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Perry encourages supporters to stick with him

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry shakes hands after a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

(AP) ? Facing a likely defeat in Tuesday's caucuses, Rick Perry encouraged supporters to keep the faith as his advisers cast the coming contest in South Carolina as the first real test of his presidential campaign.

Perry visited with volunteers early in the day in hopes of buoying their enthusiasm in the face of public and private polling that indicated he would be sorely disappointed when the results are announced Tuesday night.

The Texas governor and former Air Force pilot compared caucus day to a military campaign.

"This is Concord. This is Omaha Beach," he said. "This is going up the hill, realizing that the battle is worthy. This is about sacrifice. Every man and woman has sacrificed your time, your treasure, your reputation.

"But you're doing it out of love for this country," he continued. "That is what gets us up every day, gives us the courage, the fortitude, the focus to go do what we have done for the last almost six months."

Perry entered the race in August to great fanfare but, faced with a compressed timeline and saddled with weak performances in televised debates, proved unable to sustain the sizzle.

On Tuesday, he urged supporters to stick with him and pointed to his 16-year courtship of his wife, Anita. At the same time, his advisers began casting the Iowa contest as a practice run for states to come, specifically the South's first primary, in South Carolina on Jan. 21.

"She was a hard sell, folks. If it's 16 years to talk her into marrying me, then however (many) months we need to do to talk Americans into our vision, that's what we're going to do," Perry said, suggesting an early exit from the campaign was unlikely.

At a town hall-style meeting with an insurance company's employees, he again signaled that he understood his challenges and called the caucuses "the first day of this process."

"I don't get confused that this is a marathon," he said. "It is going to go on for some time."

Unlike a day before, he did not predict a victory.

The final Des Moines Register poll, released Saturday, showed Perry at 11 percent and trailing four rivals with Mitt Romney and Ron Paul in a dead heat.

The Texas governor made a last-minute push Tuesday to avoid an embarrassing finish. He met with volunteers and then with potential caucus-goers at separate town hall events.

At the first, he said he would push for amendments to the Constitution that would ban deficit spending, would relegate Congress to a part-time role and do away with lifetime appointments of federal judges. After a sometimes rambling 25-minute speech, no one in the audience rushed to ask him questions.

To fill the gap, Perry awkwardly hummed the theme song from the game show "Jeopardy!"

Perry's team planned events in South Carolina for Wednesday and hoped a jumbled pecking order would emerge from Iowa's caucuses.

"We didn't come into this race lightly. We came into it with both feet on the ground," Anita Perry told supporters in a morning pep talk that reflected the dour mood. "You know what we've learned through this? Loyalty and friends. That's what gets you through it."

Associated Press

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New Year's tax policy resolutions: work together, stick to goals

This year, tax policy makers need to work together to achieve revenue goals, and never lose sight of the long-term.

In my column in this week?s Tax Notes?in which Grover Norquist has been named 2011 ?tax person of the year,? by the way (more on that later)?I list a few new year?s resolutions for tax policy (emphasis and brief descriptions added):

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[Here are] some New Year?s resolutions for those who make, study, and care about U.S. tax policy: (1) don?t view tax policy in a vacuum [recognize the interaction of tax policy with the rest of the federal budget and government's role in general]; (2) plan ahead for expiring provisions [look ahead to what's coming due in the next year, and start the policy debates and analysis now rather than in the 11th hour]; (3) accurately analyze short-term versus longer-term economic effects [how are the considered policies helpful or harmful to the economic goals of highest priority?]; (4) set revenue targets and stick to them [use the budget process and budget committees to bring tax policy into the deficit reduction effort]; (5) treat tax expenditures more like expenditures [recognize they're more like spending-side subsidies than simple tax cuts, and scrutinize them to evaluate whether their benefits are worth their costs]; (6) don?t be hypocritical about fiscal responsibility [don't fuss over the small-change items while giving a huge pass to the big-ticket ones]; (7) don?t be so afraid to agree with the other side [there's huge bipartisan common ground on goals for tax and fiscal reform if policymakers would only stop picking fights]; and (8) get specific about good tax policy [study, analyze, and better promote the specific tax policies that experts recognize as economically smart so that policymakers are forced to notice and respond].

Note that this list is more broadly applicable to fiscal policy?tax and spending?more generally, but I was writing for Tax Notes, of course.

The biggest item on this year?s expiring tax provisions list is of course (and yet again) the Bush tax cuts?or as I sometimes refer to them, the Bush/Obama tax cuts.? Who knows, if policymakers keep doing the same old thing with them, by next year they could become the ?Bush/Obama/Romney [or Santorum or Gingrich or Paul]? tax cuts!

My Tax Notes column reprinted the CBO table above, just to highlight the point that these expiring tax cuts?just the ones set to expire by the end of this year?are worth $4 to $5 trillion over the next ten years, without interest costs.? (Remember the ?go big? goal?)

Happy New Year to my EconomistMom readers!? More from me later this week.

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CD90 is identified as a marker for cancer stem cells in primary high-grade gliomas using tissue microarrays.

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Although CD90 has been identified as a marker for various kinds of stem cells including liver cancer stem cells (CSCs) that are responsible for tumorigenesis, the potential role of CD90 as a marker for CSCs in gliomas has not been characterized. To address the issue, we investigated the expression of CD90 in tissue microarrays containing 15 glioblastoma multiformes (GBMs), 19 WHO grade III astrocytomas, 13 WHO grade II astrocytomas, 3 WHO grade I astrocytomas and 8 normal brain tissues. Immunohistochemical analysis showed that CD90 was expressed at a medium to high level in all tested high-grade gliomas (grade III and GBMs) while it was barely detectable in low-grade gliomas (grade I and grade II) and normal brains. Double immunofluorescence staining for CD90 and CD133 in GBM tissues revealed that CD133+ CSCs are a subpopulation of CD90+ cells in GBMs in vivo. Flow cytometry analysis of the expression of CD90 and CD133 in GBM-derived stem-like neurospheres further confirmed the conclusion in vitro. The expression levels of both CD90 and CD133 were reduced along with the loss of stem cells after differentiation. Furthermore, the limiting dilution assay demonstrated that the sphere formation ability was comparable between the CD90+/CD133+ and the CD90+/CD133- populations of GBM neurospheres, which is much higher than that of the CD90-/CD133- population. We also performed double staining for CD90 and a vascular endothelial cell marker CD31 in tissue microarrays which revealed that the CD90+ cells were clustered around the tumor vasculatures in high-grade glioma tissues. These findings suggest that CD90 is not only a potential prognostic marker for high-grade gliomas but also a marker for CSCs within gliomas, and it resides within endothelial niche and may also play a critical role in the generation of tumor vasculatures via differentiation into endothelial cells.

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    Martin Reish Crosses US Border From Canada With iPad Instead Of Passport

    Just arrived at the border without your passport? If you have an iPad handy you may just be in luck.

    According to reports a Canadian man recently managed to cross the border into the United States with an iPad instead of his passport.

    Martin Reisch from Quebec told the Canadian Press news agency that he arrived at US Customs to cross into Vermont without his official documents. Instead of turning around he decided to present a scanned image of his passport and "give it a shot".

    ?He kind of gave me a stare, like neither impressed nor amused,? he told the Canadian Press.

    But after he presented the device (and a driving licence), and a long, nervous wait, he was allowed to pass.

    "Happy holidays", the border guard reportedly said to him as Reisch breezed by.

    ?He was very nice about it,? Reisch said. ?I think a good part of it had to do with the fact that it was the holidays and I seem like a nice-enough person.?

    Until recently a Canadian citizen only needed a driver's licence to cross into the US. The American authorities now require a passport, enhanced driver's licence or 'Nexus pass' on land crossings, but don't specify whether scans and photocopies count.

    Experts say that Reisch's experience shows that in practice the law is still fairly flexible.

    In the UK, however, iPads can only be used to carry boarding passes and e-Tickets and we don't recommend trying to get past customs with one. Not unless you want to travel back home again immediately.

    Just to check we made a quick call to the UK Borders Agency to ask what would happen if you turned up at the border with an iPad:

    "You'd be turned away," they said.

    Fair enough.

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    Marguerite Oliver, Ann Arbor community leader and owner of Pastabilities, dies at 82

    When Marguerite Bertoni Oliver played Hearts, one of her favorite pastimes, she always ?shot the moon,? said her son, Scott Oliver.

    ?Her ?shooting the moon? was very reflective of how she lived life,? he said. ?She really wanted you to go for it. And she always did.

    ?Even though she lived her whole life in Ann Arbor, she didn?t feel the bounds of it. She always believed you could do whatever you desired.?

    Marguerite Oliver, 82, an influential leader within the Ann Arbor community, died Monday in Massachusetts from old age and dementia. She moved to Massachusetts in 2010, following the death of her husband, William.

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    But during her 82 years, Marguerite Oliver accomplished a great many of her desires, most of which encompassed the desire to improve life for others.

    She was an advocate for farmers' rights and served on the board for the Ann Arbor Farmers Market. She fought for the preservation of the old fire station on Huron Street and was instrumental in the development of the Hands-on Museum.

    Catherine Arcure, a former food writer for The Ann Arbor News who worked with Marguerite, said she ?can?t imagine Ann Arbor without Marguerite.?

    ?She was such a bubbly, overly effusive person. But never artificial,? Arcure said. ?She cared about people in a genuine way. She would knock over walls to make sure people were taken care of. ? And she did things for every group.?

    Marguerite Oliver also was critical to the startup of the Washtenaw Community College Foundation as well as the University of Michigan Meals on Wheels program.

    She was one of the first WCC Foundation board members and served for six years, said Wendy Lawson, associate vice president of advancement for the foundation. Oliver received the Women?s Council?s ?Unsung Hero? Award in 2005.

    Lawson said Marguerite was a ?warm, wonderful and fascinating woman.?

    ?She was very huggy and generous and had such an amazing presence,? Lawson said. ?(Marguerite) really had been a leader in the business community and was a pioneer for women. She also was a great mentor to me.?

    As the daughter of Italian immigrants, cooking and preparing food was always important to Oliver.

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    Together, Marguerite, right, and William Oliver were community leaders, advocating for people and growth in Ann Arbor. William died in 2010. Marguerite died Jan. 2, 2011. A funeral service for her will be Saturday in Ann Arbor.

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    ?She?d host seven-course dinners for people being recruited by the University (of Michigan),? said daughter Susan Oliver.

    Marguerite Oliver's late husband was chairman of the pediatric department at the C.S. Mott Children?s Hospital. Together, the couple financially supported, volunteered and raised money for the hospital.

    ?I talked to people who said Marguerite Oliver was the reason they decided to come to Ann Arbor,? Arcure said. ?She was such a wonderful hostess and did such a great job working with the wives that everyone, by the time she was done with them, loved Ann Arbor.?

    At 50 years old, the spunky Italian launched her first professional culinary venture: Pastabilities in Kerrytown, next to the Farmers Market.

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    The former Pastabilities logo depicts a sketch of founder Marguerite Bertoni Oliver's face.

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    The success of the fresh pasta company grew, and Marguerite was invited to represent Michigan at a business conference in Moscow in 1991, Scott Oliver said.

    Also in the 1990s, Pastabilities garnered the attention of CNN and earned the title of ?Best Pasta in America,? Scott said. Marguerite sold the business after about 20 years, he added.

    Marguerite Oliver was also an accomplished painter and gave lessons to senior citizens.

    Susan Olivers said she?ll always remember her mother?s sense of humor.

    ?She was so much fun,? Susan said. ?Just the way she told jokes and could make you laugh ? she was like Lucile Ball.

    ?Mom did everything with a smile ? and her big, generous heart shined through that smile.?

    A funeral service for Marguerite will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Ann Arbor. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at the Muehlig Funeral Chapel, 403 S. Fourth Ave.

    Marguerite leaves her three children, Scott of Duxbury, Mass., Susan of Ft. Pierce, Fla., and Catherine Oliver-Allen of Alamo, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

    Staff reporter Danielle Arndt covers K-12 education for AnnArbor.com. Follow her on Twitter @DanielleArndt or email her at daniellearndt@annarbor.com.

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    Users desert Windows XP in near-record numbers

    Microsoft's Windows XP shed a large amount of usage share again last month as users continued to desert the decade-old operating system for Windows 7.

    Windows XP lost 2.4 percentage points of share to post a December average of 46.5%, a new low for the aged OS in the tracking of Web metrics firm Net Applications. The month's fall nearly matched the record 2.5-point drop of October.

    In the four months from September to December, XP jettisoned more than 11% of its share as of Sept. 1, falling by nearly six percentage points during the period.

    The four months prior to that -- May through August -- XP lost only 3.4 points, or about 8.5% of the share it owned as of May 1.

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    Microsoft's Windows XP shed a large amount of usage share again last month as users continued to desert the decade-old operating system for Windows 7.

    Windows XP lost 2.4 percentage points of share to post a December average of 46.5%, a new low for the aged OS in the tracking of Web metrics firm Net Applications. The month's fall nearly matched the record 2.5-point drop of October.

    In the four months from September to December, XP jettisoned more than 11% of its share as of Sept. 1, falling by nearly six percentage points during the period.

    The four months prior to that -- May through August -- XP lost only 3.4 points, or about 8.5% of the share it owned as of May 1.

    Windows 7 has been the beneficiary of XP's decline, gaining 2.4 percentage points last month to reach 37%. In the same four months that XP lost 5.9 points, Windows 7 grew by 6.4 points, taking up the slack from not only Microsoft's oldest supported OS, but also the hapless Windows Vista.

    If the usual trend repeats, Windows XP will lose an even larger chunk of usage share this month: In both 2009 and 2010, XP's share fell 40%-48% more in January than it did the previous month, most likely because of year-end purchases of new PCs equipped with Windows 7. With that in mind, XP's share could plummet by as much as 3.5 points this month.

    The acceleration of XP's decline shows that users have gotten Microsoft's message that the operating system should be retired.

    In July, Microsoft told customers it was "time to move on" from XP, reminding everyone that the OS would exit all support in April 2014. Before that, the Internet Explorer (IE) team had dismissed XP as the "lowest common denominator" when they explained why it wouldn't run IE9.

    Two months ago, as Microsoft quietly celebrated the 10th anniversary of XP's retail launch, the company touted the motto "Standing still is falling behind" to promote Windows 7 and demote XP.

    XP's hastened waning -- of the 12.4 percentage points it lost in the last 12 months, almost half came in the last four -- changes the date when the old OS will likely lose its primary spot in the Microsoft ecosystem.

    Projections based on Net Applications' data now indicate that Windows 7 will become the most widely used version in April, several months earlier than previous estimates.

    By the time Windows 8 debuts -- October seems the most probable on-sale date -- Windows 7 will have captured between 50% and 52% of the operating system usage market.

    Windows 8's share also grew very slightly last month to 0.05%, or five PCs out of every 10,000, from 0.03% in November. That OS has yet to enter beta -- Microsoft has set the release for late February -- but a developer's preview has been available for three and a half months.

    Net Applications calculates operating system usage share with data obtained from more than 160 million unique visitors who browse 40,000 Web sites that the company monitors for clients. More operating system stats can be found on the company's site.

    Gregg Keizer covers Microsoft, security issues, Apple, Web browsers and general technology breaking news for Computerworld. Follow Gregg on Twitter at @gkeizer , on Google+ or subscribe to Gregg's RSS feed . His e-mail address is gkeizer@computerworld.com .

    See more articles by Gregg Keizer .

    Read more about windows in Computerworld's Windows Topic Center.

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    Guest column: LNG exports threaten energy security

    On the same day opponents of the controversial Keystone pipeline were celebrating the Obama administration?s decision to put the project on hold, BC Premier Christy Clark was on CBC radio warbling about the bright future for Kitimat thanks to liquid natural gas (LNG) exports.

    What the premier failed to include in her eulogizing was her definition of the word ?future?.

    According to research by David Hughes, one of Canada?s top energy experts, that rosy future will end in 2030.

    If a proposed Shell LNG export facility is also built, the future will end in 2023.

    In an article in the current edition of Watershed Sentinel, Hughes reveals that just 12 years from now, if Christy Clark?s ambitions play out, Canadian gas demand will exceed supply and Canada will become increasingly dependent on expensive imports.

    Accept for argument?s sake that natural gas is the ?least worst? fossil fuel option during the transition to truly sustainable and renewable energy sources.

    And then ask yourself: why is Canada?s National Energy Board (NEB) so keen to rid Canada of its finite supply of natural gas?

    According to its website, the purpose of NEB ?is to regulate pipelines, energy development and trade in the Canadian public interest?. By granting Kitimat LNG a 20-year export permit for a total of 9.3 trillion feet of natural gas, the NEB is threatening Canada?s own energy security.

    As Hughes points out, ?The NEB approval represents a bonanza for three energy companies [two US, one Canadian] who will be able to sell most of their reserves at up to triple the current North American price.?

    The accelerated shortfall between Canadian gas production and demand ?will ultimately force Canadians to pay higher Asian prices for their own resources.?

    Public interest? Hardly.

    And what of the potentially devastating environmental consequences of the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) needed to extract gas from shale deposits? (As skepticism about this technology mounts, France has banned the practice outright.) Did this trouble the NEB in its Kitimat export decision? No.

    Like the Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal to export oil from Alberta?s tar sands on which it will soon rule, the NEB sees the source (and environmental consequences) of the gas to be exported from Kitimat as immaterial.

    (The Board?s view seems to be that once the oil or gas are in an approved pipeline, it doesn?t matter where they came from.)

    Public interest? Not so much.

    Assessing the potential environmental and socio-economic effects of gas development was, the NEB said, the job of BC?s Oil and Gas Commission.

    Would this be the same Oil and Gas Commission which is entirely funded by oil and gas industry money? The same Oil and Gas Commission whose last director left to take a senior job with Apache, one of the US partners in the Kitimat LNG terminal?

    Why, yes, it would be.

    Perhaps that?s why premier Clark thinks the future is so rosy for Kitimat.

    Perhaps she is unaware of the sustainable long term employment and economic benefits the government of BC could be reaping by investing in renewable energy technologies.

    (According to a recent analysis of Ontario?s Long-Term Energy Plan, the province?s commitment to increasing wind energy will directly and indirectly create 80,328 person years of employment and bring a total market value of $16.4 billion, more than half of which will remain in the province.)

    Not only do we have wind in BC (as the recent power failures reminded us), but, as premier Clark would notice if she looked west from Kitimat, we also have tides that come in and go out every single day of the year.

    Quite reliable really ? as Nova Scotia and Maine have already noticed.

    Or perhaps, given she will be out of office before Kitimat runs out of LNG to export in 19 years (or 12 years or less), the premier simply doesn?t care that fixating on short term corporate profits and political gains, rather than longer term planning, is, as Hughes points out, a recipe for disaster.

    His full critique of the NEB decision and its implications can be found at www.watershedsentinel.ca/content/canadian-gas-exports-threaten-energy-security.

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    Miranda Holmes is associate editor of the Watershed Sentinel.

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