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Bunbury Bark Edge Cutting Board
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Made from the finest, ecologically-harvested Irish hardwoods, this rustic cutting board is distinct for its "waney" or bark-on edge. The unique story behind every board, the tree it originates from, and what is being done to replace that tree is fully documented for the board's owner.
- The distinctive look of this board's natural bark-on edge makes it the perfect serving piece for cheeses, cured meats, appetizers and more.
- Every board is made from carefully chosen, sustainably harvested Irish hardwood.
- By entering a code found on every board, the owner can learn the history of the particular tree that was used in its construction.
- Extremely durable, this board is built to stand up to the daily rigors of kitchen work.
- Handmade from start to finish, this board is as well suited to display on a coffee table as it is in the kitchen.
- Recesses under both ends of the board allow it to be easily carried.
- Squared back and sides and rounded corners complement the board's waney edge.
- Dimensions & More Info
- 6" x 20".
- 1" thick
- 2 lb. 14 oz.
- Made in Ireland.
- Use & Care
- Board should be seasoned with a food-grade mineral oil before first use.
- To season the board properly, warm the mineral oil slightly and apply it in the direction of the wood grain using a clean, dry cloth. Allow the oil to soak in and repeat with another application. Allow the board to dry and wipe off any excess oil.
- Hand-wash with hot, soapy water. Dry thoroughly.
- Do not soak or submerge board in water.
- Occasionally rub with a food-safe mineral oil to keep wood from drying out.
- To sanitize, wash the board with a solution of one part vinegar to five parts water.
- Remove odors by rubbing the board with kosher or table salt and half a lemon. Let sit for 2 to 3 minutes then wipe clean with a damp cloth. Remove excess moisture with a clean paper towel and stand the board on end to air dry.
- Store in a dry area away from extreme temperatures.
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Spring Wishes & Dreams Gift Set
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With a luminous, juicy top note that reels you into a wondrous world of fresh florals, sensual woods and white amber, our bebe Wishes and Dreams gift set is sure to leave a lasting trail of intensity, revealing warmth, luxury and soft sensuality. The best part? It makes a perfect gift!
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I have ordered this two different times and both times, whoever I gave them to, loved them.Sweet, delicious strawberries covered in chocolate. Who wouldn't like that?
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Saving Scott's and Shackleton's Huts
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Looking down on Scott Base, the area where the Ross Ice Shelf joins the sea ice can be clearly seen in the background.
Scott Base with Observation Hill behind to the left. McMurdo Station is just over the hill on the right.
Scott Base, Antarctica. Mount Erebus is in the background, the pressure ridges in the ice are from the ice shelf pressing the sea ice against the shore.
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Looking out the window of the historic Discovery hut to Vince's Cross at Hut Point, Antarctica.
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Inside Discovery Hut, the site of Scott's first expedition to Antarctica. The hut is preserved as a living museum.
Mount Erebus as seen from the pressure ridges near Scott Base Antarctica
Camera mounted to a post set in the ice for part of 4 month long time-lapse project. Recording changes in the sea ice pressure ridges in front of Scott Base in temperatures down to about -60C ambient. Despite the wrappings, snow was still driven inside the camera and packed solid in the compact flash and battery compartments.
Nacreous or Polar Stratospheric Clouds in the sky above an ice formation in the Scott Base pressure ridges.
Full Moon over Observation Hill. The cross is the memorial marker to Robert Scott and his men who died returning from the South Pole in 1914.
Star trails, looking straight up over about 2 hours the movement of the stars create an overhead circular pattern. The green bits in the sky are from some auroras that passed though the shot.
The full moon about to pass behind Mount Discovery as seen from Black Island in April. This photo was taken a few days before the sun disappeared below the horizon for the winter. The sunlight only just hitting the top half of Mount Discovery.
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The speaker at the fifth installment at the UNI Diplomat Series to be held on October 29, 2013 from 5:30 to 6:30 in Lang Auditorium will be Dr. Peter Jahr MEP. Dr. Jahr was elected on the Christian Democratic ticket and sits with the European People's Party group in the European Parliament. He is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Committee on Petitions, the Delegation to the EU-Armenia, EU-Azerbaijan and EU-Georgia Parliamentary Cooperation Committees and the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.
Peter Jahr earned Diplom-Landwirt (comp. Master of Agricultural Engineering) in 1984 and a doctorate (Dr.agr.) in 1988 both from the Karl-Marx-Universität Leipzig. In 1988, he joined the Justus von Liebig Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossenschaft as administrator. In 1990, he became manager of the Agrar Gmbh, Taura. Since 1995, he has been a part-time farmer.
Dr. Jahr was a member of the Democratic Farmers' Party of Germany from 1988 to 1990 and joined the Christian Democratic Union in 1990. From 1990 to 2002, he was a Member of the Landtag of Saxony, the German state of Saxony's parliament. In 2002, he left the Landtag to become a member of the German Bundestag representing the district of Döbeln - Mittweida - Meißen II. In 2009, he left the Bundestag to become a Member of the European Parliament.
Dr Jahr will be delivering a lecture on the subject of renewable energy and conservation in the EU entitled: "Renewable Energies - What we should (not) learn from the European Union."


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Sunday, February 13, 2011
are we destined for more form factors?
So for awhile, there's been this idea floating around tech circles, I think called "convergence." It's the idea that the number of devices people own is going to shrink, as more and more features and power are crammed into smaller and smaller packages. As many, many people have reported, a decent smart phone houses so many features that even the term "phone" is reductive. Single-function devices, the conventional wisdom goes, are dead, dead, dead, and that means less devices for everyone.
But is that true?
Speaking anecdotally (and if you are averse to conjecture in this context, this post is not for you), I don't think it's true, or at least, it isn't true in the sense of resulting in less and less devices for each consumer. I think the Ipad should be taken as a sign of things to come: not less form factors, but more, and in direct response to market saturation and the need for tech companies to expand their product lines.
Think of your average techie who has some money to spend. For young, fairly affluent people, it's entirely ordinary to have a smartphone, tablet, eInk ereader like the Kindle, notebook/laptop computer, video game console (or two!), desktop computer, and HDTV. It's not that uncommon for someone to even add a netbook to that list, and streaming media boxes/media center PCs are growing more and more common.Yes, your smartphone can do a hell of a lot of things, but people still want more, and certainly, companies want to sell you more.
People have been predicting the demise of the desktop computer for as long as I can remember, but it never happens. Desktop computer sales remain strong, as well as desktop OS sales. I think that the realities of the gadget and tech press make this narrative endlessly attractive to tech writers; there is competitive pressure to both predict major changes in the future and to speak as sweepingly and boldly as possible. There is just so much tech media out there on the Internet, only the loudest claims get listened to. But it turns out that people still like to do things like play the latest games, use a large monitor for photo editing, encode and encrypt DVDs and Blu-Rays, and use powerful professional audio and video editing systems. So the desktop survives.
Anyway, why haven't we seen the expected convergence of all tech into one device? A few reasons. First, it's important to say that no matter how much software progresses, there are physical limitations on technology that are difficult or impossible to breach. Not all tech issues can be resolved through time and Moore's Law. The perfect example of this is screen size. For years, in cell phones, the push was smaller, smaller, smaller. But the Droid X and EVO 4G each made a splash by going larger, specifically in screen size. When a phone is only used to make phone calls, more size is a disadvantage. When a phone is regularly used to watch YouTube or surf the web, size becomes a commodity. But that involves a trade off. Until we come up with some sort of next gen projection tech, you either choose the most pocketable, portable device, or you choose the best screen to look at. It's exactly for this reason-- the desire for portability combined with the desire for more screen real estate-- that tablets have emerged in such a public way.
This is also true of other issues, such as physical controls. The fact that people still buy netbooks, aside from their affordability compared to tablets, stems from the reality that (propaganda aside) typing on a touch screen simply isn't as easy, accurate, or comfortable as typing on a physical keyboard. Or consider the Nintendo DS and its multitude variations. The DS, a device used almost exclusively for gaming, is exactly the kind of single-function gadget that tech-head CW has insisted will die out. But the DS has something an iPhone, iPad, or most Android smartphones and tablets will never have: physical buttons, d-pads, and analog sticks laid out and specifically devoted to gaming. The advantage of this should be obvious to anyone who has played your average iPhone or Android games, which (Angry Birds notwithstanding) are terrible, generally speaking. Many major genres and types of game simply aren't meant for touch controls. That's why third-party weirdness like this exists.
Incidentally, one of the places where the tech media pushes a narrative to the point of dishonesty is in the app-market triumphalism. Major gadget and tech sites constantly report the number of apps sold and downloaded, rather than the price of those apps or the profit that they generate, as the essential information for the success of app stores. This is misleading because of how many apps are free or a dollar, and also how many are barely used. A quarter of apps downloaded are used exactly once and never again. Compare to Nintendo's unprecedentedly strong DS platform; games typically sell for $30. That's got to matter for a consideration of who "rules" gaming. (A consideration of game quality would be nice, too.) But the narrative is that downloaded apps are the future and physical games are the past, and as is their habit, they push the stories that they feel best fit the narrative, rather than trying to honestly assess the state of the tech world.
I digress. The biggest reason form factors proliferate, I think, is simply that businesses need more devices to sell, and for that reason I want to talk for a minute about the iPad.
I want to preface this by saying that I have quit arguing PC vs. Mac cold turkey. (Although, if arguing PC vs. Mac is my alcoholism, then Andrew Sullivan's recent "Apple and Our Culture" series was like learning an ex-wife was getting remarried. To my brother. On Christmas. In a distillery.) But the way that the tech media interacts with Apple and its products is really important. Here's what I think happened with the iPad: I think Apple put out a device in a form factor that was almost entirely niche, and the tech media was immediately ready to accept that form factor as a serious contender.
Remember that, despite its reception as a revolutionary device, tablets as expressed in the iPad represent an idea that has been around for quite some time. Notoriously, Bill Gates predicted the iPad by years and years. So it's not like the iPad idea was particularly game-changing. Rather, the fact that it was Apple that put it into practice gave the form factor immediate legitimacy. I've probably played with an iPad for a total of 15 minutes, so I'm not the best to judge, but it does seem to me that Apple has realized the concept quite nicely. But that isn't why the iPad created immediate legitimacy for the form factor; it only took the Apple name. Again, I'm not denying the accomplishment of Apple, only trying to be honest about what the mechanism was that legitimized the tablet in the eyes of the media. The widespread mocking of Bill Gates in the tech media for not implementing his idea doesn't reflect the simple reality that even an identical Microsoft iPad would have been met with a far harsher, more skeptical critical evaluation than the exact same device as presented by Apple. That's just the reality of the gadget blogs and media; Apple has an enormous advantage in a credulous and sympathetic press, in comparison to Google and certainly to Microsoft. Whether that's a product of their track record, their advertising/propaganda machine, or both is a matter of debate.
What's interesting is that this isn't necessarily a bad thing for the industry. If you define success in terms of beating Apple, sure, it's a bad thing. But look at all of the myriad tablet options out there. Some will be profitable, and some won't be, but they're all entering a marketplace that exists in large part because Apple decided to create it. In the short term, that's probably good for the industry as a whole. In the long run, we'll see if it's a healthy dynamic or not. I don't think it's going to change; I can't imagine a situation where the tech press's baked-in preference for Apple products takes a hit.
So look forward into the future. It's hard for me to imagine a new form factor that people could desire. But two years ago, I never would have thought that there would be room for a device inbetween the smart phone and the laptop, and yet tablets have exploded. There's a clear reason for this: if you are a tech company, what good does convergence do you? If you actually could cram every tech need into a smartphone, you're putting all of your eggs into that basket. Even if it's clearly the best smartphone on the market, you're setting a certain threshold for how many devices you're going to sell in a quarter. Sure, people will upgrade eventually. But people only have so much money to spend on phones, and of course, the two year contracts that subsidize expensive smartphoness are an essential element of the basic economics of the industry.
If you're a tech company, it seems to me that the opposite of what you want is convergence, and the iPad demonstrates that. It's true that single function devices the MP3 players seem less likely to emerge or endure, but total devices, I conjecture, are going to rise. This leads to a lot of redundancy-- you can listen to music on your phone, on your ereader, on your tablet, on your notebook, and on your desktop. But people love to buy gadgets and companies love to sell them.
So while I can't imagine a new form factor, my guess is a new one is coming. And if you want a prediction of which will get the blessing of the gadget press, look to Apple.
4 comments:
- Joseph FM said...
Totally agreed with you on this. It makes sense too! The only thing I would quibble with is that I think it actually is pretty odd to have a tablet and an eInk ereader like the Kindle and a netbook (all of which are pretty similar in functionality and price, with the e-readers trading extra functions for eye-friendliness).
- February 13, 2011 at 7:03 PM
wow, that Sully link is one of the weirdest/saddest things I've ever read
- February 13, 2011 at 10:06 PM
- TheRadicalModerate said...
There are really only three questions that need to be answered for any kind of gadget:
1) Can it access all the data that you need and compute what you need it to compute?
2) How well do you need to be able to see the result of the computation?
3) What style of interaction best suits your needs?
You can mix and match these in endless variety right now, but convergence is indeed coming--sort of.
We're about 2-3 years away from being able to do full bidirectional 1080p video at 3-4 watts of power, which is where you need to be to have a credible mobile device. 4G/LTE wireless will pretty much give you enough network bandwidth in about the same time frame. After that, unless you have very strange computational needs, you'll have all the compute power you need in the device you walk around with.
The next technology that causes convergence is something like wireless HDMI, which is just now becoming available. Once the chipsets for this have shown up in sufficiently low-power configurations, you can use several different screens in various form factors, all from your mobile device, based on how much resolution you need. Your TV may be on the wall, but the cable box will be in your pocket.
The problem that I don't see going away immediately is the bewildering array of user interaction modalities. Content creation vs. content browsing vs. gaming interactions vs. live conversation all have very specific input requirements, and those requirements are unlikely to be captured in a single mobile device. But they're all very low bandwidth, and it's easy to build add-on input gadgets for various applications.
Bottom line: You're only going to have one computing and network access element, and you'll carry it around. But you'll continue to have a bunch of different displays and a bunch of different input devices.
- February 17, 2011 at 5:34 PM
- RS Gold said...
Networking is very important in our daily lives. Often the best jobs and opportunities are not advertised but filled by word of mouth. With this in mind, a good idea to go look for yourself. How is this, I hear you ask? By the simple process of networking.
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The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for the Charleston tri-county region until 7 p.m.
Winds are expected to be south, blowing at 15 to 25 mph with gusts around 40 mph. A wind advisory means that winds of at least 30 mph are expected.
The soaking delivered to the region this morning has saturated the soil and may make trees vulnerable to being uprooted by the wind, the Weather Service said. One person was killed and another hospitalized after two people crashed into a fallen tree in Berkeley County this morning.
Heavy rain prompted flash flood warnings during the morning rush hours and caused flooding on some low-lying streets, espeically in downtown Charleston.
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Calling all nature lovers; it's time to pick your favor snapshot of a critter or landscape for the fourth annual Birds & Butterflies amateur photography contest.
The year's contest is called "Bluebirds Over South Carolina." In October, the local chapter of the North American Bluebird Society is hosting its national convention in Aiken. Some of the contest submissions will be included in a calendar and Birds & Butterflies store owner Ron Brenneman said that in honor of that event, it will be a compilation of bluebird photos. A total 10 percent of the calendar sale proceeds will go to the S.C. Bluebird Society which is a local nonprofit, Brenneman said.
But, for the contest itself, photos of any wildlife or natural scenery in South Carolina will be accepted.
"We receive a wide range of photos," Brenneman said. "Even though we have specific guidelines, it's still pretty wide open."
The categories include critters, scenery and photographs by the youth.
Photographs of wild birds, mammals and butterflies would fit into the critter category. Domestic animals are not included.
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The youth category consists of both critter and scenery photographs taken by participants 16 or younger.
Brenneman said his favorite part of the contest is not only seeing all the beautiful pictures but witnessing the excitement of the participants of all ages having their work on display.
Each category will have a first and second place winner as well as a "People's Choice" award.
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Judge vacates $450 million in damages from Apple vs. Samsung, orders new trial to re-determine amount
Judge Lucy Kho, the federal judge which presided over Apple vs. Samsung, has today vacated a little more than $450,514,650 from the over $1 billion judgement awarded to Apple at the end of that trial. Kho determined that the jury had made an error in calculating the damages owed from fourteen of the devices. Florian Müller of FOSS Patents reports:
The $450 million amount corresponds to 14 Samsung products, with respect to which a new damages trial must be held because the court cannot make the adjustments it deems necessary for legal reasons: the jury set only one damages figure per product, but half a dozen different intellectual property rights were found infringed, resulting in a lack of clarity as to what portion of a per-product damages figure is attributable to a given intellectual property right.
Apple is still owed the rest of the damages awarded, over $500 million worth. all that's to be re-determined is the damages, as the devices were still in violation of Apple's patents. While Apple can expect to regain some of that with the new trial, or theoretically get even more, it seems most likely that Apple won't regain the the full $450 million.
Both Apple and Samsung continue to make appeals against judgements in this case that went against them, and we won't hear the end of this trial for some time yet.
Source: FOSS Patents
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Judge vacates $450 million in damages from Apple vs. Samsung, orders new trial to re-determine amount
Not sure why these clowns are flaming each other and are not on subject.
My comment is that Apple cannot get a fair decision from an Asian (descendant) judge when the decision is between an American company and Korea. Yes, I realize that Kho is probably Chinese.
The judge is actually Korean. But give me a break. The judge isn't bias. In fact some have hated her in Korea for being too "pro" Apple during the case. Whatever point you were trying to make, you would think race, ethnicity, or sex has no weight in the court room. This case is bad for both companies and the industry as a whole. I'm not an Apple fanboy nor an Android. I'm a fan of technology. Just let this case be over already. Apple should quit trying to win in the court room and go back to innovating. Maybe their stocks would rebound if they did. And no. Adding .5" to their screen and adding LTE to their premier product isn't innovating.
It's so hard to get people to look past the whole "Which OS is better debate" and see that this whole thing is ridiculous. It really irks me that Apple can't just say "Our sales are slipping. Let's figure out why, and fix it." Instead they take the pompous route and say "Our sales are slipping, people must not be able to tell Android phones from ours. Let's sue!" I started out with an iPod touch, and loved it. I just feel like the OS is stagnant at this point, it looks the same as it did 6 years ago, only the pixels are denser. That being said, I still feel like iOS is a great OS, it's just not really for me any more. I used to HATE Android, but tried out a Droid X2 with less than stellar results. The thing is that the OS had some really great features that you couldn't get with iOS (again for me), but it was, in fact, very buggy. To the risk of sounding biased and trollish, I recently got the Galaxy S3, and absolutely LOVE the phone. This hardware coupled with the latest Android software is the first real product giving iOS a run for it's money. Literally as it turns out... What gets me is that Apple wants to act like they are innovators, but they cower at the first real sign of threat in the marketplace. You can only stand on a chair and yell "FIRST!" for so long until people stop paying attention. It just doesn't seem like they are taking the risks necessary to compete. iOS will always have followers, because they ARE doing a lot right, and the OS is simple to use. Apple did start something with their launch of the iPhone. For every great advancement, there are going to be others that follow suit, you just have be able to compete with they come out with. You just can't make a smaller version of a monitor and claim that as your 'design'. Well, I guess it turns out you can, you just shouldn't... It's disheartening to see Apple fold and claim loss of sales because competition is finally catching up. I don't even recognize you any more Apple, who are you? Microsoft?
Typo alert: Judge Koh, not Kho
I currently swap between the iPhone 5 and the Nexus 4. Been an owner of an iPhone since the 2G and been a supporter of every Nexus phone as well. I cannot blindly support Apple and say they are doing the right thing. They really are becoming stale and not just in mobile OS. Mountain Lion seems like more of the same too.
You (well, unsurprisingly, Florian) left out the primary reason so many damages were set aside: because the jury awarded damages by ignoring clear pre-trial instructions from the Judge. Judge Koh, for example, said at least 4 times that utility patents were not sufficient to award damages, and yet the jury awarded damages for the Galaxy Prevail based solely on utility patents. From the order:
" it is apparent that the jury failed to follow the Court's instructions on the law, and awarded damages based on a legally impermissible theory. This award cannot stand."
Judges will rarely, if ever, say a jury screwed up in such strong language. But here, they did.


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Last one i got were the D&H made DSG mags CTD had on sale for $5 a pop. those run just fine thank you very much.
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On Tuesday night the Pinewood Prep Panthers played their first home game of the season and came away with a 49-35 victory over Cardinal Newman.
Cardinal Newman was without the services of one of their top players, a Clemson signee, who was out with an ankle injury.
After a poor start in which the Panthers only scored three points in the opening quarter, Pinewoods offense improved over the next three periods. The Panthers scored 13 points in the second and third and finished the game strong with 20 points in the fourth period. Reid Radebaugh and Jimmy Thomas both had 11 points and Evan Schwartz added 10 to lead the Panthers. Schwartz also pulled down 7 rebounds.
Pinewood broke the game open in the third period with three pointers from Thomas, Radebaugh and Corbin Landers. Schwartz sealed the victory, scoring all 10 of his points in the final period. He went 3 for 3 from the field and 4 for 5 from the foul line.
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This is the latest of our 30 team previews, which will run through March 19. Previous: New York Yankees preview. Next: Tampa Bay Rays preview.
They are motivated, these Baltimore Orioles, especially at the top.
Manager Buck Showalter built foundations in two previous stops only to see the New York Yankees and Arizona Diamondbacks win the World Series the seasons after he was fired.
Executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette spent eight years assembling the nucleus of a Boston Red Sox team that won the first of two World Series titles less than three years after his firing. He then spent nearly a decade out of the majors.
Owner Peter Angelos is a lightning rod for fan discontent in Baltimore, where the Orioles have made just three playoff appearances in his 20-year tenure.
But the Orioles are coming off their first winning season and first postseason appearance since 1997, meaning this polarizing trio has the team in position to contend for the World Series title that long has eluded each of them.
Baltimore must prove that last season's magic wasn't a fluke. In 2012, no Orioles pitcher won more than 12 games, the team had only a plus-7 run differential and the roster survived a long list of injuries.
The Orioles hit just .256 with runners in scoring position but went 29-9 in one-run games, 25-14 in two-run games and 16-2 in extra-inning affairs. It is unlikely that Baltimore will replicate that magic, but the franchise should have staying power thanks to a strong nucleus of young talent and financial resources.
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Duquette showed no signs of a long layoff from wheeling and dealing, signing lefthander Wei-Yin Chen from Japan, trading for righthander Jason Hammel and plucking a number of other key contributors (righthander Miguel Gonzalez, outfielder Nate McLouth, infielder Ryan Flaherty, among others) off the scrap heap.
Duquette also promoted 20-year-old shortstop Manny Machado from Class AA in August, and Showalter installed him at third base—a problem area for Baltimore. In 51 games, Machado plugged the hole defensively and hit well.
The Orioles have a strong foundation with center fielder Adam Jones, who finished sixth in the AL MVP voting and won his second Gold Glove Award, two-time All-Star catcher Matt Wieters and Machado.
Breakout candidates: Machado makes the list
Shortstop J.J. Hardy has flourished in his two seasons in Baltimore, hitting a total of 52 homers and winning his first Gold Glove in 2012.
After two stints on the disabled list last season, Nick Markakis will man right field. The Orioles also hope Brian Roberts, who has played in just 115 games since 2009 because of injuries, will return to second base and the leadoff position.
Showalter did perhaps his finest work last season managing the bullpen. Baltimore was 74-0 in games it led after seven innings, and Jim Johnson had a major league-best 51 saves.
The Orioles haven't developed a true No.1 starter since Mike Mussina more than two decades ago. That likely will change soon with righthander Dylan Bundy, who made his major league debut at 19 in September and is regarded as the game's top pitching prospect. Kevin Gausman, the fourth overall pick in last year's draft, also is on the horizon.
Duquette and Showalter must find the talent to bridge that gap and put more distance between the team's promising present and its forgettable recent past.
SLUSSER: Can the Orioles recapture their 2012 magic?
1. 2B Brian Roberts
2. SS J.J. Hardy
3. RF Nick Markakis
4. CF Adam Jones
5. C Matt Wieters
6. 1B Chris Davis
7. DH Wilson Betemit
8. 3B Manny Machado
9. LF Nate McLouth/Nolan Reimold
RHP Jason Hammel
LHP Wei-Yin Chen
RHP Chris Tillman
RHP Miguel Gonzalez
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Mr. Dependable: Adam Jones. The 27-year-old center fielder emerged as the face of this franchise last season when he signed the largest contract in club history (six years, $85.5 million), made the All-Star team, played in every game, won a Gold Glove and led the team with 103 runs. Jones also hit .287 with a career-best 32 homers and 82 RBIs.
X-factor: Jason Hammel. In a rotation lacking a No. 1-type starter, Hammel proved to be the Orioles' best when healthy last season. He went 8-6 with a 3.43 ERA and threw the team's only complete game. Because Baltimore did little to upgrade its rotation, how Hammel matches up against the likes of David Price and other top AL East starters will go in a long way in determining the team's chances of returning to the postseason.
On deck: Dylan Bundy. Widely regarded as the game's top pitching prospect, Bundy was a cursory call-up last September after dominating in Class A and AA as a 19-year-old. He did just fine, too, by not allowing a run in two relief appearances. The next time the hard-throwing righthander is promoted, he should stick around for good.
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OFFENSE: Earl Weaver would be proud of these Orioles, who were second in the majors in home runs (214) but finished 11th in the AL in on-base percentage (.311) and last in steals (58). They outscored their opponents by just seven runs.
DEFENSE: With three Gold Glove winners (Hardy, Jones, Wieters), Baltimore made considerable strides in the second half of 2012. However, the Orioles still committed 106 errors and posted a fielding percentage (.983) slightly below the league average.
ROTATION: With no clear ace, at least until Bundy arrives, the rotation will resemble last season's patchwork squad that had just one 10-game winner.
BULLPEN: Showalter uses his bullpen masterfully, and Johnson has emerged as a force. Pedro Strop, Darren O'Day and Luis Ayala are solid from the right side, and Troy Patton and Brian Matusz (if he doesn't start) are effective lefties.
BENCH: Duquette has a knack for acquiring versatile spare parts off the waiver wire. This offseason, he added Trayvon Robinson and Danny Valencia, the type of under-the-radar guys who paid huge dividends in 2012.
A major league scout analyzes 3B Manny Machado:
"This guy is the real deal. He showed a lot of maturity making the move to third base right after getting called up. He'll be back at short at some point, but for now he'll really give them a boost at third. He's got great instincts and range, soft hands and just a rifle of an arm. He's going to hit a lot of doubles and probably 20 to 25 home runs a year."
The Orioles used 52 players last season. Such a revolving door enabled the team to adopt a different-hero-every night mentality, but it also reflected numerous injuries and Duquette's uncanny luck finding replacement parts. The Orioles need more stability.
What could go right: The Orioles can build upon their 2012 momentum if their young pitching develops, Machado becomes a breakout star and Roberts contributes.
What could go wrong: It will be tough to replicate the magic of all the close games last season, and if the pitching fails to develop and match up with the Yankees', Rays' and improved Blue Jays', the Orioles could drop to the .500 mark.
Bottom line: With a strong nucleus of young everyday talent and the game's top pitching prospect in Bundy, Baltimore's future is bright. Everything broke the right way for the team last season, and it is unrealistic to believe it will again. Still, the Orioles should be postseason contenders.
Pete Williams is a freelance baseball writer. This feature also appears in Sporting News' 2013 Baseball Yearbook.


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I've already pre-ordered GW2, played BWE2, and plan on playing once it's released. That said, I enjoy playing PvE stuff with my wife, so I got a beta key for her this weekend so she could check the game out and decide if she wants to play or not.
After playing 5 sets of characters, all to somewhere between lvl 10 and 12, I have to say that low level grouping was kind of a pain in the ass.
With our first set of characters (Norn and Asura) it took forever just to get in the same zone (granted I had no idea about the portals until I started digging through the forums to find out where the hell they were.) and once we did it wasn't too big of a deal since we just ran through the asura story quests together.
The second set, we rolled two humans, and that's where things were rediculously painful. Basically having to go through the same quests twice with slight variations based on what we picked during level creation was irritating.
In addition, the starter areas were just too freaking easy for a two person party. We tried to rush through to get to higher level areas, but found that we could barely hit things that were 3 or more levels higher than us (got to 11 with the Norn/Asura combo). Anything less than that though was just cake.
Now, I'm a glutton for pain, loved EQ and the actual challenges it posed in terms of gameplay, but it seems artificially difficult that there was an inability to take on mobs that would be challenging due to the constant "missing" and "glancing" blows...
Does this dynamic ease up after a certain level, or is it just that the challenge in GW2 is based on soloing?
I was wondering who else had issues (if at all) with this.
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It sounds like your were playing each others' personal story quests, which are meant to be just that: personal. They've allowed the option for friends to join in on your personal story for the fun of it if they wish to, but you're not meant to run through the same phases of a personal story over and over again for each player in your party.
The open world on the other hand is meant to be experienced universally by everyone.
Concerning difficulty, I don't think they intend the very first 10 levels to be an absolute masochistic slaughterfest. Though it still seems you have to be on your guard much moreso than the majority of other MMOs.
I personally haven't had a problem taking down enemies solo or otherwise that are 3 levels higher than me. Maintain a proper rotation of blinds, knockdowns and dodges and they shouldn't be a problem. I haven't noticed a severe decline in my damage done either. During the 2nd BWE, myself and 2 friends quested through the human 15-25 zone perpetually 3, 4 or even 5 levels below the content. It was fun and challenging. Sometimes we got in over our head, but we often succeeded.
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Unfortunately some people complained in BWE1 and 2 about the starter area mobs 2 shotting them and ANet adjusted the difficulty for BWE3. I'm hoping that the high level areas are still as tough as they were before and that this change is only for starting areas.
As for the personal story, that's just how it is. If you don't like doing them twice then split up and do your own stories.
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I'm interested to know where you got your information from?
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Playing the game and reading the official forums.
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I wonder if they changed the hit rate % or something. We actually tried to hit the 15-25 area @ lvl 12, but litterally couldn't hit the mobs.
I wonder if anyone else saw this during BWE3, or if there was another reason (gear, skills, class, etc...)
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What me and my friend did is that we picked the same 3 questions at the start so that we would have the exact same personal story and we can play together (I think gender matters too, but i'm not too sure on that)... Granted, this option is only good when you plan to ALWAYS play together (like we do), otherwise you might still need to help her if you ended up doing some of the personal story yourself. ..
Just as an info, the last 3 questions in character creation is the one that decides what your personal story would be. So just pick the same ones as they have NO other effect on your character.
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I got sick of very little challenge with normal mobs of same or slighty higher level as I was so tried 4-5 levels ahead and I did notice a lot of 'glancing' blows and it took a lot longer but still killed stuff ok. Pulling more than 1 mob often led to my (expected) demise but overall I enjoyed the added challenge.
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Starter areas are supposed to be easy.
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You can always play together regardless of story, race, or even server since you can guest on to other servers to play with friends, so finding each other really should never be an issue.
As for grouping, I feel there is no reason to group beyond just running next to each other, you dont need to accualy party, you both still get the xp, loot, and complete the events perfectly fine. Granted I never did my personal story with anyone, everything besides the story scales appropriately and should give a little challenge atleast, GW2 is by far the most difficult MMO to come out in the past few years, not that that is really saying alot, just that it is.
I as a ranger didnt have any issue hitting and fighting stuff 3 levels beyond me, but anything like 4 or above was to high above my paygrade, honoestly you shouldnt be going for speed and just enjoy the areas, this game isnt about leveling the fastest since it doesnt reward you in any way to do so. I found its the best idea to do 1 or 2 different starter areas before going to the next areas inorder to keep up with your personal story quest which constantly outlevel you.
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Originally posted by PaRoXiTiC
No arguement there but this was at lvl 21 (which i guess is still very early in the game) which is a little past what I considered a starter area /shrug.
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Originally posted by encopitt
Well... first off, it sounds like you were spending a lot of times in each other's personal stories. Nothing wrong with that, but you can expect to be doing a lot of back and forth as they are the only quests that are specific to your character, and yours alone. Completing your wife's personal story will do nothing to advance your own, and visa versa.
As for actual grouping, I found it very easy and painless. No real effort involved. Didn't even run into many issues w/ overflow problems, which were a problem in past betas.
If you found that 2 manning the content was too easy, I would strongly suggest tackling harder mobs. I can tell you that one of my characters (got her to lvl 22 in the beta) was taking on enemies 4-7 lvls higher and winning. That can be a bit tougher to do at earlier lvls (I'd strongly suggest avoiding high-lvl centaur archers, for example), but it is doable.
To put it bluntly, the challenge is there, but you have to go for it. The starter zones are very much that, starter zones. Their main function is to ease people into the game, and start getting people comfortable with the different mechanics. Once you start getting out of the starting areas, the game really starts to kick it up a notch or two. I even stumbled across certain areas I just couldn't handle on my own, or even w/ a friend. They were too difficult.
- Personal story aside, all of the content in this game is automatically shared. (Actually, jumping puzzles would be an exception). Whether you choose to group, or not, is mostly a social decision. It makes it easier to communicate, and you can meet some new friends, but it's entirely optional.
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Originally posted by ev1lb0b
This is something Anet tends to do, that comes differently from other games.
In most MMOs the expectation is you are supposed to be fighting mobs about your same lvl. I don't know if it's intentional, but i know in GW1 the harder content had you fighting enemies sometimes 8-10 lvls higher than max lvl.
One thing I noticed in GW2, was that after you leave the starting area, there are places where you are forced to fight mobs above your lvl. There is an added challenge to that, and it is something I generally enjoy. It is more difficult, but it's also your own choice if you want to take on that additional risk.
You will glance more (unless your based on condition damage), but the challenge comes in fighting those tougher opponents and staying alive.
- Maybe it's just me, but it does seem kind of silly to complain about normal mobs being too easy, then openly admitting to not going after tougher fights where you might die. If you can handle 1 mob 4-5 lvls ahead, try taking on 2, or even 3. It's definitely doable in this game, especially if you have 2 or more people with you.
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So you are basing the difficulty of the entire game off the first 10 levels of content? This is the newbie area. Things are going to be simple and straight forward. Even then though, you obviously didn't try anything truely challenging ... like killing a champion DE boss with your so called "elite 2 man squad". If you explore more, you will find many champion mobs guarding treasures and resource nodes.
Things are only going to get more difficult and more intense as you go on. Even in the 15+ areas there are some pretty rough monsters that can 1-2 shot you if you are not careful.
While it isn't "bat to the face hard" like EQ was (which I loved by the way), I think they are trying to ease people into the experience. Some of the WoW kid videos I have seen show people have literally lost the ability to think and reason to any degree what so ever. So I am not surprised it is dumbed down.
I just hope the ass kicking gets worse as you level up. I know the first dungeon wasn't very easy, and the explorable modes are probably even more difficult. Some of the best times in the beta were killing champion mobs with just 2-3 friends. Other times it was us running into some cave only to get jumped by a champion 2-3 levels higher and smoking us in seconds. If you want a challenge, seek it out. Just plowing thorugh renown hearts isn't "the real game" anyways.
Originally posted by MattVid
That's kinda the point, I wanted to know whether the difficulty ramps as you level or if it was cake like the noob areas for the whole game.
Sounds like I just needed to get up a few more levels and some better gear to take on mobs that would actually be a challenge.
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I managed to kill several level 7 monsters when being level 3 or 4. It was hard work and did not always work out, but it didn't feel like they had artifically creared a limit where you simply miss or anything. I don't think they've done anything different at the higher levels regarding this, it should actually be easier to take on higher leveled opponents due to having more options to deal with them.
Also, regarding the personal story: As long as everyone is at the same stage, you can actually keep the progess you just made while being in someone else's group. So if some people answer the questions in the same way, if they always play it together, they can play through the whole personal story without having to do even one thing twice.
If you are at a different stage, whether it's because you simply are at a different point of the story, or if you actually chose different answers to the questions, it doesn't work. Those quests are usually different enough though.
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Originally posted by encopitt
What gear were you running at level 11? If any of it was below level 10 then hitting higher level stuff would be much much harder. I'm a crafter and have noticed during BWEs the characters I don't make gear for really began to feel weak starting at level 10.
Me and my hubby ignored personal story in the BWEs so I can't comment on that.
This BWE we had an interesting problem in that I was downleveled (about 5 levels) through most of our time together and he was underleveled (about 3 levels). For best game experience I would not suggest this particular combination. It was very frustrating for him and in some cases actually boring to me. In the past when we've both been downlevelled in an area it isn't bad at all because we can just complete it all fast, Both being underlevelled also works as we both slow down and take our time. But one being higher and the other lower just gives a weird rhythm that we had trouble getting into.
BWE #2 we completed the Norn starting area pretty much within a level of each other and that was a lot of fun.
Originally posted by Delvie
Is there any penalty to just ignoring the personal quests? I played enough class/race combos that I didn't get past the 4th or 5th personal quests, but played them anyway because I didn't want to miss out on any skill unlocks or anything like that.
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Originally posted by encopitt
From my understanding there is no profession (class) implications to not completing them. You do miss out on a lot of experience and good profession specific gear rewards. We actually had no problem skipping it and instead making up the difference in experience when we were out gathering materials for all our crafting experiments (that plus crafting itself gives you adventuring experience). We do plan on doing them at launch - just didn't want to spoil the story during BWEs.


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