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SHOT Show: The last bastion of growing conservatism By Rachel Alexander Recently I attended the largest gun and outdoors show in the world; the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show. The annual Las Vegas event is so huge that only those who work in the industry are allowed to attend. The show doesn't receive much mainstream news coverage because the left-wing media doesn't want the public to know how many patriotic Americans are in the gun industry. Attendance increases every year, with 67,000 attending this year. There were 1,600 exhibitors, and over 400 companies were waitlisted. Conservatives have been losing ground in virtually every area in politics except the Second Amendment. Increasing violence and an expanding, more intrusive government have made Americans concerned about their safety. The Democrats' policies and values have resulted in generations of kids with behavioral problems, leading to more criminals as the kids become adults. The Obama administration's spying under the NSA, targeting of the Tea Party using the IRS and apparent stockpiling of ammunition have made more Americans afraid of their government. Despite the tension between law-abiding Americans and our current government, law enforcement has a friendly and huge presence at SHOT Show, spanning hundreds of booths. While big city "desk chiefs" may not have a good relationship with the gun industry, since they are generally appointees of liberal Democratic mayors, virtually everyone else in law enforcement does. The only evidence of friction observed at SHOT Show took place at the BATF booth. A wisecracking attendee placed a Molon Labe bumper sticker over the BATF's sign. Molon Labe means "come and take," allegedly said by King Leonidas I at the Battle of Thermopylae in response to the Persian army's demand that the Spartans turn over their weapons.
A few Hollywood stars dared to attend who were not afraid to be seen at a gun show. Actor Joe Mantegna and country music star Louise Mandrell dropped by for interviews at the booth for my magazine, Western Shooting Journal. Mantegna enjoys shotguns and sporting clays, and Mandrell runs a firearms company with her nephew. Attendees waited in line for over four hours to meet rock star Ted Nugent and actor R. Lee Ermey, known as The Gunny. Actor Michael Rooker from The Walking Dead and Cliffhanger calls himself an "avid shooter" and tweeted about SHOT Show while attending. The media and those with connections were able to catch the stars around the convention without waiting in line. The media was also invited to a nearby range to shoot hundreds of the newest guns on display for free. Reality stars like the Duck Dynasty clan are not as fearful of being associated with the gun industry, since they are under less pressure from anti-gun Hollywood than traditional stars. Jesse James of West Coast Choppers was spotted, and the actors from Gold Rush made guest appearances at booths. There were also plenty of award-winning competitive shooters, decorated veterans and politicians, including Texas Governor Rick Perry. Magicians Penn & Teller provided entertainment, which featured a segment shooting .357 magnum guns at each other. The left-leaning media will never reveal how polite the attendees were. Not only was everyone I encountered pleasant to deal with, but I never felt like any of my equipment was in danger of being stolen. The gun industry is the last great unshrinking bastion of American conservatism and good values. The divided GOP should look to the gun industry for insights on how to make progress on conservative issues. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, which puts on SHOT Show, the National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America and the Second Amendment Foundation have been extremely effective at influencing the public and lawmakers in recent years. These organizations work together, not against each other. Giving the media red carpet treatment at SHOT Show was a clever maneuver; there was virtually no negative news coverage of SHOT Show. The question is, do we want Wayne LaPierre for RNC chair or for president? Rachel Alexander and her brother Andrew are co-Editors of Intellectual Conservative. She has been published in the American Spectator, Townhall.com, Fox News, NewsMax, Accuracy in Media, The Americano, ParcBench, and other publications.

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I want Ten!
My son Boo got himself into some deep trouble a while back. I'll spare you (and him) the details of his offence, but it was bad enough to warrant more than just a stern lecture. I'm not the type of parent to resort to spanking, much, but I do believe it is a vital and sometimes necessary disciplining technique. For Boo this was going to be his first go round with me being the disciplinarian. He had been spanked previously one time by his mother earlier in the year, so he knew the routine. After he was informed what his punishment was going to be he was banished to his room so he could sit and think about what was coming for a little while. The fear of an impending spanking is just a useful as the spanking itself, so getting it over with too quickly is a waste of good psychological torment. So I let him sit in his room for at least 30 minutes before I headed back there.
When I entered his room I was surprised to see that he was standing beside his bed waiting for me. He was expressionless except for a faint hint of what could be described as determination on his face. There was no whimpering, no tears, and no quivering lip. Nothing. This was definitely not what I had expected. And at that moment I flashed back to a time in my own childhood. Boo's actions reminded me of a situation I once found myself in. It is a story my mother used to love to tell when she was alive, and thinking about it now reminds me as much of her as it does the circumstances.
Me and my two brothers used to fight all of the time. My older brother is eleven months older than me and my younger brother was three years younger. Both of them have always towered over me in stature.
One day after school, I think I was ten at the time, me and my brothers got into it. The reason for the fight was probably something minor and stupid, but first came the yelling, then the shoving back and forth which quickly disintegrated into a three man wrestling match. Our mom usually tuned out our horseplay and didn't get involved, but this time an exceptionally hard push combined with tripping over a sneaker ended up with me colliding loudly with a wall and subsequently leaving a large dent in the wallboard. Going instantly to silent mode, we could hear her heavy footsteps as they approached the bedrooms from the other side of the house. Naturally she was livid. She didn't even try to listen to my explanation of what had happened, instead sending us to our respective rooms and beds with the spine chilling final line, "wait until your father gets home!"
Being the head of a military family with three rambunctious boys should have earned my father a college course credit in discipline. My father was fair, but firm with his punishment, and he got to practice it a lot. After years of trial and error he had settled on a wide black leather belt as his implement of pain. He always wielded it without malice and made sure we knew why we were suffering at the end of it. Even so, the dread we felt leading up to our eventual punishment was always mind-numbing.
Just before nightfall I heard the car door of my father's Buick clank shut outside and shortly thereafter the front door opened and closed. I could only hear the murmur of voices and I imagined my mother telling him the events of the day. A couple minutes later the unmistakable footfalls of my father's spit-shined dress shoes made there way down the hallway towards my room. He stuck his head into my room and said, "Follow me." As expected, his expression was not favorable.
As I trailed him down the hallway to the other bedroom my brothers shared, I couldn't take my eyes off the infamous black leather belt sticking out of his back pants pocket.
In my brothers room I took a seat next to my younger brother on his bed as dad inspected the damage to the wall. Both of my brothers looked like they had been crying and my younger brothers had his hands jammed beneath him. He was already preparing himself for the inevitable.
When dad turned back towards us I think his face was a shade or two darker.
"Who hit the wall" he asked.
"I did," I answered truthfully.
"Stand up," he commanded to all of us. We did as he asked and a soft moan emanated from my younger brother.
Then my dad did something he had never done before. He stood in front of my older brother and asked, "How many?"
Confused my brother replied, "Huh?"
"I said how many," my dad repeated.
My older brother thought for a moment and then answered in an unsure tone, "One?"
My dad nodded his head and then slowly turned around and faced my younger brother.
"How many," he repeated the question to him.
My younger brother glanced briefly at my older brother and then replied, "One," as well.
Then dad moved in front of me and stood silent for a minute. "How many?" he asked me.
I am not a fan of pain. I'll avoid it as much as the next guy. Nor was I grooming myself to grow up to be some sort of Norma Rae. So I don't know why I answered like I did, all I can attribute it to is temporary insanity.
"I want ten," I answered defiantly.
"How many" he repeated, even though there was no mistaking my answer.
"I want ten," I answered again, purposely not breaking eye contact.
We stared at each other for what seemed like an eternity. At first I thought his eyes were going to burn holes through my brain and the need for the belt would be moot, but slowly his eyes softened and I thought I caught the sparkle of a smile starting to form. Then he turned around and left the room.
The three of us just stood there staring at one another with dumb expressions on our faces afraid to move. A few minutes later he returned. In his hands, instead of the black leather belt, was the cookie jar.
He reached into the jar and pulled out a single cookie and handed it to my older brother who took it slowly, still waiting for the other shoe to drop. Next he pulled another single cookie from the jar and handed it to my younger brother, who immediately started eating it. And to me, he handed ten chocolate chip cookies.
"You all will be doing chores for a month to pay for that wall," he said as he walked out the door.
It was a moment of my childhood, I will never forget.
Now in Boo's room, seeing him standing there bravely waiting to face the music, I thought of that story and how my mom loved to tell it.
And so I asked him, "how many?"
"How many?"
He seemed to think about this for a second and then he answered confidently, "Five."
I picked him up, gave him five kisses across his face, hugged him tightly and said, "You can thank your Grandpa for that one!"
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Okay. *sniff*
Umm... *sniff sniff*
So now that I've wiped away my tears and my heart, lurching closer and closer to my sternum as I read this, settles...I can breathe.
Sometimes, it is the lesson the kids SHOW they have learned that makes the spanking an unecessary tool...not all the time, but on occasions like this one.
Now back to my smiling snivel as I replay this story in my head and think on this for the next time my own chipmunk does something ... interesting.Dang, wish you were my dad! All I got was my nose put in circle just in tiptoe range. :)
Jules @ Trying To Get Over The RainbowAww! That is sweet! I'm glad you re-posted it! I'm going to try that when I have kids! :)
Join me in the Trick or Treat Spooktacular! Could you help make the Grand Prize a brand new Kindle Touch?Oh that brought back mempories. I was the youngest of three brothers. Punishment was rare, but when it was implimented it was done as you describe almost ritualistically. The ritual was as hard as the belt.
I never got a cookie however. That is a very nice touch. As you know the real punishment was the look of dissapointment in Dad's EYE!
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Also I invited the girl from Thailand which I met on the Bus towards Laos to China to become my wife. She agreed. When we met I didn't had any money at all. I was hungry for days and not properly slept. I was literally homeless. She said yes and later on become my wife.


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Friday, December 31, 2010
Made in 2010
1. rose velour hoodie dress, 2. DQS8 finish--"Six of One", 3. Oh Boy Quilt, 4. Eden charm pack dress, 5. 2 chickens, 6. downy quilt, 7. watercolor quilt front, 8. watercolor quilt back--finished, 9. day camp flag 2010, 10. finished circle quilt, 11. circle quilt closeup, 12. finished! turtle/hexagon quilt for DQS9, 13. finished pillow shams, 14. scrappy selvedge gift tags, 15. gathered clutch #1, 16. scrappy shirt, "leggings", 17. maple leaf quilt, 18. for Quilts for Kids, 19. charity quilt lavender and brown, 20. fairy costume, 21. mini quilt for guild swap, 22. 9-patch quilt finished, 23. finished shirt quilt, 24. plus pillows, 25. barn bag
In 2010, I made:
4 big quilts (bigger than baby quilt size)
5 baby quilts--3 for charity and one each for a new nephew and niece
5 quilted pillow covers
12 (I think) mini quilts
and several potholders
plus I knitted a couple of things and sewed a few clothing items.
I'm not going to talk about resolutions or goals right now, but some things I'd like to make in 2011 are:
*twin size quilt for Jacob
*another 9-patch quilt
*baby quilt for my sister's baby who's coming in August
*clothing items for me and my girl
*at least 2 charity quilts
*something quilty and Valentine-themed
What would you like to make or do next year?
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So many gorgeous things, Vicki! The watercolor quilt is just stunning! But my favorite just might be the chickens. Soooo cute!
This year I want to make a kaleidascope string quilt for our bed and a whirlygig quilt for Trey. I want to finish a flannel quilt that I started for Sage years ago, but gave up on because it was a serger quilt as you go thing and my old serger didn't have differential feed and it was getting all wonky. Sage found it recently and still wants it, and now my serger should do just fine, Yay! Oh, and with your wonderful encouragement, I really do want to try to design fabric. Those are my goals (in addition to losing another 25 lbs, LOL). - 12/31/10, 2:33 PM
- Nancy said...
Well, wow!! I love your Year-in-Review idea. A real sense of accomplishment and job well done. My goal is to continue exploring mixed media projects and learning new methods & supplies. Happy, creative 2011.
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I love your collage... How do you make em?? Do people set them up in flickr?? I can't figure it out!!! If u get a spare sec, could you help me out!!! Yours looks awsome!! It's fun to look back over the last year!! Happy new year!! Xx
Very nice collage! I would like to finish my block for each month of 2010 quilt and my I-spy quilt.
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Woot!!! Look at all you've done!!! Look out 2011!!!


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INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT)
The Internet of things (IoT) is the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as "connected devices" and "smart devices"), buildings, and other items—embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data. In 2013 the Global Standards Initiative on Internet of Things (IoT-GSI) defined the IoT as "the infrastructure of the information society." The IoT allows objects to be sensed or controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure, creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems, and resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit in addition to reduced human intervention. When IoT is augmented with sensors and actuators, the technology becomes an instance of the more general class of cyber-physical systems, which also encompasses technologies such as smart grids, virtual power plants, smart homes, intelligent transportation and smart cities. Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure. Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of about 30 billion objects by 2020.


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Photos: 'Made in Bangladesh' Takes Behind-the-Scenes Look at Garment Workers
Bangladeshi photographer Gazi Nafis Ahmed sees his country as a place faced with numerous intractable social challenges. The London Guidhall University graduate's observations compel him to document these issues through photography, in the hope of raising awareness, both at home and abroad.
His latest series, Made in Bangladesh, focuses on the country's clothing manufacturing industry — recently the subject of international headlines after a series of fatal fires in its notoriously unsafe factories. The series looks at working conditions for garment workers, predominantly women, who brave hazardous work environments to earn the paltry wages that allow them (barely) to make a living.
Currently Ahmed is a part of New York City's VII Photo Agency Mentor program, in which emerging photojournalists pair up with a VII member photographer who acts as a mentor and provides guidance for professional development. This series and many of his other projects are showcased on the agency's website.
Asia Blog reached out to Ahmed through email to find out more about his work.
What inspired you to pursue this series?
Fashion and style have always inspired me. I was seven, I remember and one morning when I was on my way to the school. I was in a car and I could see the female garment factory workers going somewhere. I asked my mom, "Who are they?" and "Where are they going?" The curiosity kept pushing me. I had to get inside their life and document it. I have spent four years on this project and will continue working on it.
Given the controversies surrounding garment factories in Bangladesh, did you have any difficulties getting access?
I did not have any difficulties getting access.
What is your most memorable moment from the shoot?
I was photographing 12-hours-old Ria. Her mom Khadija didn't get maternity leave from work. She didn't want her daughter to have a similar life. Her dreams were simple — to get nutritious food, healthcare, shelter and a good education for Ria.
What do you hope to achieve with this photo series?
I feel I have achieved something, when a viewer seeing my photographs carries an image in their mind. It stimulates a consciousness. My intention is definitely not to shock or bore the audience.
Where will your camera take you next?
One of the projects that I have been working on is about urbanization. It's a study of how urban areas depend on rural areas and the other way around.


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School is out and chances are, your child is going to want to spend a lot (if not all) of their time with you outdoors. Whether it's swimming, camping, or just being active under the sun, there are some important safety tips to keep in mind when enjoying everyone's favorite season with your little ones.
Swimming Safety
According to KidsHealth.org, nearly 1,000 kids die each year by drowning. If your child is going swimming in a family-owned pool be sure he or she has proper adult supervision. All public pools are usually crowded and should have on-duty lifeguards for maximum safety. If you are going to allow swimming in a lake or pond, two adults should be on watch; be aware of bottom-surface conditions and insist your child(ren) wear water shoes to prevent any injuries.
For children that are unable to swim without assistance, it may be a good idea to invest in a proper-fitting flotation device.
Applying Sunscreen
Sunburns are no picnic and can be quite serious if they blister and burn throughout the day. Young children require SPF 45 or higher (be sure to reapply every hour for maximum protection). If you are spending the day near the water, waterproof sunscreen is necessary.
Having a First Aid Kit
If you and your family are going to be away from home you should pack a First Aid Kit in case of any unexpected emergencies. A useful kit should have band-aids, antiseptic wipes, antibacterial cream, gloves, gauze pads, and a mask to assist in rescue breathing. If an accident occurs, major or minor, you will be pleased that you had the kit with you!
Use Insect Repellent
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Never allow children to play near a grill or open flame. Please remember that your grill will remain hot (some for a longer period than others) and the area should continue to remain off-limits. As far food goes, be sure to check the internal temperature of all meats before serving it to your family at barbecues.
Avoiding Dehydration
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Disk-Space Management - Why is it so hard?
LVM History
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Using LVM2
Exercising With Loop Block Devices
Creating A Volume Group
Creating A Logical Volume
A File-System On A Logical Volume
Extending The Capacity Of A Logical Volume
What Is A Snapshot?
Creating A Snapshot Of A Logical Volume
What-What?? What Is Going On With This Snapshot?!?
Properties Of Snapshots
LVM2 Internals
LVM2 Labels And UUID-s
The Layout Of A Logical Volume
The Structure Of A Snapshot
The Write On An Origin Of A Snapshot
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Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss
Human life depends on the earth as much as the ocean for our sustenance and livelihood. Plant life provides 80 percent of our human diet, and we rely on agriculture as an important economic resource and means of development. Forests account for 30 percent of the Earth's surface, providing vital habitats for millions of species and important sources for clean air and water; as well as being crucial for combating climate change.
Today we are seeing unprecedented land degradation, and the loss of arable land at 30 to 35 times the historical rate. Drought and desertification is also on the rise each year, amounting to the loss of 12 million hectares and affects poor communities globally. Of the 8,300 animal breeds known, 8 percent are extinct and 22 percent are at risk of extinction.
The Sustainable Development Goals aim to conserve and restore the use of terrestrial ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, drylands and mountains by 2020. Promoting the sustainable management of forests and halting deforestations is also vital to mitigating the impact of climate change. Urgent action must be taken to reduce the loss of natural habitats and biodiversity which are part of our common heritage.
Conserving forests and other ecosystems is one of 17 Global Goals that make up the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. An integrated approach is crucial for progress across the multiple goals.


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Slaughtering conventional history's sacred cows
An excerpt from Rodney Stark's How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
Historian Rodney Stark writes books that are models of popularly accessible scholarly writing. After reporting for the Oakland Tribune and The Denver Post, Stark gained a Ph.D. and taught at the University of Washington for 32 years before heading to Baylor University 10 years ago.
His The Triumph of Christianity: How the Jesus Movement Became the World's Largest Religion (HarperOne) was WORLD's Book of the Year for 2012. His new book, How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity, slaughters more of conventional history's sacred cows, including the belief beloved by classicists that the Greco-Roman world was wonderful and its demise a disaster. Here's an excerpt reprinted with permission of ISI Books. —Marvin Olasky
Chapter 4: The Blessings of Disunity
In response to the long-prevailing absurdities about how the fall of Rome plunged Europe into the "Dark Ages," some historians now propose that very little happened after the Western Empire collapsed—that the "world of Late Antiquity," as Peter Brown has identified the era from 150 to 750, was one of slow transformation. Brown is, of course, correct that the history of these centuries can be told "without invoking an intervening catastrophe and without pausing, for a moment, to pay lip service to the widespread notion of decay." But to deny decay does not require the denial of change.
The fall of Rome was, in fact, the most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilization, precisely because it unleashed so many substantial and progressive changes.
After Rome's fall, Europe was blessed with lasting disunity; periodic efforts to reestablish empires failed. Disunity enabled extensive, small-scale social experimentation and unleashed creative competition among hundreds of independent political units, which, in turn, resulted in rapid and profound progress. Thus, just as the Greek "miracle" arose from disunity, so too "European civilization … owes its origins and raison d'être to political anarchy," as Nobel Prize winner F.A. Hayek explained.
Not surprisingly, most of the early innovations and inventions came in agriculture. Soon most medieval Europeans ate better than had any common people in history, and consequently they grew larger and stronger than people elsewhere. They also harnessed water and wind power to a revolutionary extent. In addition, faced with constant warfare among themselves, medieval Europeans excelled at inventing and adopting new military technology and tactics, all of them consistent with the Western principles of warfare initiated by the ancient Greeks. In 732, when Muslim invaders drove into Gaul, they encountered an army of superbly armed and trained Franks and were destroyed. Subsequently, the Franks conquered most of Europe and installed a new emperor. Fortunately, the whole thing soon fell apart and Europe's creative disunity was reestablished.
The Myth of the Dark Ages
Belief in the Dark Ages remains so persistent that it seems appropriate to begin by quickly revealing that this is a myth made up by eighteenth-century intellectuals determined to slander Christianity and to celebrate their own sagacity.
It has long been the "informed" opinion that after the fall of Rome came many centuries during which ascendant Christianity imposed an era of ignorance and superstition all across Europe. In her long-admired study of medieval philosophers, The Age of Belief (1954), Anne Fremantle wrote of "a dark, dismal patch, a sort of dull and dirty chunk of some ten centuries." Fremantle's assertion merely echoed the anti-Christian fulminations of various eighteenth-century dissenters. Voltaire described the era following Rome as one when "barbarism, superstition, [and] ignorance covered the face of the world." According to Rousseau, "Europe had relapsed into the barbarism of the earliest ages. The people of this part of the world … lived some centuries ago in a condition worse than ignorance." Edward Gibbon called the fall of Rome the "triumph of barbarism and religion."
More recently, Bertrand Russell, writing in the illustrated edition of his famous college textbook (1959), declared: "As the central authority of Rome decayed, the lands of the Western Empire began to sink into an era of barbarism during which Europe suffered a general cultural decline. The Dark Ages, as they are called." In 1991 Charles Van Doren earned praise for his book A History of Knowledge, in which he noted that the fall of Rome had "plunged Europe into a Dark Age that lasted for five hundred years." It was an age of "rapine and death," since "there was little law except that of force." Worse yet, "life had become hard, with most people dependent on what they could scratch with their hands from the earth around their homes." Van Doren blamed Christianity for prolonging this dismal era by disdaining consumption and the material world while celebrating poverty and urging contentment. In 1993 the highly respected historian William Manchester summed up his views of the period "AD 400 and AD 1000" in his book title: A World Lit Only by Fire. He dismissed those who no longer believed in the Dark Ages on grounds that "most of what is known about the period is unlovely. … The portrait that emerges is a mélange of incessant warfare, corruption, lawlessness, obsession with strange myths, and an almost impenetrable mindlessness."
Nevertheless, serious historians have known for decades that these claims are a complete fraud. Even the respectable encyclopedias and dictionaries now define the Dark Ages as a myth. The Columbia Encyclopedia rejects the term, noting that "medieval civilization is no longer thought to have been so dim." Britannica disdains the name Dark Ages as "pejorative." And Wikipedia defines the Dark Ages as "a supposed period of intellectual darkness after the fall of Rome." These views are easily verified.
There may have been some serious, but short-lived, dislocations associated with the collapse of Roman rule and the organization of new local political units. But the myth of the Dark Ages posits many centuries of ignorant misery based on four primary factors: (1) most cities were abandoned and fell into ruin; (2) trade collapsed, throwing local communities onto their own, very limited resources; (3) literacy all but disappeared; and (4) the standard of living of the average person fell to a bare subsistence level.
It is true that Roman cities and towns declined greatly in number and size after the fall of Rome. The population of the city of Rome dropped from about five hundred thousand in the year 400 to about fifty thousand in 600. Of 372 Roman cities in Italy listed by Pliny, a third disappeared soon after the fall. Many towns and cities in Gaul and Britain "became like ghost towns, with small populations," according to Roger Osborne in Civilization. All told, most of the empire's estimated 2,000 "cities" (mostly towns) suffered this fate.
But these changes did not mean that the West had slid into backwardness. The truth is that most Roman cities no longer served any purpose. They had been funded by the state and existed only for governing: for collecting taxes, administering local rule, and quartering troops. As Osborne noted, "they were centres of consumption, not production, and had no autonomous reason for existence." In contrast, the towns that arose or survived in post-Roman Europe were centers of trade and manufacturing—as were the many towns in the "barbarian" North, which continued to flourish. The towns and cities of this new era tended not to be large, because there were no state subsidies to pay for daily distributions of free food and entertainment for idle masses. Those people "now were not fed at all unless they made shift to feed themselves," as the historian A.R. Bridbury put it.
Surely this was a major change. Just as surely, it was not decay.
With the demise of the fabulously rich Roman elite, the luxury trade bringing exotic food, jewels, and cloth from distant sources may have declined. But proponents of the Dark Ages myth propose that all forms of trade soon disappeared: in Van Doren's words, "the roads were empty of travelers and freight." But it wasn't so—there was far more European trade after the fall. For one thing, although the Romans transported a lot of goods, it wasn't really trade but merely "a traffic in rent and tribute," in Robin Williams-McClanahan's apt phrase. Coins and precious metals, food, slaves, and luxury goods flowed to Rome; little came back except tax collectors and soldiers. As Bridbury explained, Roman trade "did not generate income, it simply impoverished those from whom it was extorted." Second, long before the fall of Rome the "barbarian" areas had established very active, dense, long-distance trade networks, and these not only survived but soon were extended south and westward. Post-Roman Europe sustained busy trade networks dealing in practical things such as iron tools and weapons, pottery, glassware, and woolens. Most of these items were well within the means of ordinary people, and some of the goods traveled several thousand miles.
"Everyone" knows that the fall of Rome soon resulted in an age of illiteracy. No doubt most people in the post-Roman world were unable to read or write. But this was nothing new: literacy was probably below 5 percent during the days of the empire as well. It also is true that after the fall, fewer people wrote in Latin or Greek—since they did not speak them either. Meanwhile, many of the "barbarian" tongues already were, or soon became, written languages. For example, written Gothic dates from the fourth century and Old English from about the fifth.
As for the average person's standard of living, it is true that the state no longer subsidized food or made daily free distributions of bread, olive oil, and wine. But studies based on isotopic analysis of skeletons have found that people in the so-called Dark Ages ate very well, getting lots of meat, and as a result they grew larger than people had during the days of the empire.
Finally, the Germanic North had already been "Romanized," even though it lay outside the empire. The historian Alfons Dopsch demonstrated that by the end of the first century the Germanic societies "had acquired most of the attributes of a fully articulated economic civilisation, including the use of coinage and the dependence on trade." Moreover, when the Goths and Franks and other Germanic peoples took up residence in the empire, or later in what had been parts of the empire, they quickly assimilated. Thus it is that nowhere in modern Europe does anyone speak Frankish or Gothic. Instead, millions speak French, Spanish, and Italian—the Romance languages, which are, of course, merely "low" forms of Latin. This shift occurred very early.
What did decline during the so-called Dark Ages were literary pursuits. Manchester expressed the common theme: "Intellectual life had vanished from Europe." In fact, little writing on any subject survives. As a result, echoing generations of scholars, the famous nineteenth-century artist Howard Pyle could complain, "Few records remain to us of that dreadful period in our world's history, and we only know of it through broken and disjointed fragments." Although some writing from that era may have been lost, it appears that far less was written for several centuries after the fall of Rome than before or since.
Why? In large part because the wealthy leisure class inherent in the parasitical nature of the imperial system had fallen away. Under the empire, the immense wealth drained from the provinces had sustained the idle rich in Rome. When this flow of tribute disappeared, so did the leisure class. There ended up being far fewer persons who did not need to work for their livings and who had the leisure to devote themselves to writing and other "nonproductive" enterprises. It was a few centuries before the reappearance of persons free to produce artistic and literary works.
For generations of scholars, that alone was sufficient to call an era "dark," even if it was abundant in new technology—which these scholars probably would not have noticed in any event.
The Geography of Disunity
The map of medieval Europe's independent political units looks remarkably like a map of primitive cultures occupying this same area in 3000 BC. That is because the geography proved inimical to unification. Europe was, in E.L. Jones's words, "a scatter of regions of high arable potential set in a continent of wastes and forests." Unlike China or India, it was not one large plain but a multitude of fertile valleys surrounded by mountains and dense forests, each often serving as the core area of an independent state. Only a few sizable plains, such as those surrounding Paris and London, could easily sustain larger political units; the rest of the political units that developed were tiny—statelets is the appropriate term. We lack sufficient information to count the states and statelets of the early post-Roman period, but as late as the fourteenth century there were more than a thousand independent units spread across Europe. Even today there are more than thirty.
Europe's geographic barriers created not only many political units but cultural and linguistic diversity too, which also impeded efforts at unification. It should be remembered that Rome was able to impose its rule on far less than half of Europe—only the area southwest of the Rhine and the Danube Rivers. Even in Britain, Hadrian's Wall separated the Roman area from that of the northern tribes. Within the empire, the Mediterranean substituted for a great plain facilitating central control from Rome. That is, Rome was essentially a waterfront empire encircling the great inland sea, and most Roman travel and trade was by boat. It is doubtful that the Romans could have controlled either Spain or the Levant had the legions been required to invade and supply themselves entirely by land. And once Rome fell, both areas splintered back into many small units.
Unlike Rome, however, most of Europe did not depend on the Mediterranean for waterborne tradeways. It had an immense advantage over Asia and Africa because of what Jones called "an abnormally high ratio of navigable routeways to surface area, which was a function of a long indented coastline and many navigable rivers."
Migrations and Disunity
Our knowledge of the migrations of various groups into and across Europe is a confused mess. Most of the groups left no written accounts of their movements; the Roman reports are often wrong and almost always biased; modern archaeology has challenged a lot of what we thought we knew.
For example, every British schoolchild knows about the invasion of the Angles and Saxons, two related Germanic peoples who arrived in England during the fifth century and took over, as demonstrated by the fact that their language (Old English) soon dominated. In fact, the word England means "land of the Angles." The Anglo-Saxons' arrival in England and their rise to power is carefully attested by the Venerable Bede (672–735) in his esteemed Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
But archaeologists now challenge the claim that a substantial Anglo-Saxon migration took place. As archaeology professor Peter S. Wells has documented, isotope studies of skeletons in what everyone has regarded as Anglo-Saxon cemeteries show "consistently that the individuals, whom earlier investigators would have interpreted as immigrants from the continent, were in fact local people." Anthropologists now believe that the famous migrations "rarely, if ever, involved the large numbers that many accounts indicate, especially in western and northern Europe." Instead, it now is believed that "small groups of elites, often with bands of their loyal warriors, sometimes moved from one region to another and quickly asserted their power over the peoples into whose land they moved." That is, after the arrival of elite groups of Angles and Saxons, most people in England became Anglo-Saxons—or at least their descendants soon did.
Obviously there were various "barbarian" groups on the borders of the Roman Empire. Obviously, too, many of these groups were large enough to pose a serious threat to Roman areas. And clearly some of them did enter the empire in large numbers as Roman rule faltered—the Ostrogoths and Visigoths, for example. But in the post-Roman period, it is difficult to know whether large groups, or only elites, were involved in migrations. During the fifth century, did great Frankish migrations occur into northern Gaul, or did Frankish warrior elites simply carve out many small kingdoms populated by locals? Whatever the case, cultural diversity increased dramatically, which increased disunity.
The proliferation of European political units had several important consequences. First, it tended to make for weak rulers. Second, it offered people some opportunity to depart for a setting more desirable in terms of liberty or opportunity. Finally, it provided for creative competition.
Excerpted from Rodney Stark's new book, How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity. Reprinted with permission of ISI Books.
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Ding Junhui v Mark Williams
Shaun Murphy v Neil Robertson
After this I predict Ding will beat Robertson 18-10 in the final.
Before anyone suggests therapy, I should point out that I used to have a very good record in tipping the winner of the world title. This was mainly because I always used to tip Stephen Hendry.
I also called it for Mark Williams and Ronnie O'Sullivan the years they won it and, in 2003, got all four semi-finalists right.
In the last three years, though, I don't think I've got any of them right. The reason is quite simple: there are so few tournaments that form is irrelevant.
OK, so Murphy, Mark Selby and Stephen Maguire have been the three form players of the season but by the time the Crucible comes round none of them will have played for three weeks (apart from Selby's two days in the Championship League).
The last three winners – Murphy, Graeme Dott and John Higgins – all had poor seasons heading to Sheffield before finding form over the 17 days.
Ding is my tip to win, which is strange, really, when you consider he has the hardest first round draw in Marco Fu.
He could lose this but if he doesn't I fancy him to go all the way.
Williams has, of course, been off the boil of late but let's not forget that its only five years since he won the biggest cheque in snooker history - £270,000 – in winning the title for a second time (incidentally, I've no idea what the winner gets this year as the prize money appears to be a state secret).
With Ronnie O'Sullivan's tendency this season to struggle against the more methodical players, I think Williams has a great chance to take him out in the second round.
Murphy is Mr. Consistency and although he's in a tough quarter that includes Selby and Peter Ebdon, I reckon he'll come through it.
Robertson has done nothing of note all season but is the sort of player who could suddenly spring into life with devastating effect.
Maguire is favourite in this quarter but has been laid up this last week with flu and unable to practice – hardly ideal preparation for the game's biggest event.
How many of my four tips will actually reach the semis?
Probably none, but who'd bet on snooker these days? It's never been so unpredictable.
That's why watching the championship will be so enjoyable – anything can happen.
Please post your own predictions below.
16 comments:
Hello David;
I have a sneaking feeling that Marco Fu will account for Ding Jun Hui in the opening round and repeat his victory of the Wembley Masters and progress to the semi-finals. I think we tend to forget only 2 years ago he was within a frame of a World Final.
In the semi-finals I think he'll face Ronnie O'Sullivan, a man he has an excellent record against - including victory here in 2003 and the 2007 Grand Prix Final.
The second semi-final I'm going for the best of friends (!) Shaun Murphy and Stephen Maguire.
The final I'm going for Marco Fu and Stephen Maguire, with Hong Kong's finest taking the trophy back to the Far East.
David, you have predicted Ding - should Marco spoil your party how far do you think he'll go?
Whether I'm right or your right or we are both wrong - the one thing for certain is that is going to be a Crucible Cracker of a Championship!
Ryan - 1:46 pm
- Dave H said...
Fu could certainly win it but he does suffer from inconsistency of performance and that might see him come up short even if he beats Ding
- 1:48 pm
Good point David, as well as his excellent win in Aberdeen and extended run at Telford this season he has thrown in some poor performmances over the yaers - most recently against Li Yuan, the Chinese wild card, at the recent China Open.
Ryan - 2:01 pm
I'll go for
Ryan Day v Mark Williams
Peter Ebdon v Graeme Dott - 4:02 pm
i'd go for these 4:
fu v o'sullivan
murphy v maguire
with murphy winning the world against fu - 5:44 pm
Hendry v Doherty
Ebdon v Robertson
with Doherty winning his second world title against Robertson 18-14
He could be pushed in the quarter-finals by Mark Williams.
John H - 6:21 pm
Vadim, Ukrain - 8:38 pm
I'll hazard a guess at:
Fu v ROS
Murphy v Maguire (AGAIN)
With Fu or Maguire winning from there hopefully. - 10:44 pm
Judge v Chuang
Harold v Davis
Chuang v Davis
S. Davis - 12:26 am
great choice :))
- all of you're choices have won a turnament this season
- they all are in great form
if this isn't a joke i hope u didn't arrange anything :)) - 1:04 am
Here's my semi-final tip, having looked at the draw, so difficult to predict though:
Fu v Doherty
Maguire v Murphy
Then Maguire to beat Fu 18-12 in the final
Craig - 7:42 pm
I'd like the semis to be:
Hendry/Swail and Carter/Davis
but think they will be:
Allen/Ronnie and Murphy/Perry
I take Murphy to win it all(but hope I'm wrong!)
Des - 11:14 pm
- sportthecraig said...
Semi-final lineup,
i'll go for:
Joe Davis v Stephen Hendry
Ray Reardon v Jimmy White
Hendry and White to make the final, with Hendry narrowly winning 18-17 as White misses a vital black!
Despite the long odds of this occuring, imagine if it did and I didn't have money on it.
Craig - 2:44 pm
- Shaun said...
It's just so, so hard to predict this tournament nowadays. I doubt anyone could've tipped Dott to win in '06, or Murphy in '05; and few backed Ebdon to triumph in '02 either. Moreover, I felt that two years ago, Dott essentially won because he was the last man standing: O'Sullivan and Ebdon had been in much more fluent form, but Ronnie beat himself (as so often happens), and Ebdon was out on his feet by the final. This isn't to take anything away from Dott - his victory was an astounding achievement, possibly the most remarkable I've ever seen in snooker - but it shows how so many factors simply can't be guessed at beforehand.
I haven't correctly tipped the two finalists since 2001, or the champion since 1999 - but with no confidence at all, will go for semis of:
Ding v O'Sullivan
Murphy v Maguire
With Murphy beating Ding in the final to claim his second world title. But I agree with David that Ding's first round match is extremely dangerous (I think Fu is, with Ronnie, one of the two most unpredictable players in the game, capable of diamond brilliance as well as occasional incompetence), and am in any case concerned that whoever emerges from the Murphy/Maguire half of the draw could be too drained come the final.
Incidentally, why do so many seem to have a problem with Murphy? It reminds me a bit of Ebdon's unpopularity: so he's different, and has an unusual degree of self-confidence. So what? - 10:58 pm
- Dave H said...
Murphy is different to most other players but it would be boring if everyone were the same
- 2:05 pm
I echo what Shaun said above. 2 of snookers great modern rivalries to be re staged: Murphy v Maguire for the umpteenth time in the last few seasons (but never gets boring!), after Murphy edges a classic QF against Selby.
I've always thought that once Ding gets to a best of 25, 3 session match, his opponent better watch out. I think under those conditions, he will settle into a rhythm, and could potentially run amok. I take him to edge Fu, then it's look out Allen or Hendry. Momentum will carry him to a semi with....Ronnie, who won't dish out a repeat of Dings Masters hammering this time.
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Anyway, I dusted off my camera over the weekend to shoot a few things that I'm loving at the moment. Gosh I miss my camera! Hope you all have a good week and thanks again for your thoughts and prayers!
{In all honesty, my love for fashion has increased since my diagnosis. I've always loved clothes, but since there is no such thing as gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free clothing, then I love clothing even MORE now! As long as it fits, is almost more of a need than a want, and is in my budget, I can have it. That makes me happy. This skirt is a new colorful addition to my closet. It was 50% off and I just couldn't pass it up... }
{Once I started resting a lot more (a requirement of my diagnosis) I quickly realized that I needed to up my pajama game. These pajamas my friends, are the most comfortable pjs I've EVER owned. They are super soft and are the exact same size and texture after I wash them. I swear I'd wear them each and every day if these met my business casual requirement for work. So very good. }
{And while I've been resting, I've been reading. "Lies & Other Acts of Love" by Kristy Woodson Harvey is one of my latest reads and it was a good one! I loved Kristy's first book, "Dear Carolina," (see my review here), and she sweetly sent me a copy of her new book a few weeks before it was released. It's a beautifully written novel all about love, relationships, and the power of family. That's my kinda read... It's the perfect summer read if you are looking to load up your Kindle!
{I have a college reunion coming up and needed a pair of heels to go with this simple dress. I saw these Sarah Jessica Parker heels in the store and immediately bolted to them. I've wanted them since they first out! Lucky for me I nabbed the last pair in the store. And they were and still are on sale!! And they are so comfortable. Go a half size down from your regular European size if interested!}
{And yes. I still love flowers... :) }
{And yes. I still love flowers... :) }


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Inspired by the Cubist art movement, this area rug adds a brilliant contemporary touch to a space. Its bold, multidimensional aesthetic—enhanced with hand-carved details—is tempered with an understated palette in easy-to-love earth tones.
- Accent Rug.
- Machine Woven.
- Hand Carved Stripe Design in Shades of Black and Gray.
- Polypropylene. 25 mm Pile.
- Backed with Jute.
- Rug pad recommended.
Product Care:
- Spot Clean only.
Chayse Gray Large Rug 6'x5"x 9'x5"
Please note we cannot ship to P.O. Boxes or Military APOs.
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Inside Placement and Set-Up is considered to be White Glove Delivery.
Please ask for White Glove Delivery if it is required (additional charges will apply).
Some items does not qualify for White Glove Delivery.
Items that does not qualify for White Glove Delivery usually ship Fed-Ex, UPS, or USPS. If assembly is required, it will be the customer's responsibility to assemble the furniture. Only a small percentage of our orders ship this way, however, we do offer items that are simply not economical to do a White Glove Delivery.
In-stock items usually ship within 2 to 7 business days.
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This article describes in detail how to Immigrate to Canada as a Receptionist with or without a Job offer. There are thousands of Receptionists just like you emigrating to Canada next year. Find out how to join them. With the right Receptionist skills, Canada Wants You!
If you're looking to immigrate to Canada as a Receptionist you're in luck! Receptionists are in demand right across Canada and you may be able to secure a Canadian Permanent Residency Visa either with or without a job offer.
Migrate to Canada as a Receptionist
Every occupation on the Canada NOC List is assigned an immigration code and the code for those looking to emigrate to Canada as a Receptionist is 1241. This is also known as the NOC Code for a Receptionist.
No doubt you will have read online that having a job offer to move to Canada is a prerequisite to accessing the Express Entry process but as a Receptionist, you also have other options to secure your Canada Visa from the start.
For starters, Receptionists are eligible to apply for Canada Immigration under the Canadian Government's Immigration program due to the demand for Receptionists in Canada being so great they have included the occupation on the targeted occupations list, known as the NOC list (National Occupation Code In Demand List).
The code for Receptionists on the NOC is under Administrative Assistants Code 1241
This is great news for Receptionists the world over hoping to live and work in Canada.
Express Entry for Canada is not a visa class at all, it is simply the method (or database) that Canadian Immigration uses to select the right candidates for a permanent residency visa and in that case, as a Receptionist looking to immigrate to Canada we'll be looking at the Federal Skilled Worker visa and Provincial Nominee program.
Receptionists from all over the world are eligible to make an Express Entry for Canada Residency providing they have the right skills, experience and qualifications in their home country.
Receptionists looking to move to Canada to work under this NOC category 1241, might be employed under work titles including:
- administrative assistant
- administrative assistant – office
- administrative secretary
- appointment secretary
- church secretary
- contracts secretary
- executive secretary (except legal and medical)
- finance secretary
- human resources secretary
- loans and grants administrative assistant
- office administrative assistant
- personal secretary
- private secretary
- recording secretary
- sales secretary
- school secretary
- secretary (except legal and medical)
- secretary, church
- secretary, school
- taxation service secretary
- technical secretary
All these roles held by a Receptionist are eligible to apply under this specific NOC category of 1241.
Skills and Tasks to Immigrate to Canada as a Receptionist.
In general Receptionists moving to Canada will be able to demonstrate knowledge or experience of the following:
Administrative assistants perform some or all of the following duties:
- Prepare, key in, edit and proofread correspondence, invoices, presentations, brochures, publications, reports and related material from machine dictation and handwritten copy
- Open and distribute incoming regular and electronic mail and other material and co-ordinate the flow of information internally and with other departments and organizations
- Schedule and confirm appointments and meetings of employer
- Order office supplies and maintain inventory
- Answer telephone and electronic enquiries and relay telephone calls and messages
- Set up and maintain manual and computerized information filing systems
- Determine and establish office procedures
- Greet visitors, ascertain nature of business and direct visitors to employer or appropriate person
- Record and prepare minutes of meetings
- Arrange travel schedules and make reservations
- May compile data, statistics and other information to support research activities
- May supervise and train office staff in procedures and in use of current software.
- May organize conferences
Whilst the above is meant as a general guide do take our free online visa assessment for further information and be sure to list out your skills and qualifications in detail.
Emigrate Canada has a dedicated Office and Administrative Workers desk that only represents Office Based Workers to immigrate to Canada. They understand your profession and can talk your language when it comes to explaining your immigration pathway and the route to securing a Canada Visa for you (and your family).
Qualifications required to Immigrate to Canada as a Receptionist
- Completion of secondary school is usually required.
- Completion of a one- or two-year college or other program for administrative assistants or Receptionists or Previous clerical experience is required.
We represent Receptionists from all over the World so regardless of your country of qualification feel free to contact us today for a full breakdown of your Canadian Immigration chances.
How to Immigrate to Canada as a Receptionist
The first stage in your Canadian immigration process is to calculate your Canada Immigration points for Express Entry using the Canadian Comprehensive Ranking System.
CRS Points are awarded for (amongst other things)
English ability
French ability
Your partner's skills
Work experience
As well as providing you with important CRS points these factors also count towards your overall Immigration Points score which must equal or exceed a total of 67
Take our free online visa assessment for an up-to-date report on whether you have enough points to immigrate to Canada as a Receptionist from both an Express Entry and Immigration points perspective.
Once you receive an ITA (Invitation to apply) from Canadian Immigration as a result of your Express Entry application you'll only have 60 days in which to lodge a formal application so under no circumstances should you lodge an Express Entry application 'claiming' to have certain points without first having all of your points verified through different testing, education equivalence certificates and skilled worker assessments.
Once you are invited to apply for your Canada Visa you cannot go back and have these things verified retrospectively, they must be done before you claim any points for them and given that your express entry profile is only valid for one year it makes sense to present the best possible case right from the start.
Before you lodge your express entry we will help you through the process of having your qualifications and certificates verified as required by immigration.
Can I immigrate to Canada as a Receptionist without a job offer?
The answer is a resounding yes, providing you have a reasonable total CRS score on your Express Entry application and can meet the 67 immigration point threshold for your Canada Federal Skilled Worker Visa.
Technically there is no minimum CRS score required to submit a Receptionist Canada Express Entry profile.
Of course securing a job offer (documented in the right way for immigration purposes i.e. LMT) will give you an instant CRS boost of 200 points so it makes sense to start this process as soon as is practical.
Receptionist Jobs in Canada
Occupations on the Canada NOC list can be classed as being 'in demand' and the Receptionist code 1241 has been firmly established on the list for many years with lots of opportunity right across the country.
As a qualified new and highly skilled Permanent resident of Canada you may work full time from day one. Receptionist Jobs in Canada are often better paid than in the UK, Europe and Asia and Canadian employment law respects the work life balance. Additionally Receptionists in Canada are highly unionised which whilst sounds like a dirty word in many parts of the world is actually instrumental in championing better pay and conditions right across the Country.
Emigrate Canada are ideally placed to take care of not just your immigration paperwork, but also to get you registered to work from day one.


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I just wanted to make sure you guys are aware this happens sometimes before I delete this user.
Astroturfing is a word in English describing ... advertising, or public relations campaigns seeking to create the impression of being spontaneous "grassroots" behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf.
User in question:
(Edit: sorry, Marc spoilt the fun by accident; not much to look at on this account now....)
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Comrades at arms!It is been overwhelming, we're blown away by the enormous support we've had the last 24 hours. Never before in my whole history as a tattoo artist I've come across such an enormous exposition of positive energy. Reactions worldwide, tweets and retweets, pictures on Instagram, posts on Facebook, etc. It's a tough fight, but we're in to win this.
Again today we were denied access to our museum. Locks have been changed, negotiations with the police to get personal matters like tattoo machines were necessary. A tidal wave of local and national press were served all day. Negotiations with landlords, lawyers and businessmen took place. Do not despair my friend. We will fight this with success. Stay tuned!
P.S. Lawsuit is about 1.5 million Euros and has no ground at all. Come see us on December 8th. Help us fight for our art, fight for our history, fight for our future, fight for our museum!
How can you help us?
- First of all, keep spreading the word!
- Make a donation on PayPal, big or small at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Make a tattoo for the museum, donate, take a picture and participate in the 1000 tattoos for the Amsterdam Tattoo Museum competition
- Sing a song on YouTube
- Make a "Save The ATM" t-shirt
- Bake cookies
- Throw a party
- Become a member of the Blue Bone Society
- Put us in your will
- Sell your body
- Throw us a gig
- Rob a bank
- Organize an auction
- Participate in the December 2nd worldwide Tattoos for History day in participation with www.tattooplatform.nl.
Keep up the fight!
Yours truly, Hanky Panky, Louise, Annemarie & Tessa…


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Steps to Install ImageMagick on UwAmp for Windows:
as of March 31, 2016
Detailed guide for newbies like me.
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4. Goto:
as of today, latest is 3.4.1 so I went to:
My PHP version is: 5.6.18, and Thread Safety is Yes from
Step #1, so I downloaded:
5.6 Thread Safe (TS) x86
I got: php_imagick-3.4.1-5.6-ts-vc11-x86.zip
5. Unzip and copy "php_imagick.dll" to the php extension folder:
In my case:
php_imagick.dll --> C:\UwAmp\bin\php\php-5.6.18\ext
Note: this ZIP also contains dlls which other guides says
to extract to the extension folder of apache.
NO NEED TO DO IT. Step #3 has taken care of it.
6. Edit "php.ini" and add at the very end (could be
anywhere I suppose):
For super newbies: click the edit button in the UwAmp UI,
"php_uwamp.ini" will open and edit it. It will be copied to
the correct php.ini when UwAmp is restarted. I had
trouble at first since there are several php*.ini scattered
all over.
7. Restart Apache
8. Check PHPInfo
scroll to section (or find): imagick
number of supported formats: 234
If there is no "imagick" section or "supported format" is 0,
something went wrong.
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ISO 27032 Certification in Tanzania is a cybersecurity Certification that demonstrates an organization's commitment to safeguarding its digital assets and sensitive information against cyber threats. It adheres to the ISO/IEC 27032 standard, which provides guidelines for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving a robust cybersecurity management system. Achieving ISO 27032 Certification signifies an organization's dedication to adopting best practices for cybersecurity, enhancing its cybersecurity posture, and mitigating the risks associated with cyberattacks and data breaches, particularly relevant in today's digitally interconnected world.
Improved Cybersecurity Attitude:
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Lessening of Cybersecurity Incidents:
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Institutions of finance:
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Healthcare Professionals:
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Technology Businesses:
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Government organizations:
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Education Establishments:
Tanzania's colleges, universities, and K–12 schools maintain faculty and student records and depend on IT systems for instructional and management purposes. Their cybersecurity position may be improved by ISO 27032 Certification.
Law offices:
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Choose a Recognized Certification Organization:
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Preparation for the audit:
Your organization must get ready prior to the formal audit. This comprises:
naming a specified contact person or group in charge of communicating with the certifying body.
Stage 1 Audit (Review of Documentation):
Stage 2 Audit (Site Evaluation):
The Stage 2 audit entails an on-site evaluation by the auditor for the certifying organization.
Constant Development:
The continuous improvement culture is promoted by ISO 27032. To adjust to changing threats and technology, organizations should regularly examine and improve their cybersecurity management system.
Upkeep of Certification:
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