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Vulnerability management: weathering the storm

Vulnerability management: weathering the storm
Vulnerability management: weathering the storm
For 25 years, The Weather Channel has been in the business of calculating risk. Each day, forecasters prognosticate which way a particular snowstorm will track, whether a drought-stricken region will see measurable rainfall, or if a hurricane will strengthen prior to landfall.

Even though it sometimes seems they are just shooting darts, meteorologists across the world use the best set of scientific data at their disposal to predict how fierce a given weather event might be and just what type of impact it will cause, while also accounting for uncertainty.

Their conclusions are neatly packaged into easy-to-comprehend graphics and percentages that convey the best possible predictions to the viewing audience — in The Weather Channel's case, some 87 million households.

Meanwhile, behind the scenes at the cable network, a team of information security professionals is also gauging and predicting risk. It is the same concept that their on-air counterparts are applying, except that these employees have the burdensome task of preparing their data for consumption by upper management.

Instead of worrying about the chance of tornadoes and typhoons, the security group is crunching data and mapping out a vulnerability management strategy to assess IT security risk — because, in the end, The Weather Channel is just like any other organization trying to fend off cyberattacks.
“We're a 24/7/365 shop,” says John Penrod, 38, chief information security officer of the cable network, which broadcasts from the Atlanta area, with its parent, Landmark Communications, based in Norfolk, Va. “Anytime we're losing any of our weather products, we're losing revenue.”

As compliance demands grow and headline-making hacker attacks increase in scope, business executives are demanding a new type of CISO, one who understands how IT risk plays into the bottom line and one who is able to justify spending.

As a result, IT pros such as Penrod are quickly realizing that the fastest way toward establishing that metric is to have a handle on network vulnerabilities. Visionary security players are warming up to the notion that vulnerability assessment does not mean merely probing the network for flaws — it means transforming those findings into actionable results.

“Vulnerabilities are an essential part of the risk equation,” says Michael Montecillo, analyst for security and risk management at the Boulder, Colo.-based Enterprise Management Associates. “Threat is very difficult to determine, but when you have vulnerabilities, that's something that's fairly straightforward to address. When you're talking about risk, vulnerabilities are the easiest one to measure in terms of conducting assessments.”

Protecting weather data

The Weather Channel recently deployed the RedSeal Security Risk Manager to offer visibility into its threat profile. The tool helps the organization create a risk management policy, which sets a formula for determining action when increased risk is detected on the network, Penrod says.

“If we've identified a threat or an area of the network that needs additional protection, there is a mitigation tree we follow that says either correct the issue or, if you can't, let's go find some money,” Penrod says.

One may not consider The Weather Channel a typical hacker target — it lacks the mounds of sensitive data that a financial services firm or retail outlet may be storing — but it demands protection nonetheless.

As Penrod says, should an attacker gain access through one of The Weather Channel's 10,000 servers and compromise the broadcast environment, from which things like radars and local forecasts and warnings are delivered, it could prove disastrous for the brand. More importantly, human safety could be impacted.

“When you consider our's very important that we make sure [weather data] is there and it's always accurate,” he says. “If you're sitting in Florida and there's a hurricane coming your way, it's important for you. To miss something like that could put people's lives at stake.”

The RedSeal offering creates a type of “spreadsheet for security” to automatically map and assess the network infrastructure and prioritize vulnerabilities, while offering nightly penetration tests and ensuring compliance with government regulations, says Mike Lloyd, Redwood City, Calif.-based RedSeal System's chief scientist. In The Weather Channel's case, the product helps segregate the broadcast segment of the network, which runs a large number of legacy systems that create additional risk, Penrod says. The product also assigns a quantified risk score based on its findings, an aspect that is significant to executive management, Lloyd says.

Metrics are a new trend in vulnerability assessment products because they provide the type of information that people such as Penrod can use to express the IT department's risk posture to the C-level suite — in easy-to-understand language.

“The improved communication from an IT organization to upper executives helps a lot,” Lloyd says. “It's always a struggle for funding inside an organization. If you can actually demonstrate the risk to an organization...frankly, when you're the CISO, you look good when you can do that. You look like you're in control.”

Vulnerabilities on the rise
Few can dispute that IT risk management is growing in importance, as IT touches all areas of the business. It is how to calculate such risk that is causing the biggest headaches.

“Risk is potential damage to an organization's value, often from inadequate management of processes and events,” says a 2007 Symantec study on the topic. “IT risk is emerging as a significant component of total business risk as IT assumes a more prominent role in organizations, and can account for more than 50 percent of total capital expenditure at some companies.”

Enterprise Management Associates' Montecillo, who previously served as the first vulnerability management coordinator for an unnamed state government, says risk is the new compliance — and if a business has a handle on risk, chances are it is meeting compliance demands.

“Executive staff are starting to see where risk can put them in the red in terms of cost to their organization,” he says. “They are performing the due diligence to try and address those risks so they don't end up as a TJX.” The Framingham, Mass.-based company that operates the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls clothing chains, suffered an online intrusion of its processing networks that the company admits resulted in the theft of data connected to at least 45.6 million credit and debit cards (other estimates double that figure). In November, TJX agreed to pay up to $40.9 million in a settlement with three bankers' associations.

To avoid an exposure such as that suffered by TJX, a number of security firms have unveiled products in recent months that seek to help companies understand their IT risk. Still, a silver bullet for IT risk management is lacking, experts say.

“The problem with risk management is that it's not yet a science,” says Jeremy Ward, service development director for Symantec Global Services, based in Cupertino, Calif. “The reason for that is because it's a young and immature discipline. Financial risk management has hundreds of years of a track record. The data we've got to go on in terms of IT risk management is relatively recent.”

He says the answer lies in data sharing. One group, MITRE, a nonprofit with principal locations in Bedford, Mass. and McLean, Va., has been working since 1999 to maintain a standard for gauging risk in the context of network vulnerabilities.

Last year gave rise to about 7,000 unique vulnerabilities, says Steve Christey, principal information security engineer at MITRE, which maintains the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure  (CVE) list, a dictionary that provides the common names for publicly known security vulnerabilities.

Since 1999, MITRE has tracked some 28,000 vulnerabilities in packaged software. While the sheer number of bugs is certainly cause for concern, flaws do have one positive attribute: they provide a tangible way to assess risk, say experts.

“In comparison to the other kinds of things that you need to track when doing risk management, vulnerabilities are often concrete and actionable,” Christey says. “When you get to the board room, you can't talk tech, but numbers are more understandable.”

Montecillo agrees, saying vulnerability management has become a key part of corporate governance and to the process of “operationalizing” security.

“There's such a high number of intrusions [initiated] over known vulnerabilities,” he says. “From an executive standpoint, it's known that this is an issue.”

Each CVE listing in the National Vulnerability Database, the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data, supports the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), an open framework that standardizes the severity of vulnerabilities across heterogeneous platforms.

Version 2.0 of the CVSS, managed by the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), was released earlier this year. It rates the severity of weaknesses on a scale of 0 to 10. CVSS takes into account three factors: the base score represents the constant characteristics of the vulnerability; the temporal score measures the possibility that the bug could change over time; and the environmental score accounts for characteristics in a user's environment.

“CVSS is a way to provide a consistent risk metric,” says Christey, who sits on the standard's special interest group. “All of the vulnerability scanning tools and all of the alerts will use their own definition of risk, so a consumer of this information, if they're not using CVSS, might get multiple interpretations of how significant a single vulnerability is.”

Change/configuration management

These days, any robust vulnerability management platform is able to flag unauthorized network alterations and ensure critical network components are properly configured.

As the flaws increase, making it more and more difficult to catch every network weakness, many organizations are turning to change and configuration management as part of their defense-in-depth strategy, Montecillo says.

“A configuration management program sets the standard for what's acceptable for systems,” he says. “It's a cost savings and a time savings. You don't have to assess and find out there's ‘x' number of vulnerabilities. You have a baseline for what's already acceptable.”

Christey adds that protecting against known vulnerabilities is important to defend against targeted attacks, but focusing on system configuration is equally critical. For example, he says a company may have deployed all the latest patches, but if a user's machine is mistakenly running as an administrator, the unauthorized privilege level could permit an attacker to drop a piece of malware for which there is no signature.

Change control, meanwhile, allows the security team to learn whether any changes — either by a malicious outsider or, more likely, an accidental insider — created a vulnerability.

Back at The Weather Channel, Penrod agrees that network operations and general infrastructure visibility are the most important factor to consider when determining risk.

“Our driver is to not end up on the cover of the Wall Street Journal,” he says. “We're just looking to be able to pull all of this data together and see what the network looks like. What we value most is brand loyalty and trust.”

What leads to risk?

The number and types of vulnerabilities in the network, both client-side and server-side, may be one of the easiest ways security administrators can get a handle on the health of their operating infrastructure. But they are not the only places to look.

The SANS Top 20 for 2007 lists four other major risk categories:

  • Security policy and personnel, including excessive user rights, phishing and unencrypted portable devices.
  • Application abuse, including instant messenger and peer-to-peer programs.
  • Network devices, including VoIP phones and servers.
  • Zero-day attacks, for which there is no patch.
    — Dan Kaplan

The development phase

Some entities are working to proactively minimize risk as it relates to vulnerabilities, in an effort to help businesses.

Nonprofit research organization MITRE is overseeing the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), a dictionary of common mistakes made when developing software, such as buffer overflows or cross-site scripting.

The initiative, which kicked off about a 1 1/2 years ago and is starting to gain momentum, is a natural offshoot of its eight-year-old Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure project, says Steve Christey, principal information security engineer at MITRE.

“We found that many programmers make the exact same kind of mistakes, regardless of what kind of software they're developing,” Christey says. “CWE starts to catalog those common mistakes that get made.”

The hope is that the CWE lexicon can serve as a reference guide for software developers, says Robert Martin, principal engineer at MITRE, which operates three federally funded research and development centers for the federal government

“There are specific things that people can look for,” he says.

Meanwhile, Djenana Campara is leading the Object Management Group Software Assurance Special Interest Group, a nonprofit seeking to establish a common framework for expressing trustworthiness in software.

The government-sponsored initiative is doing its part to mitigate risk for organizations by creating a common standard that can be used by tool vendors to develop products that sniff out vulnerabilities in the software development stage.

“There's no way one vendor or one tool can address complicated issues,” Campara says. “The software systems today are very complex, from the technologies to the platforms they can run to the languages that are run. All of that has to be taken into account.”

The model — which is awaiting acceptance by the International Standards Organization — also can be put to use by suppliers to express trust to consumers, and by organizations that want
to assess the risk a piece of software introduces to their environment.

“Microsoft and Oracle are running security scanners,” Campara, chief executive officer of KDM Analytics, explains. “Nobody knows how good they are. Nobody tested these tools. What capabilities do these tools have? You don't know. I don't know. Nobody knows.”
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NewsChina Insider

Taiwan VP teases China for short list of countries granting citizens visa-free access

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 13 November, 2013, 8:02pm
UPDATED : Wednesday, 13 November, 2013, 10:17pm

At a time when China is emerging as the world’s second largest economy and a global superpower to be reckoned with, Taiwan’s vice-president managed to touch a nerve by mocking the fact that only a short list of nations grant China's citizens visa-free access.

“There is a so-called big country, very big,” vice-president Wu Den-yih said during a meeting in Taipei on Monday. “Yet, only 20 nations [grant its citizens] visa-free access,” he quipped, adding that “everyone knows [which country] but I am too embarrassed to name it” – triggering bursts of laughter among his audience.

Wu made the comments at a routine meeting of the Overseas Community Affairs Council, a government organ that serves ethnic Taiwanese and expatriates overseas. He also boasted how Taiwanese passport holders are granted visa-free access to 134 countries.

In comparison, CCTV said 19 countries and territories around the world currently granted Chinese citizens visa-free access. Henley & Partners, an immigration consultancy, said some 44 countries provided visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to Chinese passport holders.

Taiwan, or the Republic of China, although independent politically, is not officially recognised as an independent nation state by the United Nations. Currently, Taiwan only has established diplomatic relations with about two dozen countries, largely from Latin America. However, Taiwan officials have for years boasted that the number of countries that grant its citizens visa-free access far surpasses that of China, deeming it a display of its de-facto diplomatic status.

Wu’s remarks came hard on the heels of comments made by China’s foreign minister Wang Yi earlier this month who vowed to “elevate the value of the PRC passport” when he paid a visit to the Chinese embassy in Paris on a trip to France. He acknowledged that over 83 million Chinese citizens travelled overseas last year and promised to continue efforts to make travelling abroad easier for his fellow countrymen.

Mainland Chinese tourists last year became the world’s top spenders, surpassing tourists from the US and Germany, according to a report by the United Nations’ World Tourism Organisation. The report said total expenditure by mainland Chinese jumped 40 per cent from a year earlier, reaching US$102 billion. It attributed the rapid growth to the appreciation of the yuan and the country’s skyrocketing economic development.

Though only a handful of countries open their doors to Chinese visitors without visas, more countries have shown a willingness to cater to China’s big spenders in recent years.

A number of developed countries – most recently Britain – have taken steps to streamline visa application processes for Chinese passport holders by extending visa periods, raising approval rates or issuing multiple-entry visas.

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Edward Snowden

The 'Snowden Effect': US spies say militants change tactics

But previous warnings of leaks causing damage to US security interests have proved overplayed

PUBLISHED : Friday, 28 June, 2013, 9:09pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 29 June, 2013, 4:55pm

Even as US intelligence agencies and their global partners assess potential damage from Edward Snowden’s disclosures about surveillance programs, militants have begun responding by altering methods of communication, a change that could make it harder to foil attacks, US officials say.

Intelligence agencies have detected that members of targeted militant organisations, including both Sunni and Shi’ite Islamist groups, have begun altering communications patterns in what was believed to be a direct response to details on eavesdropping leaked by the former US spy agency contractor, two US national security sources said.

The officials said it was too early to tell whether the recent changes in communications methods had caused a loss of critical intelligence or if there was now a greater risk of missing warning signs about future attacks. “You don’t know what you lose until after you’ve lost it,” one of the sources said.

You don’t know what you lose until after you’ve lost it

Previous dire warnings of leaks causing huge damage to US national security interests have proved overplayed. The leaking of tens of thousands of US diplomatic cables by Wikileaks in 2010 appears to have had far less impact than Washington initially warned.

And militants changing the way they communicate could actually hinder plots as they resort to different methods to avoid detection.

The charge that Snowden’s leaks are causing damage, made by officials speaking on condition of anonymity, comes as the Obama administration mounts a campaign to pressure Russia to extradite him. Russian president Vladimir Putin on Tuesday confirmed Snowden was in the transit area of a Moscow airport, but ruled out handing him to Washington.

The officials declined to specify what changes were spotted among militant groups, fearing that the more details provided on what was known about their behaviour the easier it would be for them to adapt.

One US telecommunications expert said privately that the militants’ latest adjustments likely included reduced electronic transmissions and more frequent switching of cell phones while they seek new encryption methods.

Flashpoint Global Partners, which monitors Islamist militant websites, has noted increased discussion of the NSA leaks.

How can the US continue to stand on high moral ground after demonising China and accusing us of hacking?

“The simple rule is that ‘don’t be a fool’ dont give ur real information on internet through email u use for jihadi activities. just use fake names and TOR browser is must,” one person posted, referring to an internet browser that can help the user remain anonymous and avoid surveillance.

Exactly how serious the damage might be is difficult to measure as intelligence agencies do not know how much more sensitive material Snowden possesses that has not yet been published.

Militants have a long history of trying to cover their electronic tracks.

Largely using written messages and trusted couriers, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden hid for years until he was killed by U.S. forces in 2011. He advised militants to exercise extreme caution over electronic communications. Thumb drives and sim cards used to carry information should be destroyed after use, he told them.

Intelligence analysts around the world are working to determine the operational impact of Snowden’s exposure of methods used by the US National Security Agency and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters agency to tap into telephone and Internet traffic.

Among the potential damage to Western intelligence is that foreign governments like Russia and China may have found out technical details of how Western agencies intercept communications and what specific links they monitor or tap into.

US officials fear that if Snowden, now allied with the anti-secrecy organisation WikiLeaks, releases more of the large cache of classified information he is believed to possess, there could be further fallout for Western counterterrorism operations.

US agencies are already operating on a “worst case” assumption that all of the classified material in Snowden’s possession has somehow made its way to one or more adversary intelligence services, several sources said.

The problem is one of public trust, a commodity now in very short supply

How much of a long-term impact Snowden’s actions have at home may depend largely on whether a backlash in the United States ultimately restricts how the NSA can use its tools.

“The problem is one of public trust, a commodity now in very short supply,” a former Western intelligence official said.

US and British officials insist that massive telephone and internet surveillance by the NSA and GCHQ, including collection of raw data about US phone calls and tapping by GCHQ into fibre optic trunk cables carrying internet traffic, has stopped attacks and is essential to public security.

The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, is still in the early stages of damage assessment from the Snowden leaks and it is not yet known when it will issue its findings, a US intelligence official said.

With Snowden’s disclosures pointing to US electronic surveillance of Chinese targets, Washington may face charges of a double standard when it holds cyber-security talks with Beijing next month.

“How can the United States continue to stand on high moral ground after demonising China and accusing us of hacking?” a source close to the Chinese leadership said in Beijing.

That stance is seen as a logical result of the Snowden saga by some American experts too.

“It will make it more difficult for us to appear holier than thou,” said James Lewis, a former State Department official who is now a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

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Wimbledon 2015

Wimbledon is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, and widely considered the most prestigious tennis championship. Held in London at the All England Club in Wimbledon since 1877, it is one only of four Grand Slam tennis tournaments along with the Australian, French and US Open events. Wimbledon is the only tennis tournament still played on grass, the game's original surface. The 2015 edition will take place from 29 June to 12 July 2015. Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitova are the reigning champions

INFOGRAPHIC: In men's tennis, how big are the Big Four?

INFOGRAPHIC: In men's tennis, how big are the Big Four?

This interactive graphic takes a look back at 15 years of tennis through the Grand Slam matches of four greats.

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Former tennis greats beg Marion Bartoli to reconsider retirement decision

Marion Bartoli of France announces her retirement from professional tennis. Photo: AFP

Former top tennis players Goran Ivanisevic and Guy Forget have urged Marion Bartoli to reconsider her shock decision to retire.

16 Aug 2013 - 3:31am

Marion Bartoli retires after admitting Wimbledon victory drained her

Marion Bartoli smiles as she holds the Wimbledon trophy. Photo: AP

Having realised a lifelong dream by claiming the Wimbledon title, Marion Bartoli has decided she has nothing left to give, shocking the world of tennis by bidding a sudden and poignant farewell to the sport.

16 Aug 2013 - 3:23am

Finally, Perry can rest in peace

Andy Murray. Photo: EPA

It was a radically different world back then when Germany's Baron Gottfried Von Cramm met Britain's Fred Perry in the men's singles championship at Wimbledon in 1936. In three weeks, German Chancellor and Fuhrer Adolf Hitler would officially open the Olympic Games in Berlin and while the dashing and personable Von Cramm was one of the most popular and respected players in tennis, the flag he represented that year at Wimbledon still had a swastika in the middle of it.

14 Jul 2013 - 4:45am

Wimbledon win shows only hard work can net victory

Andy Murray

Andy Murray has broken the hoodoo of all hoodoos - one that British tennis fans had obsessed about for 77 years.

10 Jul 2013 - 4:01am

Bartoli looks like a Wimbledon champ no matter what

Marion Bartoli, "looking like a model", arrives for the Wimbledon champions dinner in London on Sunday. Photo: AP

A glance at the list of men's singles champions at Wimbledon the last dozen years reveals plenty of pleasant-enough looking chaps, though not a single slam-dunk male model in the bunch.

10 Jul 2013 - 5:56am

Cross-strait tennis partners 'forced' to talk politics

Peng Shuai (right) of mainland China and Hsieh Su-wei of Taipei celebrate their win at Wimbledon on Saturday. Photo: Xinhua

Have the triumphant Peng Shuai and Hsieh Su-wei really forged a tennis partnership that bridges the gap between mainland China and Taiwan, as many have claimed?

9 Jul 2013 - 12:38pm 4 comments

Taiwan ace mulls switch to mainland China

Hsieh Su-wei

Taiwan's tennis hero Hsieh Su-wei is mulling giving up her Taiwanese citizenship to represent the mainland, where she could receive a much bigger sponsorship deal, her father said yesterday, after her historic victory in the Wimbledon women's doubles contest.

9 Jul 2013 - 5:27am

Murray deserved to win, says gracious Djokovic

Novak Djokovic

Novak Djokovic gave a brutally honest assessment of his performance after losing the Wimbledon final 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 to Andy Murray.

9 Jul 2013 - 5:34am

Murray hails coach Lendl who made him a champion

Andy Murray hugs his coach Ivan Lendl after finally securing his first Wimbledon title, something Lendl himself never managed. Photo: AFP

When Andy Murray lost his first three grand slam finals without winning a set, it seemed he was destined to join a long line of "Brave Brits" whose career would be defined by near misses.

9 Jul 2013 - 5:31am

Murray mania grips grateful Britain after Wimbledon win

Andy Murray hoists the championship trophy after defeating Novak Djokovic. “Arise Sir Andrew, knight of the holy grail,” the Times newspaper read. Photo: EPA

Fred Perry's son was among many to pay tribute to Andy Murray after the Scot finally ended Britain's 77-year wait for a male winner of the Wimbledon singles title.

Murray defeated Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 to become the first British man to win Wimbledon since Perry defeated Gottfried von Cramm in 1936.

29 Aug 2013 - 4:13am

The wait is over - Murray is the king of Wimbledon

Andy Murray raises the winner's trophy after beating Novak Djokovic in the men's singles final at Wimbledon yesterday. Photo: AFP

Andy Murray ended Britain's agonising 77-year wait for a Wimbledon men's singles champion yesterday when he destroyed world No 1 Novak Djokovic, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 in the blistering heat of the All England Club.

8 Jul 2013 - 3:24am 1 comment

Wimbledon win gives wins Bob and Mike Bryan the 'Golden Bryan Slam'

Bob Bryan and his twin Mike celebrate after defeating Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo to win Wimbledon's men's doubles. Photo: Reuters

By downing Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 to win the Wimbledon men's doubles title, the 35-year-old identical twins became the first pair to hold all four grand slam titles at the same time since 1952.

9 Jul 2013 - 5:08am

Father's methods help Marion Bartoli win Wimbledon her unique way

Marion Bartoli

People thought Walter Bartoli was a little odd when he ripped up the conventional coaching manual and began moulding the hybrid player who on Saturday won the Wimbledon singles title.

9 Jul 2013 - 5:07am

Marion Bartoli dons maiden Wimbledon crown as rival is reduced to tears

Marion Bartoli celebrates beating Sabine Lisicki in their women's singles final match at Wimbledon yesterday. Photo: AFP

France's Bartoli, whose power game bothered Sabine Lisicki as much as any of her notable eccentricities, won 6-1, 6-4 yesterday to capture her first grand slam title in her 47th appearance at a major.

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Germany jumps to NZ’s fifth largest market

23 April 2014

Germany jumps to NZ’s fifth largest market

With 9,424 extra arrivals for the 12 months to the end of March, Germany has overtaken Japan to become New Zealand’s fifth largest visitor market.

Total arrivals from Germany were up 14.5 per cent for the year to 74,224 – the highest ever recorded for a 12 month period, with 6.4 per cent growth in March.

“The strong growth we are seeing from Germany is fantastic for both the tourism industry and the New Zealand economy,” says Chris Roberts, General Manager Corporate Affairs, Tourism New Zealand.

“With German holiday makers staying an average of 24 days they inject significant value into the economy during their visit. The growth from this key traditional market in the past 12 months has seen the arrival of thousands of additional German holiday makers who stay longer, travel more widely and spend more.”

While total arrivals into New Zealand for the year ending March were up 5.4 per cent, due to the later celebration of Easter total arrivals were down 6.3 per cent for the month.

“Celebrating Easter in mid-April this year has had a big influence on the March to March comparisons, especially Australia down 13.4 per cent, and the UK, down 19.4 per cent – the first negative result from this market for over six months.

“Both of these markets have been key players in the growth we have seen over the summer season, and indicative arrivals figures for April are again looking positive.

“Interest in New Zealand from the UK has surged following the recent Royal visit with potential travellers keen to experience similar experiences to the Royal family. At the conclusion of the tour there was a 15 per cent increase in UK visits to, and a 10 per cent increase in USA visits.”

USA continued positive growth, with total arrivals up 9.5 per cent, and holiday arrivals up 11.1 per cent in March.

“Interestingly, over half of the growth seen from the US has arrived in New Zealand via Hawaii, reiterating the importance of supporting new airlines such as Hawaiian which has been operating non-stop services since March 2013.”

Total arrivals from Japan were down 10.0 per cent for the month and 2.8 per cent for the year ending March.

“The decline from the Japanese market is a result of reduced airline capacity over the 2014 summer season. This is a temporary issue and we continue to work with airlines to leverage the existing high demand for a holiday to New Zealand and convert this into travel.”

Growth was seen from other markets across Asia during March, with total arrivals from China up 11.9 per cent, Singapore up 10.8 per cent, Korea up 2.2 per cent.

“Arrivals from India – up 24.0 per cent in March - and Indonesia – up 41.2 per cent - were particularly strong, which is positive following our increased activity in these priority emerging markets.”

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Kiwi teen book sensation The Book of Hat goes global

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Two small kiwi publishers have turned indie hit The Book of Hat by Harriet Rowland into an ebook, launching it into the world on what would have been the author's 21st birthday: 26 August.

From its sell-out launch in February this year, two days before the 20-year-old author entered a Wellington hospice in the final stage of cancer, The Book of Hat hardcopy went on to become a surprise hit in NZ. With $1 from each sale going to CanTeen, the blue book with a hat made of stars on the cover was bought by students and grandparents alike, and made its way into CanTeen gift packs, hospices, adult book groups, school libraries and classrooms. A surprising burst of internet sales saw it fly off as far as Moscow, Prague and Wisconsin.

One week, the blog-based book unusually topped both the total sales chart for independent bookshops, as well as the general bestseller chart for children’s and young adult books. It was also runner-up for the prestigious Ashton Wylie Award which aims to assist people in becoming more perfectly loving. Sir Lloyd Geering was the winner, and Joy Cowley was third.

Mary McCallum of Wellington-based Mākaro Press, which published The Book of Hat under their Submarine imprint, says there’s been pressure to turn Harriet’s book into an ebook to meet both the demands of the young and overseas’ markets.

To do this, Mākaro Press formed an association with Dunedin ebook publisher Rosa Mira Books, owned by Penelope Todd. ‘Penelope’s a wonderful publisher and we knew she’d “get” Hat’s book, and she has. The ebook has been sensitively done, in the way Harriet would have wanted, incorporating the original book design features including colour photographs that helped make the book so popular.’

‘I’m very excited to be launching The Book of Hat as an ebook,’ says Penelope Todd, ‘It’s been a privilege and a poignant project. Harriet’s story also fits beautifully with the Rosa Mira list, of intelligent books with heart.’

Both publishers echo the praise of reviewers around the country, especially mentioning the author’s upbeat, compassionate and engaging voice and the way she talks more about her good luck and happiness than the reality of her illness and death. One Auckland libraries blogger termed the book 'the real The Fault in Our Stars', and Sir Peter Jackson, who met Harriet, calls her book 'funny, truthful and wise' and praises her ‘genuine talent’.

Harriet Rowland passed away in March this year. Her brother Tom Rowland (18) is her literary executor. The Book of Hat is available at all good bookstores, online at & and as an ebook at rosamirabooks.comfrom Tuesday, 26 August.

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Libz Prepare To Incinerate Census Papers

Libertarianz Party leader Richard McGrath today urged anyone who objects to the coercive nature of the five-yearly census to destroy their papers.

"Members of my party up and down New Zealand will be burning, shredding, defacing or ignoring the documents sent out by Statistics NZ, as would be their undisputed right in a free country."

"If the Bill of Rights Act 1990 had any teeth, it would protect those who don't wish to complete their census forms from police harrassment and prosecution. Article 14 of the act states: 'Everyone has the right to freedom of expression, including the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and opinions of any kind in any form.' This includes the right to remain silent and to refrain from writing."

"A lot of New Zealanders are concerned about where the information in these forms will end up, and whether it is necessary to collect the information in the first place."

"And many are worried that the government is paying lip service to its role as the defender of basic individual rights such as free speech and expression. This will be a test as to whether the Bill of Rights offers real protection or is a sham."

For more information, see libertarianz.org.nz

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The Right To Work: Young New Zealanders

Getting young people into work is about preparing them for work and ensuring they have ongoing support: sustainable youth employment isn’t a tick the box exercise.

This is a key finding in the Human Rights Commission’s latest piece of work on youth employment, The Right To Work which focused on young people seeking work in South Auckland, Northland as well as disabled job seekers.

“Jobs change lives. Particularly in the disadvantaged communities we have been talking with. When one young person finds long term employment the entire family dynamic often changes for the better,” said EEO Commissioner Jackie Blue.

“These case studies highlight the need to focus on ‘work readiness’ and helping young people to gain the confidence, skills and attitudes necessary to find a job and build a career.”

“They also demonstrate the importance of providing ongoing support and pastoral care when a young person begins a new job, smoothing the way for both employer and employee.”

The Right To Work continues the Commission’s focus on young New Zealanders and their right to work, highlighted in its National Conversation about Work in 2009 and Tracking Equality at Work in 2011 in which the Commission described the work future for young Kiwis as a “ticking time bomb”. In 2012 the Commission welcomed national youth to work strategy rolled out by the Mayor’s Taskforce for Jobs.

The Right To Work is about building the aspirations of young New Zealanders and ensuring communities and especially businesses understand and embrace the long term benefits of employing young people,” said Dr Blue.

She paid tribute to the many youth providers supporting young New Zealanders in some of New Zealand’s poorest communities.

“I was bowled over by the youth providers that work in this space. They were passionate and all went beyond the call of their contractual requirements. They stressed the importance of getting youth ‘work ready’ followed by job hunting/matching and crucially supporting both the youth and employer once in the job.”

Young People with disabilities

Changing employer attitudes and overcoming discrimination are the biggest barriers to employment for young people; especially disabled young people. Furthermore, misconceptions amongst employers, that people with disabilities are costly to employers, adds to the reluctance of some to hire young people and this is a worrying trend. This perception is inconsistent with the evidence that employed disabled people add value to organisations and contribute to a productive society. Reasonable accommodations shouldn’t be regarded as a cost; but rather, a way employers can enhance productivity and enrich the workforce.

“Overcoming the discrimination barrier and proving what you can do rather than what it appears you can’t do. One student said, “We all want to go to university to study, but in saying that, when we finish we find it really difficult to find jobs. We want to work but we can’t find work.”

Workbridge chief executive Grant Cleland says one solution is to get more employers offering disabled youth work experience. “We need to make sure disabled young people are not forgotten.”

A lack of disaggregated data on disabled youth employment adds to the problem and highlights an absence of policies and programmes addressing this issue. It’s estimated that only 40% of all disabled New Zealanders are in the labour force: an opportunity cost of around $11.7 billion.

Making Aotearoa New Zealand accessible for all people is the key focus for social enterprise, Be.Accessible.

“We run the Be.Employed programme which works with businesses and organisations to enable them to tap into the rich resource of people with disabilities and access needs - people who offer unique skills and perspectives that bring value to the workplace,” says Chief Executive Minnie Baragwanath.

“We are looking to place university students with disability into paid internships with some of New Zealand’s largest corporates as a way to start to address this issue. The final objective of this programme is that these internships then translate into full paid employment opportunities.

Find out more about what’s working for young people with disabilities and The Right To Work:

Website: http://www.hrc.co.nz/eeo/the-right-to-work-maximising-the-employment-potential-of-young-new-zealanders/

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Welcome to Glenelg: twinned with Mars

Glenelg has a population of just 300

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A remote Scots village is set to twin with its namesake – a desolate community which has no residents.

A multi-billion-dollar project is currently exploring whether there has ever been life on the home of Glenelg’s “twin” – 35 million miles away.

A satellite shot of Glenelg, Mars. Picture: Getty

A satellite shot of Glenelg, Mars. Picture: Getty

Nasa’s robotic space rover Curiosity is probing Mars, sending back images which are causing worldwide fascination.

The remote-controlled device will later this month arrive at a rocky valley which scientists have called Glenelg, causing excitement in the Highland village of the same name.

Residents have now decided to host a celebration of its new cosmic links, and officially recognise Curiosity’s arrival at the Martian Glenelg with a twinning ceremony. The six-wheeled vehicle touched down in Gale Crater on Mars on 6 August and has travelled just over a quarter of a mile across the planet.

The valley of Glenelg has been so-called for two reasons.

Firstly, the robot will visit the location twice on its journey to and from a Martian mountain, Mount Sharp, and this coming and going inspired the rover team to use a palindrome, a word which reads the same forwards and backwards.

Secondly, all features around the crater being examined have been given names associated with a place called Yellowknife in northern Canada, where Glenelg is the name of a geological feature.

Residents in Scotland’s Glenelg will host a Space, Stars and Mars event on 20 October to mark Curiosity’s arrival at its namesake.

It includes a visit by Scottish-American astronaut Bonnie Dunbar, who will take part in a candlelit walk and a ceilidh.

Emma MacLean, Glenelg Community Development Trust officer, said: “This does not happen every day. We are hosting a party to mark the occasion and plan to have Bonnie Dunbar unveil an astronomical-themed sign for our community saying “Twinned with Mars”.

“The nameplace connection with Mars is a great thing for Glenelg, but also for Scotland.

“It’s really exciting. It is snowballing. Highland Council and Highlands and Islands Enterprise have both committed some funding and the response from the local community has been really positive.”

The Astronomer Royal for Scotland, John C Brown, is also among the guests set to attend the event for which the tiny community is now preparing. Mr Brown said: “The rover will crawl through a wee valley and backtrack along the same path. The palindrome Glenelg represents that.”

He added: “We may be able to see Mars in the daytime and we should certainly be able to see rather a nice crescent Moon. I will give a talk to set the scene.”

Joy Crisp, a deputy project scientist on the mission, said: “When we get to Glenelg, we want to take a look at the contacts between the three different terrain types. Maybe we’ll decide to do our first drilling into rock.”

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Respected and cultured, Martinez could prove a real coup for Celtic

HE HAS distinguished himself as a football pundit and has no past association with Celtic.

The Parkhead board could be accused of same old, same old as they make efforts to name Roberto Martinez as successor to Gordon Strachan, whose performances on Match of the Day 2 earned him a reputation as an entertaining studio guest.

But Martinez deserves to be compared to fellow Catalan Pep Guardiola, the young, intelligent and, most importantly, successful manager of Barcelona. Like him, Martinez has developed a reputation as an advocate of stylish, passing football. Having first agreed to become Sky's regular Spanish football expert in 1999 it is hard to believe Martinez is not 36 until next month. The similarly precocious Guardiola is just 38.

They represent a new breed of football manager. Martinez, although clearly operating at a different level to Guardiola, has achieved eye-opening success in his short spell in charge at Swansea. He has said he has been preparing for his opportunity in management since he was a boy. His father, also Roberto, managed Spanish lower division sides Lerida and Balaguer. He used to bring his son into the dressing room with him.

"You are both with it or you are not," Martinez junior later said of football management. "I was born with it. It is all I have known since I was a little boy."

His time with Swansea has been marked by a rapid improvement in the club's fortunes. He replaced Kenny Jackett as manager during the last months of the 2006-07 season. They easily won the championship in the Spaniard's first full season in charge and narrowly failed to make the play-off places in their first Championship campaign.

It has proved a powerful first entry on his managerial CV. Jackett released Martinez as a player from Swansea in 2006 and the Spaniard signed for Chester City. Jackett's decision to let him go hit the player hard. When asked to comment on subsequent speculation linking him with jobs elsewhere Martinez often reflected on this difficult moment in his career. "Swansea forced me out as a player and they will have to force me out as manager," he said. The comment may not provide Celtic with much encouragement as they seek to recruit his services. Martinez has four years left of his contract and has always advised players to be loyal to the club.

He has, however, felt the impact of a club reneging on an agreement. He was made redundant by Motherwell in April 2002 when the club fell into interim administration. The midfielder had played only 16 times for the Fir Park side, then under the management of Eric Black.

He made only one appearance against Celtic, when coming on for the last minute of a 2-1 defeat at Fir Park. He was an unused substitute on the two other occasions the teams met that season. Martinez's spell in Scotland was not an entirely unhappy one since he met his long-term girlfriend when at Fir Park. This summer she will become his wife.

It is one reason why he has kept up with the Scottish scene since his departure from Motherwell. Swansea's success has been built on the capture of goalkeeper Dorus De Vries from Dunfermline and St Johnstone's Jason Scotland. Martinez has also secured the services of Stephen Dobbie from Queen of the South for next season's promotion push.

Martinez's assistant Graeme Jones is another with connections to Scotland. The former striker played for St Johnstone, Clyde and Hamilton Accies but met Martinez during their time together at Wigan Athletic. When Martinez asked Jones to join him at Swansea he was assistant to Billy Reid at Hamilton.

Jones was reluctant to leave the then First Division club but was convinced by Martinez. "He can go as high and as far as he wants," said the impressed Jones afterwards. The compliments have rained down on the Spaniard ever since he arrived in Britain in 1995, following a serendipitous meeting with Wigan chairman Dave Whelan in Spain.

Martinez made his La Liga debut for Real Zaragoza v Atletico Madrid in 1993 but by the time Whelan met him he was back at local club, Balaguer. Whelan, the owner of JJB Sports, was in Zaragoza to open a sports shop and brought back not only Martinez, but also compatriots Isidra Diaz and Jesus Seba. They were Wigan's version of the "Three Amigos", a phrase later in vogue at Celtic as owner Fergus McCann fought with the contract demands of Pierre van Hooijdonk, Jorge Cadete and Paolo Di Canio. Martinez, a tee-totaller, grew to become an ambassador for Wigan, as well as being a symbol of the uncelebrated club's new sense of ambition. He struck on his debut against Gillingham and became the first Spaniard to score in the FA Cup. In 2004 was named the club's all-time cult hero following a poll organised by the BBC's Football Focus programme, he was known as 'Bob' and inspired the appearance of sombreros in the stands and shouts of 'Ole!' from fans. As one fan noted: "If you've ever been to Wigan you will know that is quite a feat".

Martinez helped Wigan go from the Third Division to First but was released by Steve Bruce in 2001. Bruce himself left the club for Crystal Palace days later. The crazily paved path of football sees the men linked again. Bruce's impending departure to Sunderland, following a second spell at Wigan, has opened the door for Martinez to make a return to the club where he is a genuine hero. He has also been linked with a return to Spain with Real Sociedad.

These rival challenges for his signature could be Celtic's biggest obstacle as they attempt to bring Martinez back to Scotland, something chief executive Peter Lawwell seemed to anticipate when making an early morning call to Swansea yesterday seeking permission to speak to the highly-rated Spaniard.

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Read for Success

One trait that appears to be directly connected with the level of success in life is the amount of reading a person does. Gaining new knowledge is a key part of personal growth, and it always appears as if the most successful people are the ones that read the most and spend the most time self-educating. With a large amount of knowledge as a foundation, the possibilities and limits for what you can pursue are expanded greatly.

Education doesn’t stop when school is over. We are constantly growing and learning. In fact, that is the key principle of personal development. But many people neglect this principle and do not really invest in educating themselves beyond some arbitrary point such as a diploma or degree.

Knowledge forms the foundation of all the actions we can take and therefore all the growth we experience. By investing heavily in educating ourselves about a wide variety of subjects, we can greatly expand the opportunities for personal growth and development. Books are one of the few mediums today that can efficiently allow us to educate ourselves.

The best place to start would be to try to read a new book each week. Following this practice will result in reading around 52 books per year. This may require a bit of getting used to, especially if you have to trade some of your time watching television or doing other leisure activities to spend reading the books. However, if you do invest the time, you can greatly expand the amount of personal growth you can take.

If you are just starting this practice of reading a new book each week, I would suggest that you start by picking a topic you find incredibly interesting to begin reading. With any new habit you are going to need to convince your mind that reading is a more beneficial and fun activity than television or whatever activity it is replacing. Choosing a very interesting subject would be an excellent place to start.

For those of you who do read regularly, I would suggest a different practice. When we have a few areas of interest, it is easy to only read from a particular subject. Unfortunately, the time it takes to build expertise in an area is far greater than the time needed just to get a solid understanding.

Read from a wide variety of subjects, especially those which give you knowledge that you can apply to your own personal growth. Often the first few books you read on a subject will give you the most information after that you begin to slowly accumulate expertise. By reading from a wide variety of subjects you can gain a lot of new knowledge which can be applied to personal development.

Most importantly, a wide variety of subjects gives you the ability to view your own personal growth from a number of facets. Reading about diet, relationships, Buddhism, business and marketing has given me a number of completely different perspectives from which to pursue my own growth. This also allows me to create new insights into my own growth by making connections between to widely different subjects.

Whenever you read, you need to read with a purpose. Before you start any book you should think about why you are reading it and what you are trying to learn. By starting each book with a specific purpose in mind, your brain will sort and recall the information in a different manner. I personally have experienced the power of this, because I have sometimes re-read a book with a different purpose in mind. Sometimes this can even result in feeling like I was reading a completely different book!

Reading and gaining new knowledge can also be a great way to gain knowledge to solve a specific problem, rather than to increase our knowledge in general. If you have a specific problem, such as with your relationship or business, then reading a lot of information about the subject or that specific issue can help. By focusing our reading in this case we can gain a lot of new tools to help us tackle the problems we are faced.

I mention reading books once per week, rather than just a certain amount of reading because I feel books are generally a far better form of reading than alternatives. While reading magazines and online information can be incredibly valuable, there is a lot of worthless junk you need to sift through in order to encounter that value. Books on the other hand, tend to be formatted better to give detailed information and knowledge. So, while I strongly suggest pursuing free material to read on the internet and subscribe to worthwhile magazines, I would suggest starting any reading goal with books.

Once you have your reading habits in place, you don’t have to stop there. With all of the reading you are now doing, I would suggest trying to improve your reading techniques. Getting some books on speed reading can give you a lot of techniques and skills you can practice to increase the amount you read and your comprehension of it.

Another suggestion that really deserves a blog post of its own is audio material. Books on tape or CD are invaluable ways to gain new knowledge. If you have an mp3 player or an ipod you can generally put the whole book onto the device and listen to it whenever you have some time.

The great thing about this is that you can listen to books on tape when you can’t read, like when driving to work, exercising or doing remedial tasks like cleaning and cooking. This way you can listen to hours of audio material without having to take time out of your day to do it.

Audio material, especially those by personal development speakers, are also a powerful tool in motivation and enthusiasm. By listening to those inspiring and positive messages on a regular basis, it is easier to stay positive and enthusiastic about our own goals. I would suggest listening to these programs multiple times through, as the authors emphasis and enthusiasm are often just as important as the content provided in these programs.

So if you haven’t started already, I would begin by reading a book per week. If you are lacking funds right now and can’t afford to buy that many books, then I would suggest visiting your public library. I personally use amazon to make all of my book purchases, as I generally find I can get the largest selection at good prices. Unless there is a particular book I have wanted to read, I tend to just enter the subject I would like to know more about into the search bar and go from there.

Read every day to form the foundation of your own personal success.

  • Matthew Bennett

    Scott, I think you might like a book by the English author Tony Buzan called “Speed Reading” :) . I found it when I was at university a few years ago and it helped me enormously. I’ve just ordered another copy, in fact from amazon. Look it up the next time you’re there.

  • Scott Young

    I’ve read some books on speed reading and I have found them fairly helpful.

    Its funny as I was browsing some of the comments people made about that book, someone pointed out that it has been “proven” that you can’t read over 700 words per minute without lowering to about 50% comprehension, even in speed reading experts. I myself read about 800 words as my average reading rate and I am still new to speed reading practices. It really bothers me when people like to quote a statistic or some study and use it as “proof” that something can or can’t be done, to disagree with them would be unscientific. Unfortunately, scientific studies can give us solid information, but it rarely ever gives certainty in its findings.

  • Glenn

    I love to read, and I am always in the process of reading a book that will help me learn something new. But how do you read the book? I read a chapter circuling the page number and placing a mark beside what I think is a key point on that page. When I finish the chapter I go back and decide if, in fact that is a key point. Then I highlight it. For those books that I really find valuable, I go back and type up those highlights into an outline. I usually wind up with a 2-3 page document that I can refer to.

    I don’t outline all books, because frankly, you can’t judge a book by its cover. (You may have heard that before.-) Sometimes I find the author is full of it, or just pushing a point of view. Sometimes he or she is too academic. But those rare books that are valuable to me are worth the investment in time to outline. Then I can go back and review my notes in minutes. It’s a great refresher.

  • Scott Young

    That is a great system for reading books, Glenn.

    It depends on my purpose for reading, how I read a book. Usually I read books mainly for conceptual information to get a general understanding of the authors thesis and key points.

    If I am reading a book to learn specific skills, then I usually have to read more slowly and make points.

    Thanks for the comments.

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    This is a required book in CGSC (Command and General Staff College). Part of the book, and it is a dry read, speaks to the politics of the interwar period.

  • Steph

    Hi! I just found your blog and now I’m going through all the articles that look catchy. Just wondering, do you use Goodreads?


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Is there a market for healthy fast food? New chain looks to end greasy stereotype

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Everyone says they want to eat healthier but when it comes down to it the temptations of cheap, fast, and let’s face it, delicious foods usually prove too great to resist. After all, one of the guilty pleasures of eating fast food is knowing that what tastes so good is really so bad for you. So the marketing idea behind the start-up restaurant chain “LYFE Kitchen,” with its first store opening in Palo Alto this summer, might seem like a bit of a stretch: fast food that tastes great and is good for you.

LYFE will offer fast food with no genetically modified ingredients, no additives, nothing processed and everything under 600 calories. There will be no butter, cream, high fructose corn syrup or fried foods and very little salt. If you’re looking for a side of fries with your grass-fed, organic, lean beef (or veggie) hamburger you’ve come to the wrong place; instead you’ll have the options of oven-baked sweet potato fries, roasted beets, roasted Brussels sprouts, roasted potatoes, seasonal fresh fruit or an ancient grains bowl.

To boost its fast food credentials, the LYFE restaurants will come complete with drive-through windows. While the new LYFE Kitchen is on one extreme end of the spectrum, the old fashioned, gleefully unhealthy fast food chains are taking note of the new health craze. Last week Burger King announced that it was ditching its “King character” themed marketing and producing new commercials that focused on fresh, healthy ingredients. Is there really a market for healthy fast food?

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The holidays are a wonderful time to come together with family and catch up, but it's also a time you can tackle a difficult question with older family members: What do you want to happen at the end of your life?

If a loved one were terminally ill or injured, do you prioritize doing whatever you can to save their life or let them pass as gracefully and painlessly as possible? Maybe you have ideas of what you would do, but how do those "what if" decisions hold up when pressed against reality?

If you have your own experience to share about your end-of-life decision, tell us on our Public Insight Network.

That's a question Margaret Pabst Battin faced. She's a professor of philosophy at the University of Utah, but also a renowned expert on the ethics of end-of-life decisions. Her own beliefs about those decisions began to evolve when, in 2008, a bike accident left her husband Brooke quadriplegic.

"His physician said, '100 percent of my patients say they want to die,' and that's typically not long after the accident when they discover life won't be the same," Margaret said.

That was the philosophy Brooke had beforehand, as well. His own medical directives stated he did not want procedures that would prolong the dying process if he were in a terminal or vegetative state. But doctors did not know that until well after he'd been treated by emergency staff and after Margaret arrived at the hospital.

It was in the aftermath, however, that Brooke flourished.

"His friendships became more intense, much deeper," said Battin, "His relationship with me deepened in ways that it would be almost impossible to describe the joy of."

Brooke lived on for several more years like this, but with a gradually failing health that would test Margaret's own sense of what was the right decision.

There would be times that Brooke would proclaim that he wanted to be taken off ventilators and life-sustaining equipment, but were those clear, decisive thoughts, or anguished cries from pain that are only temporary?

"If I ever thought he ever were having a moment of bizarre craziness or huge depression, then you would step back," said Battin, "But not when you see a decision developing over time."

In July 2013, Brooke made the final choice to pass away. It was a hard choice for Margaret to accept, as well, because the experience transformed her own views on end-of-life care.

"There was one point in which I said to myself, 'I wonder if I should tear up everything that I've ever written on this topic," Margaret said, "But that's because when you are so much closer to reality, it is so much more full of small detail that makes a different."

How to make the decisions for yourself

While the holidays are a great time to talk about these issues out in the open, the most important thing is to talk about it early, as well as often, says Emily Lauren Burg, end-of-life care manager in Southern California for Compassion and Choices.

"We never know what might happen at any moment," said Burg.

The first step is to initiate a conversation with loved ones to identify who you can trust with enacting your decisions. Then, it's important to document and detail your choices.

"An advanced directive is something that can be easily accessed," said Burg, "And the first place that it should kept is on your refrigerator so it is readily accessible to anybody that might come into your home."

In addition, she suggests updating your directive every decade or after major life events in order to reassess your own values. And remember that every situation may be different, and that your directive is how you start the conversation.

More tips from Compassion and Choices are available here.

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Ken Duken and James Norton have joined Kon-Tiki actor Tobias Santelmann in action-adventure Northmen - a Viking Saga.

Duken (Inglourious Basterds, Distanz), Norton (Rush, Belle) and Santelmann form part of a band of Viking marauders shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland.

Claudio Faeh directs from a screenplay by Mattias Bauer and Bastian Zach for Zurich-based Elite Film Produktion.

Ralph S. Dietrich, Karin G. Dietrich and Daniel Höltschi co-produce together with Frank Kaminski, Ulrich Stiehm, Marco Del Bianco and Rolf Wappenschmitt of Berlin, and Hanover-based Jumping Horse Film.

The film will be shot in English with principal photography set to commence in September this year in Bulgaria.

Sales are handled by Salt with eOne distributing in UK, France, Scandinavia, South Africa and Australia and New Zealand. Ascot Elite Entertainment Group will release in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in 2014.

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