” No Aqua for me”

    by: Meg O' Hanlon

February 17th, 2012 .

Here is an interesting experience, from which all travelers might benefit and even have a good laugh. I recall this one trip when I had travelled alone and I happened to choose Cancun, Mexico for a last minute get-away.

I admit that I didn’t know the language beyond a few key phrases to acknowledge the locals beyond a smile. At times during the week I had felt out of sorts being in a foreign country with no one to talk with so one afternoon I ventured into town.

As I explored the village of locals away from where the tourists’ ventured I decided to go into a small hair salon to have a few highlights put into my hair. It never occured to me that anything could even remotely go wrong. Well, as I was sitting there with all of the bleach on my head and beginning to feel it burning my scalp what had seemed like forever suddenly turned into a moment of sheer 9-1-1 emergency panic. There was no one to call for help.

Everything began to happen all at once; the lady who owned the shop took me over to the bowl to rinse the burning scalp when she began to shout “NO AQUA” while the other patrons and staff members chanted in shifts real loud at the top of their lungs. Well naturally, by this time I went into a full fledged anxiety attack draped with cape and all proceeded out the front door exiting onto the street yelling with the others ” NO AQUA”hoping for someone to come to my aid. No one came for what seemed like eternity. My head was on fire.

It was quite a scene. Everyone was out on the streets yelling“NO AQUA” and my relief finally came when someone nearby had an emergency bucket of “AQUA” to put out the fire on my head. Picture this scene: Here I am running around with that plastic cap and this huge white no-frills plastic apron flying around the shop and quickly into street of locals.

It was hysterical looking back but at the time I didn’t find it too amusing. So if you ever think that you’re having a bad hair day think again and be glad for what you have. I found out that I prefer natural hair than to toasted or fried. Thank you very much. My memory doesn’ t serve me but I ‘m certain that I paid for the service and I must say in more ways than one since it only took forever to get my hair’s texture back to semi- normal rather than semi -fried. My advice to you traveling into Mexico is not only to not drink the water but bring some extra AQUA if you ever decide to have your hair done. Adios to my friends in Cancun , Mexico…and until we meet again I am staying au natural. God speed everyone.

        Until we meet again.
        Stay well.

        -Meg

Vatican Taking Legal Action Against Benetton

The Associated Press

TIZIANA FABI / AFP/GETTY IMAGES

A photo montage in a new ad campaign of Italian clothing company Benetton, near the Trevi fountain in Rome, shows the pope kissing an imam.

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VATICAN CITY —

The Vatican is taking legal action against the Benetton clothing company to prevent the circulation of an ad featuring a fake photo montage of Pope Benedict XVI kissing a top Egyptian imam on the lips.

The Vatican said Thursday the image is "offensive not only to the dignity of the pope and the Catholic Church, but also to the sensibilities of believers."

Benetton withdrew the ad immediately after its debut Wednesday once the Vatican denounced it as an unacceptable provocation.

Benetton had said its "Unhate" campaign was aimed at fostering tolerance, but the Vatican's daily newspaper Thursday called it "an insult to believers in the name of profit."

The campaign's fake photos feature a half-dozen purported political nemeses in lip-locked embraces, including President Barack Obama and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

The photo of the pope kissing Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb of Cairo's al-Azhar institute, the pre-eminent theological school of Sunni Islam, was on Benetton's website all day Wednesday but was pulled about an hour after the Vatican's protest.

Al-Azhar suspended interfaith talks with the Vatican earlier this year after Benedict called for greater protections for Egypt's minority Christians.

Shock ads have long been a part of Benetton's publicity strategy, with photographer Oliviero Toscani's famous campaigns for them featuring death row inmates and people dying of AIDS.

In a statement, the Treviso, Italy-based clothing manufacturer said it was sorry that its image had offended the faithful and that as a result "we have decided with immediate effect to withdraw this image from every publication."

The other images, including the one of Obama, are still on its website.

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CYBERSECURITNTERNET INVENTORS, AND ENGINEERS

1. John Adams, operations engineer at Twitter, signing as a private citizen
2. Ramaswamy Aditya, built various networks and web/mail content and application hosting providers
3. Mike Alexander, helped implement one of the first EMail systems to be connected to the Internet
4. Guy Almes, led the connection of universities in Texas to the NSFnet
5. Alia Atlas, designed software in a core router (Avici)
6. Fred Baker, former IETF chair
7. Mikki Barry, VP Engineering of InterCon Systems Corp
8. John Bartas, was technical lead on first commercial IP/TCP software for IBM PCs
9. Steven Bellovin, invented DNS cache contamination attack
10. Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
11. John Bond, Systems Engineer at RIPE NCC
12. Robert Bonomi, designed, built, and implemented, the Internet presence for a number of large corporations
13. Nathaniel Borenstein, Chief Scientist, Mimecast
14. Seth Breidbart, helped build the Pluribus IMP/TIP for the ARPANET
15. Jon Callas, worked on Internet security standards including OpenPGP, ZRTP, DKIM, Signed Syslog, SPKI
16. L. Jean Camp, former Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
17. Stephen L. Casner, led the working group that designed Real-time Transport Protocol
18. Bradford Chatterjee, Network Engineer, helped design backbone network for a nationwide ISP
19. Noel Chiappa, has been working on the lowest level stuff (the IP protocol level) since 1977
20. Dr. Richard Clayton, designer of Turnpike; Computer Security researcher at Cambridge University
21. Steve Crocker, Shinkuro, Inc.
22. David Dagon, Georgia Tech
23. Walt Daniels, IBM’s contributor to MIME
24. Steve Deering, Ph.D., invented the IP multicast feature of the Internet
25. Jim Deleskie, internetMCI Sr. Network Engineer, Teleglobe Principal Network Architect
26. Owen DeLong, has spent more than a decade developing better IP addressing policies
27. Esther Dyson, founding chairman, ICANN
28. Nathan Eisenberg, Atlas Networks Senior System Administrator
29. David Farber, Principal in development of CSNET, NSFNET, NREN, GIGABIT TESTBED
30. Stephen Farrell, co-author on about 15 RFCs
31. Elizabeth Feinler, developed naming conventions for Internet top level domains
32. Jim Gettys, editor of the HTTP/1.1 protocol standards
33. John Gilmore, co-designed BOOTP (RFC 951), which became DHCP
34. Steve Goldstein, Program Officer for International Networking Coordination at NSF 1989-2003
35. Brian Haberman, has been involved in design of IPv6, IGMP/MLD, and NTP within IETF for nearly 15 years
36. Joe Hamelin, co-founder of Seattle Internet Exchange and former peering engineer for Amazon
37. Jack Haverty, Principal Investigator for DARPA projects including first Internet development and operation
38. Simon Higgs, designed the role of the stealth DNS server that protects a.root-servers.net
39. Robert M. Hinden, worked on the gateways in the early Internet
40. Christian Huitema, worked on building the Internet in France and Europe in the 80’s
41. Dan Kaminsky, DKH
42. Kelly Kane, shared web hosting network operator
43. John Kemp, Principal Software Architect, Nokia
44. John Klensin, Ph.D., early role in design of Internet applications and coordination and administrative policies
45. Justin Krejci, helped build and run the two biggest and most successful municipal wifi networks
46. Dave Kristol, co-author, RFCs 2109, 2965 (Web cookies)
47. Richard Kulawiec, 30 years designing/operating academic/commercial/ISP systems and networks
48. Phil Lapsley, co-author of the Internet Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP)
49. Anthony Lauck, helped design and standardize routing protocols and local area network protocols
50. Tony Li, co-author of BGP (the protocol used to arrange Internet routing)
51. Christopher Liljenstolpe, was the chief architect for AS3561 and AS1221
52. Jon Loeliger, has implemented OSPF, one of the main routing protocols used to determine IP packet delivery
53. Timothy McGinnis, co-chair of African Network Information Center Policy Development Working Group
54. Alexander McKenzie, participated in design of first ARPAnet Host protocols
55. Danny McPherson, Verisign, Inc.
56. David Mercer, formerly of The River Internet, provided service to more of Arizona than any local, national ISP
57. David M. Miller, CTO / Exec VP for DNS Made Easy
58. Gary E. Miller Network Engineer specializing in eCommerce
59. Samuel Moats, senior systems engineer for the Department of Defense
60. Doug Moeller, Chief Technology Officer at Autonet Mobile
61. Keith Moore, was on the Internet Engineering Steering Group from 1996-2000
62. Lyndon Nerenberg, Creator of IMAP Binary extension (RFC 3516)
63. David Newman, 20 years' experience in performance testing of Internet infrastructure
64. Carl Page, helped found eGroups
65. Craig Partridge, architect of how email is routed through the Internet
66. John Pettitt, Internet commerce pioneer
67. Blake Pfankuch, Connecting Point of Greeley, Network Engineer
68. Louis Pouzin, designed and implemented first computer network using datagrams
69. Ryan Rawdon, was on the technical operations team for one of our country's largest residential ISPs
70. Glenn Ricart, Managed the original (FIX) Internet interconnection point
71. Robert Rodgers, distinguished engineer, Juniper Networks
72. Brandon Ross, Chief Network Architect and CEO of Network Utility Force LLC
73. Peter Rubenstein, helped to design and build the AOL backbone network, ATDN
74. Tim Rutherford, DNS and network administrator at C4
75. Baudouin Schombe, blog design and content trainer
76. Akshay Srivastava, One Best Hosting
77. Larry Stewart, built the Etherphone at Xerox
78. Robert W. Taylor, founded Xerox PARC Computer Science Lab which designed first Internet protocol
79. Paul Timmins, designed and runs the multi-state network of a medium sized telephone and internet company
80. John Todd, Lead Designer/Maintainer - Freenum Project
81. Eric Tykwinski, Network Engineer working for ISP based in the Philadelphia region
82. David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS
83. John Vittal, created the first full email client and the email standards still in use today
84. Paul Vixie, Internet Systems Consortium

EDITORIAL BOARDS, OP-EDS, AND BLOGGERS

1. James Allworth, Harvard Business Review
2. Jerry Brito, TIME
3. Chris Bronk, Houston Chronicle
4. David Carr, The New York Times
5. L. Gordon Crovitz, former publisher, The Wall Street Journal
6. Larry Downes, CNET
7. Erick Erickson, RedState
8. Michael Geist, Toronto Star
9. Daniel Halper, The Weekly Standard
10. Instapundit
11. Los Angeles Times Editorial
12. John Naughton, The Observer
13. Jennifer Rubin, The Washington Post
14. Julian Sanchez, New York Post
15. San Jose Mercury News Editorial
16. Neil Stevens, The Daily Caller
17. Peter Suderman, Reason Magazine
18. James Temple, San Francisco Chronicle
19. The Buffalo News Editorial
20. The Economist
21. The New York Times Editorial
22. The Orange County Register Editorial

STUDENT NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS AND OP-EDS

1. Central Michigan University, Central Michagan Life
2. Iowa State University, Iowa State Daily
3. University at Buffalo, The Spectrum
4. University of California Berkeley, The Daily Californian
5. University of Massachusetts, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
6. University of Minnesota, Minnesota Daily
7. University of Oklahoma, The Oklahoma Daily

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES

Access AGEIA DENSI (Argentina) ahumanright.org Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Bits of Freedom (The Netherlands) Bytes for All (Pakistan) Center for Media Justice Center for Rural Strategies Center for Technology and Society (CTS/FGV) (Brazil) Centre for Internet and Society (India) CEPES (Peru) Church of Sweden Colnodo (Colombia) Communication Is Your Right! Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility Consumers International Derechos Digitales (Chile) Digital Democracy Digital Rights Ireland Digitale Gesellschaft e.V. (Germany) Electronic Frontier Finland (Effi) EsLaRed (Venezuela) European Digital Rights (EDRi) Fantsuam Foundation (Nigeria) Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung e.V. (FIfF) (Germany) Foundation for Media Alternatives, FMA (Philippines) Free Network Foundation Free Software Foundation Funredes (Dominican Republic) Global Network Initiative Global Partners & Associates

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