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It's starting to feel as though anything could happen in the run-up toward Christmas.

The Premier League's early leaders Arsenal were sucker-punched at Old Trafford in the previous round of games leaving the title race wide open and Manchester United back in the mix.

The Gunners have a chance to respond against Southampton at home in Week 12.

Mauricio Pochettino's team are no fools, however, and with their intense pressing style and punchy yet technical attack of Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana and Pablo Osvaldo, they could be the worst possible opponents for Arsene Wenger's team if Mesut Ozil and Co. are wavering.

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Pochettino: Southampton can make their unlikely title challenge a reality with a win against Arsenal.

David Moyes' team have a tricky yet winnable trip to Cardiff City to contend with as they seek to follow up on their home win.

Even though Cardiff City Stadium looks to be well on its way to becoming a fortress in the Premier League, their trip stands out as one of the two easier games for teams in the top eight at the weekend.

Chelsea have the other fairly simple assignment with an away visit to West Ham United, where Jose Mourinho will demand improvements from his entire squad after poor performances against Newcastle United and West Bromwich Albion.

The Blues lost and drew those games, respectively, although the game against the Baggies would have also likely been a defeat had Ramires not won his team a late and controversial penalty.

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Hazard converted the penalty to salvage a 2-2 draw for Chelsea.

Elsewhere in the title race, Manchester City host Tottenham Hotspur while Everton host the first Merseyside derby of the season—and of Roberto Martinez's reign—against Liverpool.

Below is a full schedule of the fixtures in Week 12 along with live stream information and predictions for each Premier League showdown.

Premier League Week 12 fixtures, predictions and TV schedule
Time and Date (GMT) Home Prediction Away TV Coverage
Saturday November 23, 12:45 p.m. Everton 1-2 Liverpool BT Sport 1 (HD)
Saturday November 23, 3 p.m. Arsenal 2-1 Southampton
Saturday November 23, 3 p.m. Fulham 0-3 Swansea
Saturday November 23, 3 p.m. Hull 1-1 Crystal Palace
Saturday November 23, 3 p.m. Newcastle 2-0 Norwich
Saturday November 23, 3 p.m. Stoke 2-2 Sunderland
Saturday November 23, 5:30 p.m. West Ham 1-3 Chelsea Sky Sports 1 (HD)
Sunday November 24, 1:30 p.m. Man City 1-0 Spurs Sky Sports 1 (HD, 3D)
Sunday November 24, 4 p.m. Cardiff 0-2 Man Utd Sky Sports 1 (HD, 3D)
Monday November 25, 8 p.m. West Brom 1-2 Aston Villa Sky Sports 1 (HD)

Live Stream Information

Users with an active SkyGo subscription will be able to watch the four games televised by Sky during Week 12.

Alternatively, subscribers to BT Sport can use the BT Sport app to stream the Merseyside derby live on their laptops, desktops, tablets or mobile devices online.

Terrestrial viewers can sit back and catch up on all of the weekend's action with Match of the Day (BBC One, Saturday) and Match of the Day 2 (BBC Two, Sunday), featuring plenty of highlights, punditry and analysis.

Both BBC programmes will also be streamed live on the BBC Sport website, and each version of Match of the Day will be made available to watch back on the BBC iPlayer from midnight on Monday, November 25.

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The Key Contests in Week 12

As covered above, Arsenal must overcome Southampton to prove that United's victory was all but a fluke while the results of City's clash with Spurs and Everton's derby game with Liverpool could reshape the chasing pack.

United and Chelsea will also look to make big strides into the title race proper with wins against Cardiff and West Ham, respectively.

Sunderland's visit to Stoke City looks to be one of the more intriguing contests outside of the top eight with the Potters' position above the drop zone far more precarious than many may think.

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Gus Poyet masterminded a famous victory over Sergio Aguero and Co. in Week 11, and the Uruguayan will be hoping that he can lead the Black Cats to another unlikely point or three at the Britannia Stadium.

Meanwhile, Swansea City travel to Fulham, who are teetering on the brink of meltdown and sitting in the last of the relegation places.

Should Martin Jol's team fail to beat the visiting Swans, a result for Sunderland in Stoke could see him handed his P45.

Monday night's fixture is set to be a battle of the Midlands and the mid-table as West Brom play Aston Villa at Villa Park.

For Premier League spectators looking for an exciting game outside of the top-of-the-table clashes, the coming together of Paul Lambert's and Steve Clarke's well-assembled, hard-working and impressively skilled upstart teams.

What games are you looking forward to in Week 12?

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Despite Desires, Kevin Love Has No Control over What Happens Next

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For a guy locked into a contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves through the 2014-15 NBA season, Kevin Love sure is acting like he's in charge of his own destiny.

Even with the summer's annual free-agent frenzy yet to officially begin, you can't go five seconds without seeing some new report on Love's dissatisfaction in Minnesota, his desire to leave and, strangest of all, which teams he'd like to play for next season.

The latest example came on June 11, when Love was a guest on ESPN's SportsNation.

There, he talked about Phil Jackson's capacity to make the New York Knicks an alluring destination, though he did so in deliberately vague language that stopped just short of serving as a naked plea.

Nonetheless, Love was again successful in communicating his desire to leave the T-Wolves—even if he did so without saying it explicitly.

Love also said he'd let his agent handle things when asked if he wanted out of Minnesota, a typically deflective response players in his situation commonly offer. Fortunately for all involved, former NFL lineman Marcellus Wiley is a host on SportsNation, and he cut right through the nonsense, confronting (h/t Love with a delightful dose of reality.

"See, that agent-speak can work in front of most people, but your agent works for you. So you dictate terms," Wiley shouted with a knowing smile on his face. "So what are you going to tell your agent, Kevin Love?"

Brilliant. Not because Wiley was unearthing some hidden truth—we all know Love is the one calling the shots here—but because he laid everything out in the plainest terms possible.

That's how agents workthey do what their clients tell them to do.

Love could only laugh, ducking the question with the following refrain: "No matter what happens, I just want to end up in a great place where I can win."

Having now established what Love does control, we can proceed to the discussion of what he doesn't—and that's pretty much everything from right now until he actually opts out of his contract in the summer of 2015.

To be fair, I guess we have to point out how Love exercised control by making it so unpalatable for the T-Wolves to go through a full year with a disgruntled star that trading him became the only viable option.

According to's Marc Stein and Ramona Shelburne, he did that earlier this month when he communicated his future plans:

Kevin Love has made it clear to the Timberwolves that he intends to become an unrestricted free agent after next season and has no interest in a contract extension to stay in Minnesota, according to sources with knowledge of the situation.

That act was basically where Love's power over the situation terminated. He got the ball rolling, but he has no say over where it stops.

We often ask, "Where does Kevin Love want to play?" We wonder, "Where should Kevin Love go?"

The truth is, there couldn't be less relevant questions.

It doesn't matter where he wants to play or what city best serves his needs next year because Love doesn't get to decide his destination. He exercised what little leverage he had in this situation by threatening the T-Wolves with the prospect of walking away for nothing in 2015.

Love started this entire process, but he won't have anything to do with finishing it.

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If anything, Love has actually hurt his chances of escaping to a desirable locale. No, that's not just because the T-Wolves could be forgiven for spitefully trading him to some expansion team in Siberia.

It's because as this situation has shaken out, Love's refusal to stand honestly behind what amounts to a trade demand is probably turning off a few potential suitors.

What's more, the likelihood that he'll opt out—no matter where he goes—makes him a gamble most teams won't view as worth the risk.

If it takes first-round picks, young stars with team-friendly contracts and big-money players to get Love in a trade, you can bet the team acquiring him will want more than a one-year rental. Maybe that's still a trade worth making for a team that believes Love puts it over the top for a championship, which is why clubs like the Golden State Warriors and Chicago Bulls make for interesting options.

But even they won't want to divest themselves of valuable assets for such apotentiallysmall return.

And just so we're all clear on a key point, Love has precious little incentive to opt in to the final year of his deal. While it might expand the pool of potential trade partners, it puts his future in unnecessary jeopardy.

Grantland's Zach Lowe breaks down the situation:

Love could grease the wheels by opting into his contract for 2015-16, promising to do so as a condition of any trade, or simply informing any suitor that he would likely re-sign if things go well. The new collective bargaining agreement has basically removed the possibility of an extension or extend-and-trade helping any team feel more secure about keeping a star. The rules are such that a max-level player has no financial incentive to extend his contract under almost any circumstance.

Signing an extension before hitting unrestricted free agency would be foolish from Love's perspective. As Lowe mentioned, the CBA allows for much larger extensions for free agents. So just forget about that possibility.

Opting in would also delay Love's huge, multiyear payday for another season, which brings on risks of injury, declining performance and any number of unforeseeable factors.

Basically, Love is like a high school superstar in the era before the NBA instituted the age limit. Think of him like LeBron James in 2003. Guaranteed to go No. 1 in the draft, James' value could't have been higher. Going to college would have done nothing but expose him to risks and potentially decrease his value.

Love is certain to collect a maximum extension when he becomes a free agent. His value can't get any higher.

Why would he ever opt in to a contract that postpones his chance to cash in?

Next summer, Love will be in total control of his situation. He'll be able to opt out and choose from a handful of teams clamoring to pay him max money as a free agent. There'll be prime destinations with cap space then, including the Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks—two teams, by the way, with no ability to trade for him at this moment.

Now, though, he's at the mercy of the awkward circumstances he's created for himself.

Teams want him, but they're understandably reluctant to give up too much for a guy they can't be sure they'll control for more than a year.

Love is handling his current situation the same way many would-be small-market escapees before him handled theirs. This shouldn't serve as a knock on what he's doing or even how he's doing it—even if there's a temptation to pillory a millionaire with the gall to want a higher-quality working environment.

Instead, consider this a reality check.

As Love's saga plays out and free agency hits its fever pitch in a few weeks, let's all agree to view this situation as it is. And let's also be sure to assign power to the proper parties.

Love has almost no leverage right now, and as much as we like to talk about where he wants to play, or which teams offer him the best environment, those things don't actually matter.

So, next time Love ducks the question of where he'd like to play next year, maybe we should all recognize what we're really watching: A guy who, deep down, knows his answer is meaningless.

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Oklahoma Sooners Football Team Unveils New Alternate Uniforms for 2014 Season

The Oklahoma Sooners are known for their traditional uniforms, but thanks to Nike, the football team will have more options to choose from.

Oklahoma unveiled new uniforms, dubbed "The Rough Rider," on Tuesday. For the first time, "Oklahoma," not "Sooners," will be across the front of the jerseys.

Update: Friday, July 4 at 12:45 p.m. ET

The new look was a big hit with former Oklahoma players:

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Although the uniforms will have a modern look to them, they were influenced by the team's history, according to the team's press release.

These additional jersey-pants-helmet combinations were inspired by the rich heritage of the state of Oklahoma and the Sooners’ storied football history.

Nike’s white helmet design pays tribute to Wilkinson’s squads that captured national championships in 1950, 1955 and 1956.

Both jerseys also feature subtle touches such as “47 Straight” emblazoned on the inner Nike Flywire neckline, serving as a tangible reminder of the college football’s incomparable victory streak amassed during Wilkinson’s tenure.

Here's a look at the "47 Straight" tribute:

Not only are the jerseys and pants new, but the helmets also received a makeover:

Here are some details on the new helmet:

The modified version of Oklahoma’s iconic crimson helmet also features an enlarged interlocking OU above each earhole with the distinctive wood-grained design embedded into the protective outer shell.

Sooners fans who like the traditional uniforms shouldn't be too upset. These new uniforms will only serve as alternates to the traditional uniforms, but the team has not determined the games in which the new uniforms will be worn.

[Oklahoma Football, Phil Hecken]

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Twenty-four teams will tip off in Spain at the 2014 FIBA World Cup, but only one will emerge with a gold medal.

That's a realistic goal for less than a handful of teams, though. Plenty of squads will have to be satisfied with a medal of any metal, even if they'd never admit so publicly. Others would have to be thrilled if they advanced out of the group stage and made it to the first knockout round. A few might be happy just to win a single game while being blown out by the top teams in the field.

Everyone has different goals, but each country also enters the competition with a clean slate and a 0-0 record.

Figuring out how to rank them initially is a difficult endeavor. The official FIBA World Rankings can often be misleading, as they don't reflect the current rosters and take non-relevant competitions into account. Basing the analysis solely on exhibition games is a flawed method as well, seeing as each team places varying levels of focus on those outings.

As a result, these rankings are fairly subjective, based on the aforementioned factors, the upside of the roster, the team's history and any other relevant factors.

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West Virginia vs. Cincinnati: Still Proud To Be a Mountaineer

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West Virginia vs. Cincinnati: Still Proud To Be a Mountaineer

The Mountaineers of West Virginia put up quite a fight in their 21-24 loss to Cincinnati Friday night.

Being a lifelong WVU fan, this kind of game really tears at the heartstrings.  Of course I wanted WVU to win the game and go on to win the Big East title.

However, watching the Mountaineers contain the No. 5 Bearcats and holding them to 24 points helps me take this loss in stride.

If I were to be honest, I would mention that I really didn’t expect the Mountaineers to win the game.

Although, I have never gone into a game thinking they couldn’t win.  That’s just what we Mountaineer fans do.

There have been the little games that WVU should have won, but didn’t and the big games they shouldn’t have won, but did.

When a new coach comes to any team and leads it to victory in a way such as Bill Stewart has done with the Mountaineers, well, it’s just something of which to be proud.

I have been proud of the Mountaineers efforts over the last couple of seasons.

I am proud of the way the players have handled themselves during coaching changes.

I am proud of the way the team hasn’t given up during the big games and the little games.

I am proud of the wins.  I am proud of the losses.  I am proud of the way West Virginia has represented the Big East in bowl games.

I love Mountaineer Football.

That is why I can still be happy.

In the past I have found myself taking a WVU loss, really hard.  I find that after such a game, I get quiet, my true demeanor becomes hidden in silence, and I even get a little grumpy.

Near the end of the Cincinnati game I received a text on my cell phone from my wife who was watching the game while she was stuck at work.

Here is what it said: …Just remember you love me and I am not the enemy!

It made me laugh.  However, it made me think.

It seems like my wife gets the wrong end of the deal when the Mountaineers lose.  To her I apologize and exclaim my love.

I now say this to the Mountaineer fans: it’s time to buck up and get behind the Bearcats.

With two more wins, Cincinnati will be undefeated and be showing the all the naysayers that the Big East is in the BCS to stay.

The whole league should be proud of the efforts put forth this year in football.

Cincy, Pitt, South Florida, Rutgers and yes, West Virginia have all had a great season.

No, the season isn’t over but, that just leaves more time for greatness.

Whether you hail from the North, South, West or East, you are the Big East.

So, Mountaineer faithful, let’s show the rest of the nation why we are proud to be Mountaineers!

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Terrelle Pryor: Will He Be Jason Campbell's Backup for the Oakland Raiders?

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6'6" 235 lbs with sub 4.4 speed. Those numbers make you a Raider.

Heading into the 2011 NFL Draft, it was reported that the Oakland Raiders would have drafted Colin Kaepernick if they came across the right deal to trade up for him. That didn't happen, leaving the Raiders without a QB for the long-term future.

Jason Campbell is the man right now and for years to come. He is just entering the prime of his career, and I believe the Raiders got him at just the right time. Having your QB situation set for the next four years or so is the perfect time to acquire a young, talented QB to groom behind your veteran starter.

Terrelle Pryor has played his last game at Ohio State, and he is expected to declare himself eligible for the NFL supplemental draft.

The Raiders aren't going to use their 2012 first-round pick and are already without their second and fourth-round picks. If they want Pryor, they will have to use their third-rounder on him. That would leave Oakland with just a first, fifth, sixth and seventh-round pick for the 2012 draft.

You know Al Davis has to be entertaining the idea of getting Pryor now and letting him learn behind Campbell for a while.

Pryor has all the measurables Al Davis falls in love with. He stands at 6'6", weighs 235 lbs. and reportedly runs a mind-boggling 4.33 in the 40-yard dash. A lot of "experts" say he will have to change positions in the NFL. I think he can be a QB in this league if he can sit and learn for a few seasons.

His numbers as a QB suggest that he got better from one year to the next.

In 2009 he completed 56 percent of his passes, while throwing 18 TDs and 11 INTs. Last season he completed 65 percent of his passes and threw 27 touchdowns. He also has rushed for more than 2,000 yards and 17 touchdowns over the last three seasons.

What do you think, Raider Nation? Would Terrelle Pryor be a good fit to back up Jason Campbell while he is getting ready to be the guy?

I think Hue Jackson can mold Pryor into a very good NFL QB. Pryor wouldn't have the pressure to get it done right away with Campbell being the QB for the next few years at least.

Could it work in Oakland for Pryor? You know Al Davis wants another try at a franchise QB.

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Cincinnati Bengals: Former Players, Keys to Success, and the Rest of the Season

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At the beginning of the 2010 NFL season there were a lot of high hopes for the season. The team had just come off an impressive year in which they swept the AFC North on the way to their second division title in five years.

The team disappointed in the playoffs, losing in a blowout to the New York Jets and rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez. The Bengals went on to draft high prospect tight end Jermaine Gresham and picked up veteran future hall of famer Terrell Owens.

The deck was stacked and Who Dey nation was ready for a great season and a deep run in the playoffs. Then the season began and it was clear from the start that this group of players did not work well together.

After both Owens and Ochocinco were injured during Week 16, everyone got a chance to see what the young receivers could do. Cincinnati came up with a huge win at home against the San Diego Chargers. An incredible game that saw Jerome Simpson led the game for receiving yards.

One crazy offseason later and the Bengals found themselves without any of their former star players. And here we are half way through the season and the Bengals sit atop not only the AFC North, but the entire AFC.

There are a lot of interesting facts surrounding the transition of old to new with the 2011 Cincinnati Bengals. What are the former Bengals superstars doing now? How did a young team with zero expectations become the best in the conference? How can the Bengals continue their winning ways as their schedule gets tougher and the postseason gets closer?

Where Are They Now?

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There are four main players gone from the team this year. It was speculated that without these guys the Bengals would need a few years to rebuild and the 2011 season would be one in which to grow.

Carson Palmer

We’ll start with the team captain and biggest loss for the Bengals, or so it seemed.  Palmer walked away from football and into retirement until the trade deadline when Mike Brown made possibly the greatest trade in Bengals history.

Brown finally let his franchise quarterback go to Oakland Raiders for the hefty price of one 2012 first round pick and a conditional 2013 first round pick.

Palmer has had two games with the Raiders and it has not looked too good for him. He’s thrown three touchdowns compared to his six interceptions and blew a lead against Denver for his second loss.

Palmer is still new to the Raiders system, but it was evident in Cincinnati that Palmer has not been the same since his injury at the hands of Kimo Von Oelhoffen. Time will tell if Palmer is the answer in Oakland, but it is safe to say that Bengals fans are happy with the trade.

Chad Ochocinco

For years Ochocinco kept the Bengals in prime time television, but not for their wins. Ochocinco caused controversy and created distractions for a team that needed an elite receiver.

He thought more about his touchdown celebration than the routes he was running to score those touchdowns. When he should have been going over the playbook before games he was tweeting on his phone. During the lockout when players should have been working out together he was trying out for Major League Soccer, riding bulls and racing cars.

Brown recognized the young talent he had with guys like Jerome Simpson, Jordan Shipley, Andrew Caldwell, Jermaine Gresham and first round pick AJ Green.

Once the lockout was over, Brown sent his former number one receiver packing to New England where Ochocinco has had less receptions, yards and touchdowns all season than teammate Wes Welker has had in one game.

Ochocinco cannot seem to get in sync with Brady in New England and I would look for Bill Belichick to cut him after this season if not sooner.

Terrell Owens

Owens might be the saddest story of them all. He is a future hall of fame receiver that once played alongside the great Jerry Rice. Five teams later he found himself on the Bengals playing Batman and Robin with Ochocinco. Who was Batman and who was Robin? Who knows and who cares.

Owens had a decent year with the Bengals, but his offseason knee surgery and age made him a liability that the Brown wanted nothing to do with. It now appears that no other team is interested either.

Owens’s football career is coming to an end, his reality show career appears to be over and he is facing criminal charges for unpaid child support. For such a talented player it is a shame it had to end this way for him.

Johnathan Joseph

Many Bengals fans did not see this one coming. Joseph has been a staple on the defense for five seasons before the Houston Texans picked him up on free agency. Joseph was supposed to be the Bengals biggest priority to resign in free agency, but they let him slip away.

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Joseph by far has the most to offer to any team of the four former Bengals players. He has looked solid for the Texans with one forced fumble and three interceptions, helping Houston become a true playoff contender.

Joseph left the Bengals because he wanted to be on a team that actually had a shot at winning a Super Bowl. I’m not sure Houston was the answer, but at the time they were a way safer bet than the Bengals. Houston has one of the top ranked defenses in the league, but so do the Bengals. We will all have to wait until the end of the season to see if Joseph made the right decision for his Super Bowl aspirations.

There are several reasons for the Bengals success thus far in the season.

Andy Dalton, the team’s rookie quarterback, has come out and led the offense like a veteran. A.J. Green has been the player that everyone predicted he would be. There are of course the usual rookie mistakes that both players have made, but overall they are the top rookie duo in the NFL.

The Bengals acquired former Tampa Bay offensive assistant Jay Gruden after letting go of long time offensive coordinator Bob Bratkowski. Gruden has helped a struggling offensive line by calling short pass plays that allow Dalton to get the ball quickly out of his hand.

Defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer continues to strengthen his dominant defense. The Bengals defense is ranked fourth overall in both yards per game and points per game. In a season that has the New Orleans Saints rack up 60-plus points, and Green Bay and San Diego go for a combined 83 points, the Bengals have not allowed a team to score more than 24 points a game. Even in their losing effort to San Francisco, Zimmer held the NFL’s number two team to just 13 points.

Probably the biggest reason for Cincinnati’s success is the way the NFL designs the schedule each season. I won’t go into details on this because it is a complicated system, but basically if a team does poorly one season then the following season at least half their games are matched up against teams that also did poorly the previous season.

Of the eight games played so far this season, Cincinnati has played five teams with a losing record. Only two of their six wins have been against teams with a winning record. These wins do not discredit Cincinnati’s success thus far, but it is hard to say they are playoff ready when they have only faced three teams that might be in the playoffs.

The Rest of the Season

This is the tricky part for the Bengals. They have a lot of momentum going into the second half of the season, however, of their remaining eight games five are against playoff ready teams.

Week 10 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati

The Bengals have a lot going for them after a big win against Tennessee. Pittsburgh has a lot to prove after a tough loss to the Ravens. This game could decide who earns a wild card spot or even wins the division.

The Steelers have struggled this season in important games. They had a definitive win against New England that restored the belief that Pittsburgh is the top team in the AFC North. They have however dropped two games to division rival Baltimore and suffered a big loss to the Texans. These are the types of games that Pittsburgh needs to win if they want to repeat last season’s Super Bowl appearance.

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This one is played in Cincinnati. If the Bengals have Jermaine Gresham, Ray Maualuga, Adam Jones and Carlos Dunlap all completely healthy I think they can hold the Steelers and win this one.

Week 11 Cincinnati at Baltimore

This game is another tough test for the Bengals. The Ravens are 4-0 this season at home, while the Bengals are 4-1 on the road. The Ravens have beaten some very tough opponents including the Steelers (twice), the Jets, and the Texans. However their two losses came from Tennessee and Jacksonville, two teams they should have beat and that the Bengals did beat this season.

Joe Flacco has been inconsistent this season. The Bengals defense has a very good chance of holding Flacco and his offense. The key to this one will be turnovers. If the Bengals can score either a defensive touchdown or a special teams touchdown they can win this game.

Given this game is in Baltimore, the Ravens have the advantage and take this one.

Week 12 Cleveland at Cincinnati

The Browns have been a huge disappointment this season. Colt McCoy does not look like the franchise quarterback that Pat Schurmur thought he would be. Madden Cover boy Peyton Hillis has shown no production in the few games he has played.

The Bengals won the first game of this series in Cleveland. Cincinnati will run that ball hard to take the lead in this matchup. Their defense will stop McCoy from making any big plays and without Hillis or any real threat at running back the Browns will be unable to move the ball on the ground.

Look for the Bengals defense to cause at least two turnovers and Carlos Dunlap will have at least one sack and possibly a defensive touchdown.

Week 13 Cincinnati at Pittsburgh

The Bengals always have a tough time when they visit Pittsburgh. It is a hostile environment for any visiting team, but especially for a division rival. Dalton handled the crowd noise in Seattle very well. I’m not sure he will fare as well at Heinz Field.

Pittsburgh will win this one in another game that will have huge implications for the AFC North playoff picture.

Week 14 Houston at Cincinnati

Houston has had a strong offense and defense all season. They are 6-3 and all of their losses have come against tough team. The Texans have won every game they should. Their game against Cincinnati will be no different.

Cincinnati’s defense has the ability to slow down the run and the pass game, but it will not be enough. The Bengals offense is not strong enough to keep them ahead in this game.

Week 15 Cincinnati at St. Louis

This is a game that Cincinnati should definitely win. St. Louis’s only win was shocking as they beat the New Orleans Saints.

St. Louis has one of the worst ranked offenses and defenses. They cannot stop the run. Gruden will use his trio of Cedric Benson, Bernard Scott, and Brian Leonard to keep the time of possession in Cincinnati’s favor.

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The Bengals defense will have no problem shutting down the Rams offense. This game will look very similar to the Cincinnati/Seattle game. The offense will score, the defense will score, the special teams will score for another Bengals win.

Week 16 Arizona at Cincinnati

The Bengals close out their last two games at home, first against the Cardinals.

Arizona has looked awful all season since acquiring quarterback Kevin Kolb from the Eagles.  The Bengals defense will take advantage of a weak Arizona offense for multiple sacks. Pat Sims and Domata Peko will hurry the quarterback causing Kolb to throw multiple picks.

Andy Dalton and A.J. Green will light up Arizona’s defense for several big plays. Green and Simpson will both have at least one touchdown. The Bengals win this game in decisive fashion.

Week 17 Baltimore at Cincinnati

This might be the biggest game of the season for both teams. Depending on how the next seven games go for each team, this final matchup on New Year’s Day might determine who wins the AFC North and who gets a bye in the first round of the playoffs.

If the young dynasty in Cincinnati has a chance to make the playoffs I expect them to win this game in a defensive showdown.

Ray Lewis will have his team fired up to make it to the postseason, but the young offense of the Bengals will be too much for the aging defense of the Ravens.

The cold temperature will play a factor in a game that will see turnovers on each side. I predict the Bengals to win the turnover battle and earn a wild card spot to end the season.

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Monday, February 13, 2006

New Beginnings

The last couple of weeks have seen two significant changes for Coriel. First, I left my guild. Second, I left my server.

(I also respecced to 0/27/24, but that proved to be a horrible, horrible mistake. I respecced back to 20/0/31 as soon as I got enough gold.)

I'd been with my guild, Defender of the Crown, for a long time. Months, in fact. I joined as a level 10 paladin killing murlocs in Elwynn Forest. I was one of the first 60s in the guild, and spent a long time waiting for enough 60s to start raiding. Curiously, though, the start of regular raiding was what led me to quit the guild. The problem was that DotC was, in the end, a primarily Australian guild. We started raiding the 10-man instances regularly, but on Australian time, which was quite late for me. And the time difference just proved too hard to overcome.

I actually feel quite sad about leaving my guild. The people were really nice, and I have a lot of good memories.

Anyways, I was guildless, and just pvping occasionally and casually inquiring into joining a raiding guild, when Blizzard opened transfers from Bronzebeard to Eitrigg. I wasn't having much luck in finding a raiding guild (most guilds were full on paladins), and the queues were getting very long, so I jumped ship.

Now, I'm on Eitrigg, looking for a guild. In the meantime, I've been helping farm Silithid carapaces for the Ahn Qiraj sceptre questline. It's amusing, and is actually pretty good money if you skin.

I do want to write up a couple of posts. One on pvp and one on some end-game thoughts. Hopefully, I'll get to them sometime this week.

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R&LSpring2014coverIn a 2013 commencement address at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, Makoto Fujimura told the graduating class, “We are to rise above the darkened realities, the confounding problems of our time.” A tall order for any age, but one God has decisively overcome in Jesus Christ. Fujimura uses his talent to connect beauty with the truth of the Gospel in a culture that has largely forgotten its religious tradition and history. He makes those things fresh and visible again. With works like “Walking on Water,” and the “Four Holy Gospels,” Fujimura is illuminating God’s Word to a culture that is mostly inward looking and mired in the self. Our interview with Fujimura leads this new issue of Religion & Liberty.

Also in this issue, I contribute a column on the dangers of state religion. Secularism, now thriving as the state religion, has the potential to unleash a new kind of religious persecution in America. (more…)

Hurricane IkeAfter 6,712 cyclones, typhoons, and hurricanes the evidence is clear: Bastiat was right all along.

In 1850, the economic journalist Frédéric Bastiat introduced the parable of the broken window to illustrate why destruction, and the money spent to recover from destruction, is not actually a net benefit to society (see the video at the end of this post for an explanation of the broken window fallacy). For most people the idea that destruction doesn’t help society would seem too obvious to warrant mentioning. But some liberal economists argue that destruction can lead to an economic boom, mainly because it provides the government with an opportunity to spend more money.

If the liberal economists are right, then we should find that destructive storms lead to economic growth. But a pair of researchers, Solomon M. Hsiang and Amir S. Jina, have recently published a study that shows the exact opposite. Using meteorological data, they reconstructed every country’s exposure to the 6,712 cyclones, typhoons, and hurricanes that occurred during 1950-2008 and then measured the long-term growth:

downloadIn his latest column for National Review, Jonah Goldberg notes the difference between being pro-business and pro-market and says the GOP can’t have it both ways anymore:

Just to clarify, the difference between being pro-business and pro-market is categorical. A politician who is a “friend of business” is exactly that, a guy who does favors for his friends. A politician who is pro-market is a referee who will refuse to help protect his friends (or anyone else) from competition unless the competitors have broken the rules. The friend of business supports industry-specific or even business-specific loans, grants, tariffs, or tax breaks. The pro-market referee opposes special treatment for anyone.

Politically, the reason the lines get blurry in good times and bad is that in a boom, the economic pie is growing fast enough that the friend and his competitor alike can prosper. In bad times, when politicians are desperate to get the economy going, no one in Washington wants to seem like an enemy of the “job creators.”

Goldberg is absolutely right about the difference being categorical. As economist Arnold Kling has helpfully outlined, support/opposition to markets and business gives us four categories:

Who is the biggest enemy of the free market system? The late Milton Friedman, one of the 20th century’s most prominent free market champions, had a surprising answer: the business community.

Economist Arnold Kling explains why support for markets and business are not the same thing:

Over at Fieldnotes Magazine, Matthew Kaemingk offers a good reminder that in our social solutions-seeking we needn’t be limited to thinking only in terms of market and state. By boxing ourselves in as such, Kaemingk argues, Christians risk an overly simplistic, non-Biblical view of human needs and human destiny:

When presented with almost any social problem (education, health care, poverty, family life, and so on), today’s leaders typically point to one of two possible solutions—a freer market or a stronger state. But in opposition to these rather myopic solutions, I think there is a more complex and biblical lens through which leaders can consider the social eco-system and the people who move around in it.

Instead of simplistic descriptions of human beings as either clients of the state or competitors in the market, the Christian Scriptures present humanity in a refreshingly complex way. We find a complex creature with a wide variety of gifts, abilities, interests, aspects, loyalties, and solidarities. Created in the image of God, human beings in the Bible are anything but simple. They are musical, communal, religious, artistic, familial, charitable, scientific, literary, moral, athletic, fun, and funny. The robust anthropology found in the Bible depicts a creature that could never be fully defined, controlled, content, or nourished by the market or the state alone—thank God.

This perspective ties in well with Rev. Robert Sirico’s final chapter in his book, Defending the Free Market, where he criticizes the popular notion of homo economicus, from which plenty of bad economic policy and market decision-making has been generated:

Any man who was only economic man would be a lost soul. And any civilization that produced only homines economici to fill its markets, courts, legislative bodies, and other institutions would soon enough be a lost civilization. Familial love, voluntary dedication to philanthropy and faith, the creation of art and music would be at their most minimal level, and whole sectors of life would completely vanish. Focusing the whole of life on the acquisition of quantifiable goods does not bring true happiness or peace, as almost everyone knows. We all have material appetites, but we do not (pray God) always feed them…Human beings find ultimate fulfillment not in acquisition but in developing, sharing, and using their God-given creative capacities for good and giving themselves to others. (more…)

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

One night during either my sophomore or junior year of college, while delaying the doing of homework by walking around the upstairs of Taylor University’s library looking for embarrassing books I could hide in friends’ backpacks so the alarm would go off when we walked out together and they’d have to sheepishly present them at the front desk, I stumbled upon a little treatise called The Law by some French dude named Frederic Bastiat I had never heard of.  I checked it out, cautiously put it in my own backpack as I checked for retaliatory plants, and headed back to the dorm for a spirited bout of Mario Kart 64.

Later that same week, while sitting in my “International Business” class (and wishing Jesus would return at that precise moment to end my boredom), I pulled Bastiat out and began reading these opening words . . .

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life — physical, intellectual, and moral life.

But life cannot maintain itself alone. The Creator of life has entrusted us with the responsibility of preserving, developing, and perfecting it. In order that we may accomplish this, He has provided us with a collection of marvelous faculties. And He has put us in the midst of a variety of natural resources. By the application of our faculties to these natural resources we convert them into products, and use them. This process is necessary in order that life may run its appointed course.

Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Powerful stuff.  I kept wondering, “Where had such clear-headed rhetoric like this been my entire life?” (more…)

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Friday, June 29, 2012

Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)

This Saturday, June 30, is the 211th birthday of Frédéric Bastiat, one of the greatest political philosophers of the modern era. Considered among the founding fathers of classical liberalism, Bastiat is known for his simple and direct explanations of political and economic realities, his arguments against oppressive economic regulations and his clear and concise vision of a government of limited, enumerated powers, operating under the rule of law and unencumbered by favoritism or distributionist policies.

Bastiat drew on his Catholic faith and the writings of Adam Smith and John Locke to articulate a vision of limited, efficient government that respects each citizen’s God-given dignity, strictly adheres to the rule of law, and allows for a largely un-regulated economy in which individuals are free to pursue their interests through peaceable exchange with each other. His best-known works, and those most central to his ideas, are The Law and The Seen and the Unseen, articulating his central political and economic ideas, respectively. (more…)

The Acton Institute recently hosted a conference in California with David Bahnsen and the Center for Cultural Leadership. Conference audio is now available online via YouTube. You can learn more about the event here.

Listen to Rev. Sirico’s talk, “Can We Be Free Without Economic Freedom,” below.

Other speakers included:

Rev. Robert A. Sirico, President of the Acton Institute, continues to make appearances in the media to promote his new book, Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy.

Today’s appearances include an guest spot this morning on the voice of the Mid-Ohio Valley, WMOV, on WMOV Live with Greg Gack:

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Father Robert was also in-studio today with G. Gordon Liddy, broadcasting nationwide from Washington, D.C.:

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You’ll also be able to listen to Rev. Sirico this afternoon at 5:00 on WLCR AM in Louisville, Kentucky, on the Mike Janocik Show, and be sure to tune in tonight on EWTN for Father Robert’s appearance on The World Over with Raymond Arroyo.

On Public Discourse, Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg addresses the “considerable fractures” that continue to divide conservative and libertarian positions on significant policy issues as well as on “deeper philosophical questions.” He pulls apart the “often tortuously drawn distinctions” surrounding the political labels and then offers some reasons why the “often unconscious but sometimes deliberate embrace of philosophical skepticism by some conservatives and libertarians should be challenged.”

Perceptive critics of skepticism have illustrated that the concern to be reasonable and avoid self-deception about reality is the starting point of any quest for philosophical truth: i.e., the very knowledge that skeptics believe we can’t know. What reason could skeptics therefore have for desiring to comprehend that, in the final analysis, all is unknowable, unless they are engaged in a quest for truth? In other words, skeptics draw their deduction that we should be philosophical skeptics from foundational assumptions they cannot doubt.

Also self-refuting is the common skeptic claim that reason is purely instrumental. For to defend this position, the skeptic’s reason necessarily engages in a non-instrumental task. He presumes it is good to know the truth of skepticism, and on grounds of reason rather than feelings. It is thus inconsistent for skeptics to assert that all philosophical viewpoints are arbitrary opinions. When skeptics posit that humans can only be motivated by sentiment rather than reason, they are not proposing this statement as their own impetuous preference. They claim to be making a rational judgment.

Read “Beyond Conservatism and Libertarianism” on Public Discourse by Samuel Gregg.


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Police find transient security guard trapped in car by fire

Mike Hollis, The Huntsville Times By Mike Hollis, The Huntsville Times The Huntsville Times
on January 31, 2008 at 11:30 AM, updated January 31, 2008 at 11:46 AM

Huntsville police say they charged a transient with public intoxication after he began drinking Wednesday on his job as a night-time security guard and accidentally started a fire in a car.

Third-shift officers arriving for duty at the west precinct office about 10:30 p.m. smelled smoke and traced it to Triangle Auto Sales at 2410 Triana Blvd.

Police spokesman Wendell Johnson said they found John Michael Dunne trapped by fire in a car. Dunne, who had been hired to protect the car lot after hours, had crawled into the car and began drinking, he said.

A cigarette fell out of Dunne's mouth when he fell asleep and caught a blanket on fire. Dunne got it out of the car but was unable to flee because the fire spread around it from the blanket.

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South Alabama seafood group serves up hot meals for tornado victims and responders

AVERY-BA.jpgView full sizeAvery Bates, the vice president of the Organized Seafood Association of Alabama, shows off what he calls "Dauphin Island bacon," also knows as fried mullet. Bates and others from Mobile County are at Soma Church in Holt, on the outskirts of Tuscaloosa, providing hot meals as part of the tornado relief efforts Wednesday, May 4, 2011, in Holt, Alabama.

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HOLT, Alabama -- Avery Bates peeled back paper towels covering food in a metal pan and showed off some of the delectable leftovers from lunch.
“That’s what we call ‘Dauphin Island bacon,’” the vice president of the Organized Seafood Association of Alabama said Wednesday. “Fried mullet.”
Soon it would be time to fire up the fryers again, inside the trailer parked outside Soma Church, which was virtually untouched by a deadly April 27 tornado that destroyed nearly everything around it.
Bates and his organization, which boasts between 200 and 300 members, have been on the receiving end of aid following natural disasters. This time, it was time to give back.
“Many people from here came to our neighborhood after Katrina,” said Bates, who lives in Bayou La Batre. “It’s always good to be able to help your fellow man. We have seen our countrymen come from the north to the south. Now, our countrymen from the south are coming to the north. That’s what we’re here for. We want to be good stewards.”
Ernie Anderson, the president of the Organized Seafood Association of Alabama, came through Tuscaloosa County last week after the storm.
“He turned this way, and when he saw this place standing, he said, ‘Well, that pastor must be real tight with God,’” Bates said. “He asked the pastor if they needed some assistance, cooking some meals, whatever we could do. We brought a generator.”
That generator probably is capable of powering a miniature mall, said Brian Miller, who is serving as the church’s disaster relief coordinator.
“It was as welcome as the food,” Miller said. “If you don’t have power, it’s hard to maintain a lot of effort.”
Helpers from Bates’ association have been coming and going. He counted 15 people over the weekend and eight on Wednesday. The fifth-generation commercial fisherman will stay through the weekend himself.
Fresh catch is coming in daily.
“We had a couple of hundred pounds of fish this time,” Bates said. “We had 600 pounds of shrimp the other day.”
On Wednesday, Jim Racine of Baldwin County accompanied a shrimper who came to and from Holt, on the northeast outskirts of Tuscaloosa.
“We’ve seen stuff through hurricanes, but here, there’s just nothing,” said Racine, a cattle farmer who owns Racine’s Feed, Garden & Supply in Robertsdale. “I’ve never seen anything like it.
“They had Katrina real bad in the bayou over there. We had Ivan. When it came through our farm, I thought there could be nothing worse, until I saw this. This is devastating.”
Bates called the hard-hit neighborhoods “eye-opening.”
“It’s like an atomic bomb hit in some of these areas,” he said. “We know tragedies, from many, many devastating storms. I’ve seen some people a lot older than me say they have never seen this much damage in the state of Alabama. Giant trees are down. Metal is mangled.
“It’s amazing to see this church still standing, with almost no damage, and 360 degrees around, total devastation.”
When the fairly new church was built, Miller said a Bible was encased in each of the four cornerstones.
“All of the studs in the rafters of this place have scripture verses that were written on by marker by the people building the place,” Miller said. “They simply did that just because, from the ground up, they wanted this place to be a testimony, to be a witness to God’s presence.
“This place is the only structure standing that’s capable of being used as a distribution point. It’s the only thing left.”
Bates said he hopes the federal government learned some lessons from Katrina about recovery from a natural disaster.
“I hope they get these people some housing,” he said. “We give billions and billions of dollars to foreign countries that really don’t like us.”
But he is encouraged to see that help is not being restricted to FEMA and the National Guard.
“We had this after Katrina,” Bates said. “Whether it was the Red Cross or religious groups, so many denominations stepped up and took place of the government. It’s kind of like brother helping brother.”
Miller is grateful for the time and food donated by members of the Organized Seafood Association of Alabama.
“They’ve pumped out of ton of hot meals that we were able to carry out into the community,” Miller said. “A lot of people might have had granola bars or sandwiches, day in and day out. For them to be able to provide some good, hot food, it’s made a tremendous difference in the community.”


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Carnival Conquest departs Mobile two hours late; two workers hurt in forklift accident (photos)

Carnival Conquest departs from the Alabama Cruise Terminal in Mobile, Ala.
An Alabama Cruise Terminal dock worker throws off the lines of the Carnival Cruise Ship Conquest as it prepares to depart Mobile, Ala. Monday, July 8, 2013. (Bill Starling/
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Carnival Conquest Departs: Monday, July 8, 2013 The Carnival Conquest pulled out of the Alabama Cruise Terminal in Mobile, Alabama at 6 p.m. Monday, two hours after its slated departure.
Carnival Cruise Lines officials have yet another item to file under the "snakebit" category: falling luggage, causing injuries.

The Carnival Conquest pulled out of the Alabama Cruise Terminal at 6 p.m. Monday, two hours after its slated departure and shortly after two workers were taken out by ambulance after minor injuries when heavy luggage fell from a forklift.

The workers were hurrying to unload the last two busloads of luggage that arrived late from New Orleans after being screened there, said Sheila Gurganus, general manager of the terminal.

At 5:40 p.m., shortly before the accident, workers could still be seen transporting loads of luggage on small forklifts from the terminal to the ship.

Once the Conquest finally pulled out, the U.S. Coast Guard set up a 500-yard security zone around it and cleared out the mouth of Mobile River to let it pass. The ship made her way down the river, moving at about two knots, escorted by Alabama Marine Police and two tugboats.

The Conquest was the first vessel to leave the terminal since the Carnival Elation in October 2011. Carnival Cruise Lines moved the Elation from Mobile to New Orleans, leaving the terminal vacant.

There are approximately 3,500 passengers aboard the Conquest for its voyage from Mobile to The Bahamas.

A small group of onlookers waited for the ship to depart. Joaquin M. Holloway Jr., an amateur photographer and a retired professor at the University of South Alabama, came down to the terminal to take pictures in the drizzling rain.

"I hope we'll get another cruise ship," he said. "I think we have the potential to get another one in here. The terminal is well-designed and quite capable of handling ships of various sizes."

The Chapmans – mom Denise and Johnathan, 12, and Maya, 11 – also came to watch the ship head out. Taking a cruise "is the only type of vacation the kids want to go on," Denise Chapman said. The family has taken six cruises and will go on their seventh next month, this time to Alaska, she said.

Except for the forklift accident, the departure went well, Gurganus said. "We had to wait on the luggage  that was the slowest part."

The Conquest, at more than 950 feet, is the largest cruise ship to arrive into the terminal.

"I'm proud that we could handle that kind of ship," she said.

Staff reporters Jeff Dute and John Sharp contributed to this report.


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Now with WAAS on board

January 23, 2009 by Dave Hirschman

When we at AOPA said we weren’t going to refurbish the 2009 “Let’s Go Flying” Sweepstakes SR22, we didn’t say we wouldn’t upgrade it.

So, not being able to leave well enough alone, we brought the plane to Penn Avionics at Brandywine Airport in Pennsylvania in November and asked them for a WAAS upgrade. Both Garmin 430s will now be able to direct the future AOPA Sweepstakes winner through WAAS approaches, and the guidance information shows up beautifully on the Avidyne PFD and MFD screens.

AOPA has been a vocal and consistent backer of WAAS technology because of the safety, utility and economy it brings to general aviation. WAAS allows even the humblest airports to gain instrument approach capabilities with accuracy that rivals traditional ILS – without the expensive infrastructure or maintenance-intensive ground equipment that comes with legacy systems.

We’ve flown a couple of practice WAAS approaches in clear skies to learn the WAAS approach procedures, and it works as advertised. We look forward to using them for real when the “Let’s Go Flying” Sweepstakes SR22 begins its North American campaign this spring!

9 Responses to “Now with WAAS on board”

  1. Charles Ajemian Says:

    What a generous donations. Hats off to Mr. Huck.

  2. Bud Raymond Says:

    GPS is the way to go. So much more accurate than legacy navigation.

  3. eFlite Says:

    Cirrus aircraft look fantastic but it’s really easy to get them overweight and out of CG. eFlite, Inc. will provide a FREE eFlite Aviator v3.08 weight and balance program to the lucky Cirrus SR22 AOPA 2009 Sweepstakes winner to compliment the many other safety features of the aircraft.

    For comparison purposes, you can even try a FREE weight and balance demo at http://eFlite.com/?aid=aopa for the Cirrus and one for your aircraft as well.

  4. Todd Bevins Says:

    Wow! Thanks Mr Huck! A very generous donation, and should go a along way in promoting Gerneral Aviation.

  5. Richard Aniuk Says:

    We all must thank Mr. Huck for his extremely generous gift to AOPA and General Aviation. I hope the people in our government will take a lesson from his generous act.

  6. Anthony Trombello Says:

    Mr. Huck, how does one say thank you to someone who is willing to share through a generous donation of a Cirrus aircraft that had obviously brought so much joy to you. The passion of flying will continue because of your kindness. I always wanted to be a pilot and my dad supported me a 100%. You see my dad is a survivor of a commerical airline crash that is coming up on 20yrs now, in Sioux City Iowa, on that day 112 people died on impact and 184 survived. He went right back to flying soon after that crash. He always said the fastest/safest way to get from A to B was to fly. I take my dad up all the time flying he loves it. Check out his book (Miracle in the cornfield) Thanks again Mr Huck.

  7. Peter Snelling Says:

    Not only can one be impressed by Mr. Huck’s generosity but also his continuing passion for Aviation! I wanted to learn to fly most of my adult life but did’nt start till age 51. At age 53 ( still a beginner )I enjoy it so much I hope to follow in Mr. Huck’s footsteps and still be learning and growing into my eighties as well! We should all be so passionate about our interests!

  8. Michael Ludell Wells Says:

    Don”t write me off.I am layed off now. but will renew my membership .would love to win cirruc sr22

  9. Chris Norman Says:

    Did I mention I filled out over 500 entries…I am going to post a picture of the stack of blue slips at http://www.digitalrealitycorp.com/aopa/sr22.jpg


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Daniel Libeskind designs metallic apartment building for Berlin

Thursday, January 9, 2014
Chausseestrasse 43 ©PX2

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Daniel Libeskind has unveiled his plans for a new apartment complex in the emerging Berlin suburb of Chausseestrasse. Set for completion in 2015, the 8-story building called Chausseestrasse 43,  will accommodate retail functions on street level and 73 individual apartments on the upper levels.

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The striking, metallic facade is said to contain sustainable properties which allow for self-cleaning and  air purification of the building. Libeskind’s design consists of asymmetric windows and a double-height penthouse to maximize natural light. The penthouse suite also boasts a floating stairway that leads into an open-plan living area , and an outdoor patio with sweeping views of the Berlin skyline.

Penthouse suite,  ©PX2

Penthouse suite, ©PX2

The building is very much in the spirit of Libeskind’s signature style which use sharp, angular forms to create a somewhat dramatic aesthetic. The complex occupies a rectangular parcel of land less than half an acre, and is situated directly opposite the headquarters of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service. Libeskind, who is usually engaged in institutional projects says, “Even as my studio is often called upon to design skyscrapers these days, I continue to love to build homes, the basic unit of human life.”

Penthouse suite, ©PX2

Penthouse suite, ©PX2

Self-cleaning metallic facade, ©PX2

Self-cleaning metallic facade, ©PX2

Concept sketch, © Daniel Libeskind

Concept sketch, © Daniel Libeskind

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5 Responses to “Daniel Libeskind designs metallic apartment building for Berlin”

  1. Emil says:

    Libeskind is the undeniable Master of Schlock. He’ll just never learn.

  2. Marc R. says:

    Can somebody please shoot Daniel Libeskind with a tranquilizer dart, stuff him in a cage and then dump him back in the jungle where he belongs?

  3. Attilla says:

    Why would anybody continue after producing such a pathetic sketch? If you got nothing to start with, you get nothing to finish with. QED this embarrassing project.

  4. Laszlo says:

    How pathetic! It never seems to amaze me how much bad architecture gets built. How has Mr. Libeskind active the fame he has? His work was at best graphically interesting and that all.

  5. Hans says:

    Daniel Libeskind’s ‘Secret’ design formula revealed!!!

    1. Take ordinary, rectangular slab building.
    2. Make slab edges jagged.
    3. Add wacky top floor.
    4. Apply superficial skin with diagonal lines and trapezoidal windows.
    5. Call it ‘Crystals’.

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Behance exec shares “dog food” recipe to API enthusiasts

Eating your own dog food,” is a term that means demonstrating confidence in a product by using the product one’s self, often credited to the late 1980s culture at Microsoft.

But online portfolio startup, Behance—self-described as the LinkedIn of the creative world—has embraced the “dog food”philosophy in its API strategy. At today’s Business of APIs Conference in New York, Behance’s home city, chief of software architecture Bryan Latten shared the four ingredients of the company’s secret dog food sauce:

  1. Model your own workflow: The idea behind eating your own dog food is that you should create an API that your own company would want to use. Which means, step one, according to Latten, is to know your corporate workflow.
  2. Repurpose your data, make it different: Once executives identify possible ways the data might be broken up they should take a moment to look at it with fresh eyes. Try to view the data from different perspectives and figure out new ways to interpret what it means.
  3. Use non-developers for feedback: Latten said there’s nothing like hearing a chief executive with little or no understanding of the technology behind an API react to new proposals. But that’s just one example. Ask your loved ones (if they’re not already tired of your entrepreneurial rantings), your customers, and anyone willing to listen, and give thoughtful feedback.
  4. Perform practice maintenance. Seriously: We reached out to Latten after he spoke and asked him to break this one down for us in different terms, and he asked us a question, “Will your clients now when you’ve made a change or will the new version be seamless?” He said those incorporating changes to an API should practice the transition on an offline database to make sure when the new version actually goes live there aren’t any glitches.

Behance was founded in 2006 and is a platform that makes it easier for creative professionals to reach their audience. They have a think tank and conference called 99U, formerly The 99 Percent, devoted to researching best practices of productive and creative people. Earlier this year, TechCrunch reported that Behance, which was at the time growing at a rate of 1,000 members per day, would cease work on a planned redesign and focus on its “creative graph,”charting the connections of freelancers and small business owners similarly to Facebook’s social graph.

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Macys Day Parade Photos on Gothamist

Behance’s very own Navid Baraty was featured on the cover of Gothamist last week, with his unique photographs of the Macy’s Day parade from 30 stories above 6th Avenue. Navid told Gothamist ”As always, I took them by leaning over the edge!”

Full article here

More photography by Navid Baraty can be seen on his Behance portfolio

Two Interesting Theories About Instagram’s Success Applicable To Other Products

This week we held our annual IGNITION conference on the future of media, and one of the panels brought together some of the smartest people from visually-based internet companies to discuss the rise of the visual web.

Business Insider deputy editor Nicholas Carlson asked the panelists why they thought Instagram was such a huge success in a market and a time that had a number of visual apps and tools in competition.

Behance founder Scott Belsky said that the “ego analytics” associated with the product, or centering the product around “likes” and popularity, were a big reason for the app to take off.

Charles Forman, founder and CEO of PictureLife, said that Instagram’s success was due to a hard-to-describe technical facility.

In the context of other visual applications, “Instagram felt like butter,” and all the other applications, especially Facebook, felt like sandpaper,” said Forman.

Both of “ego analytics” and “like butter” effect are surely applicable to other apps and products.

Watch the discussion below.

The Promise of Having an Impact

ED ZIMMERMAN:When we opened our Palo Alto office almost five years ago, we wanted a partner who would not only be a great cultural fit, but also  sought someone we trusted to help establish a culture. We found my friend and, at the time, client, Kathi Rawnsley. She was extremely entrepreneurial and willing to start from scratch. Our initial office was her dining room table and when I arrived that first week, it held more of her daughter’s dolls than client documents.

Kathi was eager to start, wasn’t a prima donna about doing all her own stunts and was ready to go door-to-door to explain our story. This comports with Scott Belsky’sexperience building Behance, the online platform to showcase and discover creative work:  “Startups often try to make themselves look more established than they are, but the right folks in an early team are excited for the challenge of a somewhat undefined role and the ability to change and make history.” Some people need a strong brand and large infrastructure to feel comfortable. Others crave the opportunity their absence presents.

Kathi had attended numerous events we’d hosted and had been “part of the conversation” we had been creating within the entrepreneurial and venture community. Belsky too had created his own conversation for Behance by, among other things, starting a great blog. Belsky advised:  “Contribute to the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a thought leader. When you’re recruiting talent, your blog posts and public speaking about the startup process go a long way.” What began as a blog in 2007 morphed into his Wall Street Journal-best selling book Making Ideas Happen.

Keep reading here

LeapFrog Interactive Hosts Cincinnati’s First Behance Portfolio Review’s International Portfolio Review week is coming to a close, but not before LeapFrog Interactive hosted Cincinnati’s first-ever Behance event. The portfolio review allowed LFI’s creative team to meet with some of the city’s upcoming talent and provide valuable and tangible feedback on their work.

“LeapFrog Interactive felt that a Behance Portfolio Review was a perfect opportunity to showcase our experience and interact with our local creative community,” said Brad Geiger, Senior Art Director at LeapFrog Interactive. “Everyone on our Creative team wanted to participate because the environment that Behance fosters is the same that we emulate in our office, one of supportive feedback. It’s the only way we get better.”

The event drew students from some of the areas most elite creative institutions including the Art Academy of Cincinnati, UC’s DAAP program and the School of Advertising Art.

Keep reading here

Intro to Behance: New Marketing Tool for A/E/C Firms

A college professor once told me on the first day of class: “Whatever work you do, be absolutely proud to put your name on it.” It’s advice I’ve always remembered because it applies so aptly in life, marketing, and any other profession. As a marketer to the A/E/C industry, I’m often reminded of my professor’s wise words because the architects, engineers, designers and builders we have worked with have a portfolio of outstanding projects, all of which they’re proud to showcase.

Unfortunately, some firms often struggle to share their work with the world, and ultimately their target prospects. There’s a vast audience of potential clients who would enjoy these projects, but reaching each individual can be both difficult and time-consuming. Social media gives firms a great advantage, however, some tools have limitations in either their audience or technical capabilities. With that in mind, I recommend the social networking tool Behance to A/E/C professionals and firms to effectively display the projects and work they’re so proud of.

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Paper Silhouettes

by Be-Blogger U.K. on: February 22nd, 2012

I love discovering new platforms especially when it comes to new invention and innovation in art and beauty.  I found these, Paperself eyelashes at one of the London Fashion Week’s exhibitions, invented by the London designer Chunwei Liao.  Inspired by the art of Chinese paper cutting, intricately cut and infused with symbolic creatures in Chinese culture.  The paper lashes can be applied like any other normal fake lashes.

Kit Lee, Style Slicker

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Planning For Memorial Day With Discounted Gift Cards

by liz on May 25, 2011

Memorial day this year is on a Monday, May 30th. People celebrate this holiday in many different ways and it’s usually along the lines of barbecues, picnics, and weekend getaways.  The most common event that usually takes place, and you definitely hear and smell it, are barbecues. Heck, barbecues are known to make their appearance during many holidays. These barbecues are more than just an occasion to stuff yourselves with food, but it is a gathering with the people who are important to us.

For the party planners out there, we know that getting all the food, utensils, and decorations together can be a bit straining on your wallets. So of course it would only be wise to use discounted gift cards as you shop. Costco, Safeway, and Walgreens are just a few examples of gift cards available on our gift card exchange.

Flowers are also popular during this time. If you’re looking for stunning arrangements, you can get discounted 1-800-Flowers gift cards for 35% off!

While we are having fun and eating our hearts out, we all need to keep in mind that this day is dedicated to remembering those who have fallen and to appreciate those who are currently risking their lives to provide us protection, freedom and lifestyles.

Whether we give a moment of silence, pay your respects at the cemetery, or take a relaxing trip during the long weekend, we should spend this time with loved ones and to remember the original purpose of this holiday.

Until next time!

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