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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee made public Monday, July 1 thousands of documents detailing the abuse of children and teens by 42 priests in Southeastern Wisconsin, including at least seven priests who served locally.
It's the first time the accused priests' personnel records have been seen publicly, part of an agreement with the archdiocese in bankruptcy proceedings.
The archdiocese sought Chapter 11 protection in federal bankruptcy court about three years ago, minimizing its liability in pending sex abuse lawsuits. Victims hope the documents will show that the archdiocese defrauded them and support their allegations that the church knowingly moved abusive priests around without disclosing their full histories and allowing them to abuse again.
Holy Assumption Parish in West Allis, 1964-1968
St. John DeNepomuc Parish in Milwaukee, 1968-1972
Holy Family Parish in Whitefish Bay, 1972-1974
St. William Parish in Waukesha, 1974-1975
St. Margaret Mary Parish in Milwaukee, 1979-1980
St. Joseph Parish in Lyons, 1980-1980
St. John Parish in South Milwaukee, 1980-1980
St. Eugene Parish in Fox Point, 1980-1981
St. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee, 1983-1984
West Allis Memorial Hospital in West Allis, 1984-1991
Franklyn Becker was appointed associate pastor at St. William Parish, August 1972, having left Holy Family Parish in Whitefish Bay after less than four months. In a letter to then Chancellor Robert Sampon, Becker said his appointment to Holy Family Parish was not, 'the most desirable assignment,' citing unstated newspaper publicity the Parish was receiving.
A mother would later allege in a 1994 letter to Archbishop Rembert Weakland that an unnamed parish priest in Whitefish Bay, whom her family had welcomed into their heart, had abused her sons. Several alleged acts of groping and humiliation from 1965 to 1973 would surface after Becker was restricted from ministry in 2001.
Another report surfaced in 2002. An individual said that Becker had sexually abused him over a number of years. beginning in 1965 or 1966 when he was 8 or 9 years old. The abuse continued until 1972 or 1973, while the individual was at Holy Family grade school in Whitefish Bay.
'As I later found out, this priest had a record in his previous parish and after leaving Whitefish Bay, continued on his merry way in parish after parish,' the letter reads.
Becker seemed to be unhappy at St. William Parish and left after less than a year to serve as campus minister at Marshall University in Huntington, W. Va. According to a letter sent to Archbishop William Cousins in November 1974, Becker used his pulpit to attack living conditions at the church's rectory in Waukesha. The letter, sent by a nun at the parish, states: 'Whether his recital of grievances had any basis or not, he surely did everyone a great injustice by speaking as he did about the parish's pastor on Vocation Sunday.'
Becker was first accused of an 'undefined problem' in a handwritten note sent in 1976, while the priest was campus minister at Marshall University. According to the note, a mother wished to speak to someone regarding her son.
Becker struggled with celibacy after he left the Waukesha Parish, according to a 1981 letter. He bounced around to several colleges before being appointed associate pastor at St. Margaret Parish, Milwaukee, in 1979. Six months after his appointment, Becker sent a letter to then Weakland stating he had become 'involved' with a man in the parish, age unspecified. He wrote: '...the frequent presence of teenage boys in the house at night was tantalizing, to say the least,' and suggested several potential appointments in Milwaukee and California.
Another man would come forward in 1993, stating he was abused at St. Margaret Parish by Becker in 1977, after he had graduated high school. Vecker denied the allegations and said the man, who had threatened to kill Vecker, was 'very disturbed.'
Becker was sent to a psychologist, but discontinued treatment shortly thereafter.
In 1981, while associate pastor at St. John Parish, Milwaukee, Becker was accused of inappropriately touching a church member's son during swimming lessons. Becker denied the accusations and the parents were placated, according to a vicar log, but the writer noted that he was confident Becker's judgment was poor.
'After meeting with the parents, however, I decided to not press the issue at this point,' the writer states.
The following year, Becker accepted a chaplaincy on a one-week Caribbean cruise and brought a seventh-grade boy along, with the mother's approval, according to a chaplain's notes. Becker denied having any sexual contact with the boy but they did share the same bed.
Becker was placed on 'sick leave' in 1983, during which time he received a psychological assessment. The assessment, recorded in a vicar log, states that Becker clearly had a gay orientation and that, unless he was able to control himself, there would be a definite likelihood past behavior who continue.
Becker remained in contact with the boy he took on the Caribbean cruise, despite church wishes, and also sent letters to another boy, according to the documents.
Becker was appointed chaplain at West Allis Memorial Hospital in November 1984, so as to minimize Becker's contact with children. However, problems persisted. A 1990 vicar log note indicates that a mother was concerned, saying Becker had been calling her son, a patient at the hospital, and driving by the family's home.
Becker denied the allegations and was appointed to another six years as chaplain. However, hospital administrators and priests in the district asked that another person be assigned.
Becker was officially unassigned to any parish or hospital after 1993, but continued to serve part-time in a restricted capacity. Following a 2001 allegation of sex abuse, which was said to take place in 1980 or 1981, Becker was restricted from all public ministry.
In May 2003, Becker was arrested for sex assault on a warrant issued in California. Dolan said in a letter requesting that Becker be defrocked that the alleged abuse took place in the 1970s in San Diego. Normally, the statute of limitations would make prosecution impossible, but because he left the jurisdiction of the state, it remained a prosecutable offense.
Becker, after refusing to voluntarily return to the lay state, was defrocked by Vatican officials in October 2004.
St. Joseph Parish in Milwaukee/Wauwatosa, 1949-1954
St. John de Nepomuc Parish in Milwaukee, 1954-1962
St. Mary Parish in Waukesha, 1962-1966
St. Mary Parish in South Milwaukee, 1966-1968
Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in West Allis, 1968-1968
Holy Rosary Parish in Milwaukee, 1968-1969
St. John The Baptist Parish in Woodhull, 1969-1971
St. Peter Claver Parish in Sheboygan, 1971-1976
George Hopf was appointed assistant priest for St. Mary's Parish in Waukesha in June 1962, having previously served as St. John Nepomuc in Milwaukee. While serving in Milwaukee, he was awarded the position of Spiritual Director of the Catholic Youth Organization, Division 4, by Archbishop William Cousins.
The year following his appointment at the Waukesha Parish, he was named an instruction of Religion at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha. That appointment would be continued in 1964.
Hopf seemed to have difficulties working with church officials. C.A. Altenbach, parish pastor at St. Mary's in Milwaukee where Hopf was an assistant, took egregious offense with Hopf's appointment, saying in a 1967 letter that he '...shoots life into trouble, causing it to live on.'
'18 years ordained, he is uncivil and discourteous, independent and undependable, untrustworthy and untruthful, arbitrary and unpredictable, dirty and disorderly, at cross-currents and cross-purposes consistently, and subversively insubordinate,' he wrote.
Altenbach described Hopf's behavior as 'strange' and told Cousins, 'we must do all we can to prevent further harm to souls.'
Hopf was transferred to Holy Rosary Parish in Milwaukee, where the first reported incident of abuse was said to occur. In 2002, a woman handed a note to Archbishop Rembert Weakland stating that she was abused in 1969 by Hopf when she was 12 years old. Abuse included vaginal penetration with fingers and fondling, according to a sex abuse intake report.
She said her parents reported the incident to police, but Hopf was simply transferred to another parish. Church officials investigated but said they could find no police documentation regarding the incident.
Another woman would report in 2002 that Hopf fondled her from 1963-1969 when she was between the ages of 3 and 6. No other information was included in the intake report.
Hopf could not be confronted about the report in 2002 because a stroke had left him unable to speak.
Hopf later went on to serve as pastor at St. Peter Claver in Sheboygan. Daniel Budzynski, another priest accused of child sex abuse, would be named his assistant priest in November 1972.
In May 1973, vicar logs indicate allegations of 'wrong doing' had surfaced. Budzynski denied being involved, but both priests said it was uncautious to have so many children around the rectory. Budzynski is pursuing therapy to address his issues, the vicar log notes.
However, by September 1973, Archbishop William Cousins had asked Budzynski to seek treatment and leave the Sheboygan parish. Hopf defended Budzynski, telling a church official that the associate priest had not beein 'acting out' his problem and there had been no complaints from parishioners.
Hopf suffered a debilitating stroke in September 1975 and was granted retirement from the church in May 1976. Because of his condition and his inability to serve the ministry, church officials requested in 2002 that instead of defrocking, Hopf should be condemned to live out the remainder of his life in prayer and penance.
The church reached a $50,000 settlement with one of the victims in July 2004.
Hopf died in October 2004.
St. Michael Parish in Milwaukee, 1950-1950
St. Clement Parish in Sheboygan, 1950-1960
St. Mary Parish in Fond du Lac, 1962-1967
Catholical Memorial High School in Waukesha, 1967-1969
St. Paul Parish in Fond du Lac, 1969-1971
St. Mary Parish in Sheboygan Falls, 1971-1977
St. Clement Parish in Sheboygan, 1977-1993
Donald Peters was appointed by Archbishop William Cousins associate pastor of Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha in 1967. Peters had previously expressed interest in working with young people in a May 1962 letter to Cousins. Peters was then teaching and counseling at Pius XI High School in Milwaukee and was teaching grade school at St. Mary Parish School in Fond du Lac. Peters was also heavily involved in the Boy Scouts of America, according to a 2002 sex abuse intake report.
In 2002, after a report of sexual abuse surfaced, the Sheboygan Sheriff's Department would seize Peters' computer. Nothing was found on the device, but Peters admitted there were instances of sexual contact with minors in his past.
In February 1971, Peters sent a cryptic letter to a church official saying he wanted to speak in person. He cautioned the official against speaking through letters and said the head of the religion department had 'told [him] some things.'
Less than a month later, Peters requested, and was granted, a reassignment to another parish. He said that his reason for moving were personal and that he had discussed it with a church official who agreed the decision was 'prudent.'
Former Archbishop Timothy Dolan said in a 2005 letter to the Vatican that it appeared some inappropriate behavior occurred, but 'the usual response was to quietly see that the priest left his place of assignment.'
Peters was named pastor of St. Mary Parish in Sheboygan Falls in August 1971. He would transfer to St. Clement Parish in Sheboygan in 1977. In 1982, he was named chaplain to the boy scouts, a title he held until his retirement in 1993.
A few months before he retired, an anonymous man called the Sheboygan District Attorney's Office and accused Peters of abusing him as a boy in 1959-1960. The DA's office said that the call was confusing and without specifics. Peters denied the claim, but Bishop Richard Sklba still refused to write a letter supporting his planned boy scouting trip to Santa Fe.
A 2002 letter that appears to be sent from the same man says that Peters groped him when he was 15 years old and showed him pornographic pictures.
'...the events of 43 years ago will be forever etched in my mind,' he wrote.
Peters wrote a letter dated May 22, 2002 to the man apologizing for his actions.
Following his retirement, Peters continued serving with the Boy Scouts, though he complained in a January 1995 letter that his activity was reduced 'very dramatically.'
In 1998, a chancellor at the Archdiocese of Orlando asked for a letter endorsing Peters to help out at a local church in Florida. Milwaukee Archdiocese Rembert Weakland told the chancellor that in 1992 several men in their thirties called and said they were molested by Peters while involved in the Boy Scouts. The men refused to provide their names and the claims were never substantiated. Weakland sent a second letter to the Orlando Archbishop saying that there had been only one anonymous call. Regardless, the Orlando Archdiocese forbade Peters from excercising public ministry.
In 2002, a police investigation was launched by the Sheboygan Police Department. Peters' computer was seized, but nothing improper was found. Peters still admitted that incidents of sexual abuse had occurred in the past, including in 1971.
In October 2007, a request to be laicized, or defrocked, was granted.
Sacred Heart Parish in Sun Prairie, 1927-1927
St. Victor Parish in Monroe, 1927-1928
Immaculate Conception Parish in Milwaukee, 1928-1930
Holy Redeemer Parish in Madison, 1930-1931
St. Joseph Parish in Waukesha, 1931-1933
Holy Rosary Parish in Kenosha, 1933-1934
St. John The Baptist Parish in Clyman, 1934-1935
St. Joseph Parish in Lyons, 1935-1939
St. Stephen Parish in New Coelm/Milwaukee, 1939-1941
Holy Apostles Parish in New Berlin, 1944-1956
Sacred Heart Parish in St. Francis, 1956-1958
Holy Name Parish in Racine, 1958-1964
St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Milwaukee, 1964-1966
St. Rita Parish in West Allis, 1966-1970
Archbishop Samuel Stritch was alerted in 1934 to reports of misconduct by Krusing, including drinking and spreading gossip. In 1941, Krusing is granted indefinite leave by the Archbishop so that he could become a Cistercian monk in Rhode Island. He returns a year later, according to a 1942 letter, and asked to return to the Archdiocese. In a 1942 letter, Krusing expresses interest in becoming a military chaplain, but church officials reject the idea.
In 1947 Kusing, then a priest at Holy Apostles Parish in New Berlin, is accused of molesting a young girl. The girl's uncle said in a letter to church officials that Kusing ordered his 14-year-old niece to strip down to her waist. He then fondled her breasts and tried to rape her, but she resisted. He relented, but told her that if she said anything about it she would go to Hell.
There were also rumors, the uncle said, that he had done the same to other girls and had been caught once before with an underage girl.
The girl's father writes, in an undated letter, that there were 20 girls molested by the priest, and described several instances himself.
'We took this man into our homes as one of the family and what does he do? He wrecks our homes, our families - the lives of our dear ones - our children,' the father writes.
The father told church officials he did not want to involve the police, out of concern for the girls innocence, but he would create scandal if he were not removed from the parish.
No apparent action was taken by the church or the father.
Other parishioners wrote in a 9-page letter in July 1955 that Krusing had a disturbing preoccupation with sex. Among other things, he told girls as young as 9 years old that they were 'filthy, messy beings' whose sole purpose was satisfying men. He told mothers that girls wearing shorts were to blame if they were raped by teenage boys.
In June 1956, Krusing was appointed pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in St. Francis.
In his appointment letter, the Archbishop thanked Krusing for his 'fine work' at Holy Apostles.
In September 1956, Krusing is named ordinary confessor for the students at St. Francis Minor Seminary.
In 1962, after being appointed pastor at Holy Name Parish in Racine, Krusing is accused of molesting a 10-year-old girl over the span of two years. The girl's father contacted a lawyer, who sent a letter in March 1962 to Archbishop William Cousins detailing the actions. According to the letter, the father confronted the priest, asking why he, 'painted the girl black.' Krusing spoke of human weakness and denied sexually molesting the girl.
Less than a month later, Krusing sent a letter to Reverend Roman Atkielski saying that he was to take a 'vacation' to a Trappist monastery.
'Since you placed great emphasis upon my departure before the end of the week, I presume that I cannot wait longer than tomorrow morning, Friday,' Krusing wrote. Krusing reassured the reverend in a second letter that the family was very religious and would, 'not damage the church or the priesthood.'
In April 1962, Krusing tells church officials that he had a clinical psychology test done and that the results were satisfactory. He complains of being lonely at the monastery and asks for a parish when he returns to Milwaukee.
In April 1963, he is named chaplain at Notre Dame Infirmary in Elm Grove. A year later he is appointed pastor at St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Milwaukee.
According to a 1996 document, Krusing was 'good friends' with Monsignor Francis Beres, who is believed to have arranged the priest's reassignment.
'I am happy that you accepted the assignment, knowing that a growing parish is in good hands,' the Archbishop told Krusing after the appointment.
In January 1970 Krusing put in a request for retirement after numerous parishioner complaints were filed with the St. Rita Parish Council. Parshioners complained he was an 'egotistical maniac,' obsessed with sex, overly conscious of women's legs and refused to hire qualified teachers, among other things.
His retirement was accepted by Archbishop Cousins, who congratulated Krusing on his good work.
'Our personal relationships have been such as to make my own expression of gratitude one that is sincere and heartfelt,' Cousins wrote.
Krusing died in 1995. In the years that followed, three women would come forward saying that Krusing fondled, molested and raped them over a number of years during his time as a priest.
One woman said that she had tried to report the abuse to a nun her senior year of high school, but was told she was lying and must have seduced the priest. She said she told others, including Bishop Richard Sklba in the 1980s, but nothing was ever done about it.
Barbara Reinke, psychologist for the church, told the woman times had changed.
'I attempted to explain to [redacted] that in the 1950s and 1960s, and even in the 1980s when [redacted] first reported this incident to Bishop Sklba, sexual abuse was not handled the same way that it is now,' she said.
St. Philip Neri Parish in Milwaukee, 1962-1964
St. Boniface Parish in Milwaukee, 1964-1968
Messmer High School in Milwaukee, 1968-1969
Thomas More High School in St. Francis, 1973-1978
UW-Parkside Campus Ministry in Kenosha, 1978-1979
St. Francis De Sales in Lake Geneva, 1979-1980
St. Dominic Parish in Sheboygan, 1980-1981
St. John Neuman Parish in Waukesha, 1981-1993
St. Catherine Parish in Milwaukee/Granville, 1993-1993
After a third victim came forward in 1993 alleging sexual abuse by Michael Neuberger, church officials asked him how many court cases may be filed against him.
'It became apparent that Father Neuberger by his own admission had a personal pattern over many years of his ministry in which he had any number of personal relationships of all kinds with minors, including the care of multiple foster children,' a sex abuse report states.
Investigators also note: '...it is the professional opinion of the three evaluators that what is reported in the following account is likely to be only a portion of the true scope of Father Neuberger's sexual activity over his life as a priest of the Archiodiocese of Milwaukee.'
The report states Neuberger admitted to having consensual homosexual experiences before going into the seminary. While training to be a priest, Neuberger said he was considered sexually naive because he could not tell when other priests were 'coming on' to him.
In 1961, while still in seminary, Neuberger was a volunteer at St. Joseph's Orphanage. The orphanage was run by Eldred Lisienewski, another Milwaukee priest accused of systemic sexual abuse, and the two men might have shared victims, investigators suggested in the report.
Neuberger admitted to behavior which may be inappropriate, including allowing a 12- or 13-year-old boy to sleep in his bed (He described it as 'pleasant') and taking another child on an overnight trip to Minneapolis. He denied in both instances touching the orphans, but admitted that a child had masturbated him while he slept.
Neuberger would claim several times throughout the report that sexual contact was initiated by children, not him. He was a 'morally justified victim,' in his own mind, investigators said in the report.
Children had also tried reporting to Neuberger Father Lisienewski's sexual transgressions, he admits, but he did not report them.
He also worked at summer camps while in seminary school and he was, 'always taking kids on trips,' particularly the ones who seemed picked on or left out, according to the report. *crying*
He took two children, ages 6 and 7, on a trip to Chicago, where they shared a bed, Neuberger said. One of those children would file a lawsuit against Neuberger in February 1994, alleging that Neuberger had 'harmful sexual contact' with him when he was 17 years old at St. Boniface Parish in Milwaukee. Neuberger denied the claim.
During his first assignment at St. Phillip Neri Parish in Milwaukee, Neuberger admitted to taking a group of juniors and seniors in High School on a boat trip. There was no other chaperone and Neuberger admitted to 'de-pantsing' and painting designs on a child's buttocks. He also slept with some children in the back of his car, but denied sexual contact.
In July 1964, Neuberger was assigned to St. Boniface Parish in Milwaukee. In 1965, he admitted to performing oral sex on a man in the rectory after a confession. He said the experience, 'opened up an area in me,' according to the report.
He had genital contact with the man after that, but claimed it was, 'non-sexual.' The man would later report the incident to Neuberger's pastor, Eugene Bleidorn. Bleidorn allegedly told Neuberger, 'society is not ready for this,' according to the report.
It was also at St. Boniface Parish that Neuberger became involved with six black children he referred to as, 'his family.' One of those boys would later file a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse.
Neuberger said that he would also invite underage boys to speak outside of confession about issues and would provide hands-on 'sex education' to them, according to the report.
Neuberger said he started a sexual relationship with an underage male while at St. Boniface that lasted two years, beginning in 1967. Neuberger said that he performed oral sex on the boy and masturbated him. They lived together after the boy entered college, but broke up because the man was interested in girls.
Neuberger claimed he never had sex with 'white kids' after St. Boniface, according to the report.
Another man filed suit against Neuberger saying that from 1965-1967 he was sexually abused while at St. Boniface. Neuberger claimed that the boy was of age when they had sexual contact.
Michael Neuberger, while 'in residence' at St. Gall Parish rectory in 1972, wrote in a letter to Archbishop William Cousins that he refused to vacate living quarters, despite a request that he do so. He argued that he was placed at the parish because Cousins told him that his background at St. Boniface would make him a 'financial liability.'
'I regret it has taken me so long to learn, 'what is not in writing does not exist,'' Neuberger wrote in the letter. It is unclear who he is quoting.
From 1968 to 1969, Neuberger said he had sexual relationships with several women, including a nun. With the last woman, a camp counselor, he said he could not perform sexually ('Nothing worked').
In 1977, while at Thomas More Catholic School, Neuberger said he 'cuddled' with a student who came to talk in his personal quarters. The boy told another priest, who told Neurberger that he should contact an unidentified person because, 'he has a lot of respect for you.'
In 1978, Neuberger became a Catholic campus minister at UW-Parkside. Five boys lived with him while he stayed there, all foster children from Kenosha County.
He said that altogether, 13 boys stayed with him while he was at UW-Parkside, including six 'family' members from St. Boniface. Two of those boys later reported sexual abuse by Neuberger, though he denies it, according to the report.
Neuberger would have a group of boys staying with him for the rest of his time in the church. At St. John Neumann Parish in Waukesha, where he served from 1981 to 1993, he said boys would stay overnight at his house, but there was no sexual contact. In 1989, Bishop Richard Sklba received a letter alleging that Neurberger made sexual advances against a boy in 1981.
Neurberger admitted to flagrant gay sex after 1977. He said he picked up prostitutes and hitchhikers, had sex in Milwaukee parks and frequented gay bars. Neuberger admitted that he was in a long-term relationship at the time of the interview with a man.
The church investigators concluded in the report that there were likely more instances of abuse that Neuberger had not revealed.
In 1998, after several more victims came forward claiming abuse, the Church sought to dismiss Neuberger through tribunal. He was originally found guilty and removed as a priest, however, he appealed the decision. In 2004, the Vatican Court ruled that charges of sexual abuse of children and illicit behavior were unproven.
An unnamed church official sent a letter titled 'Bad News from ROTA' announcing the news to then Archbishop Timothy Dolan.
'This creates about as difficult an outcome as could have happened,' the official writes. 'With this Neuberger could (as inaccurate as it might be) assert that he has been exonerated of all of the sex-abuse related accusations.'
The church official worried in the letter that Neuberger would go public with his supposed exoneration. Instead of appealing the decision, Dolan chose to severely restrict Neuberger's freedom, ordering that he was to cease all public ministry and avoid all places, persons and situations where abuse was alleged to occur.
St. Mary Parish in Menomonee Falls, 1974-1981
St. Mary Parish in Waukesha, 1983-1989
The earliest document that references Bandle's history of abuse, dated February 1989, is a letter written by Bandle himself to an unidentified person. Bandle states in the letter that he will not contact a family before transferring from St. Mary Parish in Waukesha, because of concerns about opening 'old wounds.'
'I feel, and I believe Dr. [redacted] would concur, that I have brought this episode in my life to a close and hope that the family has also been able to get on with their lives,' the letter states.
What Bandle is apologizing for is not made clear in the letter.
A letter sent to Archbishop Rembert Weakland indicates that Bishop Richard Sklba was made aware in August 1987 that Bandle was involved in an inappropriate relationship with an individual, age 20 or 21.
In October 1992, Sklba met with Bandle, who admitted to having relationships with a 15-year-old from Menomonee Falls and a 12-year-old from Waukesha. No other information was provided in the documents.
Weakland told Bandle in a 1993 letter that he could not assign him to any other ministry following his departure from Sacred Heart. Bandle would still be provided $650 in monthly living expenses and would continue to receive insurance coverage.
In February 1995, at the recommendation of Bandle's therapist, Bandle was allowed to return to the ministry in a limited capacity and under surveillance.
From 1996 until he died, Bandle worked in a limited capacity at St. Joseph Parish in Lyons.
Catholic Memorial High School, Waukesha 1961-1970
St. Mary Parish in Pewaukee, 1982-1988
Hanser's recorded allegations began in July of 1988 when Bishop Richard Sklba was contacted by a woman who reported that her siblings were assaulted while he was a faculty member at Catholic Memorial High School and St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Brookfield. One sibling reported attempted sexual contact in 1969 when the individual was 18 or 19. A second sibling reported one forcible sexual contact in 1970 or 1971 when the individual was a junior in high school. A third sibling reported 25 to 40 forced encounters with Hanser, from 1968 to 1973, when the individual was ages 11 to 16. This family, the Ramstacks, have since gone public.
Documents just released show Sklba first placed Hanser on administrative leave at St. Mary's and removed him in November of that year, saying, 'I met with Dave to review his current status, and insisted that it was impossible for him to return to St. Mary parish in Pewaukee.' Hanser resigned and became classified as 'awaiting assignment.'
Subsequent claims, in the documents, show a pattern where Hanser became friends with the entire family and subsequently invited male children to his lake cottage (on Moose Lake in Nashotah) where the assaults took place. Two separate families, in particular, reported abuse on multiple siblings over the years — one Waukesha family and one Pewaukee family.
That July 1988 meeting is the first report of sexual assault currently acknowledged by the church, but Sklba also disclosed that a letter was found in Bishop Brust's locked drawer sometime in 1989, dated 1975, from the Rev. Donald Weber to an earlier parishioner referencing her report — that Hanser took a teenage boy to his cottage and 'went to bed with the boy and touched him indecently.'
Between 1968 and 1985, there are 11 reported victims (ages 11-18) from parishes in Waukesha, Pewaukee and Kenosha acknowledged in the newly released archdiocese documents. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) estimates at least 17 people have come forward.
After investigations began in 1988, Hanser resigned from public ministry, but was permitted to provide chaplain services, with restrictions, at St. Joseph's Hospital. He retired in 2002, the same year the District Attorney Paul Bucher of Waukesha County ordered criminal investigations into Hanser's ministry.
Hanser continued to receive monthly pension checks and health benefits from the church, documents said. The Archdiocese also noted that Hanser was 'independently wealthy with a luxury home and automobile and considerable assets.'
Bucher was unable to prosecute in 2003, citing the statute of limitations, but he pointed out that 'there is no doubt in my mind, based upon the review, that David Hanser assaulted these young boys and has caused them significant harm. I wish I could hold him criminally responsible, but unfortunately, I cannot.'
Hanser was laicized or defrocked in 2005. The documents showed that Dolan asked for Hanser's involuntary dismissal from the clerical state in 2004, but adds in a letter to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that Hanser would continue to receive his pension. Hanser signed the laicization decree, adding that his signature is not an acceptance of laicization but he would abide by its effects.
A settlement was reached with the Ramstack family out of court, but a civil suit was filed in 2002 when the family learned Hanser was working at St. Joseph's hospital. Hanser similarly filed a counter-claim the same year because the family spoke publicly.


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Jewelry was stolen from a Fayson Lakes home during a burglary yesterday, police report.
Kinnelon police Lt. Joseph Napoletano said in a press release that a thief or thieves forced open the rear door of a house on Heather Terrace and then escaped without being detected. The homeowner had been out when the burglary took place, but called police upon arriving home and noticing damage to the rear door.
Kinnelon Police Sgt. Nicholas Cifelli responded at approximately 2:50 p.m. on Thursday to investigate and speak to the owner of the house.
In addition, the Morris County Sheriff's Department Criminal Investigation Unit and K-9 Unit both responded to the scene, but the thief or thieves remain at large, according to Napoletano.
As the investigation continues, he said, police are calling upon the public to help by providing any information they may have about the crime.
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Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 134040, 7 pages
Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Are Correlates of Angina Pectoris by Recent History and an Ischemia-Positive Treadmill Test in Patients with Documented Coronary Artery Disease in the Pimi Study
1Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry, Henry Ford Hospital and Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
2Department of Medical & Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
3Department of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
4Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Catonsville, MD 21228, USA
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NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) -- the trade association for the firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry -- hailed today's passage of the Firearms Excise Tax Improvement Act of 2010 (H.R. 5552).
The bi-partisan legislation, sponsored by Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) had 54 original co-sponsors and sailed through the House by a vote of 412-6. This legislation corrects a longstanding inequity in the Internal Revenue Code by permitting firearm and ammunition manufacturers to pay the federal excise tax payment on a quarterly basis, like other industries that support conservation through a federal excise tax. Currently, manufacturers pay this tax on a bi-weekly schedule, forcing many manufacturers to borrow money to ensure on-time payment. Industry members spend thousands of man-hours administering the necessary paperwork to successfully complete the bi-weekly tax payments -- monies that are due to the federal government long before manufacturers are paid by their customers.
HR 5552 revised an earlier bill (HR 510) to ensure that the legislation would not add to the budget deficit. The change to a provision of the tax code will not affect conservation funding and the legislation does not lower the amount of conservation dollars collected by the tax.
"This bill will strengthen wildlife conservation funding in America by helping manufacturers to grow their businesses," said NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane. "We are thankful for the tremendous support and leadership of Representatives Ron Kind, sponsor of this bill, and Paul Ryan (R-WI), co-chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, for championing this commonsense legislation."
The firearm and ammunition excise tax is the major revenue source for funding the Wildlife Restoration Trust Fund (also known as the Pittman Robertson Trust Fund). Last year, firearm and ammunition manufacturers contributed approximately $450 million dollars to wildlife conservation through excise tax payments.
Passage of HR 5552 would not have been possible without the hard work of many organizations including a broad coalition of more than 35 conservation groups who are members of the American Wildlife Conservation Partners (AWCP). This coalition includes the National Rifle Association (NRA), Ducks Unlimited, Safari Club International (SCI) and the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation (CSF), which made passage of this bill a priority.
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"The sense you get is that companies are still recruiting, but there are fewer jobs. The sense from students is mixed. Some are working really hard to make sure they get every opportunity of a job. Some are a bit more panicky and worrying about it, and others are planning a year off."
Fiona Sandford, director of careers at the London School of Economics, says: "In a recession, students do one of two things: they become very much more focused on getting ahead or they disengage. The classic UK student response to a recession is 'I'm off to Thailand'. But next year they will be in competition with those students who are just coming out. When there's an upturn, employers want fresh graduates. The danger is that what I saw in the 1990s will happen again. Students will withdraw and you'll get this lost generation."
Joyce, 22, a computer science student also emerging from UCL exams, is taking the risk. "You have dreams when you are younger, but when you get older it gets a bit more real," she says. "I'm going to pack my bags and go [travelling]. None of my friends have found jobs, so I'm not alone."
That pattern – fight or flight – is borne out by figures obtained by the Guardian. A survey of 55 universities, including the 20 elite institutions of the Russell group, reveals a startling rise in applications for master's courses, a tactic used by the "fighters" to make themselves more employable on the other side of a recession.
Outside the UCL exam hall, many of the chemists and computing studies students finishing their exams have MSc places lined up. Unemployed lawyers talk of taking a year off to learn a language or sit the New York bar exams.
At UCL, UK and EU applicants for master's degrees are up 26%. It is a similar situation at other Russell group institutions: a 16% increase at Birmingham, 23% at Bristol and 46% at Glasgow. It is not just the best-known universities that are witnessing an increase. There has been a 21% rise in master's applications at Anglia Ruskin University, 34% at Bournemouth, and at Lincoln applications have nearly doubled, with an 87% increase.
The Institute of Education, University of London, one of the leading teacher-training colleges in the country, has received 3,000 applications for its secondary training programme, compared with 2,000 at the same point last year. Leeds University has had 19,641 applications for taught master's degrees, up from 15,278 a year ago. Students are looking for hard skills to improve their chances of getting a job. Engineering, business and teacher-training courses are particularly popular.
But, like other universities, Leeds cannot automatically expand master's courses to meet demand, and some applicants will be disappointed. "Where possible we will try to expand," Leeds said, "but only where there is sufficient funding available to ensure students will receive adequate tuition time – and where courses are likely to be sustainable beyond a first year."
Many universities said they could afford to provide more classroom-based courses, but not laboratory-based ones, where they did not have the facilities.
Nearly every university reported significant increases in demand for careers services, with some reporting a doubling of the number of visitors through their doors.
For those who don't fight, flight beckons. Figures provided by student travel group STA Travel suggest a rise in people abandoning their fledgling careers to go travelling. Working holiday visas obtained through STA are up 14% on the same point last year. Round-the-world trips including stops in Australia are most popular. Trips to China, Vietnam and Brazil have noticeably increased, despite the economic downturn. At the STA branch in the University of London Union, a member of the sales staff says: "People are thinking they may as well go travelling. They'll not miss anything."
Not every student has the option of further study or escape. Les Ebdon, vice-chancellor of Bedfordshire University, describes his graduates as "determined" despite the economic conditions.
"Students of the University of Bedfordshire have not had life easy before they came here. Most of them expect to have to work hard to achieve things. People talk about the milk round, but that means nothing to our students. There's no milk round here. Our students go into nursing, midwifery and teaching, which won't be affected; then small businesses, which will. It will be tough to get a job; it will take longer.
"They may well be taking jobs in the interim: temporary jobs, non-graduate jobs. What they won't be able to do is not take a job. I don't think many of ours have the option to go travelling. The option will be to work 10 times harder and scrabbling for the jobs that there are."
He mentions two of his students about to graduate, brothers who were previously taxi drivers. "They might go back to that instead of using their degrees," he says. "Most of our students have worked to support themselves through their degrees, so will carry on working. They have wide portfolios of jobs in shops and bars, and they will get on with that."
Universities have mobilised to help the class of 2009 with expanded careers services. Some are offering graduates support for up to two years after they leave. CV-checking, extra training for interviews and business training schemes are all on offer, and the programmes are branded with the language of the recession: the Credit Crunch Challenge (Bedfordshire), Riding the Recession (LSE), Entrepreneur Boot Camps (UCL) and a course in how to "recession-proof" your career (Hertfordshire).
Goodman suggests that these programmes are universities' response to demand from the new generation of fee-paying students. "We have a new employability strategy going into departments and giving students intensive careers advice much earlier on in their studies. We need to make sure students feel more helped in this. Students are behaving more like customers. They have expectations."
UCL has one of the biggest packages of student support programmes. It includes £1,000 discounts on fees for master's courses, training in entrepreneurship, and up to 100 internships in which the university will pay students a £200 weekly stipend. When the first 50 internships were publicised, there were 580 applications in 24 hours out of a graduating cohort of 4,000 students.
Tim Barnes, head of UCL Advances, the department responsible for building links with industry, says: "Universities don't just produce people with degrees. It used to be it was a chance to learn to cook, pay your own bills and manage your life. Now our students need to know how to compete in a tough jobs market as well."
Kate Purcell, a labour market academic at Warwick University, is conducting a census-style survey of 130,000 students from before they started university in 2006, through their graduation this year and into their working lives. When it reports, some years from now, the survey will be the definitive account of the fate of the class of 2009.
Where would she predict they will be a year from now? "Quite a high proportion will be where they want to be. There's been a huge expansion in higher education and people getting degrees and ever since the 1950s – the 1930s, even – you've had Kingsley Amis types saying more means worse. I don't buy that. A recession doesn't change the fact that having a degree is a significant advantage over not having a degree. The people who will really suffer are young people without qualifications and older people who are made redundant and can't reskill. I don't know about lost generations of students. The lost generations are likely to be those who have no qualifications at all."
Alan, 26, emerging from his final graphic design master's exam at UCL, says the recession will change students' expectations. "You can't expect things to be given to you on a plate – now more than ever. I think people see degrees as more practical things now. It's seen more as a route to employment than a route to knowledge in itself. People are more goal-orientated. They have to be."
Over in the careers office, Rukaiya, 21, a second-year economics student, is starting to consider her future. "I've worked in cafes. I've been a receptionist at a hair salon. Just stuff which doesn't look good on a CV," she says. Although still a year away from graduation, she already feels she's falling behind in the race for a job. "This year I started to love economics, but I missed the chance to apply for this summer's internships. I went to the careers fair, I walked around, but I just don't know what I want to do."
The careers officer tells her to think of her career in layers: there's what you want to do ultimately and then there's what you can realistically expect. "Then there's survival," she adds.
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International Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 680162, 13 pages
The Methodology of Doppler-Derived Central Blood Flow Measurements in Newborn Infants
1University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2305, Australia
2Department of Neonatology, John Hunter Children's Hospital, Lookout Road, New Lambton, NSW 2305, Australia
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Central blood flow (CBF) measurements are measurements in and around the heart. It incorporates cardiac output, but also measurements of cardiac input and assessment of intra- and extracardiac shunts. CBF can be measured in the central circulation as right or left ventricular output (RVO or LVO) and/or as cardiac input measured at the superior vena cava (SVC flow). Assessment of shunts incorporates evaluation of the ductus arteriosus and the foramen ovale. This paper describes the methodology of CBF measurements in newborn infants. It provides a brief overview of the evolution of Doppler ultrasound blood flow measurements, basic principles of Doppler ultrasound, and an overview of all used methodology in the literature. A general guide for interpretation and normal values with suggested cutoffs of CBFs are provided for clinical use.


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Piney Grove Offroad Park, Somerset Ky
We would like to announce our first Bounty Hill at Piney Grove Offroad Park it will be held March 23 ,2013 at this time it will be a free event no charge for the event or gate fee . The current amount for the Bounty Hill is $ 700.00 it started out at $500.00 from Mark and Kyle and now with the help from Billy and Big Tim Bacon it has grown to $700.00 dollars . So put us in your calendar and come visit our brand new park please share with all your friends . We want to also Thank All our Friends and family who has helped get our park ready for the first event !!!
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here is what I put together from the post on hardline and google maps.......... Exit 41 to Pine Ridge Rd - Google Maps
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no sir, i don't know acreage. but i can find out from Bryan today. its free admission to park and free to enter hill climb. its their opening day sorta thing, they spent alot of time this winter clearing and cutting trails. from pics on facebook, it looks pretty serious. big tires and high HP!
Somerset is my hometown. Live about 30 min away now. My buddy showed me the place the other day, but we didn't go into it. Hope the ride turns out good, not sure if I'll make it or not.
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Mark said just over fiddy acres when he showed me around last week. It's an awesome set up down there, looks like nice trails for anything on 38s+. But you're gonna need big tires and major woopow to run the bounty hills.
Had a great time, will be back
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The imbalance between U.S imports and exports has hit an 18-month high. It is not just that the demand for American goods overseas is falling, but that domestic consumption is being met by importing more from overseas. One question most economists are asking now is this: Will the rising imbalance thwart economic recovery?
The U.S. current account deficit — the net earnings from the import and exports of goods, services, and foreign investments — rose 2.6 percent to $111.2 billion from $87.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013, the highest rise in about a year and half, quarterly data released by Bureau of Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce showed.
Demand for U.S.-made goods and services continues to be sluggish, as markets in Europe and Asia are meeting the consumer demand by providing cheaper substitutes. These firms are able to maintain healthier margins thanks to cheaper cost of labor. U.S exports of goods shrunk to $399.7 billion from $407 billion in the previous quarter. Exports are down 0.2 percent in the first quarter.
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Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Dan Sullivan raised more money during the first quarter than he previously reported.
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Other Republicans running include Mead Treadwell and Joe Miller. Miller's campaign on Thursday reported he raised about $100,000 during the last quarter and had about $300,000 available. Details from Treadwell's campaign were not immediately provided.
The Republicans are vying for the seat currently held by Democrat Mark Begich, who brought in more than $1 million during the last quarter. That was his biggest fundraising haul of the election cycle.
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by Burhanuddin Kagajwala, Timothy D. Hall, Maria Inman and E.J. Taylor (Faraday Technology Inc.); Bruce Griffin (The Boeing Co.); George Cushnie and Randal Taylor (Advanced Tooling Corp.); and Mark Jaworowski and Joe Bonivel (United Technologies Research Center)
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Characterization test
(per Standard)
Faraday's Trivalent Chromium Plating
Thickness (per AMS 2460, 3.4.1)
Comparable to hexavalent chromium plating.
Knoop hardness (per AMS 2460, 3.4.3)
Comparable or superior performance to hexavalent chromium plating (800-1000 KHN; average 947 KHN)
Hydrogen embrittlement (per ASTM F519 1a.1)
Comparable performance to hexavalent chromium plating.
Porosity (per AMS 2460, 3.4.4)
Comparable performance to hexavalent chromium plating.
Adhesion (per ASTM B 571)
Comparable performance to a baked hexavalent chromium deposit.
Corrosion resistance (ASTM B117)
Comparable performance to a baked hexavalent chromium deposit.
Plating rate
3.5 mil/hr compared to 1 mil/hr.
Current efficiency
42% compared to 15% for hexavalent chromium plating.
Hexavalent chromium formation
After 1400 A-hr, no observed Cr+6 formation.
Taber abrasion test (ASTM D4060)
Comparable performance to a baked hexavalent chromium deposit.
Reciprocating ball-on-flat (ASTM G133)
Comparable performance to a baked hexavalent chromium deposit.
Oscillation (Dithering wear test)
Comparable performance to a baked hexavalent chromium deposit.
Hz, this finish brightened to a more ideal chromium finish. A possible explanation for the observed uniformity difference between the chromium coating prepared using DC and low frequency PC waveforms versus high frequency PC processing conditions could be related to the depletion of the Cr+3 ion concentration near the plated surface. At the higher frequencies, the effective boundary layer thickness is smaller, such that the Cr+3 ions from the bulk solution are closer to the surface, and therefore more readily available for deposition. However, other mechanistic considerations may explain the observed phenomena, such as a decrease in the grain size of the deposit with increasing waveform frequency.
In order to demonstrate scalability, the best processing parameters from the initial studies were used to evaluate the effect of changing the diameter and length of the steel pipe. Figure 6 shows the deposited chromium coating on the internal diameter of pipes with various dimensions, for the same set of processing conditions, demonstrating the potential of our trivalent chromium plating process to produce a visually uniform and ideal chromium coating along the length of the pipe, regardless of the dimensions.
The samples underwent a hydrogen stress relief bake at 190°C (375°F) for 24 hr of post-plating, before performing the analysis tests. This bake is standard practice in the chromium plating industry. Characterization included a microstructural analysis of the coating cross section, and an evaluation of the physical properties (hardness, porosity, adhesion, wear resistance) of the coating.
Figure 7 shows the microstructure of the chromium coating produced on a 1½ in. ID pipe with a 6 in. length, with respect to position in the pipe. The microstructure of the coating at the top of the pipe (Fig. 7a) is structurally equivalent to coatings obtained from conventional hexavalent chromium plating processes (Fig. 8). Note that each chromium coating from Fig. 8 shows a dense coating with small micro-cracks. These shallow cracks have been shown to allow the coating to have lower internal stresses, higher lubricity and better wear and corrosion resistance. The microstructure observed in Fig. 7b (middle) has the potential to be sufficiently wear resistant, though the non-uniform deposit on the top of the coating could be a cause for concern. Figure 7c (flow entry) demonstrates a coating with large thru-cracks that may impair the coating wear resistance. This growth behavior is speculated to be a result of electrolyte turbulence at the inlet, and should be readily solvable using cell modifications commonly used in industry.
The Aerospace Material Specification (AMS) 2460 standard is used to determine if a chromium coating is acceptable for use in wear applications within the aerospace community. Several AMS 2460 protocols were used to determine if the physical properties of our trivalent chromium coating had the potential to meet or surpass the properties of a conventional hexavalent chromium coating. We performed (1) the ferrocyanide porosity test (AMS 2460: Section 220.127.116.11), (2) bend to break adhesion (AMS 2460: Section 3.4.2 per ASTM B571), (3) a Knoop hardness test (AMS 2460: Section 3.4.3 per ASTM E384), and a number of wear tests including Taber abrasion (ASTM D4060), ball-on-disc (ASTM G133) and oscillation/dithering wear.
Taber abrasion wear resistance: Under funding from the National Center for Manufacturing
Sciences, we have demonstrated performance equivalent to hexavalent chromium coatings for the Taber abrasion test, an industry standard test for wear resistance. Figure 11 shows the cross-section and micro-hardness value for the Taber Abrasion test sample, with the wear test results documented in Fig. 12 and compared to a conventional hexavalent chromium coating, prepared by Fountain Plating. The assessment of the Boeing engineers who conducted the test is that the Faraday trivalent chromium plate performed as well as the hexavalent chromium plate. The wear index number of 3.01 was greater than that of the conventional hexavalent chrome plate at 1.43. This is believed to be due to coating edge spall on the trivalent chromium coated test panel, which was slightly smaller than the size required for the test. This separation of the trivalent coating near the edge of the plate did not appear to affect the wear resistance of the coating over the bulk of the panel. Larger trivalent chromium plated panels are currently being prepared to verify the equivalent wear resistance of the trivalent chromium plate as compared to hexavalent chromium.
1. L.R. Ember, Chemical and Engineering News, February 18, 1991.


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Burgess, I guess I'll wait until you read my second post.
The Tim Cook Demand Curve, given a product Apple can fabricate fast enough, is a different beast from anything we've seen before.
You have two choices if production is not a limiting factor.
1) Get your product out there and satisfy demand as fast as possible.
2) Control production to increase output for 2-3 quarters before trailing off.
The first is best for addressing the competition. The second is really only good for making the books look good.
In either case, demand will eventually trail off.
The Summer of AAPL is here. Enjoy it (responsibly) while it lasts.
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Thanks, Steve.
Good point Mav - it's such a big difference to last year - iPhone is 3 months younger, but was released in all major markets 3 months faster - it's as if apple compressed a 12 month sales cycle to 9 months (which would be fine if a new iPhone arrived after 9 months, but that ain't happening).
I guess if apple only reported once a year instead of quarterly - we would all be popping champagne right now.
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I guess if apple only reported once a year instead of quarterly - we would all be popping champagne right now.
Ha! This is so true. Apple results usually look awesome quarter to quarter, but always look awesome year to year. This is part of the reason why I mostly stick to the longest-dated LEAPs available. Ideally, the low in AAPL will come sometime during the 3'rd or 4'th week of September (or early October) so I can pick up some of the January '15 calls shortly after issue (obviously not at issue, but after they settle down to reasonable prices).
Breaking down some numbers:
iPad is up 84% YOY with only a little help from China via the gateways (Hong Kong) and gray market. And no Siri. And a weak Europe.
iPad business is still booming.
iPhone will remain a question mark until maybe late April 2013.
As far as facts are concerned, though:
Fiscal Q1-Q3 2011 iPhone sales: 55.23M
Fiscal Q1-Q3 2012 iPhone sales: 98.14M (77.6% YOY increase)
Project Q4 2012 iPhone sales to not grow at all YOY (scary thought): You get 72.3M iPhones for FY '11 and 115.21M iPhones for FY '12 - 59.3% YOY growth. Could be worse for a company that makes one smartphone a year.[ Edited: 24 July 2012 11:21 PM by Mav ]
The Summer of AAPL is here. Enjoy it (responsibly) while it lasts.
AFB Night Owl Team™
Thanks, Steve.
The challenge for next qtr is the slowdown to iPhone sales will be more severe as most of the competitor products have already launched and we have no new carriers/countries planned and we will most likely draw down inventory in the channel so reported numbers will be lower absent a new iPhone launch. I'm still projecting a mid Sep launch based on iOS 6 development milestones and rumors of pilot production this month.
I imagine Tim Cook will try his damndest to push iOS 6 for an early September launch, even if there's a couple more bugs than usual. He's as aware about the competition as anyone, and he knew that Apple's "Red October" quarter was arriving a full fiscal quarter early.
Interestingly, some consider August and September to be "Fall" - education in particular.
Apple's not in a "bad situation" per se, but I have to assume Tim knows his product roadmap, knows what's going on around him, and wants Apple product out there in the marketplace as soon as it's ready to go.
The Summer of AAPL is here. Enjoy it (responsibly) while it lasts.
AFB Night Owl Team™
Thanks, Steve.
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I missed a portion of the call but did TC say anything about the enterprise? Did they pick up any market share from RIMM's downfall?
Keep Calm and Carry On
Sell now, then.
Get used to it. Here's an early number from me: $35B revs, 22M iPhones, 19M iPads, 41% GM, $8.10 EPS.
$8.10 would bring fiscal 12 to about $43.60. As of today, the average professional analyst estimate is $46.80, per Yahoo! Finance. The low is $44.42 and the high is $51.18.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. — Steve Jobs
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Then we may very well get adjustments and downgrades for the next few months tomorrow - ugh
Keep Calm and Carry On
Not dire, but disappointing day. It's frankly a shock that K Huberty nailed the numbers, her credibility just went up a couple of notches.
It's hard to be optimistic in the short term. Sept, rather than Oct 'new' iPhone launch, please?
Declining ASP's seem a likely trend, especially with smaller iPad. That's cool with me, I think it is about growing the ecosystem as much as cranking the margins. And I think Apple has to take the competition in tablets more seriously than a lot of us do.
Europe and China numbers are not good at all. What hope for this quarter?
Everyone has a smartphone now so everyone knows there is a new smartphone coming. The product cycle is what it is, and the new mobile paradigm telegraphs it wider and wider.
Yep! Hard hats on! It's not gonna be fun.
Being selective about where you get your financial news is recommended. You won't avoid all the bad press but you can filter out a little of the noise and save some amount of aggravation.
The Summer of AAPL is here. Enjoy it (responsibly) while it lasts.
AFB Night Owl Team™
Thanks, Steve.
Breaking down some numbers:
iPhone will remain a question mark until maybe late April 2013.
Why is the April 2013 more critical than jan 2013?
iPhone will be out n sept sometimes and will have he holiday season ahead of it.
Q1 results will be in by jan 2013… And we will have a clear picture of the iPhone success and numbers.
Why do u say late April is when we will know about the iPhone ?
I am confident apple will do 50+ ttm eps by jan 2013…
Come jan. we will see these days as days of opportunity to have bought!
I'm just talking skepticism and possibly adjusting to what I think is the new sales cycle for iPhone.
January should cover a new iPhone launch in September/October (at least I hope it does) and that number should be good.
April brings us the results from Jan-Mar. If WS sees another strong quarter of iPhone and notices the new pattern, additional reassurance will follow.
The Summer of AAPL is here. Enjoy it (responsibly) while it lasts.
AFB Night Owl Team™
Thanks, Steve.
Hey folks,
Just a courtesy heads up. For many, many quarters, I've wondered why everyone else could find results before I could. I tried Apple's investor page. I tried Google News. I tried Marketwatch. I couldn't crack the code.
Today, I finally did. (Which, sadly, is how I got to be the bearer of bad news in the earnings reporting thread.)
AAPL sends out their summary email via BusinessWire. Today, as soon as the first tick of the big drop hit on Google Finance, I checked there, and sure enough, there were the numbers before they'd been reported anywhere else.
Anyway, here's the link for you to bookmark for the next time around.
Here's some kool-aid. If we agree with Horace re:Apple needs to kill the iPhone, then this is the beginning of that process. Think of this Q as AAPL slowly pulling off the iPhone band-aid. 5 years ago, Steve told us Apple was 5 years ahead of the competition. Today, most people just want a facebooking, instagramming, music streaming, picture taking machine. The other guys' rectangles with 4.7" LTE 720P Screens and Quadcore processors are delivering now.
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A player at No. 1? That can be explained away a dozen times.
Here's how the Vols have finished in the national rankings each of the last five seasons:
2011: 4th
2010: 2nd
2009: 8th
2008: 9th
2007: 25th
But what happens when two players from one team reach the top of singles poll in the same year? Or that the same school has doubles teams earn the end-year No. 1 ranking in two of three seasons? How about when teammates face each other in the semifinals of the NCAA Singles Championships?
Then, you have to suspect there's a trend.
At Tennessee, that trend has become a reality as the Vols have reentered the national tennis picture in practically every competition. A major force behind the rise of the program is head coach Sam Winterbotham and associate head coach Chris Woodruff, who just finished their fifth season coaching together at UT.
When Winterbotham and Woodruff teamed up in the fall of 2006, the Vols had just endured an uncharacteristic 9-11 season and were ranked 50th nationally. In a matter of months, Tennessee quickly reversed the slide down the rankings, rising to 25th by the end of 2007.
Since then, the Vols have had four consecutive years of top 10 finishes as a team in the national rankings, a pair of SEC regular-season titles and an appearance in the finals of the NCAA Championships. All told, not bad in five years' work.
For a closer look at the new state of Tennessee tennis, here is a by-the-numbers tour behind Winterbotham, Woodruff and the Vols' return among the elite programs:
That's 101 dual-match victories the last four seasons, which is the most in a four-year period in program history. Tennessee collected 98 victories from 1984-87.
The past two years, the Vols have been among the major national contenders as a team. They have spent every polling period in 2010 and 2011 ranked within the top five.
What does that have to do with No. 1? Well, in March, the Vols reached the very top of the national college rankingsfor the first time since 1990.
When it comes to the very top of the rankings, the Vols have been there too. Both John-Patrick Smith and Rhyne Williams have held the No. 1 singles ranking over the last two years.
Smith has also practically become an institution at the No. 1 doubles ranking -- or at least close to it -- the last three seasons. He and Davey Sandgren were the end-year top-ranked doubles pair in 2009 and parts of 2010, thanks to reaching the finals of the NCAA doubles championships both years.
Smith regained the No. 1 ranking again this spring with Boris Conkic, and the two of them were named ITA Doubles Team of the Year after sustaining that top ranking from March 1 through the end of May.
The Vols had a program-record four Vols earn All-America honors in 2011: Conkic, Smith, Williams and Tennys Sandgren.
Smith became Tennessee's first four-time All-American in addition to becoming just the second player in college tennis history to earn All-America honors in both singles and doubles all four years of his career.
In 2010, the Vols marched to the finals for the third time in program history. A year later, they reached the quarterfinals.
In five years, Tennessee has boasted 14 selections to the annual 64-player field of the NCAA Singles Championships. That's averaging nearly three a season.
The Vols haven't just been in the tournament, however. They have been playing for titles.
As an unseeded freshman who has been playing No. 2 in the lineup a majority of the year, Smith made an improbable run to the NCAA singles title match in 2008. Three years later, Williams reached the championship, but only did so by beating teammate and doubles partner Tennys Sandgren in the semifinals.
For the most part, the Vols have been exceptional in the other national individual events as well. Smith became the third player to ever win the singles and doubles titles in the same year at the ITA All-American Championships in 2009, taking the doubles title with Conkic. Williams became the first Vol since Paul Annacone in 1984 to capture the singles trophy at the USTA/ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships.
More eye-popping than that, perhaps, is that the Vols are a combined 21-1 in conference play the last two years on their way to consecutive regular-season titles.
Winterbotham is now just one of two Tennessee coaches to have ever won two SEC tennis titles. Mike DePalmer Sr. led the Vols to championships in 1986 and 1990.
As head coach of the Vols, Winterbotham is 118-26, good for an .819 winning percentage.
Tennessee has boasted 17 All-SEC selections the last five years, 13 of them being first-team picks. In 2010, the Vols had a school-record five players make the All-SEC team. Last season, Tennessee had four first-team picks: Conkic, Sandgren, Smith and Williams.
The Vols have earned a fair share of end-season awards as well.
Smith overwhelming led the Vols in that category, taking home more accolades than just about any other athlete in conference history. He became the first Vol to earn multiple SEC Player of the Year honors in 2010 and 2011, and in June, he was named the fourth Tennessee student-athlete to be voted as the SEC Male Athlete of the Year by conference athletic directors.
In five years, two Vols have been named SEC Freshman of the Year: Smith in 2008 and Williams in 2010. Winterbotham picked up coach of the year honors in 2008 and 2010.


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