Located in San Francisco Bay with a great view of the Golden Gate Bridge and downtown San Francisco, you’ll find perhaps the most famous prison in the world. Alcatraz, nicknamed “The Rock”, was originally known as “La Isla de los Alcatraces” or “The Island of the Pelicans” because of its appearance as a barren white rock. The white was caused by pelican droppings, hence the name. It served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification, then a military prison followed by a federal prison until 1963, when it became a national recreation area. Today it is maintained by the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and nearly a million visitors per year stop by to check the place out.

The island, believed to be an evil place by Native Americans, has seen centuries of death from accidents, murders, and suicides. With this dark history, it’s no wonder Alcatraz is said to be one of the most haunted places in the nation. If ghosts return to haunt the places where they suffered traumatic experiences when they were alive, then Alcatraz must be bursting at the seams with spirits.

For years there have been reports of mysterious happenings on Alcatraz Island. These reports come from visitors, former guards, former prisoners, and national park service employees. From the original lighthouse reappearing on occasion to clanging, screaming, and sobbing, there are too many tales to put into this short article. It would definitely take a book to tell them all. Some of the strange occurences are recounted in the following paragraphs.

The Lighthouse – There have been several reports that on foggy nights the old lighthouse, built in 1854 and torn down after it was damaged in the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake, will suddenly appear, accompanied by an eerie whistling sound and a flashing green light that makes its way slowly around the island and then vanishes as suddenly as it appears.

The Grounds – Many guards and park rangers have reported experiencing unexplainable crashing sounds, cell doors mysteriously closing, unearthly screams, and intense feelings of being watched. A number of guards from 1946 through 1963 experienced something out of the ordinary at one time or another. There have been reports of sounds of sobbing and moaning, horrible smells, phantom cannon shots, gun shots, and screams. Once in a while, groups of phantom prisoners and soldiers appear in front of startled guards, guests, and the families who lived on the island. None of these occurances have ever been explained.

The door and the corridor – Behind a door in Cellblock C that looks as if it has been welded shut, lies the utility corridor where Bernard Coy, Joseph Cretzer and Marvin Hubbard were killed by grenades and bullets during the bloodiest escape attempt in Alcatraz’s history in 1946. Additionally, the attempt took the lives of two guards and injured 18 others. The trial afterward resulted in the execution of two more convicts who took part in the aborted escape. Behind this door can sometimes be heard loud clanging along with the sounds of people running as if trying to escape and disembodied voices. Others have reported seeing the apparitions of men wearing fatigues at the site of the riot that left the three prisoners dead. As a result, this utility corridor is recognized as one of the most haunted spots in the prison.

The laundry room – Also in Cellblock C is the laundry room that is said to hold an unseen presence. The story is told that a hit man named Butcher was killed in the laundry room. The room is said to occasionally emanate a strong odor of smoke, as if something was on fire. The sensation of the choking smoke would drive guards out of the room, only to return a few minutes later, the area now completely smoke free.

The most haunted area on Alcatraz is Cellblock D, or solitary, as it was often called. D-Block, which became known as the Treatment Unit was made up of 42 cells with varying restrictions. None of the prisoners put in D-Block was able to have contact with the general population. These inmates were not allowed to work or go to the mess hall to eat; they had to eat in their cells. They were allowed one visit to the recreation yard and two showers a week. These cells faced the Golden Gate Bridge, from which fierce cold winds often blew and one guard who worked D-Block was notorious for turning on the air conditioning to make it even colder for those confined on the block.

Five of the cells in D-Block, cells 9-14, are known as “The Hole,”. These cells contained only a sink and toilet, had no windows and only one light with a low-wattage bulb that could be turned off by the guards on a whim. The darkness made it seem like a hole in the ground. Reserved for the most serious prison rule breakers, these cells were located on the bottom tier, the coldest place in the prison. All mattresses were taken away during the day and the prisoners were not allowed time in the yard, showers, or reading materials. Inmates could be sentenced to up to 19 days in the hole, completely isolated from the rest of the world.

Needless to say, these horrible conditions led to misery, anger, and possibly even insanity. That ambiance seems to linger to this day. Most people who go to Cellblock D get feelings of sudden intensity and a feeling of cold in certain cells, especially cell 14-D. This cell is often reported to be 20 degrees colder than the rest of the cells on the block. Psychics who have visited the area reported picking up on the feelings of torture, misery, and abuse that were left behind by 29 years’ worth of prisoners who were forced to stay there. These cells are so eerie that some national park service employees refuse to go there alone.

A guard who worked at the prison in the 1940’s reported that guards often saw the ghostly presence of a man dressed in late 1800’s prison attire was often seen walking the hallway of “The Hole”. Perhaps the strangest event occured when an inmate locked in a cell in “The Hole” immediately began to scream that someone with glowing eyes was in there with him. The spectral prisoner had become so much of a practical joke among the guards that the convict’s cries were ignored. The inmate’s screams continued well into the night, and then suddenly stopped. When the guards inspected the cell, the convict was dead with a terrible expression on his face and noticeable handprints around his throat. The autopsy revealed that the strangulation could not have been self-inflicted.

At the time, many believed the inmate was strangled by a guard who got tired of hearing the inmate scream, but no one ever admitted to the strangling. Most believed the prisoner was killed by the restless, evil spirit of the nineteenth century prisoner who was so often seen wandering the corridors.

As a footnote to this tale, when the guards lined-up the convicts for the daily count, there was one too many convicts in the line-up. At the end of the row, stood the recently strangled convict. As everyone looked on in stunned silence, the ghostly figure vanished.

As the years go by, ghost hunters, authors, crime buffs and curiosity-seekers continue to visit the island hoping to have their own encounter with the ghosts of Alcatraz. Although most encounter nothing, they do have a tendancy to leave with a feeling of uneasiness. The majority of the ghostly experiences of Alcatraz have been reported by former guards and national park service employees who often spend hours alone on the island. Many claim not to believe in the supernatural but occasionally, one of them will admit that weird things happen here that they cannot explain.





By: Denise Villani
By Kevin S. Giles

Readers often ask how I found the high level of detail that appears in Jerry’s Riot: The True Story of Montana’s 1959 Prison Disturbance.

The short answer is this: from people who were there. The longer answer is a bit more complicated.

Calamities yield personal stories big and small. In major influential tragedies such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina, the resulting impressions, reactions and eyewitness accounts might stretch to infinity. And what older American today can’t remember exactly what he or she was doing when President Kennedy was assassinated?

The riot happened 49 years ago this April. To people who were involved, inside or outside the walls at Montana State Prison in downtown Deer Lodge, the riot happened yesterday. That’s how clearly they remember it. But like in any calamity, people remember best what was right in front of them. It’s the author’s responsibility to assemble the memory fragments into whole cloth.

In researching Jerry’s Riot I conducted hundreds of interviews. Almost all of those people remembered details that emotion had branded to their brain. Guards remembered dripping water, the warden recalled being served slices of cake after being taken hostage, and women described watching the prison for hours on end for sign of their husbands. Inmates gave me first-hand accounts of the takeover.

I corroborated the personal stories with legal documents such as affidavits taken from inmates in the weeks after the riot. It became easier to see the total picture, especially as details brought history to life. While many people involved in the riot had died long before I started my research, many others remained. In some cases relatives of people who had died remembered critical detail. Most of it turned out to be credible and accurate, to the extent that an author can determine such things more than 40 years afterwards. I discarded some of what was described to me as fiction.

Capturing genuine detail is a race against time. Several people I interviewed for the book are now gone as well, including some of the guards held hostage, wives of hostages and a National Guard commander involved in the rescue efforts. But since 2005 when the first edition of Jerry’s Riot was published, more people with personal stories have stepped forward to offer even greater detail.

As I concluded in the acknowledgements portion of the book:

In some interviews, tears told the story when words failed.





By: Kevin S. Giles
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By: Nicola Sampson
In the 1980s, it wasn’t uncommon to see large, oversized desks, wingback leather executive chairs and lots of filing cabinets. In the 1990s, offices became more compact. The prevalence of the computer began to reduce the amount of paper files needed and the filing cabinets began to wane. Office workers realized that working at a computer desk was much different than working at a desk where all work was done with a typewriter and calculator. Doctors began to understand that diseases like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome were linked to repetitive motions like mouse-clicking and keyboard use, giving birth to increasingly ergonomic desk and computer desk accessory designs.

At the turn of the millennium, people were well aware of the importance of articulating keyboard arms, ergonomically designed chairs, and adjustable LCD monitor arms. And just when they thought they’d created comfortable, productive workstations, along came the laptop to throw a wrench in the mix.

As companies realized that laptops were far more affordable, mobile, and convenient than desktop computers, laptops began popping up in companies all over the country, replacing the bulky traditional computer. Assistants as well as executives can easily take their laptops with them, allowing them to work hassle-free in airports, hotels, at conference centers, and of course, at their very own desks. With wi-fi pretty much everywhere, there’s no reason not to make the switch from computer to laptop.

But with a new type of computer came a new problem to revisit. How do we make laptops ergonomic and functional for everyday use? Setting a laptop on a desk does little to provide a comfortable, ergonomic workstation. There are no keyboards to be tilted at the correct angles or lowered to the correct heights. There are no monitors that can be tilted or angled to keep the user looking straight ahead. So how do we make laptop users comfortable?

One way is by adding a sliding laptop tray to your existing desk. Laptop trays allow you to pull the laptop out to use it, and then slide it back when working on the desktop. They also lower the keypad of the laptop tray so that the user isn’t reaching up at such a severe angle.

Another way is to buy a height-adjustable chair to control the user’s height. While traditional keyboard arms allow for height control of the keyboard while the user is stationary, an adjustable chair allows the user to change his/her height and keep the laptop’s keyboard stationary.

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By: Gina Ireland
There are a number of different things that you must know or do before becoming a detention officer. The basic responsibility of this position includes guarding individuals who are considered a suspect in a crime, and are waiting for their trial to occur, or watching over those that have received a conviction and have been sentenced to pay for their crime.

The conviction may be served in a jail, a prison that is considered to be reformatory, or even in what is called a penitentiary. In this article, you will be introduced to the 4 important things you must know or do before becoming a detention officer.

1. Roles and Responsibilities:

As a Detention Officer, you will have many roles and responsibilities. Your main responsibility is to maintain a high level of security in the facility that you serve. You must ensure that all of the inmates that you are responsible for are accounted for at all times.

It is also your responsibility to make certain that potential disturbances are prevented, and if they break out anyway, you must be able to take complete control over the situation and put a stop to them. All forms of battery and assault within the facility that you serve must be prevented, and dealt with appropriately. In addition to this, you must work to ensure that inmates do not escape.

2. Training:

Training is an essential component of becoming a Detention Officer. While many facilities will offer training that is on the job, there are many prisons and jails that will require that you attend a Corrections Academy or Criminal Justice school.

While these academies vary in standards and educational requirements by state, they almost always strive for successful candidates to have a certain level of physical health and endurance, a general knowledge of the Criminal Justice System, firearms training for proficiency and self defense training.

3. Growth and Outlook:

The job growth and outlook for Detention Officers is excellent. Due to the fact that several thousand crimes are committed in any middle to high populated county in the United States daily, there is an increased need for officers to supervise the criminals that perform these crimes. In all cases, these positions are government jobs and are in high demand among government agencies that house criminals. This means that the compensation that you will receive for this type of position will be average to high.

4. Personal Safety:

Personal safety is an important consideration when it comes to jobs as a Detention Officer. While it is true that most inmates are held in cells, there are times when they are released from those cells. This includes the times when they have meals, outdoor free time, and even times that may be allowed for intermingling with other inmates in classes, support groups, and/or social activities. It is possible that your personal safety will be endangered. However, the education and training often provides you with the ability to effectively protect yourself.

Conclusion:

Becoming a Detention Officer is an exciting career in the Criminal Justice System. It gives you a level of authority and the ability to effectively rehabilitate individuals who have been found guilty of certain crimes. The growth, outlook, and benefits of this position are exceptional. However, you should also consider your roles and responsibilities, training, and personal safety when considering a career as a Detention Officer.

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By: Kenneth Echie
Many people wonder why these informants go along with this? Why would anyone go along with causing the suicide of their fellow citizens, or enacting cruelty on someones cats, dogs, kids, family, property etc? Why would you knowingly go along with a practice that many would consider to be evil?

The answer is obedience to authority. As long as an authority figure is giving the orders, experiments have shown that most people will go along with whatever is being ordered, even if those orders are to inflict pain on another human being.

Let’s start with the Milgram experiments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mst1h31daV4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

[quote]Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.[4]

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As part of the experiment a stranger off the street is asked to shock an individual as part of a learning or behaviour modification experiment. The person doing the shocking is told that this will help the person to learn the answers to the question. The person being shocked has agreed to the experiment.

The person giving the shocks is giving a test shock of the lowest voltage to see what the pain is like. It’s not pleasant. They are told that if the person fails to answer the question, they are to increase the voltage and to keep shocking the person till they get the answer correct.

The person giving the answers starts to get the questions wrong, they are asked to keep going by the person in authority. The person answering the questions, starts to scream out in pain, sometimes even screaming, my heart, my heart.

Many times the person giving the shock wants to stop what they are doing, but they are told don’t pay it any mind we have to keep going, and so they are goaded on by the experimenter to the end of the experiment. 65% of those in the studied continued to the very end of the voltage metre.

Now imagine you are an average citizen, you are asked to become an Informant by the state, country that you love. At some point you realise that what you are doing is wrong and that people are being harmed. Let’s say you come across a Gang Stalking website, and realise what you are taking part in. How can you stop?

First you are bound by a gag order, so you can’t say anything. Second if you go to the police, local authorities, they are taking part, so you can’t go there, human rights organizations, the same thing. Since becoming an Informant you realise that this is systemic and that the majority of your community is in some way taking part. What do you do where do you turn?

You can ask to not take part, but many people are afraid of being targeted themselves the same way, experiencing the same sort of harassment. There is a real cult like mentality about what is happening, even if most people do not identify it as such, so how would you get out, much less help the target?

In many cases they can’t, and some of them are as trapped as we are. Either get the punishment or give the punishment. Not a great choice. This is not true for all of them, some are just really lowlifes and happy to go along with this, and would report anyone not following suit.

Within the system you can try to hint to the target about what is happening, try to help expose what is happening. Don’t allow yourself to feel or become powerless, keep thinking, keep finding ways, try to keep feeling. Remain hopeful. If you let the stress of the situation overwhelm you, a part of you disassociates emotionally, and you became biddable, capable of not much but following orders.

How quickly can this shift come about, in a really short space of time. The Milgram experiment happened within an hour or two.

The next experiment happened over a few days.

The Stanford Prison Experiment.

http://www.prisonexp.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

The scary part about this, is that thy knew in advance that they were part of an experiment, they were paid for it and everything. Which should indicate that they would be able to leave if they wanted to, but that did not happen.

The experiment was suppose to last 2 weeks, but had to be ended after six days. One group of students were assigned to the role of prisoners, another to the role of guards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0jYx8nwjFQ

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As the experiment proceeded, several guards became progressively sadistic. Experimenters said that approximately one-third of the guards exhibited genuine sadistic tendencies. Interestingly, most of the guards were upset when the experiment concluded early.

Zimbardo argued that the prisoner participants had internalized their roles, based on the fact that some had stated that they would accept parole even with the attached condition of forfeiting all of their experiment-participation pay. Yet, when their parole applications were all denied, none of the prisoner participants quit the experiment. Zimbardo argued they had no reason for continued participation in the experiment after having lost all monetary compensation, yet they did, because they had internalised the prisoner identity, they thought themselves prisoners, hence, they stayed.

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The prisoners (students pretending to be prisoners) started to riot, the cops (students pretending to be cops) started to get brutal with them. Made them do all sorts of sick and sadistic things. Tried to get some to turn into snitches, one prisoner faked being crazy to get out, they turned on each other in some cases, and just fell in line with obeying authority, in most cases. The person conducting the experiment actually thought he was a warden, he got so caught up in the role.

[quote]In psychology, the results of the experiment are said to support situational attributions of behavior rather than dispositional attribution. In other words, it seemed the situation caused the participants’ behavior, rather than anything inherent in their individual personalities. In this way, it is compatible with the results of the also-famous Milgram experiment, in which ordinary people fulfilled orders to administer what appeared to be damaging electric shocks to a confederate of the experimenter.[/quote]

The experiment at the time was used to help better understand the psychological changes that prisoners and their jailers go through. Later it was used to help explain the situation at Abu Ghraib with the prisoner abuses.

The Strip Search Prank Call

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam

This experiment was anything but. Because a crank caller pretended to be an authority figure. Police officer. Average sheeple were willing to carry out horrible actions on innocent people.

[quote]The strip search prank call scam was a series of incidents occurring for roughly a decade before 2004. These incidents involved a man calling a restaurant, claiming to be a police detective, and convincing managers to conduct strip-searches of female employees. Reports of over 70 such occurrences in 30 U.S. states finally led to the arrest and charging of David R. Stewart, a 37-year-old Florida corrections officer.[/quote]

These are a few of the incidents that occurred in the wake of these phone calls.

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A call to a McDonald’s restaurant in Hinesville, Georgia resulted in a janitor performing a body cavity search on a 19-year old cashier.[5]

A 17-year-old customer at a Taco Bell in Phoenix, Arizona was strip-searched by a manager receiving this kind of prank call.[6]

On Nov. 30, 2000, the caller persuaded the manager at a McDonald’s in Leitchfield, Kentucky, to remove her own clothes in front of a customer whom the caller said was suspected of sex offenses. The caller promised that undercover officers would burst in and arrest the customer the moment he attempted to molest her, said Detective Lt. Gary Troutman of the Leitchfield Police Department.[7]

On May 29, 2002, a girl celebrating her 18th birthday — in her first hour of her first day on the job at the McDonald’s in Roosevelt, Iowa — was forced to strip, jog naked and assume a series of embarrassing poses, all at the direction of a caller on the phone, according to court and news accounts.[8]

On Jan. 26, 2003, according a police report in Davenport, Iowa, an assistant manager at an Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill & Bar conducted a degrading 90-minute search of a waitress at the behest of a caller who said he was a regional manager — even though the man had called collect, and despite the fact the assistant manager had read a company memo warning about hoax calls just a month earlier. He later told police he’d forgotten about the memo.[9] [/quote]

His downfall came when he was able to get one of these sheeple to sexually assault a teenage girl over the phone. All the while giving the instructions. She complied, because an authority figure was on the phone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFXeXK3szOk

http://www.mahalo.com/Louise_Ogborn_Video

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The final prank call in this scheme was made to a McDonald’s restaurant in Mount Washington, Kentucky on April 9, 2004. According to assistant manager Donna Summers, the caller identified himself as a policeman, ‘Officer Scott’, he described an employee whom he said was suspected of stealing a customer’s purse. Summers called 18-year-old employee Louise Ogborn to her office and told her of the suspicion. Following the instructions of the caller, Summers ordered Ogborn first to empty her pockets, and finally to remove all her clothing except for an apron, in an effort to find the stolen items. Again following the caller’s instructions, Summers had another employee watch Ogborn when she had to leave the office to check the restaurant. The first employee, 27 year old Jason Bradley, whom she asked to stay there refused to after he was on the phone with the caller, so she phoned her fiance Walter Nix, asking him to come in to ‘help’ with the situation. [10]

According to Ogborn, after Summers passed off the phone to Nix, he continued to do as the caller told, even as the caller’s requests became progressively more bizarre. A security camera recorded Nix forcing Ogborn to remove her apron, the only article of clothing she was still wearing, and to assume degrading positions, such as standing on a chair and getting on all fours. When Ogborn refused to obey the caller’s instructions, Nix hits the 90 lb Ogborn on the buttocks several times creating painful red welts, and at one point he does this for 10 minutes. At the caller’s request, Nix then threatens to beat Ogborn again and forces Ogborn to kiss him and then perform oral sex on him. Ogborn says at the point of sexual assault she was scarred for life.[11] The tape showed that Summers re-entered the office several times and dismissed Ogborn’s pleas for help, a statement which Summers denies.

When another employee was asked to take part and objected, Summers decided to call the store manager, whom the caller claimed to have on another phone line. She then discovered that the store manager had not spoken to any police officers, and that the call had been a hoax. A quick-thinking employee dialed *69 to determine that the caller had called from a supermarket pay phone in Panama City, Florida. Summers then called police, who arrested Nix and began an investigation to find the caller. [/quote]

The above scenario is really sick and hard to believe that something like that could happen, mush less that similar circumstances happened at least 70 times prior to this incident, but it’s true.

Other events show us that people are willing to kill upon request, even innocent woman, children and the elderly, while others are not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHk4TGWx0ZM

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the My Lai massacre where the US army in Vietnam slaughtered 500 unarmed civilians, many women and children.

Some victims were sexually abused, beaten, tortured, maimed and mutilated.

Three U.S. servicemen who made an effort to halt the massacre and protect the wounded were sharply criticized by US Congressmen, received hate mail, death threats and mutilated animals on their doorsteps. Only 30 years after the event were their efforts honored.

American media first claimed 100 had been killed in a fierce fire fight.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

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Charlie Company landed following a short artillery and helicopter gunship preparation. The soldiers found no enemy fighters in the village on the morning of March 16. Many suspected there were NLF troops in the village, hiding underground in the homes of their elderly parents or their wives. The U.S. soldiers, one platoon of which was led by Second Lieutenant William Calley, went in shooting at “suspected enemy position”. After the first civilians were killed and wounded by the indiscriminate fire, the soldiers soon began attacking anything that moved, humans and animals alike, with firearms, grenades and bayonets. The scale of the massacre only spiraled as it progressed, the brutality increasing with each killing. BBC News described the scene:

“ Soldiers went berserk, gunning down unarmed men, women, children and babies. Families which huddled together for safety in huts or bunkers were shown no mercy. Those who emerged with hands held high were murdered. … Elsewhere in the village, other atrocities were in progress. Women were gang raped; Vietnamese who had bowed to greet the Americans were beaten with fists and tortured, clubbed with rifle butts and stabbed with bayonets. Some victims were mutilated with the signature “C Company” carved into the chest. By late morning word had got back to higher authorities and a cease-fire was ordered. My Lai was in a state of carnage. Bodies were strewn through the village.[12] ”

More victims at My Lai. Photo by Ronald L. HaeberleDozens of people were herded into an irrigation ditch and other locations and killed with automatic weapons[13]. A large group of about 70 to 80 villagers, rounded up by the 1st Platoon in the center of the village, were killed personally by Calley and by soldiers he had ordered to fire. Calley also shot two other large groups of civilians with a weapon taken from a soldier who had refused to do any further killing.

Members of the 2nd Platoon killed at least 60-70 Vietnamese men, women, and children, as they swept through the northern half of My Lai 4 and through Binh Tay, a small subhamlet about 400 meters north of My Lai 4.[1]

After the initial “sweeps” by the 1st and the 2nd Platoons, the 3rd Platoon was dispatched to deal with any “remaining resistance”. They immediately began killing every still-living human and animal they could find, including shooting the Vietnamese who emerged from their hiding places, and finishing off the wounded found moaning in the heaps of bodies. The 3rd Platoon also rounded up and killed a group of 7 to 12 women and children.[1]

Since Charlie Company had encountered no enemy opposition, 4th Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, was moved into its landing zone between and attacked the subhamlet of My Khe 4, killing as many as 90 people. U.S. forces lost one man killed and seven wounded from mines and booby traps.[1] During the next two days, both battalions were involved in additional burning and destruction of dwellings, and in the mistreatment of Vietnamese detainees.

Most of the soldiers had not participated in the crimes, but neither did they protest or complain to their superiors.[14]

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At the end of the day what can really be said about these incidents are occurrences? Why are some people driven by a higher authority, a greater code of conduct than others? Why are some not willing to go along with this, when others just fall in line, or stand helplessly by and let these atrocities happen? Why do some decline to become Informants for the system while others just accept? Why do some just go along with injustice and corruption, while others turn away from all appearances of evil?

Why do some question, while others don’t?

There are a variety of reasons, many people are culturally engineered or programed to obey authority, many have never been in a similar situation before and their survival instinct is to comply, because everyone else is going along with it. Humans for the most part are social creatures and very few have the capacity to stand on their own, or be excluded from society, friends, family, neighbours and if the corruption, or atrocity is systemic, most will just fall in line with what is happening, just like in Nazi Germany.





By: gangstalking
The Indian A-Grade leasehold office space markets in India are currently at an all time high; both in terms of the quantum of space leased per annum and the prevailing rental values. A study conducted by global property advisers DTZ, reveals that while demand for the A-Grade leasehold office space in India continues to remain healthy, most cities in India, are seeing the beginning of an oversupply situation of office space that will continue in the short to medium term.

This study is a first of its kind in the Indian context – an objective, data-led demand supply analysis of the current state of A-Grade leasehold office space markets in India in the top seven Indian cities (Bangalore, Delhi NCR, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune).

According to Ankur Srivastava, Managing Director, DTZ India, “Our city-level demand supply analysis, seen in conjunction with the macro-economic fundamentals, clearly indicates that office space rentals in India are likely to hit a plateau in the next six to twelve months. Barring a few exceptions (primarily the CBDs), the oversupply situation will lead to a correction in office space rental in India values. Or very simply, this correction in A-Grade office space rental values will not be driven by a lack of demand but due to the oversupply build-up.”

- The IT/ITES sector will continue to be the primary driver behind A-Grade leasehold office space sector, comprising around 70% of office space demand. Financial services, biosciences and pharmaceuticals will be the other significant contributors to the forecasted demand for AGrade leasehold office space

There are various factors that will define the degree and timing of this rental value correction For e.g. the threshold for this correction has been brought closer by the two recent interest rate hikes. DTZ has, therefore, deliberately refrained from commenting on either the extent or timing of this forecasted correction in A-Grade office space rentals in India.

That notwithstanding, DTZ firmly believes that the real estate India markets are entering their next phase/wave of evolution. The Indian real estate cycle saw its last crest in 1995-96 and the following years saw real estate values come down across the country. This correction also marked the first wave of evolution of the Indian real estate markets. The prime drivers of this change were the large foreign occupiers / corporates and IT firms that were establishing their presence in India and the most pronounced impact of this wave was a complete redefinition of what constituted A-Grade office space in India.





By: ababna
There’re greating Rubbish Bases in the small palnet near Double Stars, 200 sq.km. There’re defend power having 50,000 soldiers, and almost 100 thousand workers. It’s one of main bases for deal rubbish of V.Family in the D.S. Military establishment such as tank depots, maintain factory, info-center, etc. and set hundreds of elevators and running cannon systems, it’s with very good battle power. A young officer was directing soldiers to help worker divide or take down a big broken astro-ship. A star train was landing down near young officer. A scientist Got off, he’s Borndear who consultant of nation science and technology. He’s lost a left arm, because one attacked him at youth. Now he is a consultant duty to the rubbishs bases of D.S. Borndear had on safety suit who came to young officer, There’s over dust forg or others, he’s had a wigwag with hand in front of himself, but didn’t see fingers. Dense forg almost overcome the working yard. Workers and soldiers working with feeling in forg. It’s only the robots able to finish task, if they haven’t safety suit in cold and rolling smoking yard. The young officer continued to command,

Borndear had a weak patted officer soldier, and asked,“Captain Waken, would you tell me where’s the astro-ship from?”

Waken replied,“Mr. Borndear, waiting a minute. Frist thing to finish the task.”

Waken was born at poor family in D.S. Depended on his strong will and excellent military tactics in Contract soldier job 10 years. Afterall, joined to V.Family who become a level 5 captain of empire. He’s only commanded thousands of soldiers beated back ten thousands of S.soldiers attacking under great dispanity condition, has rescued a group of war refugee on the sky during one man task too. He’s awarded suggestion medal of D.S., because made a great contribution for environment construction objects of V.Family. He’s official nominated the Top Commander of The Rocks Starfields rubbishs bases by V.Family, and in charge of whole affairs.

There is a full dangerous starfields, many astro-mobster always appear and dispappear,that’s D.S. rebellion-force of activity territory too. V.Family excepted to establish greating rubbishs bases, also were building a large-sized forest section for State Experimentation item. Waken both holding ground and deal with diffend affair of the forest section. If it’s lookless out, possible to became target of public criticism.

2 hours late, Waken went back the command post, dust all over his body. Had a pat dust of coat, then went into the clean system room.

The clean system room use three clean types for body healthy. The first room is cold and heat clean, people can clean body and clothes; the second room is healthy radial clean, people can use the radial quite put and end to unknow virus, bad microbes or other parasite etc; the three room is difference temperature and medication, people can according to conditions one’s self, about suit temperature or healthy medication, to choose suitable method for good health. And kill bad germs grow in difference temperature.

Waken walked into the first room with too impatient, filter water over strong body, to scatter warm in drops or particles. Then went to the second room, the healthy radial were sweepping and scanning on air, his body seems ghost appear or unappear. He’s feeling release and free. Stepped into the third room, easy press personal code in computer, then tuned to room of temperature and medicine gas. Cold feeling flare up.

In the mean time, the computer said alarm,“Waring, waring! Captain Waken, the temperature is above normal, will be restore normal.”

Waken had a deep breathing, then answered,“Mr. Consciousness, thank for your help.”

The computer spoke,“Not at all. Honorific Waken, work data of tomorrow and other information will be submit for you in two hours late.”

“Thank you, Mr. Consciousness.” He’s talked.

Borndear and a commander watching the screen at mean time, the news of civil war in sights. The commander name’s Veten. Sounds or pictures with exciting bedin of antwar billowing around air at command post. Angry people had burning mimic-weapons. Some people exciting standed on the camera lens middle, and violence dissatisfied criticisming. Some people even do many quizzical acts. They’re faces wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent. Some people were exerting strength to throw things to riot police, some civil war supporter abuse to antwar people, then up to force. Rows, streets, scenes, every almost confusion everywhere, fire sky.

Waken walked out the clean room, he’s wonder asked,“What’s matter, It’s so busy? Everyone looks like exciting.”

Veten talked,“There’s I told you civil war of empire affairs last time, many starfield people are acting antwar bedin as. But on my standpoint, these acts useless, only show people’s look and thinking to the empire premier at war. Impossibility to war decision.”

Borndear talked,“No matter what’s side in war that make of very serious influece. But sometimes use force who straight way.”

Waken smile spoke,“With reason, howerver, war will work to fatal personnel casualty or loss. But I thinking that isn’t the best straight at a point.”

Veten talked,“So,Captain.What’s a good idea?”

Waken thought a litter time, then talked,“Temporarily, I haven’t. you can ask me again when I bethinked.”

Brondear watching and saying,“Onhogo should going on the way that time.” Veten asked,“I have a thing no understood, Why Onhogo going to Universe Empire Star battle without you? Captain is a First-rate battle expert in my mind.”

Waken have no alternative spoke,“He’ve a lot of lion-generals, What’s ability to me? No kidding.”

One soldier come in, and saluted, then reported,“Captain Waken, there’s have a remote antiquity battleship was delivered, please order.”

Waken had a little impatient replied,“Set the remote ship to artificial gravitation field, avoid last case begin again. Then deal with thus tomorrow.”

The soldier power responded,“Yes, Captain!”

Borndear sigh with emotion,“Could you tell me what’s type of ancient ship?”

Waken answered,“It should be a trash ship, the type made in G.I.M.E. calendar 1045 y. Ancient empire astro-ship.”

He’s interested in,“Doctor.Waken, could you take me to have a look, may be have somewhat good finding!”

Veten first talked,“He’s an expert, We might discover a pot of Transmutation Stone at the end of the rainbow.”

Waken watced clock, 62:45 second day, March, G.I.M.E. new Calendar 5030. then answered,“In this case, we’re going to.” He’s pressed a calling system, a soldier came in.

Waken ordered,“Tank ready, leave for ancient ship.”

“Yes, commander!” soldier responed.

Bumper-to-bumper tanks were ordered waitting for them outside. V.Family tankⅠlooks like a thick and flat China-fan. When tankⅠreach to high speed, they’re can close-ground Fly and volplane, through out road block, cross over danger zone. Heavy machine gun installed at front, effective gunshot 3 km. Sides of gun seted emitter gateway that able to S.L.A. (sea,land,air) long distance attack with suit guided missile. Soft and hard crashworthy system, can endure and support very strong crash power, can change bodywork depend on conditions.Tank metal shell are installed Chameleon System that able to change colours on surface in difference environment, heighten camouflage skill and show V.Family of variability character. 

Three persons stepped on Tank who go forward to anchor of the ancient ship. Borndear looked into the distance of rubbishes bases on the way. The bases are builded on a mountain chain, there’re needed to shovel mountainside a year. It’s undifficulty imagine, as these buildings have needed great rich material fling into. Present to great taste because as beehive adhibit surface of small planet in sight. A military unit of G.I.M.E. regular-soldiers motorcade After Moving tanks. Few minutes late, tanks arrived at the ancient ship on time. Waken had seen an engineer was making a reconnaissance the ship.

He’s closing and greeting,“Our engineer, thanks for your working.”

Steborg had a suddenly, and talked,“Never mind, everyone know I’m high on job. Thanks your care.” Then Borndear and Veten followed stepps, they’re talking about this cases.

Borndear knocked at metal shell of ancient ship, was touching, petting, considering about. The ship shape as an ancientry Chinese knive, 500 m.long, 30 ton weight. Ship shell were made up by platinic metal, flashing under sunshine.

Steborg pated dust of body, talked to Waken,“That ancient battle ship mass and stick astro-dust or rocks, grains, I believe it should be dead in an accident of meteorite zone, We should go into and have a look.”

Waken nice and fast replied,“Sure, no problem.” Two soldiers used great effort to open the cabin door 10 minutes, a team of soldiers were being guided cabin by robot.

Waken listened report from soldiers, then turnned to say people,“We can go in.”

The ship isn’t bigger, but command module can contain ten and several human people. Command module is confusion, equipment still good save as new. Waken had groped to find or accomplish something, Steborg continued work, Borndear had a touch per several stepps, his full curiosity of surrounding, as seek out an object that arouses interest, as by being novel or extraordinary. Veten exciting leaded a team of soldiers went around inside. As want to seek out something.

Signal sounds form expsire suit of Waken, he’s opened hand-screen, asked,“What’s up?”

A soldier reported,“Captain, there’s a trade astro-ship under attacking of Astro-Robber in our contronlled C section of star fields. They’re need help, please order.”

Waken spoke,“Start up pilotless aircraft to completely scout B, C, D section of Rocks Starfields in second, ask starfields patrol units go to rescue at accident. The bases must up to guard, strong defense!”

“Yes, commander!” soldier replied.

Veten asked,“We’re whether go back or not?”

Waken said,“Don’t worry, Astro-robber never do out of pocket businesss. There’re rubbishs bases, not the palace. Does notthing to do with life themselves. Otherwise you lead 200 soldiers go back, stay 600 soldiers with me, go.”

Veten received,“Yes, Captain Waken.”

Borndear came to the front, then told,“I asked Steborg, it’s complete know the battle ship that need to spend 2 hours.”

Waken ordered to soldiers,“Holding on defense, follow me to return after 2 hours!”

A soldier reported to him from outside,“Captain, V.Family brigadier QuQing demand communication.”

“Yes, no problem.” Answered Waken.

Brigadier QuQing had dranking fine green tea at home, and talking about civil war of empire cases with Waken. He’s talked again,“I’m so sorry, delay you long time. Bases job must be very hard?”

Waken replied,“No, not hard. Thanks for honour regard. To great responsibility for defense of palace, It’s comparativer than Waken’s cases with worth.” They’re talking about something again.

Some times passed, QuQing continued,“After a week, V.Family will open The family important meeting, I’ll send the information for you tomorrow.” Waken replied,“My pleasure, honour QuQing. I will attendance on time, Good bye.”

A moment late, Steborg had a stretch, and talked,“I have finished the work, we can leave.” Waken then stepped on tank who went back the bases with them ahead of time.

In the one of palace rooms, one warrior had lying comfortable and big bed who looking up sky of window outside. Although epmire have bursted out civil war, but It’s not matter with? It’s only do best my task is enough.

An officer came in, and asked,“Good morning, Mr. Luohu. My master Bianja asked me to remind you must keep those words. On the other hand, the long-voyage combat airship is ready for you. Please to Mr.Luohu depart and Warrant for arrest Goodbingo. We’ll sent the information to your hands at any moment in time.”

Luohu dressed coat, then walked out the room as leisure. Fast step in long-voyage combat airship. Flew to blue sky with a swoosh, disappeared in people’s eyes.

Yesterday, Luohu walked along a long hall way who then came in Kue office. Walls of office full puted materail or information, Kue was siting at the center of room. His flying-chair took him to take some information. No a point of diffence face before. Sly eyes, tine-knife face, a wisp mustache grow at chin, Luohu distinguish him from a look.

He’s knocked at the door, opened mouth,“L.Colonel Kue, I’m Luohu, What’s job do you find me?” Kue put down the information and returned the chair, happy to talk,“Hey~, Mr.Luohu, your arrived, please sit down, don’t metion.”

Luohu sat down with a rush, his hand fingers slight had a point to office table. Then had a little neck act, side-face talked, “The criminal had handed to location police last time. What’s task? How many rewards?”

tastily spoked from Kue,“Don’t hurry, and don’t worry. I believe this task will be accomplish on your great power such be, Mr. Luohu. But… the task concerning many thing, important thing, great thing. So the end time should be fast. And of course the money will doubling for you. Let me a think, a! have 500,000 E.coin. Listening, five hundred thousand Coin. Al! I don’t worry about my life, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar, tea if belong to me. But it is a pity that I haven’t your skills.”

“Hum, hum, unsimple task.” Luohu watched and played a few E.coin with hand. Sometimes throwed in air, sometimes held in. bicker grain moving on stars, It’s the most earnestly dream of world forever.

E.coin is small side, flat and round, diameter 1 cm., and 2 gram weight. Main clour gold yellow, main material are mix-made from the firmest metal of Empire. Frontface mark in G.I.M.E. Sword designs. And have 250,000 diffence clour and very microstructure artifical distinguish charts, it needs to use tailor-made sky-high distinguish percentage of microscope radial scanner to clear. Frontside sword of E.coin also can depend on specially conditions that change to all manner of empir sword forms Backside of E.coin are 5,000,000 best heroes, heroines’s image, difference sculpted. E.coin having a direction pointting system, facility to take count in account, and process a limited tail as occasion requires. In addition, G.I.M.E. have check system, energy sources money and others for main currency in the empire, too.

Lunhu laugh said,“What kinds of person worth 500,000 E.coin. go on.”

Kue talked to,“Don’t look down the man, have skills too. He’s name Goodbingo who a professional engage-soldier of U.E.S. A big man’s son was killed in his hands. The big man from X family. Then Goodbingo killed all the prison police at captivity airship after go to the dead execution star field on the way, also hijack the airship. So, he’s unsimple person. I also tell you a thing, 3,000 dead execution prisoners with him. According to intelligence information show, the airship is flying to star fields near Double Stars. If Mr.Luohu can take these criminal! The money Sure belong to you without other. But, in another point of view look, If you can life arrested, you’re very possibility to get appreciation from premier Liyidan. Also have a chance to join empire “War Proof” competition, at one time you will become focus from newspaper, magazine or other medias, then you are great news.”

Kue opened again the screen, his face front eyes: strapping body, vigorous and power hands, feet; brown black hair, his hair is seep in smallness pearl of colour gold and luminous, as galaxy of dark night on sky, especially eyes; stick eyebrow, sharp eyes, high nose, full of fascination lip. Dragon beard of totem temples; favor to soft and comfortable combat armour, usuall carry a travel bag that characterized by intricate and beautiful design or execution, a pair of high speed battle shoes, there’s installing a laser sword system on surface of shoes, He’s born in U.E.S., parents dead when childhood, and relatives unknow; he’s original lived in Human Orphanage of Jieme City, then sent to D.S. and educated in Contract-soldier Lesson While youth, to become a profession Contract-soldier.

Luohu had careful watching Goodbingo’s face on screen, thought about something, talked and asked,“Very qualification, educated from the Contract Soldier Center of D.S. a demon warrior. Well then How many time I owned?” Kue replied,“A month. If above a month, I will send other man to arrest him, such as analogy.” Continue talked,“There’s 10,000 E.coin. according to pass actions. It’s first reward. Because we believe you.” Kue pressed a calling button, a Royalty-guarde put a bag of 20 kg. E.coin in front of Kue on table. Luohu took up the bag, and want to leave.

Kue told him again,“O! Yes! Mr.Luohu, Gonggu said that “War proof”, I’m not say anything, I’m apology. But pleaset to remember again.” Luohu had a smile, answered that,“Thanks, L.colonel Kue.”

A week ago, one captivity airship had flying to the Dead Execution star field. 3,000 more dead prisoners locked up in the airship, including murderer. He’s an engage soldier. Hometown in the U.E.S….

One night, strapping Goodbingo had dressing style back evening wear attendanced friend society party with girl griend, she has multicoloured, quality astro-coat(long winter, shor summer style). She’s a national trade company president’s daughter. Good and high stature, emeralddish and bluish, soldier-high long hair and colour eyebrow, specially obvious times colour. A pair of high speed gymshoes and a suit of seven colour, transmutation Stone and sex body bijouterie that show diffence beauty at diffence surroundings. Goodbingo combed hair himself, then linked her fine hand, went into the party hall of hotel. Many new faces, guests talking, dranking , chating or so.

He’s thought,“She’s social skills very well, fast a lot of people.” A young miss moved toward,“Welcom, welcom, Mr.Goodbingo, dear Tylice.”

Tylice did an alluring lips, then gently puff, pretend to angry,“Congratulation, Gece. A lot of friends again, also open a ceramic company, I don’t know How to thinking.”

Gece smile talked,“Oh, my dear Tylice, how to forget? Wait a minute I’ll introduce my new friends to you, do you like?”

Melting sound from Tylice,“Sorry, I just joking, don’t mind. You’re good friend forever.” Gece low said,“Stealth talk to you, today guests almost from very important people, also have young military officer… Mr.Goodbingo should be watch up your girl friend, she’s so beautiful, If don’t care about, may be a pile of love opponents running in. Hum, hum.”

He’s made an act as not care, then talked,“Really? Where? Where’re they?” Tylice gentle an energize niped on his buns by hand, the pain with a cough, bring breathe out smile from Gece. When they’re happy talking something, a young man had dreessed red and white business suit who leaded several strong bodyguards came to, they look like a big great.

Gece hurry turned, and talked to,“Hey, noble Mr.Kuwi, Welcome here! Come on, let me introduce two good friends for you.”

Kuwi pruriently gaze at Tylice, and talked,“ah~, dear Tylice, How are you?”

Tylice bright eyes suddently became murky gray, rush hid to behind of Goodbingo. Goodbingo consciously block in front of girl friend. Low asked,“What’s happened?” She’s a ghost fear of espression was passing in sights. Little sound,“Kuwi was my neighbor of childhood, he teased me.” Goodbingo seems understood some, smile talked,“We’re very luck see you long time, Mr.Kuwi. By the way, Ms.Gece, I have a friend waitting for me and Tylice, excuse me.”

Gece as understanding too,“All right, waiting for you, have fun.”

He’s a gaze to Kuwi, then they’re made a distance and disappear in his sight, ten and several minutes late, Tylice went to toilet, but the case has started happening. When she went out, a black showing in the way, and emited deep and low voice,“Lovely Tylice, I haven’t seen you some time, you’re growin up beauty.”

“What do you want?!” lightness and style step all of a sudden hurry up.

Kuwi bared up the lewd and cheap face,“Don’t, don’t scare. I’m not a wolf. Do you remember we’re innocent playmates time?” I’m very like you when that time, but pity you moved other place, Hoothoot, I’m so hurt. Today! I finally meet you again! We’re really foreordained of fate, must be god’s plan. We would be better to…” Hands with alcohol gas run out her beautiful face, slender thigh, Tylice promptly moved by exerting force against. Kuwi hasn’t talked all, a straight slap his face. She still as a willow is slender—and equally graceful, equally erect. Kuwi covered left face, gazed at Tylice’s tender white, spring, young skin, as debauchee laugh,“Eh, so good, belove hit, come again.”

Goodbingo is having a chat with people that time. She’s leave a long, therefore decided to find her at outside of toilet then waiting. But the result of picture from the case. He’s very angry, fast came and had fisting Kuwi to swound on the ground. Want to fist again, Tylice speed to hold, and told,“We must go out, this place unsuitable stay for a long time.” Got on the taxi running after they’re fly out hotel. After a little, bodyguards found Kuwi,

Headache Kuwi utterly discomfited and standing shouted,“I swear I never free you, Waitlook!”

Slightly raining air, strangers in a hurry near running car. Tylice inclined her head toward boy-friend’s breast, softly leaned against him, and was considering that how should to deal troubles Kuwi at future. Goodbingo fingering girl friend’s hair, and comforted,“Don’t worry, may be we should looking for one place avoid fire. Listened to landscape of Double Stars not bad, We can have a tour. Right?” She’s soulful looked at dear, with hands to firmly hold his power right hand. Slender talked,“I following you wherever.”

Sudden, fast and furry sweep shoot from back of taxi.“da~da~da~!” taxi back had broken in second. Taxi driver scared, and terrible emergency cried,“Help! Help!”

Goodbingo put the pistol, expertly open the safety lock, light spoke,“Don’t be afraid, I will come back soon.” Then took a good opportunity to welter out running taxi. She’s exclaimed behind, the voice more and more far.

Goodbingo roused active and spirit, fired to the chaseing front wheel of sports car “Phut! phut!” two gunshot, then sports car brushed way and down aside. 2 men rolled down from sport car, a group of gunmen in the wake of other sports cars, the police alarm sound more voice from far place. Cold swind faned city sky, gunmen took weapons, having cap and veil. A balck suit and sunglassess midlife man lead they to shoot, crazy bullets biting around of Goodbingo. He discovered force badly, promptly rolled to left, hid at the corner, again back shoot to gunmen, many gunmen had shot down with voice, but they’re too many, more and more formed to besiege a circle, Goodbingo very dangerous. It’s luck that a police car fast coming on sky, a police tensely used gun aim at gunmen, another police use broadcast system said aloud,“Please attention! Everybody listening to me! We’re patrol police of location. Our reinforce will be fast to here, please calm down, calm down! Put down your weapon, we can manage every problems. I repeat…”

The sunglasses man laugh,“Ya~! That guy such really be I had seen disk of police and thief words yesterday, I’m not fool!” He’s put scattergun and shot to police. Other gunmen firing too, police rush shoot them, one of police called the info-center,“Backup, backup! We need to force! The mobsters have 30 and several, We only several, hurry up!”

A gunman closed to sunglasses man,“Brother! Police force will arrived here in 5 minutes, Should we…”

The man talked,“Fall back, fall back on aim way! With chance to kill that guy Goodbingo when fall back!”

Gunmen answered,“Yes, head.”

Passerby hid and avoided at scene, only gunmen and police shadows moving in the street. Police making fire to gunmen, bullets bursting, cluster, random. Goodbingo took the chance of running, then rode a small car running away. He’s worry girl friend’s safety, must be chase up. Through a street and a street , a familiar of taxi stopped road side. He had seen Kuwi forcing to hold her. He deeply never thought that shoot down Kuwi bodyguards. Kuwi very scared, and pressed Tylice to aside. Then hands up, said aloud,“I give up, I give up! But, tomorrow I’ll never free you, Fu~aha~, your girl friend’s body very nice! Not bad. Eh~, ah~~.”

Goodbing looked at confusion wear of Tylice, obvious marks.

He’s angry and blood eyes,“Phut, phut, puht…”

Spare bullets beated in Kuwi’s body. Kuwi stared eyes, couldn’t believed the shoot from him as wonder, Never people could dare. He’s slowed lyed down on the road, lying die with little moving, Fishy blood poured out from body’s mouth. Goodbing exhausted, and kneeled on the groud, and deepped breathing and winded. Tylice clashed to him, then firmly held and cried. He’s too, Police car were coming, besieged their… rain even more befor, as complained of ugly of world.

Goodbingo whole bared body, sitting on the presoner bed, and gazed at photo of girl friend. The prison house only 30 square meter. Prison door set laser cote system. If illegal in and out, It would be emanate high temperature, emitting sting ray of laser light. Perfect mointor system at corridor, able to distinguish clear every walker. For the better keeping of Tylice photo, he’s used a tailor-made small winebottle. The small winebottle was made up by transparent green-fiberglass, have definite tenacity. It’s wall of inside put a precious colour fibre photo, can conitnue to pour wine or water after used of special solute tool together photo and winebottle. This little bottle is one and only pocket property, that’s coursed many twists and turned, finally kept up. The capitivity airship never-rest flew to Dead Execution Starfield, difficult foresee, suffering prison life will waiting for 3,000 prisoners. At former, many prisoners were dead, because of couldn’t bear dying prison life in the Dead Excution Starfield.

Goodbingo lying on bed and having Tylice in mind, then insensibly sleeping.

Suddenly, captivity airship as earthquake moving, broadcast system alarmed,“Attention, please to attention! Airship is passing a Thunder Dust Devil Zone.” The airship continued acutely shaking, Goodbingo no attention on the bed still.

And at once he discovered disappear without trace of hand bottle! Fast and hurry jumpped from the bed, then looking for little bottle on the ground. For a long time, found the small bottle had rolled aside of corridor. Goodbingo could not closed to, because of prison door. A robot had passing the corridor,

He’s promptly beseeched him for a help,“Excuse me, honour robot, honour robot! Could you help me to take the little bottle, please, please!”

The robot had a seen to him, then trod down small bottle with foot,“I have not this class of request in the programme.”

Then moving, Goodbingo as mad as wild animals bluster, loudness, the prison room is flickering, suffering in heard, a screen and screen of beautiful fancey along with besmash as degreeing to die. Goodbingo weeping and tremble, suffering heart, Had changing to an angry, a hatred fire flightiness upswing without end. He’s angry kicked the door. Hurried stepps coming from, the door “Zi” opened, two whole armed prison police walked in prison house, loudmouthed with rush,“What! What’s cry! I will throw you out, eat dust of universe if cry again!” And that time, a sharp violent of thunder crul shot captivity airship whom slanted and swagged, people were screaming.

An idea fireing from he’s heart,“Rush, kill them, rush out!”

He’s eyes murderous. Took a shaking chance of airship, small acts beated down police, put on police battle suit, single along to operation module… after a moment, prisoners flood out roomes as tide tidewater, went at other police…

Second day, Goodbingo hijacking captivity airship news blazed Milky Way galaxy, other solar systems. Had a some one stealth smile in the Rocks Starfields. There’s secret hideout of astro-robbers—Dake City. Famous and big astro-robber Dake controlled in this city Who leading privateer fleet is the legalize crime group of Milky Way galaxy. He lighted up a smoke, smile and talked himeslef,

“You’re standard, you’re standard.”

A dark engage-soldier supported another engage solder who went in capacious and comfortable Dake office. Dispiritedly told, “Boss, D.S. normal army helped the trade ship at starfields, the fish gone.”

But Dake Having a buoyant or self-confident air,“Never mind! Never mind. First go back for rest, I will call you if something.”

“Yes, Boss.” They answered,

Sixty minutes ago, the trade ship was flying in the Rocks Starfields that came from Force nation of earth. The passengers were including elder Holen and his son and daughter who went to Double Stars on way. They weren’t expected astro-robber will waylay action at the zone. Elder Hole’s 700 years old, Force nation wisdomer, Stars Map Logic Ecclesiastic higher educator, famous called “Hundred Education” He’s observed to look at planet map of D.S. as looking for a good universe corridor. Lovely daughter Hofi carefully driving, and Hoen mointor to operation system ship of screen, holding in standard effect. Abruptly, a minitype interstellar missile hit to the impulsement module of trade ship that dithering.

Hole thought about,“Why the astro-robber appeard?”

A moment with that words,“Hoen, hurry up send SOS to near starfields!”

Hoen answered,“No problem, my father.”

Hofi talked to dad with a little exciting,“Father, astro-robber destoried left impulsement of ship. Flying speed start to slower, must be seek a repair place.”

2 interstellar fighter plane again shot as slam. Information screen showed masked robber, “Step in our fileds, quickly give me the money.”

Hole pretended to a face of smile, asked him,“How much is the money?”

Astro-robber laugh, and shouted,“Whole! Hi hi…”

Press closed with moment. Hoen have no idea,“A flock of madmen!”

Flight planes missiled one again, a largeness blast on the same place, then ship speed was slowing. Operation screen fast showed a young officer pictures When asking help failed,

He’s explained,“We’re D.S. empire military of Rocks Starfields, SOS has receipted. Patrol fleet will be arrived, please for waiting.” A sharp of electrolazer bursted back of flight plane when the third missile ready, ten and several battle airships lightning appearance on back of them.

They shocked and loss color on face,“Fall back! Brother.” The flight planes very fast run into meteorolites. 

Hole mopped down cold sweat on head, talked,“Now safety, all right.”

Trade airship landed on the airfield of defend army that armored forces, patrol battle ships, soldiers full control the airfield. Felicitate on mind themselves whole got off the airship. A high, young officer came to them, and saluted,“Good to meet you. I felicitate you on safety, sir. I’m D.S.L.colonel Veten of defending troops in Rocks Starfields. Welcom to Double Stars.”

Ash and blue gown cap was being opened by Hole, then nodded,“Thanks for your help, thanks a lot.”

And Hofi talked,“Because of the underattacking from astro-robber, We need time to repair serious broken ship.”

Veten looked at the nice girl, she’s lovely face and touching eyes, a suit of white metal astro-coat that show sweet for good model. He’ll fell in love with beautiful girl if hadn’t married.

Veten talked to,“We’ll share a place for your repair job, but first let’s checking you airship.”

Hoen spoke,“Sure, father.” Elder Hole answer,“All right, Veten. With check to begin.” A battle tank ran in the airfield. Three people got off and they’re Waken, Brondear, Stebrog who came back form the remote airship.

Waken kindly shook hands with Hole,“Welcome to D.S. I’m Waken, the highest commander of location, they’re my colleagues.”

They’re introduce on another, then wlaked into the meeting room.

Cup of Hole was filled up hot tea by soldier. He’s a little drink who felling green tea aroma seepped in body, lingering fear eliminated all at once. One sip again, then thanked,“I’m so grateful to captain and other people’s help. We’re dead in the Rocks starfields if haven’t you.”

Waken replied,“Not at all, never mention. This our responsibility, elder Hole. By the back way, you’re come from the remote earth as important thing to deal, is it right?”

He’s smile said,“Yes, captain Waken. Else personal reason, we also have an important purpose that establish embranchment of Stars Map Logic Ecclesiastic in the D.S. Nonce, G. people are facing to first strange catastrophe, for end to war fire burning more, for end to slump an abysm with people more. Stars Map Logic Ecclesiastic put almost available material, We’re come to here for tomorrow sky.”

Brondear spoke,“I’m very glad to see you, famous logic exploiter of galaxies.”

He going on,“I’m admire to base tenet of education from Stars Map Logic Ecclesiastic.”

Hoen answered,“Overpraise from your admire, We’re tent to education, because of people mind have extending and improve from education.”

Veten talked,“I’m thinking that education important, economy at the same.”

Brondear told,“You’re right, I think so.”

Veten continued to said,“On the way, I had listened that unstability of earth and planets around, sure?”

Hole smile talked,“Colonel Veten really well know all, very sure. There’re under goodish since the civil war. As, wars had recorded since first human history. We’re only may be one cup of water pour on the hill of befire-woods.”

Waken asked him,“Could you tell me What’s happened when you’re underattack? Do you remember?”

He’s replied,“I haven’t mind to more because I had seen the empire interstellar chart. But my ship computer has noted all procession. I believe ship data will be useful for help.”

Waken thanked,“Thanks for your help and support.”

Hofi one-up talked,“This should be, you saved me, brother and my father.”

Hofi’s eyes gazed at the handsome man. One suit of silver-gray military officer, suggestions decoration of D.S. on left arm that show his full of wisdom. As Cupid arrow blew in heart, fall in love with young officer, Waken. Hoen thought out sister’s unusual act. With right handed to a press her arm. Hofi woke up a little gaffe, turnned see another place.

Waken kept up,“On the case your trade ship should be repair a week at least. After a week, I’ll present to V.Family important meeting, would you want me to drive on way?”

Hole said,“With so pleasure, thanks captain.”

Knocking on the door outside, pretty voice,“Captain Waken is here?”

Waken answered,“Come in.”

A nice young girl walked in the office. She had on purel-white space suit, floss cap didn’t cover fine hair. She dressed down the coat in minute, showed up the purel one-piece dress that low-chesty and intimate style,slow spoke,“Why so hot?”

Waken smile talked,“I’m so sorry, allow me to introduce my personal physicaltherapy master, Ms. Xingmei.”

She’s smile talked,“Sorry to trouble you, your nice.” A sight dropped on Hofi, intuition told her have carry weight from the girl at future. Xingmei hurry drawed apart with Waken because big or small question who afrair love will be fly out.

Xingmei had a bit tweaked Waken’s arm, then small voice,“My Waken, Who’s that beautiful sister?”

He’s smile and answered,“She’s edler Hole’s daughter Hofi. What’s wrong?”

She’s asked again,“She’s love competitor in woman’s intuition.”

Waken returned,“You may be not enough confidence oneself in my man experience.”

Xingmei coquetry said,“I didn’t care what or some what, you need to tell me who beautiful.”

Waken seens realized,“You’re very beautiful, she too.”

He’s suddenly felt up her sunshiny face as become clouds more. Rush renew,“No! of course not. I’m joking. You’re beautier than her.”

Xingmei happy talked,“Thank you.”

Then talked more,“Reach hand.”

Waken asked,“Why should I reach my hand?”

She’s annoy talked,“I want to help you physical therapy acts, come on.”

Waken asked,“What time is it. We have guesters, after one, waiting for me at room, we could be continue talking about.”

Waken got a hump on eyes to Veten, He’s smile said,“What are you doing? We’re talking about the cases. Don’t manner such, difference armyman’s way.”

Waken speedily returned and talked,“My brother Veten speak out my heart words, I have words talk to elder Hole. Excuse me, you should go back room.”

Xingmei plumped up the mouth, and went back the room.

Brondear continued,“Where’s words? We would be talking the cases.”

Hofi sat, then saw them, realised what’s tastes in mind.

She’s thought,“I’m better than her, take chance of closing.”

She’s brother hoen gazed at young and white skin, beheart fire back, swallowing saliva. Sister pressed to brother with hand too, he’s woke up and smile. Other people still having a chat or so, no one find unusual colour on their faces.

Sunshine throught out the cloud stones, then shine in the Rubbishs bases, soldiers suit apparence effulge on armous. A small team of empire soldier had passing channel of hill, they’re didn’t discover serveal shadows moving at sunless hill channel who steal visit to great rubbishs bases.

One of shadows steal talked,“Brother Flolamp! Couldn’t close up the great rubbishs bases, this’s very damage.”

Flolamp acted big steel teeth, thought about,“Elder send me to scout here with reasons.”

He want to continue toward, a soldier sudden high shouted,“Who’s there!?”

Flolamp had knew fail to hide. Empire soldier is shot down when he want to say again. A team of soldiers up to there, and savage shot to him. Flolamp put out mini bomb at pocket, fast threw out.

“Bomb~cha!”

Suffering soldiers lying down. They’re hurry rode small cars running quickly. Bases airplane, army came to, Flolamp already ran into an air, only leaved behind serveal soldiers’s bodies.

Flolamp went back to the secret base of Natureism with small car. Dressing Natureism traditonal warrior short battle suit. Got off the car with leisure, at moment that stretching full muscular arms. Breast’s muscle and ventro-muscel following moving arm dithering. Wounds was bright flopping on the body or face. It’s rode a long time in long distance, then with warm up sports would be eliminate tire and good acts.

A team of Natureism closing,“Brother Flolamp, elder inviting.” Tall and strong team of headman talked to him.

He stopped and answered,“Ok, this go!”

Long time go, Natureism have begun to war V.Family since. Who don’t know war began with what’s reason , may be someone know at future. Nowaday, Natureism, some of human, other underoppressive nations against to V.Family for real freedom, even for control in D.S. They’re good at battle who Natureism buidled a secret military base because flying guerilla. Ring Mountain Zone very vast area, enough 760,000 sq.km. Ring Mountain difference, some as a vase standing on the Ring Mountain, some as broke bowl with some water, some as feetprint of giant, some as great spiral snake, some as character english letter ‘O’, all kinds of strange things, layer upon layer, ring upon ring.

The military base was builder in the wide mountain chain, because good camouflage, more nature-blocks, brought about undiscovered. Dia 10 kilometre of ring mountain all over Natureism gun towers, N.fighter planes interluding near canyon of ring mountain. And around many ring mountains zone. They’re set up roadbocks or patrol every main road, exit. If unknow this landform, impossibility safety come or out.

Flolamp had a saluted,“Elder Tker, Flolamp have finished the scout and come back.”

Short Tker answered,“Good, good job, Natureism hero is no doubt.”

Flolamp talked,“According my know, there’s in charge of Waken, he’s new defense commander. Greats rubbishs bases still working in rubbishs and recycle material every places. No big found.”

Elder Tker smile told,“Oh, changed to young man, the ex-commander’s ages probably as me. I think that is time to find some time for visit parents or relatives at country.”

At the moment, one Natureism warrior came in the army corps, saluted,“Elder Tker, we’re come back.”

Tall and thin warrior spoke,“We’re came back from astro-robber Dake’s den, It’s said that had a trade airship was rescued by V.Family Who passed the Rocks Starfields. If ture, they’re should be repairing in the bases. Mr. Dake hope capture them, then send. The due is 3 interstellar battleplanes and 2 ton of weapon ammo material.”

Tker slow asked,“Did you ask the reason? Hatmen.”

Hatmen answered,“Yes, I did. But Mr.Dake no replied.”

Tker blinked eyes as understood something, talked,“Thank you, you can back to rest. I’ll call you talking if something.”

Hatmen answered,“Yes, elder Tker.”

He’s a looked at Flolamp, they went out corps after had shaked to battle gown,

Flolamp wonder,“Elder, Tker, that’s…?”

Tker hat pated his hand, talked,“That’s Hatmen, he’s son of deceased gnerral Hadoe. You’re sheepman’s son therefore may be look down you. He usually this manner, don’t blame him.”

Flolamp laugh,“We’re Natureism. Never mind everyone.”

Tker asked him again,“You’re go back here from far Queen Haven yearstoday. I haven’t ask you that what about deatil of there?”

He’s stemly replied,“Queen Haveen grimness as the same of Double Stars. They’re sometimes war because rob treasure material. It’s said that have a new V.Family commander again, so my uncle send me to help you.”

Tker satisfactorily talked,“Taromer is Taromer, I don’t worry about, because you.”

Another Natureism warrior came in from outside again, then reported,“Elder Tker, Waken’s background has found. He’s single who born in poor human family. Father was officer, but now It’s dismissed from his post. Mother is mtermittence madwoman, has living in the psychopathy hospital of D.S. other relatives unknow. Waken depended on individual strong will and wisdom, has working on engage-soldier 10 years long. After, he’s passed the entrance examination of 2G War college who conitune to an advanced studies, now degree Doctor. Waken is assigned to here After graduated. That man have rich battle experience. Creativity very strong.”

Take spoke,“Thanks for your intelligence, warrior Menbeca.”

Menbeca talked,“No thanks, Elder Tker. If no other thing, I should back to rest.”

Tker talked more,“Please wait a moment, come here, I introduce a new warrior for you.”

Menbeca said,“Thank you, elder.”

Tker continued to,“This is warrior Flolamp, come from Queen Haven, aslo Taromer’s nephew.”

Flolamp talked to him,“Not at all with proud, I’m so grateful to admiration. I’m great fortunate to meet you today.”

Menbeca got a look of strong warrior: bright eyes, vigor steel teeth. Teeth-form mustache especially show full of selfhood. He’s began to discover the young will become Natureism future. Both were invited by elder Tker who presence to Natureism dinner party…

Some piles of firewood distributing vastness ground with flaming and burning. Natureism teamheads and some of nation-warriors are together talking about how to gainst V.Family. This is an enormous meeting party, There’re almost people joined. Elder Tker standed up from elderseat, said aloud,“Today, My heart delightm because we can together to against V.Family. Today, my heart affaid, because worry V.Family’s tyranny will unstopping! Eventually, Gods give us an excellent chance. Now! there’re so far Leitibu, great Windom leading 20 galaxies rebellion battlefront, above 7,000,000,000 rebelliion warriors uprising, also have first progressing at win. I believe at the future, at the short time, G.I.M.E. Family of ten, V.Family will be crush on hand!” One tigrish and bear waist warrior was standing, shouted,“Elder right! We must take the chance beat down V.Family.” “Yes!” “Good!” “So nice!” “Wa, very excited! ” “I like thus!” Warriors talking or shouting or aloud. Flolamp and Menbeca were drinked and laughed.

A power warrior had standing with a rush, then shouted,“You! Why laugh? What’s wrong with Tker words? Talk me reason!” Warriors of sides as same.

Elder Tker had a knocked on the kettle with crutch,“Please calmness, calmness!”

People began soudless, but wouldn’t ease dissatisfaction from heart.

Elder Tker asked to Flolamp,“What’s good idea?” Flolamp slow put down the wine cup, standing up then speeched,“At first, I want to thanks elder Tker’s forgive, thank you. I’m apologize for everybody, because impertinence. Then I want to ask the brother, He name’s…? call…? ”

Young warrior shouted,“I’m FlameOx, Natureism warrior teamhead. What about you?”

Flolamp made a manner, talked,“I come from Queen Haven, my name’s Flolamp!”

Crowds in an uproar because Natureism warrior come from Queen Haven must be unsimple.

He continued,“I want to ask brother FlameOx, What’s good idea would be hit down V.Family?”

FlameOx thought a few time, then shaking up arm as elephant, howled,“I first shovel down V.Family defend army, after all wave straight point to Double Stars!” “Yes! Yes! Very good!” people shout again.

Elder Tker knocked again, talked,“Quiet, please quiet, listen to them!”

Flolamp clapped hands and said,“That’s a good idea! But have a question, How to shovel down the defend army? Were we stared up many battles before, but succeed? No! We haven’t succeed! We have brave, but we need to enough patience and wisdom at same!”

Crowds start talking and talking “Right, not bad!” “That’s great!”

Elder Tker asked,“What’s good idea from you?”

He’s gentle and slow walked out the seat, near the pile fire.

Continue talked,“Bushfighting of Natureism is good play to the government. Force conflict and fury uprising have emerged in endlessly since main battle of empire attacked and defensed. In order to inner or outer of territory main projects have showed no idea, even involved, one disaster after another. Battle of military army. The empire depending high-tech power that bring to nicety attacking and high-speed flexibility on successful way. This is main reason why bushflighting group face to face, crossing swords in underattacking with fail. But the empire still face to ghost bushflighting group with no idea, because main reason that guerilla batter than empire in shadow, nationality and religionary power. Military supply line, nicety intelligence are cogent power for battle. If can press these into confusion, destory nicety intelligence work involved, that will be the furthest threats, intimidation, compel to attacking power. So that destory intelligence center, working station, logistics department, supply-line etc. will be greatly hitting enemy’s morale or battle skills. Step more, if would be use effect psychological warfare with actions, better going gainst battle to pull down empire regimes every galaxies!”

Elder Tker a nice noded, Natureism warriors began a look to his strong body, but unsimple head Flolamp. Flolamp fast put up a big cup, then step and step closing pile fire. Warriors sights on his body at same time, bearing flame as mirror on red sun. Flolamp faster step by step to hill pile fire who clothing with sencod emited some piece of white gas. He’s stopped, and never fear eye’s flame, cut airstream, nip sparks.

Clap, clack, crack had following he didn’t stop wiggly dance postures as loudness song.

Warriors filled with admiration.,convulsion because very courage and deathless will.

Flolamp shouted like a lion, flame afraid and drew back.

Firewater threw into center of hill fire, flame started upswing again. He turned back to warriors with safety. Open big mouth, hold high fist, said aloud,“We’ll take a cup of fire to V.Family! Let him fire on mad! Burning more!”

Menbeca standing, threw out cup of hand too,“Great! Sounds great!”

Elder Tker smile with pleasure,“Right! Such this!”

People cried out,“We’ll take a cup of fire to V.Family! Let him fire on mad! Burning more! Speed them to die! Speed die! burning! …” insanely cried or called, FlameOx touching heart.

He’s cried,“Brother Flolamp right, Let V.Family ruin flame on mad, on burning!”

Hatmen still siting on one side, quiet and kept silence to drink alone. Analysed every people, his minded,“That Flolamp really man. May be strong opponent!”

A Naturesim battleplane landing on ground near pile fire, pilot hold the messages box, with honor on heart,“I’m Natureism warrior Tatajanmen from D.S. Elder Hesuner send me to here for deliver the messages box, also called me to give you an oral. We have united D.nation, Die-hard nation, some of human , and some other nations to dark armies, We’ll uprising at apointed date. Please Elder Tker send units for union battle!”

People cheering again, ring mountain as shout on sky including inside and outside. Menbeca words in head,“My tactics of bushfighting good happen to D.S.”

Exciting people took fire brand shaking and shaking as countless firebug have glitter in far places. One empire airplane thought out near sky…

In the bases, Waken bargaining works with other worker.

A soldier closed to him,“Captain, Natureism base has found, please order.”

Waken answered,“Thank you, my responsibility for defend bases. As for Natureism secret base, they’re usually changing places, no meaning in found. Send the report to Universe eyes center, nature have somepeople deal with.” Soldier answered, “Yes, captain!” at the U.I.E.C., thoudands of officers were checking, approving a lot pile of information, one intelligence officer has browsing a data, Universe Empire Star Warfare Presenting Unclarity…





By: He Qi Lin (Chinese man)
 

In an office setting what one wishes always is the comfort a working chair can provide. With most of the offices changing for the better, it is the collective ambience, which the people working there are looking for. So, one is always looking for the ultimate in comfort, which only an office chair back support can provide. This is done to check the rising incidences of back and neck pain. A considerable research is done periodically to constantly improvise up on the basic design of this type of chair. The problem can be traced to the long working hours with very little back support and also due to the long commuting hours to and fro from the place of work. The back and the neck being the vulnerable areas are hit the most because of the wrong sitting postures.

The soft and sensitive tissues of the neck give away soon to the pressure because of their wear and tear. If left untreated for long, neck problem can lead to cervical spondylitis, which becomes difficult if not almost impossible to treat. A lot of lifestyle problems can be taken care with a comfortable office chair back support, as it takes care of poor postural habits developed along the years. Often, we ignore the problem for long due to one reason or other. This result in too large a weight on the soft back and neck tissues and the pain becomes unbearable in the days to come. Sensing the difficulties of the office goers and otherwise, many firms have come up with latest office chair back support designs which duly take care of most of your back pain worries.

Orthopedics nowadays suggests a number of corrective measures as a remedy for the back pain. This includes proper diet and exercise and the maintenance of a correct posture along with a proper office chair back support. They also suggest periodic breaks so that the body is able to rejuvenate itself to some extent. After these periodic breaks, one is able to maintain the pace of work in an even manner and the burden on the back and neck muscles ceases to some extent. One also has to take care of the kind of bedding while retiring for the night, because that takes care of half of our back problems. Part of the problem also arises due to the incorrectly watching the programs on the T/V. So, it is actually we, who apart from the comfortable chairs in the office, have to take care of our general lifestyle.

Many companies have come up with the latest designs in office chair back support that take care of your posture. That affects your productivity to large extent and helps you to meet the challenges of a busy day at the office. These chairs are made in the choicest materials swathed in soft leather offering you the ultimate comfort zone. Allow yourself to buy one with best durability and style complementing your day’s hard work. In the days to come, you will discover a new you with more zest and energy than ever before. You will be surprised at the attention and the energy you are still left with even during the ending work hours.





By: Matt Hudson
About Biometric Electronic Access Control

Biometrics, or the recognition of the identity of someone based on a biological aspect of a person, is actually a very old technology. We use biometrics everyday when we use the ‘computer’ that we call the human mind: for example, when we recognize someone by looking at his or her face, or when we check a written signature against what we trust to be a bona-fide copy of a signature. The futuristic feel of biometric technology comes about when we match the traditional biometric approach with the new capabilities that we have in electronics. Now we can use electronic devices to make biometric judgements about the authenticity of a person—that is, “is person x who they say they are?” Since the information and digital age is upon us, the technology has come about that makes authentication exceptionally accurate, and potentially a much more reliable means of authenticating a person than traditional, human-judgement based biometrics.

Experts in authentication technologies usually classify the criteria that are used to verify someone’s identity based upon a few different categories. “What you know”, or W-Y-K, is one form of authentication: a common version of this occurs when you give an electronic bank terminal your PIN (or Personal identification number). “What you have”, or W-Y-H, is another criterion, and this refers to the possession of some identifying object such as an identification card or passport: but you could even consider a simple door key as a kind of W-Y-H proof of identity for allowing access into a private or controlled access property. Biometrics, according to this scheme of classification, would generally be termed “What you are” or W-Y-A. It is the presentation of a physical aspect of yourself that is quite uniquely and individually you, in order to obtain authentication.

Electronic access control (EAC) over properties based upon biometrics is not a new technology, having been around for decades—and it has taken on many forms. Hollywood movies have long depicted high security installations that use finger and handprints, eye (iris and retina) scans, facial and voice recognition and so on, in order to verify identity. Of course, media typically depicts the technology as being used by spies, high-tech corporate installations, the ultra-rich and other elites of society: possibly to protect priceless assets and information, or to prevent espionage and treason. Only recently has it become an exciting time for the rest of us, technologically speaking, as “the digital age” has brought electronic biometric technology to a quality standard and a price that is within the reach of the average consumer.

 

Fingerprint Scanning Biometric Door Locks

The newest consumer item is a biometric access control device that scans a person’s fingerprint in order to allow access to a property, or even to a vehicle. High-tech industry commentators are seeing biometrics as the new emergent technology that will eventually replace, or at least be offered alongside all other forms of access control (such as keys, or electronic access control devices based upon PIN code keypads, magnetic card swiping, or Radio Frequency ID (RFID) tokens/key-fobs). One of the principle reasons for this is that the biometric device potentially offers an entry control solution that is free of the typical problems that beset older technologies. That advantage might be simply avoiding that horrible feeling you get when you are standing at your front door and can’t find your keys, or when you have so many PINS in your head that you can’t remember the right one to gain access to a property. Maybe it is when the so-called magnetic stripe card has lost its magnetic properties, or you have lost the card; or when a RFID key-fob has run out of batteries, is stolen, or simply just fails to communicate to the lock. Biometrics could be advantageous for those that have physical difficulty with the operation of any of these older technologies. With biometrics, all you need is a finger, placed upon a small screen that scans the fingerprint, and then you then gain access to your property.

This is a relatively new technology for the consumer marketplace, and so if you are thinking of trying a biometric access control device, it pays to be cautious in terms of the unit that you select. What do you need to look for? Knowing this might mean the difference between having a new and more amiable relationship with your front door, or one which ends with a lot of frustration, as you imitate Jack Nicholson in an axe-wielding duplication of the “Here’s Johnny” scene from the movie “The Shining”. Hence, the following are some things to think about when selecting a biometric device.

 

When to Use Biometric EAC

The wide range of benefits in not carrying or using keys or other physical devices cannot be described in much detail here—and most people can instantly think of a list of benefits for their own home. Suffice it to say, the potential advantages may be many and varied. They may range from potential increased accessibility for the disabled, for the elderly and young children, through to benefits obtained in our “great Aussie beach culture”, where many will see it as ideal to be able to go to the beach and not have to take along a set of keys (or other devices that could be lost or stolen). Some applications can achieve huge benefits from implementing a biometric access control system, where inventory control of keys or other devices over an ever changing clientele would be “a nightmare” or just prohibitively expensive. A few examples are day-care centres, schools, industrial complexes and corporate offices, and high security government and commercial operations. The USA’s “Disneyland” (and also the Hong Kong location) have implemented a fingerprint scanning system called “Ticket Tag” to control all of its visitors, with the system controlling the complex array of access levels depending upon what kinds of tickets the visitors purchase. Hotels can also strongly benefit from eliminating the need to maintain key or card inventories, whilst freeing the guest from having either to carry or to check keys at reception every time they enter/exit the building. Computer networks can remotely control some biometric locks, and some locks are programmable to delete a guests’ authority to access a room automatically, after a specified time interval. Many biometric devices have built in “audit trails”, which can keep track of entries by user, date and time. This can be useful to prevent “buddy bundying” in workplaces, or provide a form of surveillance over children for concerned parents. The potential uses and benefits of biometrics are only limited by the imagination, and some benefits may make a world of difference when compared to older technologies.

Fortunately, in most applications, biometric technology is a suitable replacement for older technologies, and biometrics can offer a versatile access control solution for residential, government and commercial/industrial situations. However, there are a few exceptions. A case occurred a few years ago where a British prison invested in biometric fingerprint scanning devices to control access through the internal parts of the prison. Because the biometric device selected for the prison was not accurate, inmates were quick to exploit the weakness of the particular device, which simply did not have a good enough discrimination between different fingers to be able to keep prisoners out. Consequently, they were able to gain access to unauthorised internal areas. (The important topic of the accuracy of biometric devices is discussed immediately below.) Whilst overall prison security was not compromised, for a short while the prison black market flourished. Some commentators on this event rightly noted that a prison was not an entirely good place to have a biometric device, since some prisoners might not hesitate to cut off a guard’s finger, if it meant access to freedom (or in some cases, an extra carton of cigarettes). It is certainly the last place that I would want to install biometric access control, but not necessarily for security concerns, because biometric modules can sometimes discriminate between a connected and a severed finger, based upon measurements such as body temperature reading. The primary reason for not installing such devices in prison is simply that inmates might erroneously perceive that they could use the severed finger to access their freedom, and—irrespective of their success in escape—the false perception alone might work much to an unlucky prison officer’s detriment.

Physical attributes may sometimes not marry well with biometric technology. One visitor to Disney had problems with the readers because she had lymphodema in her right arm, which was the one she selected to have the fingers scanned. When her arm swelled during the course of the day, her fingers expanded and became different fingers in the eyes of the biometric scanner. A simple cure in her case would have been to use the arm that did not swell, but it does give an insight into a problem that could occur for some users. Very rarely, people have little actual fingerprint which can confuse some biometric readers, resulting in the poor operation of the device for such a user.

 

Biometrics Accuracy

In purchasing a biometric lock one must be careful to select a brand of device that has high levels of accuracy, or to put it another way, low levels of error. In biometrics, there are two typical measurements made regarding biometric error: that of FRR or “False Reject Ratio” and FAR or “false acceptance ratio”. The lower each ratio or rate, the better the biometric product.

FRR is also known as the “insult rate”, and this is quite an appropriate term. It involves the amount of times that you are insulted by your door lock, as it erroneously but calmly beeps to inform you that you are not actually you, but rather a pretender to the throne. FRR equates directly to the usability of the device. An enrolled user (that is, someone whose fingerprint is held within the memory of the lock or lock control as an authorised entrant) should be permitted entrance easily. If a biometric device has a low FRR, then it should not require a series of attempts before you can enter your home or workplace. A high FRR or insult rate biometric can be a frustrating device to live with.

The second measure of accuracy, FAR, is critical. It relates to the security provided by the device. How easy is it for the fingerprint of another user—an actual “pretender to the throne”—to get into the device? How easy is it for a mimicking technology to fool the lock into thinking it is the real finger? A high FAR or fraud rate can be a security violation just waiting to happen.

 

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

In purchasing a biometric lock, look carefully at the FAR and FRR rates. They should both be as low as possible. However, it also pays to consider the way in which the specifications are gathered. Some biometric locks use what might be called a “security setting” in order to compromise between fingerprint discrimination and authorised users ease of entry: that is to say, a setting that allows you to trade off performance between either false insults or false permission granted to unauthorised parties. In my opinion an altogether bad thing to have on a biometric device, because the user should not have to be forced to tweak with crucial settings: it should all be purely automatic. Performance of a biometric lock should be about achieving both levels of accuracy at the same time, because that is what is demanded in the real world. Manufacturers that build an adjustment level into their device are possibly trying to attain better performance figures for their product than what they can deliver in practice.

It also pays not to be too serious about the performance specifications that are offered by manufacturers. Whilst they might serve as a useful guideline, the specification that states, for example, a “1:10000 false reject ratio” might never attain such performance in practice. Such performance figures are based upon a mix of empirical data and mathematical analyses. The best thing to do is to test the model with your fingerprint, place the enrolled finger into the device and gain entry a number of times, and see how repeatable it is. If your finger scans are repeatedly permitted in until you get tired of testing the entry operation, then chances are the lock is going to be easy to live with. If you find a lock that only beeps a denial of entry and requires you to rescan one time in a hundred, it would be safe to say that this is going to be a good lock to use on an everyday basis. Rare physical attributes (as noted earlier) can sometimes confuse some biometric readers. So test first, and make sure the product is specifically suitable for your fingers.

Another indicator of reliability might be to check with the supplier as to who makes the biometric module within the biometric device. Are they a reputable and recognised source of high technology hardware?

 

Biometric Ease of Use



Figure 1: A biometric device with a friendly, easy-to-use main menu driven interface, industry standard navigation pad, and a large screen. SEQ Figure * ARABIC A full, standard numeric keypad at the front of a device helps with ease of operation.

It is not much good having a biometric device if you need the proverbial Ph.D. in order to use it. Some locks are so complex to use that even watching a video of the steps required to operate the device (let alone program it) is a confusing thing. Of course, the ease with which you can use a biometric device contributes to or detracts much in terms of how happy you will be with your purchase. Look for a large and easy to see screen, with controlling functions being menu navigated in an intuitive way. If the biometric device is set up like, for example–the most user-friendly mobile phones or digital cameras, with features such as four way navigational keypads, then it is likely to be user friendly. Try to ensure that if you want to get to a function, you do not need both a user’s manual and a penchant for astrophysics: rather, that you just need the ability to read a simple menu and press navigation keys or selection buttons.

Don’t neglect the outside operating interface either, when it comes to choosing a good biometric device. If the unit has an industry standard numeric keypad on the outside lock body, this is indicative of easy entry control when you choose to use a pin number instead of, or in addition to, a fingerprint scan. A full keypad at the front of the device is also indicative that entering numbers into the biometric device (for programming basic operations) will be an easier thing than one that only has a few buttons and does not properly represent the full range of numeric digits (0-9).

 



Biometrics and Privacy

There has been some justifiable concern raised by privacy advocates and in the press more generally, about privacy concerns related to biometrics usage. Look for biometric units that do not capture and process merely the image of the fingerprint but rather use “minutiae points”, which are very specific details taken from a finger scan. A biometric device works with minutiae points by immediately capturing particular facets of the finger and fingerprint, followed by mathematical analysis of—and then encrypted encoding—of those facets. Therefore, such a biometric device is not actually comparing pictures, but rather the very specific data that it has collected. Drawing data from the biometric system can result in little but the gathering of useless data, rather than compromising the biometric data of an individual. Some locks and the network software programs that attach to them (if they are network capable) will also allow lock programming so that a guest user is only kept in memory for a specified period of time. At the end of that period, the fingerprint minutiae data is automatically purged from the system.

 



Biometrics Durability & Appearance



Durability is quite straightforward. Take a good look at the lock: is it protected from the elements? Some locks have sliding covers that protect the biometric scanning window and buttons from dust, dirt, water and so on. Is the body made well? Some locks have thicker walls of alloy in their construction to make them stronger; some have plastic parts that make the unit more vulnerable. Is the finish constructed to last? Some biometrics have “nanotech” finishes that make them as high-tech on the outside as they are on the inside, and make them very resistant to scratches that can make them less appealing. Solidly constructed locks that are based on a mortise design may be a little more expensive, but are the most robust in terms of security—which is of course what they are there for at the end of the day.

This leads to the final criterion you should consider when purchasing a lock: is it attractive, and does it visually complement (or burden) your premises. Regrettably, it seems that many biometric locks were designed with functionality in mind, and little or no consideration was given to appearance: but there is no rule set in stone that a biometric device has to be ugly; and some units are beautiful and elegant, and make a strong statement upon any front door.

 

Conclusion

When everything is taken into account, taking the step to adopt this new technology can be a rewarding experience: just be careful that you select the right device for you, your situation and your “aesthetic sensibilities”. Chances are you will be very much rewarded for your care in purchase, and you’ll be able to really enjoy the best things that this new and exciting technology can provide.

 

All text copyright Nordic Biometric Pty Ltd (Australia) 2008.





By: Michael Primero

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