal Bevilacqua then honored the priest with the title of pastor emeritus – and allowed him to hear the confessions of schoolchildren for another year.

"In its callous, calculating manner, the archdiocese's 'handling' of the abuse scandal was at least as immoral as the abuse itself," the grand jury concluded. Immoral didn't mean illegal, however, and the grand jury found itself unable to recommend any prosecutions, in part because the statute of limitations on all of the abuse cases had run out. But the nightmare had been revealed, and the Philadelphia faithful recoiled in shock.

AS THE MONSIGNOR EXPLAINED TO ONE RAPE VICTIM, THE ACCUSED PRIEST SLEPT WITH WOMEN AS WELL AS CHILDREN: "YOU SEE, HE'S NOT A PURE PEDOPHILE."

Perhaps no one was more disturbed than the new parishioners of Lynn, who had been quietly reassigned to a plum job as pastor of St. Joseph's, a rich suburban parish. The job was essentially a promotion: Lynn's predecessor had just been ordained a bishop and given a diocese of his own. A kind and jocular pastor, Lynn had swiftly become beloved in the parish, always happy to pitch in at events held by the Home & School Association or to host dinner parties in his rectory. Stunned by the grand-jury report, parishioners were at a loss to square the unfeeling church official who had manipulated innocent victims with the compassionate pastor whom they knew. In the rectory dining room, one woman confronted Lynn in tears.

"How did you do this?" she demanded, sobbing. "Why did you do this?"

Lynn looked her right in the eye. "Don't believe everything you read," he said firmly. "I put them in treatment. I took care of the families."

The first of the 63 priests listed in the grand jury's catalog of abusers was Father Avery. By then, Avery had been placed on administrative leave – but he still remained in the ministry, more than a dozen years after the allegations of sexual abuse against him had first surfaced.

Once again, it was the most powerful word in the secret archives – scandal – that spurred the church to take action. As the grand jury was preparing to release its report, Cardinal Justin Rigali "urgently" petitioned Rome to take the extreme step of defrocking Avery against his will. "There is a great danger of additional public scandal so long as Father Avery remains a cleric," he wrote, explaining that accusations against Avery had been in the papers and that his files had been subpoenaed. The Vatican needed to remove Avery from the priestly rolls, the cardinal urged, to avoid "additional scrutiny."

Rigali needn't have worried. According to the grand jury, Avery was persuaded to request a voluntary defrocking, thanks to a severance payment of $87,000. The laicization process of transforming a priest back into an ordinary civilian, which usually takes years of canonical trials, was completed in less than six months.

With Avery disposed of, Cardinal Rigali went about calming Philadelphia Catholics. The archdiocese retained a consultant to help it improve the handling of victim complaints. A centerpiece of the reform was an independent clergy-review board that evaluated accusations of abuse. It was a terrific idea, one that would inject transparency and accountability into the process by taking cases out of the shadowy archdiocese and putting them into the unbiased hands of others. In practice, however, the archdiocese simply cherry-picked cases to send to the board – a fact that board members themselves learned only after the secrecy was revealed by the grand jury last February. "The board was under the impression that we were reviewing every abuse allegation received by the archdiocese," board chair Ana Maria Cantazaro complained in an essay for the Catholic magazine Commonweal.

In the few cases that were actually submitted to the panel, the grand jury found that "the results have often been worse than no decision at all." Using lax standards developed in large part by the canonical lawyers, the board dismissed even highly credible allegations. The results of those decisions could be devastating. In 2007, a man named Daniel Neill complained that he had been abused as an altar boy by Rev. Joseph Gallagher. According to a lawsuit filed against the archdiocese, Neill gave three statements to an archdiocese investigator – only to be informed that the review board didn't believe him. Devastated, Neill killed himself in 2009. After the grand-jury report, the archdiocese finally reversed itself by suspending Gallagher.

Under another reform instituted by the archdiocese – the Victim Assistance Program – abuse survivors like Neill could receive counseling paid for by the church. "I urge anyone who was abused in the past to contact our Victim Assistance Coordinators, who can help begin the healing process," Cardinal Rigali declared. In reality, the grand jury found, the program was used as a way to discourage victims from calling the police and, even more insidiously, to extract information that could later be used against the victim in court. In a recent lawsuit against the archdiocese, one victim recounts how, in return for any assistance, the church pressured him to sign an agreement that "prohibited" the archdiocese from reporting the abuse to law enforcement. "All along, they were acting like they wanted to help me," says the victim, "but really they just wanted to help themselves."

When Billy, the altar boy allegedly passed around by Avery and others, sought help in 2009, the archdiocese's victim coordinators once again took measures to protect the church. Instead of immediately offering to take the case to the police, the grand jury found, a coordinator named Louise Hagner and another staffer showed up at Billy's house, where they pressured him into giving a graphic statement. Returning to her office, Hagner wrote up her notes – including her observation that she thought Billy had pretended to cry – and informed the church's lawyers that Billy intended to sue.

At least one good thing came out of Billy's case: When his allegations were finally brought to the district attorney's office, his case, which falls within the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution, became the foundation of the grand jury's current investigation. Even the Vatican itself appeared to take drastic action: On September 8th, Cardinal Rigali will be replaced by Charles Chaput, the charismatic archbishop of Denver. The Vatican insists, however, that Rigali's resignation has nothing to do with the scandal. Indeed, Pope Benedict XVI has shown nothing but support: In April, when the pontiff needed a special envoy to appear on his behalf in the Czech Republic, he chose none other than Rigali for the honor.

As for Cardinal Bevilacqua, under whose watch Billy and other children were allegedly abused, the grand jury regretfully noted that it could not recommend criminal charges in the current case, since it lacked direct evidence against the cardinal. Bevilacqua, now 88, has rejected responsibility for the abuses that occurred during his tenure. When he testified before the grand jury in 2003, Bevilacqua conceded that any move involving the reassignment of accused priests was "ultimately my decision." But he was quick to stress who was really at fault: In every instance, he insisted, he had "relied on my secretary of the clergy's recommendations if anything was necessary to be done." With Bevilacqua insulated from prosecution, the district attorney grabbed at a lower-level bureaucrat, one the cardinal himself had hung out to dry: Monsignor Bill Lynn.

LYNN STANDS IN THE COURTROOM in Philadelphia, having been sworn in by Judge Renée Cardwell Hughes. Hands clasped, his face pulled into a frown of concentration, the monsignor proceeds to answer a series of routine questions: He holds a master's degree in education. He takes medication for high blood pressure. He has never been treated for mental illness or substance abuse. He understands that the charges against him carry a maximum penalty of 28 years in prison.

Then the judge comes to what she considers the most pressing point: Does Lynn truly understand the risk he faces by al allowing the church to pay his legal fees? If Lynn's attorneys are paid by the archdiocese, their loyalty to their benefactor may put them at odds with his needs as a defendant in a criminal trial.

"You have been charged. You could go to jail," Hughes says gravely. "It may be in your best interest to provide testimony that is adverse to the archdiocese of Philadelphia, the organization that's paying your lawyers. You understand that's a conflict of interest?"

"Yes," Lynn replies.

The judge massages her temples and grimaces, as though she can't believe what she's hearing. For 30 minutes straight, she hammers home the point: Do you understand there may come a time that the questioning of archdiocese officials could put you in conflict with your own attorney? Do you understand that you may be approached by the DA offering you a plea deal, in exchange for testimony against the archdiocese? Do you realize that is a conflict of interest for your lawyers?

"Yes, Your Honor," Lynn continues to insist cheerfully, though his voice grows fainter as the minutes tick by. In one final plea for rationality, the judge asks if Lynn would like to consult with an independent attorney for a second opinion. He declines and returns to his seat, looking flushed and unhappy.

Lynn's lawyers, citing a gag order on the parties in the case, declined to allow him to comment for this article. The archdiocese also refused to comment, citing its emphasis on what it calls "moving forward." So far, Lynn's attorneys have simply argued that the case should be dismissed: Because charges of child endangerment are normally reserved for people directly responsible for kids – parents, teachers – Lynn's remove from the victims means his prolonged efforts to cover up the crimes were not technically illegal.

The court has rejected that argument, and the trial against Lynn and his codefendants – all have pleaded not guilty – is scheduled to begin this winter. It may include videotaped testimony from Cardinal Bevilacqua, as well as the release of some 10,000 potentially incriminating documents. Lynn must know on some level that the church could be using him as a shield one last time in its systematic campaign to hide decades of monstrous abuses against children. But his willingness to sacrifice himself – his unswerving obedience to his superiors, even in the face of criminal charges – is what makes him such a loyal and devoted servant, all the way to the bitter end.

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