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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Writing Updates | Housewife Class

For one thing, I want to apologize for all the random ?Something happened in Emily World!? notifications on the app.? For some reason it has stopped giving notifications if it is a picture-only post, and started giving notifications even if I have scheduled something for a future posting.? For example, blogs on the book of Jeremiah will start posting in January, but as I have finished them and scheduled them for posting, notifications are popping up even though nothing really has happened in Emily World.

Except a lot has happened in Emily World!

For one, an update to the app.? Check for that in case it makes a difference as we try to get it fixed.? And speaking of the app, check out the new fancy-schmancy badge they gave me on the top of my blog!? So fun!? When you click on it, it takes you straight to this app in the app store.? I love it!

But we are also still working on some things.? If you go to this website on a tablet or iPad, the layout is fixed again but still has the strange blue background at the top with the tiny icon.? Weird.? Allegedly, they are working on that.? Still.? A year later.?? So technical difficulties are part of the learning process, even if not one of the more romantic aspects.

Mostly I like to write, for writing?s sake.

And I am writing lots, even if my blog has been mostly pictures lately.

A whole lot of fun things are about to be published, and as they come out I will post links so you can see!? Hopefully some of it will be helpful to someone.? As part of my writing for Deseret Digital (which includes Deseret News, a Utah newspaper, and Mormon Times, a faith-based newspaper ? both of them online and in print), I have recently been contributing to a new website called ?FamilyHow?.? This website is great because it is not long-winded and nerdy Emily-ness, but quick and short answers in practical and direct ways.? I think you will love it!?? Any of these things that are published I will get to share links to on the blog, so you can pick and choose if any sound interesting or fun to check out ? whether to see my writing, or maybe to learn something.

There is more exciting news to share later, and thank you for your patience with technical difficulties and encouragement to write, write, write!

Things about Emily: "I'm a Mormon." I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I love my family. I love my friends. I got bilateral cochlear implants in 2010. I will always love sign language. I choose books over television, and organics over processed. Nothing is as close to flying as ballroom dancing - except maybe running, when in the solo mood. I would rather be outside than anywhere else, especially at the river riding my bike or kayaking. I enjoy taking pictures. I have two ugly puppies. I have my PhD, but that is mostly nerdy-boring... except that I love my job! Resting days are lost in gardens and books. The best thing about Emily World is that it's always an adventure, even if (not so) grammatically precise. The only thing better than writing is being married to a writer. Nathan Christensen and I were married in the Oklahoma City temple on 13 October 2012. Nathan writes musical theater, including "Broadcast" (a musical history of the radio) and an adaption of Lois Lowry's "The Giver". He served his mission in South Korea, has taught song-writing in New York City public schools, and worked as a theater critic for a Tucson newspaper. His hip and cool day job includes writing copy for UncommonGoods.com. This is not an official Web site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Friday, December 7, 2012

Man in the Middle (talking-points-memo)

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Final campaign reports: 2012 election nears record

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Final campaign finance tallies trickled out Thursday for a presidential race expected to be the most expensive in modern U.S. political history, showing last-minute contributions worth $33 million to political action committees backing Republican candidate Mitt Romney from a billionaire Las Vegas casino magnate and his wife who've been the election's biggest money couple.

The late-campaign donations from Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam ? $23 million to the Karl Rove-backed American Crossroads and $10 million to the Restore Our Future "super" PAC ? raised the couple's total contributions for the 2012 election cycle to about $95 million, all for Republicans.

The new campaign finance filings to the Federal Election Commission were among records covering the final few weeks of the race, when campaign organizations for Romney and President Barack Obama, along with a slew of super PACs, raised and spent millions toward an expected $2 billion campaign.

By late October, both campaigns already neared $1 billion in expenditures, and super PACs supporting Obama and Romney had spent more than $500 million in media ads. Politically oriented nonprofit "social welfare" organizations that do not have to declare their finances or identify their fundraisers have spent hundreds of millions more on so-called issue ads.

Adelson, who owns casinos in Las Vegas, Singapore and the Chinese territory of Macau, has been the top donor in the 2012 race. He has provided more than $54 million supporting Romney and other GOP presidential candidates and an additional $18 million for other Republicans.

The latest $33 million in donations from the Adelsons are detailed in campaign reports due to the FEC by midnight Thursday.

Adelson vowed early on in the presidential race that his political donations would top $100 million by the November election. His postelection super PAC total does not match that figure, but the casino magnate also hinted he would also give millions more to GOP-leaning nonprofits that do not have to report their war chests to the FEC but instead provide confidential figures to the Internal Revenue Service.

Along with his dominant presence in the presidential race, Adelson also poured money into super PACs backing several GOP Senate candidates in the final weeks of the election. More than $1.5 million in Adelson money went to a super PAC backing GOP candidate George Allen in Virginia, $1 million to a committee aiding Michigan candidate Peter Hoekstra and $500,000 to a super PAC supporting Sen. Scott Brown. All were defeated.

Other top last-minute donors to the pro-Romney Restore committee included Larry Ellison, head of software giant Oracle Corp., who gave $3 million, and Houston Texans owner Robert McNair, who gave $1 million. The Renco Group, a New York company headed by investor Ira Rennert, also gave $1 million.

Adelson recently told The Wall Street Journal that he would double his $100 investment in GOP causes by the next election and he has the financial muscle to do it. His massive campaign donations are backed by his lucrative casino holdings in the U.S. and Macau. The most recent November quarterly statement of his Las Vegas Sands Corp. estimated that Adelson's casino revenues surged $1.11 billion in the first nine months of 2012 compared with the same period in 2011.

In late November, Adelson's company announced a special dividend of $2.75 a share in anticipation of the threatened "fiscal cliff" rise in federal tax rates. The dividend move netted Adelson ? who owns more than half of Sands' 820 million shares ? an estimated personal gain of as much as $1.2 billion, according to financial analysts.

Adelson's role as the premiere fundraiser in American politics could be complicated by his casino company's continuing struggles with the federal government over tax revenues and Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission investigations focusing on possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which targets money-laundering and international bribery.

Sands' recent quarterly statement acknowledged the federal probes as well as negotiations with the IRS over "unrecognized tax benefits" highlighted by a tax audit of the company's Macao and Singapore casino earnings between 2005 and 2009.

Sands cited a "possible settlement of matters presently under consideration at appeals in connection with the IRS audit."

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/final-campaign-reports-2012-election-nears-record-231024887--election.html

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White House prepping Plan B is debt talks fail

White House press secretary Jay Carney (Charles Dharapak/AP)President Barack Obama's budget office is preparing for the possibility that "fiscal cliff" talks will fail, triggering painful automatic cuts to domestic and defense programs that he and his Republican foes officially want to avoid. White House spokesman Jay Carney described the planning as an abundance of caution, not pessimism about the seemingly stalled negotiations.

The White House's Office of Management and Budget this week "issued a request to federal agencies" for information needed to finalize calculations on the spending cuts required under what is technically known as "sequestration," Carney told reporters at his daily briefing. OMB is "acting responsibly," he added.

"The administration remains focused on reaching agreement, as we've been discussing, on a balanced deficit-reduction plan that avoids sequestration" he said. "This action should not be read?as a change in the administration's commitment to reach an agreement and avoid sequestration."Leaders of both parties have pledged to work together in the coming weeks and we are confident, as I just said, that we can reach an agreement. However, with less than one month left before a potential sequestration order would have to be issued, the Office of Management and Budget must take certain steps to ensure the administration is ready to issue such an order should Congress fail to act."

Carney's comments came as talks on the fiscal cliff?a series of tax hikes and government spending cuts that could plunge the economy into a new recession?seemed to be making no headway. Obama and Congressional Republicans have each put a proposal on the table but do not appear to be actively involved in negotiating a compromise.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/white-house-preparing-fiscal-cliff-talks-failure-195931158--election.html

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

The birth of new cardiac cells: Where new heart cells come from

ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2012) ? Recent research has shown that there are new cells that develop in the heart, but how these cardiac cells are born and how frequently they are generated remains unclear. In new research from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), researchers use a novel method to identify these new heart cells and describe their origins.

This research is published in Nature on December 5, 2012.

A sophisticated imaging system (MIMS) demonstrates cell division in the adult mammalian heart.

"The question about how often cardiac cells are born has been extremely difficult to answer because there was a need for new techniques to help us understand this process. We are especially excited about our findings because of the novel way in which were able to show new heart cells, using Multi-isotope Imaging Mass Spectrometry (MIMS). Our collaborator, Claude Lechene, MD, had developed this technology, and as a team we harnessed this for the cardiac regeneration question." said Richard T. Lee, MD, a physician and researcher in the Cardiovascular Division at BWH and senior author of the paper. "These data present one piece of the puzzle when it comes to the discussion around the generation of new cardiac cells."

The team of BWH researchers marked existing cardiac cells genetically to cause them to express a green fluorescent protein. Then they used Multi-isotope Imaging Mass Spectrometry (MIMS) to examine the development of new heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, in a pre clinical model over a period of months. Researchers were surprised to find that new heart muscle cells primarily arose from existing heart muscle cells, rather than stem cells. Even in the setting of a heart attack, when stem cells are thought to be activated, most new heart cells were born from pre-existing heart cells.

"Our data show that adult cardiomyocytes are primarily responsible for the generation of new cardiomyocytes and that as we age, we lose some capacity to form new heart cells," said Dr. Lee. "This means that we are losing our potential to rebuild the heart in the latter half of life, just when most heart disease hits us. If we can unravel why this occurs, we may be able to unleash some heart regeneration potential."

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Samuel E. Senyo, Matthew L. Steinhauser, Christie L. Pizzimenti, Vicky K. Yang, Lei Cai, Mei Wang, Ting-Di Wu, Jean-Luc Guerquin-Kern, Claude P. Lechene, Richard T. Lee. Mammalian heart renewal by pre-existing cardiomyocytes. Nature, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/nature11682

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