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LONDON ? When Big Ben strikes 12 to ring in the New Year, no one will feel the level of anticipation ? and pressure ? more than organizers of the London Olympics.

With the arrival of 2012, the preparations will no longer be for "next year?s games."

The Olympics will be THIS year, less than seven months away ? exactly 209 days from Jan. 1 until the opening ceremony on July 27.

London has been preparing seven years for the games, ever since it defeated Paris in the final round of the International Olympic Committee vote in Singapore on July 6, 2005.

Now, the countdown is truly in the final stretch for the U.K.?s biggest peacetime exercise, or what organizing committee leader Sebastian Coe calls a "Halley?s Comet" moment for Britain.

In a busy year that also will feature Queen Elizabeth II?s Diamond Jubilee and the European Football Championship in Poland and Ukraine, the Olympics stand out as the marquee event of the summer of 2012, a sporting festival that will put London at the epicenter of global attention for 17 days.

The start of 2012 carries symbolic and psychological significance for Coe, a two-time gold medalist in the 1,500 meters who knows the feeling of entering an Olympic year as an athlete.

"For us there will be the realization that there are no more years now. We are down to days," Coe said. "This is the Olympics and it doesn?t get any bigger, and the responsibility doesn?t get any greater than this."

In concrete terms, London is in solid shape as it approaches the moment when it will become the first city to host the Olympics for a third time, after previous games in 1908 and 1948.

The biggest concerns weigh on less predictable factors: security and transportation. Will the games be safe from terrorist attack? Will London?s already-stretched public transport network cope under the added strain?

Most of the venues are built and ready for the 10,000 athletes from more than 200 countries who will converge on the city next summer for 16 days of competition in 26 sports and 300 medal events.

"I feel relaxed but certainly not complacent," Coe said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. "We have big challenges, of course. Delivery of 26 world championships is never going to be a stroll in the park. We know these are the hard yards. There?s nothing easy about the next few months."

A former industrial wasteland in east London has been transformed into the Olympic Park, a 1-square-mile area featuring several flagship arenas and representing the centerpiece of a long-term regeneration project for one of the most deprived areas of England.

Financially, London has managed surprisingly well during some of the worst economic conditions in decades, raising more than $1 billion from sponsors.

"I really can?t think of a games that has been delivered in a more difficult climate since Montreal," Coe said, referring to the debt-ridden 1976 Olympics.

Despite a public outcry over a ticketing system that left hundreds of thousands of applicants empty-handed, organizers raked in hundreds of millions more in revenues from ticket sales. The games are virtually sold out and Coe?s privately-funded organizing committee, LOCOG, is on track to meet its $3.3 billion operating budget.

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>> comes to lawmakers, what were the past year's biggest triumphs and failures from the government? i'm joined by ed o'keefe from "the washington post " and the author of the federal eye blog and here to give us their take on what the government got right and the biggest oops of 2011 so far. let's talk about the good list. what did they do right?

>> topping the list is disaster response . fema had a banner year. you talk to democrats and know ares and lawmakers from all over who dealt with the disasters, 11 topped $1 billion. fema did a fantastic job responding ahead of the storm and providing a disaster relief as quickly as possible to the victims. if you think back a few years to how it performed after hurricane katrina , to say that fema has bipartisan praise.

>> government waste?

>> that was another big issue on improper payments and people who had medicare and medicate and took tax credits and the irs hasn't stopped them, it's a shrinking problem to its credit. the obama administration has been doing a lot to find this wasteful spending and cut down on it. it's a test of reporters and other who is keep tabs to make sure the numbers drop in the new year. they have done a good amount of cutting or made plans to cut.

>> with some of the other positive things you wrote about is the freedom of information act and they're more efficient when it comes to that.

>> agencies overall are granting freedom of information act requests at a healthier clip than in the past. that is part of a growing trend to cut backlogs of all sorts whether it's veterans waiting for benefits and people trying to get social security payments and backlogs through the better use of technology. they are being cut. that's definitely a good thing.

>> that's the good stuff. a list of four good things. on the oops list, huh something like nine. i will bring up one of them. you are saying that when it comes to the landfill, the issue of troops remains being found in a landfill, that was a big no-no.

>> this was the big issue at the mortuary scandal that happened between 2004 and 2008 . hundreds of remains of service members killed overseas were dumped in a landfill and body parts were misplaced as an awful story and an example of how they dropped the ball, keeping their share of the commitment that the troops make to the country.

>> also you heard response when is it came to the shutdowns. we are talking about the government shutdowns every other month.

>> about every six week and that meant that federal agencies had to be on watch to close down. they were not able to do the actual job. government is supposed to be function skpk several times they almost did it. that is a big oops of 2011 .

>> good and bad stuff for the government. thank you so much.

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This Is the Best of Lifehacker 2011 As we all prepare for a big year ahead, we spent the month looking back at the best of the best from Lifehacker from 2011. Here's a last look back at the best of 2011 in case you missed anything along the way.