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Although Apple issued a patch late Friday afternoon, the security firm warns that users of the operating system still remain vulnerable to an "extremely critical" security flaw. By George V. Hulme Security firm Secunia warned Apple Computer users this past weekend that they remain at risk to attack even if they apply a patch Apple published Friday to fill a security hole. "It is still possible to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable user's system, just as easy as before Apple issued Friday's security update for Mac OS X," Secunia's security advisory states.

BLUE ASH - Dressed in camouflage, their skin smeared with dark paint, the young warriors lie in wait in bushes for hours before dawn to ambush an opponent leaving for school. Blue Ash Police Officer Michael Bray checks out a homemade soft-dart gun at police headquarters. On the table are confiscated homemade and commercially produced Nerf dart guns and two-way radios. The Cincinnati Enquirer/GLENN HARTONG With an eye on a $1,600 prize for the last team standing, they track one another at work, baseball games, even church youth gatherings, looking for a "kill." They hire informants to spy, and friends...

Businesses wrestle with concealed weapon law By Erika D. Smith Beacon Journal staff writer APRIL 8 is a high noon of sorts for Akron-area businesses. That's the first day Ohioans can apply to carry a concealed weapon, although it will take another 45 days for anyone to get a license to pack heat legally. In the meantime, business owners who want to keep guns out of their offices and shops should start thinking about posting signs. Under the state's new concealed carry law, that's the only way employers can prohibit them. ``Every client that I've spoken to has asked, `How...

Man killed as bush crashes into home One man was killed and seven people were injured when a double-decker bus ploughed into the side of a bungalow. The elderly occupants of the house escaped uninjured after the vehicle careered into the property off Walker Street, Hull. A Humberside Police spokeswoman said the injured passengers were taken to Hull Royal Infirmary and treated for cuts and bruises. She added: "We were informed that a double-decker bus had gone into the side of a bungalow. "There are several casualties on the bus. "Two people in the bungalow, a husband and wife both...

Albert, our 12 year old Standard Schnauzer, has been in declining health since being diagnosed with cancer in December. Over the last few days his breathing has become very labored and he can no longer control his bladder. Later this morning we will be having him put to sleep. This is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I won't ask my fellow freepers to pray for Albert, because all dogs go to heaven and this one will be on the express route. I will ask my fellow freepers to pray for my wife and I and to...

South Park launched its eighth season this week with an episode that parodied Japanese anime, mocked the crackdown on "indecency," and showed a kid getting a ninja throwing star stuck in his eye. At this point, Trey Parker and Matt Stone's cartoon is almost as old as its boy protagonists, but it hasn't lost its impudent appeal. That is an impressive achievement, all the more so now that the show has withstood two blows that might have sunk a lesser program: popularity and respectability. The popularity came quickly after the cartoon's debut, stuck around for a year or two, then...

Our stock market guy at my office just told me that the buzz on Wall Street is that the National Guard has just been ordered to Times Square and Penn Station. This rumor accounts for the current dip in the Dow, etc.

Here's the deal. I've decided to upgrade the family shotgun. Currently I have an old Remington Model 11 which is actually a duck gun. I've got a number of potent handguns. What I would like to do, is get a shotgun that can be used for home defense and also take to a 3 gun match. It seems most people are using the automatic Benellis, etc for 3 gun, but at 700+, they are out of my budget range. The gun show is this weekend, I've got a budget of about $500, what would you buy? Right now, I'm leaning...

<p>Perry, Ia. - U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina said Friday night that billboards that will soon sprout up near the Des Moines airport attacking his record are evidence that he is doing better in the Democratic race for president than some portray.</p>

Justice Turned Upside Down 12 over 6. Crime is not only a complete disavowal of the social contract, but also a commandeering of the intended victim's person and liberty. If the individual's dignity lies in the fact that he is a moral agent engaging in actions of his own will, in free exchange with others, then crime always violates the victim's dignity. It is, in fact, an act of enslavement. Your wallet, your purse, your car, may not be worth your life, but your dignity is; and if it is not worth fighting for, it can hardly be said to...

<p>Early last Oct. 22, Conrad Johnson got up early, kissed his wife Denise and two sons goodbye and went off to his job as bus driver for Montgomery County, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C. As he walked out the door, his wife called out to him her daily warning: "Be careful!"</p>

<p>It must have seemed like a good idea. Typical of most liberals, slamming any conservative must seem like a good idea.</p> <p>In Newsweek today, Alter spilled the beans on conservative morals guru, William Bennett.</p> <p>Bennett has been GAMBLING. Can you believe it, GAMBLING. I doubt it was a well-kept secret. Alter must have thought it would present Bennett as a complete hypocrite. After all, Bennett is a morals guru.</p>

Community leaders in Bennettsville, S.C., listen to U.S. Sen. John Edwards during a two-day swing through the state in his bid for the Democratic nomination for president.

Les Nations unies auront "un rôle vital à jouer" dans la reconstruction de l'Irak, a déclaré mardi le président américain George W. Bush à l'issue d'un sommet avec le Premier ministre britannique Tony Blair au chateau de Hillsborough, près de Belfast (Irlande du Nord).

The Reason Why by George McGovern Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. --Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (in the Crimean War) Thanks to the most crudely partisan decision in the history of the Supreme Court, the nation has been given a President of painfully limited wisdom and compassion and lacking any sense of the nation's true greatness. Appearing to enjoy his role as Commander in Chief of the armed forces above all other functions of his office, and unchecked by a seemingly timid Congress, a compliant Supreme Court, a largely subservient...

WASHINGTON - Sen. John Edwards (news, bio, voting record), one of the first Democrats to enter the 2004 presidential race, said Tuesday his campaign raised about $7.4 million in the first three months of this year. The total was likely to put Edwards among fund-raising front-runners in what is now a nine-way competition for the Democratic nomination. Other hopefuls planned to announce their first-quarter totals in coming days. The North Carolina senator has crisscrossed the country for months, developing a national network of volunteer fund-raisers and holding dozens of fund-raising events, including stops in Democratic donor hot spots New York,...

PORCINE provocateur Michael Moore is howling that the Oscars are fixed. Moore - whose popular anti-gun movie "Bowling for Columbine" has been nominated in the Best Documentary category - is lashing out at Sony Pictures Classics for allegedly rigging the contest so he's destined to lose. The wide-bottomed windbag claims Sony, which is distributing rival documentary prize contender "Winged Migration," a boring French bird flick, is exploiting Academy rules to ensure "Columbine" strikes out. The Academy requires that all voters in the documentary category must prove that they've seen every film nominated. As a result, fewer than 400 of the...

By JOE ARYARATNAM, Associated Press Writer JAFFNA, Sri Lanka - Four male government soldiers and three female Tamil Tiger rebels had a fistfight Wednesday after they disagreed whether the women fighters should be allowed to wear belts to keep their pants up. Though the government and insurgents agreed to a truce in February last year, a simmering dispute over women's belts has intensified recently and threatens to buckle the road to peace. The army has banned female guerrilla fighters from wearing belts while inside military-controlled territory, saying that belts identify the women as rebels and can hold small arms such...

Lord Woolf, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, has decreed that burglars should go to jail only in the most extreme circumstances. First-time domestic burglars and even offenders who most people would consider serious will never be jailed under new guidelines. Lord Woolf's job is to inject consistency into sentencing but the principal reason behind these latest directions is that the prisons are so full that the Government and the judicial authorities are desperate to cut the numbers. This matters more to Lord Woolf than to most senior judges because he was the author of a seminal report...

Fodor's is the publisher of all the travel guides and has a pretty nice site. Their talk section provides a lot of good inside info for trips. It appears some lefties have been hitting their poll. It's time for a Freepin'. Who would you rather sit next to on a plane? Oprah Eminem Susan Sarandon Jennifer Lopez President Bush John Waters Shania TwainVote Here