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Sunday, February 16, 2014
Our State of Police
We don't have militarized police forces, TSA agents and NSA eavesdropping because the government is afraid of us, but because the government's policies have made life unlivable without them. The KGB wasn't there to protect Russians from each other. Our police state is. And those parts of it that aren't fly under the radar every time the Chicago death toll for the year appears on the evening news.
The police escalation that shows up on countless videos exists because the people demanded it. And the people demanded it because liberal social policies made entire cities unlivable. The militarized police forces out of cities like Los Angeles filtered down to the suburbs and the rural areas as the same policies and populations that made cities unlivable began spreading outward.
The police state, associated with the right, worked in tandem with the social policies of the left, to dull the pain of those policies. That "dulling" has become the new role of conservative politicians in America who manage the disaster instead of rolling it back. The left realized that without the police state, its policies faced a much broader level of rejection so it learned to tolerate the pigs and the man.
Urban areas were still a disaster, but relentless computerized policing reduced crime enough to make it appear that things had improved. The visible crime statistics however were only the symptoms of the problem. The left had been right about that. It was just wrong about the cause. It was the cause all along. Its social policies had created social problems that the police state managed.
Having armed goons patrol the streets made cities viable again. And that brought in the tax base which allowed the left to experiment with more of the same social policies. The Giulianis made it safe for the Bloombergs and then the De Blasios to come back. In the same way Bush's war policies paved the way for the Obama years by dulling the pain of international terrorism.
The international manifestations of the police state dulled the impact of Islamic terrorism without addressing the cause. The cause was not, as the left and some libertarians believed, foreign policy, but immigration. The collision of populations and ideologies led to September 11 using the very planes that made international immigration so easy as weapons.
The War on Terror with its spectacle of targeted drone strikes slowed down the terrorists without addressing the real problem, dulling the pain so that no one would pay too much attention to the next planeload of Pakistanis, Syrians or Somalis showing up in America.
It's tempting to connect the two, to assume that the social policies are there to enable the police state, but the people behind one or the other are two arms that can't find each other. The class warriors can't conceive that their enthusiasm for cultural breakdowns and economic depression somehow causes crime and the law and order types can't grasp that all they're doing is making it easier for the people responsible for the mess to make it worse. And even if they do; what other options are out there?
We've become very good at symptom management and at not thinking about the underlying problem. Our medical establishment turns out high tech symptom management medications that let you go on living your life and canoeing or mountain climbing in drug commercials and our law enforcement, security and military establishments are good at their own high tech symptom management whether it's drones, surveillance or computerized tracking of all offenses in a given area.
The Republicans are aware that problems don't really get solved, but they are unwilling to deal with the causes. The sad state of the mainstream right is that it believes in holding the line, in managing the symptoms, and when the line is pushed back, it has no answers and no solutions. The left has plenty of solutions, but they are the same solutions that cause the problems.
What we have is a problem of failed societies, both at home and abroad. Some of these societies encompass entire countries while others are limited to a city or a neighborhood. In these places the social contract has broken down. The only thing that keeps the people living in them from killing each other is the threat of naked force, the vendetta and the lynch mob and honor and shame.
The right tackles failed societies with 70 percent policing to 30 percent welfare while the left goes with a 70 percent welfare to 30 percent policing mix. There's a fundamental difference in consequences with a 70 percent welfare mix being unlivable and a 70 percent policing mix being manageable so long as you don't mind losing your civil liberties when you get caught up at the wrong time and place.
But the differences in philosophy are less profound. The right is forced to accept the necessity of the welfare state and the left has to accept the police state. Republicans have to hand out free stuff and Democrats have to drone. It's the emphasis in priorities that makes Democrats different from Republicans. It's the distinction that they make between ends and means that explains why they are so much alike until they get too close to having unchallenged power with no one to stop them.
The left tries to "save" the people of failed societies by taking care of them and tries to appease them by minimizing resistance. The more they are taken care of, the less they take care of themselves and the more entitled they become. The more they are appeased in response to violence, the more violent they become. Eventually this cycle hits a peak which requires police or military intervention. If the intervention is successful, the cycle is dampened, the right declares victory and the left agonizes. If it is not successful, then the left declares victory and mixes its existing policies together with some version of the police state. Either way the cycle continues and the problem resurfaces.
Since we can't address the problem, we instead blindly address the symptoms. The TSA gropes everyone. The NSA listens in on everyone. The police treat everyone like a potential spree killer. Every school has to be locked down and put on zero tolerance. Every cop is following a script that leads to a taser at best and a bullet at worst. Everyone has a plan for killing everyone else.
That's not the traditional police state. The cops aren't the Superego, they're the Id, doing the dirty work that no one wants to talk about so that we can go on pretending that everything is alright. While society pretends that everything is working, those with the guns know that nothing works and lose faith in the system and in society. The people we pay to protect us from failed societies take on some of the aspects of failed societies, looking into the abyss and seeing the abyss inside themselves.
If the cycle continues, then at some point our state of police may become a police state, but that's not the likeliest option anymore. Police states work with people who generally behave themselves. They are good tools for dealing with the middle class. They're not much good for people with no sense of consequences or concern for the future whose life is shaped by magical thinking.
In the United States, it's not the populations that drift in and out of jail who find the police terrifying, but those who don't. There is no police state for the former. The middle class citizen looks warily through the window of his home like the bars of a cage but when the cop car drives through a bad neighborhood, it's the police officers inside who feel like they are in a cage. The police state is about control and our state of police exists to control the areas that are becoming uncontrollable.
The same problem exists internationally. American diplomats can bully the UK over the EU or intimidate Israel into releasing terrorists, but they can't do much to Afghanistan, Pakistan or the Palestinian Authority. There's only one thing you can do to people who don't care about what happens next because they don't think in terms of consequences and live for little else except conflict.
And so eventually the middle class people and the middle class countries get tired of policing bad neighborhoods and bad countries and retreat to their own little zones of security policed by increasingly ruthless tactics as the violence outside grows and the walls begin coming down. And then it's Rome and the barbarians all over again.
The police state and the welfare state aren't answers, they're denials of reality.
The left can't fix the social problems that, in some cases its welfare state helped cause. It certainly can't fix those that predate its intervention. Its efforts are all the more hopeless because it attributes the cause to its usual suspects of capitalism and intolerance so that it never addresses the problems, instead it uses people from failed societies as ammo in a cultural war. The right's tactics temporarily contain the worst of the violence, but not its expansion or its causes.
The very problem with a police state is its mechanical blindness, its fear of offending anyone or singling anyone out that it resolves with wholesale intimidation. Oppressing everyone to avoid oppressing anyone is the egalitarian ethos gone mad. Police states deal in random terror to intimidate everyone. Our state of police deals in random terror because that way everyone is equal.
But the problems that brought this state of police into being are not evenly distributed. And a solution whose distribution ignores the distribution of the problem cannot succeed. Our police state has been brought about by a collision of cultures. The police state and the welfare state attempt to manage that collision without acknowledging it.
The domestic police state would be far less necessary if we stopped importing the populations who are most likely to be in need of it and the same goes for the domestic welfare state. Internationally we can scrap the welfare state and concentrate our firepower on larger threats rather than chasing down every goat herder with an RPG in the name of stabilizing another failed society that will stabilize.
25 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Make no mistake, the NSA programs on domestic "data gathering" are a mother's milk of any totalitarian state. You do not need Stasi 2.0 to have a totalitarian state, but you can not even pretend that when you have Stasi 2.0 you do not have a totalitarian state. What we do not have yet are the armed goons at our doors, but we are well past incipient stage of totalitarian government, so goons are coming. Orders for "training" ammo, in quantities unfathomable to anyone but military force involved in a conflict of the size of a world war, are being placed almost daily. This is just one random observation... there are many more....
- 17/2/14
- Anonymous said...
"Oppressing everyone to avoid oppressing anyone is the egalitarian ethos gone mad." That is good, really good.
- 17/2/14
- Anonymous said...
Mr. Greenfield, incandescent thinking as always. Your ideas seems to be based on an appreciation of symmetry and asymmetry, in the folds, contradictions, and turns of irony. Someday, I would really like to read more about the philosophical basis of your thinking. I think that you possess a great and rare wisdom.
In this article, you seem to suggest (not seem, but you actually spell it out in the final paragraph) that immigration is the root of the problem (the oscillation between the welfare and police states), and that the specific characteristics defining the Right and Left derive or are amplified from it too. How does this square with the deep history of immigration in the USA and the abiding idea that we are the safe harbor for oppressed immigrants from around the world? One example would be the Irish inflow of immigrants in the mid-19th century, the Civil War draft riots in NYC is a good example. Would American history have been better off without the immigration of that population too? What I am trying to highlight is the period of adjustment and acculturation of the American identity that all immigrant cultures require.
Perhaps a well functioning government could conduct this acculturation and integration better than we are doing and have done in the past. But America's government seems to be be incapable of functioning well, without waste and with foresight and good management. I have yet to read in the media a detailed analysis of our immigration and naturalization service, of how well or how badly they function, of how they can improve.
What has fallen out in the history of the USA is an abiding appreciation of concision in government. Today, laws are passed one after the other ad nauseam, in a blizzard of text. The idea that "ignorance of the law is no excuse" no longer applies today.
- 17/2/14
- Daniel Greenfield said...
Immigration is part of it. But it's not just immigration as a phenomenon, but the way that immigration is shaped and selected by the left to undermine existing countries.
With the draft riots for example, they were deliberately staged by the Democratic Party using German and then Irish immigrants for political purposes. And that's important to remember. They wanted to provoke the kind of response that took place. The left began doing that again with minority populations. It wanted race riots, etc to justify its welfare state and its path to power.
The left attempts to use groups as fifth columns for its own purposes, and in the process it tears those groups down. The Irish, the Jews, etc got out of the urban ghettos that the political machine wedged them into. Modern minorities haven't. And in part that is because the political machine has gotten better at keeping people there, giving them enough so that there's no reason to leave.
- 17/2/14
- Anonymous said...
This article is spot on. The 'amnesty' fools have likely never visited a public health clinic, as they are not usually found in tony neighborhoods. Many of my patients were from a culture that was very different from traditional American culture, and they liked it that way.. They shrugged a bit when cases of tuberculosis were found in their apt. buildings, they shrugged again when 11 and 12 year old girls in those same buildings turned up pregnant. Medical staff could not question who sired those coming babies, and the parents usually played dumb, rather than bring more disgrace on the family.
Never in my wildest do-gooder dreams did I think I would be looking for counselors for support groups of teens with HIV..
Amnesty can't fix a society that doesn't think it needs fixing, so other than more Left voters, what is the point ? The cost of social services to this community would take the average taxpayer's breath away.
- 17/2/14
- Unknown said...
The ammunition orders by the government branches are staggering, and can only be for war in America. But they won't be able to do it alone, unless they resort to mass genocide using bigger things than small arms. Most people tend to forget that our government is the first and only government to ever use atomic bombs on humans. Did you ever wonder where are the fish kills came from where only one type of fish dies by the hundreds of thousands. That doesn't occur naturally. They have weapons that can wipe out certain races or groups based on certain racial factors. This government will not hesitate to kill their own people when they see they can't win. It's a sad state of affairs in such a brief amount of time.
- 17/2/14
- Anonymous said...
and as the story goes...the root cause of the various problems we as a country and society have are...SPENDING by Government...take away the free handouts to the'needy' voters and many of the welfare states problems would disappear...Get the government out of all areas of 'business'...and get back to pre 1932 tax code....as in NO Income tax.....just a start....imho
- 17/2/14
- Gene said...
Not so sure about this thesis. I never asked for Homeland Security to link to my town and provide military gear for police who worry about parades and DUI. The police, themselves, are uncomfortable as they are the ones who may get an order requiring either their submission to becoming the new SS or resignation. They have families. They are in a very tough position.
If someone gives you a sturdy hammer, you will use it. Why arm the police with big hammers? Only in dissolving leftist cities do you find amoral aliens; the rest of us are fine, thank you. Also, the former US republic, is actively promoting civil unrest so as to solidify personal control after upheaval. Again, the police are in the middle of this crossing point. If some oblige a tyrant, I fear a domino affect will follow that will spiral beyond control, even that of the smug Marxist. You are right, in the end, we do not fear the police and tyranny is a bit at bay. One reason the level of fear is not palpable is that we have 300,000,000 hammers and many would-be carpenters have joined the union. This is why the leftists are in full attack on weapons. The weapons are the ultimate 10th Amendment.
- 17/2/14
- Anonymous said...
Leftists' first commandment is: you shall deny the existence of evil per se. In their pseudo gospel evil acts sure happen but only as a consequence of dire material conditions and if they are allowed to stage some clever transfer of wealth evil acts will vanish into thin air, men and 55 other genders will be freed from job lock, transgendered lions gone vegans will play not competitive soccer with zebras on marihuana fields, just for the joy of it, while moderate muslims will make jokes about the prophet and talk philosophy.
- 17/2/14
- Rob De Witt said...
And I say again (and again and again and again,) to an ever-expanding non-listening audience:
In the 1920s, International Communism was stalled by the desires of various peoples to maintain their national identities - hence Italian Fascism and National Socialism. Lenin's instinct was overwhelming brutality, but various equally-dedicated Communists proposed other strategies merely as a more-efficient alternative.
Prominent among these was the Italian Antonio Gramsci, author of the oft-quoted-and-virtually-always-misunderstood phrase "The Long March Through The Institutions." The institutions referred to, contra the popular assumption that he was referring to the Government and the school system and the universities, were in fact the institutions that Gramsci rightly identified as the pillars of any society.
The "Institutions" to be marched through, therefore, were the institutions of Marriage and Family, National Identity, Social Order, a stable currency, etcetcetc. Gramsci posited that a sufficient erosion of the pillars of a stable society would necessarily result in chaos - and that the populace would beg for totalitarianism as a means of restoring order.
And here we are now, no more and no less.
Congratulations, sheeple. You have become successful laboratory rodents in the Communist experiment.
- 17/2/14
- BarryCuda said...
"But if we 'discriminate' then it means that 'race"is real and that there are differences, irreconcilable differences, and then it's off to the ovens or something like that. You nazi!"
Sultan, there was a story cautioning scientists from pursuing studies that demonstrate a link between inheritance and personality including intelligence and the difference between the races based on the logic that "scientific racism" was responsible for slavery and the WWII atrocities.
Americans are small-minded fanatics who will not tolerate dissent. Things may change, but not because Americans have become reasonable: things will change when their innate fanaticism will be channeled in a different direction, preferably, one of nationalism and patriotism based on some version of blood-and-soil.
Religion is the only means of shaping the American mind: initially it was low church Christianity which devolved into modern utopian universalism. Maybe, the next phase will be militant ethno-nationalism which, sadly, is the only way to restore sanity.
- 17/2/14
- DenisO said...
"...The cause was not, as the left and some libertarians believed, foreign policy, but immigration.The collision of populations and ideologies led to September 11 using the very planes that made international immigration so easy as weapons..."
I'm sorry, I don't believe that immigration caused 9/11, and I can't read it any other way. Other than that, I agree with everything. When early America needed immigrants, strong, skilled and honest people were most desirable. The unskilled had to have sponsors and cash enough to survive a week or so, as I was told by my immigrant father. They had to promise to become fluent in English and were expected to attend public language classes. The goal was to bring them into the American society, not isolate them in non-English speaking communities, where all things were subsidized and there was no need for independent self-respect.
The immigrant of choice today only supports welfare worker jobs, the more welfare the more welfare supervisors, so promotions are a function of welfare growth.
The Left, generally, cannot perceive of the monster they are creating, here and in the West. They are helping to poison their own families' lives, because destructive social policies will ultimately hurt.them most. This result is the logical end for those who unthinkingly follow their Socialist religion and Leaders. Only the leaders of the Left can gain temporary power within the police state that follows total society breakdown. In the end, they will be destroyed by the ultimate tyrant that takes control. Socialism/Communism/Fascism always lead to tyranny, and there's no such thing as a group tyrant. Some have to go...
- 17/2/14
- malca said...
Your analysis evokes memories of LA riots, in which the LAPD, Sheriff's Office, and National Guard stood in front of banks and stores:
- 17/2/14
- Unknown said...
Correct diagnosis of the problem. Incorrect identification of root causes.
- 17/2/14
- DavidD said...
Right and Left is a false dichotomy--the Founding Fathers, after all, created our Constitutional Republic before the French Revolution, which was the origin of Right and Left wings within the Assembly.
The real choice is between Tyranny, on the one hand, and Anarchy, on the other; the irony is that tyrants often use the threat of anarchy as an excuse for their abuse of power. The Founding Fathers put a system in place that was supposed to anchor the pendulum at just the right balance between a system of total control and a system of no control; unfortunately, the pendulum has been pulled far away from its center in the last 100 years.
- 17/2/14
- Anonymous said...
I believe the number of folks who went deer hunting in Minnesota was 800,000. good luck with the American stasi.
- 17/2/14
- Daniel Greenfield said...
right and left predated the French Revolution. The best proof of that is how the FR split American politics down the middle.
- 17/2/14
- Anonymous said...
I can see the Republican - Democratic dichotomy but there is also the conservative versus leftist point of view and that is the way out. No one wants to admit it but after Giuliani police presence was less and not more and that is because he was able to move the balance away from the thugs. When crime was bad and the homeless out of control cops were regularly moving from subway train to subway train to max their visibility. Now you can be on a train at 3 a.m. and its crowded but there are no cops. The answer was simple. Attack those who attack the social contract from vandals on up to serious offenders. It is called a racist approach but it is the very opposite. The Giuliani broken windows policing could not have worked if minorities were in the majority lawless. You could not tip the balance if they were. It would overwhelm the effort. The liberal model of law enforcement is the primacy of the group. We will not see you as individuals but as a class and the best and worst make up the class. It doesn't make sense until you see that once crime goes down people are more likely to demand even better government. Class based enforcement is about maintaining status quo at all costs.
- 17/2/14
- Anonymous said...
Anonymous said...
"Make no mistake, the NSA programs on domestic "data gathering" are a mother's milk of any totalitarian state. You do not need Stasi 2.0 to have a totalitarian state, but you can not even pretend that when you have Stasi 2.0 you do not have a totalitarian state. What we do not have yet are the armed goons at our doors, but we are well past incipient stage of totalitarian government, so goons are coming"
You are so right about Stasi 2.0. We don't have the armed goons just yet but we do have the Stasi Zersetzung (decomposition of the mind) in place, it is being used as a touch-less form of government control on political dissidents of all kinds: Right or Left, Tea Party or Anarchist, deeply religious or Agnostic.
Journalists and whistle blowers top the list. The issue doesn't particularly matter. If it can influence others it's deemed dangerous.
Stasi 2.0 relies for the moment on the methods used by the East German Stasi to keep people in line. Sensitization to a benign object, so that the person who has been sensitized to the object can be brought under control without show of force. The object is associated with harassment and that is then used to leverage control.
Oppressive regimes have resorted to these psychological control methods for a simple reason: they work if the person doesn't know what's being done.
Gas lighting/ghosting: misplacing things in a person's home, moving things around and then returning them, making the person think he is losing his mind. Others will begin to doubt the person's sanity and naturally his credibility on an issue.
Few armed goons but trust me, Stasi 2.0 is indeed very real, and the tactics its modern version employees are tried and true. As for the use of psychological methods to destroy an influential person's credibility it is also important to recognize that not all of the measures are psychological, but very apparent to the victim and the perpetrator.
"So how do you tell the difference between genuine victims of Zersetztung and nuts? Well, for a start nuts don't have witnesses; but genuine victims often do.
The Litmus Test that I apply is this: Genuine victims will usually have some corroborative evidence - eye witness testimony, recordings of threats, property damage, etc. - to back up some of the incidents. They will have tried to get the matter investigated and will also have evidence of a cover up."
Take my word for it, this is happening in the US right now. Boots on the ground.
The NSA collection of mega data is the militarization of the Internet.
- 18/2/14
- Anonymous said...
Gene said...
Not so sure about this thesis. I never asked for Homeland Security to link to my town and provide military gear for police who worry about parades and DUI. The police, themselves, are uncomfortable as they are the ones who may get an order requiring either their submission to becoming the new SS or resignation. They have families. They are in a very tough position."
I agree, and they are in a very tough position. Not many have the luxury of losing their jobs in an effort to buck the system. I was joking online with someone about the inland DHS checkpoints in the US. DHS or Border Control whatever simply wants a verbal declaration of citizenship/
There are a lot of people refusing to identify themselves as American and repeatedly ask the agents if they're being detained etc. Nothing says "I'm an American" than repeating "I know my rights."
Ditto for photographers giving police their ID without probable cause.
It's going to take a bit for Americans to surrender their rights. The number of LEO willing to take our rights away is growing even though it clearly makes them uncomfortable.
- 18/2/14
- Anonymous said...
We may not have a police state, quite yet, in the full definition, but we have genocide, or if the word is offensive, then call it for what it is, mass murder.
There are 440,000 people dying in our country from preventable medical errors. These do not include the figures which are hidden or the gray figures that never made it as part of the statistics. Depending on what article you read, the figures could be anywhere between 750,000 and 1,000,000. This is genocide. Why? Our government is so corrupt they refuse to acknowledge this is happening and are ignoring it. The difference between genocide in the United States and elsewhere is, nobody is singled out. Babies, children, young, old, black, white, all are dying across the board.
Our country passed laws preventing Americans from getting justice and accountability. Americans can not even have the right of due process under our 7th Amendment Constitutional Right. Yet, we preach to the world about "rights" under the guise of respectability. The fact is, we are corrupt and have lost our humanity years ago. We sold our soul to the company store.
Sending you a link to show you the best medical care given in our country could possibly be the veterinarian clinics. Maybe the most merciful way to end a patient's suffering would be pulling the trigger. You judge.
If you find yourself in Texas, make sure your life insurance policy is paid in full.
If you are in NYC, avoid the doctor mentioned. The Texas Medical Board failed to police after their own.
Thank you for your time,
Cilla Mitchell
A Texas nurse and US Army vet.
- 18/2/14
- Tina Trent said...
"In the United States, it's not the populations that drift in and out of jail who find the police terrifying, but those who don't."
This couldn't be more true. Children born into welfare dependence and raised by the streets look to police as the latest social worker showing up to solve their problems or pay attention to them (they feel the same way about social workers themselves). They get angry if nobody comes to take care of them. The activists may rant and rage about "police states" but the people the police are coming to arrest just echo these words to gain attention and attract more people to take care of them.
90% of what happens in municipal court is young (rapidly aging) men acting out parental abandonment -- and the solution isn't more free stuff from society, because (a) that doesn't help people grow up, and (b) there's never enough free stuff to fill that void.
The other 10% is sociopaths enjoying the consequent chaos.
When young men were being killed in Atlanta -- the missing and murdered kids -- the ugly truth was that crimes like this were already being committed so frequently that the police had a hard time sorting out the victims of one predator from another. And once money for victims was involved, there were parents who came forward to demand money for kids whom they had abused and driven away or perhaps even killed -- but definitely had neglected.
When the line between serial killing and normative parenting becomes that porous, you can't talk about a "society in crisis" anymore. It is just no society at all -- no parenting, no sanity, and nobody but armed police forces can go in to maintain order.
Because of this reality -- because of reality -- I find the current libertarian-inspired anti-police sentiment in citizens' movements naive and disturbing. It is also largely the product of a few loud voices -- all libertarian, frequently pumped up by the inane Reason Magazine crowd, Alex Jones, and certain national columnists like Conrad Black.
The libertarians don't represent anywhere near the majority of these movements but they claim they are in charge and claim they are more sophisticated and wise than the grassroots and that the grassroots should follow them -- or shut up, which is the sort of treatment people put up with far too much from the libertarian nationals and from loud libertarians in local groups. The pressure brought by loud voices (and monied nationals) demanding that activists carefully censor themselves lest they talk about what is broadly defined as "social issues" is deeply damaging to the Tea Party movement.
What to do? Socially conservative, pro-Tea Party speakers need to get on the road and reach out to the people being silenced in these groups. They need to know that they should not let anyone silence them on social issues -- and especially not their friends.
- 18/2/14
- Anonymous said...
Daniel, good job once more taking a look at things from a different angle. I've often though of the hubris of those who think that the solutions to problems is more laws, more police, more authority. The key thing is to be able to distinguish problems and symptoms. If you can't and deal only with symptoms and never address the underlying problem, another symptom is going to pop up somewhere else.
A little example of what I mean. Almost all people would think that political corruption is a problem that should be dealt with. It's not though, it's a symptom of an overly powerful government that can give or take away on a whim. Does anyone honestly think that a business would rather pay a lobbyist rather than spend that money on junkets and three martini lunches? The reason they pay lobbyists is to use the power of government to do something to their advantage or merely as a matter of survival. Take away the government's power to pick winners and losers and lobbying would disappear.
- 18/2/14
- Anonymous said...
Utter bollocks.
The police state is there to protect the elites during the upcoming riots.
The crime in in the inner cities, never felt by the vast middle class is an excuse for building the police state, not the reason for it.
It is merely manufacturing consent.
- 18/2/14
- Anonymous said...
Charlotte Twight has the best two word description for the system we live under: "Participatory Fascism."
- 25/2/14


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As a Premier dealer buy2gig.com recommends Alarm.com, we're always working to bring the latest connected technology into the smart, secure homes we power. One way we do this is by partnering with the very best device manufacturers to integrate new devices into our cloud platform.
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It also means we get to talk about new, exciting integrations like these – all of which are currently on display at our ISC West booth right now, and coming to Alarm.com in the near future.
1: Go Slim Line on Front Door Security
It's just half the width of the HD model, but the forthcoming Alarm.com Slim Line Doorbell Camera (pictured right) packs just as much awareness, convenience and security into the package.
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Denise's episode of Law & Order: Los Angeles is finally on! It's called Big Rock Mesa. Sorry for the late notice… it also repeats on Saturday so check your local listings for channels and times!
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Tomchi wrote:Just tried during the noon break ...
Cool intro and nice gfx
Just finished the first sudoku (damn, i should have asked for an efficient brain for christmas ...)
Congrats !! And THANK YOU
bullis1 wrote:Unfortunately I hate sudoku but since I love ST graphics I'm going to play this a couple times. Thanks for the release!
sh3-rg wrote:Hey bullis, nobody is making you
The source is in there so you can scratch out the great sndh player if you like... it's all right at the top of the file, too, easy to find Look for the player in the dat folder, this is loaded in the cracktro part, right at the bottom. Cheers to ggn/gwem/swe for the sndh player (ggn's hack of the gwem/swe gfa one)!
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Heavy Stylus wrote:I'm sending a Pooz box and disk to Cooper and a Manical Drop one to DMA as well this weekend... Least I can do for their ace games
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I have an old system (only the hardware, it runs -current) which reboots itself from time to time (mostly during the daily periodic(8) run, but also during a lot of compiling (portupgrade)). There is no obvious reason (no panic) why it is doing this. It could be that there is some hardware defect, or something else. It is not important enough to get a high enough priority that I try hard to analyze the problem with this machine. The annoying part is, that sometimes after a restart apache does not start. So if this happens, the solution is to login and start the webserver. If the webserver would start each time, nearly nobody would detect the reboot (root gets an EMail on each reboot via an @reboot crontab entry).
My pragmatic solution (for services started via a good rc.d script which has a working status command) is a crontab entry which checks periodically if it is running and which restarts the service if not. As an example for apache and an interval of 10 minutes:
*/10 * * * * /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 status >/dev/null 2>&1 || /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache22 restart
For the use case of this service/machine, this is enough. In case of a problem with the service, a mail with the restart output would arrive each time it runs, else only after a reboot for which the service did not restart.


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In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 on the Xbox 360, the boy wizard and his friends have come a long way since they first stepped through the gates of Hogwarts, and the closing chapters of the saga find them on a collision course with a chap so nasty he's usually just referred to as "You-know-who." If you don't know who, his associates call him Lord Voldemort, and he's probably the least pleasant piece of LEGO in the toy box. Players will get to experience the epic conclusion to one of the most successful movie franchises in history with LEGO's priceless sense of humor.
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Lego Harry Potter 5-7 on the Xbox 360 takes Harry through a series of challenges and missions on a quest to stop the evil Lord Voldemort, the Dark Lord, who is back, and Harry suddenly has the realization that he is actually connected to Voldemort. Later the Ministry of Magic decides to try and take appropriate steps in order to stop the potential threat that this imposes.
As you progress through the game you are presented with Lego style characters which represent numerous personalities which are to be found in the Harry Potter movies and books. Unfortunately, if you have played the previous title which is called Lego Harry Potter 1-4, you may feel like this is a rerun of this first encounter. A lot of the mission styles and gameplay are like the original, although to the maker's credit, the storyline is well presented and this enables users to feel like they are following the books or films closely. When most levels end you are presented with a cut scene, a cinematic storyline which enables users to follow the story with relative ease as the game progresses.
You may decide to roam through Hogwarts you can learn an array of spells, which in turn enable Harry to be able to construct items as well as destroy them, via the use of the wand. These include Curses and Charms. You will also have to undergo training in order to defeat various creatures which you encounter in the game, such as the Death Eaters for example. Within the game there are 24 stories to unlock and also 16 classrooms to attend in order to unlock the full attributes that Harry possesses.
During gameplay you will come into contact with over 200 different characters as you progress, and each one is very finely detailed, and on top of this you also have the option of split screen, enabling players to switch between a jump in and jump out style of gameplay. This is mainly designed to allow more than one player to play the game, multiplayer if you will.
The graphics in Lego Harry Potter 5-7 are very sharp, sparks fly in various colors like a projectile from the wand and the shiny Lego characters really do add to the game's overall experience. I should also add that this game is based on the last 4 books created in the Harry Potter series, and the actual Hogwarts is a representation of the Hogwarts in Deathly Hallows Part 2 the film.
If you are looking to venture into the first 4 books then perhaps you should pickup the previous title Lego Harry Potter 1-4. Overall this is by far one of the best in the series of Lego games which seem to be springing up in leaps and bounds.
Lego Harry Potter 5-7 unfortunately did not differ greatly enough from the first title to be a really impressive game. You will find lots of enjoyment here but the makers should have tried harder to expand the overall style and playability so offering something different to the first. The levels are very similar to the original release, but they do follow on from the original game story with some much improved cinematic cut scenes thrown in which does improve the general appeal of the game.
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Washington D.C. – The Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), and Senator Mark Udall (CO), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence committees, unveiled legislation (summary) at a press conference today to ensure that any individual detained on U.S. soil under the Authorization of Military Force (AUMF) has access to due process and the federal court system.
The bills also prohibit military commissions and indefinite detention for individuals detained in the United States and affirm that any trial proceedings "shall have all the due process as provided for under the Constitution."
In unveiling their companion bills, Smith and Udall made the following statement:
"Current law gives the executive branch too much power. By ensuring all due process rights enshrined in the Constitution, our legislation protects civil rights and ensures national security. The bills clarify that the only options for anyone detained in the United States pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) are Article III courts (federal) and state courts. They prohibit military commissions and indefinite detention.
"In addition to protecting civil liberties, these bills strengthen one of our strongest assets in trying suspected terrorists: Article III courts and domestic law enforcement. Federal courts have a proven track record of success: Over 400 defendants charged with crimes related to international terrorism have been successfully convicted in the United States since 9/11.
"Additionally, our civilian law enforcement also has a proven track record of success as demonstrated by the recent mandatory life sentence received by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the "underwear bomber." This conviction builds on a history of success. In fact, more than 300 individuals convicted of crimes related to international terrorism are currently incarcerated in federal prisons within the United States with no escapes or retaliatory attack.
"While some claim we should shy away from using a court system that has been a model for the world for more than 200 years, we believe that we should embrace it. We should not fear our Constitution. We should embrace it."
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Patch 7.2.5 is just around the corner, but the official "set in stone – patch notes" has still not arrived yet.
I rarely pay attention to them until they are polished, so while I am waiting, I want to take a look back and appreciate the "biggest patch in the history of WoW" (with my positive goggles on!)
Here are my top 15 of the best things that Patch 7.2 brought, listed in no particular order.
The Anduin Quest chain
Oh, this I really, really liked. It´s great with so much character development for Anduin, and the quests and cinematic was just fantastic.
Druid Class Campaign and Thisalee Crow
I adore everything Druidic, so another, however small, part of our Class Campaign was more than welcome, especially since it gave me my Champion Thisalee Crow, who I have grown to love. (not at first, though!) But I find her enthusiasm to be very contagious. 🙂
Cathedral of Eternal Light
Just a little more about Illidan, Maiev and in general some good lore thrown into the mix, combined with beautiful, detailed surroundings; I quite like this Dungeon.
The Broken Shore
To go back to where our beloved Varian died in battle felt heroic. The quests leading up to the place was great. (How the zone works on its own, and the time gating it still has is another matter, but I imagine without time gating, it would have been greater. But some of Khadgars jokes on the Isle ARE pretty funny!)
Flying on The Broken Isles
As much as I like to explore on foot or wih flippers, being able to fly was very welcome. All those hills, caves and mountains…Enough. I just want the choice, ok!? (And I had been waiting for this so I could begin Suramar quests…Not going anywhere near that zone ever again without flying)
Mage Tower Challenge
Oh, this. This. A personal challenge. Just me and my skills put to good use. I lived in Proving Grounds to see how far I could get. So this challenge was a great experience for me.
Paragon exalted reputation reward; Wild Dreamrunner
My very favorite mount in the game. Well, the way it runs with the 100% speed is not spot on, but it will do! And it has given my beloved Talbuk a well deserved break after so many years. I was very fortunate to get it.
PvP Brawls
These I really like! Well, not all of them. But Arathi Basin during wintertime was so great. Tarren Mill Vs. Southshore too. Really nice ideas, that have been executed so well too.
Transmog set overview made easier (adding a lot of sets to the interface)
Ah, it´s just nice to be able to flip through all the collections of sets way easier than before.
Open all button mail
Saying goodbye to an Addon for something that is implemented in game (finally!)? I approve.
Karazhan added to LFG
I cherish Karazhan, so I´m very glad I can do that through LFG now, since I have little time to invest into doing Mythics.
Achievements linked from other players now show your own progress on the same tooltip.
Just a little tiny thing for some, but it´s so handy if you´re doing something together with a friend, or someone links you something, to quickly be able to see your own status.
Set tokens for all raids from Serpentshrine to Siege of Orgrimmar have been updated to provide loot for your spec on right-click, in the same manner as newer raid set tokens. The vendor functionality of these items has not been changed.
Ah, that is another one of those, one might say, "small" changes, but it´s so neat and helps with the transmog collecting runs.
The amount of Honor required to advance from 1 to 50 at Prestige 0 has been reduced by 50%.
Yes, please! I´m slowly working my way up, in hopes of being able to, one day, win 10 rated Battlegrounds and unlock my Nights Vigiliance tint.
Charater turning to look at their target (up, down and everything!)
For someone like me, who is very fond of taking screenshots, character portraits and what not, this sure is a nice, immersive thing.
I guess, there you have it!
What are your favorites? 🙂


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Mankind can send a rocket to Mars, produce vegan cheese (should you wish to buy some, though don't – it's grim stuff!), hoodwink millions into believing 50 Shades of Grey is a fine novel worth reading but somehow struggles to get its head around correct sizing for women.
Every woman knows it's often a case of lucky dip when you try on dresses. A size ten might fit someone beautifully in one shop, whereas in another a size twelve won't squeeze over their hips. Fashion designers "blah blah blah" on about different fabrics, cuts and so on (yawn) but it doesn't make the situation any less crackers.
For curvy women though, the sizing issue is more of a problem. If your chest or hips are curvier than the rest of your body then sizing can be a nightmare. I always struggle with dresses, so when Curvissa offered to send me a dress that wasn't wrap over, I wavered.
I've had such a rigmarole from other labels over sizing. I often order something and it doesn't fit, unable to accommodate my bust. Or, it will cover that area well but leave the rest of me swimming in fabric. I have to accommodate the dress rather than it, me. So, I usually go for wrap over dresses and tops because they highlight my waist and cleavage – and a sash or belt pulled tight works wonders with an otherwise loose dress.
Often my dress size veers into plus size territory, and I'm not alone. I, and other curvy women, shouldn't have to wear clothes are simply too big, but often there is no choice.
When the Curvissa dress arrived, I was very pleasantly surprised indeed. It has an scooped neckline – usually a major no-no for me as such necklines act as a 'hammock' across my breasts, making them into a shapeless mono-boob. Not this dress though, probably because of the star pattern and loose sleeves. It has a ruffled front too, which breaks the hammock-ish line up.
It's such a cute design, with a flared skirt – and a pretty ruffled hem. I love this dress, it's so adaptable.
I've been to live music gigs in in it, including the launch of band Dodgy's new single (This Love Is) Bigger Than Both of Us and I've also worn it for my regular spot on the breakfast show on Liverpool's City Talk 105.9.
A winner!
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Getting straight to the point, Kettering College is small, but not too small. Enrollment yearly has been anywhere from 850-1000 students and if we consecutively get 1000 students per year, we may earn our own sign on the side of the highway. As far as healthcare education goes, this school is for you.Read More
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Aliens Vs. Heroes
is a RPG that combined action arcade.
In 2012, Mutants and Aliens invaded the Earth.
All cities are destroyed. They destroy crops, buildings, bridges and roads. They are very powerful enemies.
The Co-Army just didn't have what it takes to do.
Heroes must fight against the Enemies.
And must retrieve the Earth.
Your Battle fields are
New York, Miami, London, Cairo, New Delhi, Siberia, Mediterranean Sea, Tokyo, Caribbean Sea, Paris..
If you press home button, your game will be saved automatically. And you can play continuously.
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- Total 180 different type of players and enemies.
- Becomes hyper power hero when units are fully upgraded.
- Unlimited numbers of stages.
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- You can change game view of camera, Side or Top.
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You can control all your characters
360 degrees freely like joy pad.
You can fly, jump, dash and stunt flying shooting.
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'Holy Grail' of baseball cards sold for $2.1 million
NEW YORK (CNN) — The final bid for a trading card that the National Baseball Hall of Fame calls "the Holy Grail" topped $2.1 million — the highest price ever paid for a baseball card in a public auction.
The 1909 card of Pittsburgh Pirate shortstop Honus Wagner — one of only about 50 in existence — was auctioned off by Goldin Auctions in West Berlin, New Jersey. Bidding started at $500,000 on February 25.
The buyer chose to remain anonymous after the successful bid, but Ken Goldin, owner of Goldin Auctions, told CNN he is "best described as a wealthy individual investor and a baseball fan."
Goldin said the buyer did not indicate what they planned to do with the card. A total of 15 bids were made for the prized item.
The card is in short supply because Wagner made the American Tobacco Company recall it when he discovered it had made the card without his permission. He didn't want kids to buy cigarettes, the auction house said.
The card was released as Wagner was on his way to winning his seventh batting title and about to lead the Pirates to their first World Series win. It's garnered such a place in baseball history that it has its own plaque at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
The winning bid came in at $2,105,770.50, including the buyer's premium, according to a statement from Goldin Auctions on Saturday.
CNN Money's Emily Jane Fox contributed to this report.


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I recently had a discussion with a friend who made an argument why it's better to eat out in Manhattan than to save money by cooking because of the convenience and the joy of eating with friends. I'm all for breaking bread with good people, just not so much if you're concerned about income. My friend just went through a divorce and eventually needs to find a job since she gave up her career in the arts to raise her son for a decade.
The reality is my friend does have income in the form of alimony. And I'm sure the alimony is a healthy amount because her now ex-husband is a wealthy businessman worth millions. I've been to their fabulous, 2,000-plus-square-foot apartment downtown. But alimony doesn't usually last forever and when she was challenged by her brother to reduce her spending by eliminating eating out for one month, she failed after one week.
Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that you are in her shoes and your alimony will last five years. Would you really drastically cut back on your lifestyle and master personal finance? Probably not. The more likely scenario for people is to keep on living like they always have until the last year of alimony and then realize, "Oh, man, I'd better change my ways!" It's the same idea as waiting until the last minute to study for a final exam.
Maybe the alimony is indefinite since, in many instances, spousal support can be ordered for as long as necessary to help the recipient spouse receive training and become self-supporting. Who knows?
Starting a project
I was thinking about starting Financial Samurai in 2003 but did nothing to pursue it for six years until the financial crisis finally pushed my lazy self to launch in 2009. If there hadn't been a financial crisis, I'd probably still be working my Wall Street job now. It wouldn't be the end of the world, but after 14 consecutive years of doing the exact same job, I started to get bored with life. I was already beginning to tire after Year 10. I'd probably tell myself "just one more year of work," which would ultimately turn out to be 10 more years. Golden handcuffs are hard to slip.
I've always encouraged readers to really focus on their X Factor. The X Factor is a project one is passionate about that may not seem like much in the beginning but that, with time and enough consistent effort, could turn out to be substantial in the future. You never know what will hit, so it's also important to keep on trying new things. If you're in any game long enough, good things happen.
Financial Samurai led me to escape Corporate America after 13 years in 2012 because it helped me create a financial plan that I methodically executed over the next three years. Financial Samurai also gave me something to do, one of the biggest questions people have when they no longer want to work a day job. If you can find a purpose after retirement, it makes retiring that much easier.
Getting out of debt
I speak to folks in debt all the time through my financial consultancy practice. Some have credit card debt amounts equivalent to their salaries! How on Earth does this happen? The most credit I can get on my main personal credit card is $30,000 compared with my average monthly credit card spend of $1,500.
Not paying off in full and letting your debt compound at 15 percent plus the annual rate is a scary thing to do. Not even Warren Buffett has averaged those returns in his glorious career, which should jolt you into never accepting revolving credit card debt again.
What usually made these debtors start handling money responsibly was that their credit card companies finally cut them off. Except for the credit card companies saying, "Denied!" they would have continued to make minimum monthly payments, eventually costing more than their monthly take-home salary. It takes that kind of action to force such debtors to stop.
Another client finally woke up to his credit addiction when he realized that he couldn't pay the minimums of his seven credit cards with his current monthly income.
It makes absolute sense why people get into debt. It's fun to buy and experience things you can't afford. After all, if you take out a $1 billion loan to live it up and die from too much fun, you win! It's also equally satisfying to successfully pay off the debt and tell all your friends about your achievement. Here are some tips on how to get out of debt and become happier in the process.
Saving money
If I wasn't whipped so hard every single day for two years working at Goldman Sachs in Manhattan, I never would have gotten the urge to save at least 50 percent of my after-tax income on Day One. New York City is a wonderland if you have money to burn, thanks to all the incredible shows, restaurants, and bars. Instead of blowing my salary at Peter Luger's Steakhouse followed by $13 cocktails at the Soho Grand, followed by another $200 for bottle service at the clubs, I just hung out with family and friends at low-key establishments. Petting strangers' dogs at Union Square Park was always a favorite pastime.
I knew I couldn't last going into work at 5:30 a.m. and leaving after 8 p.m. for longer than five years, so I saved like a maniac just in case I ended up unemployed for years after. My career lasted eight years longer than expected since I moved to San Francisco where life is more balanced. But even working in finance in San Francisco requires getting up before 5 a.m., so I didn't stop saving.
If I landed a cushy 9-to-5 job where the bosses were nice and stress was at a minimum, there's no way I would have saved even 25 percent of my income because there would be absolutely no sense of urgency to get out. When you're young, you tend to think you could happily work forever. If you are in your first years of your job, come back to me after you've worked for 10 consecutive years and let me know if you still love it or not. If you don't save money during this time, you will have an "uh-oh" moment.
Please try and save as much as you can before your energy for work fades.
Making more money
Life is relatively easy if you are born and raised in America, or any modern country for that matter. We've got infrastructure, a sound legal system, peace, subsidized health care, subsidized living, subsidized income, and plenty of free public facilities such as libraries and parks. If you are complaining about living in America, clearly you've never spent more than a month in a developing nation where they cherish the things we take for granted.
Two things motivated me to make money. The first was seeing my mother work into her 60s at a job she hated. She wasn't happy working past midnight on a frequent basis. She mentioned how some of her managers were mean to her, and that really pissed me off. All I wanted to do was make enough money as quickly as possible so she didn't have to work any longer.
The second motivation came from living in countries such as Zambia, Malaysia, and Taiwan in the '70s and '80s. I saw tremendous wealth and tremendous poverty mixed together. The impoverished frightened and saddened me while the wealthy emboldened me to pursue what I might become. There was no way I wasn't going to study and work my absolute hardest if I was given a chance.
The reason you may hear so many recent immigrant success stories is because they have a basis for comparison that makes them unwilling to return to their former existence. I don't think we can fault a person who was born and raised in America who only speaks one language and has never left the country for complaining about how life isn't fair. Our lives are all we know.
If you grew up with parents on welfare, wouldn't it be understandable to expect that's the way life is as an adult? Only until I came to America for high school did I realize everybody doesn't travel around every two to four years attending international schools. It was hard for me to adjust in the beginning because my classmates grew up with the same friends since elementary school.
You can't blame people for making sub-optimal financial choices in general because everything is rational. We do things that make us happy and stop doing things that inflict pain. There is a self-correcting mechanism in personal finance, therefore, we shouldn't worry about other people. Pushing our way onto others is a sure path to ruining a relationship.
Readers, can we really improve our financial habits if our backs aren't against the wall? What are some life events that caused you to improve any poor habits? Does everything self-correct in the end?
Author: Sam Dogen
Sam spent 13 years working on Wall Street in the equities department at a couple bulge bracket firms before deciding to focus full time on Financial Samurai, a personal finance site that helps you slice through money's mysteries. Sam received his MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and his Bachelor of Arts in economics from The College of William & Mary. He is a registered representative (Series 7 and Series 63).
Sam is based in San Francisco, California, and enjoys playing league tennis, poker, and anything that deals with the great outdoors. Sam's goal is to live a location-independent lifestyle by generating enough passive income to take care of a family of four.


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Type: Chicken Keeping
Date: Sat 18 Apr 2020
Time: April 18, 2020 10:00 - 12:30 pm
Location: Burton on Trent, Staffordshire
Rating: 49 reviews
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Child Friendly: Yes
An opportunity for you to see how chicken keeping fits into family life! This session is designed as an introduction to keeping chickens and will give you the opportunity to ask your own questions.
* See an eglu & Cube along with wooden houese and find out how they works
* Handle some chickens & Hug a Hen!
* Eggs and laying
* Learn how to pick a suitable garden spot
* Daily care and maintenance requirements
* How to feed your chickens
*Health and wellbeing and observation of looks and behaviour
* Wing clipping
Have a chance to ask as many questions as you want over a cuppa and a slice of cake and a warm up in front of the rayburn.
We have anything between 12-60 hens at home dependent on if the Hens for Hire hens are back on school holidays
The small print bit: Please Note: This course is not suitable for children under 6. The majority of the course takes place outside so please come suitable dressed, we recommend wellies and a raincoat.
* The hosts of this course accept no responsibility for any loss or injury while on the premises. By booking on this course you are agreeing to these terms.
About MeHello we are the Peaches, we have been keeping hens in our mark one eglu for over 10 years and have classics, go's & a Cube. We live in a small village, just outside Burton on Trent. We had always wanted to keep hens, but it wasn't until we saw the eglu and thought 'we have to have one of them!' The hens are really fun animals to be around and each one has its own personality and character. They are very friendly - our 10 year old is very happy to cuddle with them. The hens keep us very well stocked with the freshest, tastiest eggs in the world! During the course we will show you how to handle the hens, plus how to maintain your eglu (ours is over 10 years old and looking as good as new!) looking after the run (ours has survived having a horse sit on it!) plus our daily routines and health checks. From our humble start with our first 2 girls, Barbara and Margo we have now set up our business, 'Hens for Hire' hiring out hens and eglus to schools all over the country as well as incubators and hatching eggs. We train the staff how to look after the hens and spend time with the children talking all things chicken! then have the hens home for the holidays. Check out our website www.hensforhire.co.uk You can now pruchase chickens and supplies from our little shop Hen Pen, follow us on facebook for details of hens we have available.
We have been invloved in Open Farm Sunday and been featured in The Guardian, Country Life, Country Living, Your Chicken, Staffordshire Life, The Burton Mail, Headteacher Update Magazine, EarlyYears Educator & Poultry World, plus been Course Host of the Month in the Omlet Newsletter in 2010. We also won a Small Business Award from TV Dragon Theo Paphitis!
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Latest Reviews For This Host
Great course! - Margot,
Thank you for the great course today! You made us feel at home from start to finish. The course really helped us to know more about the basics of keeping chickens and to feel comfortable handling them :)
Great course - Suzanne,
Very informative and useful course on keeping Hens. Lots of information, good amount of hands on experience, and extremely welcoming hosts. The hen keeping notes at the end of the course are very useful. I would recommend this to anyone thinking of keeping Hens.
Hen course - Samantha,
Very informative and good fun. A great starting point for those venturing into chickens for the first time and the hosts made you feel very welcome.
A 'must do' course if you're thinking about keeping chickens - Clare,
A fantastic introduction to keeping chickens. Hands-on; informative; educational and fun! Claire, Steve and very able daughter Ella as 'assistant', were great hosts; welcoming and very approachable. I highly recommend you book onto this - well worth £20 (I would've paid more!) Thank you to the Peaches
Very good - Dil,
It was lovely to meet Claire and Steve who are such a chicken loving couple! They have further excited me whilst I look forward to getting my chickens something I am postponing til after our holiday in April. I have the Eglu poised ready and feel a lot more confident about dealing with the lovelies once they arrive. It was useful to gain further info from them on resources to use to help in the hobby as well as talking through what else I need to buy in readiness. Two hours well spent. Thank you Claire and Steve for the opportunity.


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Fragmentation in Google Android continues to dog the mobile platform. Carriers and manufacturers pitch in device-specific customizations, and multiple versions of the OS are in circulation, complicating life for software builders. But developers have come to accept the situation and devise their own ways of coping.
"[Android fragmentation is] a humongous problem.... You deal with [fragmentation] as best you can," says developer Donn Felker, an independent consultant and author. He advises developers to use the right API levels.
Developer Mike Mackey advises simplification: "We've basically taken a lot of steps to simplify the UI so that form factor and the UI layer that the [device makers] apply their changes to isn't impacted," says the vice president of engineering at Centri Technology, which implements mobile network management. Mackey, who is not currently developing for Android but has in the past, recalls an HTC device that broke a UI layer and required some adjustments. But Centri's developer were able to fix the code in a way that it did not affect Centri's UI on other devices.
Fragmentation is not an Android-specific issue, says Chris Haseman, lead Android developer at content sharing site Tumblr: "I've dealt with fragmentation on almost every mobile platform, and Android hands-down has the best set of tools for dealing with it, bar none. It is a concern -- you have to worry about it -- but the level of effort you have to put into it is miniscule compared to what we had to do in the past with things like J2ME [Java 2 Micro Edition] and Brew," two popular operating systems for traditional cellphones. Capabilities like device-independent pixels and relative layouts help developers handle screen real estate on Android units, he says.
Not all developers find fragmentation to be a stumbling block, at least not in every circumstance. Fragmentation is not much of an issue when dealing with low-level capabilities like compression and encryption, Mackey says. "Where you start to get into the most difficulty is when you get into the higher levels of the stack, where you're dealing with the UI and stuff like that."
There won't be a solution to fragmentation until manufacturers are tamed to not alter the OS, Felker says. Developer Adam Longfellow, CEO of the Allstays.com travel site, concurs. "They need to have some kind of baseline and not let carriers manipulate it as much," he says.
Haseman notes, "As we go forward, it's going to be on the device manufacturers not to add secret things that they don't declare, and for the most part they've been really good about it."
While it might be nice if Android had the relative uniformity offered by rival Apple's tightly controlled iOS mobile platform, that simply is not the way. "The only way to fix [Android fragmentation] it is close down the whole ecosystem," which is not a desirable solution, says developer Jeff Dick, senior programmer at Shelter Insurance.
The trade-off is clear, Dick says: "There's almost unlimited customization" on Android. "Most Android users like that ability, but it's hard to support that with hundreds and hundreds of devices out there."
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