Saturday, February 11th, 2012
DANIEL TEPFER, - Westpport News
Stephan: I have held this story for several days waiting for it to be rescinded, because I found it hard to believe. Could any Catholic prelate be so tone-deaf as to take back his apology about his role in the Church's child abuse scandal? I wouldn't have thought so, but the upper Church hierarchy seems to be so self-referential and cosseted that its true. It is so revealing it is painful. You want to look away.
I want this trend to be over.
Former New York Cardinal Edward Egan, who was at the center of the priest abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport when he was its bishop, has drawn criticism from a national victims’ group and a local law firm that represented victims over an interview he recently gave.
In a recent edition of Connecticut Magazine, Egan said that while bishop here, he did nothing wrong regarding abuse allegations against priests in the diocese and, in fact, never had a case of alleged abuse while he was bishop.
In the interview, Egan also said he believes there is no legal requirement to report abuse cases in Connecticut and expressed regret for the apology he made regarding the priest scandal here.
‘First of all, I should have never said that,’ Egan told the magazine regarding his 2002 statement of regret. ‘I did say if we did anything wrong, I’m sorry, but I don’t think we did anything wrong.’
Egan succeeded Bishop Walter Curtis, who had overseen the diocese from 1961 to 1988.
‘Egan is obviously unrepentant, self-absorbed and painfully dismissive of the abject suffering of tens of thousands of deeply wounded men, women and children who have been sexually violated by priests, nuns, bishops, brothers, […]
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Saturday, February 11th, 2012
FAITH PEPPERS, - University of Georgia
Stephan: This is very good news. If you have ever broken a major bone, or been close to someone who has, you can immediately appreciate the implications.
ATHENS, Georgia — Broken bones in humans and animals are painful and often take months to heal. Studies conducted in part by University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center researchers show promise to significantly shorten the healing time and revolutionize the course of fracture treatment.
‘Complex fractures are a major cause of amputation of limbs for U.S. military men and women,’ said Steve Stice, a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, animal and dairy scientist in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and director of the UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center.
‘For many young soldiers, their mental health becomes a real issue when they are confined to a bed for three to six months after an injury,’ he said. ‘This discovery may allow them to be up and moving as fast as days afterward.’
Stice is working with Dr. John Peroni to develop a fast bone healing process. ‘This process addresses both human and veterinary orthopedic needs,’ said Peroni, an associate professor of large animal surgery in the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine and a member of the RBC.
Peroni and Stice are leading a large animal research project funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. The project includes scientists and surgeons from the Baylor […]
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
Stephan: It is upon the amorphous phrase 'terrorism' that a wide spectrum of our civil liberties have been taken away. You probably already suspect this, here is the evidence. The vast octopus of secret activities that is DHS, has placed us under increasing surveillance, and for what? Liberties once surrendered I believe are going to prove very difficult, if not impossible, to reclaim.
Click through to see the chart referenced.
It’s worth noting that, while an aggressive counter-terrorism policy may be publicly popular, there are indications that it’s completely unnecessary. Kevin Drum has this chart showing that indictments for homegrown support for terrorist attacks have declined significantly. In addition, violent attacks carried out by Muslim-Americans in 2011 were almost non-existent. Drum quotes a recent report: ‘Of the 20 Muslim-Americans accused of violent terrorist plots in 2011 only one, Yonathan Melaku, was charged with carrying out an attack, firing shots at military buildings in northern Virginia. Nobody was injured.
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
BRIAN WESTENHAUS, - OilPrice
Stephan: Rossi's e-Cat is not the only LENR technology out there. His ex-partners have their own version, and there are others. I continue to think this may be the game changer. I track this from many sources, but I am particularly interested in the fact that OilPrice pays so much attention to this technology. If I were in the oil business I certainly would be keeping close tabs.
The Praxen Defkalion Green Technologies Global Ltd. (PDGT) firm that was and then wasn’t a partner with Andrea Rossi in marketing the E-Cat LENR reactor has announced the permitting of third party evaluations of their product named ‘Hyperion
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Friday, February 10th, 2012
Stephan: If you have, or know someone who has, Parkinson's this may be helpful.
Tai Chi, the Chinese martial art involving slow and rhythmic movement, has been shown to benefit older people by maintaining balance and strength. Now, researchers have found that Tai Chi also helps patients who suffer from Parkinson’s disease.
Leona Maricle was diagnosed with Parkinson’s two years ago. At the time, she was teaching math, and she says she had experienced the telltale tremors of Parkinson’s for a number of years. She learned how to cope.
‘The students began to notice that my hands were trembling,’ she recalls, ‘so I started learning how to compensate by keeping that hand under the table and using the other hand to pass out papers, interact with students and hand out pencils.’
But soon it became clear that Maricle just couldn’t give teaching her ‘best’ anymore. She retired at 67.
Parkinson’s disease, a progressive disorder of the nervous system, affects movement and motor control. ‘I would need to think two or three times about moving a particular part of my body,’ says Maricle. ‘When I was sitting in a chair and needed to get up, it would take two or three mental messages to my muscles to actually move my body.’
Maricle had difficulty walking upstairs, downstairs, to the car […]
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