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With the shortest day of the year all but on us, many readers will be yearning for winter sun. With the exception of my colleague at The Observer, Fleet Street's travel editors agree that the best place to find it is the Maldives.
The Mail swooned at the 'palm-fringed, white sand beaches' and promised that visitors will be entranced by the 'gentle pace of life'. The News of the World declared that 'lovers love the Maldives'. And abandoned lovers, too, according to the London Evening Standard, which said that Sienna Miller made a wise choice when she fled from Jude Law to the Reethi Rah resort on the North Male Atoll. Its spa was 'a divine diversion, and, if you want to return home looking fabulously single, there's one-on-one yoga and a personal nutrition consultant'.
None of the papers, however, has matched the advertorial that has gushed from the pages of the Independent on Sunday like jets from the Reethi Rah's power showers. In February, its veteran political commentator Steve Richards exclusively revealed that tourist bungalows were equipped with 'their own whirlpool spa with uninterrupted ocean views'. In September, Rachel Pearson burbled that it was 'time to pamper yourself' at the Hilton Maldives - 'the perfect singleton's destination' with 'the world's first all-glass undersea restaurant'.
Two months later, Mark Mackenzie hailed the Maldives as 'the ultimate fly-and-flop location'. Politically-aware Independent readers could relax there in good conscience, he added. The benevolent authorities had ensured that 'all the hotel resorts are contained on individual islands, so as not to impinge on local life'.
That is one way of putting it. As only our tougher-minded Escape writers have had the guts to point out, if you wave farewell to your yoga instructor and head round the North Male Atoll, you will find that President Maumoon Gayoom practises another form of containment.
Peaking over the horizon of the pictures in the glossy brochures is the prison island of Dhoonidhoo, the Alcatraz of the Indian Ocean, where goons in gas masks beat and rape the opposition.
Maumoon Gayoom is an admirer of Saddam Hussein whose regime combines Sharia law with Baathist dissent management techniques. According to Gayoom's official biography, they met in Baghdad in 1980 just as Saddam was about to launch the Iran-Iraq war. Saddam dismissed his driver and took Gayoom on a drive round his capital. The Maldivian was 'intrigued to see a submachine gun lying at Saddam's feet. He wondered if Saddam expected to use it.' That evening, after dinner, 'Saddam took Maumoon aside and told him that to govern the country, he needed to have an organisation. In Iraq, he said, there was a single party with power, the Arab Baath Socialist party. It was only through the one-party system that he was able to govern effectively.'
Gayoom had been in power for two years. He took the advice of a master, and has ruled the Maldives ever since.
The enormous sums the resorts can get from Sienna Miller and her kind do not 'trickle down' to the islanders. The hotels are not 'contained' on separate islands to protect the locals from contamination, but so that the tourists won't see that 40 per cent of the population living below the poverty line without even a personal nutrition consultant to advise them on how to get enough to eat..
While the ruling elite and the tourism tycoons divide the spoils, the penalties for dissent are fierce. One of the bravest opposition leaders is Mohamed Nasheed, a journalist, although not of the type likely to be hired by the lifestyle sections.
Exile and prison have been his lot since the early 1990s. He told the English branch of Pen: 'Several times during the past 15 years I have been in and out from the prisons of the Maldives. I have been tortured and ill-treated, degraded and reduced to nothing. I have been spat at, called names abused and brutalised. I have had long periods of solitary confinements of total emptiness.' His experience is typical of hundreds of other democrats.
So far, so predictable. The consumerist media ignores crimes being committed within hailing distance of their waterfront apartments. Tyranny flourishes and crushes dissent under its heel. What's new?
Yet when I spoke to Nasheed last week, he was bubbling with confidence. All revolutionaries are optimists by nature, but the hope in his voice was extraordinary. The regime placed him under house arrest as soon as he returned from exile earlier this year. The jails are filled with his comrades. Gayoom's power seems as secure as ever.
Nasheed is buoyant because he knows that nothing lasts forever. The interrogators at Dhoonidhoo have taken to wearing gas masks not to terrify their victims but because they fear being recognised and that, one day, a new government will hold them to account.
Maybe that day is coming. This week will be a historic one for the peoples of the Maldives. For the first time the independent opposition will hold a conference in the capital. Despite police harassment, supporters in most of the 200 inhabited islands in the archipelago have elected delegates. The conference will have a real leadership contest and, more important, international recognition.
In September, Britain led a European Union mission to the Maldives that 'reiterated to the Maldivian authorities their responsibility to uphold the right of political parties to meet freely and to carry out peaceful political activities'. India, the regional power, once backed Gayoom unequivocally. Now it talks to the Maldivian Democratic Party.
The chances of repression are great. The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative warned this month that Gayoom may follow the example of Robert Mugabe and launch a counter-revolutionary terror. If that happens, Nasheed will beg tourists and his fellow journalists to speak out, even if they can't bring themselves to boycott the islands.
Nevertheless, there is just a chance that repression won't succeed and the next batch of journalists in the Maldives will have their massages and meals in underwater restaurants interrupted by the sound of a Baathist tyrant falling.
If the reaction to the fall of Saddam Hussein is a guide, the liberal-minded among them won't like it.
The euphoric hopes for peace and freedom brought by the end of the Second World War were dead by Christmas 1948. The Iron Curtain had fallen across Eastern Europe trapping tens of millions behind it. Stalin clung to life and his purges rolled across Eurasia from the Mongolian steppe to the German plain.
In China, Chairman Mao was preparing to seize power and inflict a terror to match Stalin's. In India, hundreds of thousands had died in violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims. Anti-colonial movements in Africa and Southeast Asia began the long wars against imperial powers.
Worse than conflict was the fear of nuclear war. The mushroom cloud from the Hiroshima bomb hung over the age.
In The Diplomats, the historian Geoffrey Moorhouse tells how a reporter on Washington DC radio responded to the crisis by phoning ambassadors in the American capital and asking what each would like for Christmas. He recorded their replies for a special programme on the future of the human race.
'Peace throughout the world,' the French Ambassador demanded. 'Freedom for all people enslaved by imperialism,' his Soviet counterpart countered.
And so it went on. Ambassadors asked for democracy for Christmas, an end to poverty, the banning of the atom bomb until at last the reporter reached Sir Oliver Franks, His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the United States of America.
'What do you want for Christmas, Sir Oliver?'
'It's very kind of you to ask,' a polite voice replied. 'I'd quite like a box of crystallized fruit.'
If peace and goodwill elude you, if no one brings tidings of comfort and joy, I hope that all readers of The Observer at least get a nice box of crystallized fruit on Christmas morning.

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Ronald Wastyn, PhD, earned his undergraduate degree from Augustana College, his master's degree from Wake Forest University, and his doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. Ron currently teaches in and directs the Master of Organizational Leadership program. He has taught communication and leadership for nearly 30 years. He also coached the intercollegiate debate teams at Wake Forest University, University of Pittsburgh, and James Madison University, earning numerous national awards. Ron specializes in organizational leadership development with a focus on adaptive leadership, crisis communication, organizational change, interpersonal and public communication and political rhetoric. He is also the Senior Consultant for Leadership Development programs for Wastyn & Associates which helps organizations turn their ideas into reality by providing high quality, personalized consulting and services in strategic planning, fundraising, grant development and leadership education.
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On May 31, 2015 I retired from my position of Professor of Managerial Studies in the College of Business at St. Ambrose University, but as you can see I am still teaching on an adjunct basis. My primary areas of teaching are Organizational Behavior and Leadership, International and Cross-Cultural Management, and Business Strategy. I teach mainly at the master's level.
I received both my bachelor's and master's degrees in Business Administration from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and earned my PhD at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. My research interests started in Leadership (the topic of my dissertation and still a passion of mine), Group Dynamics and Organizational Development. In the early nineties I added a focus in Cross-Cultural Management. I am more or less fluent in German.
On the personal side, I was born in Austria, immigrated with my family to the United States at age eight (in 1955), and grew up in the Detroit, Michigan area. In my off time I like reading (especially history and historical novels), bicycling, and watching movies (particularly international films) in theaters and online. I also like to spend time with my wife and my three great adult children.
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Dr. Gorham, a 2010 graduate of the MOL program, spent 11 years working as a director in higher education before finishing her PhD in 2015 and entering law school at the University of Iowa. She has worked full-time as a director of advancement services, led a national not-for-profit foundation as executive director, and taught as an adjunct faculty member in the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa and in the undergraduate department at Palmer College of Chiropractic. Her research focuses include not-for-profit board leadership training and civic engagement in higher education.
Dr. Gorham will graduate from University of Iowa College of Law with a J.D. degree in December 2017 and plans to practice education law in Iowa and Illinois.
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Recognizing his own ethical laxity, Brian hoped to find a girlfriend who would steady his weakness. He sought a strong woman for a disciplinary relationship.
He met Linda. To her, Brian's lapses in judgment were typical of his gender. Linda always dominated her relationships with men. She always held the metaphorical whip hand.
Brian was sweet, gentle. She would curb his foolishness.
Linda spanked Brian daily. With her hand for maintenance. With a belt if he needed punishment.
Sometimes he annoyed his girlfriend. It was a long time before he angered her.
Linda put Brian on a diet. She forbade him to eat junk food. He needed to lose a little weight and take better care of his teeth. She trusted him to obey.
Recently after they passed through a grocery store's checkout line, a guard ordered the couple to follow him. In the manager's office, Linda was ordered to open her purse. She was startled to see a big Cadbury's candy bar inside.
The manager accused her of shoplifting. Linda was stunned. She demanded proof the candy was stolen. The guard played security video. She saw Brian sneak the bar into her purse while she was examining cabbages.
The manager said that they would not prosecute the petty theft. But they must never again enter his store.
Linda burned with shame.
Brian had been shaking the whole time. He felt nauseated. Guilt and fear unnerved him. Linda's wrath would be terrible.
She refused to talk to him. Linda ordered Brian to take the groceries home. She had other shopping to complete.
Linda returned home a couple of hours later with a bag in her hand. She ordered Brian to strip to his underwear and kneel.
Trembling, he obeyed. Expecting the worse, Brian was still unprepared for the burning, cutting impact of the lash.
Linda bought a whip. In her rage, she did not moderate her blows. Brian pleaded for mercy, the whipping continued.
She stopped. Linda ordered him to the spare bedroom, telling him to stay there until the morning.
Linda has forgiven Brian. His whipping canceled his moral debt.
Trusting him is more difficult. She whips him nightly. But not as harshly as that first time.
Brian does not complain. He knows he deserves heavy punishment for betraying and shaming his girlfriend.
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(This really pisses me off - the person that decides to put it up for possible deletion won't answer my questions, so someone else has to do it.)
- said that while the pasta shouldn't really be deleted, they were offput by the child pornography and mastrubation in it.
(Don't mean to sound rude, but that was kinda what I was aiming for with that pasta.)
I'm planning on answering questions that people might have on any of my future pastas on my blog, so I'll answer that question now.
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A decade ago, many thought that the lesson of the 1990's was that the United States' variant of capitalism was the best model, and that other countries should and would follow. The American model lost its attractiveness in the 2000's.
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The death of Halloween
I remember as a kid getting all excited about Halloween. We lived on a farm, so my mom had to load us in the stationwagon (no seatbelts then) and drive us around. We sat clutching our big paper grocery bags, our masks slipping off our faces, until we arrived in another farm. Then my sister and I would be let out in front of various houses out in the country. My mom would wait in the car with our baby brother.
We'd trot up to the front door and knock, then hold our bags out and say 'Trick or Treat'! There would be a moment of "Oh How cute! Come here, Harvey, look at the little princess (my sister) and the witch! (me). Then candy or an apple would land in our bag and I'd turn around and my sister would hiss 'Say Thank you!'
That was Halloween. The next day (or even that night) I'd eat all my tootsie rolls and candy bars, and start eyeing my sister's candy. (She saved it until at least Christmas, eating a tiny bite a day...)
And that was Halloween.
Until that fateful day when a rumor swept the land. A razor had been found in an apple. It wasn't even ture - being an urban legend - but it swept across the US like a wildfire and changed Halloween forever.
Before, no one had ever imagined that someone could willfully set out to harm a child with Halloween candy or apples. But now it was the only thing anyone thought about. Now, our mother marched up to the front door with us. She would examine the candy, and any apples inevitably landed in the trash.
Who started that rumor?
I often wondered if it was the Thanksgiving turkey association, fed up with Halloween taking attention away from the upcoming fête. Or maybe it was an apple-hating club, determined to ruin apple farmers everywhere.
Whatever it was or who is was, Halloween was no longer innocent but malevolant. And maybe it became closer to what Halloween was originally about. In the dark ages when the religions were still fledgling and memories of human sacrifice, druids and witches were still fresh, Halloween was a terrifying night when the gates to the spirit world were opened and evil spirits walked. Turnips and gourds were carved into terrible faces to frighten the spirits away, and sometimes candles were set inside to even better effect. The ancestor of the Jack-O-Lantern was a hollowed out turnip meant to keep evil away from the house.
Now that Halloween has become a commercial holiday devoid of any meaning except costumes, candy, and pumpkins, we can take a moment to think back to when Halloween was alive and mankind believed that the dead walked the earth on All Hallow's Eve, intent on stealing souls.
Happy Halloween!!!!!!!
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Storms, bells, & more deadlines
(The bells are still ringing. The repair man has not come. The mayor said - helpfully - "Well, you can always sleep with earplugs!")
I replied in a Very strong Texan accent - "How Nice."
Of course, nobody in the mayor's office got that, but Andrea - if you're reading this blog, I hope you swallowed your coffee first.
More about deadlines. I have this annoying habit of saying 'yes' to everything. I now have 4 English students (children) and 1 adult. I swore I'd never teach adults again - they just don't listen. I think after 13 the brain disconnects from the ears and I REALLY admire high school teachers. ANYHOW. I said yes, and now I have another chunk of time gone. Time for preparing the lesson and time giving the lesson that I should be spending writing...LIke time on the blog - lol. And I do have a deadline. SO - NanoWrime to the rescue!!! I will write every spare minute during November and get 50k done. YES.
I went to gym this morning and it was cold in the gym and my back is stiff. I think it's because it was cold while I was working out. I'm off to yoga tonight to try and stretch my back out. Yoga is the BEST for a sore back.
Monday, October 23, 2006
*%!@!# Churchbells!!
The result is the bells ring all day and night, every hour and half hour. But the clock is off, so that it says 6:00 when it's 8:28 for example, and so you can't tell time by the bells or the clock - but they woke me up all night and I'm wiped out.
Actually, I slept through most of the bells, but at 5 a.m. I heard them and shot out of bed, thinking my alarm hadn't gone off and thinking my son had missed his train and my daughter her bus. So I'm staggering around at 5 a.m. trying not to wake hubby, and I grab my alarm clock to see what's the matter, and I see it's only 5 a.m., and I'm afraid I said a bunch of Very Bad Words - not including déglangué. I tried to go back to sleep, but just knowing the damn bells were going to ring again in half an hour kept me wide awake. Of course now I'm falling asleep on my keyboard and the five pages I promised myself to write are still in my head.
I need more sleep and more coffee!
And then as soon as the town hall opens, I'm storming over there to let off a bit of steam (politely, of course) and threaten dire action if the bells are not put under control. (still in a polite tone of voice - and with a smile - but maybe a hint of hysteria too.) LOL.
Saturday, October 21, 2006
The Weekend
Right now, she's stuck in front of 'The Horse Whisperer', and as much as I love Robert Redford, I always thought this story was purely ridiculous. It drives me nuts, but there are some pretty scenes and the music isn't half bad. (and there is Robert...lol) But what a stupid story. I hated the book too, as I recall. It was one of my wallbangers.
(list of bestselling wallbangers:)
The Horse Whisperer
The Da Vinci Code
Something Bones (can't even remember the title, but I hated that book)
Do you have a list of bestselling wallbangers??
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, October 19, 2006
my rant against Madonna
But let's say I'm an African and my wife died and I can't pay to take care of my infant son. I'm human, so I'm frantic with worry. I put my son in an orphanage temporarily. (this is what the father said in an interview with the NY Times, so I'm not making this part up.) Now say a celeberity has decided to adopt a child from my country, and wouldn't you know, she picked my little boy!
I'm thrilled. He'll have everything he wants.
I'm devestated. He's my son, and I'll never see him again. He'll legally belong to someone else.
What is the matter with this picture?
Well, for one thing, I can't imagine the pain the father must have suffered. First losing his wife, then two of his other children, and now losing this child to a media blast.
Is there anything wrong with the way the Africans live? Is their way of life so dreadful that when someone adopts a child and takes him far from his culture and roots it's something to rejoice about? And if so - how come we're all sitting on our butts and not doing anything about it?
OK, we can't all run out and adopt an African. And frankly, I don't think that's the answer. There is nothing wrong with the African way of life if the country is not in the throes of famine or drought or corruption. And we can argue for hours about why Africa is in such a mess, and why we Europeans and Americans are responsible. And why the World Bank is sinking Africa even deeper into debt and misery, and why the huge diamond, uranium, and oil companies are making life hell in Africa (and on the rest of the planet) And you can argue that it's better to grow up in Hollywood than in Malawi. I'd agree. But I've been to Africa, and I've seen children there. I've seen them playing, running, singing, and getting hugs like any other kid. And they herd goats and go to school where they have to sit on the floor, and they have all kinds of strange customs and religions, and beliefs...but that's what makes African children unique.
And I have two boys in Kenya who I put through school. They are in their last year now, and I'm terribly proud of them. Now why didn't I adopt them and bring them to France? I could have tightened my budget, made a few sacrifices, and offered them a life and education in France. After all, education here, including the university, is free. So why didn't I adopt them? Well, what about their country? Doesn't their country deserve to have two such nice, well educated young men? And don't these two young men deserve the chance to help their country by getting a good education and becoming prosperous citizens? In what way has Madonna really helped this child and its family? In what way has she helped the country?
If all you can do to help Africa is take away its children, then you might as well just forget about Africa. Forget that it was the cradle of civilization, that humans evolved from the Rift Valley, and that our genetic Eve was from Africa. Forget the music, the art, and the stories that came from Africa. Forget its ethnies and its myriad different cultures...because they will all turn to Hollywood dust. Forget the beauty of Africa and its diversity. Just take the children away and give them lots of money and everything money can buy. Is that really doing any good at all?
Frankly, it makes me ill.
Sesame Street Quizz!
You scored 56% Organization, 66% abstract, and 57% extroverted!
First, this test measured how organized you are. Some muppets like Cookie Monster make big messes, while others like Bert are quite anal about things being clean.
Second, this test measured if you prefer a concrete or an abstract viewpoint. For the purposes of this test, concrete people are considered to gravitate more to mathematical and logical approaches, whereas abstract people are more the dreamers and artistic type.
Third, this test measured if you are more of an introvert or an extrovert. By definition, an introvert concentrates more on herself and an extrovert focuses more on others. In this test an introvert was somebody that either tends to spend more time alone or thinks more about herself.
You are mostly organized, more abstract, and both introverted and extroverted.
Most people either love or hate Elmo. I hope you love Elmo, because that's who you are.
You are both somewhat organized. You have a good idea where you put things and you probably keep your place reasonably clean. You aren't totally obsessed with neatness though. Elmo has the same basic approach. His place is pretty tidy, but he doesn't spend all of his time cleaning it up.
You both are abstract thinkers. You definitely are not afraid to take chances in life. You only live once. You may notice others around you playing it safe, but you are more concerned with not compromising your desires, and getting everything you can out of life. This is a very romantic approach to life, but hopefully you are also grounded enough to get by. Elmo's whole life is based on fantasy and his imagination. In the beginning he was a regular character, but now he spends most of his time in this fantasy world.
You are both somewhat extroverts. Like Elmo, you probably like to have some time to yourself, but you do appreciate spending time with your friends, and you aren't scared of social situations. Elmo spends some of his time with real friends, but he also needs some time just to chat it up with his goldfish.
The other possible characters are
Oscar the Grouch
Big Bird
Cookie Monster
Kermit the Frog
The Count
Guy Smiley
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Monday, October 16, 2006
a horse show in the countryside
Friday, October 13, 2006
Eeek! Spiders and a deadline
(I am NOT kidding. I went to four windows to get one paper signed.) So I thought maybe the French weren't actually the worst for bureaucracy - they might now be tied with the US embassy. Although the French still get the worst drivers and rudest waiter prizes.
Then I went home and had to clean out my garage because the roof is coming down - the owner is replacing it. And we (my kids and I) started to clear out the boxes and there are Huge Spiders in my garage. We all sort of stared at the biggest one, sitting on the box we wanted to move, and my son said, 'I will not touch that.' I said, 'It's not so big' (it was about the size of a cat) and my daughter said, 'I'll get the broom, and you can sweep it away, mom'. I agreed, (never show fear to your kids - sort of like wild animal training) and I took the broom and tried to pretend it was one of those plastic tarantulas you see. And it almost worked. I swiped, the spider skittered, and we all ran screaming from the garage. So much for bravery.
And today I looked at my schedule and discovered I have a DEADLINE.
It is now officially LOOMING.
I just hope I have enough coffee in the house.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
I am a genius!
Me: Hi Sophie, I need Laurent to come right away - half my house is in the dark.
Sophie: Bonjour Jennifer - the problem is Laurent is away for the weekend - he went hunting.
Me: That's all right, I'll make do with candles. Will you ask him to stop by on Monday?
On Monday night I get a call from Sophie - she tells me her husband will be in very late, if I don't mind, he could stop by around nine or ten. I tell her I'll be glad to wait. (in the dark - candles burning.)
Then I get inspired. I look at the electric box. The little cartridge thingies that go in the slots. I don't know what they are called, but I have a box of them in different sizes. I start replacing them, one by one. Suddenly there is a 'pop' and the lights in the house go on! I have repaired the electricity using little cartridge thingies. I am a genius. Except I have no idea what I actually did, or what the thingies are called. Feeling half triumphant, half retarded, I call the electrician and tell him not to bother coming - I have fixed my problem. Voila.
The next night I see him and his wife in yoga class, and he told me that what I had was a fuse box and what I'd changed was a fuse.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
the hardware store joke
But it reminded me of a real joke the people in my agency played on one of the models. The model was from Germany and very, very uptight. She was always complaining about the French obsession with sex. For her, everyone was obsessed with sex. It made the Swedish girls roll their eyes, and the people at the agency tried to explain that in France things were a little more relaxed, that was all. But she was always complaining. When she went for a job she complained about the changing rooms, and when she was on location, she complained about changing in the street (if you've ever been on location you know what I mean - you usually have to get dressed behind sheets held up by a grinning photographer's assistant, and a scowling stylist.)
Anyway - One day she came in complaining that the toilet in her studio was all stuck and she needed a plunger. Only she didn't know the word for plunger in French. Could someone help her?
The two booking agents who were there that day looked at each other, and then one smiled and said, "Of course. The word is godmichet. You pronounce it 'god-mishay'. Got it?"
The girl then asked where the nearest hardware shop was, and they sent her off with an address.
She went into the shop and asked for a godmichet. The clerk looked blank and shook his head.
"You know," she said, miming plunging a toilet. "A godmichet!" She mimed some more, as the clerk went from pink to scarlet then purple. Finally he gave her the address of another shop, and fuming, she left, thinking that the clerk in the hardware store was a idiot.
She arrived at the address the clerk had given her and frowned. The sign on the door said, 'S*xy Shop!' Frowning even more, she pushed the door open and asked if they had a godmichet there.
The clerk said, "Of Course!" and led her to a glassed counter, where he pointed to a whole range of dildos.
Back at the agency, everyone was howling imagining the girl standing in the sex shop. The girl came back howling - she was furious - which only made everyone laugh harder.
It wasn't easy being a model sometimes.
Once I did a shoot in an outdoor pool (unheated) in April for the July issue of 20 Ans. I was Freezing. The next day I came down with bronchitis and had to work all day with a fever of 101°.
Monday, October 02, 2006
backward or forward?
It seems I've lived in so many places. I've been in this house since 2000, and that's a record for me. I'm getting antsy.
I guess I'll jump around.
April 1979 - I arrived in Paris in the middle of a huge thunderstorm. We caught a taxi from the airport and there was so much water on the road it flooded and everyone stopped. We had to wait for an hour until the rain stopped, the water subsided, and we could go on. By then it was dark, and my first glimpse of Paris was rain soaked streets, fog shrouded buildings, and the Eiffel tower wrapped in a cloak of thick mist.
The next day I had instructions how to get to the agency and off I went - after a typical French breakfast of strong tea, hot milk, and toast. The taxi driver asked me if it was my first time in France, and I said yes. He said he would give me a kiss for luck, and gave me a peck on both cheeks, French style. "There, now you are French," he proclaimed.
I was both enchanted and mortified. A stranger had kissed me, but I was French!
The enchantment lasted all day. I easily conquered the metro system and learned my first words (left and right) and talked to an old lady at the magazine stand. A book slid off the counter, fell on the sidewalk, and I used my vocabulary - "Tomber!" I cried, pointing at it.
"Well, don't just stand there. Pick it up," she said, in English. She gave me a post card with a picture in black and white of a little boy sitting at a schooldesk, staring hard at the ceiling. "Very famous french photographer," she said.
It was ROBERT DOISNEAU and I've loved his photos ever since.
I also loved the museums in¨Paris, and I think I went to all the shows in the 'Grand' and 'Petit' palace one year. I was at the opening of the new 'Jeu de Paume' and 'Orangerie' museums, and I spent hours wandering through the Louvre (getting lost in there is so much fun!)
My daughter went to the Louvre with her class (so did my sons - lucky French children, they get to go to the Louvre!) They start early, first in the Egyptian section, then going to the Greek part, then going to the paintings where they admire the Mona Lisa as she stares at them with her smug smile (she has the same smile as French waiters, come to think about it...)
I just read that a teacher in Texas was fired without tenure from her post for taking her kids to a museum where they saw *gasp* a naked body. Now, I don't want to sound smug (picture my Mona Lisa smile) but kids in France not only get to see naked people in paintings, but they get to see naked Greek statues and even a statue of a hermaphrodite, which they had to comment on in the paper they were writing on the visit. Most comments were "I didn't know the Greeks had such great mattresses." So you see, the French are not raising a bunch of sex offenders. I might add (again without the smug smile) that statisticlly, we have far fewer teen pregnancies and sex offences than in the puritan US, which might be an argument from taking kids to museums earlier and more often, so they can see what a naked body looks like and get used to it.)
Television shocked me (coming from puritan US) when I saw the naked women advertising shower soap (and whatever else a naked woman could advertise, it sometimes seems they get carried away, like the naked woman advertising a new telephone company...) but they give fair time to men, and there is a wonderful DIM commercial with a hunk in his birthday suit - and of course, my favorite rugby man calendar.
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The U.N. Uncovers Dozens of Mass Graves in Central Congo
- By Robbie GramerRobbie Gramer is a staff writer at Foreign Policy. He writes for The Cable, FP's real-time take on all things, well, foreign policy. Before he joined FP in 2016, he used to think in a tank, managing the NATO portfolio at the Atlantic Council for three years. He's a graduate of American University's School of International Service, where he studied international relations and European affairs. He has lived in both Washington and Brussels, though he grew up in Idaho and Oregon, so he's a West Coaster at heart. When he's not busy reporting, he's probably busy starting three new books before he has finished the last one or planning a trip to a national park he hasn't visited yet.
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United Nations investigators have unearthed scores of mass graves in a conflict-plagued region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that top U.N. officials describe as a scene of "horror."
The U.N. says the Congolese military dug the mass grave after killing more than 100 people last month, a sign that the DRC's violence and political turmoil will almost certainly get worse before it gets better.
On Wednesday, the U.N. announced that its investigators have confirmed the existence of 17 new mass graves sites in the DRC's Kasai region, bring the tally up to 40 mass graves discovered in the past nine months. The most recent batch was unearthed after the Congolese military killed at least 114 people, including 41 children, in its campaign to uproot an insurgency by the Kamuina Nsapu militia.
Most civilians were reportedly killed in their homes as soldiers went door to door hunting militia members. The U.N. also recounted reports of government forces raping women and girls. The U.N. accused the Kamuina Nsapu militia of carrying out their own atrocities and forcibly recruiting hundreds of child soldiers into their ranks.
The discovery sheds new light on a deadly conflict in the Kasai region that has displaced hundreds of thousands and morphed into a serious threat to embattled DRC President Joseph Kabila's grip on power. While the Kamuina Nsapu rebellion is rooted in local grievances, it quickly ignited a nationwide political powder keg as grievances pile up against Kabila. Kabila refused to step down after his constitutional term limit expired in December, prompting mass protests and political turmoil, while exacerbating the country's dire economic situation.
"The discovery of yet more mass graves and the reports of continued violations and abuses highlight the horror that has been unfolding in the Kasais over the last nine months," said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein. If the national government isn't serious about investigating the crimes, Hussein added, he would urge the International Criminal Court to take up the matter. The Congolese government denied any involvement in the mass graves, and instead blamed militias.
Since 1999, the U.N. has maintained a peacekeeping mission — MONUSCO — in the DRC. With some 22,000 personnel, it's the U.N.'s largest. But given the sheer expanse of the country, it "has only minimal capacity to respond to civil unrest of widening conflict," said Hans Hoebeke, a Congo expert with the International Crisis Group.
The Kasai conflict garnered international attention last month after militias abducted and killed two U.N. experts, one American and one Swedish. Since the conflict first escalated in August 2016, more than 400 people have been killed.
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As Germany continues to underperform -- a trend that began earlier this year -- the euro has followed suit. The descending FXE, seen under the pair, shows that economic contraction from the region has weighed down currency and equity-market strength. The ECB stepped in to take action to limit investor fear, but growth and stability in the eurozone are the only things that will bring back relative strength in both currency and equity markets.


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This paper has its focus on describing processes involved in the development of a measuring instrument for attitude toward poverty. Infrequent studies in the area of the attitude of young people towards poverty especially in the development of measuring instruments capable of capturing attitude toward poverty in this part of the world occasioned the study. Participants were 200 undergraduate...
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Ryanair to charge for checking in!
Never a company to shy away from gouging their customers, Ryanair breaks new ground by charging passengers to check in at the airport!
Another £4 added to each flight then...
Ryanair is to start charging passengers to check in at the airport next month.
Customers will be charged £4 per return flight to check in at airport desks from September 20. If you chose to fly with just hand luggage you will be able to check in at Ryanair's website for no extra cost. Naturally, Ryanair claims the charge is being introduced to cut down on queues at the airport and to lighten plane loads.
A spokesman for Ryanair said: "The idea is not to make more money from this. We want passengers to use our web check-in facility in far greater numbers and check-in fewer bags. The fees are entirely avoidable. Ryanair's web check in and priority boarding service has proven very popular among passengers by freeing them from check-in queues and departure gate queues."
It's a new low
Quite a few airlines charge for carrying checked baggage, but this is the first time, anywhere in the world, that passengers will pay a fee just to check in.
It really is a new low, as Ryanair's policies are consistently targeted against the normal holiday traveler.
After all, when was the last time you traveled without a suitcase?
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I travel exclusively with carry-on luggage when on holiday. You can too! It's really not that difficult and it saves you money at the same time; it's a perfect combination of frugal and practical.
poetloverrebelspy on 04 February, 2008
It's aimed to get money from families
Their policies are definitely aimed at families and others who travel with plenty of luggage or for longer times. In those cases, how would you avoid checking in luggage and therefore also checking in at the airport and getting charged; and charged quite a lot for the privilege of flying in a glorified bus!
Just like you, I travel with only hand luggage when I can, but it's hard on most trips.
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Author | Noor Fathima Warsia | Friday, Jun 18,2004 8:00 AM
Soon to be playing in the kids' space on Indian television, Animax is planning to create a buzz. The new kids' channel is likely to follow the same pattern in India as it does in other Asian countries. "But we are more than a kids' channel," urges Gregory Ho, VP, Marketing and Creative Services, SPE Network Asia. "We are more of a youth channel."
Explaining more on the target that the channel looks at luring, Ho explains, "We have programming that is clearly targeted on two kinds of audiences, the 4-14 age-group and then the 15 to 24 age-group and that is the kind of audience that Animax is drawing elsewhere." The animation channel has already made its mark in other Asian countries. In India, the channel is still trying to complete its distribution activities.
Speaking more on the channel, he explains that while the content is sourced from Japan, the programming team that will schedule and localise the content will be based out of Singapore. Placed on the One Alliance platform, the marketing of the channel would be handled by SET India, "There are overlaps between AXN and Animax as far as the senior positions of the channel are concerned but there is a dedicated team in place to care for the channel," informs Ho.
The channel has planned two levels of communication activities – one for the trade community and the second for the consumer. "We will get the trade-related communication rolling next week itself. The activities will be on a low-key initially. The idea is to help advertisers, cable operators and other sections of the media converse with the product; the need to know the programming, the nature of the product and the potential that it holds in the market," he elucidates.
Ho explains that the second level of communication that will target the consumers will roll out only after the channel goes on air on July 5, 2004. "It doesn't make sense to educate the consumer on a service he cannot avail at that point in time," he observes.
However, does he believe that the channel can actually lure in loyal eyeballs from the kids' audience and the youth audience for a product like animation? Ho replies, "Take the example of movies. Isn't a 'Kill Bill' or a 'Finding Nemo' equally famous in all kinds of audiences? Sony, as an international brand, has proved that it can provide people services, they didn't think they need, and it has worked for them. Animax will get audience right from the Cartoon Network to the MTV."
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You may remember our review of some gorgeous baby products and toys from Nature's Purest back in August. The company specialise in 100% natural products, free of pesticides, chemicals, and dyes, and sell a range of beautiful baby clothing, toys, gifts and bedding. We adore the things they sent us and they have certainly stood the test of time with the World Family dolls still being played with most days.
Nature's Purest have now launched a new range of beautiful baby gifts for that very special First Christmas. The My First Christmas range includes several toys in special edition Christmas outfits. Featuring a Christmas version of the Pure Love Bunny, small and large stockings, a comforter, a hanging heart, and a gorgeous Velour Bear with Hat and Bib, there is something to suit all budgets.
We adore our Pure Love Bunny, and this Christmas one is sure to be a hit with any small person, with its trademark silky soft ears and huggable body. This bunny also wears a very cute festive red My First Christmas jumper, making her a beautiful keepsake too. And at just £15, this is makes a perfect Christmas present for any 2013 baby.
The very sweet Hug Me Flat Comforter would also make a great gift for a new baby. It is made from a cotton polyester mix with striped jersey tummy and wearing a festive "My First Christmas" red fleece jumper. The comforter comes gift-boxed in recycled card with a hand tied ribbon to finish, and is suitable from birth. A beautiful gift, £12.
We have been sent the adorable Christmas edition of the Hug Me Bear for our new addition, although he was eagerly seized upon by Sophia and undressed and re-dressed several times before we could convince her that this was to be her second Christmas, not her first! This soft and cuddly 8"(20cm) brown velour bear with a beanie bottom so that he can sit unaided is where Natures Purest began! Now dressed for Christmas, he comes with a festive red fleece Santa hat and My First Christmas bib. He has a cute, cheeky little embroidered face, which Sophia adores, and would make a perfect Christmas present. He is also suitable from birth. He retails at £18.
The gorgeous red My First Christmas stockings would also look fabulous under the tree, and can be filled with any product of your choice from the site. They have the wording 'Natures Purest' on one side and 'My First Christmas' on the other. The large size (20 x 26cm) retails at £6; the smaller (15.5 x 21cm) at £5. Your only dilemma will be which of the gorgeous Nature's Purest products to pop inside!
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The Click 2009 conference, created by British industry bible Creative Review, was held in Singapore yesterday.
Hyper Island CEO Mattias Hansson was invited to talk about The Hyper Island Way and sat on the panel for "Changing the curriculum of learning - we don't need no education?" and "Defining the future of digital creativity". Amongst the other participants were leading professionals from Asian homes of Droga5, Ogilvy, Profero, AKQA, DDB, Iris Nation, Mindshare, Idea Factory, as well as British Poke and Unit9, together with many regional Asian professionals eager to learn more about the future of learning in the digital age.
"The energy and level of knowledge is amazing here in Singapore and I have made some really good contacts that Hyper Island will benefit from in the near future", says Mattias.
The interest for the Hyper Island Master Class is high in Singapore the local and regional agencies seek to raise the level of excellence in their workplaces.
"Hyper Island will be back in Singapore. Soon", promises Mattias.
Do not miss out the Click 2009 events in London and New York later this year. Visit www.click2009.net for more information.
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- Dennis G said...
What, no brightly coloured clothes item? I'm very disappointed :P
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text: Stan Marsh - You Killed Kenny!. YOU BASTARDS!!! KUROSHITSUJI AQUATALK - Oh My God With LA's retirement, LA decided to bring some things to full circle, whether it be LA's anime stuff or KH days. If you wanted closure before LA's retirement, well here you go.....and go easter egg hunting for some of these info! Anime There is an aborted arc for LA's anime reviews on it's main page, the arc was about Producer who was mentioned a couple of times, well Producer was actually going to be a villain where Producer just kept giving LA worse and worse animes to review and then LA wanted to "defeat" Producer to the point so that LA wanted to change LA's style of reviewing. Why was this arc aborted?, well time and that LA's reviews immediately changed style while the process of this was going on thus it kinda ended up that way... K-chan is Kurisu Makise...THE CLUES ARE THERE...seriously search through the anime extra's...and the evidence is obvious. *-chan is Wilhelmina Carmel LA DID want to collaborate more with other anime reviewers from the site, however LA just got busy at times, the collaboration idea came from Bennett the Sage One such was a trio collaboration with Chainoffire and FinalRest in Code Geass (LA wanted to do something like a podcasting review using FinalRest's review as a base ground), it NEVER got off the ground. Lore Aknightfire was suppose to die from the collaboration anime review with Chainoffire of Danganronpa: The Animation (Lore's vers. not LA's), however, since Chainoffire got busy, Lore stayed...-sigh- With almost 60 episodes of LA's anime extra's...LA wanted to get to 100 If you REALLY wanted to know, in terms of seiyuu's, LA really liked Rie Kugimiya, LA's REAL persona liked Shizuka Ito more Thus if you didn't notice the extra tidbit, who are the two characters on LA's anime main page banner?...Shana who is voiced by Rie Kugimiya and Hinagiku Katsura who is voiced by Shizuka Ito On speaking of which, Lore showed interest in Yoko Hisaka, main reason?...well was LA's perverted side showing as Yoko Hisaka was known in voicing some *ahem* sexy anime girls. Dr. C.C's favourite seiyuu Saki Fujita is a reflection to LA's yuri fan side as Saki Fujita voiced a character from Yuru Yuri LA completely forgot to add in Shou Tucker as 2# in LA's Top 10 WORST Parents in Anime in anime extra's... LA's clones ONLY purpose was to do LA's reviews while LA was in *cough* media purgatory *cough*...after that they became nothing but satellite characters. LA will say this again and again but LA's Second Season Monogatari series review was LA WORST anime review LA ever did, LA just couldn't change it due to the Retrospectives that were going on (which LA would have later covered again in better detail), but because of this, it was stain in LA's mind as to how BADLY LA can do a review...in which there were NO reviewing (just mindfuckery)...LA IS SOO SORRY about that one. If you want LA's true feelings on the second season of Monogatari it's this, it's the middle point for most of the characters arcs, most go through leaps and bounds, but in which direction is your guess, LA's favourite arc would have to be the surprising Nadeko Medusa's arc, but overall the change in plot as a series mostly about talking about anomalies, the second season really gripped it's teeth to better focus on the girls of the series in a more detailed light. It's a great season and deserved a better review from LA. Also the Second Season Monogatari review was the review that MADE the change to LA's current, more detailed explained reviewing style. LA Ohh so wanted to do a Gunparade Orchestra review (A sorta sequel to LA's eyes a dismal Gunparade March), reason why LA couldn't?...LA didn't have the anime simple. Wiki LA was planning to start and FINISH LA's KH3D walkthrough but you know...anime reviews got LA busier than usual, LA was also before LA's retirement wanted to at least finish it but timing came in again and thus is forever on hiatus. LA wanted to be in the Twilight Times as an interviewee.....you know why LA couldn't... Funny thing, LA doesn't know if this is gloating or not, but LA was inspired by the Fairy Tail magazine in the Fairy Tail wiki to have something like that here.....thus along with FinalRest, we got Twilight Times. Finally, LA was the "first" to make some trends within the wiki, such as "arena's" to "competitions"...LA wasn't called the "Deity of Fandom" for nothing. Others Chain did you remember this little conservation?...LA was thinking of making a movie with some of the wiki-users...IN REAL LIFE. LA wanted to make a trilogy of movie in lines of Suburban Knights from Channel Awesome but with anime as a base-line story. The first was gonna be a Mirai Nikki kind murder mystery, the next one was (if LA can remember) a sci-fi anime one and the final one synopsis was never thought up...reason LA didn't get this started?...well once again Father Time has to piss LA off with scheduling (and many of the users being busy includ. Chain), LA needed an actual budget, let alone trying to bring 4 other people from USA to NZ would be costly. A recent thought was if you haven't noticed in LA's 12 Days of Reviewing blog that the last bit had a bit of stinger with a Shortland Street 2016 trailer...LA was by the end of the year to a final hoora to NEVER talk about this awful NZ show ever again. If you want LA's final thoughts on it now...<LA breathes in>...it's a show that has run for 20+ years now, but it's BEHIND the times, sure it has it's "defining" characters changes that NZ has quote "never done in TV", but those are only surface deep, they NEVER do proper commentary on it, if they try to do anything it's either WAAAAAAY to cliche with no thought and use it as drama-bait and "revolutionary" to lure unsuspecting and stupid pre-teens to watch this garbage of a show. Acting is atrocious, the plot is a recycled mess with swappable character faces and quite hypocritical asshole characters to carry on the repetitive nature (thus is what LA sees why in the fuck has this series been going on for 20+ years, if these "trends" can easily be noticed...Shortland Street writers...we aren't FUCKING IDIOTS). When "cartoons *cough* anime" can do better commentary on human nature of society than a god damn live action drama show zombie...YOU DONE FUCKED UP. 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How Do I Make A Beer Cooler Cake?
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Hi! My boyfriends 21st birthday is coming up and I am new to cake decorating. I have taken my classes but I haven't got to take my sculpting and stacking one just yet. Does anyone have any idea how to make a beer cooler cake? I would prefer not to use fondant... just because my boyfriend isn't a fan of it. I am going for an Oregon Ducks theme so the cooler itself will be hunter green. Any help on stacking the cake and what I should use would be amazing! I thought of using dowels but I wasn't sure if that would support the cake enough. I want to do half a sheet cake long and a few layers high. Any suggestions will be great! Thank you so much
The simpler you keep it, the easier it will be on you. I don't know your skill level but you say you are fairly new, so I would not try to make the cooler with a hinged lid. Either make it with the lid closed, or the lid off. If lid off, you can make a well in the cake and fill it with sculpted (or real I suppose) beers.
Some coolers are sloped like this "\\__/" so you could carve the sides down a little. Covering in buttercream should be no problem, although it might not be as smooth as fondant.
As for stacking, there are lots of schools of thought here, but I use drinking straws. I deliver 4, 5, and 6 tier wedding cakes every weekend and they're sitting on plastic straws. But wooden dowels will work just fine. My "tiers" are 3 layers of cake. I will place my supports and then put the next tier of cake (on a cake board - covered cardboard is OK) on top of the first tier. For stability, run one dowel down the entire middle of the cake.
Best of luck and just remember that no matter what you make, I'm sure your boyfriend will love it.
Check out my pics. I made one last minute of ra BBQ. Super easy, Just two 9x13's, jello ice, beers were emptyand cut in half. (Opened them from bottom, emptied them, and used a razor to cut in half)
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The recent plunge in oil prices has also dragged down the shares of big oil producers such as BP (BP) and Chevron (CVX).
BP's stock is at $51.84, down 1.7% since the beginning of the month. Shares of Chevron are at $129.35, down 0.9% during July. But will crude oil prices continue to decline in the coming weeks? Following are are three factors that could keep pressure on oil pressures.
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1. OPEC's Oil Supply Remains Stable
OPEC's latest monthly update showed little change in the total output of OPEC member countries. As of June, OPEC's production reached 29.7 million barrels a day, nearly unchanged from previous months. Iraq's oil output fell by only 5%, month over month. This fall in production was offset by modest gains in production in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. The International Energy Agency also reported little change in OPEC's oil output.
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U.S oil stockpiles are also picking up, mainly because of higher production. The chart below shows the U.S oil stockpiles and average weekly price of oil during 2012-2014.
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As you can see, the oil storage has increased in the past several weeks, after reaching its lowest level in years back in March 2014. Moreover, the U.S. Energy Information Adminstration estimates that 2014 U.S oil production will rise by 15% year over year. As the stockpiles keep picking up with the rise of production, oil prices are likely to slowly come down.


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Efficacy of Combined Therapy with Amantadine, Oseltamivir, and Ribavirin In Vivo against Susceptible and Amantadine-Resistant Influenza A Viruses
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The limited efficacy of existing antiviral therapies for influenza – coupled with widespread baseline antiviral resistance – highlights the urgent need for more effective therapy. We describe a triple combination antiviral drug (TCAD) regimen composed of amantadine, oseltamivir, and ribavirin that is highly efficacious at reducing mortality and weight loss in mouse models of influenza infection. TCAD therapy was superior to dual and single drug regimens in mice infected with drug-susceptible, low pathogenic A/H5N1 (A/Duck/MN/1525/81) and amantadine-resistant 2009 A/H1N1 influenza (A/California/04/09). Treatment with TCAD afforded >90% survival in mice infected with both viruses, whereas treatment with dual and single drug regimens resulted in 0% to 60% survival. Importantly, amantadine had no activity as monotherapy against the amantadine-resistant virus, but demonstrated dose-dependent protection in combination with oseltamivir and ribavirin, indicative that amantadine's activity had been restored in the context of TCAD therapy. Furthermore, TCAD therapy provided survival benefit when treatment was delayed until 72 hours post-infection, whereas oseltamivir monotherapy was not protective after 24 hours post-infection. These findings demonstrate in vivo efficacy of TCAD therapy and confirm previous reports of the synergy and broad spectrum activity of TCAD therapy against susceptible and resistant influenza strains in vitro.


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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 817674
Photo cards (SD) will only mount read-only.
Last modified: 2013-02-13 10:57:59 EST
Description of problem:
All photo cards mount read-only since updates.
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Insert photo card into photocard reader, wait for automount.
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Cards mount read-only
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cards not mount read only
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I'm not sure which update this crept in on, as I hadn't mounted an SD picture card in a month or so. I just tested the last kernel, and it is an issue there also, so I am just guessing that this is the component involved. I do recall seeing a gvfs? update recently.
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About Block and Company
Since 1934, Block has succeeded by providing industry expertise, innovative solutions and superior service to our customers. From the beginning, our goal has been to understand how we can help you boost productivity, enhance security and increase efficiency. Moving forward, you will see a resurgence of the well-established Block product traditions and a new energy around the Block brand.
Our headquarters in Wheeling, Illinois includes 125,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility and multiple distribution facilities locally and across the United States. We manufacture a significant percentage of our overall product offering here in the U.S.A. and source only the highest-quality products. Throughout the years, we've proudly served the financial, gaming, hospitality, education, restaurant, retail and vending industries.
We're strengthening our focus on providing you with the most innovative products, top-notch customer service, new programs and industry-leading partnerships to help your business continue to grow and succeed. Welcome to the better Block – a company with a rich past and a strong focus on the future.
|Mitchell Block, a young law student, saw the need for specialty office supplies for lawyers and Block and Company was born.
|Mitchell personally sourced all products and developed the first Block and Company catalogs.
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In a regularly-scheduled world, the servers would be up and we'd all be playing WoW 2.3 right now. But did any of us really expect that to be the case? Turns out maintenance has been prolonged until
- Figure out how you'll work around the Sweeping Strikes/Deathwish swap
- Look for AddOn updates (or write some updates, if you're a mod author)
- Plot your guild's takedown of Zul'Aman
- Just plain get excited about the changes