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The Militia Movement (historical backgrounder 2001)
This document is an archived copy of an older ADL report and may not reflect the most current facts or developments related to its subject matter. For current information on the militia movement, please see our updated backgrounder.
The militia movement is a relatively new right-wing extremist movement consisting of armed paramilitary groups, both formal and informal, with an anti-government, conspiracy-oriented ideology. Militia groups began to form not long after the deadly standoff at Waco, Texas, in 1993; by the spring of 1995, they had spread to almost every state. Many members of militia groups have been arrested since then, usually on weapons, explosives and conspiracy charges. Although the militia movement has declined in strength from its peak in early 1996, it remains an active movement, especially in the Midwest, and continues to cause a number of problems for law enforcement and the communities in which militia groups are active.
- Origins: Mid-to-late 1993
- Prominent leaders: John Trochmann (Montana), Ron Gaydosh (Michigan), Randy Miller (Texas), Charlie Puckett (Kentucky), Mark Koernke (Michigan), Carl Worden (Oregon), Gib Ingwer (Ohio)
- Prominent groups: Kentucky State Militia, Ohio Unorganized Militia Assistance and Advisory Committee, Southeastern Ohio Defense Force, Michigan Militia (two factions using the same name), Southern Indiana Regional Militia, Southern California High Desert Militia-and many others
- Outreach: Gun shows, shortwave radio, newsletters, the Internet
- Ideology: Anti-government and conspiracy-oriented in nature; prominent focus on firearms
- Prominent militia arrests: Multiple members of the following groups have been arrested and convicted, usually on weapons, explosives, or conspiracy charges: Oklahoma Constitutional Militia, Georgia Republic Militia, Arizona Viper Militia, Washington State Militia, West Virginia Mountaineer Militia, Twin Cities Free Militia, North American Militia, San Joaquin County Militia.
The Militia Movement Today
The militia movement is the youngest of the major right-wing anti-government movements in the United States (the sovereign citizen movement and the tax protest movement are the two others) yet it has seared itself into the American consciousness as virtually no other fringe movement has. The publicity given to militia groups in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, when the militia movement was erroneously linked to that tragedy, made them into a household name. Even comedian David Letterman frequently joked about the militia; in 1999, for instance, his list, "Top Ten Signs You're Watching a Bad Disney Movie," included "It's called 'The Little Right-Wing Militia That Could.'" Indeed, reporters, pundits and politicians alike have used the term so frequently that it is often tossed about carelessly as a synonym for virtually any right-wing extremist group.
Yet the militia movement is neither generic nor dismissible as a comic subject. If militia groups were not, in fact, involved with the Oklahoma City bombing, they have nevertheless embroiled themselves since 1994 in a variety of other bombing plots, conspiracies and serious violations of law. Their extreme anti-government ideology, along with their elaborate conspiracy theories and fascination with weaponry and paramilitary organization, lead many members of militia groups to act out in ways that justify the concerns expressed about them by public officials, law enforcement and the general public.
Origins and Ideology: Seventeen Little Children
In a sense, the militia movement is both old and new. On the one hand, militia groups are the latest in a series of periodic flings the extreme right has had with paramilitary organizations. On the other hand, however, the militia movement formed under a unique set of circum-stances that gave the movement a character, orientation and purpose distinct from its prede-cessors.
The extreme right in the United States has long had a fascination with paramilitary groups. Before World War II, right-wing and fascist groups such as the Silver Shirt Legion and the Christian Front marched across America. Later, the Cold War ushered in a new wave of paramilitary organizations like the California Rangers and the Minutemen. In the 1980s, survivalists and white supremacists formed a variety of paramilitary groups ranging from the Christian Patriot-Defense League to the Texas Emergency Reserve to the White Patriot Party.
The militia movement is heir to the right-wing paramilitary tradition, but it is heir, too, to another tradition, the anti-government ideology of groups like the Posse Comitatus. The Posse developed an elaborate conspiratorial view of American history and government, one that claimed the legitimate government had been subverted by conspirators and replaced with an illegitimate, tyrannical government. Posse members believed that the people had the power and responsibility to "take back" the government, through force of arms if necessary. As a result, many Posse figures engaged in paramilitary training. Most notable among these was William Potter Gale, a Christian Identity minister who was one of the founders of the Posse. In the 1980s, he appointed himself "chief of staff" to the "Unorganized Militia" of a group known as the Committee of the States. Gale's appropriation of the term "unorganized militia" is significant; it is a statutory term in federal and state law that refers to the nominal manpower pool created a century ago when federal law formally abandoned compulsory militia service. In using the term, Gale implied that his organization was not only legal but that it was, in fact, a constitutional arm of the government. This argument would be amplified by later militia proponents (Gale himself died in the late 1980s) who claimed that militia groups were: (a) equivalent to the statutory militia; (b) not, however, controlled by the government; and (c) in fact, designed to oppose the government should it become tyrannical.
What turned the concept into reality in the early 1990s was a series of catalysts that angered people on the extreme right sufficiently to start a new movement. Although some militia movement pioneers had been active in other anti-government or hate groups earlier, most militia leaders were in fact new leaders, people who only recently had been so motivated that they were willing to take action. The events that angered them ranged from the election of Bill Clinton to the Rodney King riots to the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement. More than any other issue, though, the deadly standoffs at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992 and Waco, Texas, in 1993 ignited widespread passion. To most Americans, these events were tragedies, but to the extreme right, they were examples of a government willing to stop at nothing to stamp out people who refused to conform. Right-wing folk singers like Carl Klang memorialized the children who died at Waco with songs like "Seventeen Little Children." These events provided new life to a number of extremist movements, from Christian Identity activists to sovereign citizens, but they also propelled the creation of an entirely new movement consisting of armed militia groups formed to prevent another Ruby Ridge or Waco.
The fact that both the Ruby Ridge and Waco incidents involved illegal firearms added considerable fuel to the fire that formed the militia movement. Many militia members and leaders were radical gun-rights advocates, people who believed that, in fact, there could be no such things as illegal firearms and whose anti-government ire was formed in large part because of fear and suspicion of imminent gun confiscation. In the early 1990s, several prototype militias had emerged in Connecticut and Florida on the basis that members of the "militia" were exempt from federal gun laws. In 1992, Larry Pratt, leader of a radical gun- rights group and an advocate of the formation of militias, issued a statement in the wake of the Rodney King riots urging the Los Angeles Police Department to "take advantage of what the Founding Fathers called the unorganized militia" in order to forestall further unrest. Many people initially joined the fledgling militia movement largely as a way to protect more aggressively their right to bear arms; even today, gun-related issues dominate many of the newsletters published by militia groups.
The final element forming the militia movement was a vast fascination with conspiracies. Conspiracies were easy to accept for people who believed that the federal government deliberately murdered people at Ruby Ridge and Waco and that door-to-door gun confiscation could begin any day. But the militia movement not only accepted the traditional conspiracy theories, it created a host of new ones; combined, they described a shadowy movement intent on creating a one-world socialist government no matter what the cost. This "New World Order," using the United Nations as its primary tool, had already taken over most of the planet. The United States was still a bastion of freedom, but its own government was collaborating with New World Order forces to strip Americans slowly of their freedoms in preparation for the final takeover. The government was erecting large numbers of concentration camps in which to place American dissenters; meanwhile, the number of United Nations troops secretly encamped in national parks grew by the month. Stickers on the backs of street signs would guide the New World Order to strategic points, while the authorities enlisted urban street gangs to help enforce gun confiscation. "The Federal government and the press is [sic] fighting a war against independent thinking Christian patriots," wrote Christian Identity adherent and militia supporter George Eaton in 1993. "The reason they have targeted patriots is simple; they will not conform or submit to the New World Order."
The combination of anger at the government, fear of gun confiscation and susceptibility to elaborate conspiracy theories is what formed the core of the militia movement's ideology. Although there were white supremacists in the movement, and although groups and individuals within the movement often made common cause with or at least tolerated hate groups, the orientation of the militia movement remained primarily anti-government and conspiratorial. The militia movement appealed to many radical libertarians just as it appealed to traditional proponents of extreme right-wing causes. There was room even for African American militia leaders like J. J. Johnson of Ohio and Leroy Crenshaw of Massachusetts, whose shared anti-government views allowed them to break bread with racist and anti-Semitic adherents of Christian Identity.
History and Activities: Private Armies, Public Wars
Not surprisingly, some of the earliest leaders of the militia movement had personal associations with the standoffs at Ruby Ridge and Waco. Linda Thompson, an Indianapolis lawyer who decided unilaterally to represent the Branch Davidians during their standoff, went on to appoint herself "acting adjutant general" of the Unorganized Militia of the United States in 1993. Until her call for an armed march on Washington, D.C., fizzled in 1994, she was quite influential, particularly through the videotapes she produced alleging government complicity at Waco. More lasting in influence was a friend of Randy Weaver, John Trochmann, who with his brother and nephew formed the Militia of Montana in January 1994.
Thompson and Trochmann, along with other militia pioneers and supporters, helped other groups to form. Active militia groups arose in Ohio, Idaho, California, Florida and many other states. None grew so fast as those in Michigan, loosely formed into an umbrella group known as the "Michigan Militia," headed by a pastor and gun shop owner, Norm Olson. Militia activists recruited at gun shows, held public meetings in libraries and schools, and broadcast on shortwave radio, where talk-show hosts such as Michigan militia leader Mark Koernke were particularly popular.
The militia movement grew rapidly throughout 1994, drawing little attention until that fall, when civil rights groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center released reports and articles on the new movement. By the following spring, the militia movement had finally begun to receive scrutiny by law enforcement, the media and the public. Then the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, created an entirely new environment. Several suspected links between the bombing and militia groups in Michigan -- later proved to be unfounded -- unleashed a storm of publicity about the militia movement around the country. The militia for the first time faced the harsh glare of the spotlight. Overall, it did not fare particularly well. Some groups disbanded in the wake of the bombing, while other groups splintered. Norm Olson was kicked out by his own followers after he told reporters that the Japanese government had been involved in the Oklahoma City bombing.
However, the overall result of the bombing and its attendant publicity was actually a rise in the militia movement, because the media attention informed many potential supporters that such a movement actually existed. As a result, the militia movement grew in numbers and activity all through 1995 and into 1996. The militia even managed to "strike back" at times, as when, in the summer of 1995, several militia leaders drew publicity to the Good Ol' Boys Roundup, a yearly festivity in Tennessee for federal and local law enforcement officers at which various racist and off-color activities had taken place. Two federal agencies were forced to launch investigations of the event as a result, while militia leaders claimed that the media had been wrong all along -- it wasn't the militia movement that was racist but, rather, the federal government. (The investigations ended up revealing that the racist activity was committed by local Tennessee law enforcement officers.)
By early 1996, virtually every state had at least one group, and most states had several. The movement had attracted the attention not only of the media but also of law enforcement, however, which had begun to discover signs of significant criminal activity. As early as 1994, members of the Blue Ridge Hunt Club, a nascent Virginia militia group, had been arrested on a variety of weapons charges. The following year an Oklahoma Christian Identity minister and militia leader, Ray Lampley, was arrested along with several followers for conspiring to blow up targets ranging from government buildings to the offices of civil rights organizations. But in 1996, a series of investigations resulted in a number of major militia-related arrests, generally on illegal weapons, explosives and conspiracy charges. In April 1996, several members of the Georgia Republic Militia were arrested, followed in July by a dozen members of the Arizona Viper Militia. Later that same month, members of the Washington State Militia found themselves in custody, while in October members of the West Virginia Mountaineer Militia were arres-ted on weapons charges and in connection with plans to blow up an F.B.I. fingerprinting facility. These arrests, not surprisingly, had a depressing effect on the movement.
Other events in 1996 and 1997 also served to weaken the movement. The most ambitious attempt to network militia groups together, the Tri-States Militia, collapsed in 1996 when it was revealed that its leader had been accepting money from the F.B.I. In March 1996, the F.B.I. surrounded the Montana Freemen, a sovereign citizen group, in remote eastern Montana, then arrested them following an 81-day standoff. Although a few militia members traveled to Montana to support (or aid) the Freemen, by and large the movement failed to respond, a fact that embittered some of the more radical members. (This scenario would be repeated the following spring when the militia failed to come to the rescue of the besieged Republic of Texas near Fort Davis, Texas.) Lack of response on the part of the militia movement caused a number of radical members to splinter away at the same time that some of the less hard-core members were leaving because of the increased arrests. By the fall of 1996, the movement had clearly faltered, and several prominent early leaders dropped out, including Idaho militia leader Samuel Sherwood; he disbanded his group in September, complaining that "the whole movement is being distorted on one side by the press and the media and taken over by the nuts and the crazies on the other."
Some militia activists attempted to buck the tide by establishing militia umbrella groups, most of which lasted only a few years. More radical members eschewed elaborate militia organizations and attempted to go it on their own. In Michigan, a group of militia members, allegedly kicked out of the Michigan Militia for being too radical, formed a group first called the "Goof Troop," then, with more dignity, the North American Militia. Members planned to bomb a large number of targets in Michigan, including a federal building and an I.R.S. building; they constructed a variety of pipe bombs and even discussed assassinating various government officials. By 1998, five members of the group had been arrested and convicted on multiple charges; leaders Brad Metcalf and Randy Graham received 40- and 55-year sentences, respectively. In Missouri, a group of extremists from several different states, led by Bradley Glover of Kansas, met at a gathering of the "Third Continental Congress," but decided that this umbrella group was not radical enough for them. They struck out on their own, planning to attack United States military bases that they suspected were training New World Order troops. Members were so committed that they sold their businesses and homes in order to have plenty of money and be completely mobile. The first planned attack would occur against Fort Hood, Texas, on July 4, 1997 -- the day that the military base hosts an annual "Freedom Festival" attended by 50,000 men, women and children. Luckily, good police work on the part of the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the F.B.I. detected the plans and prevented a tragedy; Glover and a companion were arrested on July 4 at a campground near Fort Hood. Eventually seven people were arrested in connection with the group.
Among those unwilling to go as far as to launch attacks against the government, one of the most popular tactics was the "militia confrontation," whereby groups would identify some perceived "victim of government" and come to their rescue. "Victims" might range from barricaded criminals to people about to be evicted from their homes. Militia members saw in these interventions a chance to fulfill the roles they had defined for themselves after Ruby Ridge and Waco: intervening between a "tyrannical" government and the citizenry. Prominent militia confrontations included interventions in Coushatta, Louisiana, in 1996, involving a "sovereign citizen" physician wanted for nonpayment of child support; in Hamilton, Massachusetts, in 1998, in support of a husband and wife about to lose their mansion to the F.D.I.C. for nonpayment of a loan; and in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2000, where militia members and others camped out at an extremist-connected church, the Indianapolis Baptist Temple, whose property was in danger of being seized (until church leaders themselves, fearing violence, asked the militia to leave). And, in fact, though no confrontation has yet been violent, the threat of violence is implicit every time armed paramilitary groups confront the government -- it would take only an accident or error of judgment to cause a tragedy.
Beyond Y2K: Camouflage and Conspiracy
The number of militia groups declined after 1996, as did militia activity. Patterns of criminal activity, however, remained more or less constant: militia members continued to get themselves in trouble with the law on a regular basis. As the millennium wound to a close, federal agents arrested Florida militia leader Donald Beauregard, charging that he and others had plotted to destroy a nuclear power plant and other utilities as well as law enforcement offices (Beauregard eventually struck a plea deal). And in one of the only Y2K-related criminal acts in the United States, two San Joaquin County Militia members were arrested in Sacramento, California, on weapons charges; they had allegedly plotted to blow up a propane storage facility. More recently, in December 2000, Western Illinois Militia leader Dan Shoemaker received a four-year sentence on counts of aggravated intimidation, threatening a public official and unlawful use of weapons, following an incident in which he threatened law enforcement officers who tried to talk him out of plans to march through two Illinois towns carrying a rifle. Shoemaker had earlier promised to shoot anybody who tried to stop him. Other militia groups have made veiled threats related to current and future firearms legislation.
Perhaps recognizing the decline that has taken place in the past several years, a number of militia leaders have taken steps to rejuvenate the movement. They have been aided by the fact that, though the number of militia groups has declined, they have not declined evenly. In many areas of the country, the militia movement remains as strong, or nearly as strong, as it was at its height. In particular, the Midwest remains a source of active and fairly large militia groups. In Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky, active militia regularly meet and train. Perhaps the most active militia group in the country recently is the Kentucky State Militia, led by Charlie Puckett. The KSM has benefited from hosting twice-annual militia gatherings during the Knob Creek, Kentucky, machine-gun shoots. At the April 2001 event, the KSM even managed to attract two Kentucky state legislators to address the attendees, despite the fact that the KSM Web site had urged readers to "track down" a fellow legislator and "bring plenty of ammo." In a letter to followers after the weekend event, Puckett told supporters that the recent meeting "was a fantastic success, and in many ways marked a critical turning point for the efforts of the militia movement in resecuring for ourselves and our descendants the ideals of liberty...bequeathed to us as our birthright."
The Kentucky State Militia has also held trainings out of state in an effort to help rejuvenate the movement. In states like Pennsylvania and Texas, militia leaders have held gatherings designed to reorganize and re-energize the movement in those regions as well. Whether or not such efforts will be successful is uncertain -- it is possible that only another high-profile incident like Ruby Ridge or Waco could raise the militia movement to its earlier height--but it appears to be in no danger of disappearing. New militia groups continue to form, and in some states, like Georgia and West Virginia, where groups virtually disappeared following the major arrests in 1996, the movement has become active again. As long as it is active in any substantial way, criminal activity seems likely to continue.


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Protecting the root account at all costs on Unix Systems.
In my opinon the root account is the single most important thing on any Unix machine, regardless of the data that may be on the machine.
Once it has been compromised there is always uncertainty about the integrity of the system. I have just a couple of suggestions here for those of you who run Unix ( this includes Linux ofcourse).
There are quite a few neat little things that we can do to help ourselves as administrators to protect the root account. I am only listing a few here, but perhaps it will spark some good discussion from your experiences on other methods.
1. The su command
su is an old favorite to attack in root-kits on Unix machines. Essentially it can be trojaned with something
* extra * often to cat or redirect the root password to another file. Let me begin by showing a simple example
of how such an exploit could be carried out.
This is a very simple shell script that would upon execution simulate the real command su to capture the root
password and redirect it to an inconspicous file.
#! /bin/bash
stty -echo
echo -n "Password:"
read PASSWD
stty echo
echo "Sorry"
echo "$1 / $2: $PASSWD" >> /tmp/.text31337
`So, what does it do? ... you ask.
Line 1: Define the shell being used. (using bash as an example on a Linux machine)
Line 3: Turn off the echoing of characters to STDOUT.
Line 5: Simulate a login session by asking for a password.
Line 6: Read the typed passwd into the variable $PASSWD.
Line 9: Turn the echoing back on so characters are sent to STDOUT.
Line 10: Simulate a wrong password being entered.
Line 12: Write the root account name if specified and the password entered to an inconpicuous filename
in this case, a hidden file in /tmp named .text31337
Now suppose mr. Ev1L h4x0r has named this script su and placed it in root's $PATH.
example output: (legitimate user with su password attempting to become root)
$ su root
and ofcourse if we were to cat out /tmp/.text31337 it would say
root / `root password'
And so I would suggest using the full path to su whenever using it. The real su is almost always in /bin. If
you run Linux, I also recommend doing a chattr +i on /bin/su so that the file is immutable i.e. Can not be
modified - deleted - or overwritten. Unfortunatley chattr and lsattr are limited to Linux at the moment so this
is not an option for users of other Unix types. Linux users see `man chattr' and `man lsattr' for more details.
example usage:
$ /bin/su ( the method I like)
$ su (also correct, but possibly unsafe if there has been a root-kit placed on the system)
2. /etc/passwd Monitoring root in the Password file.
One of the truly great things for Sys-Admins who run Unix is the ability to do some nifty notification messages.
A file that I recommend that you monitor regularly is /etc/passwd. On most Unix's this does not contain the
actual passwords of users, that is typically stored in /etc/shadow, I am interested in /etc/passwd because I can
monitor User ID's (form here on called UID's) for anyone other than root that has a UID of 0. A UID of 0 * is *
the same thing as root.
An attacker who wants to root your box must obtain UID 0 to accomplish this. There are many methods that
have been used to gain root on a Unix box. Often they do not actually obtain the root account itself, but the
UID 0 which is the same thing, but with an inconspicous name like `operator' or some other normal looking
or legitimate user on the system to avoid suspicion.
If someone does root your Unix box, the best thing you can hope for is to learn of it early enough to take the
system off-line and examine the extent of the access/damage and how the access was gained. Although I
hope that you never get this email, I have prepared a shell script that you can run from cron to check for
UID's other than root and get an early start on your damage control efforts.
#! /bin/bash
for id in `awk 'FS=":" {if(($3 == 0 && $1 != "root" )) \
pritnt $1} ' /etc/passwd`
mail -s "Root Access Alert" email@example.com << EOF
* Alert! Login ID `echo ${id}` has UID 0 *
* `date "+Detected On Date :%D Time :%r"` *
'So what does all that mean?'....you ask.
Line 1: In the /etc/passwd file, begin searching in the third field for UID 0, if the UID is 0 check the first
field to see if the ID is root. If the ID is root, continue checking starting at the next line in the UID
field. If the UID is 0 and the ID is * not * root ......
Line 4: Mail email@example.com with the subject "Root Access Alert" and the values in the banner.
Example email.
From: firstname.lastname@example.com
Sent: Saturday, December 23 2001 23:15
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Root Access Alert
* Alert! Login ID UberC0der has UID 0 *
* Dectected On Date :12/23/01 Time :11:47:32 PM *
I would recommend running this as a cron job. I put this in /root named access-alert and chmod it so
that cron can run it.
example cron entry:
#crontab -e (edit the crontab for root)
30 * * * * /root/access-alert /dev/null 2>&1
Please consult `man crontab' if you need help with this.
If you would rather have the "Root Access Alert" message printed to the console instead of being emailed
to you, simple change Line 4 (mail -s "Root Access Alert" email@example.com << EOF) to this:
cat << EOF > /dev/console
I will end this post here, I realize that is a lot of stuff to read. Any input you have is appreciated.
We need more security in the *nix forums methinks.
Merry Christmas everyone.


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Vince Young: I was the victim, I was taken advantage of
As he attempts to persuade some NFL team to give him another chance, Vince Young says he wants every team to understand that his off-field issues are behind him.
Young said on NFL AM that although he has been a distraction at times in his NFL career, that largely stemmed from his financial difficulties -- difficulties that he believes are not his fault.
"I really want teams and organizations to know that I was young at a time and I put my trust in a lot of people, and I was getting taken advantage of," Young said. "Basically, I'm the victim of the situation. So I've just got to clean up that mess, just to let teams know I'm a little bit more mature than I used to be, I've grown a whole lot, and I just want teams to understand that you're getting a little bit more mature quarterback that understands the professionalism of the game."
Young also acknowledged that he made mistakes during his time with the Titans, where he was a two-time Pro Bowler but eventually got dumped by coach Jeff Fisher. Young said he recently sent a letter of apology to Fisher for not handling things the right way during their time together, and he also said he doesn't think it was his play on the field that derailed his career. Instead, Young believes off-field issues are the reason he is currently a free agent just hoping for some team to give him a shot.
"I don't really feel like it was my game, I just feel like it was some off-the-field issues, with some of the things that, as I was cleaning up a lot of the mess outside the field, I really feel like teams don't want their quarterback to be in that position, of being distracted," Young said. "It was nothing about my game, it's just those things have to be cleared up before I get that opportunity."
Young says those things are now cleared up. It remains to be seen whether he gets that opportunity.


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Some of the scientists, I believe, haven't they been changing their opinion a little bit on global warming? There's a lot of differing opinions and before we react I think it's best to have the full accounting, full understanding of what's taking place.George W. Bush
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal programGeorge W. Bush
We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.George W. Bush
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America;These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolveGeorge W. Bush
We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.GEORGE W. BUSH
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.George W. Bush
We're pursuing a strategy of freedom around the world, because I understand free nations will reject terror. Free nations will answer the hopes and aspirations of their people.George W. Bush
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.George W. Bush
It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.George W. Bush
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.George W. Bush


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UnitedHealth's 3rd-qtr Profit Edges Up 1 Percent
UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s third-quarter earnings inched up 1 percent in a rare performance that failed to trump Wall Street expectations.
The nation's largest health insurer also gave a less-than-reassuring vibe Thursday by narrowing its 2013 forecast instead of raising it. Investors who sent the stock to a record high last month pushed the shares down Thursday in a slide that started well before markets opened.
The Minnetonka, Minn.-based insurer said Medicare Advantage funding cuts reduced earnings and contributed to a 13 percent hike in its medical costs during the quarter. Medical costs, which totaled $22 billion, are the insurer's largest expense.
UnitedHealth is the nation's largest provider of Medicare Advantage plans, which offer government-subsidized coverage for elderly and disabled people. The insurer has nearly 2.9 million people enrolled in the plans.
Medicare Advantage plans took a hit earlier this year when federal budget cuts took away money after insurers had set rates for the year. UnitedHealth CEO Stephen J. Hemsley told analysts on Thursday that the cuts shaved about 15 cents per share off earnings for the quarter.
These plans also face more cuts next year to help fund the federal health care overhaul, which aims to provide insurance coverage for millions of uninsured people.
Overall, UnitedHealth earned $1.57 billion, or $1.53 per share, in the quarter that ended Sept. 30. That's up from $1.56 billion, or $1.50 per share, a year ago. Revenue jumped 12 percent to $30.62 billion.
Analysts expected earnings of $1.53 per share on $30.86 billion in revenue.
Health insurance is UnitedHealth's largest business, but it also provides information technology services and pharmacy benefits management through it its Optum segment. Total revenue from that segment jumped 33 percent in the third quarter to $9.6 billion.
The company raised the bottom end of its previously forecasted range for 2013 earnings by a nickel to $5.40 to $5.50 per share. UnitedHealth hasn't changed the top end of that forecast since it made its first prediction last November. It normally raises the range a few times during the course of a year.
Analysts polled by FactSet expect $5.52 per share for 2013, on average.
Shares of UnitedHealth fell 4.3 percent, or $3.24, to $71.95 in midday trading. Meanwhile the Dow Jones industrial average, of which UnitedHealth is a component, fell less than 1 percent.
UnitedHealth is the first health insurer to report earnings every quarter, and many see it as a bellwether for the sector. The shares of competitors like WellPoint Inc. and Aetna Inc. also slipped Thursday as well.
UnitedHealth's stock closed down 3.82 percent at 71.37.
Strong quarterly performances and dividend payouts have drawn investors to UnitedHealth and other insurers. Analysts say investors also have steadily gained more confidence in the sector as they realized that the health care overhaul won't hurt the industry as much as some originally worried.
Citi analyst Carl McDonald said in a Thursday morning research note that UnitedHealth "didn't have a terrible quarter by any means." But the high stock price means the bar for a good performance has risen the past couple of years.
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Keith Urban Cries During Mass Same-Sex Wedding at 2014 Grammys
Keith Urban let his emotions show during a mass wedding performed by rapper Queen Latifah at the 2014 Grammys on Sunday night (Jan. 26).
The ceremony came late in the three-and-a-half hour CBS broadcast. While reaction on social media was decidedly mixed, the live audience gave a long ovation at the end of the performance and mass union.
The marriage of 34 couples actually included gay, straight, young and old couples. It took place during Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' performance of their hit 'Same Love.' Madonna also took the stage to sing during the night's signature moment.
Before the show, the song's producer, Lewis, said the moment "will be in our minds the ultimate statement of equality, that all the couples are entitled to the same exact thing" (quote via Rolling Stone).
"I expect that people with all kinds of opinions might voice them, and that's healthy," National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences president Neil Portnow added.
News of the event didn't break until hours before the 2014 Grammy Awards. 'Same Love' has become an anthem for the LGBT community over the past year.
Within minutes of the performance, country singer Laura Bell Bundy and country trio SheDaisy both voiced their support on Twitter.
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Inside Intellectual Ventures' patent factory (pictures)
CNET goes inside Intellectual Ventures, the controversial company that's in the business of patents and other intellectual property, including laser-guided mosquito killers.
Into the labs
BELLEVUE, Wash. -- The creation arm of Intellectual Ventures is its network of laboratories. Located a short drive from the company's corporate headquarters are a series of buildings where the company is at work on things it hopes to patent. These range from mosquito-killing lasers, to contraptions that keep vaccines cold for months at a time. Click through for a peek at the lab facilities and the few lab efforts under way that the company lets outsiders see.
Seen here, a human skeleton wearing an IV lab coat with an "intern" badge.
The laser mosquito killer
If you think this contraption looks like a projector, you'd be right. The thing is, it's projecting death. For mosquitos, that is. The technology, which has been public for years but has yet to be introduced in any commercial application, identifies female mosquitos and shoots them dead with a laser beam. The technology was developed to combat malaria, though the company says it's working to tweak it to identify other types of harmful insects.
Farm-raised mosquitos
To help demo its murderous laser technology, IV has to raise its own mosquitos in-house. Of note, the mosquitos in this cage aren't killed in the demos. IV shows it off by using a non-lethal green laser.
Blue checkerboards
Inside one of the company's work areas. Every lab room has the same blue and white checkerboard tiles.
Lots of parts
Boxes of parts, and projects-in-progress lay around one of the lab rooms.
Gadgets o plenty
This room is piled nearly to the ceiling with instruments, some new but many old. The company likes to buy older electronic equipment since it's usually at a steep discount.
In wait
More equipment sits, though this is only part of it. The company has a separate warehouse facility where it keeps what it can't fit in the labs.
Microscope room
IV has a handful of rooms just for microscopes. This one was used as part of the company's efforts to research malaria.
Analyzing malaria with servers
Inside one of IV's lab buildings is a supercomputer with more than 100 servers. The company uses part of the processing power for computational research on malaria.
Lots of juice
Running that many servers ain't cheap. The company said it typically has monthly power bill that's in the low five figures.
Dangling plugs
Servers aren't the only things that need plugging in. Throughout its labs, the company has hanging plugs for power, Ethernet, and other networked cabling.
Missing a cord?
To keep cords from getting wildly tangled, the company keeps cables of all types hanging from wall racks.
Cheeky box art
Spotted on one box, a reminder not to take any tools from within.
Meet you at...wait, lemme get my calculator
One of the lab's wall clocks is a bit unusual, requiring readers to do some math to get the time.
A bathroom ode to history
Like most businesses, IV names its buildings and rooms after things. That trickles down to bathrooms as well. In this case, it's the "Thomas Crapper Memorial Bathroom." While an inventor, Crapper was not the inventor of the toilet.
Malaria-spotting microscope
IV's specialty microscope was designed to spot hemozoin -- a waste product that blood-feeding parasites leave behind. That includes malaria, which this invention was designed to spot more quickly and cheaply without the use of sending samples to a lab.
Cold Chain vaccine cooler
This isn't a high-tech milk jug, but it's a distant cousin. Currently known as Project Cold Chain, this cooler technology has been designed to keep vaccines cold for months at a time, allowing them to be sent out to remote parts of the world that may not have the facilities for a dedicated refrigeration system.
A code name for now
Project Cold Chain may not be the final name, the company says. Nonetheless, prototype units are labeled with the moniker and the company's name.
Brainstorming headquarters
When the company wants to think up new things, it has brainstorming sessions. It will pull together people from various disciplines, effectively lock them in this room for the day, and try to come up with answers.
The shop
The company's primary labs facility is host to a colorful assortment of machines, from 3D printers to water blade aluminum cutters. Seen here are some of the machining tools.
Inside the machining area
Just one of the machines among those in the machining section of IV's lab.
IV Corporate headquarters
The outside of the company's headquarters near Seattle in Bellevue, Wash., is rather nondescript.
No logo
With no big sign, the only indicator this is where IV's top brass works is the small placard underneath the building identifier.
The first thing you see
The first thing you see walking into the headquarters is a giant T-Rex head with its mouth wide open. In fact, this is the same one from Jurassic Park, something company co-founder Nathan Myhrvold acquired and brought in to have mounted on the wall.
The T-Rex view
The T-Rex looks out into the rest of the lobby, which is adorned with one of the many photos Myhrvold has taken.
And a raptor too
The T-Rex isn't the only dinosaur you'll find. In another part of a building, this velociraptor greets you right outside a bank of elevators.
Dinosaur leg
Dinosaur props are joined by real dinosaur bits. In this case, a fossilized leg.
More fossils
Mere feet away from the prop T-Rex head are more dinosaur fossils.
Antique typewriters
IV keeps shelves full of antique typewriters in its entry lobby, an homage to earlier gadgetry and the change of technology.
More clocks
Yet another company clock that isn't quite the norm, right down to the gears underneath.
Antique code breakers sit behind glass in the IV lobby.
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Year One's '69 Camaro Convertible May Look Like A Pipe Dream, But It's Actually A Blueprint For An Affordable Performer
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You may have seen a Dynacorn Camaro, maybe in your dreams or in your nightmares, but most likely in some high-zoot magazine or at a trade show. It is important. It represents the final chapter. It's how to build a new '69 Chevy that hasn't a single Chevrolet-branded part. If you plan on starting a '69 Camaro project from dead scratch, and have the mental and monetary presence of mind to see a project through from beginning to end, a crate Camaro may be your kind of gig. When it's all said and done, you'll most likely spend less money and time-and best of all, you'll have a detailed road map to help you get there.
Year One pioneered the use of these repro bodies and put a crate Camaro together for the 2006 SEMA show, and painted in blue. It was one of the first examples of the newly struck sheet metal. During that process, Year One created a comprehensive 74-page color build book based on this initial build, with hundreds of photos, captions, instructions, and parts lists in every chapter. For the '08 show, Year One redid the whole thing in yellow for GM's 40-acre booth, this time incorporating the first of the new Performance Parts LSX376 crate engines.
According to Year One's Kevin King, "This was the one of the first complete vehicles built from the reproduction Camaro convertible bodies produced by Dynacorn [Classic Bodies, Inc., Oxnard, California]. Year One built the car in 2006, testing reproduction parts, gaining knowledge of parts availability, and documenting the process in a book. Virtually no original parts were used in the build. For SEMA '08, the Camaro received a thorough makeover."
While the coupe bodies were on the drawing board, they benefited from a couple of improvements that have also been incorporated into the convertible packages. Most obvious are doors and a decklid, which arrive hung and fitted to the body. "The doors and decklid are brand-new stampings and fit much better than what was out there before," said Dynacorn's Jim Christina.
Another significant improvement is the addition of the trim studs around the windshield opening (and backlight on the coupes). In the early bodies, you had to drill holes in the windshield frame and install special Phillips-head screws in place of the original spot-welded studs. The bodies are e-coated black rather than sprayed in red oxide primer, and the ragtop models include a proper actuating mechanism. Remember, seeing is not believing. The MSRP for complete bodies is $13,500.
"These save the enthusiast hundreds of hours in labor, and the steel is as good as, or better than, the original. The steel is 1006 World Grade, and in some places it's two-thousandths thicker [than GM's original sheetmetal]," Christina told PHR. Options include pre-installed mini-tubs and three different firewall configurations: factory A/C, factory non-A/C, and smooth. The transmission tunnel comes without holes, allowing the choice of transmission and shifter arrangement without having to spend time to cover up the voids.
As the car would feature a hot, yet-to-be-released crate engine, Year One deemed further enhancement unnecessary and lowered the power module into the phantom Camaro's engine compartment. This car was built as a driver, at least for now, and the Year One folks naturally wanted a spicy yet palatable motive source, and if need be, stuff that could be bought over the parts counter at a Chevy store.
Though the body and its various panels were straight, they still had to be prepped flawlessly for the paint applications. Year One's Keith Maney on the actual surface condition: "Well, it's like any body reproduction panel, except the whole begins that way. If you want the finish to be very nice, you have to spend the time to make it so. We had to do quite a bit of work on the SEMA car, but for the majority of people who just want a nice driver, a little bit of basic work, and it would be fine." (Maney literally wrote the book on assembling the Dynacorn Camaro, so he should know.) Year One applied the BASF Millennium Yellow and the silver stripes, the latter shot with SATA guns.
But a funny thing happened on the way to SEMA, an incident that may or may not reflect the chaos at GM. You call it. About six weeks before the show, GM ordered this convertible to put right next to a 2010 Camaro wearing the same undeniable hue. The Dynacorn example would showcase the new LSX376 crate motor. Certainly for the Year One crew, it was the kind of thrash you don't even remember for the intensity, but they rolled the screaming yellow zonker into the GM booth as promised. In the ultimate irony, the '10 Camaro failed to show.
You'll notice that the Camaro's wheels, especially the honkers in the rear, are way unruly for the novice. Further, to fit that monstrous negative offset with a smile, the axlehousing was narrowed to accommodate. (Don't fret-it's comparatively easy due to the Dynacorn body coming equipped from the factory with mini-tubs.) The Yenko-style hood is actually a Year One S800 composite piece; the trim, lighting, and the small items are Year One repro pieces, as is the air dam. The "styling bar" behind the seats then becomes the most radical visual departure. Even though it juts straight up there, Year One has done a wonderful job of camouflaging this faux rollbar (it holds the third brake light), which also contributes nominally to stiffening the car as a whole.
Year One's production of the subdued and functional interior is right on the money. No squawkin', no hollerin', just stuff that flat looks good and works without fail. Here, too, you'll find items that are typically available in the Year One catalog-not special one-off stuff. The reproduction center console was modified to house a GPS/DVD screen, which is about the most radical departure from off-the-shelf items. Auto Meter gauges, a DSE interval wiper kit, and Vintage Air controls occupy a custom instrument panel in a stock-style dashpad that's been wrapped in leather. It's business inside there-sure you wanna ride?
The immediate hit comes from those Cerullo seats, not so much their dusky charcoal shadows, but from the matching yellow accent running through the middle of them. Marketing: right to the point. Your eye sees the whole thing, but your brain is inexorably, magnetically drawn to those lines. From there, the scheme unfolds into familiar territory trod by rank and file Year One customers. It's a mechanical yet pleasing sobriety. Year One made some smooth instrument panels to cosset those fancy Auto Meter gauges, modified the console to accept power window switches, and quietly surrounded the 4th-Gen Camaro shifter wagging from the T56. A brushed aluminum plate caps the console for a no-nonsense look.
To some people, where you sit is of more concern than what you're sitting on, but not in this world. If the modern custom builders learned anything from the master automobile builders, it was a thing called understated elegance, so called by the mouths of some Car And Driver guys who were old back in the late '70s. Some guys get it; some guys don't. The gut in the Year One Camaro gets it. The Cerullo GT seats (their stuff is good enough to supply Porsche) are leather-trimmed and surrounded by leather throughout the cockpit.
Controls for the Vintage Air HVAC system are barely noticeable. Visually, the audio system has been condensed to a discreet LCD screen on the console, which is also the nerve center for the DVD/NAV system. An Alpine head unit is teamed with Boston Acoustics amps and speakers, but you can't see any of that, either. On top of the steering post sits a Budnik Sport wheel, perfectly in league with the rest of the trappings.
If you look past the Camaro's distinctive end-all tires and wheels and the vibration of the Millennium Yellow, you find a street tapper of the first magnitude, ostensibly a chick magnet, a woman web, a car more at home with the canvas dropped on humid, twilight streets than slicing through a line of cones or around a road course-although it can do both exceptionally well. Therein lies the ultimate purpose of Year One's highly visible calling card: to push the boundaries of style and substance while inviting the promise of attainability to its customers.
To the casual observer, Year One's flamboyant flyer seems beyond reach of the skill level of the DIY enthusiast and beyond the means of sane wallets, but more critical eyes discover otherwise. From the Dynacorn's clean-slate appeal and ease of assembly, to the bolt-in, bolt-on status of the DSE hydroformed C6 suspension, DSE Quadra Link rear suspension, and GMPP LSX376 crate engine, this Camaro is not only within reach of the typical weekend hobbyist who purchases parts piecemeal, it's within his skill level, too. A similar result is easy to achieve over the course of two or three years of weekend wrenching, and for about the cost of a new 2010 Camaro SS-if it ever shows up! And when it finally does, which one would you rather drive?
Build One YourselfIs building a muscle car from a kit the future of our hobby? Some people think so, while others like a more free-form, creative approach. If you're going to use a Dynacorn body as the basis for your project, however, it's probably a good idea to grab a copy of Year One's "Mail Order Camaro" build book-it will greatly simplify things. Look closely at the cover car. Is it familiar to you? Give up? It's actually the same car as the Millenium Yellow convertible featured in this story. The first time around, Year One gave the Dynacorn Camaro a pretty basic buildup with a stock-style suspension front and rear, a $3,000 350 crate engine, and a mostly stock interior. (The entire buildup took just 59 days the first time around.) The Year One build book details the process with many color photos, captions, part numbers, and chapters covering every phase of the project. Key chapters include: Subframe/Rear Axle Prep, Engine/Transmission, Steering Components, Fitting Sheetmetal, Engine Accessories, Engine Compartment Wiring, Hood/Bumper/Grille/Window Assembly, Cooling System, Convertible Top, Interior And Dash, and Final Details.-Johnny Hunkins
Screamin' Yellow * BuildUp Highlights
LSX376 Crate MotorThis GM Performance Parts crate engine, along with the higher-output LSX454, debuted at the '08 SEMA show. Billed as a budget assembly, the LSX376 is based on an iron standard-deck (9.26 inches) LSX block and LS3 cylinder heads (PN 12615879) with rectangular-shaped intake ports that flow more than the cathedral port heads, but less than the wider-port LS7 heads. These heads are for any LS-family engine with a 4.00-inch (or larger) bore size. They maintain a max valve lift of 0.570-inch, 68cc combustion chambers, 2.165-inch hollow-stem intake valves, and 1.59-inch solid-stem exhaust valves. As cast, the intakes will flow at least 316 cfm at 0.600-inch lift.
GMPP holds down overall cost by using a nodular crank and powdered rods, but includes a premium forged piston. Note that the specific crate rocker covers do not have provisions for mounting the ignition coils, hence an aftermarket arrangement is required. Also, this engine does not come with an oil pan, windage tray, or pumping system. You must choose the oiling system that suits your application from the GMPP catalog. With the factory-issue EFI LS3 intake instead of a carburetor, this engine produces 485 hp at 5,750 rpm, and 475 lb-ft of torque at 4,500 rpm.
This package is the introductory stage to the new LSX series, and it begs the obvious question: Who needs an iron-block version of the extant LS3 crate engine? View the LSX376 as a foundation for much more power and torque, but at, say, 600 rats. How much more do you really need? That's right, you don't but if you did give it more oats, you'd sleep well and have a clear conscience about loading up an iron block with them.
And to that end: A chat with GMPP's Dr. Jamie Meyer confirmed that GMPP will soon be introducing short-block and long-block versions of the LSX376 equipped with a forged 9.0:1 piston meant specifically for use with a forced air induction system. Boost-friendly camshafts are also in development, and will be available individually, or as part of a low-compression short-block. Blower and turbo testing of various aftermarket kits is underway at this very moment. Whatever system(s) deemed proper will likely be licensed and sold by GMPP. This proactive move is a positive indication that the boys in Flint will be doing a lot more testing before the latest products are released.-Ro McGonegal
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|Block (PN 19166454):
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|T56 6-speed reworked (cryo-treated gears and polished forks) by Pro-Motion Engineering, Ram 10.5-inch single-disc clutch and billet steel flywheel, McLeod hydraulic linkage, fourth-gen Camaro shifter
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|Rear axle:
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|Front suspension:
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|Wilwood master cylinder, Baer 6-piston 14-inch disc, front; 13-inch, rear
|Budnik Velocity R 18x10, front; 18x12, rear
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Genomic medicine's stakeholders – including direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, private research centers, and the National Institutes of Health – are deeply invested in promoting how this information will benefit patients. The authors call this "empowerment rhetoric." And yet the added knowledge that comes from both pharmacogenomic information and genomic susceptibility information could have a negative impact on how much power a patient really has.
The results gleaned from pharmacogenomic information could pressure patients to comply with physicians' recommendations, the authors suggest, because molecular profiling would allow doctors to give orders with more authority. "In fact, because genomic medicine generates more risk information and makes that information the key lens for approaching health and disease, patients may actually find that they havelessability to influence health care decisions and treatments," the authors state.
The virtues of genomic susceptibility information could also go awry. First, because disease prevention relies heavily on lifestyle changes, responsibility is shifted from doctor to patient. Patients who don't make the "right" choices could be deemed irresponsible, the article says. Second, genomic information can for the time being only reveal the health risks of groups of people. Rather than provide individualized assessments, it classifies people into "genetic superfamilies." The authors argue that "population classification schemes based on racial and ethnic categories can be actively disempowering for individuals, by encouraging potentially prejudicial associations between their group affiliations and health care risks."
Patient empowerment is marketed as a paradigm shift because it puts medical data in the hands of the consumer, not just the doctor. But the authors conclude that the focus on empowerment could clash with the reality of what patients are willing or able to do with the information they receive. "The idea of patient empowerment may run up against not only the limits of patients' control over their health, but also the limits of patient control over health care systems," the article says.
The authors are Eric T. Juengst, director of the Center for Bioethics and professor in the Departments of Social Medicine and Genetics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Michael A. Flatt, a doctoral candidate in sociology at Case Western Reserve University; and Richard A. Settersten, Jr., professor of social and behavioral health sciences and endowed director of the Hallie E. Ford Center for Healthy Children and Families in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University.
In a commentary on the article, Ronni Sandroff, editorial director of Health and Family at Consumer Reports, acknowledges that pharmacogenomics could take control away from a patient if a health insurance company opted not to cover a medicine that was shown to work infrequently in people with a particular genetic makeup. But even an increase in patient empowerment can have downsides if it shifts the responsibility for health care to patients and stigmatizes people who do not, or cannot, make the "right" health choices. Sandroff notes that the greatest challenge in preventive medicine is getting people to eat less, exercise more, and reduce stress. Whether or not genetic susceptibility information will actually empower patients by propelling them toward healthier lifestyles is unknown. "This is a question that needs more serious study," she writes.
Still, Sandroff says that consumer participation in genetic health research – "a new and growing factor" – could help advance scientific knowledge. "That makes it something that professionals should be wondering how to enhance and encourage, rather than fear," she writes.
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|Diocese of Bridgeport Acknowledges Allegations Involving 8 Priests from 1968 to 2000
By Dave Altimari
Hartford Courant
November 25, 2009
[Bridgeport Diocese's Motion To Prevent Disclosure Of Documents]
[Statement from the Bridgeport Diocese]
In an attempt to keep the documents secret, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has admitted in a court filing that it is aware of 32 claims of sexual abuse allegedly committed by eight priests over three decades at the same parish — St. Theresa's in Trumbull.
The files contained in 126 boxes are part of a legal battle at Superior Court in Waterbury over whether attorneys for the estate ofMichael Powel, a now-deceased Florida man, can get the documents as part of a lawsuit against the diocese.
The lawsuit alleges that not only was the diocese aware that it employed Carlo Fabbozzi, a landscaper/maintenance man who allegedly molested Powel more than 50 times over a four-year period from 1968 to 1972, but also that the priest in charge of supervising Fabbozzi, the Rev. Joseph Gorecki, molested Powel as well.
"In all of my years in doing these cases, I've never seen this many sexual abuse claims against priests out of one parish," New York attorney J. Michael Reck said Tuesday. Reck, who also has offices in California, handled several lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which settled more than 500 claims for $660 million in 2007.
The diocese acknowledges in the court filing that the incidents at St. Theresa's allegedly occurred between 1968 and 2000. There were eight priests assigned to St. Theresa's who were named in a total of 32 separate sexual abuse allegations, according to the court filing.
The church's court filing breaks down the abuse claims in segments based on the dates Powel attended St. Theresa's School, from 1968 to 1972:
•Nine of the alleged sexual abuse incidents occurred before 1973.
•Eighteen of the claims allegedly occurred between 1973 and 1983.
•Two of the claims allegedly occurred between 1984 and 1989.
•Three of the claims allegedly occurred after 1990.
The court filing lists only two of the priests — Gorecki and the Rev. John Cataldo. Records show that six other priests who have had lawsuits settled by the diocese, including Gregory Smith, Martin Ryan and Joseph Moore, also were assigned to St. Theresa's during the time frame in the diocese's court filing.
The 13-page document filed by the diocese's attorney Richard Colbert seeks to have Judge William J. Cremins reverse his previous order that the diocese produce all of the documents for Reck.
The motion argues that any claims of abuse alleged to have occurred after 1972 are irrelevant to the Powel case and would be costly for the diocese. The diocese is seeking to modify the court order so that it has to produce only the records regarding abuse that allegedly occurred prior to or at the time of the incidents alleged by Powel in the current lawsuit.
"Simply put, thousands upon thousands of dollars should not be spent by the diocese to review these post-incident, unrelated priest irrelevant acts, simply because Michael Powel alleges he was abused one time for one minute in the winter of 1971," Colbert wrote.
Reck says the characterization of the alleged abuse by Gorecki is not only insensitive but inaccurate.
"Gorecki's abuse wasn't as ongoing as Fabbozzi's, but to classify it as this minor thing as their motion does is inaccurate as well," Reck said.
But in a statement released Tuesday afternoon, the diocese questions whether Powel's accusation against Gorecki is true.
"Mr. Powel claimed that he 'recovered' an additional 'memory' after the year 2000, to the effect that a priest of the particular parish abused him on a single occasion 37 years ago," the statement said.
"Mr. Powel admits he was not a parishioner of the priest he accused. That priest was deceased for over a dozen years when Mr. Powel 'remembered' the priest's alleged wrongful conduct," the statement said.
Powel won an earlier lawsuit against Fabbozzi in which a jury awarded him more than $10 million. Fabozzi never paid the money. Powel died in 2008 and never collected any of the money, Reck said. Fabbozzi, a landscaper and maintenance man at St. Theresa's, worked at the church and the elementary school for more than 30 years. He was fired by the diocese in 2002 after Powel's original lawsuit was filed.
The lawsuit against the Bridgeport diocese wasn't filed until 2006, after the Fabbozzi suit. The suit alleges that Gorecki was in charge at St. Theresa's during part of the time that Fabbozzi was molesting Powel. The suit alleges that Gorecki abused Powel, who was 12 at the time, once in the boy's bathroom at the St. Theresa elementary school.
The diocese has denied that Fabbozzi was a church employee. In the statement released Tuesday, he is described as a "lawn man."
"After he realized he could not collect this judgment, Mr. Powel filed a new lawsuit in 2006, then alleging that the lawn man was an employee of a Catholic parish; that Mr. Powel was an employee of the lawn man; and that the Diocese of Bridgeport should somehow be responsible because the lawn man injured his employee," the statement said. "His allegations regarding the lawn man's misconduct, 37 years ago during the 1968 to 1972 time period, were based upon, as Mr. Powel admitted, a 'memory' that he said he 'recovered' in 2000."
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"Production vs consumption" in Moab
Moab, Utah seems to be coming full circle. Early prospectors discovered useful minerals – uranium, vanadium, potash and manganese – near the farming and ranching outpost, and in the 1950s, Moab became known as the "Uranium Capital of the World." Thirty years later, the boom was over, the mines closed down, and homes stood empty.
Moab then reinvented its economy to exploit another natural resource – the stunning redrock scenery. The area became a major tourist destination with two national parks, a state park, and world-class mountain biking, jeeping, ATV riding, river rafting and rock climbing.
Now, the Moab area seems to be swinging back toward industrialization, with a stack of new proposals for wells, mines and pipelines -- even as it's still mopping up the 16-million-ton uranium tailings pile left by the last boom. The Grand County council and some business leaders believe that energy development and recreation can coexist, but many locals fear that a wholesale return to extraction will drive away tourists and ruin the landscape. The Deseret News reports:
"Moab is a key player in an outdoor recreation economy that in Utah generates $856 million in state and local tax revenue, according to the Outdoor Industry Association. Well more than 70 percent of the jobs in Grand County — 2,440 as of 2012 — derive from tourism.
Beyond its role as a recreation mecca, the Moab area is home to the earthly riches of potash deposits, an active copper mine and the nation's largest producing oil well in the lower 48 states. The extraction industry supports just 2 percent of the jobs in Grand County, but they are good-paying jobs county officials predict will continue to grow as the economy diversifies."
More energy development is anticipated in the area, which contains an estimated 145 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 32.5 million barrels of oil. Fidelity Exploration & Production Co. operates 17 wells near Dead Horse State Park and Canyonlands National Park, reports the Deseret News, and plans at least a dozen more. The BLM expects at least 100 additional wells from other companies over the next 15 years.
Fidelity is also building a controversial 24-mile-long pipeline to capture natural gas being flared from its wells. Last month, Moab citizens held a protest in front of the BLM office to encourage the agency to improve the safety of the Fidelity pipeline, which runs near campgrounds at Canyonlands and Dead Horse. They've also been worried about the company's water consumption: Although Fidelity's wells bring $2.6 million in revenue for Grand County each year, they've used millions of gallons of potable water, a crucial resource in this desert area.
Companies are lining up to extract other Moab-area resources, too. The recent jump in potash prices, from $200 to $900 ton, has created a surge of interest in mining potash in the area. And other companies are eyeing eastern Utah's tar sands and oil shale.
Meanwhile, competing visions for the future of the Moab area abound. Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, is floating his own legislative plan, the "Grand Bargain" (see our story "New Route to End Utah's Wilderness Stalemate"), which sets aside some wilderness and also carves out land for mining and drilling.
Grand County is working on a set of proposals for land use; one of its three alternatives will eventually become part of Bishop's bill. Local conservationists say the county's alternatives strongly favor drilling, mining and off-road vehicle use, and ignore the fact that nearly 90 percent of public comments support wilderness and public lands protection.
They'd prefer to see Obama wield the Antiquities Act and make 1.4 million acres of the region into the Greater Canyonlands National Monument. Such a designation would prevent further oil development and block a road that the county wants to build for energy exploration in the Uinta Basin, a prospect that, not surprisingly, alarms those in favor of Bishop's compromise bill. And, as usual, conservative politicians object strenuously to the idea of more national monuments. The Deseret News reports:
"When the current council was seated, we took a vote and said we were opposed to the monument," Grand County Council Chairman Lynn Jackson said. "We know we live in an iconic landscape, but a unilateral decision made by a small group of people is not the way we believe things should be done."Finally, the Bureau of Land Management's Moab field office is in the midst of revising its management plan for about a million acres in Grand County and neighboring San Juan County, including the area of the proposed monument. The BLM plan is a "master leasing plan", a landscape-wide approach to development that the agency adopted in 2010 as a response to criticisms that land use planning was too often piecemeal and done after-the-fact. Our story "The BLM struggles to get ahead of oil and gas development in the West" described the intent of such plans:
"A master leasing plan … allow(s) officials to closely coordinate leasing and development in an area with special resource conflicts. And it allows the BLM to add extra layers of rules to protect wildlife, waterways and other potentially vulnerable resources before a lease auction ever happens.
Ideally, this approach will improve overall land management, sparking fewer lease protests and saving the agency the time and money it spends defending its decisions in court. … Under an MLP, more thorough environmental review and development planning happens before a lease auction is held, so companies know what they have to deal with before they bid."
The BLM's environmental analysis efforts have ticked off the energy and potash industries, though, because it's deferring further leasing until the MLP is complete. The first draft of the Moab-area environmental impact statement should be out this fall. Meanwhile, budget problems at the BLM mean that it's indefinitely postponed work on four other MLPs in Utah, including the Book Cliffs and Vernal areas.
But in all the fighting over energy resources versus recreational resources, there's at least one Moab observer who sees both sides. Writer Jim Stiles, who runs the Canyon Country Zephyr from nearby Monticello, had this to say in comments on a Utah Public Radio story:
"A tourist economy desperately needs an ever-growing supply of affordable oil to meet expected increases in tourist visitation. But they fear oil exploitation in their area will adversely affect tourism. Most Moabites fail to see the contradiction. …
Last year I quoted from a United Nations report on the impact of tourism on climate change. 'In 2005, tourism's contribution to global warming was estimated to contribute between 5% and 14% to the overall warming caused by human emissions of greenhouse.' More specifically, the report noted by 2035, tourism's contribution to climate change may have grown considerably. Yet most "New Moabites" argue that tourism is a clean alternative economy, a win-win for everyone. …
I am by no means supportive of reckless oil and gas development and extraction. But I just couldn't live with the hypocrisy anymore. When I see Moab address its own contradictions, I'll take their objections seriously. I hope some day, the mainstream media will give the "production vs consumption" issue some real air time, but so far it has been painfully silent."
Recognizing our own involvement in energy extraction is, of course, essential to any thoughtful consideration of the issue. As Jim and so many others have noted, it's nothing but hypocrisy to drive to a trailhead, heat your home, run your clothes dryer, etc. while decrying fossil fuel production.
We need oil, and gas, and potash for fertilizer. And we need wild places to camp and hike and sit in. Can we have both? Only if we're fully aware of the energy demands we put on the planet, and make a real effort not just to meet those demands in a more "responsible" way, but to reduce them substantially. And in the meantime, we need to improve our handling of those demands on public land. Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior from 1993 to 2001, recently spoke at the University of Colorado Law School:
To put it succinctly, BLM is completely over matched by the resources and technical expertise of the oil and gas industry, by the pace of the energy boom, and by the overwhelming political pressure exerted by the industry. As a consequence, there is nobody effectively guarding the public interest in our public lands. …
The production of fossil fuels does not require that industry be given license to always use the least cost methods, that environmental values be devalued and subordinated to company demands, and that oil and gas resources lands be allowed to become sacrifice zones.
Jodi Peterson is the managing editor of High Country News.


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Having found B1G1 figs, I decided I would try them…again. Memories of my both grandmas and my Aunt Ree Ree's homemade fig preserves have lingered in my mind for many, many years. The trees in their backyards so full the branches almost touch the ground. A pine snake as I was helping pick them one late summer day. The smell as they cook and the ping of the lids as they seal…..such sweet and treasured memories.
I have never liked the taste of figs…blech! However, I do like the taste of the seedy syrup that surrounds the lingering pieces of figs. Smear it on a slice of lightly toasted just backed bread..LOVE! Such a like and dislike like no other food I have ever eaten. Did you get that? ~smile~ The first pound of figs was made into a, well, heck, I don't know what it was but it was just okay. Hubby ate it all and it was pretty to boot!
Just wasn't my cup a tea. A few days later I remembered I still had a pound and a few stragglers left in the refrigerator. I started off peeling them and got tired of it so I just tipped the stem and cut them in quarters. They simmered on the stove for a bit and oh my word! The house smelled wonderful! Go get some figs and fill your house with lovely smells and memories. Love and Hugs!
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1 pound fresh figs, mission, brown turkey….throw any that are just hanging around in the fridge by the strawberries
3/4 to 1 cup honey
1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons lemon juice, I used bottled, that's what I had, this is optional
Take the stems off figs and peel them if you want to.Put in a heavy pot.
Add 3/4 teaspoon honey to begin with1 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice if you are using it.
Bring to a soft boil and then simmer, stirring very frequently.
Taste and add more honey and/or lemon juice if you need it.
Cook until you reach the desired consistency you like. I made mine very thick.
Let cool and put in a container if you are going to use it within the next week or so…..CHECK THIS 4 half pints or 2 pints, depending on how thick you like yours. I had 3 half pints after hubby got finished "tasting" the figs.
We ate some for breakfast this morning on toasted homemade bread and Goodness, they were good! I used one half pint this afternoon making *Nutty Fig Bars.