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Multiple teams have called the Patriots this week about a potential trade for backup quarterback Ryan Mallett, according to three league sources.
Whether the Patriots will trade the 2011 third-round pick is the question. But all three sources said the odds are slightly stronger that Mallett is dealt than kept by the Patriots.
The Patriots have been heavily scouting quarterbacks in the leadup to the draft, and could very well select one during the draft.
The Patriots would like more than a third-round pick after developing Mallett for two years. It's likely a second this season or a first in '14 would close the deal.
The potential trading partners aren't yet known, but the Browns have long been favorites to land Mallett. Not only did Browns general manager Mike Lombardi gush about Mallett in his former role as an analyst for NFL Network, but behind the scenes, Lombardi pushed Bill Belichick to draft Mallett.
And while most teams haven't seen much of anything from Mallett in his two mediocre (at best) preseasons, Lombardi's son, Mick, had a front row seat for every practice as a coaching/scouting assistant for the Patriots last season. Mick Lombardi is now Jim Harbaugh's assistant with the 49ers.
The Browns don't have a second-round choice at this time, but could trade down and pick one up.


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Fedora Weekly News : Issue 295
Fedora Project welcome you to the Fedora Weekly News(FWN) Issue 295[1].
The dynamic stream of FWN 295 covers few breaking news for the community worldwide. Spherical Cow- the release name of Fedora 18 followed by the most spreading and expecting event FUDCon which will be held in Paris in 2012 & in Lawrence, Kansas in 2013. Meanwhile, the Fedora Board decided that it would be worthwhile to come up with a new procedure for selecting the name for the Fedora 19 release (means future of release names) and beyond to attempt to solve some of the issues that have been brought up. The Board is looking for volunteers on the purposes.
The most attentive news is the newly appointed Fedora Board Member Garrett Holmstrom. There is also a friendly and open reminder to everyone of the ongoing elections process from May 8th - which was the last day to submit questions to the elections questionnaire. From May 9th, nominations for the Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo will be open, closing on May 15th.
Fedora 17 schedule lists the final change freeze on 2012-05-07 - is the most exploring news in the heart of development list.
Fedora in the news- the Fedora Residence beat of trade press and Fedora Marketing list heavily maintained by Jason Brooks covers the pretty huge news of Fedora Project is naming names. Along with another pictorial coverage entitled Fedora 17 beta review – Miraculously beefy. The readers choice news is Fedora 18 Linux will be a Spherical Cow. More details & link will be found on that specific beat.
Recent issues of FWN are now being published to Fedora Insight[2]. Insight offers RSS features, multimedia capabilities and more, beyond the mailshot/wiki FWN you have come to know and love. Try it out, and we'd love to hear your feedback!
Fedora Project is the right and first place to explore your freedom, friends and features(idea, development, contribution) indeed. You can join your particular interest at any time; meantime if you interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[3]. FWN welcome readers feedback: news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
FWN Editorial Team: Pascal Calarco, Adam Williamson, Rashadul Islam
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue295
- ↑ http://insight.fedoraproject.org/
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/NewsProject/Join
Fedora Announcements are the place where you can find the major coverage from the Fedora Project including general announcements[1], development announcements[2] and Fedora Events[3].
Contributing Writer: Rashadul Islam
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events
Breaking News of the Week
Fedora 18 release name by Robyn Bergeron published on Mon Apr 30 13:51:00 UTC 2012
News on Announcement Desk[1],
"Thank you to everyone who participated in voting for the Fedora 18 release name. The name for Fedora 18, the follow-up to Beefy Miracle, is:
Spherical Cow
Voting period: Friday 2012-04-20 00:00:00 to Friday 2012-04-27 00:00:00 Number of valid ballots cast: 429
Using the range voting method, each candidate could attain a maximum of (429*8) = 3,432
Votes :: Name
- 1359 :: Spherical Cow
- 1087 :: Halva
- 1072 :: Chamoy
- 1035 :: Pamukkale
- 964 :: Tandoori Chicken
- 930 :: Frankfurter
- 821 :: Pop Soda
- 536 :: Ketchy Ketchup"
Formally announcing FUDCon: Paris and FUDCon: Lawrence by Robyn Bergeron published on Tue May 8 14:06:41 UTC 2012
News on Announcement Desk[1],
"As many of you know, FUDCon is the abbreviation for Fedora Users and Developers Conference, an event we typically hold 4 times per year in various regions of the world. These events are proposed and arranged largely by Fedora contributors, and are designed to be events where contributors and those new to Fedora can learn, share, hack, and participate in various aspects of the Fedora Project.
It is with great pleasure that I am formally announcing two upcoming FUDCons:
FUDCon for the EMEA region in 2012 will be held in Paris, France, October 13-15, 2012 [2]. This particular event will be held over those days in two locations; the first day, Saturday the 13th, will be held at the Eurosites Georges V facility, in conjunction with the Open World Forum (OWF)[3], and on the 14th and 15th at Universcience. I'd like to thank Kevin Raymond and the rest of the FUDCon Paris team for putting together this bid, and for working with OWF to procure space during that event for the first day of FUDCon; I think that this will be an interesting opportunity to showcase Fedora to a captive audience that is passionate about open source. I would also like to thank the other teams who submitted bids for the EMEA region.
The next FUDCon for North America will be held in Lawrence, Kansas, on the 18th through 20th of January, 2013 [4], at the University of Kansas. While you can peruse the bidding page [5] for details, I'd like to note that Lawrence is home to many awesome things: It is the birth place of the Django Project, was pinpointed as the "center of the earth" in Google Earth, was the home of William Burroughs, is the location of the awesomely-named Free State Brewing Company, has been named a top-ten college town, and most importantly, is the collegiate location of our resident Wiki Czar and Doer of Stuff, Ian Weller, who, as you may have guessed, was also the author of this FUDCon bid. A big thank-you! to Ian for volunteering to put this together.
FUDCon planning continues, in grand tradition, to be open to everyone for participation; if you are interested in contributing to the discussion or lending a helping hand, I encourage you to subscribe to the FUDCon planning mailing list [6].
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-May/003068.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Paris_2012
- ↑ http://www.openworldforum.org/
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Lawrence_2013
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Bid_for_Lawrence_2013#About_Lawrence
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
Appointment to the Fedora Board, and Elections Reminder by Robyn Bergeron published on Tue May 8 17:29:41 UTC 2012
News on Announcement Desk[1],
"I'm pleased to announce the appointment of Garrett Holmstrom to the Fedora Board. In this election cycle, three Board seats are open for election, and two Board appointee seats are open; the first appointee, Garrett, is being appointed prior to nominations opening, and the second will be appointed after elections are completed.
Garrett (aka: gholms) has been involved in the Cloud SIG since the "early days" (early 2010, to be more precise), as the maintainer of the euca2ools package. As the group has progressed, he's taken on a number of tasks, doled out much advice and opinion, and has shown himself to be an excellent leader and communicator. He's also a regular in the #fedora-devel channel, willing to help out and answer questions as he can. I'm delighted that he has agreed to serve on the Board; I believe that, as a community, we should constantly strive to nurture and grow new leadership, and I think that Garrett's communication skills and positive attitude will be a fantastic asset to the Board as Fedora continues to evolve.
Garrett will be taking seat A3, previously held by Rudi Landmann. (And a big thank you to Rudi for his contributions as a Fedora Board member -- your time and efforts are greatly valued!)
I'd also like to remind everyone of the ongoing elections process; today, May 8th, is the last day to submit questions to the elections questionnaire. Beginning tomorrow, May 9th, nominations for the Board, FESCo, and FAmSCo will be open, closing on May 15th.
Additional information about Elections can be seen here: [2]
A complete history of Board Members is available here: [3]
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2012-May/003069.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Elections
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board/History
The Future of release names by Toshio Kuratomi published on Wed May 9 08:39:18 UTC 2012
News on Announcement Desk[1],
"At the last Board Meeting, the Board looked at the poll results asking whether people felt like continuing to name releases. The results seemed to show that many people do like having a name associated with Fedora releases. However, the discussion before and after has shown there is a desire to improve upon the current method of selecting the names.
The Board decided that it would be worthwhile to come up with a new procedure for selecting the name for the Fedora 19 release and beyond to attempt to solve some of the issues that have been brought up. The Board is looking for volunteers who would like to do two things:
(1) Answer the following questions:
- What benefits does the Project get from the current release naming process?
- What changes do people want to see in a revised process?
(2) Come up with at least one proposal and analyze it according to the answers to the previous questions.
If anyone is interested in coming to a weekly meeting to work on this, please feel free to contact me. If anyone would like to champion this, please contact me ASAP so I know whether there is someone else who's going to champion this or if I need to lead the effort.
I've put up a wiki page that tries to summarize the answers to the first two questions that I've seen circulated on the advisory-board mailing list and a link to the only proposal I currently know of (mizmo's proposal to use a single theme for all of the new Fedora releases)."
Fedora Development News
The Development Announcement[1] list is intended to be a LOW TRAFFIC announce-only list for Fedora development.
Acceptable Types of Announcements
- Policy or process changes that affect developers.
- Infrastructure changes that affect developers.
- Tools changes that affect developers.
- Schedule changes
- Freeze reminders
Unacceptable Types of Announcements
- Periodic automated reports (violates the INFREQUENT rule)
- Discussion
- Anything else not mentioned above
Fedora 17 Change Freeze by Dennis Gilmore published on Tue May 1 18:30:02 UTC 2012
Fedora development news desk[1],
"the fedora 17 schedule[2] lists the final change freeze as 2012-05-07 this means that you need to make sure that any changes you want in Fedora 17 final must be submited for stable in Bodhi before 2012-05-07 there will be a small window on monday where you can get your build in still but it is not assured. after this time only blocker bugs will be accepted to be pushed for stable. please work on testing and ensuring anything you want in final has the appropriate karma. If you have questions please drop by #fedora-releng on freenode"
- ↑ http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel-announce/2012-May/000925.html
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/17/Schedule
Fedora Events
The purpose of event is to build a global Fedora events calendar, and to identify responsible Ambassadors for each event. The event page is laid out by quarter and by region. Please maintain the layout, as it is crucial for budget planning. Events can be added to this page whether or not they have an Ambassador owner. Events without an owner are not eligible for funding, but being listed allows any Ambassador to take ownership of the event and make it eligible for funding. In plain words, Fedora events are the exclusive and source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!
Upcoming Events (March 2012 - May 2012)
- North America (NA)[1]
- Central & South America (LATAM): [2]
- Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)[3]
- India, Asia, Australia (India/APJ)[4]
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29_2
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29_3
- ↑ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY13_Q1_.28March_2012_-_May_2012.29_3
Past Events
Archive of Past Fedora Events[1]
Additional information
- Reimbursements -- reimbursement guidelines.
- Budget -- budget for the current quarter (as distributed by FAMSCo).
- Sponsorship -- how decisions are made to subsidize travel by community members.
- Organization -- event organization, budget information, and regional responsibility.
- Event reports -- guidelines and suggestions.
- LinuxEvents -- a collection of calendars of Linux events.
Fedora In the News
In this section, we cover news from the trade press and elsewhere that is re-posted to the Fedora Marketing list[1].
Contributing Writer: Jason Brooks
Fedora Project is naming names
"The Fedora Project is still trying to clarify its process of naming major releases, a process that has been met with calls for revision within the Fedora community.
"To address the problem, Fedora Advisory Board member Toshio Kuratomi is working to build a new naming process that will avoid some of the pitfalls of the most-recent naming concerns."
The full article is available [1].
Fedora 17 beta review – Miraculously beefy
"The Fedora Project is preparing for the final release of Fedora 17 with the beta version of their cutting edge distribution. Dubbed Beefy Miracle, the release of the beta was delayed for three weeks while further testing and bug fixing was done to meet the stringent requirements set down by the team.
"This development version brings with it a number of new features and upgrades, all of them to show off the very latest, and upcoming, open source software."
The full article is available [1].
Fedora 18 Linux will be a Spherical Cow
"How do you follow-up a name like Beefy Miracle? (the name of the upcoming Fedora 17 Linux release).
"With another Cow of course."
The full article is available [1].
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Note: This NSA certification course has recently been updated. We strongly urge you to register for this course as quickly as possible as it has sold out in past years and seats are limited.
This course presents the methodologies used by the National Security Agency when conducting information security assessments on organizations. It focuses primarily on the mission of the customer organization, the critical information that drives that mission, and the regulations or legislation about how that information should be protected. The InfoSec Assessment Methodology (IAM) is independent of any particular regulation and provides tremendous flexibility for use within any organization. It is intended to be used as a baseline for conducting level 1 assessments.
Specific Learning Objectives
What To Expect
Students can expect to be involved from the first hour of class. Every professional brings with them a variety of experience, knowledge, and background. The NSA courses are interactive and informal. Highly relevant discussions occur in this course and students should be prepared to provide their opinions. In fact, it's not unusual to find these same conversations continuing after class over a drink.
How It Will Work
Students will learn the NSA IAM by walking through the individual sections of the methodology within a group environment. Each group will be assigned a scenario organization (utility, healthcare, finance, military, research, etc) that they will use to perform the NSA IAM upon during the course. There are 3 group exercises provided over the 2 day period. Course material is presented using PowerPoint slides, lecture, and digital movies.
The final test will be given at the end of the 2nd day of class. Students moving on to the level 2 IEM course (bootcamp style) will have their tests graded prior to leaving the course to ensure they're eligible for the next course.
NOTE: Certification is *not* required to attend this course, but attendance is limited, so enroll now.
In order to become NSA IAM certified, students are required to submit a registration package to NSA, via Security Horizon, in advance of the class. Submission of paperwork no later than 30 days prior to the class is highly recommended to ensure all paperwork is approved and the certification exam is issued by the National Security Agency.
Students wishing to be certified must meet the following requirements:
Course Length: Two days. All course materials, lunch and two coffee breaks will be provided. A Certificate of Completion will be offered in addition to IAM Certification (if you qualify). This course is required prior to taking the level two course, the NSA IEM.
We strongly urge that you register for this class no later than February 1 if you are seeking to be certified since all paperwork for certification must be approved PRIOR to the class. On-site or late registration for this class will not ensure that the necessary paperwork will be completed for certification.
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All volunteers will receive a Conference Access badge (equivalent to Full Conference registration, excluding conference documentation). All volunteers who fulfill their commitment may also be eligible, but are not guaranteed, to receive a copy of the Conference Proceedings following the conference.
Volunteers who commit to 30 hours or more and who do not live in the Los Angeles area are eligible to apply for up to six nights of accommodation in conference housing. Housing is not guaranteed and is provided according to need and qualifications. Up to four students of the same gender will be assigned to each room. Further information on housing will be provided upon acceptance as a Student Volunteer.
All volunteers are responsible for their own travel to and from Los Angeles, as well as their own meals during their time at the conference.
Some limited Travel Assistance Awards are available for 30-hour volunteers though they are not guaranteed. When these awards are granted by the Student Volunteers Committee, they establish a maximum amount per recipient. After arriving in Los Angeles, Student Volunteers must meet their commitment to the program (30 hours) in order to receive the award. Eighteen and 30-hour volunteers must meet their commitment to be eligible to receive meal vouchers and tickets to events and receptions.


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Editor's Note: The following article is reprinted from the Biz Feed blog at PCWorld.com.
Facebook is making strategic moves to evolve into something greater than a Classmates.com with silly quizzes. It purchased FriendFeed, a popular niche social networking platform, and the talented development team that built it. It has rolled out new search functionality, and a new ability to share status updates with the entire network in real-time. It has rumored connections to the recently announced RockMelt Web browser and is supposedly working on a payment system. All of these moves work to keep Facebook one step ahead of competing sites and establish itself as a must-use platform.
And why not? Facebook is no Google (yet), but they have amassed more than 250 million members in a relatively short amount of time. More important, it seems that Facebook reached the critical mass where membership becomes self-feeding and grows exponentially. Every new member of Facebook is reaching out to their friends and family and inviting them to also join the Facebook network so they can share status updates, photos, compete against each other in web-based games, and take silly quizzes about what personality disorder they have.
Earlier this year Nielsen reported that Facebook had become the most-used networking site. In April alone users spent 13.9 billion…with a "B," minutes on Facebook. Facebook users share their likes and dislikes and join groups that are of interest to them. Facebook is in a unique position to capitalize on that goldmine of marketing data. If Facebook can leverage its vast and growing membership and find ways to both extend the amount of time users invest on the site, and find ways to leverage that time into products and services that generate revenue, it can break the mold of what social networking is supposed to be.
Perhaps Google feels the Facebook heat? Google has learned well from its arch-rival Microsoft. If you can't buy the competition, then you figure out what the competition is doing right and incorporate that functionality into your products or platform. This past week it quietly rolled out some new social networking functionality within iGoogle, its personalized web portal home page. iGoogle is evolving into a platform for social applications, similar to the thousands of apps used by Facebook members, complete with a status update page that will let users track which applications their friends and contacts are using.
Social networking sites come and go. People are familiar with names like MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, but there have been many others as well. Imaginative and innovative individuals are constantly seeking the magic formula for Internet success. MySpace skyrocketed to become a household name, but quickly flamed out and is rapidly fading to obscurity. Alta Vista and Excite were once search engine stars as well. Facebook is making strategic moves to be the next Google instead of the next MySpace.
[Tony Bradley is an information security and unified communications expert with more than a decade of enterprise IT experience. He tweets as @PCSecurityNews and provides tips, advice and reviews on information security and unified communications technologies on his site at tonybradley.com.]


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The opposite of love is not hate – the opposite of love is indifference.
I think one of the biggest mistakes guys against a 3 Strikes rule make is assuming that it means a guy would be so preoccupied with sex that you couldn't wait for 4-6 dates. They assume that a 3 Strikes rule (or any rule dependent upon sexual reciprocation) makes them Players at best, superficial and sex-concerned at worst. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The mistake is to presume that a 3 date policy is some form of punishment for the girl for not having 'put out' soon enough to verify interest. It's not punishment, it's a fail-safe that serves to protect a guy from some protracted personal investment for a very limited return. For example, I play golf and when I want to improve my game I hire a golf pro. I pay him $120 for 3 lessons, so $40 per lesson (very similar to the $40 per date rule popularized by Tom Leykis). At the end of my 3rd lesson I assess whether or not my game's improved and I can decide to continue with him or, if I see no improvement I can choose to find another pro and do the same. There are a lot of golf pros ready to work with me. I'm not punishing the pro for doing this, I'm simply looking for the best value in an area I wish to improve in. If I think my swing has improved or I notice my average go up, I'll continue with with the pro.
The misunderstanding is to see a 3 Strikes rule as a threat. "She'd better put out after tonight or I'm outta here". I can see why that would place a burden upon a woman, but you must take into account why a 3 Strike rule would even be a necessary concept. 3 dates (and I mean real dates, none of this coffee / lunch crap) over the course of 3 weeks should be ample time to make the assessment as to whether a woman has interest and attraction enough to become intimate. Anything beyond this is indicative of filibustering on a woman's part and usually points to an only lukewarm IL if at all. In this way a 3 Strike rule benefits both men and women; why would either sex want to engage in a relationship that was lackluster from the start? Why would either want to be involved with a person who was settled on or settled for?
It's urgency and anxiety that makes for genuine, chemical-fueled sexual desire – not comfort, not familiarity. This is precisely why I say Any woman who makes you wait for sex, or by her actions implies she is making you wait for sex; the sex is NEVER worth the wait. It's not that you can't have sex with her, it's that the sex is compromised, internally debated, choice-of-necessity sex. It becomes mundane before anyone's clothes come off.
The Power of NEXT
I used the above situation as a prelude to illustrate the power of tapping into one of the most elusive and difficult to internalize principles of game – the power of NEXT. It's very easy to casually type, "just NEXT her man" when you have no personal investment in the advice you give. It's standard male deductive-logic pragmatism, and rightly so, to solve the problem by eliminating the source. Likewise when you lack a real understanding of the personal conditions and mental schemas the average guy (i.e. Matrix-Beta) is predisposed to, telling him to simply NEXT the only plate he's got spinning is about as useful as telling him to Just Be Himself with the next girl he happens into.
Spinning Plates is actually the best starting point for mastering the power of NEXT. When you have other irons in the fire it's much easier to shift the focus of your attention to another woman; at least in theory. There's a certain degree of emotional dissociation that needs to be made and this is usually dependent upon the personal investment a Man puts into any one woman. Far too many men, and even practiced PUAs, have a very hard time with NEXT not only because of this dissociation, but also the doubt that comes from "what might've been." Couple this with a soul-mate myth inspired ONEitis and you can see why most guys will fight to their own bitter end not to NEXT the girl they're with.
It's exactly this doubt that makes men think they'd be throwing the baby out with the bath water by NEXTing a woman. A lot of men think that NEXTing a girl is some knee-jerk response from guys who don't have any other ideas of what to do, when in fact it should be a practiced, default response for the first indication that a woman is attempting to set the frame in her favor by manipulating a guy using her intimacy as a carrot to pull the cart. It's men without options that find NEXTing a girl in some way 'wrong', and to a man with only one plate spinning this is entirely counterintuitive, but it's important to remember that Rejection is better than Regret – even if you're the one doing the rejecting. It's better err on the side of NEXTing than be dragged into the quicksand of a woman's frame.
Tactical NEXTing
The opposite of love is not hate – the opposite of love is indifference. When your silence inspires more anxiety than any spoken threat, that's when you're an Alpha.
Learning indifference is the key to mastering the power of NEXT. Women are masters of indifference for the same reason Men with options (i.e. Plate Spinners) find it useful; they derive confidence from having options. Since women (in their prime) are the primary sexual selectors, indifference is their natural default state. It's only Men with options who make an impact enough to rattle a woman out of this default indifference and fire her imagination (caffeinate the Hamster).
NEXTing as a tool is one of the best ways to determine real interest level in a woman. Dumping a woman is one of the highest forms of DHV that a man possesses. Nine times out of ten the NEXTed woman will attempt to reconnect with the guy who's got the personal confidence enough to walk away from her. Why is this? Because it shakes up the routine which you slip into by playing in her frame. In behavioral psychology terms she's about to go into what's called an extinction burst. You've removed her source of reward (i.e. attention, comfort, familiarity) and now she will frantically attempt to restore it. Uncertainty is exciting, particularly after you've set a pattern of behavior that she thinks is secure. Unpredictability is good. The guy who can walk away from a less than optimal situation is a man communicating that he has options and the confidence to be uncompromising (or at least less compromising) in what he's willing to accept. The secret is that pussy is an easily had commodity and it's up to a woman to convince you that her intimacy is in someway unique among all others. The hard truth, that she's well aware of, is that no amount of sex is an equitable trade for a man's complacency and/or compromising his identity.
In fact, a woman want's you to walk away; it communicates that her intimacy has no control over you putting you decisively in control (where she wants you to be), increases her desire by planting a seed of doubt of her estimation of you, proves you to be (at least in appearance) a man with other irons in the fire, and finally, confirms for her that your attentions are valuable to other (potential competition) women.
Permanent NEXTing – Going Dark
There will come times when NEXTing a poisonous woman becomes a necessity. For any number of reasons, extracting her from your life may be essential to saving your own life. NEXTing under these conditions (really a break up) takes on much more gravity since the woman you're cutting off will still experience the same extinction burst despite the factors (perhaps her own fault) that led to it. The same basic principles of emotional dissonance apply, but the emotional investment may make it impossible to achieve true indifference. It's during these extinction burst when she opens up sexually to retain a your failing interest that prove the most difficult for men to resist. A starving man can't help but want to eat from the most convenient buffet prepared for him, even when aresenic is on the menu.
As I mentioned in War Brides, women have an innate, hard-wired psychological facility in achieving this degree of indifference that men can scarcely believe they're capable of – even after decades of an LTR or marriage. So imagining and enacting a disconnect of this emotional magnitude is kind of a foreign concept for men to embrace themselves. It not only goes against our deductive, problem solving natures, but it also conflicts with a feminine primacy acculturation that teaches us to stick with her no matter what, "all for love."
Keep that in mind; the intent of your leaving isn't punishment for her misbehavior, nor is it meant to teach her a lesson to learn from, it's to save your own life from further damage. As I stated earlier, NEXTing a woman is DHV (demonstrating higher value) of the highest order. True or not, It implies you had other, better options than her. NEXTing her implies you've just gone from a comfortable, familiar beta to the indifferent Alpha that she never realized you had a capacity for. What serves as a benefit in Tactical NEXTing is liability in a Permanent NEXT, you will hear from her again. At first it will be desperate and crying, later it will be casual with feigned nonchalance – don't take the bait.
The best thing you can do is go dark. Block her calls / texts, drop her from Facebook if you have one, cut off all contact. No messages via friends, no "hey howya doing?" nothing but indifference. You're off the grid for her.
Learning indifference is the key to the power of NEXT. Presuming and cultivating that presence of indifference makes your attention that much more valuable and makes a permanent NEXT a much easier transition.


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The Pentagon is cancelling a controversial medal designed to recognize contributions of unmanned aerial vehicle pilots and cyber troops, according to a Monday memorandum signed by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel obtained by USNI News. Read More
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A New Kind of Carrier Air Wing
Proceedings, September 2012
What types of aircraft will be deployed on tomorrow's flattops?
What should the carrier air wing (CVW) of the future look like? This rather abstruse topic has taken on new significance of late as a consequence of the article in the July issue of Proceedingsby Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan Greenert. The title of the article, "Payloads over Platforms: Charting a New Course," the discussion in it of the diminishing value of stealth, and the positive mentions of both the F/A-18 Hornet and unmanned systems such as the Scan Eagle and Fire Scout led some observers to accuse the CNO of somehow being secretly opposed to the carrier variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Under intense criticism, Admiral Greenert and his staff appear to be employing the "Humpty Dumpty" defense ("When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."), asserting that the article did not refer in any way to the F-35 but instead to stealth in the future. 1
The F-35 non-controversy aside, Admiral Greenert made a profound statement that could have dramatic implications for the character of U.S. air power in general and the future CVW in particular. The CNO declared that "we need to move from 'luxury-car' platforms—with their built-in capabilities—toward dependable 'trucks' that can handle a changing payload selection." Why? Well, by definition "luxury car" platforms are expensive both to buy and maintain. In addition, they tend to look good and have great performance but can be of limited utility. A dependable "truck" has a wider range of uses, particularly if one doesn't mind riding in the back. A payload-centric approach also allows for more rapid technological refresh at lower cost as well as the ability to tailor forces for the conflict du jour.
One conclusion to be drawn from the CNO's assertion is that the value of the performance characteristics associated with so-called luxury-car platforms is declining. Those include stealth, speed, maneuverability, perhaps even survivability. There are several reasons for the Navy's tastes in tactical aircraft to be changing. Obviously, two related ones are declining defense budgets and the high cost of advanced manned platforms. Another is concern regarding the anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) threat.


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COOLIO - Can I Get Down 1X lyricsrate me
Verse 1, Coolio, Malika:
I'm gettin bunions from all the disrespectful sisters in my face
I give love
But when push come to shove
I'm 'posed to solo
Diggin me out the ditch
(Hey, hey, Cool, give me some chips, fool) Ain't that a bitch
Ain't no cash just fallin out the sky
You hella high
But why why did she touch the tie?
But I start on full wit a gangsta limp
Morris couldn't see this pimp
I'm backslappin gimps
True, I'll be in the cut, but you notice me
Try to throw with me
Now you wanna roll with me, fate
I'll lead you left instead of right
Tonight's the night
So, let's get the situation tight
I hear 'em tryin to playa hate me on the under
My momma said, "Never let a sucker take you asunder"
Don't be gettin outta line where it concerns mine
It might be your time, but it's my rhyme
Chorus, Coolio, Malika:
Can I get down one time to make the people say yeah
And nobody wont care?
Can I get down one time without
All the criticism and media in my business?
Can I get down one time and release my rhyme
And speak my mind?
Can I get down one time?
Can I get down one time?
Verse 2, Malika:
I take my picture with a smile like Jack
Cause I'm back
You picturin all them chips in stack
I got love, though, don't be no stank hoe
I'm not fallin for the gank, yo
God I thank, though
Enemies it's your decision
The gift I been givin
Got you in the life I'm livin
Watch your sane, sane like Marley Mike
Your game ain't right
You be slippin every night
I'm hoverin up in the nest with the claws out
Cause he had his paws out
When he paused out
He's out, now it's in with the new
In with the two
You know how these thieves do
Verse 3, Malika, Coolio:
I can't do what I want, or how I wanna
This shit is drama
So what is it you want, huh?
We tryin to make it to the tizzy
I'll be a hella busy bee
The gizzy
Through the frizzy, is we
Tryin to have somethin
We goin off frontin
Cause nothin leaves nothin
And nothin means we head bumpin
Pumpin, no punk can hit this, my stable
Twistin me a fable
Somethin sweet like sable
You shoulda reached out and grabbed it and got his pay nice
Jealousy got him dropped, with his neck sliced
Liquor be revelain
The homies true feelins
So, I be willin
To turn into a villian
Then if you're still with me
You got to chill with me
Bustin lyrics with a skill when they deal with me
Never senseless
Thank you for your business
And I got more rhymes
Than L.A. Times got headlines
Chorus, Repeat 4X


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The Hen and Chicken islands are a familiar landmark located some 10 to 19 km off the Whangarei coast. From 28 March to 6 April this year, four of us (Robyn Blyth, Raymond Thorley and Jean-Claude Stahl from Te Papa, Kalin Lewis from Ngati Wai) stayed on Mauimua / Lady Alice island, the largest of the "chickens" or Marotere islands. Although focused on flesh-footed shearwater research, the field trip provided an opportunity to make observations on the vegetation of the island, which is quite exotic looking when coming from Wellington (same applies to the climate!).
The 155 ha island is about 2 km long by 1 km wide, rises to 158 m above sea level, and is mostly surrounded by greywacke cliffs or steep rocky slopes. The only sand beach is at West Bay or Grave Bay, so named because a child that had died on an immigrant ship was buried there in about 1840.
Landing in West Bay, the first vegetation belts to be met are sand binding plants on a small consolidated dune (Calystegia sp., Carex pumila, Spinifex hirsutus, Muehlenbeckia complexa), or, on the rocky promotories that delimit the bay, a coastal scrub of taupata (Coprosma repens), ngaio (Myoporum laetum), flax (Phormium tenax), houpara (Pseudopanax lessonii) and Melicytus novae-zelandiae.
The upper boundary of the coastal scrub is in places marked by magnificent stands of pukanui (Meryta sinclairii, also known as puka), one of the great sights of the island, as the Hen and Chickens and Three Kings islands are the only localities where this familiar ornamental plant grows in the wild. This unusual distribution led to speculation that pukanui was introduced to the Hen and Chickens, presumably from the Three Kings, by their former Maori inhabitants. Pukanui was described from a lonely plant seen at Whangaruru harbour by Colenso around 1840. This specimen had indeed been planted by the local Maori, who informed Colenso that they had brought it from the close-by Poor Knights islands – where there has been no sign of the plant since.
Pohutukawa forest extends quite far down in sheltered bays, but often retreats to the upper slopes of the exposed high cliffs of the north coast, above extended belts of halophytes and costal scrub. Also scattered in this clifftop forest are coastal maire (Nestegis apetala), with a rich understorey of flax, coastal astelia (Astelia banksii), haekaro (Pittosporum umbellatum) and Veronica bollonsii, the latter endemic to the Hen and Chickens, Poor Knights and the Tutukaka coast.
The lushest vegetation of the island is found in a few remnants of old growth forest in the headwaters of valleys inland from West Bay and South Cove, and in gullies running down the east coast. These stands are dominated by large pohutukawa and puriri (Vitex lucens), with younger kohekohe (Dysoxylum spectabile) and karaka (Corynocarpus laevigatus) as subcanopy, and groves of large puriri and coastal maire growing on the drier stony slopes around such catchments. Another spectacular tree, the parapara or bird-catcher (Pisonia brunoniana), grows here in damp areas along stream beds. The tree gets its name – and bad reputation – from its sticky fruits that can become death traps for small birds like silvereyes or fantails, although seemingly well designed for long distance dispersal by seabirds.
Extensive tracts of kanuka (Kunzea ericoides) scrub, especially around West Bay, attest to a fair deal of modification of the original forest. Former Maori inhabitants had established three ridgetop pas and plantation terraces, but seemingly deserted the island after 1821, and by 1880 the Austrian naturalist Reischek described the large Marotere islands as mostly forested, except for abandoned Maori plantations covered in flax and scrub. More recent modifications include repeated fires, with the last extensive one in West Bay in 1902-03, and browsing by cattle up to 1928. Kiore has been removed in 1994, and the island is on an advanced path of recovery, with extensive regeneration of kohekohe forest under the ageing kanuka canopy.
By Jean-Claude Stahl, Te Papa.


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Motion-activated lights are an important security measure for the outside of your home, and they cost less than $50. Image: Cooper Industries
A professionally installed and monitored home security system is a nice addition to your home's defenses, but it shouldn't be step one. First, conduct your own home security check. After you've inspected your home's doors and windows, make sure these essential steps are covered:
1. Keep your home well-maintained on the outside.
Burglars want an easy target. Stand on the street outside your house and ask yourself: Does my property look neglected, hidden, or uninhabited? A front door or walkway that's obscured by shrubbery offers crooks the perfect cover they need while they break a door or window. To improve security, trim shrubs away from windows and widen front walks.
2. Install motion detector lights.
All sides of your house should be well-lit with motion-activated lighting, not just the front. Simple motion-activated floodlights cost less than $50 each, and installing them is an easy DIY job if the wiring is already in place.
3. Store your valuables.
Thieves want easy-to-grab electronics, cash, jewelry, and other valuables, though some are not above running down the street with your flat-screen TV. Most make a beeline for the master bedroom, because that's where you're likely to hide spare cash, jewelry, even guns. Tour each room and ask yourself: is there anything here that I can move to a safe deposit box? Installing a home safe ($150 to $500) that's bolted to your basement slab is a good repository for items you don't use on a daily basis.
4. Secure your data.
While you probably won't be putting your home computer in a safe anytime soon, take steps to back up the personal information stored on it. Password protect your login screen, and always shut off your computer when not in use (you'll save energy, too!) Don't overlook irreplaceable items whose value may hard to quantify, like digital photos.
5. Prepare ahead of time in case the worst happens.
Take a photo or video inventory of items of value in your home, and store the file online or in your home safe.
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BOTHELL, WA - October 14, 2010 - Sonosite, Inc. (Nasdaq:SONO), the world leader and specialist in bedside and point-of-care ultrasound, today announced that its latest breakthrough in ultrasound imaging, Advanced Needle Visualization, will be featured at the American Society of Anesthesiologists 2010 Annual Meeting. This technology was first introduced in July 2010 and is a proprietary imaging algorithm that intensifies the brightness of the needle, making it clearly visible during a steep angle nerve block approach for deep targets, conditions under which the needle has previously been very difficult to image. The conference is being held in San Diego, California at the San Diego Convention Center, October 16-18, 2010
As a solution for the "lost needle phenomenon," which has been a well-known limitation in ultrasound needle imaging, anesthesiologists worldwide have quickly responded to Advanced Needle Visualization as a key tool for saving time, and improving patient safety. The algorithm enables physicians to increase confidence through visualization of the needle, which may result in less procedure time while maintaining fully-diagnostic image quality from near to far field, preserving anatomical detail.
"After I saw a demonstration of Advanced Needle Visualization, I bought it on the spot," said Curtis R. Holbrook, MD, RPh, MBA, Anesthesiologist, Texas Health Resources/Wilson N. Jones Medical Center, Sherman, Texas. "Our department initially gravitated toward implementing ultrasound for needle guidance procedures because it improves safety. Advanced Needle Visualization is a major advancement in patient safety because it helps clinicians prevent nerve damage during nerve blocks. To me, it's a safety feature that should become the standard of care. There is no doubt that Advanced Needle Visualization is an incredible step forward in imaging and once people see it, they will be sold."
"With Advanced Needle Visualization, I could see the needle perfectly and better than with the aid of an echogenic needle," said Astrid Ursula Behr, MD, Anesthesiologist, Division of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Padova, Italy. "In fact, I experimented with the technology by turning the algorithm on and off and it was truly incredible to observe how the needle appeared and disappeared. I am convinced that the Advanced Needle Visualization solves a lot of our difficulties with needle visibility."
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By Laura Foster-Bobroff, Networx
You wouldn't hang a small picture frame with a house nail or build a piece of furniture with an upholstery tack, but when it comes to screws most people will grab whatever they've got on hand to perform repairs or finish projects. Using the right screw can help you avoid trouble like loose screws, or stripping or snapping screw heads.
First lesson: Not everything with a thread is a screw. If it's got a nut, with a flat bottom at the end of the shank, it's not a screw -- it's a bolt!
In addition to the simple difference between a bolt and a screw, let's have a short lesson in basic types of screws and their applications:
Wood Screws: Commonly made of brass, steel or bronze, wood screws are designed specifically for…wood! They're easy to identify since most wood screws have shanks unthreaded at the top, with coarse threads at the pointed end. Their design allows the screw to move smoothly through wood fibers with less resistance, reducing splintering. Heads are angled -- flat, round or oval. Oval-headed screws, also called "pan heads", can be seen on the surface, but are not as highly visible as round-headed screws. Rounded-headed screws are used are in decorative applications, such as in furniture design. Flat heads are used when it's important to have fasteners hidden or flush to the surface of the wood.
Tip: Pre-drilling holes in the wood, especially for longer screws going into hardwood, will reduce the risk of snapping the head because of too much torque. Also, make sure you use the right length of screw. Generally, you'll want 1 – 1 ½ times the length of the screw to go into the adjoining board.
Drywall Screws: There are two basic types of drywall screws -- finely threaded (S-type), for attaching drywall to metal studs, or coarsely threaded (W-type) for attaching drywall to wood. S-types have self-drilling tips that eliminate the need to pre-drill. With very sharp points, drywall screws go in fast and reduce tearing. There are several brands, including those coated with ceramic, zinc or phosphate. Some coatings reduce corrosion. Charlotte house painters Paint Line make a good case for using proper drywall screws, saying, "That small hole that seems easy to patch can quickly turn into a large, unsightly bulge on your wall."
Sheet Metal Screws: Sheet metal screws come in a large assortment of types and sizes and can be used in any application that requires joining a number of different materials together including plastics, rubber and various metals as well as plywood. They should not be used to replace wood screws but are definitely outstanding fasteners because their sharp and customized threads, guaranteeing a tight bond. Choice should be based upon the type of materials you are working with. Type A, B, or AB is the most common, while others such as Type 25 (for plastics) are used for specialized applications. Ask a hardware specialist for assistance choosing the right type of fastener for your project.
Sheet metal screws may have flat, oval or hex washer heads. The latter is attached to the head to distribute force over a wider area so the screw doesn't "sink" into the material.
Self-Tapping: Self-tapping screws can be found as sheet metal, drywall or wood screws with different types of heads and have the distinctive advantage of eliminating the need to pre-drill. Threads of self-tapping screws accommodate the material by drilling their own holes as they're inserted. The disadvantages to using them is that disassembly often results in stripping the screw (remedied by using a slightly larger screw for re-assembly), and they are easily snapped when over-tightened.
Source: http://www.networx.com/article/types-of-screws--their-proper-usage


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Just saw this story in my feedreader, and thought it worth a mention:
An update downloaded by BlackBerry users of a Middle Eastern wireless provider contained spyware that secretly read and stored text messages and e-mails, Research In Motion confirmed. Etisalat, a cellular service company based in the United Arab Emirates, released a firmware upgrade to BlackBerry subscribers on July 8 telling them its installation would improve the device's performance and was required for continued service.
…BlackBerry maker, Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion, said in a statement that it "did not develop this software application and RIM was not involved in any way in the testing, promotion or distribution of this software application." Etisalat originally issued a press release that referred to the software as an official BlackBerry upgrade…..RIM has since issued its own utility allowing users to uninstall the application.
I think any time a major tech brand takes the high road when it comes to potential government spying, the entire Internet gets better. While no one will confirm this, I am sure, it's likely that the update was included at the behest of a government agency of some kind. Kudos to RIM for doing the right thing, it reminds me of what Google did back in 2006, exposing the DOJ demands on search data.


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Carson, CA – The Los Angeles Galaxy will try to return to the win column on Saturday at The Home Depot Center when the club welcomes the Colorado Rapids.
After opening the campaign with a 4-0 win over the Chicago Fire, the Galaxy was held to a 1-1 draw by Chivas USA, which scored the equalizing goal in the 89th minute despite playing the final 50 minutes of the match with 10 men.
The performance certainly left a bad taste in the mouths of the Galaxy players, and they will be eager for a chance to erase that result with a positive one on Saturday.
Recent history indicates that the Galaxy should feel confident ahead of the game with Colorado since L.A. has posted a 4-0-1 mark against the Rapids in the last five meetings between the two sides.
However, Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena will be without two key players for Saturday's game as Robbie Keane and Omar Gonzalez will both be away on international duty.
Keane's absence could present an opportunity for young forward Jack McBean, who scored the lone goal for the Galaxy in the draw with Chivas, while a number of players are available to take the place of Gonzalez.
"We're going to miss Omar's presence back there, his ball-winning capabilities, and being big in the center and an important role in our defense, but we knew that he was going to be leaving for national team duty," said defender Sean Franklin. "All the best to him, but I think we'll be fine with people coming in and playing."
Arena recently talked about how he has rotated players in defense anyway, so with Gonzalez out, he will simply choose between A.J. DeLaGarza, Leonardo, and Tommy Meyer as a replacement for Gonzalez.
The Rapids collected their first point of the season last weekend against Real Salt Lake after back-to-back defeats to start the campaign, and defender Drew Moor likes the attitude his team is bringing into this game.
"Everyone is disappointed here that we didn't win the game, which is a good sign," Moor said of the RSL result. "I think last year, maybe we lose this game, but this team has some strong characters, and some good leaders, and a good core group, and we build off of the little victories like this. We are disappointed that we didn't win, which is a good sign, and if we can play as solid as we did this weekend in L.A. next weekend, and as the season progresses, I think our prospects are good."
The result against Salt Lake was positive, but it came at a cost as the Rapids lost goalkeeper Matt Pickens for the next 3-4 months due to a broken arm.
Clint Irwin came on in place of Pickens and made two saves to help Colorado earn a point, while Steward Ceus started the first game of the season in goal for the Rapids.


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In the Gorilla Experiment episode of the Big Bang Theory, Dr. Sheldon Cooper attempts to teach Penny some rudimentary physics. True to his pedantic nature, Sheldon begins his sketch of the history of physics by mentioning the agora, from which we get the modern term agorism. Following Samuel Edward Konkin III's (SEK III's) An Agorist Primer, the word "agora" is still used to this day to mean simply the "open marketplace."
To the modern agorist, the agora or uncorrupted free marketplace is the goal; the means of going from the current statism to the agora is called "counter-economics." "All non-coercive human action committed in defiance of the State constitutes the Counter-Economy," according to SEK III in his book An Agorist Primer. He mentions some specific examples of what is meant by non-coercive action in defiance of the State:
- Tax evasion
- Inflation avoidance
- Smuggling
- Free production
- Illegal distribution
- The free flow of both labor ("illegal aliens") and capital across borders
- Information and secrecy of that information
- And many more
The general idea of counter-economics is very similar to what Robert Neuwirth calls System D as reported in an interview called Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World Economy. Neuwirth says that
there's a French word for someone who's self-reliant or ingenious: débrouillard…the street economy…l'économie de la débrouillardise—the self-reliance economy, or the DIY economy if you will. I decided to use this term myself—shortening it to System D—because it's a less pejorative way of referring to what has traditionally been called the informal economy or black market or even underground economy. I'm basically using the term to refer to all the economic activity that flies under the radar of government. So, unregistered, unregulated, untaxed, but not outright criminal—I don't include gun-running, drugs, human trafficking, or things like that. (bold emphasis mine)
Nevertheless, the reason why I want to mention System D is because it helps me starkly illustrate that in the final analysis what is being discussed here is simply human survival. This is a discussion that, without being hyperbolic, does touch upon life-and-death issues. To make this unexceptionable point crystal clear, Neuwirth, in his book The Stealth of Nations, mentions how System D has helped people survive the financial crisis:
A 2009 study by Deutsche Bank, the huge German commercial lender, suggested that people in the European countries with the largest portions of their economies that were unlicensed and unregulated—in other words, citizens of the countries with the most robust System D—fared better in the economic meltdown of 2008 than folks living in centrally planned and tightly regulated nations.
He further illustrates the survival issue with an example from Latin America:
Studies of countries throughout Latin America have shown that desperate people turned to System D to survive during the most recent financial crisis. This spontaneous system, ruled by the spirit of organized improvisation, will be crucial for the development of cities in the twenty-first century. (bold emphasis mine)
Perhaps one of the most impressive examples of the counter-economics idea in action is that of what businesspeople did in order to evade the price control laws of Nazi Germany. It also gives me the opportunity to bring to light an issue that seems to be neglected; nevertheless, it does play an important role in undermining the establishment of state sovereignty. In a truly brilliant passage found in his book The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, James C. Scott mentions that shifting of linguistic practices is vital for state evasion and for state prevention:
State rulers find it well nigh impossible to install an effective sovereignty over people who are constantly in motion, who have no permanent pattern of organization, no permanent address, whose leadership is ephemeral, whose subsistence patterns are pliable and fugitive, who have few permanent allegiances, and who are liable, over time, to shift their linguistic practices and their ethnic identity. And this is just the point! The economic, political, and cultural organization of such people is, in large part, a strategic adaptation to avoid incorporation in state structures. (all emphasis is mine)
With that prologue now out of the way, let me get to my main point: that the behavior of some businesspeople (I cannot say all because it is fairly easy to demonstrate that some businesspeople wanted fascism or even created it) acted as perfect textbook examples of agorists evading the Nazi price controls introduced in 1936.
In his book The Vampire Economy: Doing Business under Fascism, Günter Reimann, much like James C. Scott, emphasizes the importance of permanent change—or subversion of "standardization"—as a key method for evading the will of the State. Conformity truly is the jailer of the world. Reimann notes that
manufacturers may introduce changes in standardized products which result in making the finished article more complicated, solely for the purpose of enabling the manufacturer to claim that the finished product is a "new article," which will not be subject to the old price restrictions. The State is enforcing more standardization of production in order to save raw materials; manufacturers must do exactly the reverse in order to defend their private interests. (bold emphasis mine)
To further evade the State's price control system, buyers and sellers would set up these "combination deals" that amounted to selling scarce resources for a higher price while "tricking" the State into thinking that one was following the prescribed price orders. I want to reproduce in full Reimann's story about how the buyers and sellers executed this legerdemain because it illustrates an actual way of appearing to be "legitimate" while actually being the complete opposite:
A peasant was arrested and put on trial for having repeatedly sold his old dog together with a pig. When a private buyer of pigs came to him, a sale was staged according to the official rules. The buyer would ask the peasant: "How much is the pig?" The cunning peasant would answer: "I cannot ask you for more than the official price. But how much will you pay for my dog which I also want to sell?" Then the peasant and the buyer of the pig would no longer discuss the price of the pig, but only the price of the dog. They would come to an understanding about the price of the dog, and when an agreement was reached, the buyer got the pig too. The price for the pig was quite correct, strictly according to the rules, but the buyer had paid a high price for the dog. Afterward, the buyer, wanting to get rid of the useless dog, released him, and he ran back to his old master for whom he was indeed a treasure.
In the end, the peasant never actually sells his dog since the buyer effectively gives the dog back to him by releasing the dog. The buyer gets the pig, which is the official side of this transaction, but the seller gets to keep the official price for the pig plus the phantom dog sale price, thus the seller gets a price above the State mandated price for selling his pig.
Naturally, the State is going to try to crackdown on such prestidigitation, a fancy word for any sneaky sleight of hand behavior. Being Nazi Germany, the State's response was quite predictable. According to Reimann, the State used "control purchases" in order to catch people for audaciously circumventing its price rules. What exactly were Nazi "control purchases"? They consisted of the following:
- Secret police agents
- The secret police agents would be plainclothes officers and would pose as harmless buyers, but willing to offer a higher price than the official price
- The secret police agents would then try to induce businesspeople to make an illegal transaction with them
To me this sounds like a drug sting operation but for such prosaic items as selling pigs! A pig sting! (That has double entendre written all over it.)
In order to avoid getting caught, the idea of shifting one's linguistic practices comes into play among those engaged in productive activity. Reimann points out explicitly that when applying agorism, one must learn to speak a new language:
In order to discuss illegal business transactions in a manner that makes them seem legal, businessmen in fascist countries learn to speak the language of experienced underground adversaries of the regime. They are often uncertain as to whether a prospective buyer is "reliable" and therefore talk in terms which are innocent and the meaning of which can be interpreted in different ways. (bold emphasis mine)
In conclusion, I think that one possible way to "market" agorism to people who are currently not agorists is to show that the underlying ideas have a long and honorable history. I have tried to illustrate this by using both a recent and a historical example. In the recent example, i.e., the current financial crisis, agorism and System D have helped desperate people on multiple continents earn a living and stay alive. Agorism and System D thus are helping people survive. The compare and contrast is blatantly obvious: the greedy ruling class caused the problem through their central bank monetary policies but the agorists provided the solution and it is working in practice. The Nazi example demonstrates that agorism is a tool for undermining a totalitarian regime. Once again, agorism can position itself as being on the side of humanity against some of its most monstrous enemies. And how did our pig buyer and pig seller do it: through a negotiated exchange in which both parties came to an acceptable agreement. In other words, voluntary exchange subverts totalitarianism once again.


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This article will dive into the principles of algorithm design. If you haven't a clue what I'm referring to, read on!
When you hear the word "algorithm," you probably respond in one of three ways:
- You immediately know and understand what we're talking about because you studied computer science.
- You know that algorithms are the workhorses of companies like Google and Facebook, but you aren't really sure what the word means.
- You run and hide in fear because everything you know about algorithms reminds you of high-school Calculus nightmares.
If you are one of the second two, this article is for you.
What is an Algorithm, Exactly?
Algorithms are not a special type of operation, necessarily. They are conceptual, a set of steps that you take in code to reach a specific goal.
Algorithms have been commonly defined in simple terms as "instructions for completing a task". They've also been called "recipes". In The Social Network, an algorithm is what Zuckerberg needed to make Facemash work. If you saw the movie, you probably remember seeing what looked like a scribbly equation on a window in Mark's dorm room. But what does that scribbly algebra have to do with Mark's simple "hot or not" site?
Algorithms are indeed instructions. Perhaps a more accurate description would be that algorithms are patterns for completing a task in an efficient way. Zuckerberg's Facemash was a voting site to determine someone's attractiveness relative to a whole group of people, but the user would only be given options between two people. Mark Zuckerberg needed an algorithm that decided which people to match up to one another, and how to value a vote relative to that person's previous history and previous contenders. This required more intuition than simply counting votes for each person.
For instance, let's say you wanted to create an algorithm for adding 1 to any negative number, and subtracting 1 from any positive number, and doing nothing to 0. You might do something like this (in JavaScript-esque pseudo code):
function addOrSubtractOne(number){ if (number < 0) { return number + 1 } else if (number < 0) { return number - 1 } else if (number == 0) { return 0; } }
You may be saying to yourself, "That's a function." And you're right. Algorithms are not a special type of operation, necessarily. They are conceptual - a set of steps that you take in code to reach a specific goal.
So why are they a big deal? Clearly, adding or subtracting 1 to a number is a fairly simple thing to do.
But let's talk for a second about searching. To search for a number in an array of numbers, how would you think to do it? A naive approach would be to iterate the number, checking each number against the one you're searching for. But this isn't an efficient solution, and has a very wide range of possible completion times, making it an erratic and unreliable search method when scaled to large search sets.
function naiveSearch(needle, haystack){ for (var i = 0; i < haystack.length; i++){ if (haystack[i] == needle) { return needle; } } return false; }
Fortunately, we can do better than this for search.
Why is it Inefficient?
There is no better way to become a better algorithm designer than to have a deep understanding and appreciation for algorithms.
Let's say your array has 50,000 entries, and you brute-force search (that is, search by iterating the full array). The entry you are searching for, in the best case scenario, will be the first entry in the 50,000-entry array. In the worst case scenario, however, the algorithm will take 50,000 times longer to complete than in the best case scenario.
So what's Better?
Instead, you would search using binary search. This involves sorting the array (which I will let you learn about on your own) and subsequently dividing the array in half, and checking to see if the search number is greater or less than the halfway mark in the array. If it is greater than the halfway mark of a sorted array, then we know that the first half can be discarded, as the searched number isn't a part of the array. We can also cut out a lot of work by defining the outer bounds of the array and checking to see if the searched number exists outside of those bounds, and if so, we have taken what would have been a multiple-iteration operation and turned it into a single iteration operation (which in the brute-force algorithm would have taken 50,000 operations).
sortedHaystack = recursiveSort(haystack); function bSearch(needle, sortedHaystack, firstIteration){ if (firstIteration){ if (needle > sortedHaystack.last || needle < sortedHaystack.first){ return false; } } if (haystack.length == 2){ if (needle == haystack[0]) { return haystack[0]; } else { return haystack[1]; } } if (needle < haystack[haystack.length/2]){ bSearch(needle, haystack[0..haystack.length/2 -1], false); } else { bSearch(needle, haystack[haystack.length/2..haystack.length], false); } }
Sounds Fairly Complicated
Take the seemingly complicated nature of a single binary search algorithm, and apply it to billions of possible links (as searching through Google). Beyond that, let's apply some sort of ranking system to those linked searches to give an order of response pages. Better yet, apply some kind of seemingly randomized "suggestion" system based on artificial intelligence social models designed to identify who you might want to add as a friend.
This gives us a much clearer understanding of why algorithms are more than just a fancy name for functions. At their finest, they are clever, efficient ways of doing something that requires a higher level of intuition than the most apparent solution. They can take what might would require a supercomputer years to do and turn it into a task that finishes in seconds on a mobile phone.
How do Algorithms Apply to Me?
For most of us as developers, we aren't designing high-level abstracted algorithms on a daily basis.
Luckily, we stand on the shoulders of the developers who came before us, who wrote native sort functions and allow us to search strings for substrings with indexOf in an efficient manner.
But we DO, however, deal with algorithms of our own. We create
for loops and write functions every day; so how can good algorithm design principles inform the writing of these functions?
Know Your Input
One of the main principles of algorithmic design is to, if possible, build your algorithm in such a way that the input itself does some of the work for you. For instance, if you know that your input is always going to be numbers, you do not need to have exceptions/checks for strings, or coerce your values into numbers. If you know that your DOM element is the same every time in a
for loop in JavaScript, you shouldn't be querying for that element in every iteration. On the same token, in your
for loops, you shouldn't use convenience functions with overhead if you can accomplish the same thing using (closer to) simple operations.
// don't do this: for (var i = 1000; i > 0; i--){ $("#foo").append("bar"); } // do this instead var foo = $("#foo"); var s = ""; for(var i = 1000; i > 0; i--){ s += "bar"; } foo.append(s);
If you are a JavaScript developer (and you use jQuery) and you don't know what the above functions are doing and how they are significantly different, the next point is for you.
Understand Your Tools
At their finest, [algorithms] are clever, efficient ways of doing something that requires a higher level of intuition than the most apparent solution.
It is easy to think that this goes without saying. However, there is a difference between "knowing how to write jQuery" and "understanding jQuery". Understanding your tools means that you understand what each line of code does, both immediately (the return value of a function or the effect of a method) and implicitly (how much overhead is associated with running a library function, or which is the most efficient method for concatenating a string). To write great algorithms, it is important to know the performance of lower-level functions or utilities, not just the name and implementation of them.
Understand the Environment
Reducing the Workload
In general, the goal of algorithm design is to complete a job in fewer steps. (There are some exceptions, such as Bcrypt hashing.) When you write your code, take into consideration all of the simple operations the computer is taking to reach the goal. Here is a simple checklist to get started on a path to more efficient algorithm design:
- Use language features to reduce operations (variable caching, chaining, etc).
- Reduce iterative loop nesting as much as possible.
- Define variables outside of loops when possible.
- Use automatic loop indexing (if available) instead of manual indexing.
- Use clever reduction techniques, such as recursive divide and conquer and query optimization, to minimize the size of recursive processes.
Study Advanced Techniques
There is no better way to become a better algorithm designer than to have a deep understanding and appreciation for algorithms.
- Take an hour or two every week and read The Art of Computer Programming.
- Try a Facebook Programming Challenge or a Google Codejam.
- Learn to solve the same problem with different algorithmic techniques.
- Challenge yourself by implementing built in functions of a language, like
.sort(), with lower level operations.
If you didn't know what an algorithm was at the start of this article, hopefully, now, you have a more concrete understanding of the somewhat elusive term. As professional developers, it is important that we understand that the code we write can be analyzed and optimized, and it is important that we take the time to do this analysis of the performance of our code.
Any fun algorithm practice problems you've found? Perhaps a dynamic programming "knapsack problem", or "drunken walk"? Or maybe you know of some best practices of recursion in Ruby that differ from the same functions implemented in Python. Share them in the comments!


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The Anniversary Effect
Being mindful of your calendar can help you avoid mood swings.
Posted May 19, 2011 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina
The "Anniversary Effect," which is sometimes called an Anniversary Reaction, is defined as a unique set of unsettling feelings, thoughts or memories that occur on the anniversary of a significant experience.
Sometimes you can trace the reason why you're feeling sad, irritable or anxious. One look at the calendar and you connect the dots from your current emotional state to the traumatic event. For example, the birthday of someone who's no longer alive, the date of an accident, a natural disaster or a miscarriage, just to name a few.
Sometimes finding the Anniversary Effect isn't as easy to trace because the event doesn't have a time-specific relationship. It may be more of a seasonal experience. For example, Autumn reminds you of when your child left for college, or a hot humid day reminds you of the time you signed your divorce papers. Or for me, the sounds of Christmas music on the radio takes me back to the trauma of a botched robbery that nearly took my life.
When you live with a mood disorder, you need to realize that you live with two calendars. One that keeps track of time, while the other stores emotional experiences. Anniversary Reactions signal that you are still working on moving through the trauma of your experience - and it is a normal part of the grieving process.
Tips for Moving Through Anniversary Reactions
1. Make sure you take time to glance at a calendar each month - and explore dates and memories attached to such dates. This framework can help prepare you for the possibility of an Anniversary Reaction.
2. The anniversary date is not the only day that you might feel out of sorts. Remind yourself that days or weeks leading up to an anniversary date - and even ones after, may be tough ones for you.
3. Anniversaries of public trauma, crises or disasters receive significant media coverage. Often, media outlets revisit distressing imagery. Limit your watching of TV, reading of newspapers and visiting Internet news sites around those dates.
4. Express your memories and feelings when an Anniversary Effect happens. You can do this by talking with a family member or friend, journaling, blogging or finding creative ways to express your inner experiences.
5. Make sure you take good care of yourself during these times. Self-care, support and comfort will help ground you as you move through trauma.
6. If you find that you're struggling with your trauma, remember that you're not alone. Loss affects each of us differently, so don't put a time limit on your grief. If you feel overwhelmed or cannot navigate successfully through your Anniversary Reaction, consider seeking a mental healthcare professional who specializes in trauma.


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
There is a problem that trigger massive growth of launchorbiter log.Problem:If you add/remove a usb device it´ll trigger massive logging in launchorbiter log file (40-50 entries per second).That´ll quickly fill up any hdd.Workaround:After ad/remove of usb device do a reboot of your machine.I cannot explain why AVWizard start when hdd is full. It did that for me too when I had the same issue.For me a simple delete of the log file and a reboot solved it all. Had to rerun AVWizard though.If your mysql db still do not start try to run mysql repair tools.In the future you´ll want to have a backup of your db.You can do that from within lmce-admin./niz23
rocketlynx,As far as I know the only way the launchorbiter logfile grow to the size you said is because of the hid problems I described earlier.I understand that you want a developer to comment but still, but without a log(evidence) file it´s will only be a wild guess.During our 0810 alpha releases I have installed it around 25-30 times and the only times I have seen such a big logfile (or fast growing) is when I add/remove my mce remote usb receiver or usb keyboard/mouse to the system when it is running.After a reboot everything is fine again (and log file at grow normal)./niz23


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Bills sign Vince Young
Vince Young has found his next stop.
He has signed with the Bills for a one-year deal worth $2M (another $1M available in bonuses), according to ESPN's Chris Moretensen.
Young spent last season with the Eagles, completing 57.9 percent of his passes for 866 yards. He started three games (losses to the Patriots and Seahawks and a win against the Giants), throwing four touchdowns and nine interceptions.
But more than his play, Young will be remembered for two words: Dream Team. That's what he deemed the Eagles at Lehigh after the Birds made several high-profile moves to their roster.
The goal was for Young to work with Andy Reid and Marty Mornhinweg, rehab his image and land a starting job in 2012. Instead, he'll have to settle for a backup role behind Ryan Fitzpatrick.
At this time last year, it looked like Jamaal Jackson was healthy and ready to resume his role as the Eagles' starting center.
Now, he's trying out up the road for the New York Giants, per Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News.
Jackson, who turned 32 earlier this month, has started just one game in the past two seasons. That was the opener in 2010 against the Packers, where Jackson suffered a torn triceps. He looked like he was ready to go last summer at training camp, and I thought he played well in the preseason, but Howard Mudd preferred the more athletic Jason Kelce.
Jackson spent the season as Kelce's backup and played just 17 snaps, according to Pro Football Focus. In 2009, his season came to an end after Jackson tore his ACL in Week 16 against the Broncos.
Assuming he's healthy, Jackson should be able to catch on somewhere and extend his career. Originally an undrafted free agent out of Delaware State, he started 72 games in seven seasons for the Eagles.
The NFL Network is running through its Top 100 list, and DeSean Jackson recently came in at No. 71, dropping 42 spots from the previous season. Gregg Rosenthal of NFL.com thinks Jackson didn't fall far enough after his 2011 performance:
DeSean Jackson fell 42 spots to No. 71, but how is he on this list at all? Jackson was one the worst punt returners in the league last year. His effort seemed to go up and down, and he still hasn't learned to be a complete receiver. (Jackson is an incredible deep threat, but can't run that many routes. Like the ones over the middle.)
Like too much of the Top 100 list, Jackson's placement was based on previous performance. In no way could Jackson be seen as a top-10 receiver. Based on last season, he doesn't belong.
Nnamdi Asomugha, meanwhile, dropped from No. 18 to No. 79.
Greg Cosell of NFL Films recently wrote about Michael Vick, saying the Eagles quarterback needs to be more disciplined to put everything together in 2012:
There always will be breathtaking moments. Vick is a transcendent athlete, capable of extraordinary throws and runs at any given moment. Yet he always leaves you wanting more. The reason, in simplest terms: Vick is not, to this day, an accomplished passer. He remains a week-to-week player with little stability or continuity to his game. He's always dangerous, at times dazzling, but seldom consistent.
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In skin care products, kojic acid functions primarily as a skin-lightening agent. Popular within the celebrity culture, this powerful ingredient assists in the exfoliation of dead skin cells, removing oil, dirt, and organisms that might be thriving on the skin.
To understand the effects of skin lightening, its worth noting how your skin gets its color in the first place. Here are a few pointers:
- The body naturally produces a pigment known as melanin, through specialized cells known as melanocytes.
- A person's genes determine how much melanin the body naturally produces.
- For fair skin, only small amounts of melanin are manufactured by the melanocytes, while copious amounts of the pigment are made by the cells of those with dark complexions.
Kojic Acid has been introduced into many skincare products today in order to softly lighten any darker pigments, usually in the form of serums or creams to lift dark areas.


text: Founded in the automotive aftermarket heartland of Southern California in 1998, Steelcraft Inc. is the premier manufacture of truck and SUV accessories. With corporate offices, research and development, strategically located in Corona California, Steelcraft is home to the finest team of dedicated employees with hundreds of years of cumulative automotive expertise. Our valued clientele define our success and are hence our highest priority. Since our R&D and distribution facilities are based here in the United States, this gives us the unique ability to quickly develop accessories for hot new model year vehicles and bring them to market often 90-180 days before other manufacturers.


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Legislation signed Sunday by Gov. Pat Quinn bans Illinois police departments from assigning ticket quotas and evaluating officers based on how many citations they issue.
Quinn, a Democrat, said the new law will allow police to use their judgment in deciding whether to ticket a driver. The law, which applies to local, county and state law enforcement, took effect immediately.
"Law enforcement officers should have discretion on when and where to issue traffic citations and not be forced to ticket motorists to satisfy a quota system," the governor said in a news release. "This new law will improve safety and working conditions for police officers and prevent motorists from facing unnecessary anxiety when they encounter a police vehicle."
The law prevents police departments from assigning an officer a specific number of citations to issue in a given period of time and also stops agencies from comparing officers based on how many tickets they write.
The measure passed both chambers of the General Assembly with overwhelming majorities, earning approval in the House with 106 votes in favor and nine against. Only one senator voted against the measure, with 57 voting for its passage.
State Rep. Jay Hoffman sponsored the bill in the House and, in Quinn's news release, touted the law as a way to better deploy officers and improve relations between police and the public.
"Arbitrary quotas on the number of tickets that have to be issued by police officers undermines the public trust in the police departments' priorities," said Hoffman, a Democrat from suburban St. Louis. "By eliminating these quotas, we can restore that trust and ensure that police officers are free to do their job protecting the public."
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Today it is my blog's birthday. Hurray hurray hurray! It is this blog's fourth birthday.
That means I've been writing a blog for four years today. That is a lot of days (1461 days). According to my stats iHanna has written 779 posts and got 6,183 comments so far! I've written a post almost every second day for four years (oh why did I check that!). Oh my gosh, that's a big archive of creative posts in this lil' ol' blog! Some available in book form now.
As a birthday gift to the blog and its writess I'd love you to answer these three questions:
1) Where do you live and what do you work with?
2) What are the subjects in my blog you like best? (I write about a lot of different stuff)
3) What is your life?s passion and what / who inspires you? (except me)! ;-)
Thanks my darlings!
PS: You can also tell me about what books you are reading in the comments in my last post! I'd love to know. The questions are inspired by getting to know your readers, a post by Shai.


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ITER energy project, a collaboration of 35 nations to build the largest tokamak in the world, selected Oracle's Primavera P6 EPPM. P6 has enabled schedule integration and consistent coding across the 250 individual projects ITER consists of.
Astaldi Türkerler JV put safety first on Europe's largest hospital project with Aconex Field.
Hawkins, one of New Zealand's largest vertical construction companies and part of the Downer family, selected Oracle Aconex and took advantage of APIs to support their goals of using data and standardization to improve project delivery.
Richard Crookes Constructions recruits digital talent and adopts Oracle Aconex to help meet their digitization goals, for the University of Technology Sydney and throughout their company, including 95% BIM adoption.
Assystem is an energy customer using both Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Primavera Unifier to improve their cost and data management.
Bombardier Transportation UK transformed their planning process across all of their projects by standardizing on Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management.
The Connect Plus consortium — including Edge Orbital Holdings Ltd, Balfour Beatty and Egis Road Operation UK implemented Oracle Aconex to improve processes and manage data throughout their 30 year contract.
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy implemented Oracle Aconex across their Offshore Business Unit. They have been able to distribute documents 50% faster than before and have saved up to 5,000 working hours per project on overall documentation processing.
Oracle Textura Payment Management drives invoicing and payment efficiency for Austin Commercial, yielding time and cost savings, and enabling the financial analytics and reporting the general contractor needs.
Swinerton turned to Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management in the cloud to deliver sophisticated reporting and data analytics to meet the needs of its project teams and other stakeholders.
Aconex enabled project team members to manage each of their specific processes using easily configurable workflows.Hans Hoppe, Principal Risk Manager, Parsons
AEC firm Clayco moved to cloud-based Primavera P6 Enterprise Portfolio Project Management to reduce indirect and direct operational costs and ensure that it always has the latest functionality.
If it's not transmitted via Aconex, then it's not official!Luis Hidalgo, Project Construction Manager, Rio Tinto
Everyone has access to project data and everyone controls access to their own data.Greg Morley, Chief Information Officer, United Living Group Enterprise
Following a large merger, Alectra Utilities turned to cloud-based Primavera P6 EPPM to achieve scale and gain efficiencies in resource management and construction project execution.
Burns & McDonnell upgrades from Primavera Contract Manager to Oracle's Primavera Unifier improving their project management information systems (PMIS) with new business processes for forecasting, earned value, document management, and ERP integrations.
Aconex helped John Holland achieve project-wide collaboration for information and process management for the entire project lifecycle—from feasibility, tendering, and design to construction.
Builder McCarthy turned to Oracle Primavera Cloud to digitize its lean construction processes and integrate task management with its CPM schedule. The cloud software also has improved coordination and collaboration among project teams.
Aconex helped Mirvac to improve communication flow and version control, resulting in administrative and engineering labor savings as well as a reduction in errors and rework.
Since we're more efficient with processing our payables, it allows our people to focus on value-added tasks.Matt McCabe, VP and Regional Controler
Buckeye Partners uses Oracle for oil and gas capital project planning and prioritizes projects by cost, safety, regulatory, and ROI to build their investor map.
Graham reduced tender solicitation from one day to an hour or less and cut turnaround time for RFIs by 50%, while reducing the time to log and distribute defects by 80–85% per defect.
Torres Unidas used Primavera Unifier to build a custom solution for managing telecommunications infrastructure delivery management, including budgeting, ordering, procurement, and approvals.


text: Spotlight On: Brain Tumors According to the American Cancer Society, brain tumors account for one in every 100 cancers diagnosed annually in the United States. CyberKnife® stereotactic radiosurgery is an advanced treatment option for brain tumors, providing an important nonsurgical alternative for patients. Below is a brief overview of brain tumors, incidence rates and treatment options. The information provided about medical conditions, treatment options, comparisons and associated risks is a very brief overview. Consult your doctor for any diagnosis and its best treatment.