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EUROPE AND THE CAUCASUS: EUROPE FAILS TO TAP CASPIAN SEA’S SURGING GAS SUPPLIES

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<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJUU5Fmf_CDvaLE1TtPtEnLcywVgXHUmkiO8mavHncjJzVY-eF6HVowRGHPYB-i5uAyGtqf6vReh1dan6DrnIrruofKGMdx16phXNd3a7MVWTETKDTlR2T55WvipNAoRQYZm8ozDywwYQ1/s1600/casp8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJUU5Fmf_CDvaLE1TtPtEnLcywVgXHUmkiO8mavHncjJzVY-eF6HVowRGHPYB-i5uAyGtqf6vReh1dan6DrnIrruofKGMdx16phXNd3a7MVWTETKDTlR2T55WvipNAoRQYZm8ozDywwYQ1/s400/casp8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />  <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ARE LOSING OUT TO CHINA IN THEIR QUEST TO SOURCE NATURAL GAS FROM THE CENTRAL ASIAN STATES.</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Read also: </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">THE CASPIAN REGION: A FUTURE WAR ZONE?</span></span> </b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/09/the-caspian-region-future-war-zone.html">http://geopoliticsrst.blogspot.co.at/2013/09/the-caspian-region-future-war-zone.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Via Stratrisks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Moving away from dependence on RUSSIA and MIDDLE EAST hydrocarbons was a key energy objective of EUROPEAN countries in the 1990s, and the oil and natural gas resources along the CASPIAN SEA was seen as a vital alternative.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Instead, EUROPEAN oil dependence on RUSSIA and the MIDDLE EAST has grown from 75% in 2000 to 84% by 2010. In addition, EU reliance on gas imports has also risen from 49% to 62% during the period.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">EU countries such as AUSTRIA, BULGARIA, THE CZECH REPUBLIC, ESTONIA, FINLAND, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, POLAND, and SLOVAKIA all depend on RUSSIA for over 60% of their gas imports. In addition, countries aspiring to be EU members such as MOLDOVA, TURKEY, and UKRAINE rely on RUSSIA for over 65% of their imports.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />Central Asia is estimated to hold more than 11% of world proven gas reserves, primarily in TURKMENISTAN, which has lagged behind KAZAKHSTAN and AZERBAIJAN in attracting outside investments.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The region currently produces less than 5% of global gas supply, so there is tremendous growth prospect.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But while CHINA has moved swiftly to source supplies from CENTRAL ASIAN states of TURKMENISTAN, KAZAKHSTAN and AZERBAIJAN, EUROPE has been distracted by a crippling economic recession.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“EUROPEAN gas demand is likely to continue to struggle for the next five years, facing competition from cheaper coal and the promotion of renewables, while also suffering due to poor economic performance,” said the Economist Intelligence Unit in a new report.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“As a result, the sense of urgency in opening up the CASPIAN region’s gas supply to EUROPEAN customers–while still viewed as important–has somewhat dissipated. Nevertheless, it is still important for south-east EUROPEAN states, where dependence on gas from RUSSIA is the strongest.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbHIKJ4WDfGjcANQHNHWayJkG75zoG9nlPUfdmGTzMUpdbcGXPcC7V1qvcTFDpdBAR0I8ozyLBeyn6yRuqi__Kt8uXjFsMlog1GqPGhsiwkW00QgWquLgH0MRtgHzmCwsI2OcBp4mXUKkn/s1600/casp2.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbHIKJ4WDfGjcANQHNHWayJkG75zoG9nlPUfdmGTzMUpdbcGXPcC7V1qvcTFDpdBAR0I8ozyLBeyn6yRuqi__Kt8uXjFsMlog1GqPGhsiwkW00QgWquLgH0MRtgHzmCwsI2OcBp4mXUKkn/s400/casp2.gif" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>US OBJECTIVES</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b> </b></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The UNITED STATES is keen to position CENTRAL ASIA as a viable alternative to RUSSIA, but it also has greater designs for the region to meet its geopolitical strategic objectives.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the east, the US is keen to increase trade ties between CENTRAL ASIA and the SOUTH ASIAN states of AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN and INDIA.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the south, the UNITED STATES believes the rise of CENTRAL ASIAN states as a steady source of hydrocarbons will further weaken IRAN as the two often compete<br />for the same set for customers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In addition, some CENTRAL ASIAN states depend on IRAN to access markets, and greater ties to their east and west will further reduce their dependence on Tehran.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meanwhile, the big objective is to reduce RUSSIAN energy exports to the EUROPEAN UNION.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Rf1Tx_rD76PK-ARdqxHk7xpcqLbtR8JNyhmm66ybgJMhfcPRji2gkzcKs_9k6uWKR_CB6sf4zt9xmA45yOrjFReYaw0aJ0IRcadLKxvP-vYRzsMif4Wl2kmsaoQ6CiFhmPM2EXrLM67a/s1600/casp3.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Rf1Tx_rD76PK-ARdqxHk7xpcqLbtR8JNyhmm66ybgJMhfcPRji2gkzcKs_9k6uWKR_CB6sf4zt9xmA45yOrjFReYaw0aJ0IRcadLKxvP-vYRzsMif4Wl2kmsaoQ6CiFhmPM2EXrLM67a/s640/casp3.gif" width="179" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SIGNIFICANT OIL PRODUCER</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With the help of WESTERN investments, CENTRAL ASIA and the CAUCASUS today produce around 3.5% of global oil supply and hold around 2.5% of the world’s known proven reserves in oil (or four times that of NORWAY and the UNITED KINGDOM combined), according to Edward C. Chow, senior fellow, Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Another way of looking at this is to say the region produces around 8.5% of non-OPEC oil and holds around 9.5% of non-OPEC oil reserves,” Chow told a US government committee on foreign affairs. “In other words, oil production in CENTRAL ASIA has added significantly to global supply and will continue to do so in the future.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />A report presented by US government officials to the Committee on Foreign Relations headed by John Kerry, states that the development of a Southern Corridor to link the CASPIAN to EUROPE with oil and natural gas pipelines was a key US strategy to reduce EUROPEAN dependence on RUSSIA. The first stage was achieved with the completion of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline from AZERBAIJAN to a TURKISH MEDITERRANEAN port and the SOUTH CAUCASUS Gas Pipeline (SCP) from AZERBAIJAN to TURKEY.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The next phase of the Southern Corridor would advance several US and NATO foreign policy objectives: it would further isolate IRAN, assist in cultivating partners in the CAUCASUS and CENTRAL ASIA and bolster their sovereign independence, and perhaps most importantly, curtail RUSSIA’S energy leverage over EUROPEAN NATO allies,” the report noted.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The development of new pipelines such as the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), that transports natural gas from AZERBAIJAN’S massive Shah Deniz field, and Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TAP) between AZERBAIJAN and TURKEY, are all vital cogs to raise the profile of CENTRAL ASIAN resources at the expense of RUSSIAN and some MIDDLE EASTERN supplies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">STRENGTHENING TIES IN THE CAUCASUS </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The US report recommends forging closer ties with countries like AZERBAIJAN, KAZAKHSTAN, and NATO partners EU and TURKEY to hasten developments on this front.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Among these include a recommendation for AZERBAIJAN to use its pipelines to transport TURKMENISTAN gas to other nations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“TURKEY should secure contracts to purchase natural gas from TURKMENISTAN and gain the support of AZERBAIJAN and private energy companies to allow this gas to transit AZERBAIJANI energy infrastructure,” the report recommended.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">AZERBAIJAN has been reluctant to serve as a conduit to TURKMENISTAN natural gas, but the US nudge may help change its mind.<br />Indeed, the UNITED STATES sees TURKMENISTAN as a major player in the great CASPIAN natural gas chess game.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh13VY-7Z9mv6sAGbWkabhyq3FsudYm0fgJl_-8O8P-jl8MqKwbu6hLXWnuGh9-qlTRQajnuIwkF6BuVsZxn5NnDJOA_hljuLJTt1JKjAAdQwhVRIWBJ5Kha8s6vjjTe_yl0_Nj1b2MbHn/s1600/BTCpipeline.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh13VY-7Z9mv6sAGbWkabhyq3FsudYm0fgJl_-8O8P-jl8MqKwbu6hLXWnuGh9-qlTRQajnuIwkF6BuVsZxn5NnDJOA_hljuLJTt1JKjAAdQwhVRIWBJ5Kha8s6vjjTe_yl0_Nj1b2MbHn/s320/BTCpipeline.gif" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BTC BAKUD - TBLISI - CEYHAN Pipeline</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“By virtue of geography and geology, TURKMENISTAN would be the anchor of trans-CASPIAN energy trade, but it is not the only player. KAZAKHSTAN is already a participant in the Southern Corridor, shipping oil across the CASPIAN by barge to Baku to connect to the BTC [Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan] oil pipeline.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The pipeline could also allow KAZAKHSTAN to monetize its largely underdeveloped 1.9 trillion cubic meters of natural gas reserves.</span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But progress on all these fronts has been slow. The EIU estimates that a mere 16 billion cubic meters of natural gas will flow from CENTRAL ASIA to TURKEY and EUROPE by the end of the decade – a fraction of the 585 billion cubic meters the region is expected to consume by 2020.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“By the end of this decade Shah Deniz gas will be flowing to EUROPEAN markets.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Despite changed dynamics regarding EUROPEAN gas supply the opening up of the Southern Gas Corridor remains a useful energy security objective,” said the EIU. “The challenge for the next decade is to expand its capacity so it can make a greater impact on securing EUROPE’S gas supply needs.”</span></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Diet have that much of an impact on skin, specifically foods that are high in antioxidants, nutrients, fiber and water.. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Best foods to eat for healthy skin" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3ldjiL4Mrdihz8ueZe1yDZXKcmsIip8iXVgBQbGoRe77Cvkjg9ic4OQPjg15JvHUt1X4q8Zmq34hN3AQctTG5IF73VH0A_dE6TinjYU_SX8u4Jr9-zXnbY0UP0PRbQOP_eb9V9PdZwKs/s1600/Best+foods+to+eat+for+healthy+skin.jpg" title="Best foods to eat for healthy skin" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><h1 style="text-align: center;"></h1><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"></script><script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script></center><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nuts for Smoother Skin: </span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">You should be Eating nuts every day, is packed with vitamin E and omega 3. Make your hair healthier, your skin smoother, your eyes sparkle and your bones stronger... </span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tomatoes for Anti-aging:</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tomatoes contain the carotene lycopene, one of the most powerful natural antioxidants, anti-aging properties that will keep everyone guessing your age.</span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Strawberry for Anti-wrinkles: </span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Strawberries are rich in Vitamin C which in turn is essential in the body’s production of collagen, a protein responsible for keeping the skin firm! So a few strawberries a day may well keep the wrinkles away!</span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dark chocolate for keep your skin hydrated:</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you're a fan of dark chocolate, you are lucky. Dark chocolate with a cacao content of 62% or more to help protect skin from the sun and maintain the humidity.</span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yogurt: </span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eat a serving of yogurt a day for clear skin. Yogurt is good for your complexion. Is it full of protein, have a beneficial effect to skin.</span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Getting Fruity:</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Vitamin C is found as a major ingredient in many of skin creams, and we know citrus fruit is rich in vitamin C, for just the price why not we choose oranges and lemons. Vitamin C keeping your skin from sagging and wrinkles smoothed away.. </span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">Pep up Your Skin with peppers: </span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Peppers help to fend away those unwanted wrinkles. especially, yellow peppers are packed with carotenoids, an antioxidant that help protect skin from the sun.</span></div><br /></div><center><script type="text/javascript"></script><script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script></center></div>

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The Rise and Fall of the Middle Manager

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The following chart shows nonfarm payrolls minus production and non-supervisory employees.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtjPVs_LP_JlunFXrS9ueoOoiHs_eRgg4WNw-CV934MGI2HDFBfWJw3KsVOClZP36iTIE6M6kB1QyZolVAqPGgPOHR9_X0eINLQVNcR22kC0yNni9uGvpkEQ4Lzuv8NHFSY9Mymx_VSfA/s1600/Middle+Manager+Employment.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtjPVs_LP_JlunFXrS9ueoOoiHs_eRgg4WNw-CV934MGI2HDFBfWJw3KsVOClZP36iTIE6M6kB1QyZolVAqPGgPOHR9_X0eINLQVNcR22kC0yNni9uGvpkEQ4Lzuv8NHFSY9Mymx_VSfA/s320/Middle+Manager+Employment.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />At first glance, this appears to be yet another trend failure. That is not the case though! There is a trend that nearly perfectly describes what is going on. I just need to alter the way the data is displayed so that you can see it better.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqL0xe6zzTRnmPnE8jHDI2KnXQX374lz6tBBJiZEnAGu4J3SarUW5YFs2KA4OcNg7ojj4iypXP5x7Yul6TjzWXjRHCB5awu89VIvdVLhBHh9VWS9rndJIbfjQ_2bCs3ZzCQkeaikv3h2Y/s1600/Middle+Manager+Employment+-+Natural+Log+2.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqL0xe6zzTRnmPnE8jHDI2KnXQX374lz6tBBJiZEnAGu4J3SarUW5YFs2KA4OcNg7ojj4iypXP5x7Yul6TjzWXjRHCB5awu89VIvdVLhBHh9VWS9rndJIbfjQ_2bCs3ZzCQkeaikv3h2Y/s320/Middle+Manager+Employment+-+Natural+Log+2.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />When using a log scale, constant exponential growth is seen as a straight line. The line in the chart above is certainly not straight. It is curving downwards. As seen in the following chart, it is curving downwards in a very consistent way. In fact, it is the exact same way that a baseball in flight would be curved downwards after it is hit into the air, with gravity being the constant. I'm using a 2nd order polynomial to show the path.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LWvRABW8BKBcwdrugnvsiyxHyU2HtRZg6zkKRB9Nbk6EP6yEbiUwFbF2yD_a_MWmJ338m7dPBdyAQ3FCnUP8nIjM6g0pagEo2jL66WgbBJLQVxdI4OE5AA-rIayOigsnO1p8ptmeIZA/s1600/Middle+Manager+Employment+-+Natural+Log.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3LWvRABW8BKBcwdrugnvsiyxHyU2HtRZg6zkKRB9Nbk6EP6yEbiUwFbF2yD_a_MWmJ338m7dPBdyAQ3FCnUP8nIjM6g0pagEo2jL66WgbBJLQVxdI4OE5AA-rIayOigsnO1p8ptmeIZA/s320/Middle+Manager+Employment+-+Natural+Log.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Click to enlarge.</span><br /><br />There are 42 million jobs here. I just don't see where the future growth will come from. These also tend to be the higher paying jobs that a person holding a college degree might have. Sigh.<br /><br />The future's so bright I gotta... Oh, never mind. I give up.<br /><br /><i style="color: red;">“A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.”</i><span style="color: red;"> </span>– Elbert Hubbard<br /><br /><b>Source Data:</b><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=maV">St. Louis Fed: Nonfarm Payolls Minus Production and Nonsupervisory Employees</a><br /><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=maW">St. Louis Fed: Nonfarm Payolls Minus Production and Nonsupervisory Employees (Natural Log)</a>

The Rise and Fall of the Middle Manager

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If ‘Million Second Quiz’ Succeeds, NBC Gets the Grand Prize

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><script src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js" type="text/javascript"></script><g:plusone></g:plusone><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/">http://www.nytimes.com</a><br /><img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/07/arts/07QUIZjp1/07QUIZjp1-articleLarge.jpg" /><br /><div class="articleSpanImage" style="margin-bottom: 8px; width: 600px;"><span itemid="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/07/arts/07QUIZjp1/07QUIZjp1-articleLarge.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"></span><br /><div class="caption" itemprop="description" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.2727em;"><span itemid="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/07/arts/07QUIZjp1/07QUIZjp1-articleLarge.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject">The set for “The Million Second Quiz,” on a rooftop in the West 40s in Manhattan.</span></div><span itemid="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/07/arts/07QUIZjp1/07QUIZjp1-articleLarge.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"></span></div><h6 class="byline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 2px 0px;">By <span itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/brian_stelter/index.html" itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/brian_stelter/index.html" rel="author" style="color: #666699; text-decoration: none;" title="More Articles by BRIAN STELTER">BRIAN STELTER</a></span></h6><h6 class="dateline" style="color: grey; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px;">Published: September 6, 2013</h6><div class="articleBody" style="margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-top: 1.5em;"><span itemid="http://www.nytimes.com" itemprop="copyrightHolder provider sourceOrganization" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"></span><nyt_text><nyt_correction_top></nyt_correction_top></nyt_text><br /><div data-key="PqwPqw" data-num="0" itemprop="articleBody" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em;"><br /></div></div><div class="articleInline runaroundLeft" style="clear: left; display: inline; float: left; margin: 6px 15px 10px 0px !important; width: 190px;"><div class="inlineImage module" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 12px; width: 190px;"><div class="image" style="margin-bottom: 2px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8896966065785019252" style="color: #666699; display: block;"><span itemid="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/07/arts/07QUIZjp2/07QUIZjp2-articleInline.jpg" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><img alt="" height="261" itemprop="url" src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/09/07/arts/07QUIZjp2/07QUIZjp2-articleInline.jpg" style="border: none;" width="190" /></span></a></div><h6 class="credit" style="color: #909090; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.223em; margin: 0px 0px 3px; text-align: right;">Sarah Shatz/NBC</h6><div class="caption" style="color: #666666; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.2727em;">Ryan Seacrest</div></div></div><nyt_byline></nyt_byline><br /><div class="articleBody" style="margin-bottom: 1.7em; margin-top: 1.5em;"><div data-key="ANaWtt" data-num="1" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Ask NBC, and the answer will be “The Million Second Quiz,” a groundbreaking competition that will start on Monday night and end 10 days later — the online component is 10 consecutive 24-hour days — with the presentation of what the network calls the biggest guaranteed pot of money in game show history. Whether that’s the right or wrong answer will be determined when the ratings start to come in.</div><div data-key="AatIkw" data-num="2" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">At a time when shrinking network audiences are the norm, the “Quiz” is already winning attention for the scale of its ambitions, as symbolized by the three-story arena that has taken shape in the Clinton neighborhood of Manhattan, where the game will be played. In keeping with the million-second theme, it has the appearance of a gigantic hourglass; its sheer size almost says, “AMC and Netflix and YouTube can’t do this!”</div><div data-key="AidAtN" data-num="3" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">After its debut on Monday, “Quiz” will be broadcast on NBC for an hour a night, every night, until Sept. 19, with one break for “Sunday Night Football.” In some ways, it is a throwback to a long-ago era when families would gather around the television set for big prime-time game shows. According to NBC, there hasn’t been a live game show scheduled in prime time since the 1960s.</div><div data-key="BttAwt" data-num="4" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Back then, though, viewers could only shout answers at the TV. Now, they can play along at home with an app. And when the game is not being played on TV, it will continue as a live, continuous stream on <a href="http://nbc.com/" style="color: #666699;" target="_">NBC.com</a>.</div><div data-key="CsoCah" data-num="5" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Contestants, some of whom will be picked to compete on the basis of their Internet play, will take turns sitting in the “money chair,” where every second spent answering trivia questions is worth $10. Correct answers help them reach Winners Row, an area on the set where the five best players will live and sleep (and keep answering questions, lest they be kicked out of the top five) until the million seconds are up.</div><div data-key="TitTpw" data-num="6" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“This is the Olympics of quiz,” said Stephen Lambert, the British television producer who offered the idea to Paul Telegdy, NBC’s president of alternative and late-night programming. In the pitch, Mr. Lambert described the game “almost like a tennis match between two contestants.” After all, nothing attracts more viewers to broadcast television than big sporting events. That’s partly why the “Quiz” will try to look and feel like such an event, with its open-air setting.</div><div data-key="StqOtf" data-num="7" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Since the quiz show isn’t taped like, say, “Jeopardy,” some questions will be about the day’s news. “You might be asked, ‘President Obama signed what into law this morning?’ ” said the executive producer, David Hurwitz. Other questions will be asked by celebrities — inevitably, NBC celebrities. (“If there’s a question about the weather, who better to ask it than Al Roker?” Mr. Telegdy said.) On the final night, the final contestants on Winners Row will vie for a grand prize that could theoretically top out at $10 million, though it’s likely to be closer to $5 million.</div><div data-key="EaNTst" data-num="8" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Executives at NBC haven’t actually said this, but they clearly want the “Quiz” to be nothing short of a national event — the kind of big-ticket, must-see spectacle that turns up less and less often on the broadcast networks. To that end, the executives have hired Ryan Seacrest to host and have spent tens of millions of dollars to promote the game show this summer. They say that even some of their typical rivals might be caught rooting for it: Mr. Telegdy said a “competitive éminence grise from elsewhere in TV land” — he wouldn’t name the person — had sent him a well-wishing e-mail that said bluntly, “We all need this right now.”</div><div data-key="TpaIsi" data-num="9" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">The producers are aware that comparisons to the blockbuster ABC show “<a href="http://millionairetv.dadt.com/" style="color: #666699;" title="Its Web site">Who Wants to be a Millionaire</a>” are probably inevitable (though there is no phone-a-friend option on this show). “Millionaire,” hosted by Regis Philbin, wowed the television industry when it drew 10, 20 and sometimes even 30 million viewers in 1999 and 2000. It continues to chug along in syndication, now with Cedric the Entertainer as the host. One difference is that “Millionaire” was already a proven hit in Britain when it arrived in the United States; “Million Second Quiz” will start stateside first. If successful, it will spread around the world.</div><div data-key="IatBhn" data-num="10" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">In a telephone interview, Mr. Telegdy said that “the line will probably go dead, and a robot will eject me from my seat” if he uttered a specific ratings prediction. But his noncommittal answer was telling in and of itself: the goal, he said, is to “get people talking about NBC.”</div><div data-key="OuaSip" data-num="11" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Once upon a time, that network didn’t have to try hard to achieve that; now it does. So its parent company, Comcast, is having all of its various properties support “Quiz” through ads, guest appearances, reports on newscasts and the like — a strategy that it calls “symphony” and that was previously applied to the singing competition “The Voice.”</div><div data-key="MSwMBa" data-num="12" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Mr. Seacrest, who is best known for hosting Fox’s “American Idol” and who also has a wide-ranging contract with NBC, said that after he heard the initial pitch from Mr. Lambert and Mr. Telegdy, the NBCUniversal chief executive, Steve Burke, called him to reiterate how important the “Quiz” was going to be. Mr. Burke also did so in an e-mail to every employee of the company on Wednesday.</div><div data-key="TiaTia" data-num="13" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em; margin-bottom: 1em;">“There is already a lot of great buzz, and we think there is a chance ‘The Million Second Quiz’ could really break through,” Mr. Burke wrote.</div><div><br /></div></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><script type="text/javascript"></script><script src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/">http://www.usatoday.com</a><br /><img alt="nfl week 1 15" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/20f01a44f94287ccc96abe9ff09b46304e85e6da/c=0-0-4356-3280&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/09/06/1378440741000-12.jpg" /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">ENGLEWOOD, Colo. – To think, just a few days ago NFL defensive coordinators probably thought Wes Welker was the most dangerous addition to the Denver Broncos offense.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">That was before Julius Thomas.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Sure, Welker caught two of Peyton Manning's touchdown passes in Denver's 49-27 win against the Baltimore Ravens on Thursday night. But other than how quickly he and Manning have established a rapport, Welker's production is hardly surprising for a player long-established as the NFL's best slot receiver.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Thomas, with his two-touchdown, 110-yard performance against the Ravens, flashed the potential to become the type of game-changing tight end the Broncos haven't had since Shannon Sharpe. That's the guy whom Broncos envisioned when they drafted the former college basketball player in 2011, but had yet to see because of two injury-plagued years.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">MANNING'S NIGHT: </span><a href="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/09/peyton-manning-7-touchdowns/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/09/peyton-manning-7-touchdowns/">Stats to sum 7 TDs</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">After the way Thomas played Thursday, opposing defenses might be just as concerned with covering him as they are with receivers Welker, Demaryius Thomas and Eric Decker.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I am not sure how they will answer, or if they will, but it will be interesting to see how teams play Julius all season. He is a big guy, he definitely will make teams have a conversation," Manning said. "You want guys that make teams have the discussion, 'How are we going to handle this guy?'"</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The Ravens had no answer. On his first touchdown, a 24-yarder in the first quarter, he found yards of open space behind a pair of linebackers, and was untouched by safety James Ihedigbo at the goal line. On the second touchdown, Thomas blew past the Ravens' other safety, Michael Huff, then spun away from an attempted tackle by Ihedigbo on his way to the end zone.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">It appeared the Ravens underestimated just how speedy the 6-foot-5, 250-pound Thomas was, and how hard he would be to tackle.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"He's a fast guy, for how big he is," said Broncos tight end Virgil Green. "A lot of people think that as tight ends, we're not that fast. But we've got some 4.5 [second 40-yard dash] guys in that room. We take a lot of pride in our speed and getting open. Julius does a great job of watching film and knowing what the defense is going to do, and all of that stuff helps you out when you're out there."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">JOE KAPP: </span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/09/06/peyton-manning-joe-kapp-seven-touchdowns-baltimore/2777325/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/09/06/peyton-manning-joe-kapp-seven-touchdowns-baltimore/2777325/">Flattered by sharing record with Peyton</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Thomas shouldn't have snuck up on the Ravens after leading the Broncos in receiving in the preseason. But those games didn't count, and Thomas, despite being in his third season, still has so little game experience.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Thursday wasn't Thomas' debut, but it might as well have been. He had only catch, for five yards, in the second game of his rookie season in 2011. As he was tackled by a Cincinnati Bengals defender after the catch just in front of the Broncos' sideline, Thomas mangled his left ankle so badly that Denver coach John Fox thought the leg must have been broken.</div><div class="story-asset image-asset" id="module-position-f05b954617e011e390db005056bd7fc9" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><aside class="wide single-photo" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 25px;"><img alt="USP NFL_ Baltimore Ravens at Denver Broncos" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/4832be3bb0157ef0b61da6d68dcd6b783570dca1/c=1-0-660-495&r=x383&c=540x380/local/-/media/USATODAY/promo/2013/09/05/1378438677000-USP-NFL-Baltimore-Ravens-at-Denver-Broncos.jpg" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="540" /><div style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;">Denver Broncos tight end Julius Thomas (80) reacts with wide receiver Wes Welker (83) after scoring his second touchdown reception in the second quarter against the Baltimore Ravens at Sports Authority Field at Mile High.<span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports)</span></div></aside><br /><div class="clearfix"></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">It wasn't, though Fox said Friday that Thomas might have recovered more quickly from a fracture than he did from the severe high ankle sprain that eventually needed to be surgically repaired in April 2012. As he slogged through his rehab, Thomas dropped down the depth chart last season behind Joel Dreessen, Jacob Tamme and Green, and was inactive for the Broncos' final 13 games, including the playoff loss to the Ravens.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"It's one of those things that happens in life that kind of changes who you are," Thomas said. "To spend a year and two weeks trying to get back to where you left off, having setbacks, trying to find a way back on the field, then having to watch all of last season. That's something I'm never going to forget."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Yet through those two trying seasons, time when it would have been somewhat understandable had either the Broncos or Thomas given up, Fox never forgot about the potential Thomas flashed in his one year of college football at Portland State and during his rookie training camp after the Broncos selected him with a fourth-round pick in 2011.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">And Thomas never stopped dreaming about not just earning a spot on the game-day roster, but about scoring touchdowns.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I definitely saw myself in the end zone. I saw myself making plays. That's why I pushed myself so hard to get back, because I felt like I had the ability to do it. I just wanted to have the feeling of being able to contribute and do something to help this team out," Thomas said. "In your head, you see yourself making plays, so to not be able to go out on the field and do it is tough. It's just a surreal moment for me. I'm just happy to be back playing football."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Thomas' emergence will also force the Broncos to be creative with their other tight ends. Thomas already has leap-frogged Tamme on the depth chart, and is going to make it difficult for the Broncos to give the starting job back to Dreessen whenever he is cleared to return from the knee issues that kept him out of the preseason. Dreessen, the Broncos' best blocking tight end, will make $2.5 million this year in the second year of a three-year contract.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Thomas, by comparison, is a bargain, with a salary of just $555,000.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"With the Joel Dreessen injury, one door closes and other door opens," Fox said. "In Julius' case, he got a lot of those reps in the preseason, in practice, and I think it accelerated his growth. It's unfortunate for Joel, but it's been fortunate for Julius."</div></div> <br /><div class="g-plusone" data-annotation="inline" data-width="300"></div><script type="text/javascript">  (function() {     var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true;     po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js';     var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);   })(); </script></div></div>

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Today’s Google Doodle Honors Nobel Prize Winner Jane Addams

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img alt="Screen Shot 2013-09-06 at 11.43.56 AM" src="http://timenewsfeed.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/screen-shot-2013-09-06-at-11-43-56-am.png?w=720&h=355&crop=1" /><br /><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Today’s Google Doodle is a colorful tribute to Jane Addams (Sept. 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935), the famed social worker who, in 1931, became the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Addams also rose to prominence as a co-founder of Chicago’s Hull House, the country’s oldest settlement house that provided 123 years of social and educational services to the underprivileged. The Doodle is a simple illustration of the red brick structure, situated on the West Side of Chicago. No animation, no music, nothing fancy: just a straightforward tribute to Addams and to the settlement house, which she co-founded with fellow social reformer and activist Ellen Gates Starr. Last year, the institution <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/165848/chicagos-hull-house-closes-its-doors-time-revive-settlement-model#" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">closed its doors and filed for bankruptcy</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Addams was born into a wealthy Illinois family, the youngest of nine children. After dedicating her life to social justice, women’s suffrage and myriad other causes, she died in 1935, four years after winning her Nobel Prize. According to the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0906.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">New York <em>Times</em>‘ obituary</a>, she “ blazed the trail for a scientific approach to the relief of poverty and suffering and was the parent of much of the social legislation of the last four decades.” The obit says that “world peace was forever dear to her heart” and described her as “serene, helpful, capable, dauntless.”</div><a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/">http://newsfeed.time.com</a><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><script type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>

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Jim Harbaugh: NFL's read-option rules flawed, biased

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.nfl.com/">http://www.nfl.com</a><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/jimharbaugh/2515790/profile" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3378" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Jim Harbaugh</a> didn't like <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/greenbaypackers/profile?team=GB" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3379" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Green Bay Packers</a> linebacker <a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/claymatthews/80431/profile" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3380" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Clay Matthews</a>' "<a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000238292/article/niners-jim-harbaugh-condemns-packers-tough-talk" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3381" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">tough talk</a>" about hitting read-option quarterbacks, so he <a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000238827/article/niners-jim-harbaugh-nfl-exec-discuss-qb-hit-rules" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3382" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">contacted the NFL</a> earlier this week.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">The <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/sanfrancisco49ers/profile?team=SF" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3383" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">San Francisco 49ers</a> coach said Friday he didn't care for the answers he got.</div><table align="right" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222221; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; width: 260pxpx;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); float: right; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; margin: 5px; padding: 10px; width: 202px;"><a href="http://fantasy.nfl.com/?icampaign=news_include_fantasy_join" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3384" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;"><img align="right" border="0" src="http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/photo/2013/07/09/0ap1000000217012.jpg" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" /></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">"I think it's flawed and a bit biased," Harbaugh said of the league's response to his concerns about quarterback hits.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">Harbaugh then went on an approximately 5-minute monologue and discussion with reporters about the rule, which included him <a href="https://twitter.com/TomPelissero/status/376095167050031104" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3385" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">miming options</a> for how QBs might have to show they don't have the ball.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">"I'm not advocating that they don't hit the quarterback if he has the ball, but if he's in the pocket I believe there should be a strike zone." Harbaugh said. "Same strike zone that is given to the quarterback when he's in the pocket and throwing the ball. I feel like you give a license now to players to hit quarterbacks at the knee or in the head."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">Harbaugh explained that he was concerned that defenders would hit quarterbacks in the knee or head with an excuse that they couldn't tell if the QB had the ball and could be considered a running back.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;"></div><div class="nfl-video-tag nfl-video-small nfl-video-right" id="vid2" style="background-color: white; clear: right; color: #222221; float: right; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 25px 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="yui3-widget yui3-nfl-video" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_1662" style="background-color: black; height: 216px; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 384px;"><div class="yui3-nfl-video-content yui3-widget-content-expanded" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_1664" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 216px; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 384px; z-index: 1;"></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">"By definition, a fake is a deception," Harbaugh said, continuing to voice his concern. "It is a deception, deceptive maneuver....Now are they opened up to being hit in the head and the knees, treated like a running back?...It seems like they would have more of an appetite to look at that, and they've said they don't have an appetite to look at it any further."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">The strong ending suggests Harbaugh isn't going to let the issue fade away.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">He did tell reporters his game plan wouldn't change or affect how he uses quarterback <a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/colinkaepernick/2495186/profile" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3386" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Colin Kaepernick</a>. At the very least Harbaugh has ensured refs will be keeping a close eye on all the hits Kaepernick takes <a href="http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2013090811/2013/REG1/packers@49ers" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3387" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Sunday</a> against the <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/greenbaypackers/profile?team=GB" id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3388" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Packers</a>.</div><div id="yui_3_10_3_1_1378573223851_3997" style="background-color: white; color: #222221; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div><script type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script>

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Broncos WR Eric Decker has a big fan in Denver coach John Fox

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/">http://www.denverpost.com</a><br /><br /></div><embed base="http://admin.brightcove.com" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashvars="videoId=2652521699001&playerId=934052406&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&" height="212" name="flashObj" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" seamlesstabbing="false" src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/934052406" swliveconnect="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="286"></embed>  <br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="articleBody" id="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.640625px;"><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Because his priorities are in the right place for a team mind-set, wide receiver Eric Decker left Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Thursday night in a good mood.</div><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Decker's Broncos had won their season opener against the defending Super Bowl champion Ravens 49-27.</div><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">But of Peyton Manning's 27 completions for 462 yards, Decker caught only two for 32 yards. That led to an apologetic tweet to fans Friday morning.</div><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">"Much love to Broncos Country for reppin big last night! Big win! Def disappointed in my performance, unacceptable! Watch, learn, flush," Decker wrote on his Twitter account, @EricDecker87.</div><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">Decker ranked second in the NFL in touchdown catches last season with 13.</div><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">But in Thursday's game, Decker</div><div class="articlePosition2" style="float: left; margin: 10px 20px 10px 0px;"><div class="nestedFreeform" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 4px; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 3px; width: 200px;"><h1 style="background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgb(229, 235, 243) 0%, rgb(255, 255, 255) 50%); background-repeat: repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: rgb(57, 84, 122) !important; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px; padding: 7px 0px 7px 10px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/broncosmailbagform" style="-webkit-transition: 0.1s ease-out; color: rgb(57, 84, 122) !important; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.1s ease-out;">SUBMIT A QUESTION</a></h1><span class="nf_content" style="display: block; font-size: 13px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px;"><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 8px; padding: 0px;">Mike Klis tackles readers' questions about the Denver Broncos and NFL.</div></span></div></div>had a drop in the end zone. Broncos coach John Fox isn't concerned.<div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;"></div><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">"Eric is a heck of a player," Fox said. "As I've said many times, if you haven't been beaten or you haven't dropped a ball, you haven't played.</div><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">"None of these guys are perfect and we don't expect that, but you strive for that. Eric's that kind of competitor. I know he's disappointed, but it's a team game and people around him made plays. He'll get better. We have extreme, great confidence in Eric. I don't have any doubts he'll bounce back."</div><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;"><b>Some downtime. </b>The Broncos are taking Saturday and Sunday off, and while Fox acknowledged he has talked to them about staying out of trouble, he said he's not worried about what his players will be doing with their weekend off.</div><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;">"We feel confident they'll use (the time off) as rest," Fox said.</div><div style="line-height: 22.652px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;"><b>Footnotes. </b>Fox gave no injury updates Friday. ... He re- iterated that running back Knowshon Moreno made a start Thursday night because of his experience. "He's more seasoned. He's been in that spot more than our other guys," Fox said. "They are all very capable. I'm not slighting the others at all." <i>Christopher Dempsey, The Denver Post</i></div><br style="clear: both;" /><br style="clear: both;" /><br style="clear: both;" /><br style="clear: both;" /><br style="clear: both;" /><span fd-id="default" fd-type="end"></span></div><div class="articlePositionFooter" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.640625px;"><div id="mc-embed-container" style="width: 654px;"><div class="photo-gallery" id="mc-gallery-31685576" style="background-color: #222222; color: #222222; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px auto; width: 654px;"><div class="carousel slide" id="mc-embed-carousel31685576" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin-bottom: 23px; position: relative;"><div class="carousel-counter" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: absolute; right: 13.078125px; top: 45.765625px; z-index: 1;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-size: 18px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 11.326px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">1</span>/5</div></div><div class="carousel-inner" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 654px;"><div class="item active" id="2747112583" style="-webkit-transition: left 0.6s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; left: 0px; position: relative; transition: left 0.6s ease-in-out;"><div class="image-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 441.4375px; position: relative;"><img alt="Denver Broncos tight end Julius Thomas (80) celebrates a touchdown in the second quarter as the Denver Broncos took on the Baltimore Ravens in the first game of the 2013 NFL season at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver on September 5, 2013. 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Costa Rica vs. USA: Final score 3-1, USMNT suffer big setback against the Ticos

9:56 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.sbnation.com/">http://www.sbnation.com</a><br /><img src="http://cdn2.sbnation.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/19109229/179768111.0_standard_709.0.jpg" /><br /><div class="has-dropcap" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em;">The USMNT were in pole position in the hex when they headed down to Costa Rica. But that was never going to be an easy game, and with key players unfit to start (ace midfielder Michael Bradley was a late scratch) the USA found themselves behind early and unable to recover, eventually suffering a 3-1 loss that sees the hosts leapfrog their guests to take the lead in the hex.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/fifa/teams/united-states" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">United States</a> were under siege from the off. The Ticos, hoping for revenge after the snowpocalypse in Colorado, swarmed over their guests immediately after kicking. <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/epl/players/110901/tim-howard" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Tim Howard</a> was forced to claw away a mis-hit shot from <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/epl/players/149822/bryan-ruiz" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Bryan Ruiz</a> that looked destined to find the back of the net, but that was only putting off the inevitable -- Jhonny Acosta netted from the resultant corner, rising to smash header straight through<a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/fifa/players/110917/damarcus-beasley" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">DaMarcus Beasley</a> at the near post.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">That was 1-0. Costa Rica weren't satisfied with 1-0. <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/la-liga/players/141770/joel-campbell" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Joel Campbell</a> should have made it two from a Bryan Oviedo cross, and a left-sided overload resulted in the second in short order. Keylor Navas released the hosts after collecting a <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/mls/players/110933/clint-dempsey" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Clint Dempsey</a> bicycle kick, and Christian Bolanos sent in a cross which Celso Borges nodded past a wrong-footed Howard to double the lead.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The rest of the half featured a slew of Ticos chances against a backdrop of terrified, lost-looking play from the USMNT. Bolanos wasted a chance to make it 3-0 when he was set free (he attempted a dive to make up for it, to no avail), while the USA had Howard to thank for stopping Campbell one on one.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">But somehow, miraculously, the visitors only went into the break down by one. A hopeful punt forward escaped <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/fifa/players/149729/fabian-johnson" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Fabian Johnson</a>, but the Hoffenheim man ended up getting wiped out in the area by Keylor Navas after the ball had passed the pair by. The referee pointed to the spot; Dempsey rifled home.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The first half was dominated by Costa Rica, but their superiority was nowhere near as distinct after the interval. Dempsey had the next good chance after some excellent work from <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/fifa/players/110934/landon-donovan" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Landon Donovan</a> -- after being fed in the centre the Seattle Sounders man weaved his way around a defender before sending a cannon of a shot off Navas' right-hand post.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">The Ticoas still had more than their fair share of good moments, and one such attack forced <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/fifa/players/111180/geoff-cameron" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Geoff Cameron</a> to take a suspension when the defender-cum-midfielder took a yellow for bringing down Campbell on the run. In the 76th minute, the reason Cameron was willing to take a yellow to stop Campell became obvious -- the striker gave Costa Rica their two-goal lead back.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/epl/players/110928/jozy-altidore" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Jozy Altidore</a> was conducting what seemed like a hugely promising attack down the USA left, and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/mls/players/111128/michael-umana" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Michael Umana</a> fired a desperate clearance downfield. Somehow, that turned into a defense-annihilating through ball, with Campbell racing clear of both <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/mls/players/111033/matt-besler" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Matt Besler</a> and <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/mls/players/111207/omar-gonzalez" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Omar Gonzalez</a> before slotting past Howard to make the score 3-1. Seconds later, Besler was booked for a foul on the striker, earning him a suspension for the match against <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/fifa/teams/mexico" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Mexico</a>. Considering the way he defended on that goal, that might be a positive for the USA.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">Altidore was the next to get a suspension, because Altidore is silly. What a mess this game was.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Costa Rica starting lineup (4-4-2): </b>Keylor Navas; Bryan Oviedo, Johnny Acosta, Giancarlo Gonzalez, Michael Umana; Christian Bolanos, Yeltsin Tejada (Jose Cubero, 71'), Celso Borges, Cristian Gamboa; Joel Campbell, Bryan Ruiz (<a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/mls/players/111238/alvaro-saborio" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Alvaro Saborio</a>, 80').</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Goals: </b>Acosta (2'), Borges (10'), Campbell (76').</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">USA starting lineup (4-2-3-1): </b>Tim Howard; Damarcus Beasley, Matt Besler, Omar Gonzalez, Michael Orozco; <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/fifa/players/149731/jermaine-jones" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Jermaine Jones</a>, Geoff Cameron; Fabian Johnson (Jozy Altiore, 73'), Landon Donovan, <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/mls/players/111053/graham-zusi" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Graham Zusi</a> (<a class="sbn-auto-link" href="http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/mls/players/151612/eddie-johnson" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-color: rgb(119, 119, 119); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1em; text-decoration: none;">Eddie Johnson</a>, 58'); Clint Dempsey.</div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; font-family: 'Mercury SSm A', 'Mercury SSm B', Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><b style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">Goals: </b>Dempsey (43', p)</div></div>

Costa Rica vs. USA Costa Rica vs. USA: Final score 3-1, USMNT suffer big setback against the Ticos

http://www.sbnation.com The USMNT were in pole position in the hex when they headed down to Costa Rica. But that was never going to be an ea...

Aaron Hernandez pleads not guilty to murder indictment

9:55 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/">http://www.usatoday.com</a><br /><img alt="hernandez 9.6.13" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/dbdde3c9a7abcaeab77bcf36a67f8ed3ffaba6b0/c=0-112-2614-2077&r=x404&c=534x401/local/-/media/USATODAY/test/2013/09/06/1378491982000-GTY-177211711.jpg" /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">FALL RIVER, Mass. — Six times on Friday a Superior Court clerk read a charge against Aaron Hernandez and asked for his plea, and six times the former New England Patriots tight end answered in a clear voice:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"Not guilty."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Hernandez is charged with first-degree murder in the June 17 killing of his friend Odin Lloyd, 27, a former semi-pro football player, and also faces five accompanying weapons charges.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">DATABASE: </span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/arrests/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/arrests/">NFL player arrests since 2004</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Hernandez, wearing a navy blue suit jacket and white button-down shirt without a tie, was arraigned in a hearing that lasted a little more than 10 minutes in Bristol Superior Court.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Hernandez's lawyers will ask for bail at an Oct. 9 hearing. Until then, he will remain held at a Bristol County correctional facility, where he has been since he was arrested at his North Attleborough, Mass., home on June 26. If convicted, Hernandez, who was released by the Patriots within hours of his arrest, faces a possible sentence of life in prison.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Hernandez's attorneys will attack the circumstantial evidence against their client at the bail hearing next month, but bail is unlikely with other shooting investigations — with possible links to Hernandez — pending.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">His attorneys asked the public not to jump to conclusions. The information and evidence that has been released on this case has all been one-sided and untested, they said.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Hernandez attorney Charles Rankin said investigators lack the evidence to convict Hernandez.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"In a sense this is like the opening kick-off and we have a long way to go before the trial," Rankin said. "We're confident that at the end of the trial, Aaron will be exonerated.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"As we explained in (pleadings) before Judge (Frances) McIntyre we are not going to try the case in the media and we would encourage everyone to keep an open mind. Not one shred of evidence has been presented yet and we feel confident that when evidence is finally presented in a court of law that Aaron will be exonerated.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">POLICE BLOTTER: </span><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/09/04/arrest-aaron-hernandez-roger-goodell-dui-assault/2764291/" style="color: #1990e5; text-decoration: none;" title="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2013/09/04/arrest-aaron-hernandez-roger-goodell-dui-assault/2764291/">NFL arrests persist after turbulent offseason</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"Unnamed sources quoted in the media are not authoritative. They can't be questioned, they can't be cross-examined, they're not reliable. So, at the end of the day, we're confident that Aaron is going to be exonerated and we look forward to that process. In the meantime we would encourage people to keep an open mind, let the lawyers and the justice system do its job and we'll see you in another month."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Rankin did not take questions from reporters.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Bristol County district attorney Sam Sutter expressed confidence in the prosecution's evidence.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"Everybody here heard two bail arguments on successive days on June 26 and June 27," Sutter said. "Over 500 pages of documents have been released to the press and the public. Those include applications for search warrants, returns on search warrants, still photographs from video surveillance, Trooper (Eric) Benson's comprehensive arrest warrant report. So I think that evidence speaks for itself."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Asked specifically what the evidence reveals, Sutter replied: "That I think would be giving you my opinion about the evidence and that specifically I cannot do. There has been a tremendous amount of commentary about the evidence and, as I said, there's a tremendous amount of evidence. So I'll stand on what I said."</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Sutter said prosecutors would "absolutely" oppose bail for Hernandez.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><img alt="The life of Aaron Hernandez, 23, has been checkered by tragedy, triumph and controversy." src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/f40f3606fa7f520417c0c9e02d7aa7a371d004ba/r=x513&c=680x510/local/-/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/07/09/1373404817000-xthumb-1307091721_4_3.jpg" /></div></div>

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