Obey Mala – Multi-COD Minitage – Episode 1 – Video

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25-05-2012 15:42 Clips recorded in 2 days. All are leftovers except the last clip. I used a few streaks in here as well. Just felt like making a video and trying a new editing style =] Mala's Creative Mind Tutorial soon. dont worry. Re-Upload due to subbox fail =p Just something for fun =] Idk if you guys want these (mostly feed minitages) along with my leftover episodes which are mostly trickshots/sicker things i failed on. Song: Redsummer Tape - The Speed Of Light Edited in Sony Vegas and Adobe After Effects TWITTER: FACEBOOK:

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25-05-2012 16:14 This a 100% genuine unedited export and upload of iDesk generated 3-level mind-map into a video presentation. No tricks, no edits, no hype. You just: 1. Draw shapes. 2. In the proper time order. 3. Tap and label the text tags. 4. Set the style. 5. Export to video presentation. 6. Save to photo gallery. 7. Upload to your YouTube channel. Might take less than 15 minutes. Good luck with your diagrams and mind-maps. Visit now and get your iDesk for the iPad. You can buy iDesk here Or use iDesk for free: Thank you for your good partnership. 🙂

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rk | i love you, i always have (CANNES 2012) – Video

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26-05-2012 11:28 ?WATCH in HD if possible 🙂 ? i love you, i always have... ? I can't with them. I can't with this song. I can't with everything. Basically "I can't" has become my motto the last couple of days. And not only 'cause of what 'we got' from them... I just feel so fucking proud of them, and so happy for them that i can't even... They are two amazing people and deserve all the praise and the happiness possible! And yes, of course also 'cause they got me moved so much these days, and it's because of what they are and what they mean to a lot of people. They just make me believe in love, like no one else can. Sometimes i kinda blame them for making me idealize love so much, but yet, i would love to have something like what they have. And it's not even something so 'special' in a certain way. It's love, true love... and they just do what all people in love do, but the way they stay so true in such a place like Hollywood, with every shit going around, well that's not 'nothing special'. That's a lot... ? Thinking about this, i even happened to cry a couple of times while making this. I don't even know why. Again, it all just moves me. Well, it's true that we are all being sappy for a three days now lol But, that's it... They move me. And i could stay here and talk about them (and what i feel) for hours, so better stop here. lol Thanks, Robert and Kristen. And congratulations for your win. 'Cause you always win! A few notes: - I apologize for bad quality clips. Nothing better has ...

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If you thought the debates over the debt ceiling last year one of the most striking examples of political dysfunction and gridlock in recent memory were over, think again. Although Republicans agreed to a small raise and to put off discussion of the issue until after the upcoming 2012 elections, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox, Well be doing it all over in 2013. Clearly, the partisan rupture thats dividing Washington is not going to heal any time soon, but how did things get so dire to begin with?

When congressional scholars Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein say Its Even Worse Than It Looks the title of their book theyre being serious (subtitle: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism). Mann, the W. Averell Harriman chair and senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, began the Congress Project in the midst of the 1978 midterm campaign to track the institution as it evolved. What theyve found since hasnt been encouraging.

In their book, Mann and Ornstein trace political dysfunction to the present, illuminating the basic incompatibility they see between the U.S. constitutional system and two highly partisan, parliamentary-like parties. Mann and Ornstein argue that the adversarial, winner-take-all climate we find ourselves in today makes it extremely hard for a majority to act in our two-party governing system. Though both parties engage in corruption, they believe the current Republican Party which they argue is unpersuaded by fact and science, and has little in common with Reagans GOP tilts the political system into asymmetric polarization with its refusal to support anything that might help Democrats, no matter the cost to collective interest.

Meanwhile, changes in mass media, a populist distrust of non-military leaders deemed suspiciously elite, and the insidious connection between money and politics join to create the terrible recipe for a truly dysfunctional political system. At a time when were facing serious national and global problems, they write, The country is squandering its economic future and putting itself at risk because of an inability to govern effectively.But theres hope. Mann and Ornstein dedicate the second half of the book to outlining what specific institutional restructuring wont work and what will, as well as what the public and media can do to be part of positive change.

Salon spoke with Thomas E. Mann about how the media plays into the partisan warfare, the role of the Citizens United decision in the upcoming election, and what we can do to make American politics less dysfunctional.

Im wondering how you chose the books title.

It is a rather unusual title, isnt it? We were thinking through titles and somehow we got in our minds Mark Twains quip about Wagners music, which is Its better than it sounds. And so we were thinking relative to how our dysfunctional political system looks and we said, Well, weve gotta say its worse than it looks, but that would make no sense to people who think it looks horrible already. So we put the even in it Its even worse than it looks.

We are two long-time students of American politics and Congress. Weve really become exceedingly discouraged about developments in our politics and in thought. And weve become frustrated by what we think is a commentary about it that ends up not being especially accurate and, frankly, reinforces the destructive dynamics of the system by leading the public to think its all hopeless: Theyre all the same, its a corrupt system, its an utterly incompetent system, and therefore removing, in many respects, any basis on which a public could actually change that system. Instead you get a kind of visceral reaction: Throw the bums out! And that usually has the effect of reinforcing whatever you have now or making it worse.

How is partisan confrontation more serious today than it has been since you began studying American politics?

Its the worst weve seen in our 40 years of observing up-close Congress and the presidency and the American political system more broadly. Weve gone through very difficult periods in our politics: polarized times in the post-Reconstruction period; turn of the 2oth century; weve, of course, just had exceptionally traumatic times before the Civil War; and difficulties in the early 1800s as well. So we make no claim that this is the worst ever, but if were comparing ourselves now to the pre-Civil War period, thats not such good news, is it? What we can say is that the parties are more polarized than they have been in over a century. We can say that the Republican Party is more conservative than its been in over a century. We can get that evidence from looking at behavior within the Congress and patterns of voting, but we can also see how, in many respects, that public aligns with those polarized parties.

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Opinion: How to get fast GDP growth

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A worker builds a Ford Focus at the Ford Motor Co.'s Michigan Assembly Plant December 14, 2011 in Wayne, Michigan.

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Editor's note: Jeffrey Miron is senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the economics department at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Miron is the author of "Libertarianism, from A to Z."

Cambridge, Massachusetts (CNN) -- In a recent discussion of what his administration might accomplish, Mitt Romney claimed that "by virtue of the policies that we put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower," over a period of four years.

Is this goal attainable?

It is. Indeed, it is not that tough a task. If the United States avoids new growth-retarding policies, such as the tax hikes scheduled for January 1, the economy's natural adjustments will lower unemployment substantially. These include downward adjustments in wages, reallocation of job-seekers from slower to faster growing sectors and regions, reduced in-migration plus increased out-migration, and withdrawals from the labor force.

Jeffrey Miron

These adjustments do not always work quickly or for everyone (not every former construction worker can become a computer technician). But history suggests the adjustments do occur, as they have since the recession began. Over the next four years, they will continue to lower the unemployment rate, if not to 6%, at least near that territory.

The more important task for either presidential candidate is restoring the economy to its prerecession growth path. Real GDP has historically grown about 3% per year, and major downturns have been followed by strong recoveries. Within two to three years, therefore, output is typically "back where it would have been."

In this recession, the rapid recovery phase has so far been absent; real GDP is still well below where one would have predicted pre-2008, and with average growth under 3% since the recession ended, the gap grows larger every quarter.

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Editor's note: Jeffrey Miron is senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies in the economics department at Harvard University and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Miron is the author of "Libertarianism, from A to Z."

Cambridge, Massachusetts (CNN) -- In a recent discussion of what his administration might accomplish, Mitt Romney claimed that "by virtue of the policies that we put in place, we'd get the unemployment rate down to 6%, and perhaps a little lower," over a period of four years.

Is this goal attainable?

It is. Indeed, it is not that tough a task. If the United States avoids new growth-retarding policies, such as the tax hikes scheduled for January 1, the economy's natural adjustments will lower unemployment substantially. These include downward adjustments in wages, reallocation of job-seekers from slower to faster growing sectors and regions, reduced in-migration plus increased out-migration, and withdrawals from the labor force.

Jeffrey Miron

These adjustments do not always work quickly or for everyone (not every former construction worker can become a computer technician). But history suggests the adjustments do occur, as they have since the recession began. Over the next four years, they will continue to lower the unemployment rate, if not to 6%, at least near that territory.

The more important task for either presidential candidate is restoring the economy to its prerecession growth path. Real GDP has historically grown about 3% per year, and major downturns have been followed by strong recoveries. Within two to three years, therefore, output is typically "back where it would have been."

In this recession, the rapid recovery phase has so far been absent; real GDP is still well below where one would have predicted pre-2008, and with average growth under 3% since the recession ended, the gap grows larger every quarter.

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OXFORD, N.C. Barbara Howe is gearing up her campaign this weekend to be the next governor of North Carolina, but the Libertarian candidate is running her campaign different than most.

"There are 100 counties in North Carolina and a lot get ignored, so I think I'll visit every one and set up a 5K run," Howe said.

The three-time gubernatorial candidate plans to lead a campaign encouraging people to be more physically active, but if she wins, she wants a government that's less active.

"You don't tell people how to educate their children and how to prepare for their health care and how to plan for their lives, you protect them from people who would hurt them, but otherwise you leave them alone," she said.

Howe supporters say her campaign strategy could jumpstart her success.

"The metaphor for Barbara running in every county, trying to literally run a grassroots campaign, is an attractive way to get her name out and let voters know she is an option," said Michael Munger, who ran for governor in 2008.

This being Howe's third run for governor, she says there's a lot more at stake.

"This is an important race for the Libertarian Party because this is our ballot-access race, she said. If we don't get 2 percent of the vote, we will cease to exist as a political party in North Carolina."

Howe's final race will be the night before Election Night, when she plans to finish at the Governor's Mansion.

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OXFORD, N.C. Barbara Howe is gearing up her campaign this weekend to be the next governor of North Carolina, but the Libertarian candidate is running her campaign different than most.

"There are 100 counties in North Carolina and a lot get ignored, so I think I'll visit every one and set up a 5K run," Howe said.

The three-time gubernatorial candidate plans to lead a campaign encouraging people to be more physically active, but if she wins, she wants a government that's less active.

"You don't tell people how to educate their children and how to prepare for their health care and how to plan for their lives, you protect them from people who would hurt them, but otherwise you leave them alone," she said.

Howe supporters say her campaign strategy could jumpstart her success.

"The metaphor for Barbara running in every county, trying to literally run a grassroots campaign, is an attractive way to get her name out and let voters know she is an option," said Michael Munger, who ran for governor in 2008.

This being Howe's third run for governor, she says there's a lot more at stake.

"This is an important race for the Libertarian Party because this is our ballot-access race, she said. If we don't get 2 percent of the vote, we will cease to exist as a political party in North Carolina."

Howe's final race will be the night before Election Night, when she plans to finish at the Governor's Mansion.

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Health Care, Tax Cuts At Top Of House Republican Summer Wish List

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5/26/2012 2:02 PM ET (RTTNews) - In a memo penned by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) Friday, Republicans reps enumerated the issues that will dominate their summer congressional session. At the top of the list - extending Bush era tax cuts and repealing President Barack Obama's 2010 health care law.

"Before we leave for August, I expect to schedule a vote on legislation preventing the largest tax increase in history," Cantor wrote in the memo, placing the goal at the top of the wish list.

Although the tax cuts will most likely be blocked by the Democrat-controlled Senate, Cantor urged them to reconsider in the memo, stating, "the Senate should join us in providing this very basic level of certainty prior to November."

Repealing President Obama's health care law, making further cuts to bureaucratic "red tape" and pushing domestic energy production - calling for more drilling on public lands and easing regulations for energy companies - were also key items mentioned in the memo's summer agenda.

Most of these issues, however, will be almost necessarily be blocked in the Senate, where Democrats stand opposed to the Republican health care and regulatory stances across the board. The main thrust behind pushing these issues now is to bring them to the forefront before the August and September GOP and Democrat presidential nomination conventions.

The Republicans hope highlighting these issues will bring undecided voters to their side by appealing to the number one issue on all Americans' minds - the economy. A fight on these issues will resume after the long weekend marking Memorial Day.

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THE HOUSE AND SENATE: Beacon Hill Roll Call records the votes of local representatives and senators on roll calls from the week of May 14-18.

The Valor Act to help veterans (S 2241)

House, 154-0, approved its own version of a bill that would expand financial, housing and education benefits and many other services for veterans, active-duty military personnel and their families. The Senate has already approved a different version and the House version now goes to the Senate for consideration.

Provisions include facilitating seed money for the start-up and expansion of veteran-owned businesses; expanding eligibility for the Massachusetts Military Family Relief Fund that provides help with the cost of food, housing, utilities and medical services; requiring Massachusetts to join 42 other states in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children that makes it easier for the children of military personnel to transfer between school districts and states; and permitting cities and towns to provide a property tax exemption of up to $750 for veterans who do volunteer work in their community.

Supporters said the state should provide these additional benefits and opportunities to the thousands of Bay State veterans who have risked their lives to protect freedom.

(A "Yes" vote is for the bill.)

Rep. Kate Hogan: Yes

Senate approves health care changes (S 2260)

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A recent research study has found that the U.S. pays approximately $8,000 per capita for health care, according to 2009 figures reported by health reform foundation The Commonwealth Fund, making the U.S. No. 1 in health care spending among developed nations.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ranks the U.S. as spending 60 percent more than Switzerland, Canada, Germany, France and Japan on hospital services and about two and a half times more than the average spending on ambulatory care providers, such as physicians and dentists in their quality of care indicators.

The higher prices we pay for health care and perhaps our greater use of expensive technology are the more likely explanations for high health spending in the U.S, said David Squires, The Commonwealth Funds senior research associate, in a press release.

Although the U.S. spends the most on health care, this does not necessarily mean a clean bill of health for Americans.

According to The Commonwealth Fund, Americans now fare the worst in terms of preventable asthma fatalities among patients ages 5 to 39. The country also ranks poorly, alongside Germany, in diabetes-related amputations.

The life expectancy in the U.S. is also below the OECD country average of 80 years old. The OECD also reports the U.S. is below average in other quality of life rates such as infant mortality and potential years of life lost.

It is a common assumption that Americans get more health care services than people in other countries, but in fact we do not go to the doctor or the hospital as often, Squires said.

The average American patients hospital visit costs the health care system roughly $18,000. Similar care for a Canadian patient comes to $13,000; in other countries like Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany, it dips below $10,000, according to the OECD.

Although people from Sweden and the U.S. share about the same level of income, the U.S. spends $3,000 per person per year more than the Swedes.

Pharmaceutical prices are another place where the U.S. comes out on top in terms of spending. A recent OECD study of the 50 best-selling prescription drugs found that U.S. pharmaceutical prices were at least 60 percent higher than those in five large European countries in 2007.

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May isn't in the books yet, but three health-care stocks have shot to the stratosphere. Unsurprisingly, the month's top gainers are all from the biotech space, but not all are small-cap companies. Let's take a moment to reflect on their dramatic moves, and which one has the most room to keep running, over the holiday weekend.

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Obesity drug makers have been on a tear, as it appears the FDA is softening its hard-line stance against a lifestyle drug who's counterpart, diet and exercise, has few adverse effects. Arena has been the biggest winner, but competitor Vivus (Nasdaq: VVUS) is up 154% while Orexigen (Nasdaq: OREX) has seen a 113% gain year-to-date. All three received rejections from the FDA, but on their second go-round both Arena and Vivus sailed past their advisory panels with 18-4 and 20-2 recommendations for approval, respectively. Vivus' approval date was pushed back three months as the company had to file a new risk mitigation strategy giving Arena a chance to get to market first. However, a few short months head start shouldn't determine the winner. That will come down to which drug doctors prefer prescribing given their efficacy and side effects.

Vertex is on a roll. It seemed just as investors grew concerned the sun was already setting on its blockbuster Hepatitis C drug Incivek, thanks to advanced next-gen drugs close to approval like Gilead's, Vertex showed it was no one-trick pony. By combing approved cystic fibrosis treatment Kalydeco with experimental drug VX-809, Vertex was able to expand its use from a mutation seen in 4% of CF patients to one in half and report a successful phase 2 trial. Kalydeco is the only drug that treats the underlying condition, and unlike Hepatitis C, cystic fibrosis patients aren't cured by taking the drug, creating a sustainable revenue stream. Now, VX-809 has a long way before possible approval, but investors' enthusiasm is not misplaced about this potential blockbuster.

Finally Xenoport, which has tumbled as much as 68% since getting Horizant approved, has seen a recent resurgence. The restless leg syndrome drug failed to launch as expected, leading to infighting between Xenoport and partner GlaxoSmithKline. Investors also got caught up in the first drug approval enthusiasm, neglecting the fact that Horizant was going up against cheap generic competition, but the pendulum may have swung too far the other way. The company is inching closer to profitability and has a sparkling balance sheet with $85 million in net cash and less than $8 million in cash burn the past 12 months. It also recently filed an investigational NDA for a potential multiple sclerosis treatment, although investors should not assign much value to that drug until it progresses further.

While all three of these stocks have room to run, Arena is the likeliest winner if it gets FDA approval, but that is easier said than done, and it faces a tough competitor in Vivus. I'm always leery of investing in small-cap biotechs like Xenoport struggling to launch a drug and running higher on no news. Vertex is the safest play of the three. It is a cash cow with approved drugs and a pipeline filled with phase 2 candidates, not to mention the chance to completely dominate the CF market. However, investors may want to wait for a pullback before picking up shares.

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Cancer may require simpler genetic mutations than previously thought

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ScienceDaily (May 25, 2012) Chromosomal deletions in DNA often involve just one of two gene copies inherited from either parent. But scientists haven't known how a deletion in one gene from one parent, called a "hemizygous" deletion, can contribute to cancer.

A research team led by Stephen Elledge, a professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and his post-doctoral fellow Nicole Solimini, has now provided an answer. The most common hemizygous deletions in cancer, their research shows, involve a variety of tumor suppressing genes called STOP genes (suppressors of tumorigenesis and proliferation) that scatter randomly throughout the genome, but that sometimes cluster in the same place on a chromosome. And these clusters, said Elledge, who is also a professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, tend to be deleted as a group. "Eliminating the cluster gives a bigger bang for the deletion buck," he said.

This finding is especially interesting in light of the two-hit model of cancer formation, which holds that both copies of a recessive gene need to be inactivated to trigger a biological effect. Thus the loss of a single tumor suppressor copy should have little or no influence on tumor cell proliferation because the remaining copy located on the other chromosome is there to pick up the slack.

Elledge's research points to a different hypothesis, namely that STOP genes in a hemizygous deletion aren't recessive but are instead haploinsufficient, meaning that they depend on two copies to function normally. "If a tumor suppressor is haploinsufficient, then a single gene copy lacks the potency needed to fully restrain tumorigenesis," Elledge explained, who is also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. "So by removing clusters of haploinsufficient genes all at once, the cancer cell immediately propels its growth forward without having to wait for the other copies to also be lost."

Angelika Amon, a professor of biology at the Massachusetts of Technology, said she's surprised by the findings. "We've known from a lot of human syndromes that haploinsufficiency is widespread in the development of complex multicellular organisms," she said. "But these data show it's also critical for individual cells and cell proliferation."

The results also offer a different take on the two-hit model in carcinogenesis, Amon said. Being remarkably unstable, cancer cells can delete gene copies at every turn of the corner. If the loss of a single tumor suppressor copy provides no survival advantage for the tumor, then the tumor has no incentive to retain the cell with that deletion. But if the loss of that copy boosts proliferation, then the probability of a second hit later is greatly increased. "So haploinsufficiency is a way for the cancer cell to dramatically accelerate the acquisition of growth beneficial mutations," Amon said.

In other words, all it takes is a 50 percent reduction in gene activity for a cancer cell to grow. "That tells us it's a lot easier to get cancer than we might have hoped," Amon said.

According to Elledge, the number of hemizygotic deletions averages roughly six per tumor, with some tumors -- breast and pancreatic, for instance -- averaging up to ten. Each deletion involves 25 to 40 genes, many of them STOP genes, but also a few GO genes (growth enhancers and oncogenes) that enhance proliferation. That the STOP genes substantially outnumber their GO counterparts is important, Elledge explained, because it means cancer cells can tilt scales toward proliferation without also compromising it at the same time.

"The data reveal a lot of haploinsufficient players that have small effects individually, but large effects in combination," Elledge said. "Unfortunately, it's not easy to see how to take advantage of that chemotherapeutically."

What's important about the results, he emphasized, is that they open up new views on how tumors evolve. Moreso, they underscore the importance of proliferation as a fundamental feature of tumor growth, he added.

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Internet freedom advocates are finding creative ways to get their message out to the masses.

Source: http://www.dccomics.comThe latest unique effort comes from Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian and online advocacy group Fight for the Future. Their plan: a "Bat-Signal for the Internet." According to Forbes, once it launches next month it will provide participating website administrators with code they can add to their sites that can be triggered in the case of a freedom-infringing episode.

The code will add to the sites widgets or banners that ask users to do things like call politicians or boycott companies. It supposedly even could trigger another blackout similar to the one that occurred in January when Google, Wikipedia, Craigslist and other sites went dark and posted messages in protest of SOPA.

Legislation such as SOPA, PIPA, and CISPA, which threaten the freedom of the Internet, seem to be popping up like a game of Whac-a-Mole and squashing them means online advocates rallying their followers. This is apparently another way to do it.

"People who wish to be tapped can see, 'Oh look, the Bat-Signal is up. Time to do something,'" said Ohanian. "Whatever website you own, this is a way for you to be notified if something comes up and take some basic actions ... If we aggregate everyone thats doing it, the numbers start exploding."

According to Forbes, Fight for the Future and Ohanian have been focused most recently on defeating CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act. The bill, which was passed in the House of Representatives last month, aims to protect the U.S. from cyber terrorism and other online attacks. One of two versions of the bill will likely come up for a vote in the Senate early next month.

The problem with CISPA is it includes a provision that would let companies share users' private data with government agencies, and not just regarding threats of cyber attacks; companies will now be able to share users' private data in the event of "computer crime," exploitation of minors, and to protect individuals from "the danger of death or serious bodily harm."

This broad definition has privacy watchdogs up in arms.

Rainey Reitman, activism director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is an outspoken contributor to the CISPA debate. In a radio debate last month, Reitman said that while CISPA proponents employ rhetoric that the bill will "fend off a cyber Pearl Harbor," what they're really doing is inciting fears of security threats when, in fact, such concerns have existed for years. "I do think there is a need for companies to get more information from the government in a timely fashion. The problem that arises with CISPA is that it does so much more than that," she said.

"It also opens the floodgates for companies to intercept communications of everyday Internet users and pass unredacted personal information to the governments," she said, adding that several amendments to the bill would have addressed such concerns but they never made it to the House floor for a vote.

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Next stop for wounded vets: Freedom Station

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A train station is where passengers begin a journey, or change direction. For the past year, Freedom Station has been a place where San Diego sailors and Marines with broken bodies start their journey to a new life.

It looks much like many apartment complexes in old San Diego neighborhoods. A handful of cottages circle a courtyard.

But every detail is ready to pass a drill instructors inspection. The grass is military-style neat. There is a white picket fence in front of each door.

And the residents, most in their 20s, arent ordinary. Josue Barron is missing a leg above the knee, and one eye is glass and bears the emblem of his infantry unit 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. Timothy Read also lost part of a leg, and one wrist bears scars where doctors stitched it back on after a roadside bomb blast.

Barron likes to sit on the small porch of his cottage in the afternoons. Other residents call out greetings as they come home from their doctors appointments.

Being combat wounded, with all these guys here, I felt comfortable. If I was living in any other neighborhood, I wouldnt be able to talk to my neighbors because they have nothing in common with me, said Barron, 22, who lives with his wife and their dog in the small house while waiting for his medical discharge.

Here, we all are transitioning, and we all have our own demons, said David Smith, 23, an injured Marine veteran who was one of Freedom Stations first residents. But were all doing it together, so its easier.

Operated by a grass roots San Diego nonprofit group, Freedom Station officially opened one year ago, on Memorial Day weekend.

Since that time, the quiet complex has been home to 15 injured service members, who were once resident patients at San Diego Naval Medical Center in Balboa Park. An additional 23 are on a waiting list.

Sandy Lehmkuhler was volunteering at the Navy hospital, one of the militarys national centers for amputee care, when she got the idea.

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25-05-2012 10:17 Reduce Energy Bills Up To 70% With The Hog Hearth® ECO System The Hog Hearth® ECO System is the most efficient heating system available. The Hog Hearth® averages less than 65 watts per crate providing the perfect surface temperature for the newborn piglet. No heat lamps are necessary with the Hog Hearth® heat mat, even at farrowing time. Please visit us @

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Just in time for summer, we present the list of top 10 beaches across the USA. Dr. Beach, aka. Stephen P. Leatherman, a professor at Florida International University, compiles his annual rankings of beaches from coast to coast - and coast to coast (East, West, Gulf and Hawaiian). Click on the slide show to see which made the top 10.

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