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The chat room and social network religious wars between Apple and Google demand that you take sides. But I've always felt that the best experience includes a cherry-picking of Apple hardware, Google services and apps from both.
For example, on my MacBook Pro, iPad and iPhone, my No. 1 application is Google Chrome, where I obsessively use Google Search, Google Photos, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google News, Google Maps, Google+, Inbox and more.
Yes, I use non-Google services, but eight out of the top 10 sites I use are Google services.
After the announcements at Apple WWDC last week, and at Google I/O last month, it's clear that the days of using Google services on Apple hardware are numbered.
Soon we'll be forced to choose between all-Google or all-Apple.
Why your virtual assistant has an entourage
Google Now often knows what you want before you do, and it can predict when you should leave your house in order to get to the airport on time and do other helpful tricks. None of this works unless you're using Google's Gmail, Google Search, Google Calendar and Google Maps. That's where the data comes from. So for a couple of years, to embrace Google Now fully meant also embracing at least four other Google services.
Google I/O ushered in a powerful new Google Now. A new feature called Now on Tap brings contextual awareness into your apps as well (when developers support the feature). For example, if you were listening to a song in a music app, you could ask Google Now: "Who sings this?" Google Now would get the contextual information from the app, instead of its own Knowledge Base, and just answer your question. A chat app could enable anyone engaged in a conversation about a restaurant to simply ask Google Now (without leaving the app) what time the restaurant closes, and Google Now could answer based on information it got from Yelp -- a different app.
Now on Tap is a huge benefit that Google Now fans are going to love. There's just one catch: You need an Android phone to use it. So now, in addition to using all those other Google services, you also need to use Google's mobile operating system to take full advantage of Google Now.
And last week at WWDC, Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, gained amazing new powers as well.
For starters, Siri got the a major feature that Google Now once had exclusively: preemptive notifications, which interrupt you with important information rather than waiting for you to ask. The next Siri, in the upcoming iOS 9, will feature integration with (and reliance upon) Spotlight search, as well as Apple's Calendar and Maps applications.
So if you're an iPhone user like me who favors Google Search, Google Calendar and Google Maps, Siri won't let you take full advantage unless you switch to Apple's alternatives.
Like the Now on Tap feature in Google Now, Siri will offer developers an API for third-party integration. Needless to say, these will be iOS apps and no other kind.
Both Google Now and Siri just got way, way better. But they both achieved those improvements by favoring the full-time, exclusive use of either Google or Apple apps, services and operating systems.
Let's follow two trend lines and see where we end up. The first is the way virtual assistant apps are becoming increasingly reliant on an entourage of products from a single company.
The second is they way users are becoming increasingly reliant on virtual assistant apps. As we move into the wearable era, and as virtual assistants like Google Now and Siri become better, we'll depend on them more and we'll believe them to be more important and central to us in our daily lives.
As these trends converge, people like me will be forced to stop using Google services on Apple hardware; we'll have to fully embrace one platform at the expense of the other.
And there's one other factor forcing the choice between Google and Apple: Apple's business model.
Apple's mission to replace Google services
Google makes its money on advertising, mostly. So Google has an interest in encouraging people like me to use advertiser-supported Google services on my Apple hardware.
Google tries to make its apps work as well as possible on iOS. One recent example emerged last week in the Google Maps for iOS app. Let's say you're using Google Maps on your desktop computer and you want to send a location to your phone. Google can't enable this feature for iPhone users in the same way it does on Android because it doesn't have the same access to the mobile operating system. So Google came up with a brilliant workaround that uses notifications to transfer the command. (To use the feature, enable notifications for Maps in your iPhone's Settings, then a new "Send to device" link will appear in Maps for any location you find via a Maps search.)
Apple, on the other hand, makes money by selling hardware, software and cloud services, and by distributing content. Apple has no interest in encouraging me to use Google services. In fact, it's trying to replace them because it sees Google services as nuisance gateway drugs into the Google ecosystem.
That's almost certainly the explanation for the following Apple moves:
- Apple CEO Tim Cook recently dissed advertiser-supported businesses (a not-so-subtle reference to, mainly, Google). He said: "You might like these so-called free services, but we don't think they're worth having your email, your search history and now even your family photos data-mined and sold off for God knows what advertising purpose."
- Apple announced new features for its Spotlight search on OS X that replace key aspects of Google Search. For example, Spotlight now has natural-language search, making it easy for users to search both desktop and Web at the same time by asking simple questions. Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jason Calacanis says the use of Spotlight to replace Google Search is part of a mission to "destroy Google."
- Apple launched Apple Maps in 2012 as a replacement for the default Google Maps on mobile devices and is now copying aspects of Google's StreetView system of driving around and photographing everything.
One day soon, you'll have to choose
Because Siri and Google Now will get better over time by integrating apps and services controlled by Apple and Google, respectively -- and because we'll rely more on those virtual assistants -- users will be discouraged from using Google services on Apple hardware.
Because Apple is actively working to replace Google services for OS X and iOS users -- and integrate Apple's alternatives into Apple's operating systems -- Apple users will be increasingly discouraged from using any Google products at all.
Some of this is happening by accident, but some of it is happening by design.
The result for people who love both Apple and Google is that we'll have to choose: Either use Apple hardware with Apple's services, or switch to Android devices and use Google's services.
The days of using Google on Apple are coming to an end. I fear we'll all have to choose between going all-in with Apple or all-in with Google.


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Dragon Ball Z games are a dime a dozen. The TV series may have ended 15 years ago, but that hasn't stopped developers and publishers from trying to make the ultimate recreation of the show's experience in game form. The latest attempt even goes so far as to claim such right there in the title!
So what makes Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi so… well… ultimate? Is this truly a case of truth in advertising, or is it merely a wish made once all seven Dragon Balls are gathered? Read on, dear friends, and ready those "Over 9000!" comments.
Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Tenkaichi (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 [reviewed])
Developer: Spike
Publisher: Namco Bandai
Released: October 25, 2011
First, let me say how ambitious Ultimate Tenkaichi is. Taking the huge storyline of the Dragon Ball Z series and condensing it for a game is no small task, especially when you weigh the fact that every DBZ game has repeated the same story ad nauseum. If I have to fight Raditz and Piccolo has to kill Goku at the beginning of every game, I'm going to shoot someone.
Thankfully, the story has been nicely condensed to keep things fresh for folks familiar with the source material while not alienating those who are viewing a DBZ product for the first time. Developer Spike has done a great job of emulating the look and style of the show without going overboard on re-hashing. The bright colors pop and the backgrounds all fit within the scope and storylines involved.
Recreating the epic battles the show is known for is an entirely different matter, and despite some issues, Spike has done admirably well in that respect too. Combat is heated, with characters charging Ki here and blasting energy there. There's even environmental damage based on attacks, though the environments only stay damaged for a brief, cinematic "aftermath" moment. Once the animation is finished, the area is clear of craters. It would have been nice if they stuck around and affected gameplay, but it's still a cool effect once the devastation occurs.
There are two standard attacks, quick and hard. After a series of quick attacks, you'll go into "Clash" mode, where you basically have a 50/50 shot at hitting the opposite button your opponent does in order to win the clash and beat down your foe with a series of flashy moves. The first few times you do this, it's exciting and visually stimulating, but after a while, it becomes what all DBZ games degrade to: repetition.
The main problem here is that all the characters perform essentially the same way. Sure, their special attacks (executed by tilting up or down on the right analog stick once "Spirit" energy has been gathered in battle) are unique to each character and look fantastic, but the standard combat looks and acts the same. As the game progresses, your character naturally evolves with the storyline, but since they all play the same, it doesn't make much difference, even despite the obvious power difference (cue "Over 9000!" now). In fact, while floating through the overhead map in story mode, I stumbled upon the in-game "World Tournament" and beat it with my base character without having advanced at all..
That isn't to say there's not a lot to do here. Far from it, as Ultimate Tenkaichi boasts the most robust gameplay modes in the series. For the first time ever, players can create their own Saiyan heroes and take them on an alternate-history version of the DBZ storyline, leveling and powering up their characters through training missions between battles. While the character creation isn't as deep as, say, those found in a WWE game, there's still a decent variety of edits to be made. Plus, it's kind of cool to power up your character for a brand-new beatdown.
The story modes (the main story and "Hero Mode") will last about a dozen hours each, but they do get a bit tiresome. The presentation switches between cutscenes with in-game graphics and clips from the anime itself. Sadly, all of this is consistently broken up by long, arduous loading screens — if I ever see another damn capsule, it'll be too soon! There are also your standard versus and tournament modes, as well as online play, but I had some connection issues in trying to find matches.
Capturing the breadth of the Dragon Ball Z franchise is no small feat, and Ultimate Tenkaichi does an admirable job. While combat can be a bit on the repetitive side, there's still that hint of satisfaction when you decimate your foe with an canyon-creating power move. There's a lot here for fans to enjoy, and while the story may be streamlined for new fans of the franchise, I can't really recommend it to anyone but the hardcore.

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(Lamar, Colorado; September 10, 2013) Victory Media, the premier media entity for military personnel transitioning into civilian life, has named Lamar Community College to the coveted Military Friendly Schools® list. The 2014 Military Friendly Schools® list honors the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in the country that are doing the most to embrace America's military service members, veterans, and spouses as students and ensure their success on campus.
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The Second London Baptist Confession of 1689
Paragraph 1. Good works are only such as God has commanded in his Holy Word,1 and not such as without the warrant thereof are devised by men out of blind zeal, or upon any pretense of good intentions.2
1 Mic. 6:8; Heb. 13:21
2 Matt. 15:9; Isa. 29:13
Paragraph 2. These good works, done in obedience to God's commandments, are the fruits and evidences of a true and lively faith;3 and by them believers manifest their thankfulness,4 strengthen their assurance,5 edify their brethren, adorn the profession of the gospel,6 stop the mouths of the adversaries, and glory God,7 whose workmanship they are, created in Christ Jesus thereunto,8 that having their fruit unto holiness they may have the end eternal life.9
3 James 2:18,22
4 Ps. 116:12,13
5 1 John 2:3,5; 2 Pet. 1:5-11
6 Matt. 5:16
7 1 Tim. 6:1; 1 Pet. 2:15; Phil. 1:11
8 Eph. 2:10
9 Rom 6:22
Paragraph 3. Their ability to do good works is not all of themselves, but wholly from the Spirit of Christ;10 and that they may be enabled thereunto, besides the graces they have already received, there is necessary an actual influence of the same Holy Spirit, to work in them and to will and to do of his good pleasure;11 yet they are not bound to perform any duty, unless upon a special motion of the Spirit, but they ought to be diligent in stirring up the grace of God that is in them.12
10 John 15:4,5
11 2 Cor. 3:5; Phil. 2:13
12 Phil. 2:12; Heb. 6:11,12; Isa. 64:7
Paragraph 4. They who in their obedience attain to the greatest height which is possible in this life, are so far from being able to supererogate, and to do more than God requires, as that they fall short of much which in duty they are bound to do.13
13 Job 9:2, 3; Gal. 5:17; Luke 17:10
Paragraph 5. We cannot by our best works merit pardon of sin or eternal life at the hand of God, by reason of the great disproportion that is between them and the glory to come, and the infinite distance that is between us and God, whom by them we can neither profit nor satisfy for the debt of our former sins;14 but when we have done all we can, we have done but our duty, and are unprofitable servants; and because they are good they proceed from his Spirit,15 and as they are wrought by us they are defiled and mixed with so much weakness and imperfection, that they cannot endure the severity of God's punishment.16
14 Rom. 3:20; Eph. 2:8,9; Rom. 4:6
15 Gal. 5:22,23
16 Isa. 64:6; Ps. 43:2
Paragraph 6. Yet notwithstanding the persons of believers being accepted through Christ, their good works also are accepted in him;17 not as thought they were in this life wholly unblamable and unreprovable in God's sight, but that he, looking upon them in his Son, is pleased to accept and reward that which is sincere, although accompanied with many weaknesses and imperfection.18
17 Eph. 1:5; 1 Pet. 1:5
18 Matt. 25:21,23; Heb. 6:10
Paragraph 7. Works done by unregenerate men, although for the matter of them they may things which God commands, and of good use both to themselves and to others;19 yet because they proceed not from a heart purified by faith,20 nor are done in a right manner according to the Word,21 nor to a right end, the glory of God,22 they are therefore sinful, and cannot please God, nor make a man meet to receive the grace from God,23 and yet their neglect for them is more sinful and displeasing to God.24
19 2 Kings 10:30; 1 Kings 21:27,29
20 Gen. 4:5; Heb. 11:4,6
21 1 Cor. 13:1
22 Matt. 6:2,5
23 Amos 5:21,22; Rom. 9:16; Titus 3:5
24 Job 21:14,15; Matt. 25:41-43


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Gilroy Dispatch: Protest planned- seeds in disputePosted: September 20th, 2012 | Filed under: Press | Tags: Agent Orange, autism, Bar Area, Bayer, CA, California, California Chamber of Commerce, California Retailers Association, Coca-Cola, ConAgra Foods, Evil Biotech, FDA, food-based allergies, Gilroy, Gilroy Dispatch, gmo, GMO Flowers, Hershey, Jennifer Scheer, Kellogg, Kraft, Lori Schwind, Monsanto, Nestle, North America, obesity, Pepsico, Prop 37., Proposition 37, Randy Armstrong, Smucker, Steve Costa, Syngenta, Syngenta Corporate Affairs, Syngenta Flowers Inc, the California Farm Bureau, Toby Nixon, Weed Killer |
Protest planned: seeds in dispute
Activists plan Friday protest at Gilroy's Syngenta Flowers
by Blair Tellers, Staff Writer, September 20, 2012
Bay Area activists are planning a peaceful protest at Syngenta Flowers in Gilroy today, marking the final day of a nationwide "global week of action†against "evil biotech†facilities linked to the Genetically Modified Organism food system.
A provocative Facebook flier promoting the event depicts mutant zombie children gnawing on GMO-poisoned corn. Some participants will tout visual props such as signs and biohazard suits, while others will protest through music or street theater.
While the local Syngenta facility at 2280 Hecker Pass Highway doesn't actually sell or manufacture vegetable seeds or vegetable plants – it's a flowers-only operation – the Swiss biotech giant that employs more than 26,000 people in more than 90 countries is currently the world's No. 2 vegetable seed proprietor, according to its website.
Syngenta breeds, produces and markets "top-quality genetics to meet the needs of your retail-ready vegetable programs.†The company's major field crops including corn and soybeans "are tailored for individual geographical regions to be high-yielding and reliable,†as well as "genetically enhanced with built-in insect resistance or herbicide tolerance.â€
Gilroy Syngenta Manager Randy Armstrong says the company is aware of Friday's protest, but "unfortunately, I'm not allowed to speak about it,†he explained. "I can't comment on anything.â€
Senior communications manager Lori Schwind with Syngenta Corporate Affairs, North America, issued a statement Thursday morning, saying the company is "aware of activity planned for Syngenta and respects people's rights to voice their opinions, even when they differ from Syngenta's.â€
Formally known as "Occupy Monsanto†in protest of the American agricultural biotech company and leading producer of genetically engineered seeds, the global movement that kicked off Monday and involves 65 events staged around the world aims to "confront the industrial agriculture system head-on,†with participants who are "unified in pushing back GMO food into the lab from which it came.â€
"The main point is that we're getting the word out about industrial agriculture and the food we eat,†explained Adam Eidinger, Washington D.C.-based spokesman for Occupy Monsanto.
Staging a demonstration at Syngenta is "just as legitimate as Monsanto,†he maintains. "It's part of the same industrial food complex. It's a fair target.â€
Protesters decided to demonstrate in Gilroy since "there wasn't a Monsanto facility that we could find near San Francisco†– although a branch of Seminis, Inc., a leading vegetable and fruit seed company acquired by Monsanto in 2005, is located at 500 Lucy Brown Lane in San Juan Bautista.
Organizers of Friday's gathering explain on their Facebook page that, "Syngenta Flowers Inc, another evil biotech company, was the closest one. Honestly, this is more than just about Monsanto. It's about GMOs in general. Occupy Monsanto is a rallying call to let all biotech firms making GMOs know that they are on notice.â€
Opposition against genetically engineered seeds – which are used by farmers for greater efficiency and higher output – run the gamut. Reported arguments include: Risks to human health and the environment, GMO seeds being too expensive, resistant to weed killer, and genetically contaminating traditional crops – which are important to organic farmers, as well as conventional farmers who export crops to countries that reject genetic engineering.
Monsanto itself has come under fire during the decades for "pollution, corruption,†and attempting to "take control of the world's food supply,†as accused by one of many books against GMO seeds.
Eidinger says the protest in Gilroy is gaining steam through social media and organized carpool groups.
"It's looking like this is a good one,†he noted. "They made their own flier and have done quite a bit of outreach.â€
Approximately 31 people have RSVP'd to the 9 a.m. protest so far on the event's Facebook page. The gathering is also being advertised on Craigslist and IndyBay, a non-commercial, democratic collective of independent Bay Area media makers and media outlets.
Owner Steve Costa with Headstart Nursery on Monterey Road in Gilroy believes the controversy projected onto the local Syngenta Flowers is misplaced.
"It's kind of ridiculous to beat up a nice business†that's an "asset to our area,†he rations.
"I don't see the connection,†he added. "It's huge company. That division (in Gilroy) doesn't even know what the large seed division is doing.â€
Executive Director Jennifer Scheer with the Santa Clara County Farm Bureau agrees the protest is "unfortunate,†but for additional reasons.
As the world population continues to increase exponentially, "we're going to need to feed a third more people shortly with the same number of resources, or fewer,†she noted.
Genetic technologies employed by companies such as Syngenta have a lot of potential to address that reality, she reasoned.
Scheer can't speak to the myriad arguments touted by activists such as Eidinger, who points out that GMOs in food have been linked to autism, obesity, food-based allergies, dropping fertility rates, birth defects and "weird†neurological disorders, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"We don't know what the ramifications could potentially be either way,†Scheer speculated. "But at the same time, we don't want to write it off and 20 years down the road have a mass food shortage worldwide.â€
Occupy Monsanto was strategically timed with the one-year anniversary of the Occupy Movement, which began Sept. 17 on Wall Street in Manhattan and targeted, among numerous issues, corporate greed and corruption.
Protests this week mark the first global mobilization against GMOs in more than a decade, according to Eidinger.
Many individuals partaking in Occupy Monsanto are seizing the movement as a platform to dually voice their support for Proposition 37, the "California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act,†one of 11 statewide initiatives that is on the Nov. 6 ballot.
A sample of groups who oppose the initiative include Monsanto, Syngenta, Kellogg, Kraft, Smucker, Bayer, Pepsico, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Hershey, the California Farm Bureau, ConAgra Foods, California Chamber of Commerce and California Retailers Association. Syngenta is listed as a donor to the "No on 37†campaign.
Biotechnology labeling is not required by the Food and Drug Administration, although it has been adopted by more than 40 countries, including New Zealand, parts of Asia and Australia and most of Europe.
Others activists, such as San Jose protester Toby Nixon, are using the event at Syngenta Friday as an outlet to protest against Monsanto for personal reasons.
Nixon is attending the protest in support of his father, a former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces for 27 years who was exposed to Agent Orange – an herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military during its herbicidal warfare program in Vietnam.
Monsanto, whom Nixon likens to "a thug on a street corner,†played a primary role in manufacturing Agent Orange.
Spokesman Eduardo Abarca with Occupy Monsanto-Syngenta, a 24-year-old San Francisco student and activist, wants to bring awareness to the fact that Syngenta manufactures an herbicide called Atrazine, "one of the most commonly detected pesticides that we find in our water,†Abarca claims.
Developed by Syngenta, Atrazine "has long been a mainstay of corn, sorghum and sugarcane farmers for its control of a broad range of yield-robbing weeds,†according to Syngenta's website. The herbicide increases U.S. corn crop yields by more than 600 million bushels annually, and "helps protect the environment and critical wildlife habitats by reducing soil erosion by up to 85 million tons each year.â€
Abarca also claims that Monsanto sells seeds to Syngenta, although Schwind was unable to verify this statement as of press time.
Sgt. Pedro Espinoza with the Gilroy Police Department confirmed law enforcement is aware of the planned protest and has a contingency plan in case things get out of hand. Espinoza said he doesn't anticipate any issues, so long as everyone abides by the law.
"Our role is to make sure everyone is safe while allowing demonstrators to exercise their First Amendment right,†he said. "We'll probably have a couple officers at the entry and exit points just to make sure no one tries to storm the place or destroy any property.â€
Abarca maintains the protest is a peaceful demonstration.
GMOs "seep into our food supply,†he says, "and that's what we're here for – to really bring awareness to this issue.â€
Source: Gilroy Dispatch


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by Ramola D/The Everyday Concerned Citizen/Posted July 22, 2016
Whistleblower David Voigts, former Naval Officer and systems engineer with a background in Surface Warfare, Electronic Warfare, and Nuclear Engineering, who has been walking cross-country for "Targeted Individuals" since mid-spring this year, spoke out recently, both in a Wheel of Freedom interview, and on Facebook (covered here) to condemn the hidden Military/Intelligence programs of non-consensual neuro-experimentation currently underway in the United States of America and worldwide, which he suspects has been operative in the case of the Baton Rouge shooter, Gavin Long.
In a Facebook post on July 18, David Voigts, who is currently in Seymour, Indiana, wrote:
"This is why I'm walking across the country with a huge sign on my back. The US has developed a human-machine interface weapon that spoofs the nervous system. It is being misused to torture American citizens. This shooting in Baton Rouge is one of the outcomes."
Gavin Long, who adopted the name Cosmo Setepenra, and wrote books on self-improvement, was the young 29-year-old ex-Marine and Iraq war veteran reportedly killed by police in Baton Rouge after he reportedly shot at six police officers, killing three and wounding the others, following the recent reported deaths of Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile at the hands of police.
News reports on investigations into his background as well as recordings of talk show interviews reveal that he had mentioned being targeted and was a member of Freedom from Covert Harassment and Surveillance, a group advocating for those being covertly targeted, assaulted, non-consensually experimented on, and hyper-surveilled in a variety of ways in their communities, including with experimental military directed-energy weapons, biometric and physical surveillance devices, synthetic telepathy, and remote bio-hacking neuroweapons.
Gavin Long's Story is Still Being Investigated by Alternative Media Analysts Concerned About False Flags
Notably, since this incident is scarcely a week old, analysis of reports of the shooting and of Gavin Long by astute news observers online is still ongoing.
The quite relevant question today of false flags, set-ups, Masonic numerology connections, and Gavin Long as a "patsy" is being considered online at various sites, since many are concerned that conditions of civil war and groups of civilians being pitted against each other and against law enforcement are being deliberately fomented. Lance Scurvin's talk show, A Memorial to Freedom Fighter Cosmo Setepenra: Our Modern Day Nat Turner! features Gavin Long's friends and explores his life and personality in humanizing ways quite different from mainstream media reports. Callers to this show say they have "nothing negative" to say about Gavin Long.
Because Gavin Long was an engaging public speaker and author who questioned government and law enforcement oppression and worked positively to promote holistic healing, natural health, and self-empowerment, observers also note the issue of dozens of holistic doctors being killed today (implicating dark operatives in a pharmaceutical industry keen to keep naturalistic cancer and autism cures under wraps), as being another possible angle to consider.
Gavin Long as Bio-Hacked "Targeted Individual"
The very fact though that Gavin Long has admitted to having been targeted and stalked raises the spectre of ongoing covert targeting and covert neuro-experimentation, the issue that David Voigts is working hard to publicize (and covered in this article), for a media-deceived public. Given that much is still being uncovered and analyzed currently, this writer wishes to underline that it is only the possibility that Gavin Long did indeed engage in these reported shootings, as a deliberately steered bio-hacked "Targeted Individual", that is being covered in this article. (Since it is still entirely possible this was an engineered event, in which he was not actually involved at all.)
In a statement posted to Facebook July 19 and shared widely, David Voigts wrote:
"I can assure you that if the shooter Gavin Long had not been tortured with the weapons (for at least 18 months) and psychological abuse, he would not have committed these murders. Gavin Long was the third shooter that contacted FFCHS for assistance. The other two being the Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis and the Florida State University Shooter Myron May. I'm trying extremely hard to raise awareness about these illegal torture weapons, and how they are being used to abuse civilians."
He also shared a post by Dwight Mangum which spells out the relation of Targeting to Human Trafficking, a valid concern, since those who are being and have been targeted wrongfully—in large numbers since 9/11/2001—by JTRIG operations and agencies are also being non-consensually rolled into covert neuro-experimentation programs, in Defense contracts that are highly lucrative for contractors and participating research institutions:
"It turns out Gavin Long was a TI and contacted Derrick Robinson a year ago. These are people being abused to help in the illegal agendas to change our laws and security from terrorism that is being falsely portrayed. These are illegal acts of human trafficking." Dwight Mangum, Facebook
"Targeted Individuals" are Victims of Covert Military/Intelligence/Contractor Experimentation
In an earlier post, David Voigts, who has stated, "I am walking across the country to raise awareness about the misuse of human-machine interface weapons," had noted:
"The Baton Rouge shooter is the sixth national case that I'm certain was a Targeted Individual. The others being the Navy Yard shooter, the Florida State University shooter, the woman who was shot at (near) the White House (Miriam Carey), Jiverly Wong, and Rohinie Bisesar."
Other observers also note the other mass-shooting cases of James Holmes, the neuroscience graduate student known today as the Aurora Theater gunman in Colorado who killed 12 and injured 70 others, Seung Hui-Cho, the Virginia Tech shooter who killed 32 and injured 17 others, as well as the Columbine shooters, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who killed 13 and injured 24 others, as possible victims of covert neuro-experimentation.
While thousands of "targeted individuals" or victims of covert neuro-experimentation, directed-energy weapons testing, and COINTELPRO speak out today both online and in public forums, including here in America recently at 2016 meetings of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Human Research Protections, and at the 2011 Presidential Bioethics Commission meetings to publicly report non-consensual neuro-experimentation, it is the rare few apparently who are driven to violence, in manipulated scenarios that many say are set-ups to create "Manchurian candidates", "sleeper assassins", or mass shooters.
In these cases, the controlling brain-computer interface technology—which, by victim accounts, can induce voices, project images, synthesize tastes and smells, and control the motor cortex (taking over movement), among other capabilities—is perfected to the point of being able to literally "take over" the target's brain, an unsettling possibility explored here earlier in the case of Rohinie Bisesar.
Psychological Warfare: Media Coverage Which Portrays "Targeted Individuals" as Schizophrenics is Deliberate Propaganda and "Perception Management"
It is vital to remind ourselves here that we are living in an Orwellian, post Smith-Mundt space today in the USA: Media, owned by corporate conglomerates, has been legally permitted, by the NDAA, to act as purveyors of government propaganda, via the deployment of Perception Management as weapon (once legal only in foreign areas of conflict), and by the Sep 15, 2015 Executive Order permitting PsyOps on the populace. By these means—and others–America has been turned into a battlefield: a space where many attest not only are electronic-warfare weapons being deployed, the public is being overtly lied to.
What we are witnessing therefore in news reports on Gavin Long across the board from CNN to the Kansas City Star to the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times is no less than a deliberate campaign of "Perception Management", which is essentially targeting the already-targeted as purveyors of "conspiracy theory" and paranoia about government surveillance. "Blaming the Victim" certainly comes to mind.
Post Baton Rouge therefore, while mainstream media outlets, including the New York Times, rush to quell public concern about covert programs—inclusive of traumatic, 24/7, body-hacking "electronic surveillance" (which all experimentees report as torture)–in our midst by quelling and discrediting the voices of witness, promoting their trademark image instead of "Targeted Individuals" as mentally ill, schizoid, delusional, paranoid, "anti-government","conspiracy theorists", and "self-described", David Voigts offers a far different picture of the reality of covert military programs, which he says continue to this day.
In his Facebook statement with the header "Please Read – I have information about the Baton Rouge shootings ***" David Voigts writes:
"This specific program uses human-machine interface weapons (sometimes called hand of god or voice of god weapons) to spoof the target's nervous system. The system can remotely monitor the target (bio-telemetry). However these systems are bi-directional. They can passively monitor and also provide input.
In simple terms, these people are being tortured. The weapons electrically sync with the nervous system to create sensory information. All the senses can be spoofed but targets typically suffer from auditory or tactile and occasionally olfactory input.
The weapons system is used in the context of a psychological warfare campaign. The goal of the campaign is to drive the target into isolation where the abuse is most effective."
As many have reported, this psychological warfare campaign tragically corrals whole communities and neighborhoods around "targets" through deliberate acts of deception, slander, and lies, convincing neighbors and others to assist in surveilling and tracking victims with physical-surveillance devices and cell-phone-apps, thereby, horrifyingly, multiplying the assault on victims. (Victims are often named, falsely, as mentally unstable, "conspiracy theorists," "terrorists," "spies," "domestic extremists," drug addicts, or sexual predators (prostitutes/pedophiles), in efforts to despoil reputation and create "buy-in" for community assault of targets.)
Media and mental-health-professional collaboration in this military deception essentially serves to keep these horrific covert programs of neuro-experimentation unchallenged by the larger public.
In videos posted to Youtube and his website, resources shared online, interviews with radio shows and web media, links to relevant articles on Facebook, along with photos as he continues his walk, David Voigts has embarked on a tremendous quest to educate and alert the American public to the dangers of this human-machine interface system which is essentially functioning as a weapon.
Public Education on Human-Machine Interface Weapons System/Facebook Photo Journal
Some excerpts from earlier posts as David Voigts trekked across several states, from Delaware to Maryland to West Virginia to Ohio to Indiana, offer further insight into this weapons system:
July 17
Made it to North Vernon. I'm camping at Muscatatook park….So for the non-TIs the phrase "Gang Stalking" is a way to tell if someone is a TI.
The purpose of the cross country walk is to raise awareness on this topic.
TIs are non-consensual test subjects for a Perception Warfare weapon. This weapons system spoofs the nervous system. I've posted quite a bit of info on this topic. It's used as a No-Touch Torture weapon in the context of a psychological warfare campaign.
When done correctly the Target will have a fun-house-mirror perception of the world.
This program can be exposed, I just need some support in spreading awareness and finding those folks who are willing to read the research on this topic.
These are not people who are "having a crisis". They are folks who are being tortured, and no one is helping them.
July 16:
IEEE Spectrum, Elisa Strickland/July 7, 2016: In-Ear EEG Makes Unobtrusive Brain Hacking Gadgets a Real Possibility
Brain hacking is becoming part of our daily lives. While there are many positive benefits to this technology – such as restoring sight, hearing, limb function or communicating with those that have lost the ability to speak, – there are also horrible applications of the technology.
At this very moment there are ongoing non-consensual uses of this technology. ..Targeted Individuals are being tortured with body hacking technology.
I am walking across the country to raise public awareness on this crime. I need the public's assistance in sharing this information.
I'm walking with a lighted electronic sandwich board and I've brought my dog with me. I started on the Atlantic Coast in May, and I'm heading to California. I'm hoping that this human interest story will help propel the plight of these non-consensual human test subjects.
I'm asking each local paper, radio station, and regional TV station if they would like to do a story on the walk.
June 26
…This link shows a positive example of how the body's bioelectricity is monitored. When a irregular heartbeat is detected, corrective input can be applied.
American Heart Association/July 15, 2016: Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
However, the clandestine services have a similar technology that's used as a weapon. Through corruption, these weapons are available in the private sector for revenge, discrediting, and silencing campaigns.
July 2
There is a domestic program "testing" torture techniques that uses an advanced weapons system. The program is illegal and needs to be addressed publicly.
Democracy Now/June 2010:Experiments in Torture: Medical Group Accuses CIA of Carrying Out Illegal Human Experimentation
July 2
This article details why it's so important that the Targeted Individuals plight be made public:
Anti-Mind-Control Activists Prevented From Contacting Possible Mind Control Neuro-Experimentee Rohinie Bisesar
July 3
Scientific advancement has created the ability to augment or substitute human senses. There is great positive benefit for the blind, deaf, etc.
However there is an ongoing non-consensual experiment with this technology. The victims are calling themselves "Targeted Individuals." They are guinea pigs for a Perception Warfare weapon.
I don't believe in non-consensual human experimentation, and I'd really like to see this experiment exposed publicly.
"Targeted Individuals are Non-Consensual Human Subjects": These Are Crimes
After the reported tragic death of three police officers as well as the shooter's death in Baton Rouge, David Voigts is doubly keen to get the truth across, of deadly experimentation behind "Targeted Individuals" to all Americans:
"I knew this was a life and death matter. I'm sorry I couldn't encourage the public to engage on this issue yet.
As you can see with the killings in Baton Rouge, these types of crimes will continue to happen until the public comes to the realization that these technologies exist and assistance is needed for the torture victims."
Posting a link to an article featuring DARPA's interest in "jolting the nervous system with electricity, lasers, sound waves, and magnets," he observes:
"Targeted Individuals are non-consensual human subjects in testing this technology. Furthermore this tech is used in revenge and silencing campaigns.
I need help in alerting the public to these crimes."
Reminders from History: Visiting the US Holocaust Museum
In late May, as David Voigts journeyed Westward from Delaware across the United States of America, he stopped in at Washington, DC, where he walked on the National Mall, photographed the Monuments, and visited some of the Smithsonian museums, as well as the US Holocaust Museum, a monument to honor the Jewish and European victims of Nazi atrocities, including barbaric human experimentation, during World War II, a place he has said earlier inspired him during his Naval training days:
"I was glad to see large tour groups assembled for the presentations. There's a sociological concept that says a society has a cultural memory of forty years or so. Those monuments help refresh important topics. Nice to see the younger generation learning those important lessons."
Stopping in at the Library of Congress, where he appreciated "an exhibit of historical continental maps through the decades," and handed out brochures on the C&O canal bike path to passers-by, he reports he "didn't get any reaction from the DC residents," yet notes his overarching impressions of DC were about the people absorbing the exhibits and monuments:
"The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum had a large model of my first ship the USS Enterprise. However, the single most important part of the National Mall was the people. I was glad to see people experiencing and reflecting upon the history on display."
In a moment in our history where we as a people are being surveilled, spied, and experimented upon in the most extreme of ways, including with the little-known but deadly 21st-Century technologies of electronic- and neuro-warfare, by a complex of Military/Intelligence public-private partnerships bent on advancing the Surveillance State (into complete domination of the human mind), David Voigts is doing a heroic job of raising public awareness as he walks alone across the country.
Please support his quest on Go Fund Me. Read his full statement on Gavin Long. Peruse his many resources for those wrongfully targeted. Consider, within your own realm of influence, what you can do to bring an end to this tremendous atrocity in our midst. Please share this article widely.
Visit David Voigts on Facebook.
Visit David Voigts on Youtube.
Stay in touch with his blog.
Contact him for interviews, and to help publicize his quest.
Former US Navy Officer Walks Across America To Expose Covert Targeting and Neuro-Experimentation Program
Wheel of Freedom Interview with David Voigts, 6/6/16
Informative Videos on Targeting and Covert Programs from David Voigts:
Ramola D is a writer and independent journalist with a background in science, management, and literature researching issues in science, technology, and ethics relevant to our times, including issues related to Intelligence, Surveillance, Security, and Defense. She runs the solutions journalism site at The Everyday Concerned Citizen, and edits the online literary quarterly, Delphi Quarterly. Her literary journalism, fiction, and poetry have been published widely, more on this at her website. Please follow her online at @EccEveryday, or on Facebook.
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pip-accel: Accelerator for pip, the Python package manager
The pip-accel program is a wrapper for pip, the Python package manager. It accelerates the usage of pip to initialize Python virtual environments given one or more requirements files. It does so by combining the following two approaches:
- Source distribution downloads are cached and used to generate a local index of source distribution archives. If all your dependencies are pinned to absolute versions whose source distribution downloads were previously cached, pip-accel won't need a network connection at all! This is one of the reasons why pip can be so slow: given absolute pinned dependencies available in the download cache it will still scan PyPI and distribution websites.
- Binary distributions are used to speed up the process of installing dependencies with binary components (like M2Crypto and LXML). Instead of recompiling these dependencies again for every virtual environment we compile them once and cache the result as a binary *.tar.gz distribution.
In addition, since version 0.9 pip-accel contains a simple mechanism that detects missing system packages when a build fails and prompts the user whether to install the missing dependencies and retry the build.
The pip-accel program is tested on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.4 although support for Python 3 is very new so may still have some issues.
Paylogic uses pip-accel to quickly and reliably initialize virtual environments on its farm of continuous integration slaves which are constantly running unit tests (this was one of the original use cases for which pip-accel was developed). We also use it on our build servers.
When pip-accel was originally developed PyPI was sometimes very unreliable (PyPI wasn't behind a CDN back then). Because of the CDN, PyPI is much more reliable nowadays however pip-accel still has its place:
- The CDN doesn't help for distribution sites, which are as unreliably as they have always been.
- By using pip-accel you can make Python deployments completely independent from internet connectivity.
- Because pip-accel caches compiled binary packages it can still provide a nice speed boost over using plain pip.
The pip-accel command supports all subcommands and options supported by pip, however it is of course only useful for the pip install subcommand. So for example:
pip-accel install -r requirements.txt
If you pass a -v or --verbose option then pip and pip-accel will both use verbose output.
Based on the user running pip-accel the following file locations are used by default:
|Root user
|All other users
|Assumed to be pip's download cache
|Used to store the source/binary indexes
These defaults can be overridden by defining the environment variables PIP_DOWNLOAD_CACHE and/or PIP_ACCEL_CACHE.
How fast is it?
To give you an idea of how effective pip-accel is, below are the results of a test to build a virtual environment for one of the internal code bases of Paylogic. This code base requires more than 40 dependencies including several packages that need compilation with SWIG and a C compiler:
|Default configuration
|444 seconds
|100% (baseline)
|With download cache (first run)
|416 seconds
|With download cache (second run)
|318 seconds
|First run
|397 seconds
|Second run
|30 seconds
Dependencies on system packages
Since version 0.9 pip-accel contains a simple mechanism that detects missing system packages when a build fails and prompts the user whether to install the missing dependencies and retry the build. Currently only Debian Linux and derivative Linux distributions are supported, although support for other platforms should be easy to add. This functionality currently works based on configuration files that define dependencies of Python packages on system packages. This means the results should be fairly reliable, but every single dependency needs to be manually defined...
Here's what it looks like in practice:
2013-06-16 01:01:53 wheezy-vm INFO Building binary distribution of python-mcrypt (1.1) .. 2013-06-16 01:01:53 wheezy-vm ERROR Failed to build binary distribution of python-mcrypt! (version: 1.1) 2013-06-16 01:01:53 wheezy-vm INFO Build output (will probably provide a hint as to what went wrong): gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DVERSION="1.1" -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c mcrypt.c -o build/temp.linux-i686-2.7/mcrypt.o mcrypt.c:23:20: fatal error: mcrypt.h: No such file or directory error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 2013-06-16 01:01:53 wheezy-vm INFO python-mcrypt: Checking for missing dependencies .. 2013-06-16 01:01:53 wheezy-vm INFO You seem to be missing 1 dependency: libmcrypt-dev 2013-06-16 01:01:53 wheezy-vm INFO I can install it for you with this command: sudo apt-get install --yes libmcrypt-dev Do you want me to install this dependency? [y/N] y 2013-06-16 01:02:05 wheezy-vm INFO Got permission to install missing dependency. The following extra packages will be installed: libmcrypt4 Suggested packages: mcrypt The following NEW packages will be installed: libmcrypt-dev libmcrypt4 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 68 not upgraded. Unpacking libmcrypt4 (from .../libmcrypt4_2.5.8-3.1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking libmcrypt-dev (from .../libmcrypt-dev_2.5.8-3.1_i386.deb) ... Setting up libmcrypt4 (2.5.8-3.1) ... Setting up libmcrypt-dev (2.5.8-3.1) ... 2013-06-16 01:02:13 wheezy-vm INFO Successfully installed 1 missing dependency. 2013-06-16 01:02:13 wheezy-vm INFO Building binary distribution of python-mcrypt (1.1) .. 2013-06-16 01:02:14 wheezy-vm INFO Copying binary distribution python-mcrypt-1.1.linux-i686.tar.gz to cache as python-mcrypt:1.1:py2.7.tar.gz.
Control flow of pip-accel
The way pip-accel works is not very intuitive but it is very effective. Below is an overview of the control flow. Once you take a look at the code you'll notice that the steps below are all embedded in a loop that retries several times. This is mostly because of step 2 (downloading the source distributions).
- Run pip install --no-index --no-install -r requirements.txt to unpack source distributions available in the local source index. This is the first step because pip-accel should accept requirements.txt files as input but it will manually install dependencies from cached binary distributions (without using pip or easy_install):
- If the command succeeds it means all dependencies are already available as downloaded source distributions. We'll parse the verbose pip output of step 1 to find the direct and transitive dependencies (names and versions) defined in requirements.txt and use them as input for step 3. Go to step 3.
- If the command fails it probably means not all dependencies are available as local source distributions yet so we should download them. Go to step 2.
- Run pip install --no-install -r requirements.txt to download missing source distributions to the download cache:
- If the command fails it means that pip encountered errors while scanning PyPI, scanning a distribution website, downloading a source distribution or unpacking a source distribution. Usually these kinds of errors are intermittent so retrying a few times is worth a shot. Go to step 2.
- If the command succeeds it means all dependencies are now available as local source distributions; we don't need the network anymore! Go to step 1.
- Run python setup.py bdist_dumb --format=gztar for each dependency that doesn't have a cached binary distribution yet (taking version numbers into account). Go to step 4.
- Install all dependencies from binary distributions based on the list of direct and transitive dependencies obtained in step 1. We have to do these installations manually because easy_install nor pip support binary *.tar.gz distributions.
If you have questions, bug reports, suggestions, etc. please create an issue on the GitHub project page. The latest version of pip-accel will always be available on GitHub. The internal API documentation is hosted on Read The Docs.
This software is licensed under the MIT license just like pip (on which pip-accel is based).
© 2013 Peter Odding and Paylogic International.


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Presented here in text and image are eighty-five works of Song and Yuan dynasty painting and calligraphy in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art. The works are arranged in five thematic groups:
Each group is further subdivided into topical categories arranged in rough chronological order. Some groups contain contemporary paintings created in border regions beyond the control of Song and Yuan authorities as well as a small number of Ming dynasty works that continue Yuan styles.
Every work is fully documented through images and related text. Labels, frontispieces, inscriptions, colophons, and seals have been transcribed, and texts of art historical relevance are accompanied by annotated English translations.
Selection, authentication, and dating
The project team focused their research on a group of 110 paintings, calligraphic works, and rubbings that previously had been identified as dating to the tenth through fourteenth centuries. The new study of each work took advantage of earlier scholarly research, recorded opinions, publications, photographs, and other relevant materials preserved in various museum departments. Following a fresh review of the 110 works, the team determined that sixty-three definitely belonged to the Song and Yuan eras, fifteen were created during later periods beyond the scope of the project, and thirty-two others required further study.
In 2005, the museum invited Yu Hui, then chief curator of painting and calligraphy at the Palace Museum, Beijing, and a specialist in the Song and Yuan periods, to evaluate the team's findings. Upon further deliberation, an additional nineteen paintings were added to the Song and Yuan group, while the remaining thirteen were provisionally assigned to the early Ming dynasty. Three of these later works strongly preserve the characteristic features of Song and Yuan painting and are included in the present web resource. Based both upon this collaborative process and his extensive expertise, curator Joseph Chang made all final determinations regarding date and authenticity. In due course, those works not featured in the current selection will be added as a reference appendix.
Provenance Research
The Freer Gallery of Art recently initiated a comprehensive provenance research project that seeks to clarify the late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century ownership history of artworks in its collection. Provenance research is ongoing for the eighty-five Song and Yuan works presented here and will be published in due course on this website, the main Freer and Sackler site, and the larger provenance website of the Smithsonian Institution.
Improvements to the website will continue over the coming years, with regular updates of both images and documentation. Updated images will include:
- accoutrements such as boxes, wrappers, and labels
- details of signatures, seals, and seal clusters
- improved photography of paintings
Expanded documentation will comprise:
- short introductory entries for each work
- nineteenth- and twentieth-century ownership histories
- brief biographies of Song and Yuan dynasty artists, calligraphers, and seal owners
Further research on the individual works will be added periodically, and the bibliography will be updated. For reference purposes, the most recent update will be noted in the table of contents and at the top of each document.
The Freer Gallery of Art thanks the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, whose generous financial assistance from 1998 to 2003 made this project possible.
Romanization of Chinese words employs the Pinyin system, with some adaptations made for compound words.
Chinese characters are rendered in their traditional complex forms, using the PMingLiu font.
In the notes, the abbreviation WSKQS refers to Wenyuange Siku quanshu dianziban 文淵閣四庫全書電子版 (The Electronic Version of Siku quanshu [Wenyuange edition]). Hong Kong: Digital Heritage Publishing, The Chinese University Press, 1999.
In the documentation of seals, the fractional numbers in parentheses refer to the number of impressions; for example, (2/5) indicates that the same seal has been impressed on a work a total of five times, and that the current example is the second impression of that seal.
Inscription refers to any text written directly on the primary work of art.
Colophon refers to any text written on a separate piece of paper or silk that was subsequently attached to the primary work of art (except where designated as a label, frontispiece, etc.).
Stephen D. Allee, research specialist, produced the final manuscript, provided all translations, comments, and annotations, and assembled provenance documentation and the bibliography.
Joseph Chang, curator of Chinese painting, calligraphy, and seals, authenticated the dating of the Song and Yuan dynasty works in consultation with Yu Hui, Palace Museum, Beijing; transcribed difficult-to-read Chinese characters and seals; and proofread the final manuscript.
Ingrid Larsen, research specialist and in-house coordinator, organized project activities, conducted research on the formation of the collection, and contributed to the object records.
The project team was both inspired and guided by the acquisitions, connoisseurship, and scholarly research of their predecessors at the Freer Gallery of Art, especially:
Charles Lang Freer (1854–1919), founder
John Ellerton Lodge (1878–1942), the Gallery's first director
Archibald Gibson Wenley (1898–1962), the Gallery's second director
James Francis Cahill, former curator
Thomas Lawton, former curator and director
Hin-cheung Lovell, former associate curator
Fu Shen, former senior curator
A number of current and former staff members contributed immeasurably to the completion of this project:
Neil Greentree
Ann Gunter
Jeffrey Smith
Sarah Sullivan
John Tsantes
John Wang
J. Keith Wilson
John Winter


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Ramallah, 17 April 2011* – Every year, Palestinian Prisoners' Day provides an opportunity to reflect on the continuing incarceration and ill-treatment of Palestinians who have been detained, sometimes without charge or trial, for their resistance to the Israeli occupation and its illegal policies and practices.
Although the total number of political prisoners held in Israeli prisons has decreased again this year from over 6,600 in April 2010 to 5,716, this overall amelioration conceals some troubling trends and as such should not be interpreted as an indicator of improved Israeli policies. Particularly worrying is the fact that although Israel's practice of administrative detention is widely recognized as violating international human rights and humanitarian law and has been repeatedly condemned by Palestinian human rights organizations and members of the international community alike, 218 Palestinians remain in this form of detention without charge or trial, only 19 fewer than a year ago. Moreover, Israel continues to hold Palestinians from Gaza under the Unlawful Combatants Law, whose implementation results in grave violations of international law.
Furthermore, this year Palestinian Prisoners' Day comes in the midst of a wave of mass and arbitrary arrests by the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) in the village of Awarta, following the murders of 5 family members in the nearby settlement of Itamar on 11 March 2011. So far more than 500 men, women and children have been rounded up, taken for questioning and asked to sign statements in Hebrew, a language they do not understand. While most villagers were released within hours of their arrest, 50 still remain in detention without charges, including two children. These arrests demonstrate Israel's alarming continuing willingness to resort to disproportionate measures targeting an entire community, echoing its detention practices during the first and second intifada.
Israel also persists in its attempts to undermine the Palestinian civil resistance movement and deter activism against the Wall and settlements by targeting movement leaders, as well as children from the villages engaged in these kinds of popular struggle. Children have increasingly become the target of arrests in occupied East Jerusalem too, particularly in neighborhoods like Silwan and Issawiya, which have emerged as focal points of tension as Israel continues to escalate its policies of repression,
Judaization and settlement expansion in the city.
Finally, Israel continues to sanction the torture of Palestinian prisoners by allowing for unrecorded interrogations and affording interrogators involved in torture impunity under Israeli law. Moreover, despite the existence of a complaint mechanism for victims of torture, the Israeli authorities have systematically failed to open criminal investigations into these cases, thus furthering the prevailing culture of impunity.
Despite the slight decrease in the number of political prisoners held by Israel, attention to their cause should no wane. Instead, the illegitimacy of Israel's detention policies, the gravity of the manifold violations that prisoners and detainees are subjected to and the extent of Israel's impunity in this regard should be exposed afresh to spur renewed and more effective action. As Palestinian human rights organizations, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners and detainees currently in Israeli jails and their families, and urge all members of the international community, including civil society, national governments, the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to seize Prisoners' Day as an opportunity to redouble their efforts in the pursuit of the immediate and unconditional release of all Palestinian political prisoners.
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
Aldameer Association for Human Rights
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
The Civic Coalition for Defending Palestinians' Rights in Jerusalem
Defence for Children International - Palestine Section
Ensan Center for Human Rights and Democracy
Jerusalem Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies
Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling


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You want your #pets to be healthy and happy and so do we! Routine check-ups ensure they aren't suffering through underlying health issues.
Did you know? The anxiety that your pet experiences surrounding a procedure can enhance pain. Ask us about the various methods we use to minimize discomfort for your furry friend before, during and after surgery.
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Miasma: A poisonous vapor or mist believed to be made up of particles from decomposing material that could cause disease and could be identified by its foul smell.
The miasma theory of disease originated in the Middle Ages and persisted for centuries. During the Great Plague of 1665, doctors wore masks filled with sweet-smelling flowers to keep out the poisonous miasmas. Because of the miasmas, they sanitized some buildings, required that night soil be removed from public proximity and had swamps drained to get rid of the bad smells.
However, the miasmic approach only worked if something smelled bad. In the winter, sanitation was forgotten. The theory of miasmas was still popular in the 1800s and led to the "Bad Air theory" which lasted until the 1860s and 1870s. Miasmic reasoning prevented many doctors from adopting new practices like washing their hands between patients. Lethal agents traveled by air, they thought, not lodged beneath a doctor's fingernail.
Although the miasma theory proved incorrect, it represented some recognition of the relation between dirtiness and disease. It encouraged cleanliness and paved the way for public health reform. The pioneer nurse Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) firmly believed in miasmas and became celebrated for her work in making hospitals clean, fresh and airy.
The miasma theory also helped interest scientists in decaying matter and led eventually to the identification of microbes as agents of infectious disease.


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Using Google Analytics to Power an Effective Q&A Strategy
The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.
When we started Alarm Grid we struggled with how we were going to stand out in a world of like a trillion other security companies. We were late to the game, no doubt, and in a world with as much competition as there is in an old industry like home security, it seems like there isn't much you could do to compete with the million minds that have come before you. Since then, we've done a lot of fun things that have helped us to gain traction, but my favorite strategy we've executed on thus far is our security FAQs strategy. We have built an amazingly large database of super relevant Questions and Answers, and our users love them. Before we begin, let me introduce you to our executive team: Eric is on the left, Sterling is in the middle and I'm the guy on the right.
Like anything done in marketing, there aren't a whole lot of "new" ideas per se. But the question needs to be how to execute it based on what's available to you. As I've seen Q&A strategies executed previously, I think there are two main ways to put them together. The first is the way companies like SEOmoz or Trulia have done it. Both use their base of strong, engaged communities to answer questions. Trulia relies on users looking for homes to ask, and realtors looking for business to answer. SEOmoz is generally relying on its community members who are interested in seeking experts or being experts to answer and ask questions. This model works really really well. I can't tell you how many times I've had an SEO question or an analytics question and ended up on one of the SEOmoz pages with a good answer from some person I've never heard of or met. Very helpful, extremely engaging. The other method is what sites without much of a community do: a bunch of old guys who know their product too well get together in a room and think of 100 questions about their products. Then they answer the questions in 30 words or less, brush off their hands, and call it a day.
When you know too much about your product, you can't know what questions users will ACTUALLY find useful
So we needed a method that sat between the community approach and the stodgy old-men-in-a-room approach. Since we don't have an engaged set of users and we're not that old, we needed to figure out a method of populating the database that sat in between the two approaches, and I'm proud to say, I think we figured out a great way to accomplish this.
If you're a business owner, you're probably wondering if this FAQ business is a good idea for you. When we gave the strategy a try on Alarm Grid, we had the same question. I poured through Google Analytics (GA) data and saw that users had already started coming into the site with questions. They weren't getting them answered, but they were asking them.
So, what I did was I used GA to power our entire Q&A engine. When we started, we honestly thought we'd be able to keep up with the questions that came in. We now have a backlog of over 10,000 questions we want to get to... and that's with just Honeywell products in our catalog. Our goal is to get 80% of these questions answered before we add more brands to the catalog. Wish us luck.
I'm presuming that you already have GA installed on your site, and that you know anything about how to log in to your account... so here we go:
1) Click on Advanced Segments in the standard reporting section of your Google Analytics.
2) Select the button on the bottom right side of the drop down entitled "New Custom Segment"
This button unveils a glorious land of powerful analytics possibilities wherein you can create enormous value. The first thing you're going to want to do here is to make sure that you select "include" on the rule.
3) Select Keyword from the list of variable segment.
4) Then select "Matching RegExp"
5) Put this cute little chunk of code into the text box
(It's different looking than it is in the pictures above because I cleaned it up for this post so I didn't have to be so embarrassed about posting it).
Now I ain't no RegExpert. I am terrible at Regex. And most of you probably don't even know what Regex is, so I'm sure there are more efficient ways to write this. But so you understand what you've done, let me clue you in. You're filtering for anyone who comes to your site using the keywords within the parentheses including any query that a user makes that contains a question mark. The regex idiot proofs it so that you anyone can add weird capitalizations and still have their search filtered (at least that's supposed to be how it works). If you want to clean up the regex, feel free. I would love to see it done, it just doesn't matter that much since this works pretty darn well.
6) Give your filter a cute name. We call ours "Add to FAQ" since that's what is supposed to happen.
7) Save your segment and turn it on.
8) In the left-hand column click on "traffic sources" then "sources" then "search" then "organic".
8) Now, set the date range to show only one day - yesterday.
9) Scroll to the very bottom of the page and select the dropdown next to the words "Show rows" and select 500.
Now this is a bit optimistic. You really only need the maximum possible number of results from each day. The number starts small, but if you execute this strategy correctly, you may be seeing 500+ visitors each day asking questions and getting to your site.
10) Go back to the top of the page, and select "Email," and fill the email(s) you want the daily spreadsheet to go to in the pop-up.
Also make sure to change the "Frequency" to "Daily." You can actually make it as frequent or infrequent as you want. I recommend daily, because, particularly when you are only seeing a few FAQs a day, it's better that everyone gets a few FAQs in the morning before things get hopping. Think about it, if you have two employees pumping out two FAQs every morning, first thing, you will have 1460 FAQs in by the end of the year. The average FAQ, in our case, bumps our average daily uniques by 1/3 of an user. Each FAQ takes an average of 15 minutes to write. At the end of the year, we'll have used about 730 hours of our employees' time to grab an extra 5,000 unique visitors each and every month. That's a huge boon for an ecommerce site.
And that's that.
What I like to do is once a month, dump the spreadsheets into a big, master list. Then I can filter on the spreadsheet by keywords within the questions, which allows us to manage our more than 10,0000 outstanding questions. We generally attack them by subject. So, for example, we do a week of Vista 20P (which is a Honeywell product we carry) questions only or some weeks we answer all the questions people have asked about Alarm Grid's alarm monitoring. This is the most effective kind of inter-linking we could possibly put together. The Q&As are relevant, and the anchor texts are surrounded by perfect semantically relevant writing. We require all articles contain 300 to 500 words, even if it's just a simple answer. We also find that it's best not to bury the lead. So when a user lands on a page, start by answering the question, then put more text below it that will expound and further explain why the answer is "yes" or "no."
You can do a lot of other fun stuff as well with this strategy. For example, to root out duplicates, you could only have questions where the user doesn't land on a URL with /faq in it. Our system is accurate up to about 87% when we do this, meaning this uproots 87% of all duplicates. There are a ton of other fun ways you could run this engine, but there isn't enough time in a day. If you do something fun that is hugely helpful for you, I'd love to know about it.
So give this all a try! And then report back, Let me know and the rest of the Alarm Grid team know how it works for you!