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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington wanted to resume six-nation nuclear talks with North Korea and urged the world to not “give in” to the North’s “unpredictable behavior.” Barack Obama  |  South Korea  |  North Korea”We are prepared to resume the six-party talks,” Clinton told lawmakers, adding North Korea had not shown any willingness to resume those stalled negotiations on its nuclear program.The North announced this month it would boycott the six-nation disarmament talks after the U.N. Security Council approved a call to tighten existing sanctions on the reclusive state to punish Pyongyang for its April 5 launch of a long-range rocket.In addition, the North said it would restart a plant that makes bomb-grade plutonium and threatened war with South Korea if it joined a U.S. initiative to halt the proliferation of illicit weapons.Clinton said the world needed to remain tough against North Korea.”We have to be strong, patient and consistent and not give in to the kind of back and forth and the unpredictable behavior of the North Korean regime,” said Clinton at a hearing of the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee.(Reporting by Sue Pleming; editing by Philip Barbara) Barack Obama South Korea North Korea. 36th State to Allow Winery-to-Consumer Shipments Starting July 1 NAPA, Calif.–(Business Wire)–Free the Grapes!, the national consumer-winery grassroots coalition, applaudedthe Kansas legislature and Governor Sebelius today for supporting consumerchoice in wine by passing Senate Bill 212 on April 20. Kansas is the 36th stateto pass some form of winery shipping legislation. law replaces the unworkable “special order” provision that required wineshipments to be made through a Kansas retailer.

The new law goes into effect July 1, 2009 and will allow wineries licensed bythe state to ship up to 12 cases of wine for personal use per address per year.Among other provisions, wineries are required to pay a $50 licensing fee ($10per annual renewal), collect and remit annual sales and excise taxes, and use anage verification system prior to shipping orders. Developed by wineries, wholesalers and regulators, the new statute willdramatically expand consumer choice for Kansas wine consumers. There are nowmore than 6,000 wineries in the United States, at least one in each state. Butless than 17% of wineries have national distribution, based on a 2003 survey byWine Institute in California Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on direct shipping in May 2005,winery-to-consumer shipping has become legal in 36 states, which collectivelyrepresent more than 81% of wine consumption in the U.S (source: Adams WineHandbook 2007).

Free the Grapes! is a national consumer-winery grassrootscoalition of more than 300,000 members and supports legal, regulateddirect-to-consumer wine shipments. Free the Grapes!Jeremy Benson, Copyright Business Wire 2009. 4 Texas.  We’ll never see Notre Dame versus USC.  We’ll never see this year’s Ohio State-USC matchup.That will never happen in the SEC because they’re too worried about protecting themselves early in the season so they can have their shot at winning the national championship. Unfortunately, under the current system, playing a weak non-conference schedule and winning all your games will usually get you to the national championship game.. In the news release, Palisade Systems DLP Technology Deployed by GibsonGeneral Hospital to Protect Electronic Medical Records, issued 22-Apr-2009 byPalisade Systems, Inc. over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company thatthe sixth paragraph, first sentence, should read “…said Christian Renaud,CEO of Palisade Systems” rather than “…said Kurt Shedenhelm, CEO of PalisadeSystems” as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected releasefollows:Palisade Systems DLP Technology Deployed by Gibson General Hospital to ProtectElectronic Medical RecordsHospital Uses Palisade’s PacketSure Platform to Secure Patients’ PersonalHealth Information From Unauthorized Access, Ensure HIPAA ComplianceAMES, Iowa, April 22 /PRNewswire/ — Palisade Systems, a leading provider ofdata loss prevention products and services, announced today the addition of anew healthcare customer, Gibson General Hospital, that is using its data lossprevention technology, PacketSure, to protect its patients’ records. GibsonGeneral Hospital represents a growing list of Palisade healthcare customersthat are deploying its data loss prevention technology in order to ensure thatthey comply with HIPAA compliance policies that deal specifically with thesecurity and privacy of patients’ electronic medical records (EMR).Gibson General Hospital, located in Princeton, Indiana, serves a large ruralarea in southwest Indiana with advanced medical services, including emergencycare, rehabilitation, diabetes care, radiology, sleep diagnostics,orthopedics, home health care, and more.

The hospital employs six full-timephysicians and approximately 350 other full and part-time support staff. A fewmonths ago, Director of Information Services, Steve Rausch, began researchingdata loss prevention solutions since the hospital didn’t have one in place – apotential security problem. Rausch wanted to ensure HIPAA compliance by makingsure that patients’ personal health information was not leaving their networkwithout proper authorization. Another major area of concern was the Internet -Rausch needed a way to monitor usage to ensure that employees were notaccessing unsecure sites and were not taking up bandwidth needed by staff toperform necessary job functions. STOPPING OVERSEAS HACKERS WITH PALISADE’S PACKETSURERausch began testing several vendors’ DLP solutions on Gibson General’snetwork, and installed PacketSure to monitor the data being sent outside thenetwork.

Following the installation, Rausch discovered a notificationindicating that an ICQ message (a form of online instant messaging) had beensent by the hospital’s email server system to an outside IP address. SinceGibson General’s IT staff doesn’t use ICQ, Rausch and his IT support staffimmediately began running reports from PacketSure and researched thedestination IP address. They found that the IP address belonged to a companybased out of India. Additionally, they discovered that the email server wasfrequenting websites from Russia that utilized ICQ Messaging, and thePacketSure reports showed that a huge amount of data in small packets wasbeing pumped out of the hospital’s server and sent to servers all over theworld, indicating that the hackers were trying to use Gibson General’s networkas an email relay station to disseminate spam emails.The hackers had already created two “users” on the network’s email server – apotential data breach and HIPAA violation nightmare. Because of the earlydetection thanks to Palisade Systems’ PacketSure, Rausch and his staff turnedon the appliance’s blocking feature, which immediately stopped thetransmission of data outside the network, thus preventing the leaking of theirpatients’ sensitive data. “If PacketSure hadn’t been installed on our network monitoring our outboundcommunications at the time of the hack, our customers’ most sensitive data -their personal medical records – could have been compromised. It turned apotential serious issue into a non-event,” said Steve Rausch.