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Sunday, December 30, 2012
Egypt's central bank: reserves at "critical" level
CAIRO (AP) ? The Central Bank of Egypt says the country's foreign currency reserves are at a "critical" minimum level.
The bank says reserves are at the minimum level needed to pay Egypt's international obligations. It did not give a current figure. In statistics from November, the reserves stood at $15 billion, less than half what they were before last year's uprising, even with help of deposits from Qatar.
The bank said in a statement Saturday that it has introduced a new auction system for buying and selling U.S. dollars after a rush by Egyptians to sell the pound in exchange for dollars over concerns of devaluation.
Reserves have tumbled since foreign investment dried up amid the country's turmoil the past two years. Much of the reserves have gone toward propping up the currency.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-central-bank-reserves-critical-level-164608124.html
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The Joys of Sharing!! | Sohodox | Document Management Software ...
Managing information overload is not just a big company problem. Small businesses are equally affected by it. However unlike larger businesses, small businesses cannot throw money and resources at the problem. They need to find solutions, which do not strain their resources.
The good news is that once a challenge is clearly identified, small businesses are usually good at finding quick, smart and affordable solutions. So to start the year here is a little post on why sharing information should be one of the most crucial information management challenges that small business should tackle in 2013 ?
Share Better
You as the small business owner control access to a majority of information in your business.? Though there is no way around this in the initial years, as your business grows this can start acting as a bottleneck.
As you add more employees to your business you expect them to perform various business functions as well as you did. But do they have access to same amount and quality of information as you do? Can they succeed without it? Definitely not!
Though there are valid reasons for withholding certain information (for e.g. some financial data or passwords etc.), the bulk of the small business information remains inaccessible simply because that is the way it has always been! Security and privacy may seem like the reasons behind this but that is not normally the case. Inertia and fear of the unknown are more likely to be the reasons for information to remain locked up.
Opening up access to such information to employees can sometimes have magical consequences. Different minds notice different patterns, learn different things and arrive at different conclusion. The value of getting so many points of view cannot be calculated.
May be you are paying too much for a service which an employee knows how to get for cheaper. May be employees will notice that they are spending too much time on a client and the business is not making enough in return.
What to Share
Rather than making a list of information/documents that you want to share, you could do the opposite. Make a list of information/documents that you would not be comfortable sharing. Hope this will not be a very large list! Now go ahead and share the rest.
How to Share
A system like SOHODOX makes it really simply to put everything in one place so it becomes easy to share. The next big task is to decide how you will organize everything. After all if something cannot be easily found then sharing it would not be very useful. So decide the kind of folder hierarchy you will use to organize your documents, use tags (labels) liberally to provide multiple ways to find the same document.? For example Invoices from January 2013 might go into the Invoices > Jan 2013 folder but you might want to additionally label each invoice as Unpaid or Paid.
If you come up with an intuitive system for finding documents, it will ensure that employees will use the same system while adding new documents. This will make your information repository more valuable with each passing day.
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Notice if your system is being used and keep tweaking things based on feedback from staff. You should notice a drop in the number of times you are contacted for information by your staff. You should see staff accessing information by themselves and making decisions faster. In short not only will your business be more efficient but you will find more time to focus on other aspects of your business.
What better New Year gift could you ask for your business! So go ahead, share and enjoy!
In the spirit of sharing we would love it, if you shared this blog post with your colleagues and friends!
Source: http://www.sohodox.com/the-joys-of-sharing
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Do You Pay Attention to Your Credit Score?
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Your credit score isn't everything, but it can greatly affect your financial future (getting a job, new home, and insurance). The NY Times is reporting that bad credit might even ruin your dating chances. So, we're curious, Lifehacker readers: How much do you care and pay attention to your score?
People who are looking to make a big financial decision or looking for a new job would do well to check and work on improving their credit scores, but for everyone else, how close an eye do you keep on your score and credit reports? If good credit is starting to increasingly matter in other areas of life, such as dating, does it matter more to you?
Sound out in the comments.
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Obama says immediate action needed on fiscal cliff
President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington after meeting with Congressional leaders regarding the fiscal cliff, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
President Barack Obama speaks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington after meeting with Congressional leaders regarding the fiscal cliff, Friday, Dec. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama says "the hour for immediate action is here" on a deal to avert the fiscal cliff.
The president says he remains "optimistic" that an agreement can be reached in Congress before a looming year-end deadline to avoid tax increases and spending cuts.
If Congress can't reach a deal, the president says Congress should allow a vote on a basic package that would preserve tax cuts for middle-class Americans while extending unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and working toward a foundation for a broader deal.
The president says an hourlong meeting Friday with congressional leaders was "good and constructive."
Senate leaders say they hope to reach a compromise that could be presented to lawmakers by Sunday, little more than 24 hours before the deadline.
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National titles: Who decides? Mostly, the schools
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) ? Quick, name the college football team that has won the most national championships. Alabama? Notre Dame? Princeton?
If you gave any of those answers, and maybe a few others, you might be right. Because over the years there have been a lot of organizations using different methods to determine who they think is national champion.
No wonder "mythical" is the word that often precedes national title.
"There is no official standard because there is no official national champion," said Kent Stephens, historian at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend. "It all depends on the standard the school wishes to utilize. The national champion is in the eye of the beholder."
This explains how Princeton can claim 28 national championships, starting with the first one in 1869. The Tigers went 1-1 that season against Rutgers in the only two games played in college football that year. They were retroactively crowned champion by several ranking organizations.
Among more traditional powerhouses, Alabama claims the most national championships with 14, followed by Notre Dame with 11, which is the same number Southern California and Michigan say they deserve.
The Fighting Irish and Crimson Tide are tied at eight for the number of times they have been declared national champions by The Associated Press since the wire service started its poll in 1936. One of the teams will be awarded its ninth AP title in the wee hours of Jan. 8, after the BCS title game.
The biggest difference between the number of overall national championships Alabama and Notre Dame claim is the way they add up their titles.
Notre Dame senior associate athletic director John Heisler said the school only counts seasons when it feels as if most of the rating services agreed the Fighting Irish were the champs.
"When there isn't any debate, that Notre Dame would be considered the consensus national champions," Heisler said.
Alabama associate athletic director Doug Walker said The Tide feels its claim is just as solid.
"We acknowledge that some question one of our claimed national championships, the title from 1941, but we do claim 14 football national championships," he said.
Here are some of the national championships involving Alabama and Notre Dame.
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1924 ? Notre Dame, led by the famed Four Horsemen, finished 10-0. There was no national champion declared at the time, but two years later University of Illinois economics professor Frank Dickinson devised a mathematical point system to determine a national champion, Stephens said. Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne persuaded Dickinson to retroactively determine a national champion for the 1925 (Dartmouth) and 1924 seasons. Others also were retroactively declared national champions.
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1930 ? Alabama, coached by Wallace Wade, posted a 10-0 record, shutting out eight of its opponents, including a 24-0 win over Washington State in the Rose Bowl. Alabama is named the national champion by College Football Researchers. Notre Dame, in its last season under Knute Rockne, also went 10-0, including wins over Army and Southern California in the final two games. The Fighting Irish were named national champion by multiple organizations. Parke Davis calls Alabama and Notre Dame co-champions.
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1941 ? Alabama posts a 9-2 record, finishes ranked No. 20 in the AP Poll but is ranked No. 1 by Houlgate. Minnesota (8-0) is ranked No. 1 by AP and several other groups. Notre Dame (8-0-1) finishes the season ranked No. 3.
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1964 ? Alabama (10-1), led by Joe Namath, is named No. 1 in both the AP and coaches poll at the end of the regular season. Notre Dame was ranked No. 1 for the last month of the season, but was upset in the season finale by Southern California 20-17 when Craig Fertig completed a 15-yard TD pass to Rod Sherman with 1:33 left. The Irish finish No. 3 while Alabama then loses 21-17 to Texas in the Orange Bowl when the officials rule Namath didn't make it into the end zone on a quarterback sneak.
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1966 ? Notre Dame (9-0-1) was ranked No. 1 by the AP and coaches at the end of the regular season, the only blemish on its record was a 10-10 tie against No. 2 Michigan State. Some criticized Irish coach Ara Parseghian for settling for a tie instead of going for the victory. Defending national champion Alabama (11-0) finished No. 3. Berryman named Alabama national champion, but the school does not count it.
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1973 ? Alabama (11-1) finishes the regular season undefeated and is declared the national champion in the coaches poll, where the Irish were ranked No. 4. Notre Dame (11-0) then beats Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide in the Sugar Bowl after Bob Thomas kicked the game-winning field goal with 4:26 remaining. The AP names Notre Dame national champion.
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1977 ? Notre Dame (11-1), after losing 20-13 to Mississippi in the second game of the season, wins the rest of its games, including a 38-10 rout of Texas in the Cotton Bowl, and is ranked No. 1 by in the AP and coaches poll. Alabama (11-1), after losing 31-24 to Nebraska in the second game, wins the rest of its games, including a 35-6 win over Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl. The Tide winds up No. 2.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/national-titles-decides-mostly-schools-092145025--spt.html
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Vegan Recipes for New Year's Eve | Plant-Powered Kitchen
Are you having a New Year?s Eve party or potluck and a little tired of traditional holiday fare? ?I thought I?d give you suggestions for 13 healthy, delicious, and less-traditional recipes?to make your ?2013-welcoming shindig utterly fabulous!
The countdown (in no particular order other than ending with a dessert!) begins?
13. Rawesome Nut Dip. Serve it a bowl with crackers (raw or otherwise), or tucked into mini bell peppers, endive leaves, or cherry tomatoes. Or, use it as a filling for rolls for finger food (ex: baked mini phyllo rolls).
12. Creamy Artichoke Dip. ?I know I?ve talked about this one a lot, but that?s only because it is freaking amazing, and readers are LOVING it!
Photo from review on 86 Lemons, link to read.
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11. Falafels?with Smoky Tahini Sauce. ?I served these for a holiday get-together last year, along with the Quinoa Nicoise (in LTEV), and the Lemon-Rosemary Potatoes and Creamy Hummus (both from Vive le Vegan!) ? HUGE hit!
10. Moroccan Phyllo Rolls with Balsamic Maple Sauce. Rather than make these entree size, follow the recipe instructions to adapt them for appetizer-sized rolls.
From ?eat, drink & be vegan?
9. Mini-Burgers. Take a favorite burger recipe, and make mini-patties, for sliders, or for dipping. Try Mediterranean Bean Burgers from LTEV, Nutty Veggie Burgers, or these?Mushroom Pecan Burgers.
8. Chickpea Salad Rolls. These are fresh and fast, and the salad mixture is a little like a mock tuna salad, but far lighter without vegan mayo. ?Roll in leafy greens like chard or romaine leaves (or collards, they are a little more assertive in flavor, so depends on your guests), or make into small sandwiches.
7. Moroccan Bean Stew. If you are having a cozy, homey New Year?s Eve and want a soup, this is one of my favorites. It is special and elegant enough to serve to guests, and is also delicious paired with breads with the Truffled Cashew Cheese from LTEV.
6. Vegveeta Dip. I need to say little other than ? YUMMY! 
?Mix in a few spoonfuls of salsa, and serve up with tortilla chips. Easy as that.
5. Cannellini Bean Sweet Potato Hummus. What?s a party without hummus? ?Skip the traditional puree and try this sweet and smoky version.
4. Kale Slaw. ?Even less adventurous foodie guests will enjoy this salad because the dressing coats the ingredients so scrumptiously! ?The 3-Bean salad pictured would also be a great potluck salad ? so simple you could throw it together last minute!
From ?Let Them Eat Vegan?
3. Jerk Chickpeas. ?Add some kick to your night! ?Double this recipe, have it potluck style with tortillas, rice, and avocado ? you?re set!
Jerk Chickpeas
2. Creamy Cashew Dip.?Most folks are little tired of sugar-laden cookies at this point in the holidays. Why not try Creamy Cashew Dip with fresh fruit.
1. Frosted Brawnies. ?While folks are tired of cookies, I don?t think you ever tire of the brawnies! ?Or the Banana Nut Squares with Cream Cheese Frosting (also pictured) ? I just made them for a get-together this evening!
These are all very ?omni-friendly? recipes too. ?I usually do not choose tofu or tempeh-based recipes when serving to guests, just to keep things more familiar. ?Here, you simply have really good food ? made with really good ingredients.
Wishing you a blessed and Plant-Powered New Year! ?And, of course much fun for your NYs Eve parties. ?
What favorite dishes are you making to ring in 2013??
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Samsung details Jelly Bean update with new features for original Galaxy Note
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A homeless woman was in critical condition in a Los Angeles hospital after a man doused her with liquid accelerant and set her on fire as she slept on a bus bench, police said on Thursday. Officers arrested Dennis Petillo, 24, in connection with the early morning attack, and he has been booked in jail on suspicion of attempted murder, police said. The woman, whose name has not been released, was being treated at a local hospital with burns all over her body, said Los Angeles police Lieutenant Damian Gutierrez. ...
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Little time left to head off longshoremen's strike
NEW YORK (AP) ? Shipments of products as varied as flat-screen TVs, sneakers and snow shovels could sit idle at sea or get rerouted, at great time and expense, if more than 14,000 longshoremen go on strike as threatened ? a wide-ranging work stoppage that would immediately close cargo ports on the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico to container ships.
Commerce could be brought to a near standstill at major ports from Boston to Houston if the strike takes place on Sunday, potentially delivering a big blow to retailers and manufacturers still struggling to find their footing in a weak economy.
"If the port shuts down, nothing moves in or out," said Jonathan Gold, vice president of supply chain and customs policy at the National Retail Federation. And when the workers do return, "it's going to take time to clear out that backlog, and we don't know how long that it's going to take."
The 15 ports involved in the labor dispute move more than 100 million tons of goods each year, or about 40 percent of the nation's containerized cargo traffic. Losing them to a shutdown, even for a few days, could cost the economy billions of dollars.
In addition to transporting goods, U.S. factories also rely on container ships for parts and raw materials, meaning supply lines for all sorts of products could be squeezed.
"The global economy moves by water, and shutting down container ports along the East and Gulf coasts while the national economy remains fragile benefits no one," Deborah Hadden, acting port director at Massport, the public agency that oversees shipping terminals in Boston. It is not a part of the contract dispute.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott said "the livelihood of thousands of Florida families lies in the balance."
The master contract between the International Longshoremen's Association and the U.S. Maritime Alliance, a group representing shipping lines, terminal operators and port associations, expired in September. The two sides agreed to extend it once already, for 90 days, but they have so far balked at extending it again when it expires at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
The union said its members would agree to an extension only if the Maritime Alliance dropped a proposal to freeze the royalties workers get for every container they unload. The Alliance has argued that the longshoremen, who it said earn an average $124,138 per year in wages and benefits, are compensated well enough already.
Federal mediators have been trying to push negotiations along, but there has been no word from either side on the progress of the talks since Dec. 24. As recently as Dec. 19, the president of the longshoremen, Harold Daggett, said the talks weren't going well and that a strike was expected.
The work stoppage would not be absolute. Longshoremen would continue to handle military cargo, mail, passenger ships, non-containerized items like automobiles, and perishable commodities, like fresh food.
Joseph Ahlstrom, a professor at the State University of New York's Maritime College and a former cargo ship captain, called container ships the "lifeblood of the country."
"We don't fly in a lot of products. It's just too expensive," Ahlstrom said. "The bulk of the products we import come in inside containers."
The White House has weighed in on the issue, urging dockworkers and shipping companies Thursday to reach agreement "as quickly as possible" on a contract extension. Obama spokesman Matt Lehrich said the administration is monitoring the situation closely.
If it happens, the walkout could be the biggest national port disruption since 2002, when unionized dockworkers were locked out of 29 West Coast ports for 10 days because of a contract dispute.
The ports only reopened after President George W. Bush, invoking powers given to him by the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, ordered an 80-day cooling-off period. Some economists estimated that each day of that lockout cost the U.S. economy $1 billion. It took months for the retail supply chain to fully recover.
An East Coast port freeze would have its biggest impact at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, where 3,250 longshoremen handled 32.3 million tons of cargo in 2010. The authority is not a party to the contract dispute.
Other major ports affected would include Savannah, Ga., which handled 18 million tons, and Houston and Hampton Roads, Va., which each handled more than 12.5 million tons.
Thousands of other jobs would be directly affected by the shutdown. Truck drivers might not have any cargo to transport, tug boat captains no ships to guide and freight train operators nothing to haul.
Simultaneously, another labor dispute involving dock workers was playing out on the West Coast.
Longshoremen at several Pacific Northwest grain terminals worked Thursday under contract terms they soundly rejected last weekend. The owners implemented the terms after declaring talks at an impasse. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union has yet to announce its next move.
Workplace rules, not salary and benefits, have been the obstacle to a new deal.
The dispute involves terminals in Portland, Ore., Vancouver, Wash., and Seattle, where longshoremen have been working without an agreement since the last contract expired Sept. 30.
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Associated Press writers Ken Thomas in Washington and Tamara Lush in Tampa, Fla., contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/little-time-left-head-off-longshoremens-strike-074945737--finance.html
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Thursday, December 27, 2012
The Music Club, 2012
Katy Perry performs in Dubai on Dec. 8, 2012
Photo by Adi Afaneh/AFP/Getty Images.
I can?t wait to hear more from Kacey Musgraves. It looks like 2013 is shaping up as an excellent year for country, and from young bloods no less. I?m also looking at Ashley Monroe (one-third of Pistol Annies), a seasoned vet at 26 after a false-start debut when she was just 20. What I?ve heard of her forthcoming solo Like a Rose is exciting: handsome hard-luck tales for days of diminished expectations, with a definite outlaw streak; one track is titled ?Weed Instead of Roses.? When mainstream country acts are cutting songs with pro-chronic hooks, you know we?re in a new era.
OK, we?ve talked sex and drugs, so I figured I?d complete the trifecta and talk about ? jazz. Because the Music Club?s poptimism contains multitudes.
So did jazz in 2012. I reconnected with the music in a big way while writing Love Goes to Buildings on Fire (now out in paperback, pardon the shill), and the anything-goes spirit of the ?70s loft and fusion scenes is clearly alive and well. A number of loft-scene vets released important records: Henry Threadgill, Wadada Leo Smith, and the late Sam Rivers. Robert Glasper?s Black Radio?a rangy soul jazz/hip-hop session with Erykah Badu and Lupe Fiasco, among others?was the most (justifiably) celebrated of a clutch of records that engaged with pop vocal music in fascinating ways. Another was The Cherry Thing, which marked the return of comet-flash pop-rap hitmaker Neneh Cherry to the post-punk free-jazz groove music she explored in the early ?80s with Rip Rig and Panic. Collaborating with a Swedish group formed, in part, to play the groundbreaking music of her jazz-legend pops Don Cherry, she reanimated music by him and his colleague Ornette Coleman, along with tracks by Suicide, the Stooges, and MF Doom.???
Two of this year?s great vocal fusions came from tireless multitaskers. Dave Douglas released an expansive, beautiful set of folk hymns with bluegrass singer-songwriter Aoife O?Donovan. And Theo Bleckmann, a jazz and new music singer mentored by some visionary, fusion-minded women (Meredith Monk, Sheila Jordan) made a remarkable album consisting entirely of Kate Bush covers. What might have been camp?that aesthetic evergreen we?ve been discussing?aimed for something purer and no less splendorous (like another great gender-flipping, if not-so-jazzy cover, Antony?s take on Fleetwood Mac?s ?Landslide?).
There was plenty of stylistic fluidity in instrumental jazz, too. Mary Halvorson and her Quintet made my favorite jazz record this year, Bending Bridges, full of surprising melodies, discursive horn swaggers, and her wildly inventive electric guitar work, which wasn?t afraid to skronk and roar. I also love the metaphor of the title, which suggests a transformative brand of genre-straddling. Matt Shipp, always a bold free-roamer, made a sharp, summary set with his Trio. (His prepared piano swing on ?Stage 10? is a killer.) I loved Vijay Iyer?s Accelerando, with its Michael Jackson and Flying Lotus covers. But he impressed me most last year at a live gig with a song dedicated to Detroit techno pioneer Robert Hood, which reminded why, rhythmically and otherwise, he and his Trio are one of the most thrilling units in jazz. (For more thoughts on the music, I refer readers to the annual Music Club-style exchange at critic Nate Chinen?s blog.)
I sense all this polyglotism, in jazz and elsewhere, is partly a generational shift but also an economic imperative. Following certain musicians sometimes reminds me of those old In Living Color skits where the West Indian guy asks ?How many jobs you got, mon?? I always keep an eye out for work by Nico Muhly, Rob Moose, and Gabriel Kahane, young ?classical? musicians and composers who have parallel lives in the pop and indie-rock worlds. The temples of high culture continue to tap the interests of their increasingly post-boomer audiences?see programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (which has invited John Cale to curate a tribute to that other musical Nico next month), The Walker Art Center (which booked drone-metal mystics Sunno))) a while back), Mass-MOCA (where I saw the premiere of David Byrne?s immersively fabulous musical Here Lies Love last June), etc. So I expect we?ll see more of this hybridity as musicians make their nut with a combination of institutional grants, nightclub gigs, and whatever other opportunities arise.
This may include playing more small, unconventional venues. I saw Montreal?s Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who released a moving set of Olympian drone-rock after an eight-year absence, deliver an inspiring set in a gutted glue factory in Hudson, N.Y., owned by former Hole bassist Melissa Auf der Maur and her partner, Tony Stone. It felt a bit like one of the map-point raves I?d attend in the Midwest and elsewhere in the ?90s, not quite off-the-grid musical happenings convened flash-mob style outside of major urban centers. But this was less illegal, more community-centric artisanal distillery than moonshine speakeasy. As gas prices make cross-country tours prohibitively expensive for smaller outfits, interstitial venues like this can make regional tours a more viable option and help spur local scenes, too.?
A few more scattershot points. I feel you, Ann, on the rich year for Americana and the Alabama Shakes, who you in fact first alerted me to. Along with your call-outs, I wanted to give props to Kin by Rodney Crowell and moonlighting poet-memoirist Mary Karr, a set both dark and remarkably fun, with (as you might guess) top-shelf lyrics delivered by an all-star cast: Lee Ann Womack, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, and others. Iowa Writers Workshop grad/Nashville dropout Kevin Gordon also turned out a great record, highlighted by a 10-minute masterpiece of storytelling whose race-themed narrative resonated deeply in the wake of Obama?s re-election.
Maybe it was because extended compositions were so common in 2012?from the aforementioned epics by Swans and Godspeed, to Neil Young?s near-30-minute ?Driftin? Back,? to seamless art-metal LPs by Krallice and Pallbearer?that for me, the four-plus uninterrupted hours of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass? Einstein On The Beach, revived this year on stages in New York and Berkeley, seemed to fly by. It was a rare opportunity to unitask, to shut off the cellphone data flow for a long stretch (for those up to the challenge) and meditate on art. That was one great irony of music in 2012: As much as it was a symptom of the data deluge, with the flood of availability, it could also be an essential refuge from it.
Refuge was hard to come by in the wake of Newtown earlier this month, and it made me think anew about pop?s gun lust. Like, say, that Katy Perry video. Get your heart broken? Pick up an M-16 and find your inner strength. Sure, it?s a reductive reading, I need a sense of humor, I do support our troops, pop-music fantasies are cultural release valves, blah fucking blah. But I?m a pop critic co-raising an 11-year-old daughter to be strong and safe, and I?m a bit on edge.
To be clear: I?m not for restrictions on musical expression, just weapons. There?s no denying the emotional potency of Charli XCX announcing ?I wanna shoot you in the fuckin? face? on the ?Kill Bill? section of her remarkable mixtape?thanks for the heads up, Lindsay. But it?s relevant that she?s slinging her metaphor in a country with strict gun-control laws. (A recent essay on women and guns in these virtual pages by my sometimes pro-gun friend Porochista Khakpour is food for thought on all this.)?
I?m not always a poptimist, but I remain an optimist. Music, in one form or another, never fails me. Like many critics, professional and otherwise, I savor the dialogs with my fellow obsessives on Facebook, Twitter, and various other outlets during the course of the year. So it?s wonderful to have a forum like this to recap and reflect with y?all. Have a beautiful and safe 2013.
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Translation, Creativity and Creative Writing | Metaglossia
See on Scoop.it ? Metaglossia: The Translation World
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A series of seminars organized by the OU?s Contemporary Cultures of Writing Research Group in collaboration with the Institute of English Studies, UL.
In the context of a Research Group (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/contemporary-cultures-of-writing/events.shtml) whose focus is on the cultures shaping contemporary modes of writing, this seminar series will look at the kinds of creativity involved in writing and translation with a view to highlighting the re-versioning and re-visioning at the heart of creative and literary endeavour. It will also seek to interrogate notions of translation both literal and metaphorical and to reflect on the challenges posed by multilingual writing and self-translation for both Creative Writing and Translation Studies.?
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Mysterious ASUS P1801-T visits the FCC, might be the finished Transformer AiO (updated)
The FCC sometimes gets a peek at hardware and reveals nothing but a model number to hint at what's passed through its labyrinth. The latest filing leaving us scratching our heads is for the ASUS P1801-T, a "tablet" which could be the final version of the Transformer AiO prototype we saw back at Computex. How did we arrive at the AiO? Well, the model number is a possible clue -- ASUS' Eee Slate B121 has a 12.1-inch panel, so P1801-T may point to this device having 18 inches of screen. As ASUS' dual-OS prototype all-in-one is the only (sort of) tablet we've seen with roughly that many inches, we assume the company is getting paperwork done before a proper launch at CES 2013. A "P1801" running Android 4.1.1 has also popped up at GLBenchmark, with Tegra3 graphics, a 1,920 x 1080 graphics and a Cortex-A9 CPU inside. If ASUS is keeping two OS's as per the AiO prototype, that processor caters for only one Microsoft product -- Windows RT. We'll just be kept wondering until we hear something official, but at least for us, an 18-inch Android / RT super-tablet and part-time desktop sounds like it could be a hard sell.
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Source: FCC, GLBenchmark
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2013 New Year's Resolutions for Your Internet Marketing Strategy ...
We make resolutions to get thinner, be healthier, spend more time with friends and finish that 2,000 page book ? why not make one internet marketing resolution for 2013?
I asked our charming, talented internet marketing team to give me their top resolutions for 2013, and here is what they came up with:
Brian: I want to become more technically savvy, especially with coding!
Amanda: The goal in any Internet Marketing campaign is to have it achieve its highest potential. This requires a little creativity and out of the box thinking. I will ask myself questions like this: What am I doing right? What am I doing wrong? What am I missing out on? What are my client?s competitors doing that we are not doing? What are my client?s competitors not doing that we are doing? Having out of the box thinking will give campaigns that little extra boost they may need.
Karie: Develop more quality content and leverage existing photo opportunities, video opportunities, etc. so we have more to share!
Adrienne: I want to make it a point to read at least two internet marketing industry articles every evening, in an effort to learn all I can and stay up to date! As a personal goal, I want to help my boyfriend market his music and grow his audience!
Trevin: My resolution is to find ways to better utilize big data. There?s so much data available in all avenues of online marketing: visitor data, shopping cart data, freely available data. Nearly all of the websites we work with have large datasets of some sort and I?m hoping to create some scalable ways to put this to work for my clients in their inbound marketing efforts.
Xander: To learn foreign language SEO. It?s the new long tail, and there?s a barrier to entry that most SEO?s won?t cross ? the language barrier?but if you can do it, you can reach a ton more people cheaply.
Benn: Leverage social more for SEO, not just a branding tool. Google is becoming more ?real? in that it is trying to use human action as a factor in ranking what is important. Links were the first sign of this effort and we saw a crackdown on quality this year. I feel we will start to see offline variables affect our SERPS even more in 2013. Social is the closest tool at this point which gives Google signals of importance rather than just link from an article. When I say leverage social, this is more than just having a Facebook Business page. It means creating great content and setting up your site to help visitors share and promote on your behalf. Motivating searchers to become advocates socially both on and offline will be just as important for continued growth organically as getting them to your site in the first place. My resolution is becoming a stronger social advocate for my clients.
Krystal: One of my biggest resolutions is to begin experimenting with more advanced reporting techniques in Google Analytics for my clients. I?d like to give them a wide variety of data that hopefully they will consider of value to their business throughout the year.
Not sure which resolution should be top priority for you or your business? Here are the top areas to pay attention to:
Mobile Boom
Though it?s been repeated for a few years now, the PC may finally die in 2013. PC shipments declined for the first time ever in 2012, so I foresee mobile advertising ? and with it, responsive web design ? becoming the new norm as everyone switches to tablets, laptops or just mobile phones.
Local Focus
The only place to start online to acquire new business as a local business is to be present in maps and have reviews readily available to prospective customers. Companies without reviews will be burned simply by the lack of reviews, whether they are positive or negative. This trend can only continue as the importance of customer feedback grows.
Social Media Impacts
Social media?s impact will also spread wider within business infrastructures as brand advocates gain importance and influence over their friends, turning fans into marketers themselves.
Expanded Digital Wallet
? Adobe Systems called Cyber Monday 2012 a record day, estimating $1.98 billion in web sales.?More and more people spend their time and money online each year, and I don?t foresee this trend slipping.
Social Search
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter will inevitably become closely aligned with online search and take it to the next level. Of course, Google+ has begun to tap into the social graph and return results based on connections. In 2013, be sure your company can be found on these platforms.
Semantic Search
What if Google knew you?couldn?t?eat gluten while you were searching for restaurants? Semantic mark-up allows Google to understand these secondary requirements without you typing them in. They do, after all, want to be the ?answer engine?. It is only a matter of time before the other engines follow.
Test, Measure, Report
Whatever you choose to include in your internet marketing strategy for 2013, stick with it! If you?re making a small change, be sure to measure it. Trying new things inevitably creates hurdles, but do your best to see it through. In most cases, you will be generously rewarded for being one of the first adopters.
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Duck boat sunk in World War II found in Italian lake
The amphibious vehicle sank in Lake Garda, killing 23 US soldiers just days before the end of the fighting in Europe. But the boat, and the remains of the soldiers, were lost until this week.
More than 70 years after it sank in a lake in northern Italy causing the loss of 24 American soldiers? lives, a US amphibious vehicle has been found lying on the lake bed.
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Amateur historians had been searching for months for the relic ? a six-wheel, two-ton amphibious DUKW vehicle that sank during a storm on Lake Garda on the night of April 30, 1945 ? but were only able to confirm their find on Monday.
The DUKW, pronounced ?duck,? was carrying supplies and ammunition to an American military camp near the town of Torbole, at the northern tip of the lake, but sank as a result of gale force winds that were battering the area that night.
The truck was carrying 24 US soldiers aged between 18 and 25 from the 10th Mountain Division, only one of whom survived the accident. The men who died were from the division's 605th Field Artillery Battalion, as well as a driver from the Quartermaster Corps.
Days before armistice
The sinking happened just days before the end of fighting in Europe and the armistice with the Germans, on May 8, 1945.
?It was the biggest disaster to happen in modern times on Lake Garda,? said Mauro Fusato, the leader of the team that found the DUKW.?
The wreck of the vehicle was found with sonar lying at a depth of 905 feet ? one reason why it had not been located before.
?On Sunday, the sonar gave us an initial image, but it wasn?t clear enough to be able to say for sure that it was the DUKW,? Mr. Fusato told Ansa, an Italian news agency.
?On Monday, though, we used a remote-controlled camera and we saw it. It is intact and sitting upright.?
The next step is to try to identify any human remains that may still be lying around the wreck, as well as military equipment, insignia, and personal possessions. ?There are lots of objects around it, which could be the skeletons or remains of the soldiers who drowned,? said Fusato.
Any operation to recover them would be highly complex and technically challenging, however. The wreck lies too deep for divers, and there are old fishing nets and other debris on the lake bed that could snag underwater subs. Ultimately it will be up to the US government to decide whether to proceed with a recovery, the researchers said, adding that they had informed American diplomats of the discovery.
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auto insurance Upper Marlboro MD There are more cars hitting the road each year. As this number increases, the possibility of accidents also increases. The difference between a small aggravation and large pain can be car insurance. But why is insurance important and just how much do you need? Auto insurance protects you by paying for injury or damage you cause others while driving your car, damage to your car or personal injury or injury to your passengers from an accidents, plus specific other occurrences, such as theft. Without insurance, you run the risk of having to pay the total cost of the harm you cause others or to repair or replace your car if it is damaged or stolen. Liability: Bodily injury and property damage that you have caused will be covered under this type of insurance. It can also cover your legal fees if you are sued. Local laws typically mandate standard amounts of liability insurance, but higher amounts are available and extremely helpful. Personal Injury Protection: This type of insurance pays for all medical treatment for you and other people in your car, regardless of who was at fault in the collision. It is required in some states and optional in others. This insurance may also cover lost wages, service replacement and funeral costs. Local government typically sets minimum amounts. Medical Payments: Medical payment coverage can be purchased in states that are not considered no-fault; it pays regardless of who carries responsibility for an accident. All reasonable medical or funeral expenses will be paid for under this insurance policy. Collision: Damages that occur from a collision will be paid for under this type of car insurance. Comprehensive: Applies if your car is stolen or damaged by something other than an accident, including weather damage or vandalism. Uninsured Motorist: If you are hit by an uninsured driver, this type of insurance coverage will protect you. Under-Insured Motorist: Pays for collision expenses when an insured person is in a crash caused by a driver who does not have enough liability insurance to cover the total cost of the damages. Emergency road service, car rental, and other types of car insurance can also be purchased.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Shared Web Hosting Explained | The Floor Geek
Malaysia is located on the heart from the South East Asia and this is an ideal place to host your web site internet websites because of:
one) The web web hosting price is considered the most affordable in South East Asia
two) The labour price tag or maybe the human reference or resource expenditure is among the lowest
three) The infrastructure with the world wide web cables, set up and usefulness
4) The helpdesk staff members can speak good quality English
five) The internet obtain pace is one of the best quality in Asia
At this second, there are in excess of a hundred internet hosting institutions in Malaysia. Handful of of these have controlling many of the net hosting sector share in Malaysia. These vendors are producing handsome revenue to fulfill their shareholders and pay back higher wage to their staff. They could make available proper hosting assistance at really minimal price level.
In addition they truly competitive while in the worldwide industry. Which means, in addition they host more and more foreign online websites from Us, Europe, Africa, etcetera. Malaysia web hosting industry discuss is too minor and aggressive, only about ten to 20 percents of the Malaysia?s population can accessibility and use the web on each day basis. Most of the business enterprise house owners however reluctant to get a firm internet site to advertise their small business web-based. Majority of your Malaysian are either as well bad to pay for the web accessibility charge or far too fast paced to go surfing to surf the web or check email messages.
Not all hosting enterprises in Malaysia are excellent. A few of them hosting a lot less than ten world wide web web-sites. Traditionally these very small institutions vanish immediately after 1 or 2 a long time. Only a few can sustain for more than five many years. This really is standard for the reason that only the fittest can survive.
A lot of them lack of funding to service their internet marketing business operation. Due to the fact the vast majority of them are owned by Chinese or Indian. Malaysia govt choose to supply economical help along with other indicates for Malay owned organizations. Consequently, lacking the strong ?water supplies?, these enterprises are battling to outlive. Those which could endure and still develop without having any guide through the Malaysia governing administration end up being the optimal and equipped to contend within the worldwide current market. These positive establishments are as good as any US or Europe hosting organizations in relation to abilities, knowledge and knowledges.
Most people may well mentioned that Malaysia?s web velocity is just too sluggish and so it?s not necessarily a good idea to host the website there. Indeed, this is often legitimate and Malaysia authorities is doing work laborious to resolve this problem by up grade the online world access velocity to 20mbps fairly recently. UniFi is definitely the best and newest supply you with through the Telekom Malaysia (TM). What?s more, it offer VoIP and Web-based Tv set companies.
Probably the most and supreme challenge faced by internet hosting providers in Malaysia certainly is the high-quality of infrastructures and companies given with the only on-line center infrastructure supplier in Malaysia ?> Telekom Malaysia (TM)
Now, base alone expertise. TM?s DSL net support ?> Streamyx has the tendency to sluggish down or line down for not less than 2 to 10 instances inside a month. It can be as sluggish as or slower than the usual dial-up (56kbps) web pace for the duration of the peak several hours and through faculty vacations. If the web-based is down, regardless how solid is your website hosting servers and just how industry experts are classified as the engineers who dealing with it. Your word wide web webpages hosted in that server is inaccessible by any individual as a result of the world wide web. Web Congestion or The web Customers Jam, that?s the unsolved condition before know because Telekom Malaysia launched web-based expertise in 1995 or 1996.
That may be why almost all of the big firms choose to host their word wide web web pages beyond Malaysia. But when your website online target viewers is from Malaysia. Then you definately should probably host your website in Malaysia. Since in the event the Telekom Malaysia word wide web assistance for worldwide access is down or sluggish, both you and your target clientele can nonetheless have a look at your web-site in Malaysia. Sure, inside Malaysia only, all other countries are unable to see your internet site.
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Retro Game Network | The New Retro Gaming Community ...
Admit it, you emulate. You emulate all the time, and you love it.
It?s okay, we?ve all done it. Without emulation, the classic gaming scene as we know it wouldn?t exist. If not for emulation, we probably wouldn?t have discovered all of the hidden gems of generations past. There?s no way we could afford most of these games, and imagine the years a single game could potentially take to track down. Better hope it?s good. My first experience playing earthbound was back in 1998 on a copy of ZSNES, and most of the most treasured games in my collection were first revealed to me by ArchNahco and TortillaGodzilla.
The biggest issue I?ve always had with emulation, however, is the controls. I spent weeks in the late 90?s trying to play Contra III on my Gateway?s keyboard, warping my hand in a way that will forever alter my ability to play the recorder. Indeed, for a long time it was difficult to accurately control your games via emulation, and even if you found a game pad that you could hook up to your computer you?d still have to find drivers and pray that your emulator of choice supported it. Thankfully, with the advent of USB, that?s all changed.
The USB port is a wonderful thing, and has completely revolutionized emulation. Dozens of computer companies make generic gamepads that will suit the needs of most emulated games, and there are a good few options if you want to get the most accurate feel. Sites like Retrozone provide some excellent options, you can buy adaptors to hook up the same controllers you?ve used all your life, or you can buy pre-modded controllers that you can plug right in and start using within seconds. All of these options are by all means good. I?ve used them all and I?ve been happy with the experience. That being said, I think I?ve found my controller for the foreseeable emulated future.
Sega released a USB pad modeled after the Saturn?s controller a few years ago, and they sold like hotcakes. The Saturn controller is considered by many to be one of the best controllers of all time, and I?m inclined to agree. Naturally, people bought up these controllers up, and now they go for the price of most of the Saturn?s best games themselves, bummer.
Thank goodness for China.
A quick ebay query of ?Sega Saturn USB? will provide wonderfully inexpensive knockoffs by a company called G-TRON. Now, in case you don?t already know G-TRON, they?re a company who has been making these Saturn USB controllers for at least as long as I?ve searched for them on ebay. While of dubious origin, these controllers are ridiculously cheap (They can be found for as little as $6.99 with free shipping) and appear to be made from a mold almost identical to the actual Saturn controllers. The quality is around 80% of what a real controller feels like, and the cord is long enough for use with a computer. These pads are nicely made facsimiles of their ancestors in true six button glory, which leads to their most unexpected advantage.
As you may or may not know, the Saturn has six face buttons and two shoulder buttons. This makes the Saturn pad excellent for fighting and arcade games, as the six button setup is pretty common. However, most consoles before the Saturn had less than six buttons, leaving you with several unused buttons that do nothing unless you map them. Most emulators now have dozens of extras built into them ? video recorders, slow motion, save states etc. Usually these would be nice little features that you could use if you remembered the keyboard shortcut, but most often these were left unused, lost in the shuffle of quasi-legal gaming. With a controller though, you can map these features to buttons on the pad itself. As the SNES only has four face buttons, you can map two of them to take screenshots and start recording footage respectively. This is an incredibly useful tool, especially for budding game reviewers. While a purist will capture footage for the original hardware, you can easily make do with footage quelled from your emulator of choice as having a button mapped to the pad itself makes the recording process virtually seamless. The buttons can be mapped to whatever you?d like, so I suggest tooling around in the preferences of your emulator of choice to see how you can best make use of it.
So while emulation may never feel the same as playing classic games on the consoles they were made for, with a USB Saturn pad will make things one step closer to feeling like the real thing. The build quality won?t be perfect, and the shipping may take a while, but for $6.99, it?s well worth the meager investment to use all the built in features of your favorite emulator while still protecting your future ability to play the recorder.
Source: http://www.retrogamenetwork.com/2012/12/24/essential-equipment-the-sega-saturn-usb-controller/
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Monday, December 24, 2012
buying a home....w/o realtor - Zillow Real Estate Advice
I did a quick check on California tax relative to properties and Prop 13. From the information posted here, it sounds like you could exclude the property from re-assessment (i.e., keep the cost basis and taxes that your grandmother has) if your husband's parents are deceased.
A REA may be familiar with the mechanics of a transaction, but this is not a "straight-forward sale" and you live in a state with some unique laws regarding property transfer and tax consequences. It may end up that you do a simple sale, for which you could negotiate?a simple fee for processing the transaction. However, don't start with a REA for information on how to procede - talk to a family law attorney first.
Source: http://www.zillow.com/advice-thread/buying-a-home-w-o-realtor/472054/
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Decline of listed firms on London's junior market slows
LONDON (Reuters) - A decline in the number of companies listed on London's junior stock market eased this year and around half the companies that did leave were bought up or transferred to bigger exchanges, a Deloitte report shows.
It said the number of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) had fallen every year since 2007, but the fall in 2012 was just 4 percent, compared with 16 percent in 2009, its fastest year of contraction.
"During the time of the financial crisis ... the principal reasons why companies were leaving the list were negative," said Richard Thornhill, capital markets partner at Deloitte.
"Either they no longer perceived that the market offered them value ... or the economic climate forced them to de-list. The situation in 2012 has been very different, with the driving force behind companies leaving the list being transactions which have consistently realised value for shareholders."
Of the 113 companies who had left the market by the end of November, 41 were acquired, 17 were subject to reverse take-overs and three transferred to London's main market.
Those companies which were bought received an average premium of 53 percent to their closing share price on the day before the acquisition.
By the end of November, 65 companies had joined AIM, and the share prices of the 44 which raised money on admission had risen an average 26 percent since listing.
"There are good reasons to be confident about the market in 2013," said Thornhill.
(Reporting by Kylie MacLellan; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/decline-listed-firms-londons-junior-market-slows-001939395--sector.html
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Sunday, December 23, 2012
Former SC Gov. Sanford eyes US House bid
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) ? Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who left public life two years ago after mysteriously disappearing to visit his then-mistress in Argentina, is poised to re-enter the political arena.
Acknowledging reports that he is seriously weighing a congressional bid for the seat he once held, Sanford wrote in an email late Saturday: "To answer your question, yes the accounts are accurate." Sanford promised "further conversation on all this" at a later date.
The two-term governor was a rising Republican political star before he vanished from South Carolina for five days in 2009. Reporters were told he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, but he later tearfully acknowledged he was visiting Maria Belen Chapur, a woman he called his soul mate at a news conference announcing his affair. The two were engaged earlier this year.
The opening for Sanford comes after Rep. Tim Scott was appointed to fill the remaining two years of Sen. Jim DeMint's seat. DeMint announced earlier this month he was resigning.
News that Sanford, 52, may be interested in the seat comes days after his ex-wife, Jenny, appeared to be dipping her toe into the state's political waters.
She was reportedly on Gov. Nikki Haley's short list of candidates to fill the seat that went to Scott. Jenny Sanford later said she would think about a run for Scott's seat representing the coastal 1st Congressional District, the seat her ex-husband is now considering.
"I'd be crazy not to look at the race a little bit," she said Tuesday, before reports about Mark Sanford surfaced.
State Republicans said Scott plans to submit his letter of resignation from the House on Jan. 2, triggering a process of candidate filing and primaries leading up to a special election in May.
Mark Sanford knows the 1st District well. Elected to the seat in 1994 ? Jenny Sanford managed his first campaign and was a close adviser for most of his career ? he served three terms before voters elected him governor in 2002.
The former governor would bring name recognition and money to the race ? two things especially important due to the short campaign season and wide-open field.
Whether voters are ready to welcome Sanford back to politics is another issue.
"It's absolutely absurd. He just has so much baggage. He was such an embarrassment to the state, we don't need that," said Gloria Day, a retired attorney in Charleston.
He avoided impeachment but was censured by the Legislature. He also had to pay more than $70,000 in ethics fines ? still the largest in state history ? after AP investigations raised questions about his use of state, private and commercial aircraft.
Others said Sanford's fiscal record is what's important, and Sanford is known as a libertarian-leaning ideologue who railed against spending and bucked Republican Party leaders before anyone even coined the tea party movement.
"Mark Sanford is a reliable fiscal conservative so I, like many conservatives, would be delighted to see him in the race," said Joanne Jones, vice chairman of the Charleston Tea Party, though she noted she'll wait to see the entire field before throwing her support behind a candidate.
Scott will be sworn in Jan. 3 to replace DeMint, who announced his resignation earlier this month to lead The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Scott, who would have to seek election in 2014, will become the state's first black U.S. senator and the first black Republican U.S. senator from the South since Reconstruction.
Candidates for Scott's seat must file by the end of January. Primaries will be held in March, with the general election in May.
State GOP Chairman Chad Connelly said as of Friday, 14 Republicans had expressed interest.
"Gov. Sanford getting in would certainly alter the dynamics. That list would go down significantly," he said.
Based on name recognition alone, Sanford's chances would be good in a runoff, he said.
Sanford has $1.2 million left in his state campaign coffers.
John Dietz of Daniel Island said the affair wouldn't affect his vote.
"He said he found his soul mate, and at one point in my life that's exactly how I felt. I empathized," said Dietz, a retiree who characterizes himself as a moderate.
Dietz said he was disappointed that Sanford could not work with his fellow Republicans in the Legislature.
"I did not necessarily agree with a lot of things he did politically," he said. "I'm very much neutral at this point."
Retired Presbyterian minister Dick Giffen of Mount Pleasant said he wouldn't support Sanford, but added that it was unrelated to the affair.
"He wasn't able to bring people together and get action done," Giffen said. "He didn't produce anything. ... I really wasn't impressed with him."
Sanford's contentious relationship with legislators seemed to worsen with each year of his tenure.
But longtime Republican activist and donor John Rainey, who convinced Sanford to run for governor after leaving Congress, said Sanford's last six months in office, following his tearful press conference, were his most effective.
Rainey said he hopes Sanford re-enters politics.
"He's finally learned how to do it. Mark now understands the necessity of and art of compromise. It's not my way or the highway," said Rainey, who was chairman of the Board of Economic Advisors during Sanford's tenure.
Sanford's engagement to Chapur may improve his standing with voters.
"Think of all that's happened since 2009. That's old news," said Rainey, rattling off a list of political scandals. "Especially in the South, we're about redemption. I don't think he's got a problem."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/former-sc-gov-sanford-eyes-us-house-bid-062557152.html
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