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A projected trillion-dollar economy emerging around British Columbia's natural gas sector is too important to be left to chance, according to a wide array of observers who say it's time for an in-depth conversation on the province's emerging role in the global energy economy.
Environmental groups want to explore options to mitigate the greenhouse gas effects associated with the extraction and processing of gas, a fossil fuel that releases carbon dioxide as it burns.
And business interests want to make sure that at least some of the government's royalty revenue from this non-renewable energy resource, potentially $4 billion per year if it's exported as liquefied natural gas or LNG, is banked away for the future in the manner of Norway's $600-billion "Oil Fund."
One thing that's not in dispute is the value of the resource to the B.C. economy.
"Going forward we've got over 100 years' worth of supply of gas that we know about today," says Greg D'Avignon, president and CEO of the Business Council of British Columbia. That doesn't factor in a recent announcement by Apache that it has identified a world-class gas resource in the Liard Basin northeast of Fort Nelson.
"The Canadian Energy Research Institute just put some numbers out. It's about $600 billion in provincial GDP just on the upstream [extraction and processing] side. That's not looking at [the development of] Liard and not looking at the LNG downstream side," says D'Avignon. "So it's going to be well over $1 trillion in GDP in the next 25 to 30 years. That translates into an additional $2 billion to $4 billion of annual government revenue, which is half the education budget of British Columbia."
Need to think long-term
D'Avignon would like to see B.C. take the long view — the really long view — on the way it manages the revenue it expects to receive from expanded gas production.
"Granted it may be 150-200 years' worth of inventory, but let's think forward about what we can or could be doing for communities and for people, and for the province as a whole," he says. "We are going to have this global play of huge magnitude and a new industry in British Columbia. Should we not, because it's a non-renewable resource, be thinking about setting some of that aside for a rainy day?
"I think there is always this notion by default that we are going to take all that revenue and plow it into whatever people want, and I think it might be worthwhile to think about servicing what we need today but also about what we may need tomorrow."
On June 21, Premier Christy Clark announced that the province will allow LNG producers to generate gas-fired electricity to support their operations. B.C. believes this is the best way to expedite the LNG sector's development and react to opportunities in Asia where natural gas has been selling at prices six or seven times as high as the North American commodity price.
B.C.'s royalty revenue from gas has collapsed, thanks to a glut of gas in the province's primary export market, the U.S.
David Austin, an energy sector commentator who provides legal counsel to independent producers, noted there may be a very large trade-off in giving LNG producers the ability to generate their own power.
About five to seven per cent of the gas piped from the northeast to LNG facilities would be burned to generate electricity, and gas producers in the northeast burn roughly the same amount when they're processing it for commercial delivery.
B.C. collects a royalty on the gas that producers sell to customers, but there is no royalty on gas that is used to produce gas in the field. It is not clear whether this exemption also applies to gas that is used to run pipelines and generate the electricity needed to produce LNG. The foregoine royalty amount is very large, says Austin. "When gas is used to produce gas, then the government loses royalty. So there's an actual cost to the government in not supplying electricity to the gas industry in order to get gas out of the ground."
Environmental concerns
Meanwhile, groups such as the David Suzuki Foundation and Pembina Institute are concerned that the greenhouse gas effects of the LNG enterprise are not receiving the same attention as the economic opportunity.
"It just seems that we are not having a robust conversation about what the full picture of LNG looks like," says Matt Horne, acting director of Pembina's climate change program.
Horne says it would be a mistake to focus solely on the emissions from LNG power-generation facilities.
"I think it's important to remember if we build the Shell plant [and others at Kitimat] for example, there is going to need to be a whole bunch of additional gas from the Horn River and the Montney to fill those plants. All that extraction results in greenhouse gas emissions, as well. If we are going to talk about doing it right in B.C. we are going to have to look at that whole picture."
Spectra Energy's gas processing plants at Fort Nelson and Pine River, for example, were the largest and second-largest greenhouse gas emitters in B.C. in Environment Canada's most recent annual industrial emissions report.
"I think with forecasts ranging from doubling to tripling of gas production, all those processing plants are going to have to get bigger or we are going to have to add additional capacity in some way," Horne says.
Using carbon capture and storage to curtail emissions, he says, would be a responsible move by the province. "I think you can make a compelling case that there is a good economic opportunity for some LNG, that B.C. can do it at a manageable environmental cost."
Tyler Bryant, energy policy analyst for the Suzuki Foundation, is concerned that an overemphasis on gas exports will leave B.C. with an economic model like Alberta — a boom-bust cycle predicated by volatility in the global price of energy.
"I understand that the government thinks it has no other alternatives than to chase fossil fuel royalties but this is the type of short term thinking that has landed us in the environmental problems that we find ourselves today," Bryant said. "B.C. is endowed with significant amounts of renewable energy and the human capacity to be a clean tech leader. The natural gas sector has much lower employment than other industries. Are the royalties really worth it or do we need to be playing the long-game?"


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Typically a side dish or eaten as a main dish with warm tortillas here in New Mexico, this was my first time to cook (and actually eat) this native dish using local ingredients.
2 1/2 C fresh corn kernels (slice it off fresh raw cobs)
1 T olive oil
1/4 C chopped onion
1 clove minced garlic
1 lb sliced zucchini or other green summer squash
3 chopped tomatoes
1 poblano or jalapeno pepper, seeded, deveined and chopped
salt & pepper to taste
1/4 C crumbled Cotija, Fresco or other crumbly Mexican cheese
Place the corn in a saucepan with enough water to cover; bring to a boil. Place a cover on the saucepan, reduce heat to medium and cook until tender, about 10 minutes. Drain. Set aside.
Heat oil in large skillet over medium high heat. Cook and stir in the onion and garlic in the hot oil for about 5 minutes. Mix in the squash and tomato in with the onion and garlic and cook 5 minutes longer. Stir the corn into the mixture and add pepper. Season with salt and pepper. Stir well, cover and cook for about 10 minutes.
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One of the sure-to-be-most-talked-about highlights of this "Glee" episode was, of course, Finn (Cory Monteith) and Rachel (Lea Michele) discovering that Sam's new after-school job was as a stripper named "White Chocolate." Any excuse to show off Sam's abs again, right? This was also just another opportunity for Chord to get harassed by his fellow castmates, and yes, the pic below is of Cory's phone with a blackmail-worthy photo of the blond hottie in his underwear.
Sam's abrupt departure left Mercedes (Amber Riley) without a boyfriend once again, which the "Glee" writers compensated for by just as abruptly finding her a new guy. That slapdash storytelling was one of the weaknesses of an otherwise greatly improved Season 3, so it's been a relief to see Sam reintroduced to Mercedes' love life. His plan is to win back her love after their "summer fling," and it looks like Mercedes isn't too upset about this new development. What girl doesn't want two boyfriends fighting over her?
One more bonus of the return of Sam's ruby red lips is, of course, Santana's (Naya Rivera) famed monologues about his "trouty mouth." "Glee" had fun with the snarky cheerleader's obsession with Sam's pout, having her whip out a list of fresh "OMG your mouth is so big" insults she'd been jotting down ever since he left. Sam's good-natured response showed he'd missed Santana's clever jabs as much as we did.
The bad news in all of this is it appears Sam may not be in for the long haul. The early reports on Overstreet's reappearance noted he'd be on "Glee" for a "multi-episode arc." How long Sam sticks around may be contingent upon how well his storyline goes over and what the ratings say about his return. Judging how fans reacted after the first time he left, I would suspect that even if Sam isn't a regular on the show, they'll leave it open enough for him to return for future episodes.
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Planning to start boxing? Well, it is one of the most expensive sports you can select. What is the first thing to do when it comes to starting a sport? The first and the most important thing is to make up the mind. After that, the selection of coaching area and the trainer comes. Last but not the least, you need to get the equipment for that sports in the absence of which you cannot get started. For boxing, there is certain equipment you need to have that will mainly include boxing gloves and punching bags. No matter at what age you are taking a start, there is a need to select best boxing gloves for better performance. Following is a guide to buy the best gloves:
1. Picking up the right size:
The size of the gloves is measured as ounces or oz. The common sizes that are available in the market include 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 oz. However, it must be noted that the size of the boxing gloves and the weight are both different. If you are planning to buy a glove that will weight around 16 oz, it will not mean that its size will be the same. Sizes are basically used to classify the amount of strain the player will be experiencing. On the other hand, the weight of the glove is important to know if it will fit properly into the fists.
For example, the gloves with bigger size have more padding in it, as a result, they offer a better hand protection to the players. Also, these bigger size gloves are best if you are planning to practice with some heavy mitts, bags or other boxing equipment. People who play boxing professionally mostly select the ones with the bigger size.
2. Choosing the right type:
Boxer gloves come in various types. There is a need to select the one that best suits the requirements of the player. Each of the glove types has its own specifications. Here are the main types of gloves:
· Training gloves:
This is the type of gloves every player has. These are created for the use of almost all of the people and they can be used for any type of training either with mitts, heavy bags or sparring. However, the ease of the glove will depend on the quality. Not every training glove can be used for sparring or for heavy bag hitting. For beginners, they are considered to be the best choice. Also, they are quite affordable.
· Sparring gloves:
The next type of boxing gear includes sparring gloves. These are developing with the consideration of the protection of players. However, the main purpose of sparring gloves is to develop skills and techniques. These are mostly balanced when it comes to weight distribution. The shape is quite similar to the competitive but they have more pads in them.
The gloves that come with good cushioning qualities can become a great choice if you want sparring gloves. In the spar session, the gloves with 16 oz are considered as a good choice.
· Bag gloves:
Bag gloves are specifically created with the purpose to protect your hand when they come into the contact of some hard surface like a punching bag. Wearing bag gloves will save your knuckles when you will be hitting a hard surface. The bag gloves come in two different types i.e. modern bag gloves and classic bag gloves. The difference between these two is only the type of padding. The classic ones are not recommended for the players who are playing professionally. The reason is that it becomes difficult to apply a technique when a person is wearing classic bag gloves.
On the other hand, the modern bag gloves are a kind of remedy for the classic ones. They contain all the features that are lacking in classic gloves. The modern bag gloves are much more padded and they provide maximum protection to the person who is using them. Also, they are better in wrist support, knuckle protection, decent cushion, and weight distribution.
· Cardio Gloves:
The cardio gloves are best to use when hitting a bag or a mitt. They have a thick padding that will absorb all the impacts. However, they cannot be used for professional fighting due to their less life.
3. The color:
The best boxing gloves and punching bags come in different colors. These colors have a great impact on the game pattern. There are some colors that are less visible to the human eye and then there are some that become a highlighter. For example, the light colored gloves are more visible which is why they are widely used for training purposes. It will be easier for the trainer to catch the punches. Red colored boxing gloves are hard to detect which is why they are mostly used in the fighting.
4. Manufacturing material:
Last but not the least thing to consider when it comes to selecting boxing/MMA gloves is the material with which they are made. Although every material has its own qualities but they are selected according to the goals. The common materials that are used for manufacturing include leather and vinyl. The leather is a durable material that lasts longer than any other which is why people prefer buying gloves that are made up of leather. Vinyl, on the other hand, is an affordable material and they are easy to find.
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Last night I spent some time exploring the Twitterverse. As always, I exchanged barbs and quips with fellow Real Money contributors Brian Sozzi, Bob Byrne and others over the course of the evening. I also noticed a very strong trend: Market participants are either hard core bulls or hard core bears right now. Everyone seems to have a high degree of conviction about what the market is going to do over the next few months and is willing to bet on it. They also seem to think the rest of us should follow their path with high degrees of conviction and leverage.
This type of thinking is insane right now. There are just too many variables to merit taking a strong stance on market direction. To be fair, the negatives outweigh the positives at this moment. The fiscal cliff is looming. Europe is still, as my kids like to say, a hot mess. Earnings so far have been weak and guidance is worse for many of the S&P 500 companies. QE3 has not accomplished anything more than QE2 did -- probably a lot less. We are seeing layoffs rise, especially in the retail, restaurant and banking industries. To top it all off, we have increased geopolitical risk in the Middle East with chances for a more serious conflict rising by the day.
Given all that, we should sell or go short, right? That might work, but it could also be the trade that gets you carried out of the arena on your shield. This is a very nervous market and there are a lot of hedge funds out there that still need to make numbers for the year. If we get a hint of deal between President Obama and Congress on fiscal issues, the market could get a good old-fashioned, rip-your-face off rally. The same could result from any news that can be viewed positively coming from Europe. If the path of least resistance should begin to point up, shorts will get scorched.
It's time for a quick reality check. For all the nervousness in the stock market the past few weeks, it is only down about 7% off the Sept. 14 yearly high of 1474. To have a 10% pullback, it has to hit 1326 and it isn't there yet. Led down by the battered tech names, the Nasdaq is a little closer, as it has to get to 287 from the current 2895 to reach the 10% mark. That is not yet worthy of all the discussion I am seeing.
The real tell for me right now is that we are not creating a lot of new safe and cheap inventory. The screens are not showing a lot of new names worth buying. There have been some decent scale-buying opportunities in stocks such as Corning (GLW) and Nabors (NBR), but I am not seeing any of the former market leaders sell at discounts to earning potential or asset value. All we have here is a fairly orderly pullback form the highs. To this point the fiscal cliff is not a major inventory creation event.
If you take the recent decline as a payable event and pile into the market leading stocks and any of the negative events take center stage you could easily get buried. Trying to bottom fish stock with 20 PE multiples trading at 3x book value is betting not investing. If you decide the world is ending and sell everything, you will miss any compromise rally or find that someone else saw the same safe and cheap condition you did originally and miss a takeover.
Right now, the best thing to do is nothing. Make sure the stocks your own are still safe and cheap and you would be willing to scale into more on a deeper decline. Consider selling those that no longer are. The sit back and relax until the market makes up its mind which way it is going to go. Put yourself into a position to react to what the market actually does instead of exposing yourself to heavy losses by trying to predict. If you are an investor, then act like one. Do not give into the urge to cross the line and become an uniformed trader who serves as fodder for the machines.


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The annual Career Day job fair will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, in the Connection Center, located in the Spellmann Campus Center on the main campus at 209 S. Kingshighway in St. Charles.
The Connection Center will be filled with booths representing approximately 40 employers from the St. Louis region. Attendees will be able to talk with representatives from the companies, obtain information about job or internship opportunities and get job search advice from seasoned professionals. Job opportunities include full- and part-time and summer work, depending on the employer, and internships are available in the same categories.
Lindenwood has been holding its career fair for more than 10 years. Held annually in the spring, the fair has been very popular among students and employers alike.
"It's an excellent opportunity to network with representatives from some of the top organizations in the area," said Dana Wehrli, director of career services at Lindenwood.
The career fair is offered free of charge. Professional attire is required. Organizations represented at the fair this year will include the Boy Scouts of America, Brown Smith Wallace, Commerce Bank, Edward Jones, the Missouri Division of Youth Services, the St. Louis Science Center, True Manufacturing and many others.
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Sad to say there's more troubling news for Benicio Del Toro's new "Wolfman," as it's been learned at the 11th hour that the film will in fact be using Danny Elfman's score.
Normally, word of Elfman doing the music for your dark, Gothic monster movie would be cause for celebration. Instead, it's merely giving credence to earlier reports from The Playlist and other sources that "Wolfman" is such a mess that Universal (fellow members of the NBC family) had two teams of editors working on two different cuts of the film -- which the studio vehemently denied.
Elfman had to leave "Wolfman" because post-production was taking too long and he had made prior commitments to Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland." So Universal brought in ex-Tangerine Dream-er Paul Haslinger, but his score was reportedly too electronic for the studio's liking. What they were expecting from someone like Haslinger is anybody's guess. In any event, Elfman's work is back in the movie, according to Movie Score.
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US cybersecurity risks are being poorly managed by the Department of Homeland Security, according to a former US presidential information security advisor. Peter Tippett, who recently served a two-year term on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, said a lack of leadership on electronic security left the US at a greater risk of electronic attack.
Tippett, who is now chief technology officer with managed security firm CyberTrust, compared Homeland Security's posture in defending against electronic attacks to the lack of preparation by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) in managing relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina. "Something similar happened when Homeland Security got responsibility for both FEMA and computer security. When responsibility was transferred from the White House to Homeland Security good people left the top. There's confusion over reporting lines and no leadership," Tippett told El Reg.
US government's cybersecurity responsibilities - along with those of FEMA - were transferred from the White House to the Department of Homeland Security during a reshuffle of 22 federal agencies three years ago.
Tippett's criticisms are echoed by accusations that Homeland Security is illprepared for emergencies and beset by bureaucratic bungling by auditors and segments of the security industry.
However, Howard Schmidt, chief exec of R&H Security and a former senior White House cyber security advisor, defended the Homeland Security agency's record. "There's been a lot of criticisms but they don't take into account the good work that the Homeland Security agency is doing. It is doing all it can to improve government systems whithin the priorities it has. We are getting incrementally better systems. Improvements will take time."
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Schmidt made the comments at the SecureLondon conference, organised by security training and certification body ISC(2), in London earlier this week. Both Schmidt and Tippett have radical ideas for improving cybersecurity in the IT industry. Schmidt wants to see software developers held personally accountable for the security of the code they write. This is a radical idea idea but who is to blame for a Win XP security bug, for example? It would take the brain of Sherlock Holmes to apportion personal blame for that on any one developer, we suspect.
Tippett advocates the wider adoption of basic security defences rather than government standards, which "don't translate into fewer hacker attacks". It would be better if PCs denied actions by default rather than permitting anything that was not known to be bad, he argued. Tippett is credited with creating one of the first commercial anti-virus products, which later became Symantec's Norton Anti- Virus. He is highly critical of the industry he helped create.
"The anti-virus industry is not interested in default deny because if they did that they wouldn't be able to sell updates," he said. "Information security problems are getting worse, even though people are spending more. Throwing money at the problem isn't helping. All the market wants to do is sell new gizmos," he added. ®


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Porta Caribe Travel Guide
Puerto Rico's balmy south coast is known as the Porta Caribe ("gateway to the Caribbean"), a designation that neatly sums up its laidback appeal. The only part of Puerto Rico that actually faces the Caribbean Sea, the waves here are calmer, the skies warmer and the air drier than elsewhere on the island, but the lack of beaches means you'll see far fewer visitors. As a result, traditional Puerto Rican culture remains vibrant here, towns and villages exuding a strong Spanish identity closer in spirit to that of Cuba and Central America.
Some of the most powerful Taíno kingdoms were based here, home to Agüeybaná himself, overlord of the island when the Spanish arrived in 1508, but the conquerors focused their efforts elsewhere and the south remained thinly populated until the eighteenth century. Sugar changed everything, with plantations rapidly colonizing the narrow strip between the Central Cordillera and the coast in the nineteenth century. By World War II the sugar industry had collapsed, and today great swathes of the south are empty, overgrown prairies, a haunting reminder of a lost era.
Ponce is the capital of the south, Puerto Rico's second city and peppered with ebullient architecture and museums, a poignant legacy of those heady days of sugar. Outside Ponce, make time for the Centro Ceremonial Indígena de Tibes, one of the most important archeological sites in the Caribbean, and Hacienda Buena Vista, a lush coffee plantation frozen in the nineteenth century. To the west, the humdrum town of Yauco boasts a number of less-visited treasures to complement its prestigious coffee, while Guánica is best known for its remarkable dry forest and series of enticing beaches, the only section of the south coast mobbed by tourists. To the east, the hot springs at Coamo are a pleasant novelty, but the town itself is a fine product of sugar country, with nearby Guayama another gracefully weathered example.
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Wisconsin sees record-high heroin deaths in 2013
Heroin deaths increased 10 percent to a record 227 in 2013, reflecting wider use throughout Wisconsin.
Gannett Wisconsin Media reported heroin deaths have increased rapidly in recent years after averaging about 30 per year from 2000 to 2007. Wisconsin had 206 heroin deaths in 2012.
One reason for the increase may be that the popular painkiller OxyContin was reformulated in 2010 to make it harder to grind up for snorting or injection, so addicts switched to heroin.
Deaths also have become more widespread, with 39 of the state's 72 counties reporting at least one related to heroin last year. A Gannett survey of county coroners and medical examiners found that was up from 33 counties in 2012.
Milwaukee County reported the most deaths, 67, followed by Dane County with 36. Southeastern Wisconsin appears particularly troubled by the drug, with five counties there reporting seven to 12 deaths each.
The tallies do not include indirect deaths, such as that of a Wausau woman who died in 2011 after contracting a staph infection from dirty needles.
Carol Dixon, of Wausau, said her son, Michael Dixon, died in March 2013 after crashing his car while on heroin.
"It's such a deception that, 'Oh, I can try this one time, and just for fun,'" Dixon said. "More than likely you're going to get hooked after that one time, and it has its hold. It is an evil, evil stronghold that people do not have a clue what they're getting into."
Experts also say the coroner and medical examiner reports may underestimate deaths.
"Some of this is difficult for us because people who use drugs don't always report a death," said Dr. Kristinza Giese, associate medical examiner in Fond du Lac County. "They'll leave somebody in a house or somewhere for a few days, and . I can't say the death is due to heroin unless I see that byproduct in the blood and urine."
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Gee leads Bisons to series win
After missing the final 98 games of the 2009 season, Dillon Gee returned to the mound with an absolute gem on Sunday afternoon to lead the Bisons to victory at PNC Field. The 23-year old allowed just two hits in six shutout innings as the Bisons completed a series win over the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees with a 4-1 decision.
Gee struck out four and didn't walk a batter. He retired 11 of the first 12 batters he faced and prevented the Yankees from reaching third base.
The Bisons' offense did its part to make Gee feel comfortable. Before Gee even stepped on the mound, Mike Hessman gave him a three-run lead to work with. After walks by Jason Pridie and Ike Davis, Hessman launched another gigantic home run to left field.
Hessman, who finished the game 3-4 with a pair of singles as well, also homered in Saturday afternoon's victory. The minor leagues active home run leader now has 313 home runs in his career.
The Bisons tacked on an insurance run in the ninth inning as Ike Davis doubled to center and later scored on a ground out by Mike Cervenak.
Bobby Parnell got the Bisons out of a jam in the eighth inning and stayed on in the ninth to earn his first save of the season.
BISONS NOTES: Sunday's game was the only game in the series that was decided by more than one run.The Bisons won three of four games against Scranton/Wilkes-Barre to open the season. It was their first four-game series victory since they took three of four from the Red Barons on April 27-30, 1998. Ike Davis had a walk and a double. He reached base safely at least twice in all four games of the series.


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Daniel Bard went to his apartment across the street to have a late dinner. David Ortiz said he was going to go out for a bit, but vowed to remain in the area -- just in case. ...
But by the time Rangers lost, 5-2, just before 1 a.m. ET, nearly 90 percent of the Red Sox's players had reconvened back in the Fenway Park clubhouse, where they sprayed each other with champagne and whatever else they could find. ...
"I went home, put my son to sleep and came back," said Pedroia. "We all watched the game. At the [last out], we were all yelling at each other. That was pretty much it."
September 30, 2009
6 comments:
- laura k said...
- September 30, 2009 at 6:35 AM
- allan said...
James sent me these two Mariners PBP calls. It's better if you don't read beyond the opening text. Just listen!
- September 30, 2009 at 7:00 AM
- tim said...
That mariners thing is incredible, lol.
- September 30, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- tim said...
Speaking of playoffs, I'm very curious to see what Philly does with their rotation and who gets sent to the pen.
They've got Hamels and Lee, who will no doubt start 1 and 2. Probably Blanton for 3. Then Happ or Pedro? Happ's been dominant, but Pedro is Pedro....
- September 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Zenslinger said...
Our playoff entree was neither dramatic nor aesthetically pleasing. I may not be jumping up and down about it, but I have sworn never to take the postseason for granted, so...so I'm trying to keep that in mind!
- September 30, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- richard said...
I still think clinching the Wild Card doesn't call for a champagne celebration. You haven't won anything yet. Now just remember 2004 and go do it again!
- September 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM


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Sahar Shafia (inset) told her boyfriend's aunt that she believed her parents would kill her if they found out about her relationship with the young man from Honduras but she planned to tell them about it because she would love him "until death," the murder trial of her parents and brother has heard. "She told me that her parents did not know about the relationship with Ricardo and the day that her parents knew about the relationship with Ricardo she would be a dead woman," Erma Medina testified Wednesday. She said Sahar repeated the claim several times and appeared serious.
Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41, and their son Hamed, 20, are each charged with four counts of first-degree murder. They have pleaded not guilty to killing 17-year-old Sahar and two of her sisters, Zainab, 19, and Geeti, 13 and Shafia's first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, 52. The victims were found dead in a submerged car discovered in a shallow canal in Kingston on June 30, 2009.
Sahar secretly dated Angel Ricardo Ruano Sanchez, a young Montreal man, for the last four months she was alive. Sanchez testified that the young lovers talked of moving to his native country, Honduras, and marrying.
Sanchez testified that they kept the relationship secret out of fear of the reaction of her family. He believed the family would not approve of the union between the Spanish-speaking Christian and the teenaged Muslim girl whose family was from Afghanistan.
Sanchez lived with his aunt for a time and Sahar visited him there.
Medina last talked to Sahar in April 2009, she testified. She said Sahar told her she planned to tell her parents about Sanchez but she hoped to move to Honduras to marry him.
"They would get support and feel more secure in my country than in this country," Medina testified, through a Spanish interpreter, as did Sanchez. She said Sanchez's father and other relatives are in Honduras.
Medina was asked by prosecutor Gerard Laarhuis why Sahar would tell her parents about her boyfriend if she believed they would kill her.
"Because she loved Ricardo … and said that she would love until death," Medina replied.
Medina acknowledged, during questioning by defence lawyer Peter Kemp, who represents Shafia, that she never learned from Sanchez or Sahar whether Sahar's parents learned of the relationship.
Sanchez also testified that he saw unexplained bruises on Sahar's arm and leg. He said that he did not believe her explanation that she had fallen and hurt herself.
"I said it didn't look like a bruise from a fall," Sanchez testified.
Sahar confided in teachers at her school in 2008 that she was being physically and emotionally abused by family members, jurors have heard previously. The complaints prompted a call to a youth protection agency.
The first agency employee to hear Sahar's complaints testified Wednesday that she spoke, in May 2008, to a terrified and suicidal young woman who said life at home was unbearable.
"She told me that she was extremely scared because … she was not allowed to share family information with outsiders and she was afraid of the repercussions," Evelyn Benayoun testified. At the time, Benayoun was an intake worker for Batshaw, a child protection agency for Anglophones in Montreal. She spoke to Sahar by telephone, after school officials called the agency.
"Sahar told me that she wanted to die because she was extremely sad," Benayoun testified. "The whole home situation was unbearable for her."
Sahar told the woman of physical abuse by her older brother Hamed, at the behest of her parents, and that she was emotionally rejected by her mother. Benayoun said Sahar told her that her mother would not speak to her and her siblings were forbidden to talk to her, as punishment for having introduced a sister to a boy.
"She said, 'I want my mother to speak to me,' " Benayoun testified.
She coded the case as an emergency requiring immediate action. Jurors already have heard that a Batshaw investigator met with Sahar and concluded that the allegations were true but the file was closed and no action was taken because Sahar was not considered to be in immediate danger.
The trial is adjourned until Monday, when Crown prosecutors will call their final witness, a professor at the University of Toronto who has studied honour killings. It is not known if defence lawyers will call any evidence after the Crown completes its case.
Prosecutors allege the victims were slain in an honour killing, purportedly orchestrated by Shafia because he believed his daughters had shamed him by taking boyfriends and dressing in revealing clothing. Prosecutors claim that Shafia's first wife was killed because she was a source of friction in the family and she could expose Shafia's polygamy.
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Anyone who's seen The King's Speech, about King George VI and his speech therapist, knows people don't stutter when they sing. So will singing similarly help Mass-goers with the words of the new missal translation?
Composer Steven Warner says yes. Singing will keep people from slipping back into the familiar words of the old translation. He sings a demonstration of the new "The Lord be with you" and its response, "And with your spirit."
That is a word-for-word translation of the Latin: "Et cum spiritu tuo," bringing English-speaking Catholics much closer to their Spanish-speaking fellow parishioners who respond, "Y con tu espíritu."
No doubt that's at least part of the reason Spanish-speaking composers seem especially enthusiastic about the changes. "It brings more unity to what we're doing bilingually," says Santiago Fernández, who is both a composer and music director of three combined parishes in Pontiac, Michigan. "I think it's a wonderful opportunity to praise, to come together with the same text. We're doing this for the right reasons."
The musical changes are substantial or minor, depending on how they're counted. While most of the sung portions of the Mass (put to music in various Mass settings) remain the same, three key sections differ: the Holy, Holy, or Sanctus; the Glory to God, or Gloria; and the memorial acclamations. The most popular of those acclamations, "Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again," used only in the United States, has been eliminated completely.
Music directors will find help from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, professional organizations, and their dioceses. All three major Catholic music publishers and some individual composers are offering resources to support music ministers with the new music.
Oregon Catholic Press, for instance, sent out a packet to every parish in the country this January. It included a CD of new and revised Mass settings and a booklet with the revised Order of Mass. GIA Publications produced videos of composer David Haas explaining the new Mass settings and offering suggestions. World Library Publications composer Warner, who also leads the folk choir at Notre Dame University, has crisscrossed the country offering workshops for music directors.
All three publishers are offering so many new and revised Mass settings (which can be heard at their websites) that the question has become how to choose from among all the new Mass settings.
Most music directors seem to be going with one new Mass setting and one familiar, revised setting—a common-sense solution considering how attached parishioners are to their music and the fact that most of the sections are unchanged.
Composers, though, are arguing against revising familiar Mass settings. "My concern with the revised Mass settings is if you start out with two measures of what they already knew, then depart from it, you're manufacturing a train wreck," says Warner.
Fernández says that as a musician he knows it's easier to learn a new song from scratch rather than try to relearn an old piece differently. "We should take this opportunity to learn something new and exciting."
In his role as a member of the Detroit Diocesan Worship Commission, Fernández has created a chart of the new and revised Mass settings for music ministers. It illustrates which settings have more of a traditional feel, which are contemporary, which are arranged for just a choir without accompaniment, and so on.
Michael McMahon, president of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, urges music directors to begin studying the new and revised Mass settings in order to get to know them. Composer Haas, on that GIA video, suggests music directors at that point call a town meeting, perhaps even with nearby parishes, devoted to singing and learning about the new and revised settings. People can vote for their favorites.
Many parishes are offering classes. McMahon says that the musical changes will raise questions, and it will be up to music directors to have answers. He urges music ministers to focus on the positive, that the new translation will force everyone to pay attention and go back to basics.
Jaime Cortez, a composer and the director of liturgy and music at Holy Cross Church in Mesa, Arizona, sees his role in the upcoming transition as being a catechist. "I'm going to calm people's fears," he says. "I'm going to be a voice that will proclaim an opportunity for a better understanding of the liturgy that will deepen faith. I'm going to try to do it as gracefully as possible."
Enthusiasm aside, the changes will be unsettling. "It will be like getting up in the middle of the night and finding the furniture's been rearranged," Warner says. "We'll need to be patient because we'll all make mistakes."
Catholic musicians will overcome the difficulties, McMahon says. "Of all the ministers, musicians tend to be the happiest," he claims. "Most are can-do people. They know how to make things work."
Owen Alstott, who composed the popular Heritage Mass (which has been revised to fit the new translations), predicts that this uncomfortable transition will result in churches again being filled with new, beautiful music, composed by all the talented young composers now writing new Mass settings.
So expect to find yourself singing "And with your spirit," with little worry about slipping back into "And also with you."
Leaving just one question: Will it also help with "consubstantial"?
This article appeared in the May 2011 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 76, No. 5, page 16).


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Having reached the half-way point of the Serie A season, Dave Taylor goes 4-3-3 with his best XI of the campaign to date.
Andrea Consigli [Atalanta]
Superb from the off, especially in Week 2's 1-1 draw with Cagliari when, after stopping two penalties and making several other superb saves, he was stretchered off and sent to hospital. The former Italian Under-21 international, now seen as one of Gianluigi Buffon's heir, offers a rare level of security to one of Serie A's poorest defences and fears no man nor beast. Buffon-like.
Mattia De Sciglio [Milan]
Young players need encouragement and Massimiliano Allegri has provided it for the former youth team prodigy. With his accurate passing and crossing ability, the 20-year-old has shown on many occasions that he is an excellent decision maker. His pace aids his game, as does his versatility to play on both flanks. Maldini-like.
Andrea Ranocchia [Inter]
He has been immensely consistent this season. At set pieces, one of the tallest defenders in Serie A at 1.96m, is a real menace and showed it with his perfect looping header from a free-kick in the 3-1 win at Bologna. But it is stopping goals where he reigns and his performances this term have earned him international recognition again. Burgnich-like.
Giorgio Chiellini [Juventus]
Every team needs a big ugly defender at the back and they don't come much bigger or uglier than Chiellini. Equally at home in the centre or at left-back, the Italian international epitomises Juve's fighting abilities with his decisive tackles and aerial supremacy. An uncompromising defensive pillar and a superb professional, he absolutely refuses to buckle if the going gets tough. Giorgio also has one of the highest percentages of successful passing of anyone in the League with a 91 per cent success rate. Ferrara-like.
Kwadwo Asamoah [Juventus]
In the short time he has played for Juve, the Ghanaian's thrilling runs down the left have already started to become part of the club's folklore. Despite principally being a central midfielder, he has added an extra dimension to the way the team attack this season, exemplified by his five assists. Asa is also no slouch at scoring and showed it with a dazzling overhead kick against Pescara. Cabrini-like.
Arturo Vidal [Juventus]
Like a Chilean miner he backs down to no-one and is always looking to win the ball and set up another attack. As an integral part of Serie A's best midfield he, as much as anyone, has been one of the driving forces in Juve's run at the top this season. He also has an unerring ability to get into the right place at the right time and does the unseen work, allowing others to do the more intricate stuff. Tardelli-like.
Andrea Pirlo [Juventus]
You might be able to control the bearded Lord of the Rings occasionally, but he is certainly more Gandalf than Gimli if a set-piece presents itself. Juve's second goal against Atalanta in Week17's 3-0 win was a perfect example of his unassailable self-belief, as his free-kick ripped through the Turin air to almost break through the back of the net. One of the game's great statesmen, he has made the most passes in Serie A with over 1,373 of which 1198 or 87.3 per cent have been successful. This ability sees him deliver sublime balls that the recipient has no need to break his stride as he slots it goalwards. Zidane-like.
Marek Hamsik [Napoli]
The Slovakian ace has been Napoli's most consistent player, featuring in every match and has a brilliant presence in front of goal, scoring seven times already, just two short of his total last season. On the assist front he has nine to his name, equalling his complete total from last term. His direct running has made a massive contribution to the Partenopean cause and he possesses a superb sense of where to be at the most pivotal of moments. Alemao-like.
Francesco Totti [Roma]
Er Pupone has been incomparable at times in his 21st campaign and, with six goals plus six assists, what can you say that has not already been said? He has been ruthlessly direct and his power to score and set up others was best seen in the 4-2 win over Fiorentina in Week 16, with his two goals and two assists. Giannini-like.
Edinson Cavani [Napoli]
Napoli attack and defend from the front via the electrifying Uruguayan and, with 16 goals to his name, the perfect modern striker has shown his fitness, pace, strength and extreme resourcefulness. Hat-tricks, braces, winning goals in the closing minutes, penalties, headers, there is nothing much he can't do and his second hat-trick of the season against Roma last week went a long way to prove it. It also meant he has now scored 25 goals in 23 games in all competitions. Jeppson-like.
Stephan El Shaarawy [Milan]
The youngster has been a real revelation and is Serie A 's second top scorer on 14 goals which accounts for 42 per cent of Milan's total. Eight were scored with his dynamic left foot, while his rampaging pace and energy has seen him score 50 per cent of them in the last 15 minutes as his superb stamina exploits weary defenders. Inzaghi-like.
Coach: Vincenzo Montella [Fiorentina]
The Viola decided on a completely new direction after last season's problems and embellished their squad with 17 new players, plus Montella, last summer. Arrivals like Mounir El Hamdaoui, Facundo Roncaglia and former terrace hero Luca Toni have all added to the basics of a good squad and with Montella's fresh exciting hand to guide them they could finish in a Champions League spot. Zeman-like.
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Kate Hudson Pregnant Pictures at LA Premiere of Something Borrowed
Kate Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin Talk Something Borrowed, Marriage, and Love at Their LA Premiere
Kate Hudson wowed in Versace last night on the blue carpet at the LA premiere of Something Borrowed. She headed to the West Coast shortly after wearing a gold Stella McCartney number to Monday night's big Costume Institute Gala in NYC, where her costar, Ginnifer Goodwin, ranked among your Met Ball best dressed in green Topshop. The ladies shared the spotlight yesterday with their leading men, John Krasinski and Colin Egglesfield. John was back in Hollywood following some jet-setting of his own, as he spent the weekend in Ann Arbor, Michigan visiting wife Emily Blunt on the set of her Jason Segel-penned new movie Five Year Engagement. John spoke to us before heading into the screening not about life as a husband, but about his excitement at being in the film's sequel and a part of such a well-loved book series. Kate and Ginnifer, both engaged to be married themselves, shared about being in love. Ginnifer revealed that she and Kate have been trading wedding tips, while Kate says she's just enjoying being so happy at the moment. Stay tuned later to see more from the event on PopSugar Rush!


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OK, first real problem I have encountered using v4:
I have created a task GET MAIL {FROM TABLE} which also has PICK UP MAIL {FROM TABLE}, PICK MAIL UP {FROM TABLE} and TAKE MAIL {FROM TABLE} as alternative inputs.
When testing the game if I type PICK UP MAIL or TAKE MAIL the correct response is displayed ("Wait until you are able to frank the mail.") but if I type GET MAIL then the mail is taken from the table.
This seems to be a random thing. If I close the runner and then open it again and then type GET MAIL, the correct response is displayed and if I type TAKE MAIL, the mail is taken from the table.
Can anyone please advise how I can fix this? (Come on David, you love v4 so much! )


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MASSACRE IN VIRGINIA; Victims' Talents Are Remembered
Published: April 19, 2007
Remembering some of the students killed at Virginia Tech, in these biographical sketches.
Rachael E. Hill, 18
A freshman, she graduated in 2006 from the Grove Avenue Christian School in Henrico County, Va. She was studying biology. Clay Fogler, school administrator for Grove Avenue, said she had a penchant for shoes and was competitive on the volleyball court.
He said Ms. Hill's senior yearbook quotation from C. S. Lewis summed up what school officials believe she would say at this time: ''God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go
through it, not without pain but without stain.''
Jarrett Lane, 22
A senior and recipient of a special scholarship for engineering students, he was in G. V. Loganathan's classroom when he was killed. He came from Narrows, Va., and was valedictorian of his class at Narrows High School in 2003. His former teachers
spoke of him as a four-sport athlete, remembered for his humility and work ethic.
Partahi Mamora Lumbantoruan, 34
A doctoral student in civil engineering, he was one of 16 Indonesians at Virginia Tech. He arrived three years ago from Parahyangan University in the West Java capital of Bandung. His father, a retired Army officer, said he had sold off property and cars
to finance his son's tuition. Rhondy Rahardja, president of the Indonesian Students Organization, said Mr. Lumbantoruan was ''superdisciplined,'' and always wore a polo shirt tucked neatly
into his pants. The Indonesian student association offered to clean up his apartment. That's where they learned his secret passion: ''He had 30 films, all about war,'' Mr. Rahardja said,
from ''The Thin Red Line'' to ''The Alamo.''
Daniel P. O'Neil, 22
He was pursuing a master's in environmental engineering and also served as a teaching assistant at Virginia Tech. From Lincoln, R.I., he was an avid runner, a prolific musician and a big fan of the Beatles, friends said. Mr. O'Neil earned his bachelor's degree at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., where he studied the effects of urban development on regional watersheds.
But his passion was writing music, which he posted to his Web site www.residenthippy.com.
Minal Panchal, 26
An architecture student from Mumbai, India, she graduated from high school in Mumbai and the Rizvi College of Architecture. Ms. Panchal's Orkut site -- a MySpace for young Indians -- listed her passions as buildings and nature. Among her favorite
books were the ''Harry Potter'' series, ''Little Women'' and ''To Kill a Mockingbird.''
Waleed Shaalan, 32
He came to the United States in 2006 from Zagazig, Egypt, leaving behind his wife and 1-year-old son, to follow in his father's footsteps studying civil engineering. He was a member of the Muslim Student Association. On the day he died he told Fahad Pasha, a roommate, that he planned to bring his family to the United States this summer.
Randy Dymond, a civil engineering professor at Virginia Tech, said Mr. Shaalan saved the life of a fellow graduate student. Mr. Dymond said the student recounted to him how he and Mr. Shaalan were both in the first classroom the gunman entered. He shot
Dr. Loganathan and several students. Mr. Shaalan was badly wounded and lay beside the student, who was not shot but played dead, as the gunman returned two times. Just as the gunman noticed the student, Mr. Shaalan
made a move to distract him, at which point he was shot a second time and died. The student believed that Mr. Shaalan purposely distracted the gunman to save him, Mr. Dymond said.
Nicole White, 20
In her junior year, she grew up in Isle of Wight County, Va., loving horses and the water. A friend, Chance Hellmann, who graduated from Smithfield High School with Ms. White in 2004, said she intended to follow a veterinary track at Virginia Tech but she was ultimately drawn to a double major, in international studies and German.


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Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World368
As the "Arab Spring" and its aftermath sweep streets and squares, parliaments and presidential palaces of the Middle East, Shereen El Feki—an award-winning Canadian-Egyptian journalist—has been looking at unrest a little closer to home: in the sexual lives of Arab men and women. The result is an informative, insightful, and engaging account of this sensitive and still largely secret aspect of Arab society.
Sexual attitudes and behaviors are shaped by politics and economics, religion and tradition, gender and generations—not only a reflection of the conditions that led to the uprisings, but also a measure of hard-won reforms in the years to come. Highly personal, rich with original research and remarkable stories, Sex and the Citadel gives us unprecedented and timely insight into a part of the world that is changing before our eyes.
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"What is it?"
Six pairs of dark eyes stared at me—or rather, at the small purple rod in my hand.
"It's a vibrator," I answered, in English, racking my brain for the right Arabic word. "A thing that makes fast movements" came to mind, but as that could equally apply to a hand mixer, I decided to stick with my mother tongue to minimize what I could sense was rising confusion in the room.
One of the women, curled up on a divan beside me, began to unpin her hijab, a cascade of black hair falling down her back as she carefully put her headscarf to one side. "What does it do?" she asked.
"Well, it vibrates," I added, taking a sip of mint tea and biting into a piece of syrupy baklava to buy myself some time before the inevitable rejoinder.
"But why?"
How I came to be demonstrating sex toys to a coffee morning of Cairo housewives is a long story. I have spent the past five years traveling across the Arab region asking people about sex: what they do, what they don't, what they think and why. Depending on your perspective, this might sound like a dream job or a highly dubious occupation. For me, it is something else altogether: sex is the lens through which I investigate the past and present of a part of the world about which so much is written and still so little is understood.
Now, I grant you, sex might seem an odd choice, given the spectacle of popular revolt playing out across the Arab world since the beginning of this decade, which has taken with it some of the region's most entrenched regimes—in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen for starters—and is shaking up the rest. Some observers, however, have gone so far as to argue that it was youthful sexual energy that fueled the protests in the first place. I'm not so sure. While I've often heard Egyptians say their fellow countrymen spend 99.9 percent of their time thinking about sex, in the heady days of early 2011, making love appeared, for once, to be the last thing on people's minds.
Yet I don't believe it was entirely out of sight. Sexual attitudes and behaviors are intimately bound up in religion, tradition, culture, politics, and economics. They are part and parcel of sexuality—that is, the act and all that goes with it, including gender roles and identity, sexual orientation, pleasure, intimacy, eroticism, and reproduction. As such, sexuality is a mirror of the conditions that led to these uprisings, and it will be a measure of the progress of hard-won reforms in the years to come. In his reflections on the history of the West, the French philosopher Michel Foucault described sexuality as "an especially dense transfer point for relations of power: between men and women, young people and old people, parents and offspring, teachers and students, priests and laity, an administration and a population." The same is true in the Arab world: if you really want to know a people, start by looking inside their bedrooms.
Had it not been for the events of September 11, 2001, I might never have opened that door. I was working at The Economist when the world turned. Having trained as an immunologist before becoming a journalist, I was on the health and science beat, far removed from the great political debates of the day. From these sidelines, I had a chance to sit back and watch my colleagues grapple with the complexities of the Arab region. I saw their confidence in Anglo-American might and exuberance in the early afterglow of the war in Iraq gradually turn to doubt, then bewilderment. Why weren't Iraqis rushing to embrace this new world order? Why did they rarely follow the playbook written in Washington and London? Why did they behave in ways so contrary to Western expectations? In short, what makes them tick?
For me, these are not questions of geopolitics or anthropology; this is a matter of personal identity. The Arab world is in my blood: my father is Egyptian, and through him my family roots stretch from the concrete of Cairo to cotton fields deep in the Nile Delta. My mother comes from a distant green valley—a former mining village in South Wales. This makes me half Egyptian, though most people in the Arab region shake their heads when I tell them this. To them there is no "half" about it; because my father is wholly Egyptian, so am I. And because he is Muslim, I too was born Muslim. My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book—among them, Jews and Christians. For my mother, becoming Muslim was a matter of conviction, not coercion.
I was born in England and raised in Canada long before "Muslims in the West" was a talking point. There were a few of us at school (I grew up in a university town near Toronto), but I never thought much of it. Then again, I was brought up with an icing of Islam on an otherwise Western lifestyle: my only observances were steering clear of pork and alcohol and learning al-Fatiha—the opening chapter of the Qur'an—which my parents had me recite before our very British Sunday lunches. As the sole Muslims on the block, we were always the first to put up Christmas lights, and Easter never passed without a clutch of chocolate eggs.
As for Egypt, each year we would visit my grandmother Nuna Aziza and a vast circle of aunts, uncles, and cousins. We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and during my childhood, we were the only members living outside of Egypt. So between my father's prestige as the eldest son and my own exotic pedigree, I basked in the spotlight. My nuna's apartment was a shrine to our tiny branch of the family in exile; amid the plastic plants and the frolicking shepherds and coy maidens in petit point, our photos were crammed onto coffee tables and consoles, whose delicate gilded legs seemed unequal to the weight of so much grandmotherly affection. Growing up, I came to love Egypt and respect Islam, but I never thought to go beyond the surface.
Back in Canada, many of my father's Egyptian friends questioned his decision not to raise his only child more strictly in the faith. I was not taught salat, the Muslim ritual of prayer, nor did I study Arabic. It was not for want of conviction on my father's part. He is a devout Muslim who prays five times a day and recites the Qur'an every morning, from memory; he's a hajji, having gone on pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina; he scrupulously observes the fast during Ramadan and never fails to pay zakat, or alms for the poor. But my father saw his friends push Islam and their own Arab upbringing on their children—particularly their daughters—like a vaccine against the perceived ills of the West. More often than not, however, what these parents saw as a danger, their children embraced as an opportunity, many turning away from a religious and cultural heritage that seemed to them like too much strong medicine. My parents, on the other hand, gave me the freedom to come to my religion and my roots on my own terms and in my own time.
That moment came after September 11. Like so many others who straddle East and West, I was impelled to take a closer look at my origins. That I chose sex as my lens is unusual—but understandable, given my background. Part of my job at The Economist was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic. Each year, UNAIDS, the United Nations agency in charge of tracking the disease, issues updates full of daunting statistics. What always grabbed my attention were not the huge numbers of those living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, and Asia but the tiny ones in the Arab region, where the prevalence of infection was only a fraction of what it was elsewhere. How, in an era of mass migration and instant access, could one part of the world stay seemingly immune to HIV? Was it possible that people in the Arab region were simply not engaging in risky behavior—that there was no needle sharing or contaminated blood supplies or unsafe sex?
As I started to ask questions, I began to tumble into the gap between public appearance, as reflected in official statistics, and private reality. While many people were busy reassuring me that HIV was not, and could never be, the problem in the Arab world that it was elsewhere, I was meeting whole families who were infected and was hearing the increasingly urgent pleas of those working quietly to stop the epidemic in its tracks. The more I looked, the more I realized that the main wedge between appearance and reality was sex: a collective unwillingness to face up to any behavior that fell short of a marital ideal, a resistance buttressed by religious interpretation and social convention.
In broad strokes, this sexual climate looks a lot like the West on the brink of the sexual revolution. And many of the same underlying forces that drove change in Europe and America are present in the modern Arab world, if only in embryo: struggles toward democracy and personal rights; the rapid growth of cities and a growing strain on family structures, loosening community controls on private behavior; a huge population of young people whose influences and attitudes diverge from those of their parents; the changing role of women; the transformation of sex into a consumer good through economic expansion and liberalization. Add to that greater exposure to the sexual mores of other parts of the world brought about through media and migration. All of which raises the question: As political upheaval convulses the region, is a sexual shake‑up next in line?
Because of their essential differences in history, religion, and culture, the West is no guide to how change will play out in the Arab world. Development is a journey, not a race, and different societies take different paths. Some destinations are, however, more desirable than others. I believe that a society that allows people to make their own choices and to realize their sexual potential, that provides them with the education, tools, and opportunities to do so, and that respects the rights of others in the process is a better place for it. I do not believe this is fundamentally incompatible with social values in the Arab world, which was once more open to the full spectrum of human sexuality and could be so again. Nor need this irremediably clash with the region's dominant faith: it is through their interpretations of Islam that many Muslims are boxing themselves and their religion in.
This book is the story of those who are trying to break free: researchers who dare to probe the very heart of sexual life; scholars who are reinterpreting traditional texts that currently constrain choices; lawyers who are fighting for more equitable legislation; doctors who are trying to relieve the physical and psychological fallout; religious leaders who are brave enough to preach tolerance where they once talked of damnation; activists who are on the streets trying to make sex safe; writers and filmmakers who are challenging the limits of sexual expression; bloggers who are forging a new space for public debate. And it is also the story of those who oppose them; the shifting political landscape of the Arab region, after decades of stasis, is opening new opportunities for both.
It took more than a thousand days to assemble these stories, and, like One Thousand and One Nights, these tales lead into each other in often unexpected ways. In chapter 1 they help us to understand how sexual attitudes in the East and West have shifted over time. In chapter 2, they illuminate the trouble with marriage, in and out of the bedroom. In chapter 3 they show us the sexual minefield of youth, and in chapter 4, they point to ways of navigating safe passage through it with sex education, contraception, and abortion—and what to do when the trigger is pressed, as in the case of unwed motherhood. Chapter 5 examines the many shades of sex work in the region and the prospects for those involved. In chapter 6 we look at those who break the heterosexual mold and how they themselves see the way forward. Finally, chapter 7 takes a wide-angle view of the current state of affairs and considers how a fairer and more fulfilling sexual culture might develop in the coming decades. For all the predicaments these stories highlight, this isn't another book about what's wrong with the Arab region. It's about what's right: how people on the ground are solving their problems in ways that often look different from responses elsewhere in the world. This is not an academic tome, nor a slice of Arab exotica. It is, in the end, an album of snapshots from across the region taken by someone trying to better understand the region in order to better understand herself. Those looking for an encyclopedia, or a peep show, should search elsewhere.
So far, I have talked about the Arab world as a collective entity, as if one could generalize about twenty-two countries, three hundred fifty million people, three major religions, dozens of religious sects and ethnic groups. The term Middle East is even more of a geographical blender, mashing together not only the Arabic-speaking countries of North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the eastern Mediterranean but also non-Arab Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and occasionally Pakistan thrown in for good measure. While there are essential similarities in sexual attitudes and behaviors across Arab countries, there are also important differences in how societies are—or are not—tackling these challenges. Such distinctions transcend sexuality and are clearly reflected in the different trajectories of political change prompted by the popular uprisings of this decade.
So from now on, specifics. This book is centered on Egypt, and in particular Cairo, whose population represents the length of the country and the breadth of a vast social spectrum. Personal history aside, Egypt is a natural focus because it is the most populous country in the Arab region, because of its strategic geopolitical importance, and because it retains formidable political, economic, social, and cultural influence across the region. When I started my journey, few in the area—outside of Egypt, that is—agreed with me. Pivot of the Arab world for centuries, almost sixty years of post–World War II military dictatorship had sorely diminished Egypt, while its neighbors rose in economic, political, and cultural prominence. Egypt had been written off as a lost cause, a country plagued by poverty, narrow-minded Islamism, crumbling infrastructure, cultural decline, rampant corruption, and political sclerosis. Or, as my taxi driver in Rabat, Morocco's capital, put it, with devastating simplicity: "Egyptians, so egotistical. And for what?"
Egypt, they said, had lost the plot. But once its millions rose up against the regime, the same voices heralded it as a beacon of transformation across the region. Farther afield, protesters from Wall Street to Sydney have tried to bring Egypt's uprising home. Since 2011, worldwide solidarity protests, the nervousness in Western capitals, the anxiety of Arab leaders, and continuous global media coverage have amply demonstrated that what happens in Egypt still matters, not just for its own citizens but for the rest of the world as well. Egypt has rediscovered its geopolitical mojo, and in the process it has gained a long-term opportunity to reshape its society, including its sexual culture—shifts that its neighbors will be watching closely.
On many of the tough issues of sexuality, models for change lie close to home. This is a question of pragmatism, not chauvinism. While substantial progress on issues of sexuality has been made elsewhere in the Global South, and there are impressive lessons to learn, it is only natural that Egyptians should more readily appreciate, and adopt, change when they see it in a more easily identifiable package. And so I have looked to Morocco and Tunisia in the west and to Lebanon in the east, which offer models for Egypt in dealing with at least some of its collective sexual problems. I have also traveled through countries in the Gulf—United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, among them. This region has considerable influence on Egyptians through media, money, and migration and has powerfully shaped (or warped, some would argue) Egypt's social and sexual attitudes over the past half century. And you will hear voices from other parts of the Arab region whose situations shed light on Egypt's state of affairs.
"Excuse me if I sometimes do no more than hint at the names of the heroes of my anecdotes, and do not mention them more explicitly. . . . It is enough for me to name only those whom naming does not harm, and whose mention brings no opprobrium either upon ourselves or them; either because the affair is so notorious that concealment and the avoidance of clear specification will do the party concerned no good, or for the simple reason that the person being reported on is quite content that his story should be made public, and by no means disapproves of it being bandied about." This disclaimer comes from Ibn Hazm, a Muslim philosopher in Spain in the tenth and eleventh centuries, whose famous treatise, The Ring of the Dove, is a user's guide to falling in, and out of, love. A millennium later, I have followed the same policy: if it's first name only, then that name has been changed.
I was a scientist before I became a journalist, and this book reflects that training. Wherever possible, I have complemented personal stories with hard data; as vice-chair of the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, a body established by the United Nations to advocate for legal reform, including laws regulating sexuality, around the world, I was given privileged access to both. Such information is difficult to come by in the Arab region because research on sexuality here is still scarce. Many pressing questions have yet to be addressed, and results have, as often as not, ended up in a locked drawer.
The goal of this book is to help change that, as part of what millions across the Arab world are hoping will be a new era of openness and intellectual freedom. To this end, Sex and the Citadel is accompanied by a website, www.sexandthecitadel.com, where you can find a wealth of additional facts, figures, and findings on the topics at hand, as indicated in the endnotes. I encourage readers not only to visit the site but also to contribute to it by posting related news, events, and research, in Arabic, English, or French. The site aims to be a clearinghouse for information on sexuality in the Arab region and, along with this book, a resource for all those who wish to understand the past, the present, and to collectively forge a better sexual future for coming generations. Sex and the Citadel is by no means the last word on sex in the Arab world, but it is an early step at a turning point in the region's history, for others to take forward.
Table of Contents
A Note on Language xi
Introduction xiii
1. Shifting Positions 3
2. Desperate Housewives 27
3. Sex and the Single Arab 93
4. Facts of Life 134
5. Sex for Sale 180
6. Dare to Be Different 216
7. Come the Revolution 278
Notes 297
Bibliography 317
Acknowledgments 333
Index 335
What People are Saying About This
"An engrossing book with a powerful interrogation of intimate relationships and politics in Egypt. El-Feki draws a vivid picture of constructions of sexuality in contemporary Egypt with dynamic narratives of Egyptian women about their sexuality, interwoven with stories of the Arab spring and the Egyptian revolution in the background. This book brilliantly exhibits the complex conjunction between contemporary history and personal lives." –Pinar Ilkkaracan, Bosphorus University, Istanbul; Co-founder, The Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies; Editor, Women and Sexuality in Muslim Societies and Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East; Winner, 2007 Gruber Prize for Women's Rights
"A daring new study...El Feki, who is trained in molecular immunology and serves as vice chair of the U.N.'s Global Commission on HIV and Law, embarks on her subject with healthy doses of humor and irony. With personal stories bolstered by facts and figures, El Feki looks at the tensions between what is halal (permitted under Islamic law) and haram (forbidden) or zina (downright debauchery). She also discusses sex education, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, and even lingerie and cross-dressing. As a daughter of the region, El Feki is also deeply engaged in and hopeful for greater democratization in personal relations. A surprisingly open, extremely timely examination of the sexual coming-of-age for Egyptian youth." –Kirkus, starred review
"All communities have to confront issues of sex on a daily basis. Sex and the Citadel captures the vibrancy of contemporary issues being faced by those living in Muslim societies today. The author brings to life through a wide range of individuals their hopes, fears and challenges of dealing with sex, love and relationships. There is much to learn for both Muslims and non-Muslims. Society and culture can so often dictate behaviour that is at odds with historic religious teachings. This book helps those interested in exploring how views on contemporary life are so varied across different Muslim communities." –Tewodros Melesse, Director-General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation
"El Feki has spent four years investigating an intriguing and potentially explosive subject: changing sexual attitudes and behavior in the Arab world…A thoughtful study not to be treated as titillation." –Library Journal
"A clear wakeup call." –Publishers Weekly
"Shereen El Feki has done something important, brave and necessary. By investigating what sexual experiences and values are in the Arab world, rather than projecting views on them ideologically, El Feki insists on our taking seriously and urgently major social issues—from cliterodectomy to adultery in a traditional context to passion itself—that are shrouded in myth, taboo and disinformation. She has done a major service to those who care about feminism in this region, about human rights, about sexuality, and about the human condition." –Naomi Wolf, author of The Beauty Myth
"El Feki, with familial roots deep in Egypt, delves into a sensitive, rarely addressed topic in this tour de force on Arab life…Mandatory reading for anyone seeking to truly know the Middle East, Sex and the Citadel should knock the doors off assumptions held dear by so many Westerners." –Booklist, starred review