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Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died Monday after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, her company said on its website. She was 61.

Due to the growing list of brands disclosing that they have been compromised as a result of this breach, I’m going to go ahead and tag this as a massive breach. And I only expect it to get bigger as more announcements come out from Epsilon customers. Last night we reported on a breach at marketing services provider, Epsilon, the world’s largest permission-based email marketing provider. Initially we wrote that the breach had affected Kroger, the nation's largest traditional grocery retailer. There is a list of companies at the link (but I don't know if that is going to be...

President Obama secured another major legislative victory Wednesday with the Senate ratification of a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. Vice President Biden presided over the Senate's 71-26 vote with Secretary Hillary Clinton in attendance.

I am new to the world of MacBook and while I love it, I don't really like downloading my photos from my Nikon D60 with IPhoto. The process to be able to finish them in Photoshop is tedious (at least as far as I can tell--maybe there is a better way that I don't know about!). Or, maybe there is a better software. I was working with Photoshop 7, so I am also having to learn the new things of CS5 too (altho I'm loving everything except the lack of lighting effects) so far. But, I would really like to...

Baltimore police were swarming John Hopkins Hospital, where there were reports a person has been shot and that a man has taken a hostage on the eighth floor of one of the buildings, according to authorities and correspondence over the police radio.

I'm sorry, I can't tell if it's ok to excerpt any of it, but basically it's a video with an article about a whole selection of idiots, one a volunteer meter man who got angry and lashed out and a woman and her husband who caught it on video and want to sue (over what damages I cannot imagine).

WEST PALM BEACH — The FBI is investigating Monday evening's bomb threat at Palm Beach International Airport, which shut down part of the airport for an hour and prompted the search of a New York-bound JetBlue plane.

Gunmen opened fire on a Greyhound bus traveling on I-95 Sunday night, the second shooting on the highway in South Florida in the past two weeks.

At Bank of America Corp. next year, how much employees make will determine how much they pay for health insurance. The Charlotte bank has been informing its U.S. employees about the new approach, which means lower-paid workers will pay less and higher-paid ones will pay more for their coverage in 2011. Employees select their health care plans for next year in October.

Mail box bombs found Tuesday in Rusk County and in Longview prompted the ATF and U.S. Postal Inspection Service to raise to $25,000 the reward leading to arrest and conviction of the suspect in a rash of mail box bombings in East Texas. With a pipe bomb-like device discovered in a residential home's mail box at Lake Cherokee around noon on Tuesday, another found in a bank of collection boxes at a business address and a similar device left not in a mail box at all but at a business site in Tyler on Monday, the perpetrator may be changing...

I hope this won't get me in trouble, and I'm not sure I put this in the right place, but I know that Freepers are the smartest people on earth and I am in need of tech help. I have a HP B8350 printer that suddenly is telling me there is a problem with the cartridges. Initially it said the tri-color cartridge had a problem and suggested I take it out and put it back in and/or replace it. I did both of those things, and it still will not print (just continues to give me an error window when...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Can't lose weight on a low-fat diet? Maybe you need to cut carbs instead, and a new genetic test may point the way, maker Interleukin Genetics Inc reported on Wednesday. The small study of about 140 overweight or obese women showed that those on diets "appropriate" for their genetic makeup lost more weight than those on less appropriate diets, researchers told an American Heart Association meeting.

WASHINGTON - The Humane Society of the United States is asking President Barack Obama and Congress to require everyone who raises dogs and cats to be regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, documents show. HSUS also is asking for the creation of an animal protection division within the U.S. Department of Justice that is "similar to the Civil Rights Division, to ensure strong enforcement of federal animal protection laws," thus granting animals rights similar to humans. HSUS also calls for a new position of animal protection liaison in the White House.

The airport safety delayed an Air France flight this evening before departring for Paris immediately after the company received a bomb threat over the phone at the airport of Ezeiza.

I hope I'm doing this right! I attended the Boca Raton Florida Tea Party today and took lots of pictures. I know the media is not going to covering these (didn't see a single reporter there).

Hypothetical… A salesman for Company X - which makes widgets - has a quota of $1 million in sales per year. His compensation is $50,000 per year base salary plus 10% of everything he makes over quota. The salesman busts his rear all year, working the phones and hopping on airplanes. He does well, bringing in $2 million in sales, doubling his quota. His compensation is $150,000 that year. Additionally, those on his work support team - back office, administration, etc - would also likely share in that success. I suspect few in America would have a problem with that...

I have had emails to 2 of my lists recently posting the same thing about Yahoo using web beacons. It makes it sound pretty concerning, saying they are tracking you where ever you go on the internet if you use any yahoo groups. I did a search, but couldn't find anything recent even on snopes. Anyone know what these are? Are they something to be concerned about? I tend to be skeptical, but still, I'd like to make sure. In part it says:Do you belong to any Yahoo groups because Yahoo is Tracking Group Members If you belong to ANY...

Question of the Day for Wednesday, Oct. 1: Starting today, most dogs and cats in the city of Los Angeles must be spay/neutered by the time they are 4 months old.

I hope I am posting this correctly, I've never done one of these before, but it's really important. Please PLEASE contact your representative and senator NOW about the bill that they are working on. I know that if they have to pass this sort of legislation, I do NOT want any of that money to go to anything like ACORN etc. I know we all feel that we don't have much of a voice, but if we ALL contact our own reps, we may find that they will listen. If we don't do it, they certainly won't hear us. It's...

I don't know if I'm posting this correctly, but I thought everyone should get a load of this video. Typical Obama supporter?