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An absolutely brutal practice.
Many young men are killed or commit suicide every year because of dedovshchina. The New York Times reported that in 2006 at least 292 Russian soldiers were killed by dedovshchina (although the Russian military only admits that 16 soldiers were directly murdered by acts of dedovshchina and claims that the rest committed suicide). The Times states: "On Aug. 4, it More..was announced by the chief military prosecutor that there had been 3,500 reports of abuse already this year (2006), compared with 2,798 in 2005". The BBC meanwhile reports that in 2007, 341 soldiers committed suicide, a 15% reduction on the previous year.
Dedovshchina (Russian: дедовщи́на) is the name given to the informal system of subjugation of new junior conscripts for the Russian armed forces, Interior Ministry, and (to a much lesser extent) FSB border guards to brutalization by the conscripts of the last year of service as well as NCOs and officers.
Dedovshchina involves a spectrum of subordinating activities performed by the junior ranks: from carrying out chores of the senior ranks to violent and sometimes lethal physical and Psychological abuse, being not unlike an extremely vicious form of bullying or even torture. It is often cited as a major source of poor morale in the ranks.
This started as a modern parallel to the worst historical forms of fagging in British schools, even with an organized hierarchy, but there the very professional hierarchy actively joins in making it utter abuse, causing many recruits to avoid service for fear of their health or even their lives.
The origin of this problem is often attributed to the change in conscription term with a new law of October 12, 1967, when two different groups of conscripts were simultaneously present in the army: those who were drafted for 3 years service and those only for 2 years. While oppression by older conscripts has probably always taken place in the army, after that date, with the introduction of the four-class system it became organized and with its own rules and ranks.
In 2007 the Russian government lowered military service time to 1.5 years and plan to finish the reform with 1 year military service in 2008. The expectation is that this action will positively affect the situation with Dedovshchina.
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Thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury that has been used in vaccines, is not linked to learning difficulties or behavioral problems in children, concludes a study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
But because the study didn't look specifically at autism spectrum disorders, perhaps the greatest point of parents' concerns, the debate about a connection between thimerosal and autism is likely to roll on unabated.
Public health officials and the medical establishment have long argued that there's no link between thimerosal and autism or other neurological problems. Nevertheless, the preservative was largely removed from children's vaccines in 2002. No decline in autism has been seen since then, the New York Times reports.
For the federally funded study, researchers tested 42 verbal, motor and intellectual skills of over 1,000 children between the ages of 7 and 10. They then ran lots of statistical tests to see if there was a connection between thimerosal exposure and children's performance on the tests. Most of the tests showed no connection. A small minority of the tests showed either better or worse performance — but the researchers suggested those may have been the result of random chance.
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McLaren said it has begun taking orders for the new 12C Spider at its 38 dealerships in 22 countries. The luxury two-seat convertible sports car has a turbocharged 3.8-liter V8 engine that puts out 616 horsepower. It is built around a carbon chassis called a MonoCell, similar to the chassis of its sibling, the 12C coupe that was unveiled at Monterey in 2010.
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Today, Oregon State University's President Edward J. Ray gave the "State of the University" address to nearly 500 people at the Portland Hilton. Amongst many of the great accomplishments and goals of OSU, President Ray announced that The Campaign for OSU has crossed the $900 million mark toward the $1 billion goal! Below are a few of the recent news stories shared today.
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With a top-tier oceanography program, OSU has recently won this rare grant to design and build three ocean research vessels. OSU will initially receive $3 million for the design phase of the project, with an additional $290 million to come over the next 10 years if Congress provides the money to build these hi-tech ships. Of the three 175-foot long ships, OSU would operate one ship under the grant with the other two projected to go to the Gulf Coast and the East Coast. Timing is perfect as OSU's current research vessel, the Newport (OR) based Oceanus, is set to be retired in 2020.
The National Science Foundation hasn't authorized a multi-ship project since the 1970s, OSU officials said, and no other NSF ships are likely to be built in the next decade.
Research on these ships is in areas such as predicting tsunamis, understanding ocean acidification and predicating global warming. This grant, along with a new ship, would continue to further the success of OSU's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospherics Sciences as well as further establish Newport as an "ocean research and education hub."
A $5 million gift from an anonymous donor is the largest the university has every received for the arts and is a commitment to advance its performing arts programs including digital arts, performance technology and communication. Part of the gift ($1million) is contingent on OSU securing an additional $1 million in private support, which can come from gifts of $25,000 or more.
With the gift establishing endowments for four faculty and staff positions and scholarship, graduate fellowship, and program funds; there is a lot of excitement around how this will elevate support for OSU's School of Arts and Communication.
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OSU has received a total of $20 million in private gifts for a new educational and research facility for the College of Engineering. A recent $7 million from Peter (and Rosalie Johnson), a 1955 engineering alumnus, joins an earlier $10 million gift from an anonymous donor and $4 million in additional private funds. With the possible matching of state funds, the $40 million building will meet the needs for engineering faculty, lab space and a center focused on the recruitment and retention of engineering students.
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Manet's Execution: still shocking
The four pieces of canvas which comprise the reconstructed Execution of Maximilian by Manet currently hang on the wall in the Special Exhibitions room of Canterbury's The Beaney. I'd seen the painting before, many years ago, in the National Gallery, but on visiting it recently in the walled city, I was struck anew by its power.
Large enough to make the viewer an implicit spectator at the scene, what shocks the most even after all this time is the matter-of-fact approach of the figure on the right, the soldier preparing his rifle for the finishing coup-de-grace. The collision of the act of violence – somehow made all the more vibrant because the pieces on which the emperor was painted have been lost, and only his hand remains to clasp that of one of his comrades, also facing execution – and the practicality of the soldier readying his rifle serves to heighten the tension in the painting.
An earlier lithograph of the same scene renders the commonplace even more apparent, as Manet depicts a ragged bunch of street-urchins looking over the wall behind the scene, like everyday gawkers or the tricoteuse, those women who would sit and knit beside the guillotines.
By dressing the Mexican army in French uniform, Manet caused the painting to be too controversial to be displayed during his lifetime. Even now, over one hundred and forty years later, the painting still has an explosive quality.
The painting is on display at the Beaney until Sunday 16 March.
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My summer with Caitlin Moran
I spent my summer with Caitlin Moran. Two heady weeks in a cottage in Sussex, in which she talked – she talked a lot – and I simply listened. I didn't have to say anything, just had to sit there and listen as she poured out her heart. We bonded over a shared incredulity at Downton Abbey, a passion for libraries, and a mistrust of David Cameron. I found myself careening between emotional extremes, of asthma-inducing laughter and heart-stopping sorrow.
As we sat there, Caitlin and I, time seemed to pass us by. My two young children were busy exploring new and exciting ways to injure themselves on the garden play-equipment; the cats were expiring through the suspension of their customary feeding ritual; phones were left unanswered; my wife took to her bed with a digital version of Scrabble in a desperate call for attention. None of it mattered; Caitlin and I had only each other, her needing to talk, my needing simply to listen.
Because that's what reading the collection of articles that makes up her recent book, Moranthology, is like; it's like chatting to a newly-discovered best friend. And not just that; a friend who's funny, honest, brazen, unafraid of candid revelations, open about their moments of life-lunacy, and who writes from the hip.
Given its heart-on-sleeve admission of love for Sherlock, I have no qualms as an asthma-sufferer in declaring the book a Three-Inhaler Problem. The dispensary at the local Asda couldn't issue me with new ones fast enough; I had my own parking-space, and was on first-name terms with the guy who sits in the entrance, watching the CCTV footage of people entering and leaving the store. It's no understatement to describe the book as something of a roller-coaster; one minute, you're giggling with sheer delight at the fearlessly inventive wit – the 'And My Nanny Agress With Me Too' put-down of George Osborne is going to become my default reaction to posh idiots – the next minute, you're gasping as she devastatingly breaks your heart. Whether lamenting the cross-country closure of libraries, regaling you with the multitudinous ways in which she has Let Herself Down In Front of Celebrities, or campaigning for the rights of society's down-trodden, her vigorous, no-holds-barred, attitude-busting prose is merciless in its scrutiny. Even, commendably, when that object of scrutiny is the writer herself. It's like a very English incarnation of Hunter S Thompson's Gonzo Journalism, with its wry attack on television soap-opera plotlines or the Welsh-o-centric nature of the latest incarnation of the Dr Who franchise, or its staunch championing of the Welfare State. And it's the type of book that throws your assumptions back at you and makes you consider them anew; you come out a better person for reading it.
So forgive the cheap sensationalism of my title; under its same conditions, I've just spent several similar weeks with Tony Hawks (A Piano in the Pyrenees), Peter F Hamilton (Pandora's Star), and am furthering my literary bigamy in being heavily involved with Humphrey Carpenter (Benjamin Britten). As Martin Amis said of Tom Wolfe's A Man In Full (that's just the sort of ghastly, navel-contemplating literary referencing that, after our weeks of companionship, I feel confident in declaring she would hate); this book will be a good friend to you. In fact, it won't: Moranthology will be your best friend. Read it. Soon.
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I have a dilemma. I find that Downton Abbey gets on my nerves, yet I love The Paradise. The operas of Wagner drive me mad, yet Debussy's Pelléas et Melisande is one of my favourite pieces. Mahler drives me mad, but Steve Reich's Music for Eighteen Musicians remains the sole piece I would pluck from a blazing conflagration of classical music.
As I assess my lists of likes and can't-stands, trying to work out why I both love and loathe examples of period drama, opera and music, I have come to realise that, for me, it's a question of scale, of concision in utterance and narrative focus.
The overblown hyperbole that is opera, where it can take anywhere between two and five tiresome hours for consumptive maidens to expire, giants and demons to fight over treasure or someone's soul, and for jealous lovers to work their revenge, means that generally, the genre has few recordings in my listening library. But Pelléas, and Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges are present in more than one recorded incarnation and appear on my Recently Played lists quite often. How can this be, when normally opera sends me screaming into the comfort of John Adams or Nico Muhly ? Similarly, how can the yawn-inducing tedium of Downton Abbey be equated with my sheer and utter delight in the story of the evolution of England's first department store that is The Paradise ? How can I rationalise both standpoints ?
As I said before, it's a question of scope, of scale. Titanic myth-making in Wagner calls for similarly titanic music, and grand time-scale, the sort where the opera is so long that you have to have dinner in between acts simply to fortify yourself for what is still to come. But Pelléas concentrates instead on the dynamic between three characters wrapped in a love-triangle – Goloud, Pelléas and the object of their affections, Melisande – and is set often in small-scale situations: a room, a secluded garden, a cave, settings which are a geographical manifestation of the claustrophobic romantic tangle in which the three characters are entwined. Likewise, Ravel's one-act opera is concerned with a single character, the mischievous child, whose wayward misbehaviour sparks off the magical episodes which follow, and which is similarly set in a room in the first half and a garden in the second.
And while Mahler's view of the symphony was that it should 'embrace the world,' (his first symphonic outing is called 'The Titan,' which should give you some idea of its lofty ambitions), this also requires musical gestures built on a grand scale, sustained by a musical architecture that needs to be epic in size. The music of someone like Reich, for instance, and to a certain extent the early works of John Adams and recent pieces by Nico Muhly, is much more about concise musical gestures, small-scale motivic thinking that may yield a piece lasting near to an hour (in the case of Music for Eighteen Musicians), but sustains its large-scale forms through the gradual unfolding of initially small ideas, into which can be condensed a range of harmonic and rhythmic expression.
The epic narrative sweep in Downton takes on such themes as social hierarchy and the re-defining of class divisions in the wake of the First World War, the troubles in Ireland, and the minutiae of upstairs/downstairs relationships in the Grantham household with plodding tedium and lashings of cliche, painted in great swathes of block colour that don't require the viewer to have to think too much for themselves about what's going on, or what's coming next. In contrast, The Paradise concentrates on a particular stretch of street, on one store in particular, and the characters within both; the focus is on a smaller scale, and as such it doesn't need to make glib, sweeping gestures to allow large themes to be depicted in a small amount of on-screen time.
In his second volume of autobiography, 'The Fry Chronicles,' Stephen Fry recognises his own penchant for verbosity, for taking one hundred words to write what could be said in ten. But the book reads like an effortless conversation with Fry, and pages turn almost of themselves before you realise that many hours have gone by and you've read more than you intended, your wife and children have moved out and the dog is starving. Whilst the object of Fry's book may be the re-telling of thirty year's worth of life, the focus is again small-scale; himself, and what makes him tick.
So I have no compunction about dismissing endless hours of operatic bilge whilst secretly loving some examples of it, of casually being scathing about the tedium of Downton Abbey whilst revelling in the puff-pastry delight of The Paradise, and no sense of self-contradiction in writing off epic symphonic yawnathons whilst delighting in works of Minimalism that may last just as long as a piece by Mahler or Beethoven. It's simply a question of focus.
Whatever floats your boat
As people all over the world gather to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a remarkable boat will set sail on its maiden voyage. The boat will be made from the lives and memories of people across the South East.
We want your wood: but not just any old wood, we want something that's a part of you, something with a story to tell. Come and tell us that story – your donated wood will be used along with donations from thousands of others to build this unique 30ft sailing boat, a living archive of our lives.
Donations will be accepted in the foyer of the Gulbenkian Theatre between 1- 7pm this Wednesday.
The Boat Project is part of Artists Taking the Lead, a series of 12 public art commissions across the UK to celebrate the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. The Boat Project is the winning commission for the South East region and is funded by Arts Council England.
Brought to Booker: can science fiction ever make the prize list ?
An article in last week's Guardian laments the lack of speculative fiction – that's science fiction and fantasy in common parlance – novels making the Booker prize list.
Science fiction and fantasy, traditionally viewed with grave suspicion by the supposedly more 'serious' of the mainstream fiction genres, have together been a flourishing literary canon for years; Tolkien's Lord of the Rings regularly polls in high places as 'Most Read,' whilst writers like China Mieville, Alistair Reynolds and Peter F Hamilton have been patiently carving out successful careers with epic science fiction and fantasy novels for many years.
Perhaps part of the difficulty lies in the boundary-defying nature of some of the novels associated with sci-fi and fantasy. Alistair Reynolds and China Mieville include a luxurious element of the gothic in their novels; Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell offered an alternative history take on fantasy, where magic is commonplace and is used in the Napoleonic Wars. Similary, Mary Gentle's sprawling Ash: A Secret History follows the same character across centuries. Perhaps it's simply the scope of the novels that causes them to be dismissed: Peter F Hamilton's epic space-opera sagas, Michael Moorcock's long-running Elric or Hawkmoon tales stride across whole volumes.
But with writers such as Philip K Dick, John Brunner and Michael Moorcock all a part of the canon, it's hard to ignore the impact of science fiction and fantasy literature.
Perhaps this year will change all that.
Posted by Dan Harding, Deputy Director of Music at the University of Kent. Click here to read his music blog, 'Music Matters.'
Pot luck: music education funding ring-fenced
As reported over on The Guardian's classical music blog, the culture minister Ed Vaizey reveals that there will continue to be a pot of money allocated to music education next year.
The previous government had set up a Music Standards Fund, dedicated to music provision, which is due to end next year. Vaizey declares that a ring-fenced amount of funding will replace it.
Music provision in primary education is a matter of hit and miss, dependent on local variables: it depends on whether the school values the arts generally and music in particular, whether it has a dedicated music specialist teaching a focused music curriculum; sometimes, it's just a matter of whether a member of staff happens a) to have an interest or a facility in a particular musical discipline and b) to be sufficiently motivated to run such classess off their own bat.
This creates widespread inequality in provision at primary level across schools, quite apart from the LEA-allocation model that existed under the Conservatives in the mid-80's. Hopefully, music education and county music provision will continue to be funded under the Coalition, although with arts funding cuts announced earlier this week, whether there will be musical opportunities for the current generation of primary school children when they come to the employment market as adults remains to be seen…
Posted by Dan Harding, Deputy Director of Music at the University of Kent. Click here to read his music blog, 'Music Matters.'
Letters, pray: more Larkin correspondence published
For over forty years, Philip Larkin wrote to Monica Jones, the woman who shared his life. As Anthony Thwaite, Larkin's literary executor and friend, revealed in The Telegraph this weekend, letters and postcards the two exchanged have now been published for the first time.
Fantastic news for those who enjoyed Larkin's Selected Letters published by Faber in 1993, and who read the replies to Larkin by his friend and fellow literary giant, Kingsley Amis when HarperCollins published a vast tome of Amis' vibrant correspondence in 2001, The Letters of Kingsley Amis.
Notoriously reclusive, shunning travel and avoiding the limelight, not much of Larkin, other than the few slim volumes of poetry he published, reaches the public eye; at his request, Monica Jones destroyed Larkin's journals when he died.
Some of the letters are published in The Telegraph here.
Where has the past gone ? Erasing history
I watched Westworld again recently, a Michael Crichton film from 1973 in which two characters go on holiday to a mock Western resort, populated by gun-toting robots. Holiday-makers can live out their fantasies of being cowboys, and shoot these robotic residents: alas, one of the robots malfunctions in a shoot-out and pursues the pair throughout the film on a relentless quest for revenge (the robot in question played with menacing remorselessness by a fantastic Yul Bryner.)
The formula of historical theme-park-going-wrong is one Crichton would repeat with greater commercial success with dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and to a certain extent in the disappointing novel Timeline with knights.
Seeing the film again made me reflect that its whole scenario is akin to the way in which we perceive our own history, and how sometimes we experience it. Much of our view of history can come from film and literature – think of the multitude of Vietnam films such as Platoon or Full Metal Jacket, or Norman Mailer's Vietnam-novel The Naked and the Dead,or Ridley Scott's swords-and-sandals vision of Rome in Gladiator.
Our learning about the past can come filtered though the film-maker's lense – Spielberg's account of the Holocaust in Schindler's List – or the novelist's imagination – Bernard Cornwell, Henry Treece, etc.
Re-enactments and displays are popular ways of bringing historical events to some sort of 'life;' mock jousting tournaments at English Heritage castles across the country, or air displays featuring the dwindling number of aircraft from World War II. Like Crichton's automaton-populated holiday resort mock-ups, these create an artificial snapshot of a generalised sense of a moment in the past, and purport to bring it to life for popular consumption.
But are we losing a real sense of our past, our history, buried under (or papered over by) a fictionalised representation of it ? And, like the remorseless robot in Westworld, will populist reinventions of our past, in representing it, actually destroy us in the end ?
Real history – if it possible to define something which we haven't experienced for ourselves, because it occurred before we were born, as such – is being eroded by our reinventions, or re-imaginings of it; the glare of Hollywood's limelight fails to illuminate most of history's shadowed corners: in fact, it creates those obscuring shadows precisely because it spotlights heroes and villains for our entertainment. The same strobe lighting up the hero necessarily blinds us to the realities lost out of sight beyond the lit circle in which they stand.
Ironically, it's almost as if the very media working to preserve history, whether for our education or entertainment, are instead serving, as the writer and cultural analyst Fredric Jameson puts it, 'as the very agents and mechanisms for our historical amnesia.' ('Postmodernism and consumer society' in Gray & McGuigan, 1993: 205.) Fredric makes this point in relation to the function of news media, but arguably it's also a pertinent definition of the methods by which film, television and historical novels are making history disappear in the very act of trying to bring it alive.
Where has our past gone ? Or, more accurately perhaps: where did we begin to erase it ?
Posted by Dan Harding, Deputy Director of Music at the University of Kent. Click here to read his music blog, 'Music Matters.'
Arts funding cuts: An Important Message
Video artist David Shrigley's message about the proposed dangers to UK arts organisations in the face of proposed funding cuts (via a recent article in The Guardian).
Visit the blogsite at http://savethearts-uk.blogspot.com/
Posted by Dan Harding, Deputy Director of Music at the University of Kent. Click here to read his music blog, 'Music Matters.'
How does music mean ?
How does music mean ? Indeed, can it mean anything at all ? Does its meaning derive from its internal sequence of events, or is part of its secret its ability to resonate with a listener's wealth of previous experiences ?
Thoughts on these, and a short video of the great Leonard Bernstein lecturing at Harvard on this very issue, over on Music Matters: click here to read.
Posted by Dan Harding, Deputy Director of Music at the University of Kent. Click here to read his music blog, 'Music Matters.'


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Risk Management News, Articles and Updates
Cyber needs to speak language of the C-suiteJune 04, 2016
Communicating with the C-suite depends in part of creating a language they understand and identifying company assets that are most important, panelists told an SC Congress Toronto audience.
Risk-based approach essential to realistic, manageable IT security programJune 02, 2016
Security and risk are often mentioned in the same breath, and while they can complement each other, taking a risk-based approach is essential to building a realistic and manageable IT security program.
Assess the risk: Risk managementJune 01, 2015
CISOs say the best IT security programs build risk management into everything, reports Steve Zurier.
A seat earned at the Round TableDecember 02, 2013
The role of the CISO is rapidly garnering a strategic voice at many organizations.
PCI DSS 3.0 is a start, but more changes are neededAugust 30, 2013
The latest version of the payment security industry's data safeguarding standard should also include mandates and guidance around risk management, penetration testing and mobile.
Out of site: Risk preparednessAugust 01, 2013
Services abound for business continuity and disaster recovery in the cloud, but what's the right choice for your firm? Alan Earls investigates.
New risks must be valuedMarch 01, 2013
IT trends - cloud, social networking and BYOD - are making the practice of security management complex, and are forcing organizations to shift to a risk-management perspective.
Game on: Case study with Electronic Arts and AllgressOctober 25, 2012
Video game players are used to fending off alien invaders, but the IT staff at Electronic Arts (EA) was challenged to reduce cyber risk within its own environment.
Risk management and analysis: The need for countermeasure awarenessOctober 10, 2012
What is still missing in IT security is an understanding of how presently installed solutions might already be addressing risks.
Technology to strategy: Today's CISOSeptember 04, 2012
With breaches grabbing headlines and cash funneling toward infosec budgets, the role of the security executive is shifting from tech and compliance wonk to savvy businessperson.
Staying out of the headlinesAugust 01, 2012
Yahoo presumably took no measures to ensure sensitive stuff like customer account credentials were kept safe and sound.
Measuring success: Performance metricsAugust 01, 2012
Security metrics remain elusive for many organizations, but key performance indicators, or KPIs, are achievable measurements that can help guide business planning and strategy.
Alliance of IT security groups issues cyber principles for governmentJune 25, 2012
An international confederation of security groups is calling for more cooperation, openness and transparency in government implementations of cyber security.
Managing policy and risk requires sophisticated toolsJune 01, 2012
Risk is a multilayered function derived from threat, vulnerability and impact.
The new e-discovery playing fieldApril 16, 2012
Risks exist in the e-discovery process, as sensitive information frequently moves and is stored outside a company's firewall.
Attention executives: Make sense of security (finally)April 03, 2012
Boardrooms are finally buzzing with serious discussion around cyber security as countless high-profile breaches have produced massive loss.
Tightening the fed's belt: Government RoundtableApril 02, 2012
At a recent SC Magazine Roundtable, gov't security pros bemoaned the difficulty in obtaining resources. But instead of crying over spilled milk, they traded ideas for mitigating risk in a down economy.
Making risk management more manageableMarch 23, 2012
Most businesses don't understand how to manage risk, yet, we live in a world full of risks, says Guidance Software's Anthony Di Bello.
Sponsored Video: John Vigoroux of M86 on security industry issuesMarch 05, 2012
John Vigoroux, CEO of security at M86, discusses the challenges facing the IT industry today at this year's RSA Conference 2012.
RSA Conference 2012: Risk management in the enterprise faces challengesMarch 02, 2012
A panel discussion on risk management hovered around issues of balancing the scientific element of data gathering with the art of interpreting the information.
Security risk management: Engage, monitor and mitigateNovember 01, 2011
As targeted attacks scale up and become more sophisticated, expertise in risk management has become one of the most in-demand skill sets a security manager can have, reports Jim Romeo.
Health care must respond to shortfallsNovember 01, 2011
Security experts believe that robust risk management programs should be a pillar of business planning, says SC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Illena Armstrong.
NIST releases continuous monitoring guidanceOctober 05, 2011
The National Institute of Standards and Technology late last week published new guidance to help organizations develop and implement an information security continuous monitoring (ISCM) program. This initiative can help companies better provide ongoing awareness of threats and vulnerabilities, assess the effectiveness of deployed security controls and support risk management decisions, according to the 80-page guidance document. A mature ISCM program, which requires the use of both automated and manual processes, will enable companies to move from compliance-driven to data-driven risk management.
Cloud: A risk/reward propositionOctober 03, 2011
Assessing what level of risk is acceptable to one's business is key to any move to the cloud, says Siobhan Byron, president of Forsythe Technology Canada.
Sponsored video: Steve Livingston of Deloitte on riskSeptember 22, 2011
In a conversation with SC Magazine Executive Editor Dan Kaplan, Steve Livingston, principal of Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services, chronicles how people, processes and technology can combine to create a robust risk framework that achieves buy-in from senior management.
The case for articulating security risk in a down economyJuly 12, 2011
Despite an astonishing sequence of breaches this year, expect business executives to remain tight with their purse strings, unless security professionals can accurately convey risk.
DHS unveils new programs for software securityJune 27, 2011
Software buyers may soon have access to more secure offerings, thanks to a new scoring system that will allow end-users to demand more assurance.
A new era for risk managementJune 01, 2011
The ability to ascertain the risk tolerance of the business gives us a benchmark to hit as opposed to just "guessing" and then getting political pushback
Managing becomes more complexJune 01, 2011
The risk environment is becoming more complicated as time goes on and criminals become more and more sophisticated.
Ready for 2011? Five questions for CISOsJanuary 18, 2011
SC Magazine Articles
- USAA members hit with multiple phishing attacks
- Industry pros react to Cisco, Fortinet advisories after possible Snowden NSA leak
- Trust exercise: Symantec's new website security expert is reaching out to hacker community
- Three zero-days found in iOS, Apple suggests users update their iPhone
- Two-thirds of IT security pros surveyed expect a breach to hit their company, report
- Microsoft Office 365 hit with massive Cerber ransomware attack, report
- New RAA ransomware written in JavaScript discovered
- Wendy's POS breach 'considerably' bigger than first thought
- No hacking required: Israeli researchers show how to steal data through PC components
- Don't connect your charging cell to a computer or you may get hacked!


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SAN FRANCISCO—Olympic gold medalist Tom Slingsby will skipper Oracle Team USA in the final America's Cup World Series stop April 16-21 in Naples, Italy.
Slingsby, who has been tactician, will fill in for Jimmy Spithill, who will remain in San Francisco to help commission the syndicate's second 72-foot catamaran.
Naples will be the final ACWS regatta in 45-foot catamarans. Teams will move up to the 72-footers for the Louis Vuitton Cup for challengers beginning in July on San Francisco Bay. The winner advances to face defending champion Oracle in the 34th America's Cup starting Sept. 7.
Slingsby, of Australia, won the gold medal in the Laser class at the 2012 Olympics.


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Do educated working professionals want beauty and quality of life utmost in their city? Or do they want opportunity? What are they willing to put up with, and what do they expect in return for fighting the everyday hubbub of big city life?
To answer these questions, we looked inward at PwC's own urban anthropology. PwC offices are based mainly in the central business districts of those cities worldwide that serve as regional or global hubs of our economy and culture—of course, including the 30 cities we study in Cities of Opportunity 6. PwC people also serve as a good proxy for the skilled, highly educated professional demographic that cities seek to attract—the globally mobile service sector of engineers, technicians, skilled trade workers, and others that urban economies depend on for growth.
Overall, the survey shows the world is getting smaller for the types of people who work at PwC. Cities look more alike than apart in terms of city dwellers' desires for today and aspirations for tomorrow. PwC professionals told us:
They want opportunity foremost in a city, and they're willing to brave the scrum and cost of London and New York to get it. People in every one of our cities, no matter how far away and often in good number (averaging 20% for London and 18% for New York as their first choice relocation) are ready to seek their fortune in the two world centers of capital markets, commerce, communications, and culture. However, the beauties of Sydney, San Francisco, and Paris are not lost on us, attracting 10%, 9%, and 5% of the survey sample, respectively.
Urban values are a common denominator, and opportunity is the key word. We consulted with our own professionals on city life because they offer a broad proxy for the educated, globally mobile service sector of engineers, technicians, skilled trade workers, and others upon which cities depend for growth. We also recognized PwC is among the world's most urban and globalized businesses, organized in strategic cities to reflect the needs and footprint of our clients. Many of our almost 190,000 people work in the very cities we study in Cities of Opportunity.
For educated, globally mobile professionals like those who work at PwC, what has changed in the last few decades is the universality of the urban experience. Today, the world is smaller. Urbanites speak about the same challenges, the same opportunities, and the same facts of life in cities the world over.
The top five cities PwC people select as their first choice to work in other than their current city, paint a clear picture of the urban qualities that globally mobile professionals want. The powerful draw of London and New York is striking, with 20% and 18% choosing the cities, respectively. London and New York offer a wide range of career directions, as well as the chance to excel on the firm's, and the world's, largest business stages.
Interestingly, the march to London and New York occurs with eyes wide open despite the hurdles posed by those massive, competitive, relatively expensive cities. News reports abound about the cost of living in London and New York (such as renting walk-in closets as flats in London or being forced to share with a small army of strangers to live anywhere near Manhattan). Both cities finish in the top 10 most expensive in the Cities of Opportunity 6 cost of living variable (although that doesn't include accommodation expenses for rent or mortgage).


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Afternoon Roundup: Warner Bros Wins Summer Box Office Again; Kevin Smith Works the Holiday; Fried Butter Makes the Rounds
WB is King of the BO: According to Nielsen, Warner Bros will have grossed $957 million domestically this summer — the most out of all the major studios. The sum isn't as high as last year, when the WB's "Dark Knight" helped push their summer take over the $1 billion mark, but it's still quite the hefty sum. Paramount and Disney ranked second and third, respectively. [Reuters]
Kevin Smith, Working Man: To promote his upcoming book "Shootin' the Sh– with Kevin Smith," the director/comic book fanatic plans to host a "Tweet-A-Thon" on Monday — aka Labor Day — and conduct a 24-hour online Q&A via Twitter. [MTV Movies Blog]
GQ Buries Putin Story: Former war correspondent Scott Anderson's latest piece in the Sept. issue of GQ — a profile of an ex-KGB agent — is been kept on the DL by Conde Nast brass. Jerry S. Birenz, one of the company's lawyers, e-mailed the following memo to several corporate execs and "GQ" editors: "Conde Nast management has decided that the September issue of U.S. GQ magazine containing Scott Anderson's article 'Vladimir Putin's Dark Rise to Power' should not be distributed in Russia." [NPR]
Curtains for Heilpern: John Heilpern, the New York Observer's theater critic for the past 17 years, has just tendered his resignation. He told the New York Post: "I wish the paper all the best… I don't want to be too negative about the 12-year-old owner, Jared Kushner, but as my ma and pa from Manchester, England, used to say, 'That boy couldn't run a chip shop." [Playbill]
Fried Fat… MMM: And finally, as you head into the Labor Day weekend, take a load off and be thankful you live in a country where deep fried butter — as offered by the State Fair of Texas in Dallas — is available to buy and eat. In three flavors — sweet cream, cherry or garlic — no less. [Fox News]


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Smile of the Desert
Category: People
Photo and caption by david fabrega
Even if they are still considered as nomads, more and more bedouins of Jordan move to houses. The members of this family occupy the tent only during the day for having lunch and stay away from heat and sand storms. At night, they prefer to sleep in the new house they recently built with volcanic rocks found in the desert. As Jordan is the first country in the world in term of water shortage, the bedouins often work at selling water to villages and shepherds during their migrations.
Location: Bedouin settlement, Syrian border, Northern Badia, Jordan
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Just when you might be tempted to start tuning out those boring in-flight safety videos, Air New Zealand has come out with what it's calling "The Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made" — and it's hard to argue with the title. The new video was shot to celebrate the final movie in the "Hobbit" trilogy, filmed in New Zealand and slated to debut in theaters on December 17.
The video features elves, dwarves, wizards, orcs and even Elijah Wood, who played the most famous hobbit of all in the blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. But the true star of the show may just be New Zealand's sweeping landscapes, which leave no doubt as to why the country was chosen to play Middle-earth.
Check out the video below:
Not ready to leave Middle-earth? Check out Air New Zealand's previous Tolkien-themed safety video.
More fun in-flight videos:
– Betty White Stars in Latest Air New Zealand Safety Video
– Bear "Man vs. Wild" Grylls Takes On In-Flight Safety
– Richard Simmons Sweats to a New Flight Safety Video
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By Stephen Kasica
EAGLE - Where can you find girls named "Ribbons-n-Blows," "Crime Scene" and "Garrison Kill'er" whip around a track on roller skates and ram one another to the floor? Roller derby.
The 10th Mountain Roller Dolls hosted an all-comers mix-up match - called a "bout" - at the Eagle Pool and Ice Rink on Tuesday. This event marks the league's one-year anniversary, cementing its credibility as a serious sport. Forty women between 25 and 40 years old from the Eagle Valley compose the Roller Girls. This modern rendition of roller derby is not at all the spectacle from the 1960s and 1970s.
"It's a sport, not WWF derby," said "Mistress Medusa," also known as Jodi Knight.
By day, some work in restaurants as waitresses, are practicing attorneys in Eagle County or are yoga instructors. But at night, in neon-colored elbow and knee pads, glittered-blasted skateboard helmets and metallic tights or fishnet stockings, they fly on their skates on the plastic flooring under the ice rink in a tight, narrow track outlined in duct tape and rope.
Tuesday's bout featured the league divided into two teams: the Lightning vs. the Thunder. In the first half of the match, the Thunder mounted a substantial and secure lead over the Lightning, as the Lightning never came within 20 points. However, the Lightning crawled back and finally made up the difference in the final 10 minutes of the game. After more than an hour of competition, both teams found themselves circling the track with hands on their knees in the final minutes of the bout. But after one penalty-filled "jam" - similar to a down in football - the Lightning surpassed the Thunder and won the bout, 144-120.
The comeback came after the Lightning started playing more strategically in the second half, said Roller Dolls' head coach and Thunder captain "Zen Blaster," otherwise known as Robin Nash.
Although roller derby is phasing out the spectacle past, the game can be just as physical. In the second half, the Lightning suffered a setback when "Scrappy's," Sherry Green, skates flew out from under her while trying to break through the pack. She sat out the rest of the game.
"They knock the snot out of each other," said Matt Green, who was in the stands supporting his wife. "This is a rough sport; you're going to be amazed."
The Roller Girls are required to attend two-hour practices twice a week. Before they can skate in a bout, they have to pass a skills and safety test mandated by Women's Flat Track Derby Association, the sport's governing body. The test requires players to learn three different ways to stop and complete 25 laps in less than five minutes, among other measures of skill. But accidents still happen.
"Lttl Villain," aka LaVerne Gomez, wore referee's black and white strips for this bout because she broke her pinkie when she fell during a practice scrimmage and got her finger caught in a team member's skate.
Early in the first half, "Ruby RedRumble," aka Brandy Hoeve, became tripped up in the pack of eight women on skates and fell face-first onto the track.
But what is the appeal of participating in such a physical club, when peers and colleagues might join a recreation volleyball league or book club? Being on a roller derby team is liberating for Hoeve.
"It's very gratifying to be able to deck a girl," she said. "Your whole life you're told you can't hit girls."
The next roller derby bout will be June 16 at the Eagle Ice Rink and Pool. More information on the league, how to join, and when they hold their boot camp can be found at 10thmountainrollerdolls.com.


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* Roy Schestowitz fired off this tart reply:
> FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo
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They'd better start now. The Munich example indicates some of the
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GARY HILLChaplain-Solano County Sheriff's Office
Chaplain Gary Hill is a native of Philadelphia, Pa and originally came to Solano County by way of the USAF stationed at Travis Air Force Base in September 1971. He has been married to Cecelia Hill for 28 years and they have three children and four grandchildren.Gary was a youth minister at St. Stephens CME from 1983 until 1985, and has pastored Living Waters Christian Fellowship in Fairfield since 1988. Gary has ministered voluntarily in the Solano County Juvenile Hall and the Solano County Jail since 1986. He was the 1992 recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service award.Chaplain Hill makes every effort to provide compassionate care to the inmates and their families. He meets the spiritual needs of the inmates through counseling, teaching, and providing religious materials. In times of crisis he is often activley involved in bringing the apropriate support to the persons affected. He also trains religious volunteers and serves as a liason between clergy and the Sheriff's Office.


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Motorola today announced a joint event with Intel to take place on September 18th. As is often the case, the invitation and its tag line "Let us take you to the edge" shed little light on what could be announced.
Back at CES, the two companies announced a new partnership focused on Intel-powered smartphones and tablets. At the time, Motorola indicated that it would launch its first Intel Medfield-powered Android phone in the second half of the year. Are they about to make good on that promise?
The "#motoedge" hashtag suggests that the device could be called the Motorola EDGE.
A rendering leaked back in February may be a clue as to what we can expect at the event.
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THIS woman has the secret and she is telling the world!
Imagine this: you are estranged from your adoptive mother after a childhood peppered with emotional and physical abuse. After years of tireless searching you are joyfully reunited with your birth mother, only to lose her within months to a tragic and unexpected death.
To top it all you find yourself a single mum to a boisterous and beguiling son whose
Asperger's Syndrome goes undiagnosed for the first five years of his life despite your
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What do you do?
Well if your name is Ajay Rochester, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and shed halfyour body weight. You keep a brave, bold and beautifully human diary of your weight-loss lessons and transform over 300 pounds of depression, eating disorders and damaging yo-yo diets into a story of such courage, determination and success against all odds that your first book Confessions of a Reformed Dieter flies off the shelves and is nominated for Most Inspirational Talking Book of the Year alongside Dr Phil.
You become a role model for women everywhere struggling with obesity, wellbeing and self-esteem issues. You write 4 more books on health and wellness, establish a thriving member-driven online community and support network called Healthy Body Club, write regular columns for popular magazines, including FitPerez, tour the country on the speakers circuit inspiring others to transform their lives, accept channel 10's invitation to host their flagship television show, THE BIGGEST LOSER for 4 years…
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concerned, she's only just getting into her stride! With 2 brand new books on the way and now writing for Diet.com, Autism Speaks and Perez Hilton Ajay is making her way in the USA as a passionate advocate for self love and transformation,walking the walk and talking the talk herself. But what really makes this chick such a stand-out is her ability to remain grounded, relatable and honest, no matter what. Through inviting early readers of her books to contact her
by email and replying personally to as many as possible, Ajay inspired a thriving online
community which has blossomed into the internationally populated FREE online support
network Healthy Body Club with the philosophy to help as many women as
possible to heal their lives whilst helping others do the same.
Ajay is a vocal advocate of positive body images for women and cares passionately about
the women whose lives are interwoven with her own through the highs and lows of shared
experience of creating Healthy Body Club, she says: "It is a unique space filled with REAL women all working towards and achieving their goals. If you're having a bad day, log in to find instant inspiration. If having a great day, share it and let us be motivated by your success. Heathy Body Club is women empowering women to be the very best they can be."
Ajay continues to support, inspire, motivate and educate many through her public speaking, her books, her blogs, her ongoing charity work and her one one one coaching.
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I graciously (see: did a little dance thinking of what I could buy) accepted their challenge.
Rifling through the colour coordinated and size-sorted donations, I spied this pale blue shirt dress with a huge full skirt. I thought it looked rather cute so popped it in my 'to try on' pile. I only noticed after falling in love with it, that it was vintage Cacharel- particularly desirable to me after I lusted after their recent print collab with Uniqlo. For £14.99, it was a done deal.
The accessories were harder- most charity shops are full of 90's studded belts and acrylic gloves. The white straw hat was a lucky charity shop buy for a fiver, decorated with a length of my own blue satin ribbon to match the dress. The pink shoes were a car boot purchase, originally from Primark, for £3 and the socks were new from Topshop for £4. The sequin bag was an old vintage find, so technically free.


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The interchangeable lens LUMIX GF5 provides stunning image quality and intuitive operation packed into a sleek and stylish design
Panasonic today launches the stylish and easy-to-use LUMIX GF5, designed to produce DSLR image quality and HD video from an ultra-compact body. With a new high-sensitivity 12.1 megapixel Live MOS image sensor and new Venus Engine with Multi-process Noise Reduction, youll get outstanding performance across a wide ISO range and great pictures in every situation. High-speed, precise and intuitive, the interchangeable lens LUMIX GF5 is designed to take photography to the next level.
Pushing image quality to new highs in an ultra-compact design
With a new image sensor giving crisp and clear image quality up to ISO 12,800, the LUMIX GF5 is perfect for people who want DSLR image quality experience in a more stylish, sleek and light-weight camera. The bright and responsive 3.0-inch 920k dot LCD touchscreen has a clean and easy-to-use interface making it fun to frame shots quickly, in beautiful detail. With Light Speed Auto Focus of just 0.09 seconds youll never miss the perfect moment. And the LUMIX GF5s exceptional low-light performance means you can capture your adventures in stunning quality, no-matter where you are:
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The LUMIX GF5s advanced and intuitive features help you capture your own unique view of the world with just the touch of a finger. A variety of creative controls mean its fun and easy to try new shooting techniques, further develop your own style, and achieve professional results with the advanced settings:
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With an easy-to-use interface, simple controls and fast operation, the LUMIX GF5 puts you in control of your photography. Hybrid control options - including both the intuitive LCD touchscreen, and physical buttons and dials - provide complete versatility, while a wide range of compatible accessories and lenses will open up a whole new photographic world:
Further information about the GF5 is also available in the LUMIX G Experience, a free iPad app allowing keen photographers to explore the world of LUMIX G before purchasing a camera.
The feature rich app is available in Europe, without charge, from the iTunes App Store and includes, amongst others, detailed technology explanations, line-up demos and comparisons with traditional DSLR cameras.
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Reed Smith Sees Uptick in International Collaboration
An international law firm with thousands of employees, Reed Smith heavily relied on regional document management systems to help process thousands of essential business documents each day. In 2009, the firm was faced with designing a global collaborative system to help with cross-selling initiatives. It also wanted to address distance issues between its two main data centers in the U.S. and Europe.
The challenge was to maintain a performance-rich document search and access experience regardless of the location of the user or the document. U.S. teams would expect the same local region search and access performance experience on the European system. Likewise, European users needed seamless and efficient access to U.S. repositories. Additionally, the firm wanted to reduce its data center storage and combine US/ Europe group document libraries with single instant storage. Without ease of accessibility and single instant storage, Reed Smith would not be able to provide seamless international collaboration and could not benefit from global cross selling opportunities.
The company turned to Forsythe for assistance. After detailed interviews and analysis, Forsythe recommended, tested and finally implemented a new technology to reduce application latency between the two data centers.
Today, with the new technology in place, Reed Smith employees in the U.S. and Europe are able to search and access either document repository quickly and efficiently. Ultimately, Reed Smith has seen a significant increase in cross selling opportunities and international collaboration. Plans for 2010 include the implementation and integration of another data center and global sharing of an Asian document system.
"We were very impressed with the in depth analysis Forsythe performed to help us select a WAN accelerator," says Frank Hervert, Reed Smith's senior manager of network services and security technologies. "The Forsythe engineering teams worked closely with our IT staff to introduce the appliances to our complex data center infrastructure. They provided complete diagramming, documentation and base configurations in advance, and stayed with us every step of the way."
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I am a firm believer that breakfast foods make anything better. Even if you're dealing with a drop dead gorgeous wedding, a la Vis Photography, throw in a few waffles and purple sprinkled donuts and somehow it's even better. That's what you're about to lays eyes on loves. A wedding so beautiful plus a brunch reception, complete with purple sprinkles.
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When the drought is over, and forage production and pastures have come back, beef producers will begin to restock and expand their cow herds.
"OK, you've got cows, now you have an opportunity to think about what you're going to do when it starts to rain, so you don't have to make those decisions when it starts raining, make those decisions now."
Joe Paschal is a livestock specialist with Texas Agrilife Extension.
"Think about what you can restock with relative to your forage availability, and then think about in terms of restocking, what kind of stress do you have on your cows, in terms of their living stress. If there's lots of forage out there, and you help control internal and external parasites and diseases, you probably have a very low level of environmental stress."
Drought brings with it high levels of stress on cattle.
"If everything's great, nearly anything will work, but if everything's really poor, that narrows your choices, and I tried to get folks to think about choices as kind of in five general areas. Things like milk production, and mature size, and calving ease, and adaptation to stress, and muscling, and then the ability to retain some level of fat, because we want our cows to kind of live off the land, we don't want to always have to feed them."
There are five or six different breed groups that can make up a base cow herd.
"Whether it's British, or Brahman, or American, what kinds of sire types can you use to fit either a market or a replacement market, so are you planning on selling all your calves? We talked about what specific crosses of sires to use with what specific crosses of dames, and if it's all market, these are the ones you might be interested in. If you plan on keeping replacements, here's some others that you might be interested in."
So there really is a little more to beef production than putting some cows out in a pasture and gathering their calves. Tough times force ranchers to make decisions about restocking that may help them better weather the next curve Mother Nature throws at them. I'm Ashley Batey, looking at Brazos Valley agriculture, From The Ground Up.


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Bonnefanten Museum is within a mile (2 km) of NH Maastricht, and other popular sites like Basilica of Our Lady are within a couple of miles (3 km). This 4-star hotel has 275 guestrooms and offers free in-room WiFi, a health club, and a rooftop terrace. Also close to this Maastricht hotel are Natural History Museum and St. Servaas Church.
Have a drink at the cocktail bar or enjoy onsite dining at one of 3 restaurants like Seasons Restaurant, which specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Order from room service to satisfy your hunger without leaving your room. For your convenience, breakfast is available for a fee.
All 275 air-conditioned accommodations feature sitting areas. TVs come with cable channels, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi. Beds sport pillow menus and bathrooms offer hair dryers. Minibars, coffee makers, and free newspapers are also standard.
Property features
At NH Maastricht, guests have access to a health club, a sauna, and a rooftop terrace. Self parking is available for EUR 13.50 per day. Front-desk staff can answer questions 24/7, and assist with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Other amenities at this family-friendly hotel include free WiFi in public areas, a business center, and laundry facilities.
- Close to Bonnefanten Museum
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Onsite dining
- Health club
NH MaastrichtForum 110 Maastricht 6229 GV
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
NH Maastricht features a health club and a sauna. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 4-star property offers access to a business center. Event facilities measure 10642 square feet (989 square meters). This family-friendly hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and gift shops/newsstands. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
NH Maastricht is a smoke-free property.
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Conference space size (meters) - 989
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Conference space size (feet) - 10642
- Free WiFi
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Number of floors - 5
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- 24-hour front desk
- Total number of rooms - 275
- Bar/lounge
- Business center
- Elevator/lift
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Concierge services
- Ski storage
- Laundry facilities
- Health club
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Sauna
- Smoke-free property
- Steam room
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Separate sitting area
- Iron/ironing board
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Pillow menu
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hair dryer
- Television
- Desk
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- In-room safe
- In-room massage available
- Free newspaper
- Room service (limited hours)
Where to Eat
Seasons Restaurant - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available.
The Garden - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Bizonder - This cocktail bar serves light fare only.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the hotel include a health club and a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 20 per pet, per night
- Dogs only
- 1 per room
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same hotel / stay dates).
No rollaway/extra beds available
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 4.58 per person, per night
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: EUR 14.90 per person (approximately)
- Self parking fee: EUR 13.50 per day
- Pet fee: EUR 20 per pet, per night
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
- Facilities fee: EUR 9.50 per person, per day
Hotel Name
- Hotel NH Maastricht
- Nh Hotels Maastricht
- Nh Maastricht Hotel Maastricht
We should mention
One child 12 years old or younger stays free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).


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by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Official Site
Read their notably self-aggrandizing band bio, get merch, look up tour dates, and… well that's about it, really.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros MySpace
Free listening is always good, right?
A.V. Club Interview with Alex Ebert (2009)
This is one of Ebert's best interviews (we think it might be because the A.V. Club generously edited out a lot of his "like" and "umm" usage). This is an interesting interview, and it's capped with a live video of the band performing "Home" on Letterman.


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This one definitely beats all the rest. Can you imagine an insurance plan having a 8.7% yield with risk cover and tax-free returns in today's time.
There is one such children's plan called Bal Vidya from the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). No wonder, like others, this one too is soon facing the axe.