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Yep: Federal deficit officially tops $1 trillion for the fourth time

Hot Air

by Erika Johnsen

September 11, 2012

Just in case there was any doubt in anyone's mind - the Congressional Budget Office has released their monthly report, and with the government's fiscal year set to end on September 30th, they've officially announced that we'll come in with an above-trillion dollar deficit for the fourth year running.

Yep, The TSA Is Definitely Stealing iPads

gizmodo.com

October 2, 2012

An ABC investigation has found what you might have suspected all along; if you leave your iPad with airport security, a TSA agent might just keep it for himself.

The investigators went to 10 airports and put iPads through the screening machines in the little plastic containers, and then didn't claim them just to see what would happen. Nine out of ten iPads were immediately returned to their owner, but as you'll see in the video below, one TSA dirtbag walked away with the iPad. ABC filmed the theft and traced the iPad to the home of the crook. You almost feel bad for the jerk who stole the iPad when Brian Ross shows up at his house. Then you remember that this criminal is also in charge of making sure your plane doesn't get bombed by a terrorist.

Yelm woman allegedly gives birth to baby at home to avoid CPS involvement

yelmonline.com

August 19, 2013

A Yelm woman allegedly addicted to meth gave birth to baby at home to avoid alerting Child Protection Services to the baby's birth.

The Thurston County Sheriff's Office received a tip from CPS Aug. 13 at 6:47 a.m. that a 31-year-old woman may have given birth at her home "without required medical care in an attempt to keep CPS from taking her baby into protective custody," according to a press release from the sheriff's department.

Yellowstone River Closed after Massive Fish Die-off

universalfreepress.com

August 20, 2016

Officials of the Montana Fish and Wildlife Agency have closed over 180-miles of the Yellowstone River and hundreds of miles of other waterways. The move came following a massive fish die-off that saw thousands of fish killed.

Fishing guides and rafting operators who run businesses along the river said the move could be catastrophic to the area's sizable outdoor industry, which depends heavily on the busy summer season. One official said the closure could last for months if river conditions don't improve and fish keep dying. The closure extends to hundreds of miles of waterways that feed into the Yellowstone, including the Boulder, Shields and Stillwater rivers.

Yeast cells genetically modified to create morphine-like painkiller

theguardian.com

by Emily Mobley

August 13, 2015

Scientists have genetically modified yeast cells to make them churn out painkillers that are normally harvested from opium poppies. The procedure raises hopes for a biological manufacturing route that slashes the time it takes to make the valuable drug.

Writing in the journal Science, her team describes how they took 23 genes from plants, bacteria and rats, to equip the yeast with the enzymes they needed to convert sugar into the drug which blocks pain receptors in the brain. "You can think of it as an assembly line process," Smolke said. "It starts with sugar which gets broken down, then begins to get built up into more complex molecules." Smolke's study demonstrates that it is possible to replace the farm-to-factory route with engineered yeast. But the new procedure faces its own hurdles: to make one dose of painkiller would take 20,000 litres of genetically modified yeast cells.

Years of caution about peanut allergy fails to save teen who died at Camp Sacramento

sacbee.com

by Sam Stanton, Anita Creamer and Bill Lindelof

July 30, 2013

Like most children with a food allergy, Natalie Giorgi was raised with a keen understanding of how careful she had to be.

At 13, she knew that her peanut allergy could be deadly, and her parents were exceedingly cautious about what she ate. "She never put any dessert or anything that was questionable into her mouth without consulting someone," said Augusta Brothers, a family friend. But Friday night, years of caution couldn't save her.

Yakima woman charged with abuse after malnourished twins are found

yakimaherald.com

by Donald W. Meyers

February 25, 2015

Two 8-year-old twins who Yakima police say were so malnourished that they weighed less than 44 pounds each are recovering, while their mother remains jailed on multiple abuse charges.

Police said the girls told them they'd been abused, starved and locked in a bedroom at their home in the 300 block of North Ninth Street before relatives took them and called authorities Feb. 6. "In my 13 years of law enforcement experience, I have not observed children so severely malnourished," Yakima Detective Michael Durbin wrote in an affidavit.

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

theguardian.com

by Glenn Greenwald

August 1, 2013

XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data, NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches, Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history

A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet. The latest revelations will add to the intense public and congressional debate around the extent of NSA surveillance programs. They come as senior intelligence officials testify to the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, releasing classified documents in response to the Guardian's earlier stories on bulk collection of phone records and Fisa surveillance court oversight.

xkcd: T-Cells

xkcd.com

August 10, 2011

What's the deal with this Leukemia trial?

X-ray technician suspended for refusing hepatitis vaccine

cbc.ca

by Shane Fowler

June 7, 2013

Some people in Doaktown are fighting the suspension of the community's X-ray technician, who refused to get a hepatitis B vaccination.

Janet Hughes says she previously accepted mandatory vaccines for measles, tetanus and whooping cough. But she refused the hepatitis B injection because she believes she was infected with hepatitis C when she was younger and feared the vaccine might cause a negative reaction. New Brunswick's Horizon Health Network suspended her without pay three months ago. Hughes contends it's a human rights issue.

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