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Thursday, April 4, 2013

APNewsBreak: Hillary Clinton book expected in 2014

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses the Vital Voices Global Partnership 2013 Global Leadership Awards gala at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

NEW YORK (AP) ? So what does it all mean?

Hillary Rodham Clinton has a deal for a memoir and policy book about her years in the Obama administration, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press. The book has yet to be titled and is tentatively scheduled for June 2014, in time for the summer reading season and for the midterm elections, when a promotional tour could easily blend with Democratic efforts work to recapture the House.

The former secretary of state's itinerary will be closely scrutinized for any signs she may run for president in 2016 ? any book tour events in early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina would receive broad attention.

But her book will likely be anticipated on several levels ? as a possible signal of a presidential run; as the latest chronicle of one of the most eventful public lives of the past quarter-century; as the continuation of a tradition of secretary of state memoirs that includes Dean Acheson's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Present at the Creation" and works by Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and Clinton's immediate predecessor, Condoleezza Rice.

"Hillary Clinton's extraordinary public service has given her a unique perspective on recent history and the challenges we face," Jonathan Karp, president and publisher of the Simon & Schuster Publishing Group and the book's editor, said in a statement Thursday. "This will be the ultimate book for people who are interested in world affairs and America's place in the world today."

Financial terms were not disclosed. Clinton reportedly received $8 million for the 2003 memoir, "Living History," also published by Simon & Schuster. As with "Living History," Clinton was represented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, who has handled deals for President Barack Obama and Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton. Karp previously served as editor for another Barnett client, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and his memoir "True Compass."

Hillary Clinton, 65, stepped down as secretary of state earlier this year after serving throughout Obama's first term. Polls indicate she would be a leading contender for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but she has yet to announce a decision. Clinton was defeated by Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

According to Simon & Schuster, Clinton will write about everything from the killing of Osama bin Laden and the Arab Spring to China and climate change. She "will share her views as to what it takes for the United States to secure and sustain prosperity and global leadership. Throughout, Secretary Clinton will offer vivid personal anecdotes and memories of her collaboration with President Obama and his national security team, as well as her engagement with leaders around the world."

Clinton, who already has started writing the book, was often praised as a hard-working and effective secretary of state. But it's unclear whether she will cover one of the bleakest events of the past four years ? the attack last fall against the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead and led to widespread criticism of security procedures and allegations by Republicans of an election-year cover-up of an act of terrorism.

Simon & Schuster's announcement mentions the 2011 overthrow of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, but not the Benghazi attack. The publisher did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the attack.

The book will apparently stick to her time as secretary of state and not cover the years immediately following her 2003 memoir, when she was re-elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 and ran for president in 2008, an intense and sometimes bitter campaign that led to widespread reports of animosity between Clinton and Obama.

A person familiar with the book said that Clinton does not plan to write about the 2008 campaign or any possible future runs. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the book and requested anonymity to discuss it.

Clinton is a well-established author. Her "Living History" was a million-seller that was highly publicized, if only for her take on her husband's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Her other books, all from Simon & Schuster and all released while she was the first lady, include her best-seller about raising children, "It Takes a Village"; "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets"; and "An Invitation to the White House: At Home With History."

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Associated Press writer Ken Thomas in Washington contributed to this report.

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Google Opens Up Compute Engine To All Developers Who Buy Its $400/Month Gold Support Package, Drops Instance Prices By 4%

At last year’s Google I/O developer conference, Google launched Compute Engine, a cloud computing platform that allows developers to run their apps on Linux virtual machines hosted on Google’s massive infrastructure. This was a limited launch, however, and developers had to either get an invitation or go through Google’s sales teams to get access to this service. Starting today, developers who subscribe to Google’s $400 per month Gold Support package with 24/7 phone support can access Compute Engine without the need to talk to sales or an invitation. New Pricing The support package, of course, only gives developers the ability to use Compute Engine; they will still have to pay the usual usage-based fees to access the infrastructure. The good news is that with today’s announcement, Google is also dropping all of its instance prices by 4 percent (that’s after it already dropped storage prices by 20 percent last November). Pricing now starts at $0.132 per hour for the smallest virtual machine and currently tops out at $1.211 per hour for an eight-core machine with 52GB of memory and two 1,770GB hard drives (prices in Europe are somewhat higher). New Features Google is also adding a few new features and instance types to Compute Engine today. Developers can now, for example, use diskless versions of the standard instance types. Google also today introduced an improved administration console, and developers can now boot from persistent disks mounted as the root file system. Also new are two additional zones in Europe, which will “provide lower latency and higher performance for our European customers.” You can read more about these feature updates here. Given Google’s infrastructure, Google’s Compute Engine has the potential to become one of Amazon’s strongest competitors in the cloud computing space, though Amazon currently offers a far wider range of services than Google. Chances are we will hear quite a bit more about Compute Engine at this year’s I/O, which is just a few weeks away, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Google is just using the $400 per month support package right now to ensure that it can scale the service once it opens up Compute Engine for everybody.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Ergo launches the GoNote Mini, a 7-inch Android tablet / netbook hybrid, we go hands-on

We first encountered Ergo Electronics at last year's Gadget Show Live, and since then the Birmingham-based tablet maker has graduated from its humble back-of-the-hall origins to become a major player. Its product range has swelled beyond its original budget ICS slates with a range of AIO PCs, thin-and-light laptops and even a Windows 8 tablet that has more than a few strong hints of a KIRF Surface about it. Now it's launched the GoNote Mini, a scaled down 7-inch version of the education-ready tablet / netbook hybrid that's been doing the rounds since last summer. We got to spend a few minutes playing around with the first production prototype and if you'd like to know more, after the break is where you want to be.

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Frequently asked vision care insurance questions | Benefit Specialists

What does vision care insurance cover?

Vision care insurance usually pays for the following basic services:

A yearly eye examination, including refraction to check your vision
Eyeglass lenses
Eyeglass frames
Contact lenses
LASIK?and PRK vision correction procedures at a discounted rate

Your specific vision insurance plan may have a limit (such as every two years) on how often it will pay for lenses and frames.

Where Can I Buy Vision Care Insurance if I Can?t Get It From an Employer?

Similar to dental insurance, you may be able to purchase vision care coverage through a local business group, college alumni association, fraternal organization, or religious group. If you are over 65, you may have a vision care benefit if you are part of a Medicare Advantage Plan.

Should I Buy Vision Care Insurance?

If you wear corrective lenses and need periodic eye exams and changes in your eye lens prescription, it may be worthwhile to purchase vision care insurance. If you do not currently wear or need glasses, you may be able to get a periodic eye exam through your regular health insurance plan.

When you purchase vision insurance, whether it is a benefits package or a discount plan, you buy two products:

Access to a network of eye care providers?who have agreed to provide services and/or products at reduced prices (either to you or to the company administering the plan). These providers typically are?optometrists?and general?ophthalmologist. In some cases, ophthalmologists who are refractive surgeons and provide?LASIK?and other vision correction procedures may be included.
Specific eye care services and products, such as eye exams, eyeglasses and contact lenses. Therefore, when choosing a vision insurance plan, you need to evaluate both the eye care provider?and the services being offered.

For more information regarding vision care insurance, call Benefit Specialists?at (701) 492-7372.

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How to spot an email or phishing scam - Online Security Authority

Developments in technology over the years have made a lot of tasks ? both major ones and trivial things ? easier to accomplish. The Internet is among these developments whose evolution has made performing a number of tasks more convenient. With a click of your mouse, you can accomplish tasks which you could only do before by being physically present in stores, banks and other establishments.

Along with the convenience the Internet brings though is the risk of falling prey to scams and fraudsters. Since most people do almost everything electronically and online, cybercriminals consider the Internet the prime place to find their victims. One of the popular ways that criminals use to look for their victims is through email phishing scams.

Phishing is the act of acquiring sensitive personal information from you through an email sent by a criminal posing as someone else. The purpose of getting your personal details is to either scam you or steal your identity. Usually, an email phishing scam asks for your Social Security number, credit card and bank details, date of birth, account names and passwords, and other identifying personal information. If you don?t know how to properly protect your privacy online, then there?s a big chance that you?ll get scammed or defrauded.

To avoid becoming a victim and to protect against email scams, you should at least know how to spot an email scam. Here are some telltale signs indicating that what you have in your inbox is a phishing email:

1)???? Weblinks - Some of these emails might contain a clickable link that either downloads a file into your computer or leads you to another site that asks for personal and banking details. If the site it leads to asks you to fill out a form with your personal information, this could probably be a phishing scam. Most companies and businesses never ask their customers to provide sensitive information (such as your SS number, credit card details, account pins and passwords) through online forms or emails.

2)???? Grammar or spelling mistakes - Legitimate businesses normally have a team of copy editors to ensure that their ads and other communication are error-free. If you receive a letter laden with grammar and spelling mistakes as well as typo errors from a supposedly legitimate company, it?s most probably a scam.

3)???? Threats - Emails that prompt you to perform an action related to your account (usually account verification) to prevent it from getting deactivated can possibly be a scam. Typically, cybercriminals would want you to verify your credit card account by providing your username, password and pin so they can use your details to steal your identity and commit fraud.

4)???? Attachments ? It should be common practice not to download any email attachment if it comes from an unknown individual or company. Many hackers use this method to trick their victims into downloading and installing malware in their computers. The program then sends bits and pieces of sensitive personal information back to the hacker, making you vulnerable to identity theft and fraud.

5)???? Request for personal information. As mentioned, legitimate businesses and banks rarely ask for your personal details over email. If you get an email asking for these details, you should think twice about responding to the email with these details ? or better yet, don?t respond at all.

6)???? Red-flag phrases. Phishing techniques evolve over time as people become familiar with the criminals? tactics; however, these scammers use several phrases over and over even if their methods have changed. Being familiar with these red-flag phrases helps in email or phishing scam prevention.

7)???? Wordless emails. Instead of a URL or a long-winded mail, some scammers send you an image which is actually a link to their phishing website. Clicking anywhere on the image will either take you to their site or automatically download a malicious file.

8)???? Signatory. Legitimate businesses that send out emails to their clients would normally be signed by a representative. Along with the representative?s name, his position in the company should be stated, as well as his contact number or email. Email phishing scams would only sign the letter with [Company Name] Customer Support Department.

These are just some of the common things you?ll spot in an email phishing scam. Being able to recognize these will help prevent email scam. Generally, all phishing emails ask for your banking and personal details so that they can steal your identity and create accounts under your name. One of the best ways for email or phishing scam prevention is to refrain from signing up or giving out your email address to shady websites. To avoid these scams, you have to protect your privacy online as well.

What other email or phishing scam techniques are you aware of? Share them with us by posting below.

Amy Johnson is an active blogger who is fond of sharing interesting finance related articles to encourage people to manage and protect their finances. She also covers tips on credit monitoring and credit protection that can help people prevent themselves from identity theft & credit fraud.

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

New Law Spurs Controversy, Debate Over Genetically Modified Crops

An uproar has erupted on social media platforms in the days following President Obama's signing into law legislation opponents are deriding as the Monsanto Protection Act - but groups disagree about what the real consequences of the bill will be.

The derogatory name for the bill refers to the biotech company, Monsanto, which opponents say lucked out with the measure's passage. Critics see it as a win for peddlers of genetically-modified foods and a danger to farmers and consumers alike.

It passed as part of the continuing resolution whisked through Congress earlier this month to avoid a government shutdown slated for March 27. Obama signed that bill on Tuesday, while many in Washington were preoccupied with the debate over same-sex marriage.

The section of the CR that groups are objecting to - section 735 - dealt with how questionable crops can be regulated. In the event that a seed is approved by the USDA but that approval is challenged by a court ruling, the seed can still be used and sold until the USDA says otherwise, according to that new law.

It does not mention genetically modified crops by name, and it does not stop the USDA from taking those crops off the market in the future.

"The language doesn't require USDA to approve biotech crops. It also doesn't prevent individuals from suing the government over a biotech crop approval," said a source from the office of Sen. Roy Blunt, ranking member on the Senate Agriculture Subcommittee.

Even so, a USDA spokesperson said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack asked for a review of section 735, "as it appears to preempt judicial review of a deregulatory action, which may make the provision unenforceable."

Critics of the bill include members of the Senate.

Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who replaced former Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, as chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, released a statement Friday distancing herself from the agriculture appropriation.

"Sen. Mikulski understands the anger over this provision. She didn't put the language in the bill and doesn't support it either," the statement from her office said. "It was originally part of the Agriculture Appropriations bill that the House Appropriations Committee reported in June 2012, and it became part of the joint House-Senate agreement completed in the fall of 2012 before Sen. Mikulski became appropriations chairwoman."

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., proposed an amendment to take the rider out of the CR, but it never came to a vote. A statement from his office slammed the House of Representatives for "slipping 'corporate giveaways' into a must-pass government funding bill."

"Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better," Tester said in the statement sent out in mid-March, before the passage of the CR. "These provisions are giveaways worth millions of dollars to a handful of the biggest corporations in this country and deserve no place in this bill."

Blunt told Politico he worked with Monsanto in hammering out the details of the legislation.

"From a practical level, it shows the political muscle that Monsanto and the biotech industry have," Neil Hamilton, director of the Agricultural Law Center at Drake University, told ABC News Friday. "They're the ones that have the most to gain directly, in terms of it being their technologies."

So the big questions seem to be how far the power of the court should extend over the authority of the Department of Agriculture and whether a big corporation exercised undue influence in this legislative process. But some advocacy groups are moving the discussion into different territory.

Food Democracy Now!, an organic food advocacy campaign, is asking followers to sign a petition that links the rider and labeling of genetically-modified products.

The letter told the president that the signer is "outraged that Congress allowed Section 735, the Monsanto Protection Act in a short-term spending bill and passed it and that you have now signed it into law," and asked him to pass an executive order "to require the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods."

But the act in question applied to the planting and harvesting of crops, not how they are packaged.

Left-leaning activists are not the only ones possibly slanting the message on this act.

Julie Gunlock, of the pro-free-market think tank the Independent Women's Forum, framed the bill as good for "moms like me."

"If we're in a situation where farmers are forced to lose their crops, lose their entire harvests, that will raise prices. That ultimately harms me, the consumer, the mom," Gunlock said.

In the scenario Gunlock painted, regulations would automatically stop all farmers from using a seed once a federal court ruled that the USDA should not have approved it. But according to Colin O'Neil, director of government affairs at the Center for Food Safety, that was not the case before the new bill passed.

Before the passage of the CR, O'Neil said, farmers who had previously bought seeds that were under review could still plant and harvest them. Only those who had not already legally purchased those seeds would not be allowed to.

The bottom line for O'Neil was that when the CR expires in September, it's time to make sure the rule is properly vetted and, in the view of the Center for Food Safety, thrown out.

"We have called on Chairwoman Mikulski and the Senate leadership to make sure that this rider does not extend past the life of this bill," O'Neil said. "We're extremely disappointed that this rider was put into a must-pass bill, and we're disappointed that there was no floor time given to debate and potentially strike this amendment from the bill. However, we recognize that this was kind of a hostage style negotiations over this bill and that there were a number of policy riders that were included."

O'Neil said the Center for Food Safety is confident that Mikulski will "steer this ship in the right direction."

Eating fish associated with lower risk of dying among older adults: Risk of dying from heart disease significantly lowered

Apr. 1, 2013 ? Older adults who have higher blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids -- found in fatty fish and seafood -- may be able to lower their overall mortality risk by as much as 27% and their mortality risk from heart disease by about 35%, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of Washington. Researchers found that older adults who had the highest blood levels of the fatty acids found in fish lived, on average, 2.2 years longer than those with lower levels.

"Although eating fish has long been considered part of a healthy diet, few studies have assessed blood omega-3 levels and total deaths in older adults," said lead author Dariush Mozaffarian, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at HSPH. "Our findings support the importance of adequate blood omega-3 levels for cardiovascular health, and suggest that later in life these benefits could actually extend the years of remaining life."

The study -- the first to look at how objectively measured blood biomarkers of fish consumption relate to total mortality and specific causes of mortality in a general population -- appears online April 1, 2013 in Annals of Internal Medicine.

Previous studies have found that fish, which is rich in protein and heart-healthy fatty acids, reduces the risk of dying from heart disease. But the effect on other causes of death or on total mortality has been unclear. With this new study, the researchers sought to paint a clearer picture by examining biomarkers in the blood of adults not taking fish oil supplements, in order to provide the best assessments of the potential effects of dietary consumption of fish on multiple causes of death.

The researchers examined 16 years of data from about 2,700 U.S. adults aged 65 or older who participated in the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), a long-term study supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Participants came from four U.S. communities in North Carolina, California, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; and all were generally healthy at baseline. At baseline and regularly during follow-up, participants had blood drawn, underwent physical examinations and diagnostic testing, and were questioned about their health status, medical history, and lifestyle.

The researchers analyzed the total proportion of blood omega-3 fatty acids, including three specific ones, in participants' blood samples at baseline. After adjusting for demographic, cardiovascular, lifestyle, and dietary factors, they found that the three fatty acids -- both individually and combined -- were associated with a significantly lower risk of mortality. One type in particular -- docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA -- was most strongly related to lower risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) death (40% lower risk), especially CHD death due to arrhythmias (electrical disturbances of the heart rhythm) (45% lower risk). Of the other blood fatty acids measured -- eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosapentaenoic acid (DPA) -- DPA was most strongly associated with lower risk of stroke death, and EPA most strongly linked with lower risk of nonfatal heart attack. None of these fatty acids were strongly related to other, noncardiovascular causes of death.

Overall, study participants with the highest levels of all three types of fatty acids had a 27% lower risk of total mortality due to all causes.

When the researchers looked at how dietary intake of omega-3 fatty acids related to blood levels, the steepest rise in blood levels occurred when going from very low intake to about 400 mg per day; blood levels rose much more gradually thereafter. "The findings suggest that the biggest bang-for-your-buck is for going from no intake to modest intake, or about two servings of fatty fish per week," said Mozaffarian.

Support for the study came from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the Office of Dietary Supplements of the National Institutes of Health (R01-HL-085710).

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Dariush Mozaffarian, Rozenn N. Lemaitre, Irena B. King, Xiaoling Song, Hongyan Huang, Molin Wang, Frank M. Sacks, Eric B. Rimm, and David S. Siscovick. Plasma Phospholipid Long-Chain ?-3 Fatty Acids and Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Older Adults: A Cohort Study. Ann Intern Med., 2 April 2013;158(7):515-525 [link]

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