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WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Countries are falling short in meeting the global goal to end preventable child and maternal deaths by 2035, despite a U.S.-led plan launched two years ago to accelerate progress, a report released on Wednesday said.
The findings have prompted the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to refocus its child and maternal health programmes. The agency is directing $2.9 billion in funds over two years to 24 countries where mortality is highest, dropping projects in 19 countries and streamlining its programmes to prevent overlap with other donors.
Rajiv Shah, head of USAID, said he is confident these changes will help save the lives of up to half a million children over three years.
"We set for ourselves the target of getting child mortality down below 20 over 1,000 by 2035 for every country in the world, and we believe we are on track to achieve that goal," Shah said at a news briefing.
In its report "Acting on the Call: Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths", a blue ribbon panel led by the United Nations' special envoy for health finance Ray Chambers reported that promising gains have been made in some countries with highly targeted programmes.
Uganda and Zambia for example have reduced maternal mortality by at least 30 percent by pouring resources into high-risk areas. USAID also has driven results by increasing the treatment of drinking water, helping in malaria prevention and raising the delivery of contraceptives to lessen the frequency of pregnancies.
"Despite these successes, on our current trajectory, we will not achieve the global goal of ending preventable child and maternal deaths by 2035," the report concluded. It recommended focusing resources on the 24 countries that account for 70 percent of the global mortality rate and scaling up projects that are proven successes.
By 2013, maternal death rates were down 45 percent from 1990 levels but well shy of the 2015 Millennium Development Goalfor a 75 percent reduction. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the number of women dying in pregnancy and child birth stands at one in every 38 compared with one in every 3,700 in developed countries, according to World Health Organisation.
Most of these deaths are because mothers lack access to skilled routine healthcare or to basic emergency services, health experts said.
"We know how to save these lives, we haven't put the momentum behind it, and unfortunately there is no silver bullet. There is a multiplicity of ways to prevent child and maternal death, and we just haven't got the services to all the right places on a district-by-district basis," said Erin Thornton, executive director of Every Mother Counts.
She welcomed the plans announced by USAID although she cautioned that more details on resource allocation were necessary to ensure would be no negative impact on the other 19 countries.
To that end, USAID said a number of joint partnerships with the private sector are due to be announced on Wednesday.
Among them will be a $30 million programme from Johnson & Johnson, $500 million from Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, at least $4 million will be pledged by public and private partners for the USAID-led programme called Survive and Thrive, which partners child clinicians in the United States with their counterparts in high-risk countries to share knowledge and improve training, said Lily Kak, USAID senior adviser for new-born health.
USAID did not identify the 19 countries where projects would be dropped, nor provided figures on whether its overall funding for child and maternal mortality is increasing in the years ahead. In fiscal year 2013 USAID spent $2.1 billion on all its child and maternal health programmes.
Programmes that have proven successful include the use of in Nepal of chlorohexidine ointment on the umbilical cord, which has reduced neo-natal infections and death by 23 percent and now will be produced in other countries such as Nigeria, Shah said.
The 24 countries identified as high risk, where maternal mortality averages 310 per 100,000, are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen and Zambia. Many global health experts want to reduce the maternal mortality rate to 50 deaths per 100,000 live births.
The United States on Wednesday is hosting a conference in Washington of over 500 leaders in global health to review progress over the past two years ahead of a global meeting in child and maternal mortality in Johannesburg at the end of the month.
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Young's speed wins game for Mets, 3-2 over Rockies
NEW YORK (AP) -- Eric Young Jr. never slowed down as he scored from second on Juan Lagares' infield single in the bottom of the eighth.
He went even faster.
The lightning-quick Mets left fielder made a diving catch to take a go-ahead hit away from Todd Helton in the sixth inning, then raced home with the tiebreaking run in the eighth, and the New York Mets beat the Colorado Rockies 3-2 on Tuesday night.
"Felt good against those guys," Young said. "There's no hard feelings. I'm more appreciative that they made the move they did because I wouldn't be in this situation if they didn't. But it was good being able to showcase that."
The Rockies have lost 12 of 18 since the All-Star break and have scored five runs in their last three games.
LaTroy Hawkins gave up a pair of two-out singles in the ninth before Ike Davis made a diving catch on Yorvit Torrealba's sinking liner in foul territory down the first base line. It was Hawkins' first save since May 6, 2012, for the Angels.
Scott Atchison (2-0) pitched a scoreless eighth inning after Carlos Torres pitched 1 2-3 perfect innings in relief of Mets starter Jenrry Mejia.
"I thought he pitched well enough," Mets manager Terry Collins said. "I think when the umpire got hurt, the sitting kind of got him off track a little bit. But our bullpen came in did a great job."
Plate ump Manny Gonzalez was injured when he appeared to be hit in the jaw after a pitch from Mejia bounced up and hit him under the mask. Gonzalez was escorted off under his own power, and second base umpire Larry Vanover had to go change into protective gear to assume duties behind the plate.
Collins said Gonzalez was feeling much better after the game.
Young led off the eighth with a single against Wilton Lopez (1-4). He was able to take second on Marlon Byrd's deep fly, putting him in position to make it home on Lagares' infield single, a slow chopper to second base that he just barely beat out. Young accelerated around third and beat the throw home.
"Pretty much I knew it was a slow roller so it was going to be all-out play for the second base to make at first and as long as I continued running the whole way, he had to make the perfect throw to first and the perfect throw to get me."
Lagares also hit a two-run triple in the first.
Mejia tied a season high with seven strikeouts, but left after 5 1-3 innings. He allowed a tying solo homer to pinch-hitter Chris Blackmon to lead off the sixth and nearly gave up the lead, too, after a long pause in the game when Gonzalez was injured.
Mejia only got one out after the interlude, though third baseman Wilmer Flores committed an error on a tough hop off the bat of Troy Tulowitzki and Michael Cuddyer walked. Torres came on with the bases loaded and retired Wilin Rosario on a pop fly to center too shallow to score a run before Young made his diving grab on Helton's liner.
"That's what he's brought to us, that energy, that speed," Collins said. "I can't emphasize enough the job that he's done since he's been here. He's gotten on base when we needed him to. He scores runs like that. He's played great in the outfield."
Flores was making his big league debut. He mostly played shortstop in the Mets system, but filled in at third because David Wright was hurt last weekend.
Chad Bettis, who made the start while Tyler Chatwood got pushed back a few days to let his tweaked hamstring rest, allowed two runs and four hits in five innings.
Bettis settled down after Lagares' triple, and the Rockies got a run back for him in the fifth, when Rosario hit a leadoff single and scored on a sacrifice fly. Davis lifted his glove over Helton's grounder to first base for an error, allowing Rosario to take third with nobody out. After he scored, D.J. LeMahieu hit into an inning-ending double play.
Those stranded runners loomed large later, when Young, who was traded to New York on June 18 for right-hander Collin McHugh, scored. The Rockies knew what Young could do, but couldn't find room for him in their lineup or bench.
"He's got game-changing speed, and it got them a win tonight," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said.
NOTES: Davis went 2 for 2 with a pair of walks to reach safely in all his plate appearances on Tuesday night. He has a .446 on-base percentage since returning from Triple-A Las Vegas on July 5. ... Mets RHP Matt Harvey (8-3) is expected to face Rockies RHP Jhoulys Chacin (10-5) in Wednesday's game. ... Mets LHP Jonathon Niese struck out six and allowed two runs and four hits in five innings of a rehab start at Double-A Binghamton. ... Lagares has 12 RBIs since the All-Star break.


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AGM discharge agenda item: UBS BoD member Bruno Gehrig comments
In the 28 March edition of the SonntagsZeitung, a Swiss newspaper, UBS Board of Directors (BoD) member Bruno Gehrig explained in an article the reasons the bank put the discharge of the 2007, 2008 and 2009 BoD and Group Executive Board (GEB) members on the agenda of the upcoming annual general meeting (AGM).
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In the last two years, UBS did not put the discharge on the AGM agenda because the bank wanted to clarify the causes of the losses in the US mortgage market and the misconduct in connection with its cross-border wealth management business in the US. Since then, the facts were examined in approx. 10 internal and external investigations. The Swiss banking regulator SFBC, today the FINMA, and independent external legal experts took part in these investigations.
All of these investigations showed organizational shortcomings but no evidence of criminal conduct of individual BoD or GEB members. Nevertheless UBS wanted to clarify if it should initiate a civil liability against former bodies of the bank. UBS commissioned two additional legal opinions that dealt with the question of the potential civil liability of individual senior executives. The evidence produced by these reviews showed that the outcome of potential litigation would be open, at best.
On 15 December UBS disclosed the BoD's decision not to initiate criminal complaints or any civil action against former UBS executives. It was more important to the BoD to concentrate all efforts of the bank on the implementation of necessary, forward-looking changes. At about the same time, the Criminal Authorities of the Canton of Zurich, in Switzerland, announced their conclusion that they did not find any actions by UBS executives that would make a criminal investigation necessary and they ceased their proceedings.
As UBS does not intend to take legal action against former corporate bodies, the proposal for the discharge at the AGM is a logical consequence. A possible discharge is only valid for the facts known at the time of the decision. In addition, shareholders can file a civil liability lawsuit for up to six months after the AGM provided that they voted against the discharge or did not take part in the vote. Also, the right for the corporation to file arises again if new facts are disclosed.
The BoD highly respects the political institutions that supported the bank in critical situations. Therefore, UBS evaluated whether it should await the result of parliamentary investigations in Switzerland. This political process is important for Switzerland, and UBS will contribute its part. It, however, is not about the liability for potential misconduct of previous UBS bodies under Swiss corporate law. The assessment of this question is up to the AGM. By asking for discharge, the bank is not attempting to shun its past: We are confronting the question of civil liability and give our shareholders the right to decide.


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How to Set Mac OS X Snow Leopard's Parental Controls
Setting Mac OS X Snow Leopard's parental controls helps you restrict certain content that you deem inappropriate for children, but the controls don't stop there. You can set time limits and even have Mac create logs that show where different system users have been. All these parental control options are designed to make your children's online life safer.
To display the controls for a standard account:
Open the System Preferences pane and click the Accounts icon.
Click the account that you want to monitor and/or control in the list.
Click the Open Parental Controls button.
Click the Enable Parental Controls button and click the Lock icon in the lower-left corner to confirm your access (if necessary).
Snow Leopard includes five different categories of controls:
System: These settings affect what the user can do within Snow Leopard as well as what the Finder itself looks like to that user.
Content: These settings control the Dictionary and Safari applications. If you prefer that profane terms be hidden within the Dictionary for this user, click the Hide Profanity in Dictionary check box to enable it. Snow Leopard also offers three levels of control for Web sites:
Allow Unrestricted Access: Select this radio button to allow unfettered access for this user.
Try to Limit Access: You can allow Safari to automatically block Web sites it deems adult. To specify particular sites to allow or deny, click the Customize button.
Allow Access to Only These Websites: To add a Web site, click the Add button (which bears a plus sign). Snow Leopard prompts you for a title and the Web site address.
Mail & iChat: Specify Apple Mail and iChat messaging addresses that this user can communicate with.
To recieve notification if the user is attempting to send an e-mail to someone not in the list, click the Send Permission Requests To check box and type your e-mail address in the text box.
Time Limits: You can limit by usage per weekday and weekend day, and set a bedtime computer curfew time for both weekdays and weekend days.Limit a user's computer usage.
Logs: Snow Leopard keeps logs that track where a user goes on the Internet, which applications they launch, and the contents of any iChat conversations. From this central pane, you can monitor all the logs for a particular account.
Note that these logs are enabled or disabled from other locations within Snow Leopard. For example, the log showing the Web sites visited and blocked is enabled from Content, whereas the applications log is enabled when on the System pane. iChat logging is turned on from the Preferences dialog within the iChat application.
You can always tell whether an account has been assigned Parental Controls because the account description changes from Standard to Managed in the Accounts list.


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Birds'-nesting, the subject of 'Returning from the Haunts of the Seafowl', was a popular pursuit for young boys in the late 18 and early 19 centuries, and was equally popular as a subject for artists portraying children. Collecting eggs, as a form of classifying natural phenomena, was a hobby that exemplified the age of Enlightenment's spirit of scientific enquiry; but birds'-nesting also partook of the Romantic era's demand for closer and more immediate contact with nature, involving as it did physical exertion and even mild danger in the act of climbing to awkward locations.
Above all, birds'-nesting as an activity encapsulated the intrinsic cruelty of the male sex towards the female. Artists often depicted boys birds'-nesting in the company of girls. It was a pursuit that provided a universal moral lesson in the separateness of the sexes, emphasising the vanity and shallowness of men. At the same time, in bringing the eggs for the approval of the girl, the boys inevitably remind her – and the viewer – of their positive, as well as negative, role in the process of procreation.
This type of picture, in which the depiction of the pursuits of ordinary, poor people aimed to deliver a universal moral message, had been invented by Dutch artists in the 17 century. In early 19 century Britain, these Dutch paintings of two centuries earlier were becoming intensely popular with art collectors, and Collins's aim, as with contemporaries such as David Wilkie, Edward Bird and even occasionally Turner, was to respond to the demand for modern, 'national', equivalents.
Part of Collins's achievement in 'Returning from the Haunts of the Seafowl' is to create an ambience that is both distinctively English, with its evocation of coastal life and light, and also modern in its sensibility, with its startling rejection of classical design values and appeal to direct, immediate, physical sensation.
Under cover of a superficially picturesque narrative of children playing by the seaside, Collins creates a remarkably visceral sense of vertiginous danger: the beach is an unimaginable distance below, yet one child has climbed the cliff barefoot, and he and his companion carry heavy wooden implements with a carefree ease that makes the viewer gasp.
The chief source of the painting's visual effect is Collins's elaborate design, in which the sweeping, serpentine outline of the cliff divides the picture into two distinct halves. But not satisfied with this remarkable invention, Collins imparts visual interest to every part of the picture: from the busy, racing clouds to the shadows of the cliff face falling across the beach; from the wheeling, disturbed gulls that swirl across the otherwise monotonous centre of the work to the dog that acts as a focal point to the area at lower left.
Even the centre foreground, at first sight an undifferentiated mass of earth and rock, is animated by the hat of a boy disappearing out of the picture. Equally remarkable is the play of light. Collins creates a complex pattern of highlight and shadow, neutral light and contre-jour with wonderful skill, yet he never sacrifices the sense that he is true to life; that he has witnessed these light effects himself.
One of Collins's largest works, 'Returning from the Haunts of the Seafowl' was shown at the Royal Academy in 1833. It was widely admired, though a fellow-artist caught a sense of its ambitious, carefully thought-out quality when he complained that Collins 'had attempted to push the illustrative capacities of Art beyond what they would bear'. The painting had already had four owners by the time it was acquired in the early 1850s by the Liverpool banker John Naylor, one of the great collectors of modern British art in the early Victorian era.
William Collins (1788-1847) was a younger contemporary of JMW Turner and John Constable, and to British art lovers in the second quarter of the 19 century, he was even more popular – and collectable – than they were. But his reputation has faded. Today he is probably best known as the father of Wilkie Collins, the author of the classic Victorian mystery stories 'The Moonstone' and 'The Woman in White'. (A second son, the artist Charles Allston Collins, was a friend and associate of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and married one of the daughters of Charles Dickens).
William Collins was born in London in 1788. From a poor background, he studied briefly as a boy under George Morland, whose paintings of rural types such as gypsies, tinkers, and smugglers had become popular in the 1790s. The same class of people, and above all their children, sentimentalised and prettified, would become the staple of Collins's art.
He began to make his name when he showed 'Children Fishing' at the British Institution in 1810: this was an exhibiting body supported by aristocratic art patrons, and Collins would become a favourite of high-profile collectors such as the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Devonshire, Sir Robert Peel, and King George IV himself. Many of his pictures employed coastal settings, and this became a distinct strain in his work. Though successful, he remained modest and diffident about his painting.
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[UPDATE: Check Out the First Official Transformers 3 Poster!]
The teaser trailer brought us to the first moon landing and the Super Bowl TV spot introduced us to the action. Now, the first full trailer and second official theatrical trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon is online, bringing with it the story.
Seemingly everyone involved with the Transformers movies thus far, from star Shia LaBeouf to director Michael Bay, has admitted to the faults of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and promise much, much better with their third and final go. We cannot deny that Transformers 3 looks promising, but we haven't had a look into the story and characters yet... until now.
While the Apollo 11 teaser trailer gave us a very unique intro to the story for the next Transformers, it was the brief Super Bowl spot that pulled us into the action, right in the middle of a horrifying invasion of Chicago. Many new Decepticons, much larger ones at that, scoured the city and and the visual effects were miles ahead of the rushed production of its predecessor.
Let's put that into context with the new full trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon:
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We'll update with our own version as soon as we are able.
A common criticism for the last Transformers movie is that they added so many characters without actually adding any character to them. Revenge of the Fallen was weighed down by a convoluted plot and countless nameless characters whose only purpose was to justify an extended Hasbro toy line. From what we've seen from Dark of the Moon so far, there are twice as many characters (Cybertronians and humans) in TF3, so we can only hope they serve a legitimate role in the story writer Ehren Kruger put together. We can at least say, they all look better in their action sequences!
Update: Now Check out the first theatrical poster for Dark of the Moon:
The first teaser gave us our first look at what we believe is the Ark (an Autobot ship from Cybertron) from the perspective of Neil Alden Armstrong, but this new trailer shows the Ark crashing, but not revealing when that occurs. From the original Transformers cartoon and the Beast Wars animated series in the 90s, the Ark crashed millions of years ago and became the base of operations for the Autobots after awakening from a volcanic eruption in the 80s. We can expect that the film will explain much more of the backstory of the Autobots and Decepticons and how they came to Earth. Here's a little side-by-side put together by our own Paul Young of the Ark from the trailers and the one from the original animated series.
The one redeeming quality of Revenge of the Fallen was how they amped up the bad-ass factor of Optimus, emphasizing him as not only the poster bot of the franchise but the greatest warrior of the Aubots. In this trailer, that idea is taken to an entirely new level as Optimus seemingly comes from nowhere againt all odds, to wreak havoc on a group of Decepticons (parts of this seen were shown in the Super Bowl teaser). In this sequence, he's again augmented with additional parts which allow him to fly, like we saw when he merged with Jetfire (an old Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird) in the last movie.
The set pieces are much more massive and bring the story much closer to home, as they tear apart the City of Chicago. From a visual standpoint, Michael Bay has taken the franchise to an entirely new level and from this trailer alone, we can recommend this as an IMAX experience worthy of the extra dollars.
Some quick observations of note are that they don't really hone in on any of the new autobot characters, and we know there are many from the set pictures that surfaced during production. That's not at all a bad thing, and it actually allows them to slowly reveal more as we approach July. The less they show before the film hits, the better. You'll also notice that Megan Fox's replacement, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley doesn't speak a word.
Story isn't the selling point of the Transformers films but it's important that it's at least compelling and enjoyable. What are your expectations now for TF3?
Transformers regulars Shia LaBeouf, John Turturro, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese Gibson return for Dark of the Moon along with our favorite Autobot heroes and are joined by series newcomers, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, Kevin Dunn, with John Malkovich and Frances McDormand. Let us not forget that Leonard Nimoy will be voicing the mighty Sentinel Prime.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon hits regular theaters and IMAX on July 1st, in 2D and 3D.-
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Liz Cheney to challenge GOP senator
Liz Cheney announced Tuesday that she will challenge Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi in a Republican primary next year.
The daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney made the announcement in a six-minute YouTube video. Most of her announcement was an attack on President Barack Obama, with only a veiled swipe at the incumbent.
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"We can get our nation back on track," Cheney said. "Instead of cutting deals with the president's liberal allies, we should be opposing them every step of the way."
"I'm running because I believe it is necessary for a new generation of leaders to step up to the plate," she added. "We can't continue business as usual in Washington."
Enzi, 69, announced Tuesday that he will run for a fourth term. He said at the Capitol that Cheney did not give him a heads up and defiantly insisted that her move will not dissuade him.
"She said that if I ran she wasn't going to run. That wasn't correct," he said. "I thought we were friends."
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National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Jerry Moran, a senator from Kansas, announced that the official party body will back Enzi.
Cheney, 46, worked in the State Department and the Agency for International Development during the George W. Bush administration. But she moved her family to Jackson Hole last year and has traveled aggressively around the state laying the foundation for what everyone assumed would be a political bid.
Fox News reportedly will terminate Cheney's contract as a political analyst with the cable network. She's appeared often over the last 18 months.
A Cheney spokesman said that the candidate will hold a press conference on Wednesday.
The elder Cheney was a Wyoming congressman before becoming Secretary of Defense.
Wyoming's other senator, Sen. John Barrasso, quickly endorsed Enzi.
"Mike Enzi is a friend, a mentor and a tremendous US Senator for Wyoming," Barrasso said. "I support his reelection."
Cheney did not call Barrasso ahead of her announcement either.
Though she is mounting an upstart campaign against an incumbent senator, Cheney has already amassed significant financial firepower from within the GOP establishment.
Former Republican National Committee Finance Chairman Mel Sembler, a longtime friend of the Cheney family who served as ambassador to Italy, told POLITICO he's all-in for the former vice president's daughter.
"Absolutely, I'm supporting her," Sembler said. "We've got a lot of events already set all over the country."
Asked if it was at all uncomfortable for a former top RNC official to dive into a primary challenge like this, Sembler chuckled: "I left that job many years ago."
"I've been a friend [of the family] for 20 years, since Dick was defense secretary," he said. "We're happy to support her campaign."
Veteran GOP strategist Mary Matalin, who was a top adviser to the vice president while he was in office, cautioned the powers-that-be in Washington not to try and undermine the younger Cheney's campaign.
"The so-called 'Establishment' should let the voters decide," Matalin said in an email. "Her service and consistent conservative commitment is deep and broad and should and will be judged on its own merits. Her supporters believe in something bigger than themselves, and that is more potent than can be calculated."
Another Republican with extensive ties to the fundraising world predicted that Cheney would collect strong support from national security conservatives, including the influential world of pro-Israel donors.
"She will create a lot of excitement and raise a lot of money among those folks in the pro-Israel community that she and her father have gotten to know over the years," the Republican said. "We have not seen somebody run as a strong foreign policy platform-based candidate in quite some time. So much of the discussion in the last several cycles has been about domestic issues."


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London is always a wonderful city to visit in the summer but following on from the success of our fabulous and over-all-too-quickly Olympics and with the party still to come at the Paralympics, our capital city has well and truly positioned itself at the centre of the travel universe. So, here's a wee look at two celeb-studded hotels in the city. First up, the rather lovely Landmark London Hotel.
LUCKY STARS: Katy Perry, Keira Knightly, Jack Black,Justin Timberlake, Freddie Flintoff, Myleen Klass and the Manchester United football team.
The Landmark was originally constructed as an elegant railway hotel for the well-heeled travellers of the "golden age of steam" and although our grand tour had only brought us from Manchester and Glasgow, it seemed fitting that Mommy Dearest and I arrived directly from the Marylebone station platform. After hours of negotiating the London Tube system (getting lost on more like – Mum and I are proof positive that a poor sense of direction genetically disposed), the sight of the hotel's magnificent Victorian architecture and the promise of some old-school service couldn't have been more welcome. Crossing the threshold, weariness was replaced with wonder as we entered into a world of creamy marbles, softly-lit chandeliers, enormous floral displays and Victorian neoclassical oil paintings. While we were still wow-ing over the beautiful interiors we were discreetly checked-in and whisked to our room as all the while the sound of a piano tinkered in the background.
Any travel tensions that may still have been lingering quickly disappeared when we saw our delightful and downright enormous Executive bedroom. Celebrity guests of course opt for the sprawling Landmark or Presidential suites but as The Landmark boasts some of the biggest rooms in London – 300 in all – all tastefully appointed in the classic Victorian tradition, you won't feel short-changed. The bathrooms too are a treat with a huge soaking tubs, walk-in showers, twin sinks and a generous collection of White Company amenities. Oddly though, for such a thoroughly British hotel there were no tea and coffee making facilities in the room.
After a couple of hours lounging on our feathery bed it was time for dinner. And the location for our mother and daughter meal couldn't have been more perfect. The Winter Garden restaurant sits at the heart of a beautiful eight-storey atrium at the centre of the hotel. Frocked-up and famished, we settled in amidst the towering palm trees, juliet balconies and soaring glass ceiling and were feeling very special indeed – a sweetly smug sensation that was only further enhanced by the arrival of Thierry Henry at the next table (Gasp. Tweet).
The classic menu and warm service were loyal to the hotel's traditional aesthetic, however the waiting time was not – a late start and a forty-five minute between courses left us nodding into our empty breadbasket. When the food did arrive though it was delicious – Mum declared me her favourite daughter (I'm her only daughter) as she devoured her lobster risotto – and the thoughtful offer of our waitress to send dessert to our room for a cosy cake and TV combo more than made up for any delays.
Having skipped the Mirror Bar (a favourite celebrity cocktail bar hidden at the back of the hotel) in favour of Baileys creme brulee in bed, and having ran out of time to visit the chic TwoTwentyTwo restaurant and bar, there was one other hotel hot spot that I wanted to visit. The Landmark's swanky spa and health club is as popular with the well-groomed Marylebone locals as it is with the guests and was said to have been Katy Perry's first stop when she stayed at the hotel. Featuring a 15-metre pool, sauna, steam room, whirlpool, monsoon showers and four cocoon-like treatment rooms for some luxe-y treatments – try the ESPA Advanced Super Active Facial for a cover-girl glow.
Overall this is one of the most reasonably-priced and grandest five star hotels you can stay at in London. Situated opposite Marylebone Station, and short stroll from the lovely Regent's Park, this beautiful old grand dame is perfectly located for exploring all that London has to offer, although you may, like us, find it hard to leave such lovely surroundings.
The Landmark London, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7631 8000; www.landmarklondon.co.uk; Double rooms from £250.


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Baylor crushes Long Beach State, 112-66, with 16 threes
WACO, Texas (AP) — Brady Heslip scored 26 points while making eight 3-pointers and Baylor hit a season-high 16 shots from long range in a 112-66 victory over Long Beach State in a first-round NIT game Wednesday night.
Heslip had three early 3s, pushing the Bears to a 16-6 lead in the first 4 minutes, when he had already made long-range shots from the left corner, left wing and top of the key.
"Just showing I could balance it out," said Heslip, whose next 3 was from the right wing. "I love it when teams play zone. Guys made a couple of extra passes early, found me when I was open."
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The Big 12's Bears (19-14) kept a double-figure lead after a 3-pointer by Gary Franklin, who lives about a half-hour from the Long Beach State campus, made it 23-12 with 14:25 left in the first half.
"In 30 years of coaching basketball, this is as noncompetitive as I have ever had a team," Long Beach State coach Dan Monson said.
"Right from the start, we just stood around, and they took everything to us," he said. "You let a team like this get into rhythm and it is going to be a long night. And that's exactly what happened."
Baylor shot 64 percent overall (40 of 63) and even better from long range, making 70 percent of their 3s (16 of 23). It was the highest-scoring postseason game ever for the Bears, who had seven players score in double figures.
Cory Jefferson had 15 points and eight rebounds. Taurean Prince had 14 points, Isaiah Austin 13, Franklin and Pierre Jackson 11 and Deuce Bello 10. A.J. Walton had nine of Baylor's 31 assists on their 40 field goals.
Kris Gulley had 13 points to lead Big West regular-season champion Long Beach State (19-14), which lost for the fifth time in seven games. Tony Freeland and Keala King both scored 12 points and James Ennis had 10.
Baylor's next game is Friday night at home against Arizona State (22-12), which beat Detroit 83-68 later Wednesday night.
With No. 1 seed Kentucky's loss to Robert Morris, the No. 2 seed Bears could play three games at home before the NIT moves to Madison Square Garden for the semifinals and championship game.
Baylor was the NIT runner-up in 2009, then made it to the NCAA regional finals two of the last three seasons.
Heslip was fouled on a 3-pointer at the end of the first half. He made two free throws for a 59-34 lead and the Bears' highest-scoring half this season. The junior guard also had eight 3-pointers against St. John's in November.
It was Baylor's second consecutive lopsided win at home. The Bears ended the regular season with an 81-58 victory over Kansas, a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tourney.
"We played like a weight was off our shoulder," Baylor coach Scott Drew said. "The last two games at home, we played our best games of the season. We hope that continues."


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XP + Vista vulns vs. OSX vulns for 2007. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=758 We had a good year – Apple – not so much. 🙂
Year: 2007
Notable changes in Vista SP1
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsVista/en/library/b984ce70-701b-4565-868e-51d1ba47555d1033.mspx?mfr=true Looks like we've made SP1 RC1 available to the public to download . . . Vista is a bit of a mixed bag for me as of late (but then again – I suffer so you don't have to – I've been running SP1 for months now). The performance of SP1 as compared to…
Pwning Second Life users via QuickTime
Walk by a malicious object in Second Life – get 0wn3d: http://www.securityevaluators.com/sl/ Fascinating. 🙂
Fly with the Blue Angels?
Get pwn3d: http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/swf/blueangels/blueangels.swf Make sure you watch all the videos that are hyperlinked on the left. All I can say is "priceless". 🙂
CNet 3 part series on Securing Microsoft (complete list of articles)
Here are the URL's for the 3 part series on 'Securing Microsoft' which is a pretty good behind the scenes look at the organization I work in. Day 1: http://www.news.com/At-software-giant%2C-pain-gives-rise-to-progress/2009-7349_3-6220566.html Day 2: http://www.news.com/Inviting-the-hackers-inside/2009-7349_3-6221138.html Day 3: http://www.news.com/The-next-generation-of-security-threats/2009-7349_3-6221150.html Now to be fair – I don't think I said exactly this "That's one thing I want you to…
Patches . . .
Story time. So a couple years ago, because I have horses, someone sent me a video of a couple good ole' boys and their horse named "Patches" (you can watch the "Patches the horse" video here.). If you don't have time to watch the video – Patches was a very special horse that would ride around…
How your CxO will get owned next year . . .
In a recent blog I explained how your Mom was going to get owned next year – now it's time to dish on your CxO . . . http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2204871/mi5-warns-chinese-hack-attacks http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=security&articleId=9050538&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top I believe most of these attacks are e-mail based (either very convincing 'click on this link' type emails or emails with attachments) . . ….
The Firefox security myth . . . busted.
Much like the Apple security myth and the Oracle security myth – the numbers just aren't there to support it as our very own Mythbuster – Jeff Jones explains in the blog on the topic. "Over the past 3 years, supported versions of Internet Explorer have experienced fewer vulnerabilities and fewer High severity vulnerabilities than…
CNet 3-part series on securing Microsoft.
Ina Fried is doing a write-up on my organization and so far part 1 was pretty good!http://www.news.com/At-software-giant%2C-pain-gives-rise-to-progress/2009-7349_3-6220566.html?tag=st.num She mentions the DTF competition this year which myself and a friend of mine in the MSRC won . . . it was hosted in the war rooms discussed elsewhere in the article.Man it's interesting to go back…
How your mom will get owned next year . . .
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9049269&intsrc=news_ts_head Hopefully she's running Vista with UAC turned on so that IE runs at low IL, on a machine that supports hardware DEP, as a standard user. 🙂


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March 29, 2015
Comparison is the thief of joy? Yeah, but whose is getting stolen?
Oh! Hello there! What? You weren't expecting me? Well, what a nice surprise then, eh?
To say I've been stretched in a multitude of directions in the last several months is an understatement. We got married in October and our wedding came rushing upon us and papa was knee-deep in DIY. And when you're in the midst of wedding projects and final details you need something to do with all of that "free time" you find yourself with, right? So, why not add a new full-time job to the list? Along with all of the legal matters concerning my mom. And, y'know, blogging. (Okay, maybe "blogging" is more accurate at the moment.) Oy. Veh. But somehow the balls still stayed in rotation [more or less] despite my inexperience at juggling on a professional circus level.
September 04, 2014
Amaretto & Red Currant Cake
For not really being a "food blog" I've certainly come to be known for my offerings of sweet treats. I think it's fair to say that I have a big love of baking and that love is something I got from both of my parents. My mom made some killer banana bread in her day and her cheesecakes were did-you-really-make-that perfection. My dad, while having his hands in every sort of cookery, will probably go down most notably for his dutch babies, cinnamon rolls, pies, and holiday fruitcakes (hey, don't knock 'em 'til you try 'em). God, I have such fond memories of the smells that emanated from that kitchen and all the love that went into those efforts. And that's why baking brings me so much joy.
August 28, 2014
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
Yes. I'm back. Yes. Again. I know, you may be wondering, "Doesn't a blogger have to blog to be a blogger?" I would tend to agree. Have I really felt like blogging since my last post? Not especially. Have I wanted to let 'The Bedlam' go altogether? No. Not for a second. But in May the bottom dropped out of my life and I was rendered useless in the face of what I was confronting. I did my best to keep my other social media outlets going but blogging just became an impossible priority.
Some of you may recall that my mom had been dealing with, what we believed to be, Alzheimer's symptoms for a while now. But try as we might to get her to seek medical attention, for any reason, she steadfastly refused. We watched as it slowly crept in here and there. It was enough to cause us concern and worry but not so much that we couldn't deceive ourselves into believing that we had more time. Whatever that meant, anyway? And in May things went from blips on the radar to full blown alarm bells. We were confronted with the absolute reality that the force to be reckoned with that has been my mom, our own little Titanic, had indeed started sinking.
April 25, 2014
Friday Favorites
Happy Friday, kids! How was your week? Hope it's been a good one! That rainbow up there happened last week and if you follow me on Instagram or any other Seattle-area blogger you'll know we went bananas with endless shots of this incredible beauty (it was actually a double rainbow!). I figure it's a great image to start the weekend with, n'est-ce pas? Here are a few other favorites to fritter through:
Woah. That got a little tangential, didn't it? Leave it to me.
Happy weekending and I'll see you next week!
April 15, 2014
Spring Awakening
Oh, for heaven's sake. Let's just get this done. I have been mulling and mulling and mulling over what to say and where to start that, I mean, I have to start somewhere. Since my current mantra is "start where you are" then here and now seems a logical conclusion. So, here I am. Ta da! (Suddenly, I envision myself in a sidestep tap routine wearing a tutu? Same for you? Anyway...)
I've been away from 'The Bedlam' for the longest period of time since I first started blogging in 2007. But, despite appearances, I hadn't given up. The thing is, 2013 threw me for a serious loop - laid off from my job, a depressing and shockingly competitive job market, my mom's declining health, etc., etc.. It sucked. Sucked. And, being the Cancerian that I am, I suppose I needed to retreat into my shell in an attempt to regroup. That's not to say that I'm back and better than ever with all my ducks in a row and a strategic plan in place. But, with my flaws and imperfections, I am here. And, dammit, that's saying something.
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GRAND RAPIDS — In teams of two, National City small business banking officers, branch managers and executives blanketed Michigan Wednesday, paying personal visits to small business owners across the state.
The "Small Business Super Blitz" targeted 1,500 small businesses singled out by National City banking officers as prospective clients.
The goal? To win business customers from competing banks by delivering information about National City products and services directly — up close and personal — to potential new clients.
All National City business lines were represented among those making contacts last week — such as Corporate Banking, Private Client Group, Private Investment Advisors, Armada Funds, Treasury Management and National City Card Services, among others.
"We wanted to show the marketplace the breadth and depth of our team," said William E. MacDonald III, vice chairman and member of the Office of the Chairman of National City Corp.
The company conducted a similar one-day blitz in western Pennsylvania two months ago and is planning to do the same in all the states in which it does business.
The new business generated by the Pennsylvania blitz was equivalent to the business generated by a de novo bank in its first couple of years, MacDonald said.
"In the first three to five years with a de novo branch, you're probably looking to get $20 million, or something like that, in deposits, so that shows you the impact of this thing," MacDonald said. "What we want to show is that we are committed to small business in all of our markets."
The company began planning the Michigan blitz months ago, noted Sean Welsh, regional president for Grand Rapids, Holland and Muskegon. The blitz included a three-question, economic mini-survey designed to connect with all 1,500 businesses targeted:
- Do you think the economy will be getting better or worse in the next six months?
- Will your business be expanding in the next six months?
- Do you plan to hire additional staff in the next six months?
Survey results, MacDonald said, will help National City get a sense of whether or not the economy is coming back and will serve as an indicator of how much better 2004 might be.
National City, headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, is the fifth largest small business lender in the nation and leading Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in its six-state footprint that includes Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois, in addition to Michigan.
It also has been the top SBA lender in Michigan for two years running, with 213 SBA loans totaling $25.5 million in fiscal 2002.
Historically, National City has always been a very strong middle-market and lower-middle market small business lender, MacDonald said. But the bank has been increasing its focus on small business in the past few years.
"We want to be No. 1. That is the objective," MacDonald emphasized. "Across our whole footprint in the Midwest, the volume of small business lending is growing for us. Basically, our growth in all loans (consumer and business) is coming from getting new customers from other banks right now. We're not seeing utilization from our existing customers on their credit lines."
Douglas Morgenstern, senior vice president and area manager for small business banking, pointed out that in June, Michigan had the largest number of loans of any division across the company.
National City's business model is a local delivery model, with local product managers and local decision-making, Welsh noted.
"Whether it's the life sciences initiative or low income housing tax credits, we really are the leader in innovation and in activity in finding ways to make those projects work," he said.
"To be a leader in small business lending goes hand in glove with investing in our local economy. This is a market that respects commitment over a long period of time and we've been showing that here."
MacDonald said it's clear more consolidation in the financial services industry is ahead. There are still too many banks chasing too few customers and too little business, he said.
"From National City's standpoint, there's no question we're working hard to be a survivor in this industry. We need to take our model to a broader geographical base because we believe we are very good at what we do. We're very good at our basic, largest business, which is corporate banking and retail banking. There's no question about the fact that we want to continue to expand our footprint and add share."
MacDonald added that bank branches continue to be "incredibly" important and National City has a program to build more. A new branch will be opening in Grandville next month and there are a handful of other locations the company will consider in this market over the next 12 months, he said.
Welsh said National City has "good" market share in West Michigan, but there's a lot of potential market share it doesn't have in both retail and corporate banking.


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Teemu Selanne Q&A: Ducks star isn't finished with Hall of Fame career
NASHVILLE — After 667 goals and 754 assists in a career that just keeps getting better at the age of 42, Teemu Selanne needs no introduction. Selanne, a Stanley Cup champion with the 2007 Anaheim Ducks, has 15 points in 13 games for this season.
The only mystery about the Finnish Flash's status as a future Hall of Famer is whether he will stop playing and allow himself to be enshrined with his fellow hockey legends.
On Saturday, before the Ducks' game against the Nashville Predators, Selanne spoke to Sporting News for a wide-ranging Q&A. Here is what he had to say.
SPORTING NEWS: What's left for you to do in your career? What do you feel like you still have to accomplish?
TEEMU SELANNE: I don't think I have any of those kind of goals. It's more about just passion and enjoyment for the game. That's why I'm still here. After the lockout, I have been enjoying the game way more than ever before, even when I was young and all my prime. The enjoyment level and fun factor has been unbelievable the last eight years. After the Cup in 2007, this is a hobby.
SN: You're not in your prime right now?
TS: Well, I still think I can play really well and make a difference. If you look at the numbers and maybe how the body felt, the prime is gone. But still, I'm very happy and proud to play well at this age, and especially to enjoy it more than ever.
SN: Who is your favorite player to watch?
TS: When I was young, Jari Kurri and Wayne Gretzky, they were my idols. A lot of other guys, too. I have learned so much from the different players by just watching and following how they handle different situations and how they approach things. That's really helped.
SN: What's one thing you know now that you wish you had known when you started in the NHL?
TS: When you're young, you don't really pay attention to looking after yourself when it comes to rest and eating and all the help you have to get to recover. When you're younger, you don't really need it that much, but I would say that if you would do that younger, what I'm doing right now, it would be an even way better package. When you get older, you get smarter and do things right.
But I think everybody has to learn that their own way. It's a fun time when you're young and you don't really have to pay attention to so many things because recovery time and so many things are way easier. But if there's one thing, that's probably it.
SN: You had one of the most famous goal celebrations when you broke the rookie scoring record in Winnipeg. There's been talk this year, especially after Nail Yakupov's goal when he slid across the ice, about "act like you've been there before" and stuff like that. What's your opinion on that? I mean, you talk about having fun, isn't that part of it?
TS: Oh, absolutely. I've been, always, enjoying goal scoring and celebration. I think that's part of the story. Obviously, now, when I look back at that celebration, it makes me laugh, and I'm like, "Oh, God, I did that?" But it was a big goal. I wasn't planning it. It just came and I was so pumped. I always enjoy seeing when players celebrate. Not too much, but at least they're really happy.
SN: What do you think is the future of fighting in the league?
TS: I think it's less and less, when it comes to enforcers. Their job, it seems to me, they are down. I, personally, have enjoyed that and I think that it gives us privacy on the ice when you have tough guys who can look after us if the games get out of the hand. But, you know, normal fighting, it's still part of the game, and I think it's fine. It has always been and it's so physical and so intense a game that those things happen. It's still kind of funny that you think we have a sport where we're able to fight. It's kind of funny. I always try to think if basketball or football would have the same rules, how that would affect the games. We have a quite special game.
SN: When you're done with this, are we going to see you again, or are you just going to do something else that's not hockey?
TS: That's a good question. I haven't really thought that far yet, but I think I have something to give, still, for hockey. I'm going to be part of something, I don't know what it is. Maybe not in the beginning, because I want to just relax and enjoy the free time. I don't think I'm going to be in a big spotlight, but I'll be around.
SN: What's your favorite road city?
TS: Chicago and Vancouver. They have great downtowns, a lot of action, great restaurants, and there's life around it.
SN: Do you want to play in the Olympics next year?
TS: I haven't really thought about it. I think if I play next year, then it's the case again, but it's too early to think about now.
SN: If you had one day in charge of hockey, the whole sport, change anything you want, what would you do?
TS: That's a tough question. I would stop the lockout in October.
SN: Complete this sentence: I am the only player in the National Hockey League ...
TS: I don't think—it's not possible, to be one of a kind. I don't think there's one thing I could say that I'm the only one guy.