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Fair shot or freedom? Words define campaign 2012

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If sometimes it seems like the two candidates for president are speaking different languages, the reason is simple:

They are.

President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney use distinct vocabularies. Each has a campaign glossary of sorts to define himself, criticize the other guy, highlight opposing economic philosophies.

Fair shot or economic freedom? The nation's welfare or class warfare? You're-on-your-own economics or the heavy hand of government?

The president has tried to cast himself as the champion of the middle class. He claims Romney wants to perpetuate failed economic policies that favor the rich and privileged business interests over everyday workers. Obama regularly denounces tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires and frequently talks about the importance of "playing by the rules."

Romney has portrayed himself as Mr. Turnaround, the hands-on guy whose 25 years in the private sector give him the ideal resume to revive an economy he contends has gone from bad to worse under the president. His speeches are filled with patriotic references to the Founding Fathers and regular mentions of "free enterprise" and "prosperity."

"In a lot of ways, it's the standard party line Democrat, working-class rhetoric, Republican, business class," says Mitchell McKinney, professor of communication at the University of Missouri.

"Both are playing to the base. ... Obama has to address those disparities in the economy without seeming that he is anti-business, anti-capitalist. ... Romney wants to tout the making of money and successful working of the capitalist system but not highlight in any way the downside. In that sense they both have fine lines they're trying to walk."

Both men have tripped on their own rhetoric.

There was Obama's recent retreat from his assertion that "the private sector is doing fine" and Romney's declaration that "corporations are people." In coming months, McKinney says, the candidates, surrogates and big-money political groups will repeat certain words and phrases "so America comes to accept their narrative as reality. Clearly, words do matter."

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Sound Of Freedom Rings In Norwich

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NORWICH

The sound of freedom rang outside City Hall here late Saturday afternoon, with the inaugural ringing of a unique memorial to American history's most famous proclamation.

The bright, shining, 250-pound Norwich Freedom Bell, cast and polished on Friday and Saturday, commemorates the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The executive order, which President Abraham Lincoln made public five days after the North's Civil War victory at Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862, freed all slaves within the rebellious Confederate states, effective with his signature on Jan. 1, 1863.

The bell pealed for the first time at 6 p.m., the clapper sounded by Jacqueline Owens, president of the Norwich branch of trhe NAACP. A succession of dignitaries and onlookers took turns pulling the cord.

"Let freedom ring!" someone in the audience yelled.

The bell was paraded to City Hall from the harbor park, where its casting began with a Friday morning ceremony. With the Freedom Schooner Amistad docked nearby, and an Abraham Lincoln re-enactor helping out, local elementary school students spent their last day of school passing palm-sized ingots to the crew of a mobile foundry, where the bits of bronze were melted down at 2,130 degrees.

Norwich, home of Connecticut Civil War Gov. William Alfred Buckingham, first celebrated the proclamation on Jan. 2, 1863, with an hour-long, city-wide ringing of church bells and a 100-gun salute. Republican Mayor James Lloyd Greene famously paid for the gunpowder himself after five residents went to court to protest the $98 expense.

Officials hope that the casting of the new bell which highlighted a three-day, multi-cultural ceremony culminating on Juneteenth, the celebration of the abolition of slavery not only recognizes the Rose City's role in the abolition movement and the Civil War, but spurs public interest in its long history, boosting its stock as a destination for historic and cultural tourism.

"Thank you for finding this unique way to celebrate this historic even in our nation's history,'' Gov. Dannel P. Malloysaid, speaking at a Friday luncheon that included city and state officials, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Gail Adams, a U.S. Department of the Interior official. Adams said the national tourism strategy of President Barack Obama's administration's envisions promoting "lesser-known jewels" such as Norwich.

The bell, brainchild of the local Emancipation Proclamation Commemoration Committee, was funded through $100,000 in state support and local donations. The Verdin Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, a 170-year-old, family-owned manufacturer of bells, carillons and clocks, was commissioned to do the casting, using the customized traveling foundry it developed 11 years ago.

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Romney addresses Faith and Freedom Coalition via video from bus tour

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Appearing via video at the Faith and Freedom Coalitions annual meeting Saturday morning, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R) delivered a speech that hinged on social issues but also focused in on what remains the top issue in the presidential election the economy.

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney (R). (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

If people want a president that will give the middle class of America a fair shot, theyll vote for me, and I hope you do, Romney, dressed in a suit and standing in front of his campaign bus in Pennsylvania, told the several hundred social conservatives gathered in Washington for the summit.

In his prepared remarks, Romney spoke of anchors, which he said include family and the Constitution.

The national health-care law, he argued attacks freedoms. Raising taxes attacks freedoms. And the Obama administrations decision on contraceptive coverage attacks our first freedom religious freedom, he said.

All these things impinge upon our freedoms. ... I think America is stronger when were lashed firmly to the anchors that keep us steady, he said.

At times, he struck a note that bore similarities to the message former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) delivered on the campaign trail.

He told the crowd that his message to young people is to get married before they have children, because the opportunity for a mom and a dad to help guide the life of a child gives them such an enormous advantage.

And he noted a 2009 Brookings study that Santorum has been fond of citing. The study, Romney said, shows that if Americans graduate from high school, work and get married before having children, their chance of becoming impoverished is dramatically reduced.

Romney fielded three pre-selected questions from the audience. In response to the first Do you agree with President Obama that the private sector is doing fine? Romney dinged Obama for the remark, which he argued is the latest evidence that the president is out of touch on the economy.

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Freedom Innovations Wins the American Technology Award for Health & Medical Technologies

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IRVINE, Calif., June 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Freedom Innovations, LLC, today announced that its Plie 2.0 MPC Knee has been selected as winnerof the Health & Medical Technologies category for the TechAmerica Foundation's American Technology Awards, the only national "Best Of" awards that recognize products and services across the technology industry. Nominations for The American Technology Award "The Termans" were vetted by industry experts and TechAmerica Foundation leadership. These awards were named after Frederick Terman, who is widely credited as being the father of Silicon Valley.

The Plie 2.0 MPC Knee is the most responsive microprocessor-controlled knee available for lower-limb amputees. To provide individuals with a more natural experience of mobility, Freedom Innovations examined biological norms to establish performance criteria for the Plie 2.0. By integrating high-performance microprocessors and sophisticated algorithms, the Plie 2.0 responds to ambulatory stimuli within 10 milliseconds- or 10 times faster than the blink of an eye. Consequently, Plie 2.0 facilitates a fluid and natural gait, providing users excellent stability and safety from debilitating falls.

"We are very pleased to have our technology recognized with such a distinguished award," stated Maynard Carkhuff, President and CEO of Freedom Innovations. "The Plie 2.0 knee represents the culmination of years of work and investment into the technology. This recognition is a testament to our commitment to improving the standard of care for wounded warriors and civilian amputees."

"The quality of nominees for this year's Termans is a clear indication of the vibrancy of the American technology industry and we are thrilled to be able to recognize Freedom Innovations for their contribution to the industry and their outstanding achievement," said Jennifer Kerber, President of the TechAmerica Foundation.

The Plie 2.0 MPC Knee with microprocessor-controlled swing and stance features advanced stumble recovery capabilities, interchangeable batteries and a water resistant design making it more natural by design. Visit http://www.freedom-innovations.com/knees/to learn more.

The Termans were presented at a gala dinner in Washington, D.C. bringing hundreds of technology industry, congressional, and government leaders together at one venue to celebrate the partnership between industry and government. The evening featured keynote addresses from Richard Spires, the CIO at the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Technology Executive of the Year recipient, and Juniper Networks' CEO Kevin Johnson, who received the American Technology Awards Corporate Leadership Award.

To learn more about the awards visit the TechAmerica Foundation website.

About Freedom Innovations Freedom Innovations, LLC designs, manufactures, and markets advanced technology prosthetic devices that provide people with physical challenges the ability to reach their full potential. Based in Irvine, California, Freedom Innovations' lower-limb prosthetics, including industry-leading brands such as the Plie 2.0 MPC Knee and the Renegade Prosthetic Foot, are distributed in 41 countries around the world. For more information, visit http://www.freedom-innovations.com

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Sunday conversation: Historian says shadow of eugenics 'looms large'

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Alexandra Stern is a University of Michigan historian of medicine and expert on eugenics who lectured at the University of Houston this spring on disability rights. The author of the forthcoming "Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America," she spoke with Chronicle medical reporter Todd Ackerman after the lecture about the limitations of genetic medicine, whether to take advantage of for-profit company genetic tests and how eugenics didn't die out with the Holocaust.

Q: In the history of medicine, how is the early 21st century likely to be remembered? Is this the genetic era, or is that still to come?

A: The genetic era has begun, but the big question is what we do with the information we now have to help people - to what extent will it lead to cures and more effective therapies? History shows the expectations and promise of a new era's technology are often much greater than what ends up being delivered.

Q: So you think we're likely to be disappointed?

A: Unfortunately, yes. We're a society in which people are interested in their DNA, how genetics affects them, but also want quick solutions, primed by the great progress we've seen in medicine from, for instance, vaccines and antibiotics. But those magic bullets don't translate well to genetic medicine. I don't want to come across as suggesting there won't be great outcomes, but the idea that we'll simply be able to decode the genome, tailor medicines to a particular person based on their genome and cure chronic disease I think there will be a lot of unmet expectations along those lines.

Q: How much are people receiving genetic diagnoses at this point?

A: Genetic tests or diagnoses are being offered in more and more areas of clinical medicine - from neurology to cardiology to oncology. But you're probably talking about those for-profit companies doing genomic testing that return a whole scorecard of probabilities of developing certain conditions.

I think people are increasingly seeking those out and that the problem is that what they get back is unfiltered. People not only need help deciphering their information, they also need help, from a genetic counselor, dealing with the psychological decision-making quandaries they face as a result of genetic testing, how to cope if you have a higher-than-average probability of developing, say, Alzheimer's.

Q: Has enough attention been paid to ethical questions raised by the coming genetic era?

A: It depends on whom you're talking about. Discussions tend to be very fragmented: bioethicists amongst themselves; scientists amongst themselves; disability rights people amongst themselves. But as a society are we having broad-based discussions about the ethical implications, what the priorities should be and what the changes mean for people with disabilities? I don't think so.

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The Daily Drivers: Chevy Malibu Eco friendly at the pump

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Chevrolet has finally accomplished what it set out to the do the last time it redesigned the Malibu, giving it a bold-enough look to be noticed in the car market's most competitive segment: the midsize sedan. First up for 2013 and the Malibu line is the mild-hybrid Eco, with other models to follow soon.

Appearance: The new design is more chiseled, with a stronger split grille and long, upswept headlights. There are cues from other Chevys, especially in the much-improved rear end and its twin LED taillights influenced by the Camaro. Chevy says it's also more aerodynamic, with drag coefficiency only slightly less than its electric Volt. (It's helped by the Aero Grille Shutters that electronically open and close as needed for best performance.)

Performance: The Malibu is a "mild hybrid," meaning it has eAssist, a small electric motor generator that helps the revvy 2.4-liter Ecotec I-4 on hard acceleration. A lithium-ion battery powers a seamless automatic start/stop system and accessories when the car is brought to a halt. Regenerative brakes help recharge the battery. The estimated fuel mileage is a good 25 city and 37 highway. We found the handling to be respectable in normal driving and the steering is light but precise. The new Malibu's wider stance helps keep the car planted, and the ride handles bumps well. There is a manual-shift mode with the six-speed automatic, but that seems extraneous.

Interior: Until we drive some of the later models, we'd have to say the upscale interior is the strength of the new Malibu. It reminds us of Buick with its pale-blue ambient lighting, or to Peter, a final generation of the GM-owned Saab. The cabin is outfitted with a nice mix of materials and a textured, soft-touch dash; our tester was a two-tone brown/beige with "cocoa fashion trim" (an extra $150). Overall, the fit and finish are good. You'll find a bit of flimsy plastic glove box door and cup holder cover but Chevy has minimized it. The cabin is really quiet, thanks to upgrades such as acoustic laminated glass and triple door seals. The Malibu also has a lot of high-tech features, such as Chevy's new MyLink system, and a vivid navigation screen that flips open to reveal a storage nook for a phone or other devices. All the controls are logical and not overly cluttered. The gauges are easy to read and reminds us of those in a Camaro. The power-adjusting seats are stiff but comfortable, but the Malibu does suffer from a lack of headroom and legroom in the rear; realistically, there's only room for two adults. The trunk is awkwardly shaped because of the battery housing that takes up space.

Our 3 favorites

Peter Couture

Heritage: The sculpted dash design is a nice Chevy touch think classic Corvette.

Paint: Our tester had the White Diamond Tricoat, a $495 option; it's sophisticated and seems right for Florida.

Interior: Chevy is upping its game.

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Eco-friendly model home in Maryland reflects green movement’s edging into the mainstream

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Not long ago, the house of the future was designed to let you to stay plugged in to your music, sports and movies no matter where you were in your home. For instance, a TV screen embedded into the refrigerator door meant you didnt have to wait for a commercial to grab a snack.

But that was before the recession. Now, the new house of the future is being marketed with a decidedly more practical goal in mind: to save you big bucks in energy and water consumption.

Next week, KB Home plans to open a model home in Waldorf targeting the increasingly eco-friendly and cost-conscious consumer who has emerged in wake of the housing slump spurred by the nations worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. It is the first uber-green house that the Los Angeles-based firm has built on the East Coast.

The model, experts say, illustrates a shift in how houses will be built. The builder isnt so much playing up the big lot and spacious interior that appealed to buyers a few years ago, even though the house has both. The main selling point is the variety of innovations aimed at saving homeowners 50,000 gallons of water a year and reducing electric bills to practically nothing.

Built-in features of the net-zero house a sort of Energy-Star-on-steroids designation that means the house produces more energy than it expends include solar panels, a water-saving irrigation system and a charging station for an electric vehicle in the garage. The house even has a monitoring system that allows homeowners to keep tabs on their energy consumption in real time via their smartphones, tablet computers and TVs.

These features to a varying degree are currently available mainly in the custom-home market. But the Waldorf house demonstrates how green is migrating into the mainstream.

Taking a house from energy efficiency to net zero is a dramatic change, said Doug Moran, president of KB Homes Washington region.

Becoming more environmentally friendly has been the focus of the country, Moran added. We want to give people a vision of where we think home building will be in a few years.

Thus far, net-zero houses are a very tiny segment perhaps as small as 1 percent of the market.

Production of energy from solar panels, one of the largest components of the green-home movement, is growing. The amount of megawatts produced by home solar panels rose 104 percent in 2010, 109 percent in 2011 and is expected to increase 75 percent this year, according to Boston-based GTM Research, a consulting firm that tracks the industry for the Solar Energy Industries Association.

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Some area beaches closed for bacteria are cleared to reopen

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Several beaches that were closed Thursday because of high bacteria counts have been deemed safe for swimming and will be open this weekend, the state Department of Conservation and Recreation said Friday. All but two of DCRs Boston and Metro Boston beaches are clean and unflagged/unposted, or opened, the department said in a statement. Wollaston Beach at Channing Street in Quincy and Shannon Beach in Winchester remain closed after tests revealed elevated levels of bacteria, the state said.

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3 South Shore beaches reopen after bacteria testing

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Three South Shore beaches have reopened after bacteria tests came back clean on Friday.

The Quincy Health Department gave Delano Beach, Orchard Beach and Rhoda Beach clean bills of health.

Other Quincy beaches remain closed.

The residents' beach in Duxbury was shut down on Thursday for the first time in nine years after tests for bacteria counts soared to 38 times the maximum recommended for swimming, our news partners The Patriot Ledger reported.

Delano Beach in Quincy was 60 times the limit, many times higher than its worst reading ever. Orchard and Rhoda beaches were slightly over the limit. Wollaston Beach was closed for the second time since testing began last month.

Although bacteria limits are within safe limits, swimming is prohibited as a precaution.

Urban beaches are often closed after significant rain because of contamination washing into the water.

The A Street beach on the ocean side of Hull was four times the limit.

Re-testing is in progress and results are expected sometime Friday.

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Terengganu urged to gazette beaches as turtle sanctuaries

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KUALA TERENGGANU, (Bernama) - The Terengganu government has been asked to gazette all its beaches and islands as turtle sanctuaries to prevent the public from collecting the eggs. Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) SEATRU project leader, Dr Juanita Josep said at the same time, the government should create a law to ensure that the eggs would not be eaten.

"Not all beaches in Terengganu are gazetted where in several places, turtle eggs have been collected by fishermen and the local people," she told reporters at the World Turtles Day 2012 celebration, the first time held in Terengganu, here, today.

It was organised by UMT''s Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS) and Industry Network and Community Service Centre (INComS) in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Also present was Terengganu Turtle Conservation Programme leader, Rahayu Zulkifli, who represented WWF.

Dr Juanita said the main problem faced nowadays was the widespread sale of turtle eggs in Terengganu because there was no law to prevent it. She said UMT and WWF had worked at getting the state government to ban the sale of turtle eggs but it was still prevalent in the state.

"What we are trying to do now is to educate the local people not to support the sale or buy turtle eggs because turtles are threatened with extinction," she said.

Various activities were carried out in conjunction with the celebration with the theme of "Telur Penyu: Beli Jangan Makan Pun Tidak'' (Turtle Eggs: Don''t Buy Nor Eat them), including exhibitions, distribution of leaflets on turtles and meet-the-fan session with the Terengganu football team, also known as the Turtle Squad.

Meanwhile, Rahayu said the death rate of turtles in Terengganu was worrisome, with 12 to 15 dead turtles each year.

She said the turtles died mostly during the early nesting season in March because at this time the turtles migrated to Terengganu''s beaches and got caught in the fishing nets.

Meanwhile, in MELAKA, Fisheries Licensing and Resource Management Division director Johari Ramli, said the Fisheries Department would introduce the term of reference (TOR) to smoothen and strengthen turtle management and conservation in the country.

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Swampscott beaches re-opened

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Home > Breaking News Swampscott beaches re-opened Originally Published on Friday, June 15, 2012 By Staff Reports / The Daily Item

SWAMPSCOTT Three beaches in Swampscott, including one that borders Lynn, have re-opened in time for the weekend after high bacteria levels closed the beaches this afternoon, according to Anne Roach, a spokeswoman for the state's department of public health.

Roach said in an email that new testing of the Swampscott beaches and one in Marblehead showed the water safe to swim in, as of 5 p.m. Friday. The department had closed the beaches Friday afternoon because of a high-bacteria count after Wednesday's rain.

The newly Swampscott opened beaches are: Preston's beach, near Bluff Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, Fisherman's beach, off of Puritan Road and Route 129, and King's beach, on the border of Swampscott and Lynn.

Stramski beach in Marblehead, located on Salem Harbor, is also re-opened, according to the state's deaprtment of public health website.

There are no closure notices for King's beach in Lynn city limits, nor for beaches in Nahant.

Stay tuned to the Daily Item for updates. And view a list of parking, rates and hours for all Lynn and North Shore beaches.

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Astronomy Club to host show June 16

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Saturday, June 16, the Ames Area Amateur Astronomers will be holding part two of theirRobots in Space show at the Story County Conservation Center in McFarland Park.

The outreachcoordinator forAmateur Astronomers,Evan Zerby, who is also one of two speakers at the lecture, explained whatpart one entailed, as well as a few major points in Saturdays lecture.

What we covered last year was Sputnik [up to] current times," Zerby said. "What this months lecture is about iscurrent space missions, the replacement of the Hubble Space Telescope, and Robonaut, the firsthumanoid robot.

In addition to the future missions being discussed, the failures of spacecraft will be examined.

All in all weve had hundreds of missions fail, Zerby said. Twelve of the missions to Mars havefailed.

One example of the many Mars failures is the Mars Climate Orbiter. The satellite wasdisintegrated in the atmosphere after it made calculations sending it too close to Mars surface.

The problems were caused by simple human error: The Orbiter was set to work with the metricsystem, while human operators on Earth were imputing data in imperial measurements.

Another topic of focus is the New Frontier missions, specifically the New Horizons mission,which is sending a spacecraft to Pluto. Although it was launched in 2006, it still has three moreyears to travel before flying by the dwarf planet.

It wasnt till very recently that we learned that Pluto has four moons, and possibly even a ring,Zerby said, explaining that Pluto still has many unknowns for this mission to discover.

The Hubble Telescopes predecessor, the James Webb Space Telescope, will be explained to theaudience.

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Professor's academic freedom was violated, UC Davis faculty leaders say

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UC Davis faculty leaders have declared that medical school administrators there violated the academic freedom of a professor who published a 2010 opinion article criticizing a campus event promoting prostate cancer screening.

In a unanimous vote, the faculty Senate's Representative Assembly admonished administrators for threatening cuts in title and funding and possible legal action against medical professor Michael Wilkes after his piece appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. The faculty governing panel last week also called for medical school leaders to apologize and "take concrete steps to prevent future violations of rights of academic freedom."

Although disciplinary action was not carried out against Wilkes, raising that possibility violated his rights, according to microbiologist Linda Bisson, who chairs the UC Davis faculty Senate. "It's not a gray area or even a little cloudy. This is a textbook example of what is protected in academic freedom," Bisson said Wednesday.

The next step is up to campus Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter, who in consultation with Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi is expected to decide by fall whether to impose any discipline on the medical school executives, campus officials said.

In their co-written newspaper article, Wilkes and USC emergency medicine professor Jerome Hoffman wrote about research showing that PSA blood tests for prostate cancer may lead to unnecessary treatments that cause negative side effects. They suggested that a UC Davis public seminar that promoted such screening "just might have to do with money" and that doctors involved could have a conflict of interest.

In an email soon after, the medical school's executive associate dean stated that Wilkes might be removed from his post as director of global health and from some training responsibilities, according to a recent report by a faculty committee. Then, a campus health center attorney wrote to Wilkes about what he alleged were factual mistakes in the article that hurt UC's reputation and were "potentially actionable under the law of defamation."

In an telephone interview Wednesday, Wilkes said he regretted some of the "edgier" language in his article and wished the matter could have been resolved long before it came to a formal investigation.

"All I want is an apology and a road map to show that, if this happens against other faculty, there are ways to deal with this that do not involve intimidation. And that they rely on the foundation of academics, which is debate and discussion," said Wilkes, a prostate cancer expert who moved from UCLA to UC Davis eight years ago.

Administrators contended that discussions about Wilkes' job titles were not related to the article and resulted from previous performance reviews. The campus attorney said the letter about defamation was not meant as a threat but just "a statement of fact," the faculty report said.

Two medical school leaders involved said in an email Wednesday that it would be inappropriate to comment in detail on the issue, which was previously reported by the online publication Inside Higher Ed.

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Stemtech: Stem cell nutrition could eclipse antioxidant supplement market

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The emerging field of stem cell nutrition has the potential to eclipse the massive antioxidant supplement business according to the boss of the Californian firm responsible for creating a completely new category in nutritional supplements.

Ray Carter Jr, CEO of Stemtech International, was speaking to NutraIngredients-USA after signing a multi-million dollar deal with Australian biotech firm Marinova to include its proprietary Fucoidan ingredients in Stemtechs new SE2 supplement.

The next generation of Stemtechs best-selling StemEnhance supplement, SE2 also includes a concentrate of blue-green algae Aphanizomenon flos-aquae (AFA), the herb Polygonum multiflorum and the fungus Cordyceps sinensis.

Adult stem cells, tissue maintenance and repair

SE2 helps increase the number of adult stem cells or master cells that are released into the bloodstream before migrating into tissues where they reproduce and become new healthy cells, effectively helping the body renew and repair itself, claimed Carter.

Stemtech products have already generated more than $200m in sales since 2005, he added: Stem cell nutrition addresses a brand new way to support health [and]has the potential to eclipse the massive antioxidant supplement business.

When consumers first heard the words stem cell, they were inundated with media reports about the controversy and promise of embryonic stem cell (ESC) research.

Fast forward to today, and they are beginning to learn that adult stem cells actually show much more clinical promise without the ethical and moral controversy surrounding ESCs.

The bodys natural renewal system

Adult stem cellshave been shown to be the bodys natural renewal system, he claimed.

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Emma Stone – Emma Stone Plans To Study Biology

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Emma Stone's onscreen romance with Spider-man has inspired the actress to study biology.

The Help star, who plays Peter Parker's first love Gwen Stacy in the film, visited a laboratory for the first time on the set and was left fascinated by the work of real scientists - and now wants to become one.

But first she has to exchange film scripts for biology books.

She tells WENN, "It was the first (time) I'd ever been angry about not going to college because I was fascinated by what they were showing us (at the laboratory). I thought, 'What do I need to do to intern?' You need to be a college graduate!

"It sucks because I can learn, I swear... I got so interested in biology, learning about medicine and regeneration and stem cells. It expanded my mind in so many ways, so now I'm gonna go take a biology class. What's amazing is you can do it at home."

And Stone has a couple of great minds on tap if her studies get too tough: "My aunt and uncle were scientists that worked for Merck and they had a hand in creating the cervical cancer vaccine and Gardasil, so they are incredibly intelligent and fantastic minds. I'd always been fascinated by what they did."

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Emma Stone plans to study biology

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The Help star, who plays Peter Parker's first love Gwen Stacy in the film, visited a laboratory for the first time on the set and was left fascinated by the work of real scientists - and now wants to become one.

But first she has to exchange film scripts for biology books.

She tells WENN, "It was the first (time) I'd ever been angry about not going to college because I was fascinated by what they were showing us (at the laboratory). I thought, 'What do I need to do to intern?' You need to be a college graduate!

"It sucks because I can learn, I swear... I got so interested in biology, learning about medicine and regeneration and stem cells. It expanded my mind in so many ways, so now I'm gonna go take a biology class. What's amazing is you can do it at home."

And Stone has a couple of great minds on tap if her studies get too tough: "My aunt and uncle were scientists that worked for Merck and they had a hand in creating the cervical cancer vaccine and Gardasil, so they are incredibly intelligent and fantastic minds. I'd always been fascinated by what they did."

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MU biochemistry assistant professor Peter Cornish named Pew Scholar

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Friday, June 15, 2012 | 7:45 p.m. CDT

COLUMBIA Peter Cornish has always been interested in discovery and figuring out how things function.

These interests have led him to national recognition.

Cornish, a biochemistry assistant professor at MU, is one of the22individuals in the nation to be named a 2012 Pew Scholar in the biomedical sciences.He is the first MU faculty member to receive the honor while working at the university.

It is a big deal for me and a big deal for the university, Cornish said. It not only provides money for research but also notoriety.

Pew Scholars are considered to be among the most innovative young researchers. According to the Pew Charitable Trusts website, the community includes Nobel Prize winners, MacArthur Fellows and Albert Lasker BasicMedical Research Award recipients.

Since 1985, the program has invited top research institutions to nominate one candidate each year. It received 134 eligible nominations from a pool of 179 institutions this year.

Winners receive $240,000over four years to help them pursue their research without major restrictions.The program looks to back scientists early in their careers so they can take calculated risks to help advance the human health field.

Even though Cornish only started at MU in the spring of 2010, his talent, past work and future potential made him a great fit to be MUs Pew Scholar nominee, said Gerald Hazelbauer, chairman of the Biochemistry Department.

Cornish is working with technologycalled Frster resonance energy transfer (FRET), which is relatively new and developing quite rapidly, Hazelbauer said. Single-molecule FRET gives scientists the ability to look at molecules on an individual basis.

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Clemson dean named president at Presbyterian College

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Published: Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 3:15 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, June 15, 2012 at 10:18 p.m.

A Clemson University dean was announced as the next president of Presbyterian College Friday.

The colleges board of trustees elected Claude C. Lilly, Clemsons dean of the College of Business and Behavioral Science, to serve as Presbyterian Colleges 17th president. He will succeed John Griffith, Presbyterian Colleges president since 1998.

I am honored by the opportunity to serve as the new president of Presbyterian College and look forward to building on the outstanding foundation laid by faculty members, trustees, staff, students and alumni under the leadership of President Griffith, Lilly stated in a news release posted to the PC website Friday morning. My wife, Fran, and I are eager to become a part of the Clinton community and a PC environment that inspires learning.

Lilys career spans higher education and private industry and includes 39 years of administrative and teaching experience at Texas Tech University, the University of Southern California, Florida State University and the Belk College of Business Administration at the University of North Carolina. The Georgia native has served in his current capacity with Clemson since 2007, during which he played a critical role in relocating the MBA, the MBA in Entrepreneurship, the MACC and the MS programs to downtown Greenville.

Dr. Lilly has an impressive record of leadership in both the academic and private sectors and truly embodies the PC motto of Dum Vivimus Servimus While We Live, We Serve, said William B. Shearer, Jr., chairman of the Presbyterian College Board of Trustees. With a compelling vision for academic program development and community and financial growth, he will be a dynamic, creative, and decisive leader committed to a strong future for Presbyterian College.

The Lillys have four children and seven grandchildren.

Lilly will assume his new role on July 15.

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