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"Irene" punch in Florida. Right now, Irene this tropical storm in the Atlantic, but it could become a hurricane on Thursday or Friday, when it is expected to hit Florida. Although the drafters could not predict the exact path of the storm, the whole peninsula should be on guard.

Today, the storm could hit Haiti-which has not yet recovered from the earthquake in 2010 and this past summer storms of rain and mud slides. The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Cuba also are Irene in the immediate path.

Forecasters give useful advice to someone in or near the storm's path: implement an emergency plan to keep you, your family and your property safe. Learn more about disaster recovery.

Medical records violated security feature? Of course, no one wanted to happen, but is anyone really surprised that online medical records for 300 thousand patients in California were not properly protected from prying eyes? Social security numbers, insurance information, and even details of medical conditions and treatments of patients can be viewed by anyone with an Internet connection.

Protecting your privacy online is not easy. Now it's even harder with hospitals and doctors offices, trying to meet the new rules for electronic health records. A potential security threat was not new, and this latest incident showed how vulnerable can be some records. In the hands of these records can be used to blackmail and theft of personal data, not to speak of embarrassment to have others know the private, intimate details of your life. Protect yourself by:

Get a current copy of your doctor HIPPA privacy policiesAsking doctor and other health professionals about the guarantees and protection measures, which they use to protect your online recordsFiling a complaint with the United States Department of health social services & and takes measures to prevent and combat identity theft as soon as you feel that your entry was received without your permissionmore problems for social security. Social Security disability program moves to insolvency as aging baby boomers and laid-off workers with disabilities buzz for benefits. New estimates of Congress indicates that the program will use the money to the year 2017. More than 3 million people are expected to gain an advantage in this year-700 000 more applications than in 2008.

Disability benefits are designed to help employees who become disabled and cannot work. Unlike other workers, they can get full social security benefits to now-retirement age of 65 (or before they turn 62 years when they can get partial benefits). Thus, according to one government official working on the verge of taking shots at the disability allowance and obviously have success.

Of course nobody says that workers with disabilities should not receive the benefits of the program is intended for guidance. But if the workers slipping in through the cracks and receive benefits that they really don't deserve, don't these cracks are filled? As the nation struggles with its debt and budget, where we get billions of dollars needed to shore up the program to survive past 2017?

Rapper arrested after organizing a flash mob. "Machine gun" Kelly, a popular rap musician, was arrested for disorderly conduct over the weekend in a shopping mall in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. He was arrested after he organized a flash mob via Twitter meet up at the Mall. He and the other two were on the table to the second history of the Mall, and when he refused to get down, he was arrested.

Reported violence in criminal activities, but news reports say "chaotic" and "chaos", and video support. In July, one city Cleveland area teen curfew curb recent phenomena that sometimes includes Flash mob-crime-and led legislators in Philadelphia, New York and other cities to take similar measures.

Of course, not all flash-mobs were deliberately disruptive or violence, but this is understandable for law enforcement agencies to take reasonable steps to protect the general public and to keep things from getting out of control. How do you think?

Not Mama. " In an apparent attempt to finance its propensity for prescription drugs Jessica Marie beer offered to sell her son for $ 2000. She made a proposal, James and Betty Gardner, a couple who helped her and her son, they lived with Gardner for several years, obtaining food and financial assistance.

Today, the judge ordered the boy's upbringing, even though Gardner offered to care for them. The judge refused to give them custody of the child abuse allegation against them in 2005, they are adoptive parents of the other two children.

On top of it the morally reprehensible acts beer faces criminal charges in the sale of parental rights, which is 60 days ' imprisonment and a fine of $ 500. She also is charged with violation of probation, which could mean more jail time.

Regardless of what we can only hope that the beer gets the help she needs, from her drug addiction, and one day, healthy and capable returned with her son.

Here are some other news you can read about:

New rules for the protection of air passengers take effect this week
Recession is "Unlikely", but investors are Scared
Preacher accused of raping three women
Police retract report 7-death accident state fair
Large area near the Japanese reactors, which would be outside the bounds of the

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