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Once the Christmas carols start burbling it's only a matter of time before the self appointed start spewing forth their 'best of' lists. This used to start once the year was over but now people need everything "like yesterday". Over the following weeks I'll squeeze out my thoughts on drama, news and what you have you, but to start the bauble rolling, here's my list about the shows that dish out the medicine that's deemed to be the best.
1. Girls
Lena Dunham's show was as impressive a debut as we've ever seen. It had the things that make great comedy and it had them in spades. It was brutally honest, its star was happy to debase herself for our gratification, it was bloody funny and most importantly it had great characters. All the girls are brilliantly flawed, naturally their men are even worse. It clearly owes something to Sex In The City but the true influences seem to be Seinfeld and 70s Woody Allen. Thanks to executive producer Judd Apatow and the creator, writer and star, Lena Dunham, it's not merely a copy, more of an extension, and in its finest moments it's a triumph. It's probably as refreshing as it gets. Well it would be if it weren't for the next show on my list.
2. Louie
Wow. This really was a breath of fresh air. Sometimes the smell of that breath was a little ripe, a little edgy, a little grim, but that's what ultimately made it so satisfying. It made you feel something when you watched it. It kept you guessing. It ignored the conventions and structures of the typical sitcom in a way that few shows have ever done.
3. Bored to Death
Jason Schwartzman is a the part time amateur private eye who brings along his pot smoking friends on missions that usually turn into farces. When the friends are played by Zach Galifianakis and Ted Danson you know it's going to be fun ride, and so it proved to be. Smart, charming and dry as the white wine that Jonathan Ames constantly quaffs. Soho screened all three series this year and sadly that's all there will ever be although some talk of a movie has been bandied about. A great box set gift.
4. Episodes
Produced by two Americans who have shows like Friends and Mad About You in their CVs, and starring British comedy stars Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan and Joey from Friends (Matt LeBlanc). This whip smart satire about the American TV industry is familiar enough to fans of Entourage and Curb Your Enthusiasm but it's also fresh and knowing. A mid season wrench from the TV1 schedule almost derailed me but Episodes is worth seeking out, and would make a great summer DVD.
5. Hounds, Jono and Ben at 10 and Auckland Daze
Will a New Zealand comedy ever be at the top of one of these lists? Possibly, but you could also say the same thing about drama, news or even film. Advertising occasionally rises to challenge, (Ghost Chips anyone?) but it's easy to keep it up for 30 seconds especially when you're lying back and thinking of the money.
Hounds did a bloody good job for nearly 30 minutes at a time, and it did it with it's own uniquely crusty style. This is the New Zealand of the great unwashed, wallowing as it does in the anti-glamour of the dog racing world. (There was also a lovely lack of spruced up Ponsonby villas on Maori TV's Dean Waretini: Now is the Hour.)
Jono and Ben also impressed this year mainly due to a cracking pace, the easygoing tom-foolery of the hosts and of course the gangly antics of Guy Williams.
But by the end of the season it was clear that the true stars of the show were the young chaps known as the 'Manchilds' who played the young Jono and Ben.
Armed with grown-up smart arsed questions they are sent into interviews as proxies, a device that allows the gentle abuse of the celebrity guests.
Auckland Daze emerged from its previous life on the internet and looked pretty much like a fully formed TV show. Entourage is an obvious influence as is Ricky Gervais, but Millen Baird and his talented ensemble have created something uniquely their own. However as an Aucklander, I'm slightly worried that it may well be the last nail in the coffin in regards to our reputation south of the Bombay's and north of John Key's bach in Omaha. They have always suspected that we are all f**wits, now they have the proof.
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Secretary of State Todd Rokita says accessibility surveys of half of Indiana's polling places will take place during the November 2 election
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Surveyors Could Be at Your Polling Place November 2
Early Results Show the Majority of Polls Are at Least 80% Compliant
Indianapolis, IN - Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita says accessibility surveys of half of Indiana's polling places will take place during the November 2 election. The surveys are being conducted on behalf of Secretary Rokita's office through a partnership with Count Us IN, a project of the Governor's Planning Council for People with Disabilities.
The Help America Vote Act of 2002 mandates that polling places and voting equipment be accessible to all Hoosiers by January 2006. Secretary Rokita has served as a national leader in conducting these statewide accessibility surveys. The surveys review accessibility issues including whether a polling place has ramps, adequate handicapped parking, easy to use door handles, and elevators if applicable, among other requirements. The requirements are an effort to boost voter turnout for people with disabilities. Officials say turnout for this group is about 20% less than the general population.
About half of Indiana's counties were surveyed during the May primary. Survey data from May has now been sent to county commissioners, who have the responsibility of selecting polling places in all counties except Marion County. An analysis found that the majority of polling places are at least 80% compliant with Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility guidelines.
"I think these survey results are encouraging," Rokita said. "We have made great strides toward insuring that every Hoosier can cast his ballot without obstacles. County election officials have been working diligently toward the goal of making all polling locations fully accessible. The data collected so far helps show counties where they have been successful in attaining accessibility and where future efforts should be focused. I thank them for their efforts and look forward to continuing to work with them to make voting accessible for all Hoosiers."

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A planted median was included as a condition for a new Walmart in Porters Neck.
When the New Hanover County Commissioners approved a new Walmart Supercenter for Porters Neck this summer, they added an unprecedented condition to the agreement – a partnership with the county to build landscaped medians along Market Street.
Now, the county is exploring the possibility of asking more businesses to build landscaped medians and trying to determine if this should be a part of the county's plan for the future.
County planning director Chris O'Keefe said officials are still in the very early stages of this process. They are currently looking at what roads might warrant landscaped medians, what the benefits of planted medians are, and the potential problems, he said.
He said his department also needs to determine what types of plants or trees would be "most appropriate" for each street.
"We are just starting to put together information to bring forward to the commissioners at a later date," O'Keefe said. "There are a lot of different ways you could go with this."
The planted median came up during the Porters Neck store discussions because that area was a part of the Market Street Corridor Plan adopted by city and county officialsin 2010, O'Keefe said. That plan was designed to improve safety and traffic flow along the 11-mile stretch of Market from Colonial Drive near Wilmington's Forest Hills neighborhood to the Pender County line.
Walmart initially pushed back against the requirement for a planted median, but eventually struck an agreement with the county to build one if it fit into its budget for the new store.
"We didn't want to lose them over this," O'Keefe said. "We wanted planted medians, but wanted to find common ground."
The county should expect more pushback from the business community should it choose to move forward with this potential requirement, said Donna Girardot, chief executive officer of the Business Alliance for a Sound Economy, an organization that represents the region's real estate, construction and development communities.
She said any policy that would require developers to build public infrastructure for the broader public use without any connection to the impacts created from the proposed development would "cause undue financial burden on businesses."
Girardot also questioned the legality of this proposed policy, citing a court case that found that an "essential nexus must exist between the legitimate state interest motivating the regulation and the permit conditions."
"I can understand the argument being made for developer participation in the construction of a median for the public's safety," she said. "However, I would question whether the county could make the argument that there is an essential nexus between the project being permitted ... and the landscaping of a median. This association would have to look at this issue further and critically"
O'Keefe said responses from the local business community are part of the data they still need.
"Whenever medians are proposed some businesses have concerns, but we haven't heard one way or the other on planted or unplanted medians," he said. "That's one of the questions we need to ask before we move forward."
After more research is conducted, O'Keefe said his department plans to bring their findings to the county commissioners. Currently, there is no expected timeline for the project.
The shopping center, which developers hope to start construction on in the coming weeks, is in the 8100 block of Market and will be anchored by the 189,544-square-foot Walmart. It also will include nine other out parcels totaling 61,180 square feet.
Wilmington is already incorporating landscaped medians into its plans for the future and the N.C. Department of Transportation has been moving toward the planted medians as well.
The city council and the county commissioners both recently approved a resolution to support DOT efforts to get money to build landscaped medians on Market between Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway and Station Road and between Middle Sound Loop Road and Marsh Oaks Drive.
Similar medians have been planned from Marsh Oaks to Porters Neck and are also a part of the Market Street Corridor Plan.
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The Chicago Fire rang in 2013 with their first player move of the new year Friday as the team acquired Estonian international midfielder Joel Lindpere from the New York Red Bulls in exchange for a 2013 international roster spot.
"Joel is a versatile, dependable player that has proven himself in MLS," said Fire President of Soccer Operations Javier Leon. "He will provide a dynamic presence to our team in 2013 as we look to return to the MLS Cup Playoffs."
Dependable may be one of the best words to describe the 31-year-old midfielder, who since joining New York in 2010 has missed only one MLS match. With 97 appearances to his name, Lindpere has played in more games than any other MLS player over the past three seasons.
Reached for comment Friday, Fire head coach Frank Klopas was excited about his new acquisition and signaled that his intent to use the veteran of 84 international appearances for Estonia differently than his more recent deployment with Red Bull of late.
"He's a guy that knows the league and brings a lot of international experience," head coach Frank Klopas told Chicago-Fire.com Friday. "He's an all-around solid player and last year I didn't agree with how New York played him out wide. I think the times where he did really well were when he played inside as a box-to-box guy.
"He's a great player that works very hard for the team, has a lot of quality to make that final pass and to score."
Beyond where he'll fit on the field, Klopas praised the competitive spirit Lindpere, who is also a U.S. Green Card holder, brings to the field.
"We're looking for guys that want to win, that are competitors and will give everything for the team. I think Joel brings all that and he'll fit in very well with our team."


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NFL Prospect and USD standout Tyler Starr on Preparing for NFL Draft
University of South Dakota linebacker Tyler Starr joined Jeff Thurn on Thursday's edition of Overtime to discuss preparing for the NFL Draft.
The former USD standout and Little Rock, Iowa native played in 12 of 13 games last season. He registered 71 total tackles (15 for a loss), nine sacks, four pass defenses, an interception and four forced fumbles. He participated in the East-West Shrine Game, and the NFL Scouting Combine. Starr is 6'4", and 250 pounds.
Starr talks about how excited he is about the next few days as he waits to get drafted:
"Man, it just feels like forever since I played my last game in Vermillion. I mean, the process is so long and it's finally here. It's like a real feeling, and wow, that six months or how ever many months felt like five years."
Thurn asks Starr is any teams have reached out to him or his agent?
"I know there's a lot of interest out there for me. At the end of the day, it's a business and being from a small school, depending on what you know, probably from the late rounds, or mid-late rounds. So, we really don't know. Like I said, it's a guessing game."
Starr reflects on why he was at USD, and some of the questions that have come along in the draft process:
"They asked me how I ended up there (USD). Obviously, coming from a small high school, I didn't have the exposure that I thought we needed for trying to get an opportunity to play at a big school. But I really didn't have the grades, I didn't take high school as seriously as I should have, and it set me back. I had to start from the bottom and ended up landing a scholarship at the University of South Dakota. It's close to home, and school was paid for. So, that's kind of how it ended up."
Starr on the life of an NFL Draft prospect:
"Man, just trying to consistently better myself every day. It's so weird because you work out every day, six days a week, and you are grinding, grinding, and grinding. Your body is almost at the point where you are overworking yourself, but you have a mental block inside your head saying, 'You're not working hard enough, you need to do more, and the competition is outworking you.' It's hard to get over fact your body needs rest, it needs to recover, and that balance needs to be there."
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US officially recognises Somalia's government
The US has officially recognised Somalia's government in Mogadishu after more than 20 years.
The move could pave the way for US and international economic aid for the Horn of Africa nation.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the news on Thursday at a meeting in Washington with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
He took office in 2012 after the first vote of its kind since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was ousted in 1991.
"Today is a milestone, it is not the end of the journey, but it is an important milestone towards that end," Mrs Clinton said after talks with Mr Mohamud.
'Long, difficult period'
She added that the US wanted "an open, transparent dialogue about what more we can do to help the people of Somalia realise their own dream".
Mr Mohamud said the people of Somalia were grateful for America's "unwavering support" as the country emerged "from a very long, difficult period".
"We are working for a Somalia that is at peace with itself and with its neighbours, where its citizens can go about their daily lives in safety," he said.
The move recognised the new government's progress towards political stability and "breaking the back" of an al-Shabab insurgency, Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson said on Wednesday.
Al-Shabab, a group aligned to al-Qaeda, had seized control of southern and central parts of Somalia before Ethiopian, Kenyan and African Union peacekeeping troops undertook a counter-offensive, supported by the US, to restore order.
The US never formally cut diplomatic ties with Somalia.
But the 1993 Black Hawk Down incident, when 18 American servicemen were killed after militia fighters shot two US military helicopters out of the sky, marked the country's descent into anarchy.
Mr Mohamud's government was fostered by a UN-backed and regionally supported effort to end nearly two decades of fighting.
Mrs Clinton is not expected to announce new aid measures for Somalia, which already receives US assistance for drought, famine and refugee relief.
Mr Mohamud has also met World Bank and USAid officials on his trip to Washington.
The US does not currently have an embassy in Somalia, but officials indicated that was a possibility in the future.


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There is limited option for non-intrusive flow measurement of liquid metals at high temperature. Liquid metal flowing in a conduit along with the transverse magnetic field induces emf in the liquid metal. The emf developed; which has linear dependency on flow velocity; can be used for flow velocity estimation. In case of conducting conduit the emf can be measured at the conduit wall. The main hindrance with this technique is the calibration. The induced emf depends upon the thermo-physical parameters like electrical conductivity, viscosity of the liquid metal as well as the electrical conductivity of the conduit wall. The flow meter calibrated with a fluid at some temperature will not behave in the same way with other liquid metal or at another temperature. Usage of flow meter with different fluid necessitates calibration with that fluid at required temperature; which increase the cost of usage. In this paper, an effort has been made, using numerical methods, to eliminate the repeated calibration work for different fluid at different temperature. Physics interfaces from CFD and AC/DC Module in COMSOL Multiphysics have been coupled to imitate the actual scenario. At first, the numerical code has been benchmarked to simulate the calibration data for known fluid at a given temperature. After successful benchmarking, the same code has been be used to calibrate the MHD flowmeter for other liquid metal at different working temperature.
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BLACKWELL, Okla.—Hockey has been full of the word "no" for the past three months, but these may have been the most damning negative replies of all.
Fifteen miles south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border is hardly hockey country, but the apathy here surrounding the NHL lockout was staggering on Friday as the league, unable to come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement with the NHLPA, canceled all games through the end of November.
Time and again, the question was asked: "Would you even notice if there was never NHL hockey again?"
Time and again, the reply came back: "No."
Kobe Kastle crossed the border from Kansas to get lunch. He described himself as a football and baseball fan, but likes rodeo even more. Kastle might enjoy the action of the NHL, but says that even if there wasn't a lockout, "I wouldn't be able to watch it."
— Q&A: AHL president David Andrews sits down with Jesse Spector
As much as the NHL's television deal with NBC has helped expand hockey's reach, NBC Sports Network still lags behind ESPN both in number of households and saturation. If an American is looking for any sport to watch, odds are the first destination will be the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader. You don't flip over to NBCSN—you seek it out.
Even when hockey is front and center, the NHL fails to captivate American audiences. This year's Stanley Cup Finals averaged just under 3 million American viewers. At least one was in Blackwell on Friday, but that did not mean the NHL made an impression.
"I saw when the Sacramento Kings won the Stanley Cup," said Barek Street, who noted that he only likes professional sports, a key distinction in an area where college football is supreme. But even for Street, the NHL makes so little of an impression, he named the wrong city as home of the league champions.
It's easy, being wrapped up in following the NHL's labor negotiations, day in and day out, to get the idea that what is happening in hockey is earth-shattering stuff that could forever alter the sports landscape of North America. It's not. What's actually happening is that a league of marginal importance to the general population is pushing itself further to the fringe.
"I don't think around here people care about the lockout," Taylor Rutledge said while gassing up her car. "I don't know many people that actually watch hockey."
This is not just a northern Oklahoma phenomenon. Over the summer, when the NHL and NHLPA were still on speaking terms, most of the negotiating sessions were at league headquarters in midtown Manhattan. Reporters would stand outside on Sixth Avenue and wait for the participants to emerge. Seeing a couple of TV cameras, passers-by would often ask what the media were waiting for. The vast majority, when told that the answer was NHL labor negotiations, would shrug and move on.
Even when Henrik Lundqvist was there, a 15-minute walk from his home rink at Madison Square Garden, the biggest hubbub that resulted would be a couple of autograph seekers, and a fan or two who wanted a picture with the Vezina Trophy winner.
New York is a long way from Blackwell, but the palpable apathy for hockey is the same in the city and country. Instead of working together to grow a game that should sell itself, the NHL and NHLPA have spent months trying to win the hearts and minds of exiting hockey fans in a public relations war that has only served to alienate everyone. Fans might have an opinion on who's right and wrong in the labor dispute, but the bottom line is that they just want to see world-class hockey.
They won't for at least a month. When they do, it is now an open question as to whether they will care enough to come back. The diehards mostly will, because they can't shake the hockey addiction. The casual fans now have reason and opportunity to check out other winter sports and possibly never return. Having to once again win back the fans lost in a lockout, the NHL can forget about Blackwell, and the thousands of small towns across America like it, for a long time.
What that means is that the NHL gets pushed further to the margins of the sports scene in this country. It is the small towns, the ones unaffiliated with pro teams, that turn pro sports into major pro sports. The proof is in Canada, where hockey is ubiquitous, or in Blackwell, where on Friday afternoon there was a man in a Yankees hat eating a burger, a woman in a Dallas Cowboys sweatshirt walking her dog in a parking lot, a teenager named Kobe, and a guy who used to like writing about hockey, just passing through on the way to cover the weekend's big college football game.
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Event: Bollywood stars Vidya Balan, Nargis Fakhri, Sharman Joshi, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar, Kalki Koechlin, Sonu Sood, Prateik and many others were snapped while returning from IIFA awards 2012.
Guest List: Prateik, Vidya Balan, Shriya Saran, Nargis Fakhri, Farhan Akhtar, Kalki Koechlin, Luv Sinha, Aftab Shivdasani, Sonu Sood, Arjan Bajwa, Sharman Joshi, Shreya Ghoshal, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Shabana Azmi, Poonam Sinha, Atul Agnihotri, Siddharth Kannan, Zeenat Aman, Leslie Lewis, Zoya Akhtar
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur among others were snapped by paparazzi.Bebo looked super cool in a casual look. She wore a white t-shirt with yoga pants...
Bollywood actress Shama Sikander celebrated Diwali festival at her residence.
Bollywood celebs Aamir Khan, Zaira Wasim, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Anil Kapoor, Nitesh Tiwari, Aparshakti Khurrana, Bhushan Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajkumar Hir...


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Welcome to the New (secular) Year and a new batch of Jewish book related blog entries; designed to keep you warm on these long winter nights.
At the Book of Life, Heidi Estrin offers an interview with author Linda Glaser and illustrator Adam Gustavson, creators of the picture book Hannah's Way which won the 2013 Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Younger Readers Category.
On My Machberet, Erika Dreifus shares her year just past in Jewish books.
At Shilo Musings, Batya Medad, reviews two books. A Life Not with Standing, Inspirational Memoir by Chava Willig Levy. In her fantastic inspirational memoir, Chavi reveals more about herself than she usually allows people to know. Batya finds The Soul of Chanukah: Teachings of Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach to be good reading all year long. Reb Shlomo's wonderful stories are always good for reading and telling others.
Diana Bletter explores the "new-old-new" anti-Semitism, a writer's dilemma and other issues in an interview with Phyllis Chesler whose latest book is American Bride in Kabul. [http://thebestchapter.com/2013/12/26/phyllis-chesler-on-a-writers-dilemma-an-american-bride-in-kabul-and-the-new-anti-semitism/]
Lorri M. has reviewed The King of Schnorrers, by Israel Zangwill, and found the bantering to be quite comical.
Kathy Bloomfield of forwordsbooks.com talks about feet at her own website. While at InterfaithFamily.com where she also writes a column, she discusses what's new in Tu B'Shevat books.
The Jewish Book Council announced the winners and finalists of the 2013 National Jewish Book Awards and also shared a Spring 2014 Jewish Book Preview.
Hadassah-Brandeis Institute celebrated the launches of three new books featuring Jewish and gender issues including The Best School in Jerusalem: Annie Landau's School for Girls, 1900–1960, by Laura Schor, "Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature," by Ronit Irshai and "Marriage and Divorce in the Jewish State: Israel's Civil War," by Netty Gross-Horowitz and Susan Weiss.
Barbara Krasner at The Whole Megillah interviewed Neal Bascomb, author of The Nazi Hunters (Arthur Levine, 2013), which chronicles the capture and trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. http://wp.me/pUBjo-v2
Barbara Bietz interviews Mark Lichtenfeld, author of Line Change over at Jewish Books for Kids


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Washington Nationals 2013 Preview
Philadelphia, PA – An exciting young core made the Washington Nationals a team to watch for the foreseeable future, but the curve took a sharp turn up last season with a surprise National League East title.
Some key offseason additions have the Nats poised to remain among baseball's elite again in 2013.
After finishing in the bottom of the NL East six times in seven seasons from 2004-2010, the Nationals began a slow climb up the standings with a third- place finish in 2011. And though that 80-81 record wasn't much to write home about, it did show that the Nats were headed in the right direction.
Not too much was expected out of Washington in 2012, a campaign that figured to serve as seasoning for the returning Stephen Strasburg from Tommy John surgery and rookie Bryce Harper, a pair of No. 1 overall picks from 2009 and '10 respectively charged with leading the franchise into a successful future.
It ended up being much more as Strasburg was dominant until being shut down due to an innings limit and Harper won the NL Rookie of the Year award. Gio Gonzalez led all of baseball with 21 wins in his first season with the Nationals and Tyler Clippard saved the bullpen, while Adam LaRoche, Ryan Zimmerman and Ian Desmond all provided pop at the plate to help Harper.
The result was an 18-win improvement and the franchise's first trip to the playoffs since the Montreal Expos advanced to the NLCS in the 1981 split season. Washington's 98-64 record was also the best in baseball, but it failed to get out of the NLDS, falling in five games to the St. Louis Cardinals after failing to hold leads of 6-0 and 7-5 in the series-deciding contest.
That brief taste of success left the Nats wanting more. They were able to get manager Davey Johnson, winner of the NL Manager of the Year award, to return for the 2013 season before the 70-year-old moves into a consultant role next year and were big players in free agency.
Washington hit each aspect, adding center fielder Denard Span, right-handed starter Dan Haren and closer Rafael Soriano to form one of the deeper teams in the league and also brought back first baseman Adam LaRoche to fill out the meat of the order.
Of course, a lot is still riding on the further growth of Strasburg and Harper, but the Nats look poised to challenge for NL East supremacy once again.
Below we take a capsule look at the 2013 edition of the Nationals, with a personnel evaluation and prognosis included therein:
2012 FINISH (98-64) - First Place (NL East)
KEY OFFSEASON ADDITIONS: Denard Span (OF), Dan Haren (RHP), Rafael Soriano (RHP)
KEY OFFSEASON SUBTRACTIONS: Michael Morse (1B/OF), Edwin Jackson (RHP), Sean Burnett (LHP), Tom Gorzelanny (LHP), John Lannan (LHP), Mark DeRosa (INF/OF), Mike Gonzalez (LHP)
PROJECTED LINEUP: Denard Span (CF), Jayson Werth (RF), Bryce Harper (LF), Ryan Zimmerman (3B), Adam LaRoche (1B), Ian Desmond (SS), Danny Espinosa (2B), Kurt Suzuki/Wilson Ramos (C)
PROJECTED ROTATION: Stephen Strasburg (RHP), Gio Gonzalez (LHP), Jordan Zimmermann (RHP), Dan Haren (RHP), Ross Detwiler (LHP)
PROJECTED CLOSER: Rafael Soriano (RHP)
MANAGER: Davey Johnson
The Nationals were very careful with their prized pitcher in Strasburg last season, shutting the right-hander down after 159 1/3 innings and 28 starts after he had his 2010 rookie season end in August due to Tommy John surgery.
Washington wasn't going to risk Strasburg's long-term health and stuck to its plans of ending his 2012 season early despite being in the pennant race and ultimately the playoffs.
Strasburg won't have an innings limit this season and will be looking to build off his previous campaign that produced a 15-6 record and 3.16 earned run average. The 24-year-old righty fanned 197 and walked just 48 while holding hitters to a .230 average.
A 20-win, 225-strikeout season is certainly a bar that Strasburg can reach and if he can improve pitching out of the stretch and stay healthy, he should be in Cy Young talks come September.
Harper, meanwhile, had his ups and downs last season after cracking the Nats' big league roster by the end of April, but he certainly showed the talent that made him the top pick of the 2010 draft.
Harper, who won't turn 21 until Oct. 16, hit .270 with 22 homers, 59 RBI and 98 runs scored. He stole 18 bases and played all three outfield positions, with the bulk of his time spent in center field.
The dreaded sophomore jinx is looming for Harper, but he has the confidence and swagger to avoid such superstitions. Of course, it is that attitude that also gets him in trouble at times, but that should fade with maturity.
Will Harper take a step back this season? That's a clown question bro.
The addition of Soriano could improve a bullpen that already had the third- best bullpen ERA in the NL last season (3.23) and the third most saves in the league with 51.
The 33-year-old righty owns a career ERA of 2.78 and has saved 132 games in his career. That includes a career-high 45 for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2010, the only previous time he entered a season with the closer's role.
However, he made 42 saves in 46 chances last season with the New York Yankees after Mariano Rivera suffered a torn right ACL in May and also logged a 2.26 ERA. After opting out of his contract, Soriano turned his success last season into a two-year deal with the Nats and will jump right into the role previously held by Drew Storen and then Clippard.
Storen saved 43 games in 2011, but was limited to just 37 appearances last year because of right elbow surgery in April. Clippard eventually claimed the ninth-inning spot and saved 32-of-37 chances while going 2-6 with a 3.72 ERA in 74 games. That came after he logged a 1.83 ERA in 72 games in a set-up role the previous season.
Washington's bullpen was not at its best down the stretch last season and the hope is that Soriano will be consistent from start to finish ahead of his right-handed setup duo in Storen and Clippard.
If there is one area of concern it is that Washington looks ready to head into the regular season with just one lefty in its bullpen: former starter Zach Duke, who was 1-0 with a 1.32 ERA in eight games with the Nats last season.
That addition of Span could be the biggest and impacts the team in the most ways. His addition gives each person a set role in the outfield, with Span in center, Harper shifting to left field and Jayson Werth handling duties in right.
Those three are also now slotted in better spots in the lineup as well. Span is the true leadoff hitter that the Nationals needed and the price to acquire the 29-year-old was simply a minor league pitcher.
Span is a career .284 hitter with a lifetime .357 on-base percentage. He doesn't walk a ton or have much power, but he'll be on the bases enough to give Werth, Harper and a healthy Ryan Zimmerman enough chances to hit with runners on base.
With Span in the mix, Werth can slide down from the leadoff spot to the two- hole, where his 20-homer power and career .267 average fit better. Harper also slots down to the third spot with plenty of chances to drive in runners ahead of Zimmerman and LaRoche in the order.
Haren was named to three straight All-Star teams from 2007-09, has some of the best control in baseball and has twice before found himself in the top 10 in Cy Young voting.
However, he had a dreadful 2012 campaign, following up a career-high 16 win season with the Los Angeles Angels by going 12-13 with a 4.33 ERA in 30 starts. That caused the Angels to buy out his option and he signed on for one year with the Nationals to fill out the back end of their rotation.
The 32-year-old should be motivated and wasn't even really that bad last season, posting a 3.34 ERA by the end of April and a 2.81 ERA over his final eight starts. In between, he landed on the disabled list for the first time in his career because of back and hip issues.
Those types of issues were new to Haren and the pressure to perform near the top of the Angels' rotation will be off his shoulders now as he looks to rebound in Washington.
The Nationals have added depth to their already-talented roster and figure to be serious World Series contenders this season. Gonzalez raised some flags when his name was listed to another PEDs media report this offseason, but he has seemingly been cleared of any wrongdoings or link to illegal substances. Add his clear head to Strasburg, Jordan Zimmermann and a possible free agent steal in Haren, a talented and deep bullpen that could dominate the latter third of the game and an explosive offense and you have all the makings of a possible 100-win team. Inexperience could be the only thing that holds back the Nats from dominating in 2013.


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Obama just more than a year ago, but companies that import foods from other countries still must work hard to ensure their supply systems are in top shape to stop contaminations from crossing U.S. borders.
Edible Arrangements is one such concept. It imports a large amount of its menu from outside the U.S.
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The dangers of selling tainted imported foods are all too real for some restaurant companies. In 2006, Taco Bell faced a potentially disastrous situation when dozens of customers fell ill after eating green onions from Mexico that were contaminated with E. coli. The company's swift response to the outbreak, which included removing green onions from its stores and closing several locations, prevented further catastrophe.
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After a difficult first year in charge of JavaOne in 2010, most people I spoke to at JavaOne this year felt Oracle was having more success with the conference this time round. The vendor really needed to show a broad spectrum of the Java community that it had successfully integrated Sun's Java teams, and was starting to drive the platform forward again, and it succeeded in those aims.
As we previously reported (one, two) Oracle set out its objectives for Java 7 and 8, gave some insights into its thinking for Java 9, and set out future plans for Java EE and Java ME.
As well as the expected strong emphasis on cloud computing, there was a more unexpected, but very welcome, emphasis on both community and client-side Java. From the community stand-point, Oracle provided a briefing and brunch to JUG leaders and Java Champions on what was going to be in the keynote, as well as handing the final keynote over to them. "I...get the feeling Oracle has really energized the JUG leaders and the wider Java community," wrote Eclipse Foundation Director of Marketing, Ian Skerrett, continuing,
The closing keynote session was all about community, including a session with the Java Posse. Good things are going to happen moving forward. Unlike when Sun was in control, I actually feel like the Eclipse community is welcomed into an Oracle-led Java community.
For client-side Java there was a strong emphasis on JavaFX. Stephen Chin, co-author of the book 'Pro JavaFX Platform', remarked
For those naysayers who said JavaFX is dead, Oracle has proved that they are going to continue to move the platform forward and support state-of-the art development on Java client technology. As always, Jasper and the rest of the JavaFX team had some pretty impressive demos and the entire Java community was re-energized about the future of client Java.
Elsewhere, there was a lot of good technical content in many of the sessions, with good discussions around Java EE 7, and Java SE 8, as well as some interesting information from both Oracle and other vendors. Amongst other highlights, Oracle gave a good session on the inner workings of their Nashorn JavaScript engine, IBM provided lots more detail on the new Balanced garbage collection (GC) technology they introduced as part of their Java 7 release, Apache introduced a Java EE Web Profile compatible version of Tomcat, CloudBees added Java EE WP support to their PaaS, and Heroku have added Scala support to theirs.
Attendance was also up according to Oracle. Although the vendor isn't able to provide separate figures for OpenWorld and JavaOne, the combined figure for this year was around 45,000 attendees, and JavaOne attendance was estimated at double that of last year.
There were certainly some weaker aspects. Google's continued refusal to allow its employees to speak at the conference meant, for instance, that former Sun/Oracle man Tor Norbye, now part of the Android team at Google, wasn't allowed to join the rest of the Java Posse on stage for the community keynote, a move which seemed rather petty on Google's part. Equally, Oracle's refusal to mention Android by name, even when demonstrating JavaFX running on an Android-based Tab (referred to only as a "Linux-based device"), looked faintly ridiculous.
There were other problems too. The keynotes, although certainly packed with plenty of information, felt a bit lacklustre, with way too many vendor-sponsored sections of little or no value for attendees.
In addition, holding the conference across three hotels meant there was no central place for people to congregate, reducing opportunities for both networking and just interesting casual conversations. Moreover, people staying in any of the Fisherman's Wharf hotels had a lengthy shuttle bus commute of around an hour, with a change of bus at Moscone, to get to and from the venue.
Martijn Verburg, Community Leader for the London Java User Group, blogged that, "the speakers' room was very small and has limited WiFi signal". We had similar problems in the press room. More generally the WiFi, throughout the conference, was horribly unreliable, causing a great deal of frustration for attendees, making it difficult for presenters trying to do live demos, and for press, bloggers and tweeters alike to get stories out from the conference in a timely manner. To compound this, from the press point of view there was only one briefing event in four days, and only limited opportunities to talk to people from Oracle, again making it more difficult than we would have wanted to get full coverage of the conference out during the week.
I also honestly can't see the value in having combined JavaOne and OpenWorld. The two conferences have entirely different audiences, and a radically different feel. There is little or no sign of JavaOne attendees heading to OpenWorld or vice-versa (though perhaps if you held the two conferences closer together you would see more of this). JavaOne, at least in Sun's time, was always a profitable conference on its own, so why not simply hold two? That would allow Oracle to move JavaOne back to Moscone, where it surely belongs.
But, despite these gripes, the conference was a good incremental improvement on last year. Let's hope Oracle continues to improve the conference next year. For InfoQ's part, we'll be publishing more detailed articles on the three central themes from JavaOne, along with other interesting information from around the conference, in the coming weeks.
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Here is latest Java posse episode [0]. You'll note that when asked if everyone agrees with pushing Java 8 out the reaction of the crowd is negative.
Here, is an interview with Mark Reinhold from the recent Javaone [1]. I am petty sure after listening to it you will get the impression that it has less to do "with community" wanting a two year release cycle and more to do with not being ready for a 2012 release.
Furthermore, if Oracle cannot keep their commitment for a 2012 release what makes you so sure we'll have 2 year releases?
You should know that I think Oracle is doing great things for Java. It's just disappointing to have to wait that much longer for Java 8.
[0] www.javaposse.com/java-posse-366-java-one-2011
[1] medianetwork.oracle.com/video/player/1203095601001
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"Furthermore, if Oracle cannot keep their commitment for a 2012 release what makes you so sure we'll have 2 year releases?"
Just to be clear I'm not convinced about that - I was merely pointing to Alex Miller's tweet. But I do think a regular rhythm of releases for Java would be welcome, and I suspect, and hope that Oracle will make the necessary resources available to do this. At the moment, there's still a lot of inherited problems from the end of Sun's tenure and the acquisition itself which won't be helping scheduling matters.
With regards pushing JDK 8 back 6 months it is certainly disappointing. But I will say that both the big ticket items in Java 8 - lambda and Jigsaw - are enormously problematic for different reasons (Lambda mainly because of the way generics was done, and Jigsaw because of having to maintain some sort of compatibility with OSGi). Given that my own inclination is to say "take as long as you need." Lets try and get these as good as they possibly can be. I appreciate this is probably the minority view.
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Gunther, Scott. The Elastic Closet: A History of Homosexuality in France, 1942-Present. Palgrave, 2009.
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pster wrote:Well, Hornblower has basically nothing whatsoever to say about any of this. He has a few remarks about the kind of folly involved at the very end. I could never be a classicist. I don't know how there could be a debate between two camps that isn't addressed in a 2000 page 3 volume commentary. Frankly, it seems quite absurd. I better stop there.
mwh wrote:But I note the competing translations both (or all) appear to take the negative as applying only to the participle. Could it perhaps apply to both the participle and the main verb?
John W. wrote:It is the bit in bold which is the real problem, and especially the force of οὐ γὰρ δὴ. Denniston (The Greek Particles, 2nd edn, p. 243) gives the general sense of οὐ γὰρ δὴ as 'certainly not' (or 'certainly not, at any rate'), but for our present passage translates as 'Surely you have not avoided these three errors only to fall into a fourth ...'
mwh wrote:Agreed the tenses are important (as always), and perfects are perfects. That doesn't mean they have to translated by presents. I don't see anything wrong with "I have found" for eureka. I tried variously to capture the force of the perfects in my highly tentative and fumbling renderings above ("have managed to avoid," "have been free" etc.)—unsatisfactorily, no doubt.
mwh wrote:I read the aphllaktai bit as referring to the failings he's rehearsed in the speech up to this point.
mwh wrote: For me the difficulty lies in the katafronhsis bit, as I tried to explain. Who or what is (was, will be) the object of the contempt (or lack of it)? I don't get it.
John W. wrote:
pster asked why I used 'but' in referring to Denniston on οὐ γὰρ δὴ (The Greek Particles, 2nd edn, p. 243). It was to contrast the general sense he gives for this combination – 'you have certainly not done X' – with the different sense he assigns to it here : 'surely you have not done X(?)'.
John W. wrote:
I agree with mwh that we need to look at the context. The Corinthians have said that the allies are not only failing to strengthen the liberty which they inherited from their fathers, but are even 'allowing a tyrant city [= imperial Athens] to be established in Hellas'. They add that they cannot see how 'these things' (i.e. the failure to safeguard their liberty, and allowing Athens to become a tyrant city – 'this policy' in my translation) 'can be free from the three greatest disasters: stupidity, weakness and ignorance'.
So far, so good. But are the Corinthians then saying to the allies (I translate fairly freely to bring out the possible meanings):
(a) 'We cannot see how this policy can be free from these disasters – for you certainly have not avoided them by adopting a contemptuous attitude towards the Athenians.' (I think this is what 'contempt' means here: the allies are accused of arrogantly underestimating the power and threat of Athens.)
Or are they saying:
(b) 'For surely you have not managed to avoid these disasters, only to fall into the trap of regarding the Athenians with contempt.'
mwh wrote:To adopt your preferrred translations for the verbs, "Not being free of these sumphorai are you accommodating that contempt …". Which turns out to be just the same as John's "you certainly have not avoided them by adopting a contemptuous attitude" and my "you certainly can't have proceeded to that oh-so-pernicious contemptuousness without having fallen prey to these afflictions."
pster wrote: I just think that the Corinthians are whining not just about what the allies did, but what the allies have been doing! Maybe that is the problem we all are having. Not enough use of the English present perfect, myself included!
mwh wrote:
?Interesting that the three are presented as alternatives (h not kai). Why? Each entails the others, or you can take your pick, they all effectively amount to the same thing?


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Hey there! Thanks for checking out this project.
Best Offer Bot is a new web based service that helps eBay sellers sell their stuff for MORE. BOB presents to market as a friendly little robot dude that sits there and barters with your buyers.
The logo has been finished and is attached to the project, now we need the design of the brochure site fleshed out.
Existing Market: Anyone who sell on eBay,
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At this point NVIDIA is pumping out video cards based on the successful Kepler GK104 core with the launch of the GTX 690, GTX 680 and now the GTX 670, which is targeting the more middle of the road gamers. We saw that the GTX 680 was a potent product from the start that handed AMD's king of the hill single GPU Southern Islands-based HD 7970 a losing hand in just about every game and resolution tested. The GTX 680 proved to be cooler running and more power efficient, and directly caused a dynamic shift in the performance playing field when the price point was lower at retail than the HD 7970 was selling for. AMD countered with price drops to make the HD 7970 more competitive from a price for performance perspective. Now NVIDIA is going to go for the jugular with the launch of the GTX 670 and really drive the price performance ratio back to the green side of the fence, with the HD 7950 square in its sights.
The mantra for NVIDIA is to run cooler, more efficiently and deliver exceptional gaming performance; things it proved with the last two launches. By using the same SMX architecture (albeit one less SMX), the GTX 670 is supposed to be between 30% to 50% faster than the GTX 570 across a wide range of games. This makes a perfect time to upgrade for the person on that traditional (or seemingly so) three year upgrade cycle. Upgrading from a GTX 470 the user should see results up to twice as fast per the press release. We have seen what the last two GK104 cards are capable of, now let's see if NVIDIA can knock this one straight out of the park with a price point that will make the GTX 670 all the more appealing.
Closer Look:
The packaging for the GTX 670 was nowhere near as special as the GTX 690 but is more indicative of a retail box seen at big box retailers. The black box has the NVIDIA logo embossed on the cover to identify what brand is inside. Standard retail packaging follows through the interior with a box for the accessories and the obligatory anti-static bag.
The GTX 670 uses the same 28nm Kepler SMX architecture introduced on the GK104-based GTX 680. The GPU consists of a series of GPCs (Graphics Processing Clusters), four in this case, on each GK104 with two SMX units each with 192 cores for a total of 1536 CUDA cores per GPU core when used on the GTX 680. The GTX 670 has had one of the eight SMX disabled effectively dropping the CUDA core count to 1344. To more effectively manage power consumption, the traditional method of running the shader clock at twice the core clock was abandoned and now the clock speeds run at a 1:1 ratio. Each GPC has a single raster engine and dynamically share 1MB of L2 cache. The GPU core features 112 texture units and 32 ROPs on the GTX 670. A new feature with GK104 is hardware and software-based GPU Boost technology, which dynamically boosts the clock speeds of the GPU cores when there is available TDP headroom, much like the latest CPUs from Intel and AMD. The base clock speeds for the GTX 670 are 915MHz with a GPU Boost core clock speed of around 980MHz. The GTX 670 memory subsystem is the same as that used on the GTX 680 with four 64-bit (256-bit) memory controllers handling 2GB of GDDR5 memory running at 1500MHz (6000MHz effective). To put it in simple terms, the GTX 670 is a GTX 680 with only seven SMX units.
While the reference board is fully capable of handling some spirited overclocking, NVIDIA's board partners, like ASUS, Galaxy, EVGA, Zotac, Gainward and more, will have a variety of factory overclocked offerings with their own custom PCBs. Below are a few mages that show off a few of these new cards.
Even though knowing what's going to be under the skin, we need to take a look at the GTX 670 from NVIDIA.