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There is one annual application season for the Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ethnographic Film. The deadline for application submissions is May 1. All applications must be submitted using the most recent application form (clearly marked with the deadline date on the front page) OR APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR REVIEW.
Official "Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship Application Forms" and required attachments must be submitted using the Foundation's online application submission procedure, which uses a third-party platform, Blackbaud/Microedge's Internet Grants Application Module (IGAM). (Read their privacy statement here.)
In addition, one printed copy of the application form and required attachments, PLUS four (4) printed copies of the application form only, must be sent to the Foundation. This material must be postmarked by the application deadline (and received by the Foundation no later than two weeks after the deadline) or your application will not be reviewed.
If it is not possible to submit your application online because of inadequate internet access in your country of origin, you must notify the Foundation at least one week before the deadline (firstname.lastname@example.com) to arrange to submit an application by conventional mail. Please note: application forms that are e-mailed or faxed directly to the Foundation will not be accepted.
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- Download the official Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship Application Form. Applicants must download and complete the official Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship Application Form. This form is a Microsoft Word 2003 document, which allows individuals to fill out information within the form and save it to their computers.
- Create a User Account: After clicking on the "Begin a new Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship application" link at the bottom or top of this page, individuals will be directed to the "Log in" page for Online Applications and asked to create a User Account. To create a User Account, individuals will be asked to enter an e-mail address (which will be used as the account ID), and a password. Once the User Account has been created, applicants can begin filling out their online registration information. This User Account will also allow individuals to:
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- Review the content of submitted applications.
A e-mail including the confirmation of your password will be automatically sent to the e-mail address supplied. The confirmation e-mail will also include a direct link to the User Account login page, which applicants should save for their records. They are also encouraged to save the direct link to their User Account in the "Favorites" folder on their internet browser.
- Save and Edit Submissions: Applicants can save the information they have entered online by clicking on the "Save & Finish Later" button located at the bottom of each page.
- Clicking on the "Save & Finish Later" button will take applicants to their User Account home page.
- Once in their User Account home page, applicants can see saved information listed under the "Open" heading.
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- Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship Application Form
- Project Bibliography
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Mischaracterization of Multitenancy in an SAP-sponsored Blog Post
In an SAP-sponsored post on ZDnet, SAP employee Eric Lai attempts to identify "four big problems" with multitenancy in cloud applications. As I am writing a soon-to-be published research report on cloud ERP, I was interested to hear Eric's take on the subject.
By way of definition, in a software-as-a-service application, the term multitenancy refers to an application architecture where a single instance of the system's application code and database serves multiple customers.
Please read Lai's entire post, as, in the interest of space, I will not quote from it extensively.
Lai gets off to a good start:
Anyone can see how much more efficient [multitenancy] is versus the old server hosting model, where the ratio of server:customer is 1:1. Even using today's Red Hat-type virtualization, each server can cram fewer users/customers onto itself than a true multitenant service.No argument there. But then he quickly goes downhill. He first draws a distinction between consumers and enterprise customers, which have "much more rigorous requirements." He then presents his four objections to multitenancy.
Besides their efficiency, multitenant services can scale easily. Both of these mean lower costs for the hosters/software vendors, and, potentially, lower prices for customers.
1. "It's Inflexible."Here, Lai doesn't really make a flexibility argument as much as a security and privacy argument. He points to privacy laws in some European regions that require data in some circumstances to be stored locally. But this is not an argument against multitenancy--it's an argument in favor of local data centers. A single-tenant system provider will need to build local data centers in the regions it serves, just as a multitenant provider will need to do so.
He then argues that multitenant systems might allow competitors on the same system to see each other's confidential information. I agree that IP theft is an increasing problem, especially with organized gangs of cyber-criminals in Eastern Europe and Asia, who in some cases may have the endorsement of their governments. (See, for example, this report.) But I do not know of a single cases where one tenant on a multitenant system was able to access the data of another customer on the same system. Tellingly, Lai provides not a single reference of such a confidentiality breach.
2. "It's Less Secure."He now makes the security argument again, from a different angle. Here he argues that a multitenant database gives a careless database administrator, or a malicious hacker, the opportunity to compromise, with one breach, the data of multiple customers rather than just a single customer. He overlooks the fact that if a DBA is careless with one database, he or she would probably be careless with multiple databases. Likewise, if a criminal is able to gain access to a single customer's database in a secured data center, he or she will probably be able to gain access to many or all of the customer databases in the same data center.
3. "It's Less Powerful."Here the argument is that the capabilities of the platform-as-a-service providers do not match the capabilities of traditional database tools. He points to Salesforce.com's database.com, Google App Engine, and Windows Azure as examples. Here, I find Lai's argument similar to that of Larry Ellison, head of SAP's arch-rival, Oracle.
In response I would point to the testimony of the head of development of one new enterprise SaaS provider. This individual came from a traditional enterprise software development and has now built sophisticated enterprise applications on both NetSuite's platform and on Force.com. He told me recently, "Frank, you wouldn't believe how easy it is to develop on these platforms. Things that used to take us months [at vendor X], we can now do in weeks or days."
Although I am no longer into software development, I am willing to stipulate that the newer cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environments do not have all of the features and functions of traditional on-premise application development environments. (So also, in the old days we couldn't do as much with third-generation procedural languages, such as COBOL, as we could in assembler language. And, we couldn't do as much in 4GLs as we could in third generation.) But a PaaS removes an enormous amount of development work, by abstracting database, middleware, and user-interface functions, allowing the developer to focus on business logic. Furthermore, if (as I believe) PaaS is a disruptive technology, we should expect its capabilities to improve over time, and increasingly able to take on jobs that formerly could only be done by traditional tools.
4. "It May Be More Costly."Here he doesn't mean the cost to the customer, but the cost to the ISV who wants to move from a traditional on-premises software product to a cloud offering. He is arguing, in essence, that it is cheaper for the vendor to simply host his traditional product as a single-tenant offering (i.e. changing nothing) than to rewrite it as a true multi-tenant SaaS offering.
As an advocate for enterprise IT buyers, I have to ask, will that hosted offering will be less costly for customers? Lai doesn't say. But in his introductory paragraphs (quoted earlier), he indicates that multitenancy offers "lower costs for the hosters/software vendors, and, potentially, lower prices for customers." So he has contradicted himself in his own post.
A Puzzling PositionFinally, what I find strange about this SAP-sponsored blog post is that it seems to contradict SAP's own position relative to Business ByDesign (ByD).
ByD is a full multi-tenant ERP offering for SMBs. It is a well-known fact that SAP's first attempt at ByD employed a single-tenant architecture, similar to that proposed by Lai in his blog post. That iteration was not successful in that, according to SAP spokespeople, they could not get that approach to scale cost-effectively. So, SAP took an extra two years or so and rewrote ByD as a completely multi-tenant application. The system is rolling out in multiple geographies worldwide, in local data centers where required, presumably with security and privacy measures commensurate with SAP's high standards for customers. The system is cost-competitive with other SaaS ERP offerings and has grown quickly to over 1,000 customers at the end of 2011.
SAP now has such confidence in its ByD platform that it has made it the platform for developing its line-of-business applications, such as Sales OnDemand and Travel OnDemand, for its large enterprise customers--presumably the ones with the most demanding security and privacy requirements.
Now, at the top of the post, ZDnet does make the disclaimer, "Eric's views are his alone and do not necessarily represent those of SAP." Still, as I mentioned, I find it puzzling that Lai's views appear to be closer to Larry Ellison's than those of his employer.
I am waiting for SAP's rebuttal to its own sponsored post.
Update: Eric Lai responds in the comments below.
Update, Feb.23: Please read the more detailed response on SDN by Sybase's Eric Farrar.
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Labels: NetSuite, Salesforce.com, SAP, ZDnetby Frank Scavo, 2/20/2012 08:43:00 AM | permalink | e-mail this!
Reader Comments:Hi Frank - agreed, Eric's post does portray a muddled view of multitenancy. A company called Kinetic Data has done some interesting work in this area, presenting services in a way that doesn't require code changes in the underlying enterprise platform (SAP, Oracle, whatever). Here's a relevant link if you're interested: http://kineticdata.com/Markets/ServiceProviders.html
Hi Frank - I do appreciate your taking the time to read and respond to my post, as I enjoy an honest debate.
First of all, I do indeed think multitenancy is a great thing for cloud applications, both for the vendor (due to increased efficiency) and for enterprise IT (due to resulting lower prices).
My critique of multi-tenancy was aimed purely at cloud data platforms and platforms-as-a-service (PaaS). And not just any cloud-based platforms, but ones that sacrifice features and/or customization in favor of one-size-fits-all scale.
My understanding is that is the case today with the biggest names in the PaaS space. But I'd love to hear about ones that are exceptions to the rule.
Also, this blog was aimed at enterprise ISVs and in-house enterprise developers, who are wrestling whether to move from on-prem or single-hosted platforms.
For them, I truly believe that many multitenant cloud platforms today lack the flexibility to account for their security/regulatory requirements. Or that the benefits of a new platform don't justify the cost of porting an app.
Apologies if my imprecise language caused any conflation/confusion. This was not meant to be an inadvertant criticism of SAP's own products like ByD or Successfactors.
Would welcome comments from any and all, esp. the SAP mentors like Messr Reed and/or Messr Howlett.
Glad to see that Eric responded. The concept of multi-tenancy is a black and white definition. You either have it or not. In this case, SAP needs to deliver it.
Now here's an interesting fact, when I go back to my old architecture friends, it appears that core R/3 was architected for MT. It supported about 100+ tenancies. Not sure who's idea it was to take it out in the future versions but that person must be kicking themselves by now!!!
It's good of Eric to take the time to respond to Frank's spot-on analysis. But really this is such a tiresome debate.
It seems from Eric's comment that his criticism of multi-tenancy is that it's not identical to conventional on-premise architectures: "My critique of multi-tenancy was aimed purely at ... cloud-based platforms ... that sacrifice features and/or customization in favor of one-size-fits-all scale."
Correct, cloud trades custom features for scale, because it enables an economy of operation and rapidity of feature refresh that more than makes up for having to do one or two things a little differently. If you don't understand this, then you really shouldn't waste your time drafting a critique.
If there's a custom feature that you simply can't afford to miss out on, then shop around and if you can't find it in the market today, wait a few months until a suitable provider adds it in their next feature refresh. Don't use the lack of that feature as a straw man you can knock down to self-justify your set prejudice against the multi-tenant model.
If you're an ISV, make a careful analysis whether you should build your own multi-tenant platform or use someone else's. But only choose to remain single-tenant if you plan to retire sometime in the next five years.
Eric, thank you for the response. I do see now that you are talking about PaaS rather than SaaS.
However, now you have gone from simply being wrong to being incoherent.
Your position appears to be that "multitenancy is a great thing for cloud applications" (e.g. SAP's Business ByDesign), but not for "cloud data platforms and platforms-as-a-service." This makes no sense for the following reasons.
1. The benefits of multitenancy for SaaS (which you list as "increased efficiency" and "lower prices") must be the same as for PaaS.
2. It is hard to imagine why a software developer would want to build a multitenant SaaS application (which you say is a "great thing"), but do it using a single-tenant development environment. It might be because no commercially available PaaS has the ISV's desired feature set. But that points to the immaturity of the PaaS market, not to an inherent disadvantage of multitenancy.
3. Finally, the advantages of MT PaaS are seen in the thousands of applications written on platforms such as Force.com and NetSuite's Suitecloud. As my developer friend said, "These platforms are a dream." This, coming from a developer with decades of experience as a traditional ISV.
Do the cloud platforms require a rewrite for a traditional on-premises ISV? Of course. Should every ISV invest the time and effort to do such a rewrite? Of course not. It all depends on the business case for the ISV. As Phil writes above, if you are thinking to retire in the short term, maybe not.
But to turn that business decision into a general argument against cloud platforms simply makes no sense.
Eric -
Good of you to engage here.
I've been struggling with your blog post a bit for a couple of reasons.
One is how you framed the discussion. Another is the fact that you work for SAP so readers are inclined to assume that your views on this topic do tie into SAP's own.
On the second point, the shame of it is that SAP has done a better job than they are given credit for in terms of committing to multi-tenant archictures. This actually gives them a nice talking point against Oracle. As Frank points out, your post had the effect of blurring those lines and adding more fuel to the skeptics who think SAP has missed the boat on multi-tenancy across the board.
It's too bad, because aside from some questions on HANA and mult-tenancy SAP has yet to sort publicly, SAP has come a long way on multi-tenant apps since the early ByDesign days. I don't think you got that across in your post - some clarity there would have helped the reader.
I realize you were trying to frame the multi-tenancy talk a bit more narrowly. I thought your comment to Frank post made your position much cleared than your own blog post, which left a lot open to interpretation.
Typically, I see this debate framed as private versus public cloud, rather than multi-tenancy, and I believe that there is a definite worthy debate on the merits of private clouds for data where regulatory issues involving cloud storage come into play.
Most reasonable people accept the idea that customers will make their own value (and in some cases, regulatory)-based decisions on hybrid cloud landscapes so I'm not sure there's a huge discussion to be had there.
However, when you expanded things to multi-tenant PaaS, things got muddier. I guess it's how you look at PaaS, but for ISVs looking to develop on a platform, there is a big value in a multi-tenant architecture that will bring their solutions to scale.
A more critical issue for you is that SAP's own PaaS plans are clearly aligned with multi-tenant approaches. Your post made me wonder if you've had a chance to talk with SAP's own PaaS team about what they are up to. The Mentors had a meeting with them today and I again got a clear sense that multi-tenancy is a very important architectural consideration across SAP's ABAP and Java PaaS solutions.
This would make sense, since the idea is to allow ISVs to develop industry and add-on solutions that complement products such as ByDesign, Sales OnDemand, and eventually, on the Java side, StreamWork, SuccessFactors, etc.
If you disagree with SAP on this point, fine, but I think it behooves you to make that as clear as possible so that readers realize not only your position but in this case (PaaS multi-tenancy) how you deviate from SAP's. Instead, in my opinion, too many readers left your post thinking SAP "just doesn't get multi-tenancy."
I don't think that was your intent, but when you blog about mobility, you are much more clearly aligned with SAP and Sybase, so readers have a tendency to think the same this time around. At any rate SAP could help your cause by being more painfully clear about their own PaaS plans and I expect after SuccessFactors is pulled into the roadmap we'll have our answers.
My Sybase colleague Eric Farrar explains what I meant to say about Multitenancy and PaaS and ISVs, only much much better.
I'd also recommend this blog by SAP Mentor Richard Hirsch, who explains how he views SQL Anywhere On-Demand in relation to other Platforms-as-a-Service, including SAP's.
Great rebuttal - you have very strong points here.
We actually offer a Multi-Tenant solution 'in the cloud' that works really well for most of our customers:
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- Dwight said...
Before Ann "suggested" that I copy and paste this post to its rightful place, I had tried it and failed. Then Ann (who was somewhat of a pest as a little girl) persisted, and I ignored her because why should she boss me around? Then I got in a good humor, reflected on the fact that Ann really, truly, does know stuff and that I had better try again if I knew what was good for me. So! Voila! Happy day! and here it is where it belongs, and you can all thank Ann.
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The upcoming rollout of Apple's new iPhones is already boosting some Asian economies and supplier sales. The Wall Street Journal's Yun-Hee Kim talks to Eva Dou about the Apple effect.
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Learning About Heart Disease Risk Factors
Today we know more about preventing heart disease than we ever have. It starts by identifying certain characteristics that make it more likely to develop heart disease. These characteristics are called risk factors.
To gauge your risk, you should know how many of the risk factors you have. The more risk factors, the greater your risk of a heart attack or stroke. Some risk factors you can't do anything about. These are called uncontrollable risk factors.
When a man is older than 45, he has the age risk factor. A woman has the age risk factor if she is older than 55, or has had her ovaries removed. If your father or brother had a heart attack before the age of 45, or your mother or sister had one before age 65, then you have the family history risk factor.
All the other risk factors you can do something about. That's why they are called controllable risk factors.
The controllable risk factors are: abnormal cholesterol levels; smoking; high blood pressure; inactivity, or lack of exercise; being overweight; diabetes and stress. Controlling these risk factors should be your goal. Remember, every risk factor you control reduces your risk of heart attack or stroke.
You'll find that when you take action to reduce one risk factor, it helps reduce another. For example, if you are inactive and start to get more active, you are also helping yourself lose weight, improve your cholesterol levels, lower your blood pressure, cope with stress, and help control diabetes.
When you stop smoking, it helps lower your blood pressure and makes it easier to exercise. And eating less fat to improve your cholesterol helps you lose weight and helps control diabetes.
Today you can do something about the risk factors of heart disease. It starts by knowing what your risk factors are, then taking action to reduce the controllable risk factors.
Control your cholesterol levels. Stop smoking. Keep your blood pressure under control. Stay active. Lose weight if you need to. Manage your diabetes, and manage your stress.
Talk to your healthcare provider about identifying your risk factors for developing heart disease. And ask about the steps you need to take to help prevent, or reduce, your risk factors.
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Last season, both Lipscomb and Upstate tied with Florida Gulf Coast for the season champion title, with conference records of 16-6.
The Lady Bisons split with the Spartans last season in Nashville, losing the first game 8-7 but coming back to win 3-0 in the second.
But Sunday was a different day.
"Last year was a draw in all regards," said softball coach Kristin Peck. "We wanted to come in to their field today and prove a point."
The Lady Bisons did just that.
Game one started off as a pitcher's duel as Lipscomb's Whitney Kiihnl went up against Upstate's Morgan Childer's, who was voted both A-Sun Pitcher of the year and Freshman of the Year last season.
Upstate struck first as they strung together two hits and a sacrifice fly in the 3rd inning, scoring their one and only run of the day.
As Kiihnl's pitching got stronger, her offense prevailed.
A home run over the left field fence in the 5th inning by Caroline Mason would just be the start for the Lady Bisons. Three consecutive singles by Lauren Dortwegt, Courtney Billington, and Kellie Sirus would produce one run and runners on first and third. After Abby Keese walked to load the bases, Christen Campbell reached on a fielder's choice to the short stop, who made a throwing error allowing two more runs to score, making the score 4-1 in favor of the Bisons.
With one out in the 6th inning, Mackenzie Tucker walked and Dortwegt reached on a bunt single. After a Billington single to load the bases, Sirus flew out to right, bringing Keese to the plate with two outs. Keese then singled to left, scoring Tucker and Dortwegt, giving Lipscomb a 6-1 cushion.
The Lady Bisons had no mercy as they continued to push more runs across the plate in the 7th inning. Mollie Mitchell led off the inning with a double off the left field wall. Megan Rottler lined out to third. Mason then hit a double down the left field line, scoring Mitchell. Tucker followed with a single to center, advancing Mason to third. After Tucker stole second, Dortwegt flew out to left, bringing Billington up with two outs. Billington hit a single to center field, bringing Mason and Tucker home.
Lipscomb would continue to hold the Spartans through the 7th inning and win game one with a score of 9-1.
Kiihnl (13-5) scattered three hits and one unearned run over seven innings, keeping her ERA at 1.12. She struck out eight and walked one.
The Lady Bisons totaled 14 hits off the reigning Pitcher of the Year.
Determined for a sweep, the Lady Bisons would not back down in game two.
Scoring came sooner, as Dortwegt reached on a single in the 3rd. Billington then reached on a bunt single as Dortwegt took advantage of an overthrow and scored Lipscomb's first run of the game. After Sirus drew a walk, Kesse singled to left field, scoring Billington.
Leading 2-0, the Lady Bisons would continue to hold strong defensively and struck again with their bats in the 5th inning. With two outs, Campbell singled on a line drive to the third baseman. After Mitchell was hit by a pitch, Mason singled to center, bringing Campbell in to make the score to 3-0.
Three runs were all the Lady Bisons would need, as pitcher Alaina Jacobson would hold the Spartans to four hits over seven innings, striking out three and walking one.
It was the 15th shutout for Lipscomb this season, Jacobson's 4th, bringing her record to 8-2 and ERA to 2.42.
The Bisons had 10 hits in game two, totaling 24 on the day.
"Our whole goal today was to come in, make a statement and walk out with two wins," said Peck. "We know Upstate is an extremely competitive team and it's always a great match up when we play them. To win the way we did and do it pretty convincingly says a lot for our program. This weekend was huge for us."
The sweep brings the Lady Bisons to 29-8, 8-2 in the A-Sun.
Upstate dropped to 24-12, 7-7 in the conference.
The Lady Bisons have a break from conference play Tuesday as they host a doubleheader with TSU starting at 2 p.m. They resume A-Sun play Friday at home against Mercer.
This story was written by Katie Haab, a student assistant in the athletics media relations department.


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Make this fun mobile. All children love animals and this can spark some fun redecorating with the color scheme. Rainforest theme.
Items needed:
- 8 sheets Paper
- 8 Laminating sheets or 4 Laminating pockets
- 2 metal coat hangers
- Scissors
- Gluestick/ Glue
- Heavyweight Thread
- Needle
- Wirecutters
- Needlenose Pliers
- Print two images of each Rainforest Animal. (You will need to go to your printer setting to make one reverse image of each animal.) One image is provided here and the other Rainforest Animals can be printed from the Kids Decor section, which features the Rainforest Animals individually.
- Cut out all animal pieces, leaving a 1/8 in. white border around all edges.
- Using the gluestick, glue both parts of each animal together.
- One at a time, carefully laminate one of the Rainforest Animals between two sheets of laminate. Use either 2 sheets of laminate or a laminating pocket for each animal.
- Using wirecutters, cut the long, straight side of the coat hanger from the rest of the hanger. With needlenose pliers, bend each end into a small loop. You can then lightly curve both pieces or you can choose to leave straight.
- Attach lengths of thread to animals and wire, as shown with printed directions. Adjust length of threads to balance mobile. Also adjust the position of top thread to balance evenly. (Think of a seesaw ... how you have to adjust weight back or forth to properly balance.)


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ARCADIA — Customer Base held off Stormy Lucy by nose to win the $100,000 Robert J. Frankel Stakes at Santa Anita on Sunday.
Ridden by Hall of Famer Mike Smith, Customer Base ran 1 1/8 miles on the downhill turf course in 1:46.45 and paid $10, $4.80 and $3.20.
Stormy Lucy returned $5.60 and $3.80, while 2-1 favorite Gulsary was another 2¼ lengths back in third and paid $2.80 to show.
The victory, worth $60,000, increased Customer Base's career earnings to $322,182, with five wins in 18 starts.
"I knew the two outside horses (Appealing, with Corey Nakatani, and Nickels Wild, with Joe Talamo) would have speed so I could work out a good trip from that point unless I got buried, which could have happened," said Smith. "I thought the main horse to follow was Stormy Lucy, or our other horse (Gulsary), who was behind me, so I parked in behind Stormy Lucy and didn't move until I had to."
A 4-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by Lemon Drop Kid, Customer Base had been idle since running a close third in the Grade II Goldikova Stakes at Santa Anita on Nov. 3.
Winning trainer Tom Proctor also won Saturday's $75,000 Eddie Logan Stakes with Enterprising.
The Grade 3 race is named for the late Hall of Fame trainer.
"Bobby meant a lot to everyone in the industry," Smith said.


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Why the Arab awakening depends on social entrepreneurs
This blog was originally posted in The Guardian, for the full blog, click here.
Social enterprise is naturally democratic and plays an important role in finding solutions to the social upheaval of the Middle East
A protester waves the national flagin front of the burnt out National Democratic Party building of former President Mubarak's ruling party in November 2011. Photograph: Amr Nabil/AP
For two years, I have resisted use of the term Arab Spring to describe the events that have been unfolding in Egypt and the Middle East and North Africa. It is an unrealistic label to use, its application verging on naïve, even lazy, in this situation. Spring is a time where something with strong roots, carefully nurtured, flourishes and grows. We are not there yet; I hope that we may be soon.
What the world witnessed in the initial 18 days of uprising and subsequent political and social developments was a rediscovery of our ability to effect change, a realisation that mass protest is one way to make our collective voice heard.
But just as the myriad causes of that uprising had been entrenched in our society since long before the 25 January 2011, so have we seen in the two years that followed that they will not be solved by demonstrations alone. The voices of Egyptian citizens need to be heard everywhere: in courtrooms, in newspapers, in schools, in religious buildings, in government institutions.
We need processes and initiatives that offer real solutions to our social problems and we need to take responsibility for implementing them ourselves. We are in the middle of what I call the Arab Awakening.
I have been an activist and a campaigner for the rights of the marginalised and oppressed for more than 30 years. When I launched Ashoka Arab World in 2003, it was with a sense of conviction that the region, Egypt especially, was full of dynamic people committed to changing the underlying structural issues that perpetuate endemic problems. I knew these social entrepreneurs were out there; now our regional office in Cairo supports 69 of them in seven countries – and the number is growing.
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Thursday, 25 February 2010
tonight was the royal premiere of alice in wonderland!
it was pouring cats and rabbits... and rain.
we got to stand next to tim burton and helena bonham carter.
i was able to meet her afterwards and give her a little white rabbit ♥
i totally stumbled over myself. i just totally adore her.
im so sorry i took a video but its insane & i just cant post it!
im babbling something like "i love you" its horrid. BUT
she was AMAZING in it. absolutely riveting and perfect.
and theeeeeen we saw alan rickman ♥
(and of course the rest of the cast... but.. alan rickman!) brilliant.
also. it was a royal premiere..
so the trumpets sounded and prince charles came in!
he sat a good 20 rows ahead of us.. i was dying to get
a look at him wearing 3-D glasses.. but alas. he never turned around.
i have to admit.. during the film
(which was stunning and redeems the story for me completely)
i just kept thinking.... "im watching a film with prince charles"
"hey, whats the prince of wales doing tonight?"
"oh, hes watching a film with me"
also.. one other cute thing,
when we were in the rest room
i was washing my hands and looked next to me
and there was anne hathaway standing there like a baton.
she was really really really lovely & we had a little chat ♥
i swear im not a star stalker! im not! see? no photos here..
but.. this was really special ... and im really thankful i got to go ♥
ps. look what my friend heather just found:
*clip* of us on the red carpet scurrying past
johnny depp.. giggling... like... idiots. (9 seconds in)
46 comments:
- Pamela Terry and Edward said...
Magical night!
You were down the rabbit hole for certain.
- 25 February 2010 at 19:13
- Michelle (Shell) May said...
Oh my gosh!!!!!! You are so darn lucky!!! How incredibly fun was that!!!
The film won't be to my little town until March 5th. There will be no royalty, no stars and probably no 3 d glasses. We will simply have a stinky old theater with stale popcorn. I shall enjoy the movie none the less, but all the while be jealous I don't live somewhere magical!
Hugs and friends,
- 25 February 2010 at 19:14
- faerie finder said...
ooh thanks! :)
trust me.. the film is so enchanting
and positive and warm and touching
that you will be whisked away! ♥
- 25 February 2010 at 19:17
wow! your night sounds just amazing! it's awesome when people you admire turn out to be genuinely lovely! eeek, i can't wait for alice now! xx
- 25 February 2010 at 20:01
- Josephine Tale Peddler said...
You've gone brunette and it looks beautiful! Where was Johnny Depp? I would be looking for him not Anne Hathaway!
I love, love, love Helena too. Thank god she exists to make the world more yellow and interesting.
Our wedding which is next Saturday is Alice in Wonderland meets the 70's theme. I love this post! Helena was lucky to meet you as well! xx
- 25 February 2010 at 20:32
- faerie finder said...
ooh congrats on your wedding!
that theme sounds really cool!!
ah eek..
i did see johnny depp..
embarrassingly enough.... we
walked right by him on the
carpet and didnt even see him.
in fact i just found out that we
were on tv standing behind
him totally unaware!
he came in after we were
seated.. he spent over an
hour signing autographs
in the rain. aw.
- 25 February 2010 at 21:06
- faerie finder said...
also i found the stream version
that was recorded.. its basically
what they show on the screen
while we are seated inside...
- 25 February 2010 at 21:23
SWEET AND you look so beautiful!!!
- 25 February 2010 at 22:15
- Carousel Dreams said...
Lucky, lucky you x
- 25 February 2010 at 23:51
- notebook doodles said...
your room looks so cute :p
- 26 February 2010 at 01:53
- Sara said...
You look lovely :)
- 26 February 2010 at 03:27
- Little Bear Stories said...
sounds AMAZING! like a fairytale in itself xx
- 26 February 2010 at 04:03
- faerie finder said...
thank thank thank you! ;)
it was too much excitement really!
i need a whole day off now to
play video games :) heh heh
- 26 February 2010 at 05:19
- Little Miss Norway said...
Hey my sweeets, loved your outfit!
Sounds like you had a truly fantastic time - what wonderful memeories for sure! :-)
My friend watched the film on ustream and said it was amazing, I can't wait to see it!
Tell me, did you wear any cute shorts under that pretty skirt of yours? ;-)
Glad to hear you liked them, as well as the wristlets!
Have fun with the video games!
- 26 February 2010 at 06:44
- chesca said...
it sounds amazing! and that dress/skirt is stunning - perfect for a trip to wonderland.
you look beautiful :) xx
- 26 February 2010 at 08:07
- Laine de Bergère said...
sounds dreamy and you look sooo pretty!! A. xx
- 26 February 2010 at 08:48
- Elva Undine said...
How fun! You are super pretty, perfect outfit. I love the 'Hey, what's the Prince of Wales doing tonight?' Hehe. Your enthusiasm is contagious, as always.
- 26 February 2010 at 09:45
- Vanessa. said...
oh, you are so lucky! i am utterly envious, i adore helena bonham carter, alan rickman and tim burton :) it must have been amazing, how do you get to go to these things?
i can't wait to see the movie when it comes out! xx
- 26 February 2010 at 10:33
- Karen said...
How wonderful! And you looked perfect for the occasion. A lucky fairy you were indeed!
I'm so looking forward to seeing the film :)
- 26 February 2010 at 12:20
What videogame? Alice McGee's ?? ;)
This all sounds like fun! I'd totally be a dork around you too!! And around Anne and Helena!!
Your new hair look awesome and so does the outfit!
I love following your adventures in wonderland!
Prince Charles with 3D glasses, coooooll !!
Love you!
- 26 February 2010 at 12:28
- Jessie said...
You look so pretty and what a night!!!!!!!!! My claim to fame with prince Charles is that a painting of mine was hung on the same wall as his in the same exhibition......ok, that's rubbish compared to your amazing time! :o)xx
- 26 February 2010 at 13:20
- faerie finder said...
no jessie thats really wicked! :) congrats!
thanks everybody!!!
i can feel everybody's excitement yay!
oh ive been playing super mario for wii
:) waaaaaayyyyyyy toooooo much.
- 26 February 2010 at 14:47
- ♥ said...
wow. and I love HBC too. and I can't wait to see Alice. and you look beautiful. Glad you had such an amazing night x :)
- 26 February 2010 at 15:38
- kikibowns said...
Oooh! What a wonderful step through the looking glass, you've taken!
- 26 February 2010 at 19:44
- the golden fairy princess said...
words cannot even begin to describe my utter jealousy. you are so lucky!
- 26 February 2010 at 21:14
- Jenna said...
I am SOOOO incredibly jealous. That is absolutely amazing.
I'm so glad you got to go, that's a real once in a lifetime thing.
- 26 February 2010 at 23:48
- jo said...
How lucky are you!!!
You look sooooooo pretty!!!!!!
What a cute capelet.....and dress :)
I wish you would make a crochet capelet pattern with fluffy angora all white rabbitish :)
- 27 February 2010 at 14:27
- Patricia Snook said...
Oh how fun! You look so darn lovely, and behind you, is that a massive tree branch?! Wow I'm so inspired!
You got to chat with anne hathaway?! Ooh what an amazing night it must have been!
- 28 February 2010 at 06:40
- PinkBow said...
oh wow, that is amazing! i can't wait to see this film.
- 28 February 2010 at 13:41
- laughingmuse said...
I spotted you! :)
Wow, when you hob-nob, you really hob with some big nobs, yes? That is so exciting.
- 28 February 2010 at 15:22
- Belle-Etoile said...
Aw, I love your outfit. The fur against the filminess of your skirt is just lovely.
It sounds like you had an incredible evening! As cool as you mingling with the cast strikes me, I still can't get over the idea of Prince Charles being there. I wish you'd gotten to see what he looked like with his 3D glasses on!
- 28 February 2010 at 17:09
- Lara said...
Your HAIR *and* MAKEUP... it is beautiful!!! :-) How exciting you got to be there at the premier! I'm so excited about this movie!
- 28 February 2010 at 20:46
- Love_Again said...
cute story. sounds like a magical night, and you certainly looked the part.
- 1 March 2010 at 03:32
- wildflowers said...
WOWOW!!! You are so lucky! What a treat to go to such an event. I'm so jealous! haha!!! You look absolutely lovely too :)
- 1 March 2010 at 18:37
- joanne May said...
Hi Stephanie,
How strange... I thought I left you a message here but it seems to have disappeared!
Oh well, maybe the fairies stole it.:)
Your evening at the royal premiere sounds like it was really magical. The video clip is fun. Johnny Depp is still cute and you look very lovely in your dress!:)
Talking of rabbits... I have at last, the prints of the Snow Hare! I collected them from the printers on Saturday... I promised you a free copy a while ago, for being a lovely model for the illustration...
If you would like to email me your address through my website, I will send the print to you this Friday. I hope that is ok?
Have a lovely week.:)
- 2 March 2010 at 04:53
- joanne May said...
The Snow Hare print has turned out really well and looks just like the original painting!x:)
- 2 March 2010 at 05:12
- Karolina said...
you look just like you walked out of a fairy tale! and yes, watching movies with prince charles is not what we all do each weekend :P
- 2 March 2010 at 10:55
I just found your blog a few minutes ago (thanks to Elva Undine at Folk & Faerie) and I am absolutely enchanted! Saved to favorites now and I'm looking forward to going through your previous posts--I especially like the picture of you with your dog and cat and you're wearing Max's crown and wolf ears. Your cat looks a bit put out.
Can't wait to see Alice in Wonderland! I'm listening to Danny Elfman's amazing score right now and feeling like I've fallen down the rabbit hole myself.
Thanks for such a wonderful blog!
- 4 March 2010 at 10:15
- Cookie-Fee said...
:D thats such a cute clip-i just love how he is talking quiet serious and you two walking by...
and i really really loveee your outfit :) such a pretty dress!!!
kisses and cuddles
- 4 March 2010 at 10:52
- Rachel said...
what an amazing story to have! so magical!
- 4 March 2010 at 18:57
- Mermaids of the Lake said...
Wow! You are lucky!
Mermaid Debbie
- 6 March 2010 at 09:39
- Lets_go_find_a_Rain_beau! said...
WOW! I'm speechless- this is SO exciting!
I watched Alice yesterday in 3D and really liked it.
I'm very happy for you- sounds like you had an evening in "Wonderland"
- 6 March 2010 at 15:18
- Tammie Lee said...
This sounds like and looks like an absolutely magical night. You look beautiful in your dress and outfit. I have yet to see this film. Soon...
- 11 March 2010 at 13:38
- hello birdy said...
amazing! how glam :o)
I've barely ever even seen a famous person of note (apart from the Queen and Charles, but that's just cos I live in Windsor) x
- 15 March 2010 at 08:09
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- 18 March 2010 at 04:43
- fibercontent said...
Look at you on the front page of whipup.net!
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The Archangel St. Michael
Imagine the biggest, meanest, most badass evil diabolical puppy-kicking spine-crushing insane-o demon you can possibly think of. Then multiply that by infinity and you get SATAN, the Lord of All Evil and Infernal Ruler of Hell. And presumably nothing could possibly be more badass than Lucifer, the Morning Star, the King of All Evil Unholy Spikey-Headed Pissed-Off Devils and his host of demon spawn. So he should be the Badass of the Week for crying out loud because he's the fucking Prince of Eternal Darkness right?
In recent years, the term "Angel" has become more of less synonomous with "pussy". It conjures up images of disproportionately huge-breasted ninety-pound lingerie-clad Victoria's Secret models having sweaty pillowfights in the clouds while innocent-looking fat kids play the harp and blow kisses at butterflies and rainbows or fly around on their white wings and shoot love arrows at teenage couples having picnics in the park on sunny summer afternoons or some other such fruity shit. Well people tend to forget that the most hardcore of all Harley-riding, heavy metal-listening, battle-axe wielding, cocaine-snorting bastards got his shit fucking annihilated by the biggest badass of all the Archangels.
Just to refresh your memory, the story goes like this: Once upon a time Lucifer was this high-ranking Angel who didn't think he was getting the props he deserved so he decided he was going to start kicking some ass and try to see if he could run the show himself. He recruited one-third of all the Angels in Heaven to join up with him David Koresh-style and try to overthrow the big man upstairs. So one day God and everybody are chilling out and this fucking insane-o motherfucking demon busts through the pearly gates ready to kick fucking asses and making the lesser angels (the fat kids and VS models) piss themselves:
Holy shit everybody thinks they're totally fucked because look at this motherfucker. He's a fucking huge red monster with gleaming talons and spikes covering one-third of his body and glowing eyes and he looks PISSED. But instead of handing over St. Peter's keys like some kind of two-dollar pussy carjacking victim, God takes one look at this thing and is just like, "Mike, show this fucking douchebag the door". The Archangel Michael calmly nods his head, slowly takes the cigarette out of his mouth and flicks it onto the floor, cracks his knuckles and confidently strides towards Lucifer.
Michael doesn't just whip Lucifer's ass, he completely fucking humiliates him by slamming him face-first to the turf and then stepping on his head for no reason other than to be a jackass. I mean, Michael has huge-ass wings so he doesn't even need to set foot on the ground for any reason, but he's badass enough to know that when you're jacking the Prince of Darkness' shit up royally for fucking with your boss, you might as well get your digs in there and add to the humiliation of his defeat. In case you didn't notice, Michael's not even breaking a sweat here either. He's just that hardcore.
But maybe it's not enough for you that Mike is the only living entity to ever defeat the living embodiment of Pure Evil in single combat. Well according to Hebrew, Christian and Muslim myth, he's not only credited with kicking Lucifer's ass but also whipping several other lesser Devils' balls off as well.
For instance when the Demon Belial, the Angel of Darkness and the Patron of Idolatry, flipped out Antichrist-style and proclaimed himself to be the Messiah who do you think had to step in and Layeth the Almighty Smacketh Down? Jesus? Whatever. Belial and his army, the Sons of Darkness, met up with Michael and his Sons of Light and they had an old-school throwdown.
Michael, the patron saint of getting shit done, went off and started kicking asses all over the place, tearing the Demon Belial a new asshole and wrecking the shit of his stupid "Army of Pussies" (Michael's term for them, not mine). He was so insane in the battle that he even beat fifteen fiery demons to death with their own arms.
But that's not even the end of it. According to the Kabbalah the fallen Seraphim Samael, the Angel of Death and the Demon of Lust and Wrath, trieed to start shit with Moses and the Israelites while they were trolling around in the desert with the Ark of the Covenant. Once again Michael is the dude who has to step in and stomp some faces. He shows up and tells Samael that he better pack up and get the fuck out of Dodge while he still has the use of his appendages but Samael keeps talking shit so Michael finally agrees to face him mano-e-mano in a one-on-one duel.
Yeah, that demon doesn't look too happy. But that's what you get for fucking with the Big M. You get your goddamned neck stepped on so hard that your eyes bug out of your head. Michael goes out and battles all these crazy demons, fallen angels and dudes who have names that sound like they should be shitty Scandinavian death metal album titles, and he manages to ruin their collective asses like a ten foot-tall soccer hooligan in an albino nerd-filled mosh pit at E3. Oh, and then he steps on their heads to prove how hard he is.
In addition to being the big man's personal enforcer, Michael is the patron of Chivalry and Knightly Orders, which is badass. He's also the Defender of Justice, the Healer of the Sick, the Shepherd of the Righteous and an all-around kickass motherfucker in all three major Abrahamic traditions. Now I'm exactly not a religious man, but I'd be remiss in making Satan the Badass of the Week while not giving credit to the guy who Pedigreed him Triple H-style onto a bed of tacks and then stepped on his stupid horned head. I mean if you can honestly look at that ridiculous picture of Michael desecrating Lucifer's unconscious body like a passed out jock at a frat party and tell me that Satan's the most badass mythological creature ever, then there's something wrong.
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JHaswell needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 24 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
We are looking for a logo for our new racing competition – "The Megane Trophy Championship". We need a logo created for a sim racing event that depicts the theme of our race event and web site. Along with a badge icon for event participants to have an icon next to racers user names.
A logo (Print resolution 300dpi) for our upcoming racing event
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For my darling two year old niece, I used this fun striped pinwhale corduroy fabric. I'd purchased it to make a dress for Dolly, then realized she didn't need another winter dress.
I used a vintage sewing pattern from my mom as a starting point.
The little placket I designed myself. The pompom trim is vintage from my great-grandmother's belongings, and I also used some for Dolly's birthday dress. I sewed it to the dress before I sewed the dress lining on.
I also use a different pocket design, following Dana's Market Skirt pattern as a guide. I fully lined it like I did with my daughter's skirts that I made a while back.
For my kindergarten age niece, I made a pillowcase nightgown with long sleeves. I used a size five long sleeve shirt as a guide to cutting the sleeve length, and used the same pattern for the top of the sleeve. This was my first time actually making the pillowcase nightgown in this size, and I was relieved it fit...although it was a bit big in the waist. The fact both garments are striped was pure coincidence.
The jumbo ricrac was the perfect touch. I just basted it in place before I finished sewing the bias tape over the waist seam.
I used the smaller scale fabric for the bias tape because I also made a tiny doll size nightgown!
Didn't it turn out cute? Don't ask me for a pattern on this one. I custom made it for a doll my niece was getting for Christmas...and it was a hodge podge of 3 different patterns. I'm just grateful it fit the doll!
I'm still amazed I got these finished before Christmas. More than anything I'm so glad the girls (and their parents) were happy with their gifts.
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As the decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline gets pushed further and further out, attention in Washington has been trained on the alternative: delivering oil by rail.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday is holding its second day of its Rail Safety Forum, where regulators and the industry are discussing everything from tank-car design to emergency response planning.
Delivery of oil by train has rocketed as the Keystone XL pipeline has been delayed for four years. It's important to note that's far from the only reason the transportation method for oil has boomed, as it also coincides with a boom in production here in the U.S., notably from the Bakken Formation in North Dakota.
According to data from the Association of American Railroads, U.S. carloads of petroleum products have more than doubled since April 2010, the first time the State Department delayed Keystone approval.
There are advantages to carrying oil and other petroleum by rail — that method allows connections to any destination with railways, as opposed to the fixed points available on pipelines.
But it's not come without risks, as demonstrated in a 2013 derailment in Quebec and a 2009 derailment in Cherry Valley, Illinois. The inferno following the Quebec derailment of Bakken crude killed 47 people.
The NTSB says an older railcar model, the DOT-111, isn't safe enough to carry hazardous liquids.
"Millions of dollars are invested to seek out new oil reserves," said Deborah Hersman, the head of the agency, on Tuesday. "A commensurate investment must be made to ensure safe transportation of these goods."
The railroads are at odds with the tank-car makers and the energy industry — the railroads want thicker tanker walls, which would reduce storage space. There's also concern from the industry about the ability to carry out retrofits.
Meanwhile, it's not up to the NTSB to set rules for tank cars. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration as well as the Federal Railroad Administration have that responsibility and are developing a proposal on design standards for the DOT-111. Panelists from both agencies are due to speak Wednesday.
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Dieting is a stressful time for most of us. While we may see others achieving the results that they want and want to feel glad for them, many of us are secretly hating them. How can they achieve so much and we only seem to be gaining weight? Sometimes the world just seems unfair. We go through all the trials and tribulations of dieting but can't seem to lose a pound. Well, there may be hope for us yet. We have gathered a four of the most common diet mistakes and ways to overcome them. So, take a look at some of these mistakes and make sure that you are not guilty of committing some of them.
Having unrealistic weight loss goals. A lot of us go into a diet expecting to lose large amounts of weight in no time. This is not going to happen, and if it does, it is not healthy for you or your body. The first thing you need to do is to set realistic goals. You can safely expect to lose half a pound to two pounds a week, which may be nowhere near the twenty pounds a week you want to lose. However, if you look at the recent studies, you will see that people who quickly lose a lot of weight only end up gaining it back. So, remember take your time and have patience.
Thinking weight loss is consistent. Most of us believe that if we lost two pounds the first week, then we should lose two pounds the next week. This is not going to happen. We may experience ups and downs along our weight loss journey. There will be weeks when we just can't seem to lose any weight and weeks when we just seem to stop shedding those pounds. We have to expect that some weeks will be harder than others and celebrate the weeks where we seem to be unstoppable. The most important thing is to never give up on the weeks when we are feeling that everything is going wrong. Pick yourself up and move on to the next week.
Comparing your weight loss to others. EveryBODY is different. We all lose weight differently. Some can quickly lose weight in the first few weeks, but the norm is to lose weight slowly, especially in the beginning. It can be frustrating watching others achieve their weight loss goals when you are struggling, but you should never give up. There are many other things you can look for besides weight loss such as feeling healthier, improving your flexibility and stamina and releasing some stress. Diet and exercise help you do so much more than just lose weight, so do not get too hard on yourself if it takes a while to see the results you want.
Cutting carbs is the trick. While this may seem to increase weight loss in the beginning, what usually is happening is that you are simply losing water weight, not FAT loss. Your energy will also become lower with a low carb diet, which can make exercising even harder. It's a vicious cycle, and then, if you even LOOK at a carb, you blow up like a balloon and gain all of it back, and usually MORE. Nothing can be more discouraging! 9Round Nutrition teaches you the right way to eat carbs for weight loss and it's included in every 9Round membership!
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Officer Mike Mercer is a confused young cop with a Colma beat (pop. living: 1,200 pop. dead: 2 million) whose life is spiraling out of control. Then he starts seeing ghosts. Author Doug Dorst keeps the plot zipping along without sacrificing character and there's something here that feels coming of age, in a good way. It's the sort of coming of age familiar to us Gen X and Yers who are forever hovering over the line between childhood and adulthood--just like Colma's ghosts hover between this world and the next.
Alive In Necropolis certainly has what it takes to cross over into film: cops, ghosts, drug overdoses, car crashes, romance, and for a backdrop, the haunting streets of San Francisco. My casting picks: Casey Affleck, James McAvoy, or Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Michael Mercer, Giovanni Ribisi as "Doc" Barker, Ryan Gosling as optimistic aviator Lincoln Beachey, Peter Sarsgaard as Toronto, Jesse Eisenberg as Jude, and Lili Taylor as Fiona. Read it and let us know what you think. --Kim


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Scientists Aim to Build a Super Egg
Scientists are working to build a better egg: one that is chock-full of fatty acids, vitamins, and high in calcium. And then, they hope we'll pay more for it. Sarah Nassauer takes a look at the progress of this fragile mission. Photo: Allison Scott/The Wall Street Journal.
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TV stars, travel bloggers not immune to fear of flying
By Jill Martin Wrenn, Special to CNN • Published 26th June 2012
She's a veteran reality television star, not to mention an author, entrepreneur, wife and mother. Kendra Wilkinson's life in the limelight demands that she travel by plane about five times a month. She can handle fame, but flying terrifies her.
"I cannot stand it," she says.
When she flies, Wilkinson, whose reality show, "Kendra on Top," debuted this month on WE tv, turns to her fellow passengers to help her cope.
"Every time I fly, I grab on to the person next to me," she says. "People pray with me." The airline staff members she encounters are especially empathetic. "The flight attendants give me ice packs."
Millions share Wilkinson's anxiety, and the fear can be debilitating. Many turn to professional therapy. Others try to resolve their fears themselves; some have more success than others.
Experts caution that it's hard to pin down a precise number of people who suffer from a fear of flying, without a recent comprehensive survey. Also, many are reluctant to share details of their phobia -- or how disruptive it can be.
Wilkinson, who rose to fame as one of Hugh Hefner's girlfriends on the reality show "The Girls Next Door," turns to the cocktail cart to calm her nerves. "I do try to have a glass of wine. Wine helps me cool down a little bit," she says. "Or two glasses of wine."
Pinot grigio aside, she also tries to picture calming images.
"I try my hardest to close my eyes and picture my son," she says. "I think of my happiest moments."
Wilkinson, who hasn't received formal treatment, aspires to fly with her 2½-year-old son without scaring him with her unconcealed fear.
Reason doesn't always conquer fear
John DiScala conquered his fear of flying and now runs a popular travel website.
John DiScala was terrified to fly. From his late teens until his early 20s, he rarely left his home in Connecticut. Now, he visits more than 20 countries a year -- by plane -- and runs the travel blog JohnnyJet.com.
But his runway toward recovery was a long one.
His terror set in when he was 17. Waiting with his parents to board a flight from New York, bound for Australia, he had an anxiety attack at the airport.
"I felt this tingling all over my body," he says. "I felt like I was not in control."
The year before, his doctor had diagnosed him with asthma. He had also suggested that the cabin pressure on the flight could give him respiratory problems.
"It kept running through my head what the doctor said," DiScala remembers: " 'You will have trouble breathing.' "
He missed that trip to Perth, where he would have visited his sisters -- and didn't travel again for more than three years.
"I was basically afraid to leave the house," he says. "I was full of fear."
This unchecked terror arises despite statistics that show how safe flying is. Less than 1% of total transportation fatalities in the U.S. were the result of air accidents in the most recent figures from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
But numbers don't necessarily calm nerves. And a fear of air travel isn't always rational.
"It doesn't have to do with how safe flying is," says Tom Bunn, the president and founder of the SOAR program. He counsels fearful fliers with a mix of one-on-one therapy and education about how airplanes work.
He says his clients, who hail from a wide range of backgrounds and professions, try to talk themselves out of their fear but fail.
"Oftentimes, they struggle tremendously on their own to fix it, and find they can't," he says. Many turn to therapy when their fear starts to disrupt their lives as well as their livelihoods.
Phobia interferes with work
Patty McLoughlin, 53, is a sales representative in the gift industry. She needs to travel to meetings at least twice a year. Based in Columbus, Ohio, she would regularly drive 12 hours just to avoid a flight. She hadn't flown in 16 years. "For pleasure, I could work around it," she says. "Not with business."
But when a West Coast meeting came up at a new job, she realized she had to conquer her fear. "It was difficult to drive to California," she says. It was impractical as well. She realized that her fear was getting in the way, and flying to meetings would help her make the most of her new job.
"If I wanted to grow within the company, I knew I'd have to overcome it," she says. And she did, with the help of a SOAR course.
There are people who buy plane tickets but are too scared to use them.
"We hear from people who want to go someplace special, and they can't go," says Alies Muskin, executive director of the
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
. "They just don't do it."
Karina Slota of Maryland, 39, was supposed to be maid of honor at her sister's wedding in Bermuda 10 years ago. Her entire family traveled to the event, including her 80-year-old grandmother, who had flown over from Germany.
Slota boarded the flight from Maryland to Bermuda but didn't make it to takeoff. "If I stay on this plane, I am going to die," she thought.
While the plane was still at the gate, flight attendants had to open the plane door to let Slota off. She calls the experience humiliating.
"I was crying," she says. "I felt like I was being judged."
She missed the wedding, and for 10 years, she didn't fly. Finally, Slota took a course with SOAR. Although she still gets anxious ahead of a trip, she says she manages to stay calm on the flight itself. She uses the mental exercises she learned from the program's videos, such as focusing on her surroundings, to stay calm and now flies about once a year.
More treatment available
Some travelers are afraid to travel by plane without letting that fear interfere with their lives. They might grip their armrests tightly during takeoff, say a prayer before they board or take anti-anxiety medication. And when a flight gets bumpy, almost anyone can get scared, even frequent fliers.
"I really don't like turbulence," says Liz Borod Wright, editor of the travel blog Travelogged. But she doesn't let that stop her from traveling overseas. Driving isn't a realistic option when holiday plans include Europe. "I'm not going to let my fear of flying prevent me from flying."
Fear of flying "doesn't discriminate," says Josh Spitalnick, director of Research and Clinical Services at the Virtually Better clinic in Atlanta.
He says some of his clinic's clients became wary after unpleasant flights, sometimes involving severe turbulence. Others just anticipate a rocky ride.
"Through treatment, we teach people relaxation skills to better allow them to cope," Spitalnick says.
His clinic uses virtual reality technology to simulate a flight. It also uses data and statistics to teach nervous fliers that thousands of flights take off successfully every day.
A wide range of treatments are available for people with flying fears. So whether a person hasn't flown in decades or just gets anxious during turbulent flights, he or she should be able to find the right remedy.
"Over the last 30 years, there have been a lot of treatments that have been developed, and refined," Muskin says. "Thirty years ago, there were no treatments at all."
Every person's anxiety takes a different form, so their solutions do, too. "No two individuals are treated the same way," she says. With the range of remedies, people with flying phobias have a higher chance of curing their fears.
"People have a lot of success," she says. "We know that they can get better."
Conquering a fear of flying comes at a cost: Sessions can cost hundreds of dollars, and most patients need more than one. But for many, the cost of living with the phobia and missing important personal and professional obligations can be higher than the price of curing it.
For DiScala, the thrill of traveling helped him overcome his fear. "I almost think travel is a drug," he says. "I love to explore new places."
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The Wild Side of Mendoza
After several days of winery visits and decadent lunches, I was ready to work off some calories in the mountains all around the province. If, like me, you need a reward for your adventuring, Trekking Travel leads afternoon horseback rides into the rocky foothills near Cacheuta Hot Springs, where you can soak in mineral waters before heading back to town (011-54/261-421-0450, trekking-travel.com.ar, two-hour tours from $80). Or sign on with outfitter Argentina Rafting Expeditions for a day of hiking or white-water rafting down the Pueblo del Rio (011-54/262-448-2037, argentinarafting.com, half-day trips from $25). At the end of my stay, I rented a car and drove about three and a half hours to take in Aconcagua, South America's tallest mountain. Near the entrance to Aconcagua Park, you can hike around a glacier lake and swim in the hot springs at Puente del Inca. Longer treks require permits, and you'll understand why when you come to the Cemetery of the Andinistas—the final rest stop for the many climbers who've died trying to scale the 22,841-foot peak (aconcagua.com, entrance fee $20).


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Doom 4 is in trouble, and has been for quite some time now, according to multiple sources. Though publisher Bethesda tells Kotaku they still plan to release the highly-anticipated first-person shooter, Doom 4 has gone through at least one major reboot over the past few years, and sources say even today, five years after development started, the game is not even close to complete.
Not painting a very pretty picture for the studio. Seems like the talent is fleeting a sinking ship i wonder if Carmack is gonna go down with it. If i was Bethesda i wouldnt worry about Doom 4, nearly as much as Elder scrolls online, that thing has swtor 2 written all over it.
Im surprised bugthesda even has standards.
The project was DOOMED from the outset.
I'm sorry I just had to say that lol.
I'd love to play a new Doom game, too bad there hasn't been a proper Doom sequel since 1995.
Doom 3 was Doom trying to be a horror game, I doubt Doom 4 will be any more similar to the originals when/if it comes out.
Umm, who cares. I lost track of Id after I heard there was no more Rage 2. They should stick with new stuff and leave Doom alone.
Oh well, less money for me to spend.


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BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc. and Science Applications International Corp. will provide engineering and software services to the Navy under a five-year contract with a cumulative estimated value of $698.5 million.
The indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price contracts call for the contractors to provide engineering and prototyping integration, software integration, and technical support services, according to a Feb. 27 Defense Department announcement.
The service providers are required to define, fabricate/prototype, inspect, test, evaluate, and deliver integrated prototype systems or other equipment for strategic and tactical vehicles, and for life-cycle support of C4I tactical vehicles and related systems, subsystems and equipment, the announcement said.
The work, which will be performed in Charleston, S.C., is expected to be completed by February 2013. If all options are exercised, work could continue until February 2017.
The multiple-award contracts were competitively procured by full and open competition via the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center e-Commerce Central website and the Federal Business Opportunities website, with three offers received.
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic, Charleston, S.C. is the contracting activity.
SAIC, of McLean, Va., ranks No. 6 on Washington Technology's 2011 Top 100 list of the largest federal government contractors. BAE Systems Inc., of Arlington, Va., ranks No. 17.
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As fans of the iLife suite can tell you, the OS team isn't the only one that slowed down its maniacal, once-a-year pace over in Cupertino. MacScoop has the er...um...scoop on the next version of iLife. It's a small scoop though, as MacScoop's ever-present unnamed source doesn't have much info on the apps themselves, but only claims that the next version of iLife has already been certified Golden Master. According to the source, the only thing they're waiting for is for Mr. Jobs to release it to the people from his majestic hands like a snow-white dove. That, and ensuring that it will work with the final shipping version of Leopard.
This new edition of iLife will reportedly support both Tiger and Leopard, which, as one commenter points out, would mean that it has no Leopard-specific features like Core Animation. MacScoop feels that the timing coincides quite nicely with those updated iMac rumors for later this summer and could therefore actually beat Leopard out of the gate.
At this point, I don't put much stock any the iLife update rumors regardless of the rhyme or reason. All of the reasonable (and rhymable) windows of opportunity have already passed for this calendar year. So unless they just throw it out there at random (which has happened before), I think they'll hold onto it for a while. In fact, my money is on Macworld '08, if for no other reason than to avoid the question of what to name it (as MacScoop points out, they certainly can't name it iLife '07 and then bring it out in September).


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In his Memory: Photography show features local artist
Someone once said that a photograph is a memory in the raw. Many of photographer Joe Bavoso's memories will be on display at the Amityville Artist Circle Gallery at the end of this month. Bavoso, of Massapequa Park, died last year after having two unsuccessful heart transplants. Having a one-man-show was always his ambition.
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Donald G. Williams, 84, of Pen Argyl, died Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, in Easton Hospital.
Born March 30, 1928, in Sciota, he was a son of the late John and Ethel Smith Williams. Donald was the husband of the former Mary Itterly; together, they celebrated 59 years of marriage.
Donald proudly served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, earning the rank of corporal. Earlier in life, he was employed by Collins and Aikman as a truck driver, and later worked for the Easton Area School District as head custodian, retiring after 20 years of service. Donald loved gardening, especially growing his "prize" red potatoes.
He was a member of St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Plainfield Township, where he served on council, was involved with social ministry and the LCM, served as past president of the cemetery board, and helped with funeral lunches.
Donald also was a member of Wind Gap American Legion, AARP in Bangor, was a former member of Plainfield Township Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary, and a faithful volunteer working in the sausage stand at the Plainfield Farmers Fair. He also worked for the election board for 25 years.
Along with his beloved wife, Mary, Donald is survived by his sister, Norma Williams of Sciota ;and nieces and nephews.
He was predeceased by a sister, Elizabeth Williams; and brothers, Ambrose and Lloyd.
Relatives and friends are invited to call from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1422 Church Road, Pen Argyl. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, with the Rev. C. Frank Terhune presiding.
Burial with military honors will follow at Plainfield Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations in memory of Donald may be offered to St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church.
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Donald G. Williams, 84, of Pen Argyl, died Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013, in Easton Hospital.


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In a large Dutch oven, over medium heat, add the olive oil. When the oil is hot, add the duck pieces and cook, in batches if necessary and turning occasionally, until well browned on all sides, about 12 minutes. Remove from the pot and drain excess fat. Season the ground duck with salt and pepper. Add the ground duck and bacon to the pan and cook until browned and that fat has been rendered. Remove from the pot and drain excess fat. Reserve the duck in the refrigerator until ready to add to the sauce.
Reduce the heat to medium-low and add the carrots, celery, onions, and leeks and season lightly with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are golden and very tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour - you may need to add a bit of water towards the end of the cooking time if the vegetables begin to stick to the pan. (It is important to cook the vegetable mixture for this length of time to get a rich, deep basis for the ragout.) Add the wine and duck livers and cook, stirring, until mostly evaporated, about 1 minute. Add the tomatoes, bay leaves, garlic cloves, oregano, red pepper, and herb sprigs and cook, stirring, until mixture is almost dry, about 15 minutes. Return all of the duck and bacon to the pan along with 3 cups of the stock and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to a simmer and partially cover the Dutch oven. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the duck is tender, up to 6 hours, depending on the type of duck you use. You will need to add more stock little by little as the sauce reduces; you may not need all 6 cups. (Or, if you run out of stock and the duck is still not tender, add a bit of water as necessary.) The sauce should be thick but not so thick that it browns on the pan bottom. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Remove the duck pieces from the sauce and set aside to cool. Remove the bay leaves and herb sprigs and discard.
When the duck meat is cool enough to handle, remove the skin and discard. Shred the meat into bite size pieces and return it to the Dutch oven. Cook until the sauce is very thick and flavorful and the meat is very tender, 20 to 30 minutes longer. Add the chicken livers, parsley, and thyme; stir to combine and cook for 5 minutes longer. Taste and re-season if necessary. Remove from the heat.
When ready to serve, toss the cooked pasta in a large, warmed bowl, with enough of the sauce to coat. Serve in shallow pasta bowls, sprinkled with Parmesan, if desired.