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Global Debt Crosses $100 Trillion, Rises By $30 Trillion Since 2007; $27 Trillion Is "Foreign-Held"
While the US may be rejoicing its daily stock market all time highs day after day, it may come as a surprise to many that global equity capitalization has hardly performed as impressively compared to its previous records set in mid-2007. In fact, between the last bubble peak, and mid-2013, there has been a $3.86 trillion decline in the value of equities to $53.8 trillion over this six year time period, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Alas, in a world in which there is no longer even hope for growth without massive debt expansion, there is a cost to keeping global equities stable (and US stocks at record highs): that cost is $30 trillion, or nearly double the GDP of the United States, which is by how much global debt has risen over the same period. Specifically, total global debt has exploded by 40% in just 6 short years from 2007 to 2013, from "only" $70 trillion to over $100 trillion as of mid-2013, according to the BIS' just-released quarterly review.
It should come as no surprise to anyone by now, but the only reason why global stocks haven't plummeted since the Lehman collapse is simple: governments have become the final backstop for onboarding risk, with a Central Bank stamp of approval - in other words, the very framework of the fiat system is at stake should global equity levels collapse. The BIS admits as much: "Given the significant expansion in government spending in recent years, governments (including central, state and local governments) have been the largest debt issuers," according to Branimir Gruic, an analyst, and Andreas Schrimpf, an economist at the BIS.
It should also come as no surprise that courtesy of ZIRP and monetization of debt by every central bank, debt has itself become money regardless of duration or maturity (although recent taper tantrums have shown what will happen once rates start rising across the curve again), explaining the mindblowing tsunami of new debt issuance, which will certainly never be repaid, and whose rolling will become impossible once interest rates rise. But of course, under central planning that is not allowed. As Bloomberg reminds us, marketable U.S. government debt outstanding has surged to a record $12 trillion, up from $4.5 trillion at the end of 2007, according to U.S. Treasury data compiled by Bloomberg. Corporate bond sales globally jumped during the period, with issuance totaling more than $21 trillion, Bloomberg data show.
And as we won't tire of pointing out, China's credit expansion over this period is easily the most important, and overlooked one. Which is why with China out of the epic debt issuance picture, and with the Fed tapering, all bets are slowly coming off.
Bloomberg also comments, humorously, as follows: "concerned that high debt loads would cause international investors to avoid their markets, many nations resorted to austerity measures of reduced spending and increased taxes, reining in their economies in the process as they tried to restore the fiscal order they abandoned to fight the worldwide recession." Of course, once gross government corruption and incompetence made all attempts at austerity futile, and with even the austere nations' debt levels continuing to breach record highs confirming there was never any actual austerity to begin with, the push to pretend to reign debt in has finally faded, and the entire world is once again engaged - at breakneck speed - in doing what caused the great financial crisis in the first place: the issuance of record amounts of unsustainable debt.
All of the above is known. What may not be known is just who is issuing, and respectively, purchasing, this global debt-funded spending spree, especially in a world in which one's debt is another's asset. Here is the BIS's answer to that question:
Cross-border investments in global debt markets since the crisis
Branimir Grui? and Andreas Schrimpf
Global debt markets have grown to an estimated $100 trillion (in amounts outstanding) in mid-2013 (Graph C, left-hand panel), up from $70 trillion in mid-2007. Growth has been uneven across the main market segments. Active issuance by governments and non-financial corporations has lifted the share of domestically issued bonds, whereas more restrained activity by financial institutions has held back international issuance (Graph C, left-hand panel).
Not surprisingly, given the significant expansion in government spending in recent years, governments (including central, state and local governments) have been the largest debt issuers (Graph C, left-hand panel). They mostly issue debt in domestic markets, where amounts outstanding reached $43 trillion in June 2013, about 80% higher than in mid-2007 (as indicated by the yellow area in Graph C, left-hand panel). Debt issuance by non-financial corporates has grown at a similar rate (albeit from a lower base). As with governments, non-financial corporations primarily issue domestically. As a result, amounts outstanding of non-financial corporate debt in domestic markets surpassed $10 trillion in mid-2013 (blue area in Graph C, left-hand panel). The substitution of traditional bank loans with bond financing may have played a role, as did investors' appetite for assets offering a pickup to the ultra-low yields in major sovereign bond markets.
Financial sector deleveraging in the aftermath of the financial crisis has been a primary reason for the sluggish growth of international compared to domestic debt markets. Financials (mostly banks and non-bank financial corporations) have traditionally been the most significant issuers in international debt markets (grey area in Graph C, left-hand panel). That said, the amount of debt placed by financials in the international market has grown by merely 19% since mid-2007, and the outstanding amounts in domestic markets have even edged down by 5% since end-2007.
Who are the investors that have absorbed the vast amount of newly issued debt? Has the investor base been mostly domestic or have cross-border investments grown at a similar pace to global debt markets? To provide a perspective, we combine data from the BIS securities statistics with those of the IMF Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS). The results of the CPIS suggest that non-resident investors held around $27 trillion of global debt securities, either as reserve assets or in the form of portfolio investments (Graph C, centre panel). Investments in debt securities by non-residents thus accounted for roughly one quarter of the stock of global debt securities, with domestic investors accounting for the remaining 75%.
The global financial crisis has left a dent in cross-border portfolio investments in global debt securities. The share of debt securities held by cross-border investors either as reserve assets or via portfolio investments (as a percentage of total global debt securities markets) fell from around 29% in early 2007 to 26% in late 2012. This reversed the trend in the pre-crisis period, when it had risen by 8 percentage points from 2001 to a peak in 2007. It suggests that the process of international financial integration may have gone partly into reverse since the onset of the crisis, which is consistent with other recent findings in the literature.
This could be temporary, though. The latest IMF-CPIS data indicate that cross-border investments in debt securities recovered slightly in the second half of 2012, the most recent period for which data are available.
The contraction in the share of cross-border holdings differed across countries and regions (Graph C, right-hand panel). Cross-border holdings of debt issued by euro area residents stood at 47% of total outstanding amounts in late 2012, 10 percentage points lower than at the peak in 2006. A similar trend can be observed for the United Kingdom. This suggests that the majority of new debt issued by euro area and UK residents has been absorbed by domestic investors. Newly issued US debt securities, by contrast, were increasingly held by cross-border investors (Graph C, right-hand panel). The same is true for debt securities issued by borrowers from emerging market economies. The share of emerging market debt securities held by cross-border investors picked up to 12% in 2012, roughly twice as high as in 2008.
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Neo & Bee will be the answer.
...that cost is $30 trillion, or nearly double the GDP of the United States, which is...
I'm confused. Isn't much of that debt then spent on products & service that get counted towards GDP? So if they hadn't added all that debt, GDP would be commensurately lower?
All this debt would be fine if it were being spent on stuff that would expand the economy's actual productivity (CAPEX?). Can we see how much of this debt-fuelled spending is 'productive', even if only nominally?
$100 Trill ???
It'S OK.....
A Few Million More Ozs. Of Fictitious Paper GOLD Otta Cover It...
the hundred trillion in debt is more than offset by the six hundred thousand tonnes of gold in the sacks removed from the basement of the vatican where the elongated-head people live
JFKs sewer-sniper
That imf lady batshit crazy
who you calling "lady"
ka-ren of earth
and also ps, it's worldbank. not imf.
get it straight.
5 year fictional narrative of "recovery," told by monkeys printing massive reams of fiat paper, in order to reflate asset bubbles & get the serfs to assume/consume MOAR debt - and if the individual is reluctant to awesome more debt, the financial entities that own "sovereign governments" will force their government puppets to assume more debt (and pay outlandish prices on things that are not needed) & try to shift the burden to said individual (via taxation, present & future).
It's all nothing but a simple illusion, created by the oldest method in the fractional fiat reserve bankster's playbook, and it will inevitably lead to the next, bigger "popping" sound.
It's on continuous loop, now.
"Debt is the money of slaves."
There are more & more debt slaves with each & every passing day.
That's just the stuff on the books that people have actually publically stated for the record. 100 trillion is chump change to the real number. not even a 1/10th of a percent of the real debt. The number 1.2 quadrillion has been around since 2006.
2006 - http://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/stat/research/rpaper/Documents/GlobalDer_e.pdf
2010 - http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/06/09/risk-quadrillion-derivatives-mark...
2012 - http://www.globalresearch.ca/financial-implosion-global-derivatives-mark...
2014 - http://americablog.com/2013/03/the-worldwide-derivatives-market-could-be...
In reality the debt market is closer to 3.7 Quadrillion dollars judging from the idea that if you stop counting it, then appearently it doesn't matter anymore. Right now, no one on this planet has a pot to piss in. The money in ALL your banks in EVERY country, the cash in your wallets, the homes you live in, the buildings you work in and the cars you drive. Everything that you are and will be for 1000 years couldn't ever start to cover the interest alone. That's the situation, not even gold or silver will cover the debts incurred by all that helped promise money they did not have.
There is no economy, hasn't been thanks to the Bush family nazi's inbreeder scum, their worthless friends and ever one of his twisted shit eating business partners. Every last one of them...there will be no uhaul behind the hearse and no boatman to ferry for any of them unless some serious remediation starts happening. They are all considered theives and bandits until they prove themselves otherwise.
Don't confuse GDP (the stuff that is supposedly "produced") with GNI-Gross National Income (the source of expenditures). Between ongoing government deficits and the trade deficit we have $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion we consume that we don't actually earn, every year.
And because one person's debt is someone else's "asset" the question becomes- what is the earning asset that pays interest on that debt ? I think we are well beyond the point where earnings can pay interest. Only printing and asset inflation can pay the exponential/incremental interest.
The slaves can't work 25 hours a day and the parasites are blissfully oblivious to the plight of the host.
so... if the TOTAL WORLD GDP is less than $100 trillion doesn't this mean there's no way in hell to EVER get out from under this pile of merde?
.... well, short of defaults or hyperinflation...
Don't sweat it: We got hundreds of $Trillions of Derivatives backing this Debt.
Do I really need to add a 'sarc' tag?
Do you really want the saddening answer to that question?
"We got hundreds of $Trillions of Derivatives backing this debt."
More like Quadrillions.......
+1. Even better. ;-)
Back around 1999 I was approached about investing in a derivative based investment, when i pushed to find out what I was really investing in at first they couldn't really tell me other than broad strokes like 'real estate' when I pushed for specifics they laughed at me for my ignorance. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Could not happen without the crooked accounting class and their criminal masters....Banksters.
Tune in, turn on, drop out. Makes more sense then ever. Or take up arms and create the total police state.
Long "Depends".
Accountants may not be the guards at Dachau with their hands on the gas valves, but they run the trains that deliver the Jews and Slavs there.
Especially the Accounting organizations that have modified the accounting rules.
They should be treated as part of the "team"
Deficits don't matter
what do you mean? are you sure? is this kind of thinking which is bringing this country down to its knees ... i did not think it could happen over here, but when i hear these kind of thinking it makes me wonder...people never change!
People don't get (your) sarcasm?
Judging by the responses to Dick(head) Cheney's famous quote that I've seen here on ZH, even many a ZHers don't truly understand the Monetary System.
A part of their brain is still "stuck" in the Old Paradigm of 'Honest Money', where Debt did matter. But we haven't been in that Paradigm since Aug.15, 1971, so it's about (fucking) time that some ZHers woke up to the New Paradigm (Dishonest Money) and its implications:
US Deficits "don't matter" if your currency is the Global Reserve Currency: You are exporting inflation, as you issue more Currency. Which is exactly what's happening.
Exporting inflation by deflating the US citizens income and savings
"US Deficits "don't matter" if your currency is the Global Reserve Currency: You are exporting inflation, as you issue more Currency. Which is exactly what's happening."
For each action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Inflation causes deflation.
Deficits do matter, as exporting inflation results in things like the Arab Spring, when people get bent out of shape over things like high food prices and people start overthowing governments and wars happen. We could be heading toward a 3rd world war, due to" deficits don't matter."
You're exporting inflation ONLY for as long as others accept your dollars.
When the $US is no longer accepted by others - when they lose faith in tha ability of the US to actually pay its bills (eg issue unlimited debt), all those dollars oveseas come rushing back home to the US - and no gun can keep THAT from happening. When those dollars come rusing back - with no nation wanting to be last in line exchanging those dollars for tangible assets (ANYTHING of tangible value) you're going to see Zimbabwe style inflation.
Think about it... you as a nation - or corporation - or individual - are holding dollars but those dollars are losing value ....... if they start to lose value fast enough you're going to want to exchange them for SOMETHING else. In the past whenever a currency failed there wer alternative 'stores of value' - the French held gold or silver when Law's franc went to hell.....But we're not talking about Yugoslavian Dinars or Zimbabwe dollars - there aren't any more German Marks to buy (the favored store of value in Yugoslavia) and nowhere's near enough South African Rands (a refuge for Zimbabwe)...
if the $US goes there is NO ALTERNATIVE STORE OF VALUE big enough to accommodate the demand. Euros? no, Swiss Francs? nope... Norwegian Krone? uh, huh.....
You'll see foreigners cashing in dollars for US real estete, stocks, ANYTHING they can possibly BUY with $US - even as the price of anything in dollars soars because it's better to own SOMETHING of value instead of worthless paper.
The ONLY real 'alternative' to hyperinflation is a DEFAULT because you can't FORCE people to accept dollars at the end of a gun and you can't prevent them from trying to convert their dollars into tangible stores of value
To paraphrase Eddie George:
"Equity valuations are a matter of opinion, debt is real."
The Titans Running Back ????
Not true, but nice attempt at the Jedi Mind Trick.
Debt is also a "matter of opinion" -- as are ALL laws of man. Which is why we keep changing them, in case you haven't noticed or read history.
The Laws Nature: Not a "matter of opinion".
Try defying gravity sometimes and tell yourself that you can fly like Superman (as happens to some drug addicts), go to a Manhattan highrise, take a Bankster friend by the hand, jump off, and tell me the outcome.
'Banksters' have friends?
The results would be one dead ZH commenter and an additional conspiracy article about a bankster dying prematurely.
American law is a tricky thing to understand. Almost all people don't understand what the 14th Amendment really means, and that is because the words used have legal definitions which typically aren't the definitions found in a normal dictionary. The use of words that have multiple legal meanings fuels the power of the 14th Amendment. For starters, there is a legal difference between the "United States" and the "united States." Legally, the "united States" are the unity of the sovereign States of America. The "United States" is actually referring to a corporation, a.k.a. "The United States of America." The "united States" is the abbreviated form of "united States for America." The "United States of America" is the name used in the Constitution to describe the federal government, not the States that are united. The purpose of the old 13th Amendment was to keep those with titles of nobility – in other words, representatives of Britain – out of the government of the United States of America – being the federal government – by not allowing them to be citizens of the united States, a Constitutional prerequisite for office.
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment was an attempt to tie the sovereign American of the united States to the United States federal government. Doing so required the change in the definition of what a Citizen is: we see the case of "Citizen" was changed to "citizen." The American "Citizen," addressed in earlier parts of the Constitution, was replaced by the 14th amendment title of "citizen." This was a necessary step for controlling the people because before this time, there was no tie between the federal government and the Citizen of a State. States were like countries of their own, only the federal government acted as a mediator between them. The 14th Amendment made people citizens of both their States and the federal government, subjecting them to both entities' laws. The other key element is the use of the word "person" or "persons," which is distinguishable in law from "people." The word "person" has three legal definitions, the third of which being the confusing factor: "3. An entity (such as a corporation) that is recognized by law as having the rights and duties of a human being. In this sense, the term includes partnerships and other associations, whether incorporated or unincorporated."[8] In short, person can also mean a corporation. So, looking back at the 14th Amendment, one can reword the first line "All corporations born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside." A 14th Amendment "citizen," as we shall later see in much greater detail, can and commonly does refer to a corporation.[9]
Miggy Miggy • 2 hours ago
Being incorporated, people need permission to use Britain's imposed laws. These people, who use this British legal system for and usually against the American people, are referred to as attorneys, as opposed to lawyers. Yes, there's a difference. The word "attorney" comes from "attorn," which means to turn over to another; transfer.[17] In old England, the title of attorney meant one who attorned ("attourned" is the old English), which meant to transfer money, goods, etc. to another.[18] Attorneys served the king or queen in handling disputes regarding money/goods with their peasants. In modern times, attorneys transfer things of monetary value through court procedures to both other forms of money/goods and to new owners, being either persons or the government.[19] Attorneys have limited legal power because they are sworn to uphold the British, copyrighted law. A lawyer isn't limited like this. Many believe that one needs to get licensed in order to practice law – this is an utter fiction. One needs to become licensed if one wishes to become an attorney in order to avoid a copyright violation[20], and the way to do this is to pass the BAR exam and register with the American BAR Association. The American BAR Association is an appendage of the BAR Council, which is the BAR association of England. The term BAR is an acronym for British Accreditation Register[21]: the registry for those who have been accredited to use America's British copyrighted law.
Beyond this point in America's legal history, any laws that came about were private laws of Britain. Any sovereign Citizen is exempt from these private laws. Anyone who doesn't dispute being a 14th Amendment "citizen" is subject to these private laws. The 13th Amendment eliminated involuntary servitude, but it said nothing about voluntary servitude. The 14th Amendment was a gateway for voluntary servitude to take place. At this time, simply claiming to be a sovereign Citizen and not a 14th Amendment "citizen" was, legally speaking, enough to avoid being subject to Britain's private laws. How could the Brits get people to agree to be these citizens? The answers they found were implemented into a plan that materialized into the New Deal.
Nail on the head, nail on the head. Once personal savings are elbowed out of the way and substituted by Central Bank conjuring- then the whole game is contrived.
Interest-earnings- are paid to the cartel members for doing nothing. They have not produced anything, but can charge interest for an accounting entry. In any other business it would be a crime.
I can't wait to see how this ends.
<With a bang or with a whimper?>
This has to be bullish! Right?
Eveyrbody has a plan until they get punched in the face.
it ends with inflation of your financial
obligations and no income, then it will
be up to you to either bang or whimper
or continue the laughing nightmare.
of course i use the collective you here.
the capital of savings , with all this zero
interest and real inflation, is making the
savings of this generation non capital.
capitalism with no respect for savings
is something entirely different. it is the
execution of the basic unit of measure,
the petro-dollar.
so there it is, the central banks are
lording over the process, aka fascism.
the markets are just a house of mirrors
and the money is being destroyed,
the reset cometh ..... overnight, like
a thief in the night and all that.
right in front of our eyes but we refuse
to accept the thought of it.
since 2008, the failure of credit money and markets
due to abuse of fraud and phony derivatives and
the math-u- fuckation of credit creation, it has all been
propped up by the vapors of fear and money stealing-printing,
killing the dollar in broad daylight. look away, look away
http://www.kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/Broadcast/Entries/2014/3/8_Ge... /Gerald%20Celente%203%3A8%3A2014.mp3
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/03/07/jobs-economy-prospects-peace-... berts/
the laughing nightmare continues.
the root of all evil is having its day
actually, i think it already ended, just
for the lag time of oxygen depletion that
has already been bound up in the blood stream.
so i guess the whimpers have it, there will be
no oxygen or energy for a bang, or, have i missed
something essential?
"god help the beast in me." ....
Johnny Cash - The beast in me
Are You Crazy To Continue Believing In Collapse?
That it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean you're wrong
by James H. Kunstler
Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 5:16 AM
"...The fraud is present in the abuse and misrepresentation of official statistics used as metrics in government policy, in the pervasive accounting chicanery of that same government in its fiscal dealings, as well as in our leading financial institutions and corporations, including control fraud in banking, interest rate rigging, mortgage and title fraud, front-running, naked shorting, re-hypothecation, money laundering, pumping-and-dumping, channel stuffing, the endless innovation of swindles, and, most importantly, the fundamental mispricing of the cost of money, which reverberates through everything else, most particularly real estate, stocks, and bonds. Beyond that, in the shadows of the shadowland known as shadow banking, a liminal realm of secrets and intrigues, only a few are privileged to know what is going on, and you can be sure they only know their end of the trade — while immense sums of ever more abstract "money" slosh through the derivative sewers on their way to oblivion in the ocean of failed trust.
So, don't feel bad if this colossal armature of folly still stands, and have faith that the blinding light of God's judgment will eventually shine even unto the watery depths where failed trust has sunk. Sooner or later the relationship between reality and truth re-sets to the calculus of what is actually happening." j.k.
Hold it! Wait a minute! $100 Trillion in debt means that there is $100 Trillion dollars in assets, phew! I feel much better now!...............Moar debt!!!!!!!!!!
If you want to rehypothecate your debt, you can keep rehypothecat(ing) your debt.
The more I learn about debt and derivative insurance instruments, the more I think about LLoyds of London, the reinsurance business and fees generated and the studied, masterminded destruction of the English middleclass as the inner circle of Lloyds partners laid of risk on the "unwashed" Names that were invited late to the party.
Bad things are coming.
A friend of mine had a portable wood grinder burn up that was insured through Lloyds. It's been 6 months now and they are running him throught the maize. Classic Lloyds- their first call is to their lawyers to find some fine print so they don't have to pay you.
I had a building collapse about 20 years ago- unknown to me the engineer miscalculated the steel trusses. There was a clause in Lloyds insurance contract that said that they didn't have to pay for any loss from faulty material, faulty workmanship, faulty design or latent defect. I told them that means any loss would not be covered and they were fraud artists.
Naturally, they offered to return the premiums and walk away. My partner in that business paid more than $300,000 in legal fees before those sons-of-bitches at Lloyds finally paid up.
After a substantial loss most people don't have the resources to fight those bastards.
I don't know how Lloyds continues to sell insurance- they're right there to collect premiums but will fight you to your last breath before you ever collect.
Wait, but prices of IPHONEs, IPADS, Notebook, Laptops, Tablets are all down.
BULLISH one must say. Borrow more and keep up with Technology
Doesn't seem like the rug is covering that bump that was swept under it the past 6 years.


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.- A senior Anglican bishop has questioned Prince Charles' intention to be seen as the defender of all faiths, rather than just Christianity, should he succeed to the throne.
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Johnson County was well-represented at the 2013 IHSAA Boys Cross-Country State Finals. Three local teams competed: Center Grove, Franklin and Greenwood.
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If numbers and experience count for anything, Center Grove is well-positioned for a second straight state meet appearance.
Of the 32 runners on the Trojans' roster, 12 are seniors.
"I have had more talented teams in the past, but this group of athletes are the most coachable set of guys I've had in a long time," Trojans coach Howard Harrell said. "It starts at the top with team captains Griffin Miller and Grant Stapleton."
Miller finished fourth at last year's sectional, and Stapleton was 17th.
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"We had a strong summer of training that will help us along the way," Schwartz said.
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Franklin also has high expectations for sophomore Chandler McGaha and freshmen Josh Campbell and Caleb McCort.
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Despite the graduation loss of David Dalton, who finishsed second at the IHSAA state meet, the Woodmen are confident of building on last season's team success
Greenwood finished fourth and fifth, respectively, at the sectional and regional and advanced to the state finals.
The top returners are juniors Hunter Smith and Zeke Neihart. Smith finished ninth in last year's sectional, and Neihart was 35th.
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The Braves opened the season Monday at the Blue River Early Bird Invitational.
Despite graduation the loss of three seniors, coach Gerry Emerson is optimistic about the season.
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Expected to lead the way are seniors Landry Long and Josh Merritt. The Warriors also have experienced runners in juniors Jared Canary, Spencer Johnson and Jared Williams and sophomore Jake Fendley.
Freshman David Ryan also is expected to make an immediate contribution.
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I've always thought of gay couples as having much more pure/innocent relationships, because I have they have to overcome all these extra challenges to be together, and so their love must be much stronger than a straight person who can just go bang whoever they want without having to worry about it. I'm sure that's not really true in the real world, but I can dream can't I?
... unless you live in San Francisco. No, I mean it. My friend who lived there for a while has told me a whole lot about some of the things that go on there when you know where to go and who to talk to. Like bars that have a weekly underwear night.
But I know what you mean. When you're talking about a loving, committed relationship then it's harder.
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You have to live your own life. You can't live your life for them. It's sad that your mom wanted a lot of kids and couldn't have a lot, but that can't be changed. It's sad that you were raised by parents who you couldn't come out to, but that can be changed. You can't just become straight. It's your life, and a rather personal part of your life so no one should be making you feel bad for who you love. Not your family, and not you yourself by worrying that they'll take it badly. I don't know how much your family means to you, but I think it's better to risk their anger and hatred by being who you are and standing up for who you love than to hide it.
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John Michael McDonagh's second film, "Calvary," which was grabbed at Sundance by Fox Searchlight and opened in theaters August 1, marks perhaps Brendan Gleeson's best performance to date among many others--now a European Film Award nominee and a potential Oscar dark horse. I talk to them both.Read More »
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It took me a few days to get the hang of Karlovy Vary. The first morning, as I headed off in the wrong direction from my quaint hillside Cajkovskij Palace Spa and Wellness Hotel, a helpful couple pointed me toward a deep staircase heading straight down toward the Festival Central at the mammoth Hote...Read More »
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Easy Peasy Fairy Cakes.
It's my friends 20th birthday tomorrow and she's having a :bbq: to celebrate (although knowing April English weather, that ain't happening!). So a couple of my friends and I got together to bake her some cakes. I always say that you can't go wrong with a Nigella Lawson recipe so this is one I found on her website.
www.nigella.com (How To Be A Domestic Goddess - Nigella Lawson)
Easy Peasy Fairy Cakes.
125g unsalted butter, softened
125g caster sugar
2 large eggs
125g self-raising flour
half teaspoon vanilla extract
2-3 tablespoons milk
12-bun muffin tin lined with 12 muffin papers
half cup unsalted butter, softened
half cup superfine sugar
2 large eggs
three-quarters cup self-rising cake flour
half teaspoon vanilla extract
2-3 tablespoons milk
12-cup muffin pan lined with 12 paper baking cups
Buttercream Icing (not Nigella, but from the back of the icing sugar box)
75g (3oz) Butter
17g (6oz) Icing sugar
a few drops of milk, warm water and/or vanilla extract
Preheat Oven to 200 C/400 F/Gas Mark 6
Basically put everything but the milk in your food processor and mix until completely smooth. You can do this by hand, which we did because we are poor students, and it still comes out fine, plus you get extra exercise. When all the other stuff is mixed add the milk whilst still stirring to make it a soft dropping consistency.
When making it doesn't look like it will be enough, but it really is. Spoon into cake cases and bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes or until they look done, or until you get really impatient and take them out anyway (guilty :oops:).
Whilst the cakes are cooling you can make the icing. To make the icing just put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix. Um yeah, not very technical, but it worked. This was enough to cover all our first batch and a few more of our second. Leave to set and then eat!
We decorated ours with jelly sweets and writing icing.
We also chopped up marshmallows in the middle of some before we put them in the oven, to make them all gooey.
The second batch we made chocolatey by adding the same amount of cocoa powder as the flour.
I also used Soya milk, and skipped the vanilla (we don't have any) and it turned out fine. So I'm guessing this recipe is good for adjusting however you want. Next time, we going to try them out with lemon or honey.
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When Crystal throws the cigarette lighter toward the door, the fire starts a long way away from where the lighter is.
Don has never owned a house or apartment -- he has always rented.
Math used in this episode:
Pursuit Curves
The Geodesic Sphere
Opening Numb3rs:
Charlie: (explaining math to Ian and Don) You know I, I've been running expressions assuming a dog chasing a cat. But its actually a dog chasing a cat, chasing a mouse!
Ian: I thought it was an airplane?!
Charlie: Oh well, cats and dogs work better now.
(Larry drives away and Megan heads for her car.)
Crystal: Not exactly the type of guy I pictured you with.
(Megan goes for her gun)
Crystal: I really wouldn't if I were you.
Megan: (To Larry) Well, I didn't run away from home at 16, but I didn't walk either. And unlike Crystal, I can live with most of my decisions. Does that make you uncomfortable?
Larry: (Shaking his head) I'm a man who lives in hotel rooms, and sleeps on couches.
Larry: Does that make you uncomfortable?
Megan: Noooo, I find it oddly attractive.
Larry: You constantly put me in mind of the M57 Nebula, with these endless layers upon layers of complexities.
Megan: You know, I don't think I will ever get tired of being compared to the M57 Nebula.
Colby: The only thing a teacher ever gave me was detention.
Alan: Larry, I'm going to give you the same advice I give to all the geniuses I know.
Larry: Which is?
Alan: Don't be an idiot.
Don: What? You got a hunch?
Charlie: I don't get hunches.
(Crystal shoots the car salesman)
Buck: I thought you said we didn't have any secrets!
Crystal: That's not a secret.
Buck: Really? What the hell do you call that?
Crystal: Pile of dead bones.
Don: (About Alan choosing a new condo) Actually...you should get one with a tennis court.
Alan: I don't play tennis.
Don: Yeah...but I do!
Ian: Knowledge plus a guess...where I come from, that's a hunch!
(Buck pulls out a dollar)
Buck: Doesn't look good.
Crystal: Richer or poorer, baby!
Buck: Just like the midget Elvis preacher said!
International Episode Titles:
Czech Republic: Vražedná série (Murderous Series)
Music featured in this episode was "Fly Away" by Lenny Kravitz (opening scenes).
This was originally written to be just one episode with a police officer being kidnapped midway through. The producers asked Ken Sanzel to make it a 2-part episode. They decided that Megan should be the one kidnapped to make the 2nd part more dramatic.
International Air Dates:
New Zealand: July 7, 2007 on TV3
Czech Republic: June 23, 2009 on TV Nova
Finland: December 4, 2009 on Sub
Slovakia: January 10, 2011 on JOJ
Beginning with this episode, the third season has done away with the opening sequence and instead scrolls the names of the cast, crew, and guest stars across the bottom of the screen during the episode.
This episode was rated TV-14 (V) in its initial network broadcast.
Cheryl Heuton and Nicolas Falacci were credited as the creators of the series of this episode.
Larry: You constantly put me in mind of the M57 Nebula, with these endless layers upon layers of complexities.
M57, also known as the the Ring Nebula and NGC 6720 is 2,300 light years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. It is not visible to the naked eye; through a telescope, in visible light it looks like a multicolored ring. If it is viewed at other wavelengths, including infrared, ultraviolet and radio telescopy, it reveals a far more complex structure, which Larry was using as a metaphor for people being more complex than they appear at first study.
It is usually referred to as the Ring Nebula rather than by its catalog numbers.
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I was checking a dome fuse which I suspected to to burnt out while my engine was running. When I replaced the fuse my engine light came on steady...not blinking and will not go out. Have I possibly done more damage to the emissions control? Or has the light came on due to me not changing the fuse with he engine off. I have not retrieved a code for the problem yet.
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Cabot Petroleum was one of the first movers into the Marcellus and has had the biggest PR disaster by admitting responsibility for the accidental damage to the 19 families on Carter Road in Dimock. What happened in Dimock has been conflated by Gasland and other fracking opponents into some sort of shale Chernobyl, proof positive that shale is so dangerous that it must be left in the ground. Dimock's fame goes global, mis-informing the shale debate as far away as France:
Le village de Dimock (Pennsylvanie) est ainsi devenu le symbole des dégâts provoqués par les forages de gaz de schiste.
International M+A in shale
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Right from day one in 2012 we see the continuing importance of international M+A activity in shale development. The implications in France of the Total investment in the Utica being seen as a disinvestment in a France will become clearer over time. France is making the accidental choice between austerity and shale. Nothing will be solved in France this side of May's presidential elections but solved it will be. The shale ban will come up against reality and the choice will be clear: No shale = No prosperity. Guess what happens?
This snippet from Aubrey McClendon ,who is one of the few people who can combine shooting his mouth off and making sense at the same time.
We believe that the Utica Shale is a world-class asset with world-class returns and now we have a world-class partner to help develop the play more aggressively than we could have with our own resources.
Shale as meta- and mega- trend for 2012
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The season for predicting 2012 shouldn't really be the period between Christmas and New Year when no one is in the office or lucid enough to digest forecasts, it should be the first week of business. This week, I'll point out a number of smaller trends in shale that I think we should watch out for, but first we need to think of what is both a mega- and meta- trend.
I have been saying for over two years that shale won't change everything - it's far more important than that. We can now see how important. Shale is moving, far more rapidly than even bulls such as I predicted, from an energy story to an economic one.


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IN passing from the breakdowns of civilizations to their disintegrations we have to face a question like that which confronted us when we passed from the geneses of civilizations to their growths. Is disintegration a new problem on its own account or can we take it for granted as a natural and inevitable sequel to breakdown? When we considered the earlier question, whether growth was a new problem, distinct from the problem of genesis, we were led to answer the question in the affirmative by discovering that there were, in fact, a number of 'arrested' civilizations which had solved the problem of genesis but had failed to solve the problem of growth. And now again, at this later stage in our Study, we can meet the analogous question with the same affirmative answer by pointing to the fact that certain civilizations, after breakdown, have suffered a similar arrest and entered on a long period of petrifaction.
The classic example of a petrified civilization is presented by a phase in the history of the Egyptiac Society which we have already had occasion to consider. After the Egyptiac Society had broken down under the intolerable burden that was imposed on it by the Pyramid-builders, and when thereafter it had passed through the first and the second into the third of the three phases of disintegration—a 'time of troubles', a universal state and an interregnum—this apparently moribund society then departed unexpectedly and abruptly, at a moment when it was apparently completing its life course, from what we may provisionally regard as the standard pattern if we take for our norm the Hellenic example in which these three phases first came under our notice. At this point the Egyptiac Society refused to pass away and proceeded to double its life-span. When we take the time-measure of the Egyptiac Society from the moment of its galvanic reaction against the Hyksos invaders in the first quarter of the sixteenth century before Christ down to the obliteration of the last traces of an Egyptiac culture in the fifth century of the Christian Era, we find that this span of two thousand years is as long as the combined span of the birth, growth, breakdown and almost complete


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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
A First and A Last
Here's my little guy getting ready to leave for school. Not a great picture, but the look on his face is priceless.
Congratulations, Gabriel!
I've been working on a few different projects, but nothing is ready to share yet. Hopefully tomorrow, but definitely Friday, when I'll have a fun Penny Black project or two (or three?). If you haven't been following along with Penny Black Week at Stamper's Dream, here are some catch-up links:
Monday: Denise, Michelle, and me
Yesterday: Becca, Michelle, and Tosh
Today: Laurie, Denise, and Michelle
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AWWWW, he is adorable!!!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, what a sweet SWEET face! Gabriel is just precious!ReplyDelete
Oh isn't he just the cutest!!!! I can imagine how weird it must be seeing your youngest go to school. My middle one will be starting prep (your preschool) in January and that is going to be weird enough!! I am so glad that he enjoyed it and settled in so well!! :)ReplyDelete
What an absolutely precious photo Amy!! What an angel!! So glad he enjoyed his first day, that will make it easier for mom to let him go the next time. :o)ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness, what a sweet boy! That little smile is priceless. Glad he had a good first day...and that Mom got through it okay, too! :)ReplyDelete
Oh Amy is he just the SWEETEST! What a cutie pie!ReplyDelete
Awww! We are going to look at apreschool for my 3 yr old tomorrow. She is the youngest of my 4 and I can't even imagine the day she goes to school. I hear ya! Your boy is SO SWEET!!!!ReplyDelete
He is beautiful, and I'm glad that his big day was a fun day! Jo xReplyDelete
He is adorable Amy. I think my youngest was so happy to go to school because she could finally be like everyone else in the family! It just goes too fast!ReplyDelete
Gabriel is such an angel...it seems like just last year you were pregnant with him! Time flies.ReplyDelete
Hey Amy! What a sweetie...yes, time does go by fast..somthin bout those little sons we have..they never grow out of our hearts.. :)ReplyDelete
awwwwwww Amy... he's gotten so grown up!ReplyDelete
darn kids... they do that LOL
thanks for posting the pic sweetie.
Gabriel looks like a real happy chappie, must be Mom's genes.ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh...what a cutie!!!ReplyDelete
He is so cute! I love his curls. I'm glad it went well for both of you!ReplyDelete
Oh my, Amy, what a precious picture!! I loved this age with my kids -- they communicate with you (lots of why questions LOL), their little minds are exploding with all the things they are learning, a kiss will fix any booboo, they have bounds of love to give away and they still believe mommy can do no wrong :D They truly do grow up waaaay too quickly. I sometimes wish I could make time stand still. However each stage has it's own benefits and lots of wonderful memories for mothers to treasure in her hearts.ReplyDelete
Oh, I just can't stop smiling! He is sooooo cute! I was relieved when mine stopped wearing diapers earlier this year...yet sad that he's not a baby anymore either. Sigh. Enjoy every moment!ReplyDelete
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Wednesday Walk OR Workout
"Do you know of any running groups/clubs I can join?" is a common question we get here at Minneapolis Running. While there are several groups in the Twin Cities, we thought it was time to get something more started in Northeast Minneapolis.
Starting this Wednesday, July 31, we'll be partnering with Mill City Running for Wednesday Walk OR Workout.
When: Wednesdays, 6:00 pm
Where: Meet at Mill City Running – 411 E Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN.
We'll start with some brief introductions at the shop, then head out in our various groups.
What is a Wednesday Walk?
If you're not a runner, but just looking for others to walk around our beautiful river Mill District, join us! All are welcome (especially babies in strollers). It will be very casual, but feel free to walk at your own pace.
What is a Wednesday Workout?
Workout Wednesday is to help give you a sense of direction with your training. Often, runners are left not knowing how to approach workout days or left to do them alone. We hope to fill in both of those voids by creating a sense of community and camaraderie while also providing an organized and efficient workout atmosphere.
The first installment of Workout Wednesday is to get a barometer of what people are training for and current levels of fitness. ALL LEVELS ARE WELCOME! The coaches will come equipped with several workouts to accomodate athletes from beginner to advanced.
A course will be setup on Nicollet Island with several markers to designate different distances to give you options for the type of workout you're aiming for.
Who Are The Coaches?
Both Andrew Carlson and Antonio Vega run for Team USA Minnesota. They have years of expertise and are excited to help coach runners to their goals. They will be learning what works best for the group while providing an organized, professional and fun workout.
For further inquiries on individual professional coaching, email Andrew or Antonio. Also, checkout Zoom Performance to see other services offered.
Feel free to bring your racing shoes and any fluids / nutritional products to use during the workout (one of us will carry them).
Questions? Let us know!
We hope to see you there!
Nathan Freeburg
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That's not all these technicians encountered today.
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How oversensitivity toward Germany's Nazi past contributed to the murder of 11 Israeli athletes in 1972
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Police in North Carolina say they found cocaine and guns when they raided a home day care in Durham.
Officers say they found 301 grams of cocaine and two guns when they raided the home Tuesday morning. The operator and a man were
A 2-year-old and a 13-month-old child were in the day care.
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Chittenden County's bus drivers ready to strikeBy WILSON RING
THE Associated Press | March 07,2014MONTPELIER — About 9,500 people who rely on public bus service in Vermont's largest county could be without a ride Monday if the drivers and the agency they work for don't reach a contract agreement this weekend.
Almost 70 drivers of the Chittenden County Transportation Authority are set to go on strike if an agreement can't be reached by Monday. The next negotiation session is scheduled for Saturday.
Both the authority and the union say the two sides disagree over working conditions, the hiring of part-time drivers, and working hours.
"We don't want to go on strike," driver Rob Slingerland said. "What we want is a fair contract, and that's what we're working for."
The company issued a statement Thursday warning riders that a strike loomed and that if an agreement isn't reached by Monday, the buses won't run.
General Manager Bill Watterson said an 11th hour agreement was reached previously in the drivers' three-year contract that expired in June, and he's hopeful that will happen again.
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WDUX FM 92.7 | The Best of Yesterday & Today
AM 800 | Classic Country
Captain Lee
Swap Shop Weekdays 9:08am
Country Archives Weekdays 9:33am
A fixture at WDUX since 1980, the Captain started as a Disc Jockey at a time when DJs actually spun records. He has since moved into the front office writing and producing commercials, but continues to enjoy his time on the radio hosting Swap Shop and sharing interesting tidbits on the Country Archives.
Rick Morgan
Mornings 7-9am
Rick has always been a morning person so this job is perfect for him. In fact, he credits it with keeping his marriage together for 26 years. His wife says if he was at the breakfast table everyday she'd been out of there long ago. His daughters will second that. The boy does like to talk! He started waking people up on the radio years ago when he realized that he didn't have to sweat. And now 'Morgan in the Morning' enjoys misbehaving with his listeners on a daily basis. "The free coffee and internet ain't bad either," he says.
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I was born in Texas, but grew up in Tennessee. I am a Volunteer all the way baby! I literally adopted a dog just a few days ago, so we are getting to know one another. If I can help her over the night terrors, I think we will be ok. I can't wait for my nephew, who is deaf, to get to know her. She is named Norma Jean, after Marilyn Monroe. I plan on adopting a cat soon, and it will be named DiMaggio :) I love football, most genres of music, animals, movies, books, and astronomy. As you can tell, I am sort of a nerd.
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I grew up in the suburbs of New York city, and went to the same high school as Matt Dillon and Joan Rivers. My father and sister still live in New York, the rest of my family is overseas. I've been married, but am not currently. When I'm not on the radio, I'm probably out riding my Harley, exploring new areas. Recently, I attended the 75th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, which definitely checks one off my bucket list. I'm also an avid football fan (NFL and NCAA), as well as baseball and basketball. As for playing, I'm not very good at any of them, but I like playing golf, tennis, racquetball, and bowling. Having worked in a variety of music genres, I have a wide and varied taste in music from Classic Rock to Hip-Hop to Frank Sinatra, but my favorite is Country music. It's like comfort food.
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I caught the radio bug at a young age. As I kid he would lay in bed at night listening to stations from Chicago, Cincinnati, Nashville and Pittsburgh. Then as a teenager, I got to work at my high school radio station. FYI, I'm slightly taller than Kenny Chesney and about a foot shorter than Trace Adkins. In 1984 I married my high school sweetheart. I have 3 daughters, 3 sons-in-law, and 5 grandchildren. When I'm not on the air playing my favorite music (country) or hanging out with my family, I enjoy working outside. I love getting on my tractor and mowing. It is like therapy to me! I am also actively involved in my church, and serve on the board of an inner city community center.


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This work placement management database will help the University manage mandatory work placements for students studying a variety of health care related degrees.
Nicholas Associates' work placement management software All Together matches the needs of students looking for placements with employer placement opportunities. It provides online portals which can be accessed by students, University staff and employers.
The software team delivers software projects for clients nationally and existing clients of the All Together system include the University of Leeds and the University of Kent..
James Waring, Head of the software business at Nicholas Associates, said: "We are building a strong reputation for the functionality that our software offers University placement management teams and this is another great win for the business. We are looking forward to working with the Portsmouth team to help them ensure their students are offered the very best work placement opportunities."
Julie Oakland, Senior Business Analyst at University of Portsmouth said: "Throughout the tendering process our project team was generally impressed with the Nicholas Associates approach, their product and their ethos. The University looks forward to entering into a working partnership"
All Together is also used to manage work experience for year 10 and 11 children in around 45% of schools in England and Wales. It supports over 700,000 placements annually. Clients include Nottinghamshire Futures, Lincolnshire & Rutland EBP, and Leicestershire Education Business Company.
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Kick returns cost Seahawks in 33-17 loss to 49ers
SAN FRANCISCO Tarvaris Jackson had little time to bask in celebration after his 55-yard touchdown pass to Doug Baldwin brought the Seattle Seahawks within two. He started getting ready for a potential go-ahead drive and rallying the defense on the sidelines for one, final stop.
"We were just telling the defense, 'Hey, we get this ball back, we're going to win this game,'" Jackson said. "I really felt like we were going to get the ball back and get the game."
Ted Ginn Jr. never gave them the chance.
Ginn returned a kickoff and a punt for touchdowns in a minute's span late in the fourth quarter, sending the Seahawks to a 33-17 loss to the San Francisco 49ers in the regular-season opener Sunday.
Ginn ran a kickoff back 102 yards moments after the defending NFC West champion Seahawks had closed within 19-17. It was the second-longest kick return at home and fourth-longest in team history. He then scored on a 55-yard punt return.
It was the first time in 49ers history they had a kickoff return and a punt return for touchdowns - let alone by the same player - to highlight a surprising turnaround that left the Seahawks stunned.
"It was just strange the series of events that went on," Baldwin said. "I felt like I was so caught up in the moment of scoring a touchdown. I didn't feel like I was prepared. It was just shocking for them to go down and score another touchdown."
The Seahawks fell behind 16-0 at the half and spent the entire game playing catch-up.
Alex Smith exhibited the poise and polish Harbaugh believed the 2005 No. 1 overall pick still had in him despite recent history, going 15 for 20 for 124 yards and running for a 1-yard TD. David Akers kicked four field goals in his first game with San Francisco.
Jackson threw a late 55-yard touchdown pass to Harbaugh's former Stanford star, Baldwin, in his Seahawks debut as Matt Hasselbeck's replacement. He was under constant pressure but managed to keep Seattle close.
After serving as Brett Favre's backup in Minnesota the past two seasons, Jackson completed his first six passes but was sacked twice in as many drives to start the game - by Ray McDonald and Justin Smith - and five times total. He finished 21 of 37 for 197 yards and two TDs with one interception.
Harbaugh pulled Smith into a seconds-long bearhug after he hustled to the sidelines after his short TD run just before halftime in which he spun into the end zone to put the 49ers up 16-0. Ginn saved the game with a huge day on special teams. He also returned kickoffs of 100 and 101 yards for touchdowns in a 30-25 win for Miami over the New York Jets on Nov. 1, 2009.
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll wasn't even sure Ginn would return kicks after a quiet preseason.
"I didn't amaze myself but I didn't think they were going to come right back and kick it to me," Ginn said. "I wanted to make them pay."
Dozens of American flags whipped in the wind off San Francisco Bay in the parking lots of sold-out Candlestick Park before the game on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. Flags inside flew at half-staff and many of the 69,732 fans sported red, white and blue.
Rivals dating to their days in the Pac-10, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll couldn't complain about Harbaugh running up the score in this one. Seattle's offense had enough problems for Carroll to worry about what was happening on the other sideline.


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Transgendered pageants and Ku Klux Klan rallies couldn't be less connected, but they are both found in photographer Sonja Rieger's newest show, which questions the notions of race, sexuality, and transition. Featured works include black-and-white images inside a transgendered beauty pageant changing room and striking stills of a 1970s KKK rally. Thu-Sat 1-6 p.m.


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